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The choice between holding bitcoin directly and using a custodian is one of five rights he proposes for digital assets. Saylor says owners should be able to hold assets themselves or select a provider. More banking options, in his view, would make bitcoin useful for customers who want financial services alongside ownership. Why He Wants Banking Rules Reviewed Banks face different risks when they safeguard an asset for a customer, lend against it, or buy it for their own balance sheets. Saylor argues that regulation should treat those activities separately. He calls for a review of accounting, supervisory, and capital…

The stablecoin is designed specifically for machine-to-machine and AI-agent payments. verUSD Starts As A Multichain Asset Verona is launching the token across multiple networks from day one. Those include Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, Arbitrum and Celo. Additional networks are planned. The project says its ecosystem commitments include participation from Animoca Ventures, Figment Capital, Sfermion, Pentos, Ero and Arkstream, among others. A commitment is not the same thing as circulating stablecoin supply. The $100 million figure should therefore not be read as $100 million of verUSD already issued and trading. It represents committed participation around the launch. That distinction matters…

What the Data Shows The broader crypto market continues to show mixed signals, with varying momentum across major assets. Pyth Network’s updates come at a time when institutional interest in ETFs is accelerating, reflecting a broader trend of increasing participation in digital assets. Enhanced market data access could lead to stronger engagement from institutional investors looking to leverage these tools for better market positioning. Pyth Network serves as a crucial data provider in the cryptocurrency and equity markets. By expanding its ETF coverage, the organization aims to enhance transparency and accessibility for traders and investors. Its jurisdiction allows it to…

The figure expresses his assessment of the cycle, not a forecast of bitcoin’s next price. The comparison rests on an observed pattern in which bitcoin’s major advances have been followed by prolonged declines. Those past bitcoin market cycles offer a reference point, though their timing and depth have varied. Glagola notes that earlier bear markets included rallies exceeding 30% that later failed, leaving room for another reversal in the current recovery. He also found that onchain indicators have yet to show the deep capitulation seen near previous bottoms. Bitcoin’s Recovery Meets a Divided Market The rebound has carried bitcoin well…

Two wallets per participant Participants will need two digital accounts: a wholesale central bank digital currency wallet supplied by a bank, and a securities wallet built by India’s depositories under a system called DEMAT 2.0 that records tokenized bond holdings on a distributed ledger. Using the RBI’s wholesale digital rupee for the cash side would let money and securities move across connected digital infrastructure, bypassing the conventional electronic book provider used for debt placements. Timeline and context The bonds carry an initial three-month lock-in, and exchanges are expected to develop a secondary market for tokenized bonds by December. The launch…

$XRP is down around 59% from its all-time high price of $3.65, reached in July 2025. Immutable Ledger With Missing History The BIS working paper describes XRPL as an immutable ledger for anchoring dataset fingerprints, providing timestamped, tamper-evident commitments. However, XRPL’s own history complicates the idea of a permanent, always-on record. For example, the developers of the blockchain admit that “the first two weeks or so of ledger history was lost due to a bug in the server at the time.” According to XRPL’s documentation, the network kept running without the missing history because each ledger version records the full…

Eligible shares submitted before the deadline will still enter the final reward calculation under Binance Pool rules. A mining share is proof of work submitted while contributing computing power to a pool, according to Binance’s Mining Pool Product Terms. Users with active Pool Savings positions should also review them and unsubscribe or redeem before the service ends. The product terms make redemptions subject to daily limits and available liquidity, with requests processed in the order received. They provide for transfers within one business day, or up to 90 days in exceptional circumstances. Final payments and records have separate deadlines Eligible…

Coinglass reports that the amount of long liquidations crossed above $250 million, representing the largest flush in almost a week. As of now, the liquidations have not fed through to the ETF market, with demand for Bitcoin seemingly still in check. In this context, the latest correction could simply be regarded as another deleveraging cycle, which is likely to clear the way for $BTC to make another attempt at breaking above $87k in the early October cycle. Source: X Notably, this is where the chart above starts gaining more weight. According to Lookonchain, yet another Bitcoin whale has just moved…

Their investment firm led a $59 million financing of Cypherpunk Technologies, a publicly traded company that holds and mines $ZEC. A Winklevoss affiliate sold Cypherpunk a Zcash mining fleet for $33 million in August, and Cypherpunk says Gemini handles trading and custody for its $ZEC holdings. Read More: A Winklevoss-backed Zcash mining bet is on track to hit $125 million a year Why it matters for traders Every exchange that lists a cryptocurrency runs its own computer following that network. Sending $ZEC to Gemini does not make it immediately tradable, because that computer first has to find the payment on…

Eighty-Four Percent In April Printr has collected $574,468 in fees since its first day of activity on Oct. 17, 2025, according to DefiLlama. Of that, $480,790 — 84% — came in April 2026, including a single-day peak of $73,145 on April 22. The business has not recovered since. Monthly fees fell to $42,983 in May, $10,491 in June and $1,178 in July. Printr has taken $173 in fees so far in August, and $441 over the past 30 days against $1,980 in the 30 days before that. Staking Unwinds This Week Starting Aug. 18, Printr said, staked positions and accrued…