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Stablecoin card spending has crossed $10.9 billion in cumulative volume as RedotPay projected that annual spending through the products could quadruple to $50 billion by 2028. RedotPay said in an Aug. 25 blog post that the industry recorded more than $1 billion in card spending during July for the first time, citing independent payments data provider Paymentscan, as usage continued to rise across markets in Latin America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The stablecoin payments company expects the industry to process its next $10 billion in eight months after taking roughly three years to reach the first $10 billion. By 2028, RedotPay…

The recent rally was no exception for Ethereum [$ETH]. The largest altcoin, which was trading near the $1900 price level, has now climbed close to $2500. At press time, $ETH was trading at $2,459.03 after a hike of over 30% in the past 30 days. However, this price hike is not solid proof that $ETH will continue going up. This is because the staking side of Ethereum’s supply is behaving differently from expected performance during a major price rally. Rather than seeing a rush to unlock $ETH, the network is seeing continued commitment to staking. Is this a good sign?…

Jeff Park: Bitcoin Will Ultimately Benefit From the Rise of AI While reports have established an inversely proportional relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto, meaning that investors have been withdrawing funds from crypto and piling them up behind AI stocks, including chip makers and software companies, some are betting on the resilience of crypto. Contemplating 2026 VC investment figures, AI has been eating into the funds available for all industries: According to Crunchbase, AI shattered records in Q1 2026, reaching 80% of all global venture funding. And while crypto and AI can merge in some projects, pure AI investments…

Pudgy Penguins built its physical consumer brand by licensing its penguin characters into toys, trading cards, and games sold through Walmart, Target, and Amazon, while keeping that retail business legally and financially separate from the $PENGU token itself. The company behind the brand, Igloo Inc., runs the toy licensing operation; $PENGU functions as a community and utility token that Igloo’s own terms describe as having no commercial value. What Is Pudgy Penguins, and How Did $PENGU Start? Pudgy Penguins launched as a collection of 8,888 NFTs on Ethereum in August 2021. Entrepreneur Luca Netz acquired the project in April 2022…

Hyperliquid has faced a potential 10-to-12-month regulatory process to enter the U.S. market even if federal agencies move quickly, according to former SEC senior counsel Ashley Ebersole, after President Donald Trump said regulators were working on a compliant route for the perpetual futures platform. Ashley Ebersole, co-founder and chief legal officer at tx and a former senior counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, told crypto.news that the main obstacle is not simply securing permission for Hyperliquid to operate in the country. U.S. regulators would first have to establish how offshore-style crypto perpetual futures fit within existing securities and…

Fortune Protocol has integrated Polymarket liquidity into Fortune Markets, adding another source of prediction markets alongside Predict.fun while giving users a single interface to compare liquidity, volume and market probabilities. Fortune Protocol said in an X announcement on Aug. 25 that Polymarket liquidity was now live on the platform, bringing markets from both Polymarket and the previously integrated Predict.fun into what it describes as a unified market layer. More markets. More liquidity. One Fortune.🥠@Polymarket liquidity is now live on Fortune alongside @predictdotfun, bringing more markets and liquidity into one unified market layer.What’s more:🔸 A redesigned market experience for faster discovery…

Binance Research’s new report titled “Half-year 2026: Macro & Bitcoin” has shed more light on how the cryptocurrency performed in the first half of the year. The report showed that Bitcoin declined by 32% year-to-date, and it is currently down by over 50% from its all-time high of $126,080, which it hit in October 2025. The decline was the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization’s third straight quarterly loss. Per the report, the loss coincided with a repricing across global markets that is being referred to as “re-anchoring.” This re-anchoring refers to all the following actions: A shift away from…

Ethereum’s [$ETH] 30% weekly rally has given investors their first conviction test at $2,500. Notably, this zone remains key since demand had been building for months at the bottom end of $1,900-$2,050. Once that supply had run out, demanders moved quickly through the $2,568 level as volume exploded, indicating stronger participation behind the breakout. However, the rapid advance by Ethereum into new ground stalled out just shy of $2,458. This indicates that bulls were yet to establish a solid floor at $2500. Source: TradingView The significance of that pause is maintained because that’s where the cost is currently being absorbed…

Wall Street isn’t waiting around! Despite the CLARITY Act being stalled until September, the bigger hands are moving ahead with their crypto ambitions. Here’s the breakdown. NASDAQ files for standardised crypto ETF listings Nasdaq is asking the SEC to make it easier to launch options on crypto-backed ETFs. Under the proposed rule change, certain ETFs holding “digital commodities” could qualify for options listings based on a set of standard requirements. This would essentially negate the separate approval process each time. Source: SEC.gov The plan is to make it easier for investors to trade options on funds holding assets like Bitcoin…

Whale transactions surged 280% in 24 hours. Large holders added 380 million $XRP in a single business week. But the price barely moved. What the accumulation pattern reveals about what comes next. On chain data tells a clearer story than price charts, but only if you read it carefully. During the week of Aug. 18, 2026, the $XRP Ledger recorded a 280% surge in transactions exceeding $1 million. More than 38 large value transfers moved across the network in a single 24 hour window. Addresses in the 1 million to 10 million $XRP tier added approximately 380 million tokens over…