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On August 27, 2026, BitGo announced that it has acquired NYDIG’s institutional trading unit, which has enabled one of the largest regulated custodians within the crypto sector to gain a pre-existing derivatives and finance operation amid the ongoing trend of banks and funds consolidating their digital asset activities with fewer infrastructure partners. Following this acquisition, BitGo will bring on board around 30 employees of NYDIG and their institutional trading network. In relation to the broader market, this transaction highlights that institutions are increasingly seeking custody, trading, financing and settlement services under a single regulated umbrella. Why one-stop infrastructure is winning…

Hyperliquid closed the second quarter of 2026 with one of the strongest performances in the digital asset industry, according to its recent report. Its native $HYPE token surged 79.2% to a new all-time high despite a broad downturn across the crypto market. According to the protocol’s newly released Q2 report, $HYPE reached a record price of $76.90 on June 16. In the meantime, Bitcoin declined 14.1% during the same period. Hyperliquid described the divergence as its second straight quarter of significant outperformance, arguing that the market is beginning to value $HYPE as a cash-generating protocol rather than simply another high-beta…

As Bitcoin continues to show mixed price action, the leading crypto asset has just flashed a signal that has previously appeared near the end of bear markets. On Saturday, July 18, crypto analytics platform CryptoQuant shared onchain data suggesting that the current market downturn may be entering its final phase. Bitcoin bear season nears end The analyst shared charts revealing the cost basis of Bitcoin’s short-term holder wallets that have held Bitcoin for less than six months and long-term holders, which have held the asset for more than six months. The analyst noted that coins that have remained untouched for…

Evernorth Holdings announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made effective its registration statement, bringing the $XRP-focused firm one step closer to its Nasdaq listing as crypto assets come under even more scrutiny in the public investment markets. This development opens up another potential regulated option for people wanting to gain access to $XRP, as well as serves as a litmus test for the ability of digital asset treasury companies or DATs to withstand a sharp downturn in the market. Evernorth issued its announcement at 5:04 p.m. ET on August 27, 2026. By 10:30 p.m. EDT that day,…

Evernorth CEO Asheesh Birla believes companies should rethink how they use $XRP, arguing it should be put to work to generate yield rather than simply held on corporate balance sheets. In an interview with CoinPost during WebX 2026 in Japan, the former Ripple executive explained Evernorth’s strategy. The company is focusing on actively managing $XRP as a productive on-chain asset while betting on the long-term growth of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and the $XRP Ledger ecosystem. “Don’t Just Hold Assets, Put Them to Work” Birla said Evernorth views $XRP as an operational asset rather than a passive treasury holding. He…

Bitcoin governance debates are heating up again, and this time Michael Saylor has entered the conversation with a lengthy critique of BIP 110. Rather than focusing on price or market cycles, Saylor argues the proposal could fundamentally change how Bitcoin evolves by introducing consensus rules that restrict currently valid transactions. His argument isn’t that every inscription or non-financial application deserves protection. Instead, it’s that Bitcoin’s consensus layer shouldn’t be used to decide which legitimate, fee-paying transactions are acceptable. Saylor Questions Consensus Rule Changes Source BIP 110, known as the Reduced Data Temporary Softfork, proposes introducing several temporary consensus restrictions for…

HashKey Holdings reported HK$342.5 million in revenue for the first half of 2026, an increase of 20.6% from the same period a year earlier. Its unaudited interim results released on August 27 also show that the company’s non-IFRS adjusted loss narrowed 21% to HK$314.8 million. Trading services produced most revenue Transaction-facilitation revenue rose 38.6% to HK$267.9 million, accounting for most of the group’s reported sales. Total platform trading volume increased 31.8% to HK$282.2 billion, while institutional customer volume climbed 58.8% to HK$231.5 billion. Institutional activity represented 82% of platform volume during the reporting period. Gross profit increased 12.5% to HK$207.5…

The Shiba Inu community has received a morale boost as Lucie, the ecosystem’s marketing lead, quietly returned to X after nearly two months of inactivity. Lucie’s prolonged absence has not gone unnoticed as she is one of the most active and visible members of the Shiba Inu ecosystem team. Between early June and the end of July, she neither shared updates nor reposted ecosystem developments, prompting widespread speculation among supporters about the reason behind her silence. Before stepping away, Lucie last posted on June 9, informing the community that the ShibaSwap website had resumed normal operations. Following that update, she…

Leverton most recently led institutional digital-asset manager ReserveOne. She previously served as CEO of bitcoin BTC$76,600.57 miner Hut 8, overseeing its merger with US Bitcoin Corp. and its transition from a Canadian-listed miner into a U.S.-domiciled company with bitcoin mining and high-performance computing operations.Her appointment comes as Fortitude expands its exposure to Zcash, whose $ZEC token has risen more than 2,000% over the past year. Its market capitalization is roughly $21 billion. Fortitude mined 72,696 $ZEC during the six months through June, about 28% of the network’s total production during that period. The company reported second-quarter revenue of $20.9 million.…

Bitcoin’s institutional demand will come back stronger, according to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. The analyst noted that U.S. spot $BTC ETFs could follow gold ETFs’ ‘triumph and pain’ pattern and would eventually surge to a new record high. Gold ETFs were briefly the world’s largest ETF in 2011 but spent another eight years in a downtrend trying to reclaim the spot, added Balchunas. It briefly reclaimed it again in 2024, and a similar ‘two steps forward, one step back’ could happen for $BTC. Bitcoin ETFs may be following the same script: spectacular gains, painful drawdowns and recoveries that may…