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Aave’s live onchain dashboard listed V4 user deposits at $806 million. Deposits jumped by 30% over seven days and reached a new all-time high above $800 million. The latest reading extends a steep August climb. Aave announced that V4 deposits crossed $500 million on Aug. 19 and $600 million on Aug. 21, before moving above $800 million six days later. A separate announcement said Ethereum V4 deposits alone crossed $500 million on Aug. 25. EtherFi Cash accounted for V4’s second-largest current market. The market is supporting borrowing as well as deposits. V4 had $216 million in active loans on the…

The Sept. 15 cloture vote has 10% odds. $XRP sits at $1. Ripple already won its SEC case. But the victory that holders treat as permanent was a district court ruling, not a statute, and the next Congress may not be friendly. The crypto industry has spent the past six months treating the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act as the event that would settle $XRP’s regulatory status for good. Prediction markets peaked at 82% in February. Ripple’s CEO attended the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium last week to talk about financial infrastructure as though the legal framework were already in place. Seven…

The Vice President of Bitcoin Strategy at Strive, Joe Burnett, described the past week as “possibly one of the worst weeks in the history of Bitcoin.” The statement suggested that large holders ought to trust institutional custodians more than hardware wallets. Why did Strive’s VP of strategy call out the worst week in Bitcoin’s history? A firmware exploit led to the loss of ~1,082 $BTC, worth about $70 million, from Coldcard hardware wallets. The theft caused Burnett to warn large holders about hardware wallets, encouraging institutional custodians instead. The thief pounced on weak seed randomness before carting away users’ funds.…

Bullish BLSH$32.71·At close, the cryptocurrency platform and CoinDesk’s parent company, is extending a $100 million debt facility to USD.AI to bring onchain capital into the capital-intensive business of building the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence (AI), according to an emailed announcement on Friday. The financing will provide USD.AI with liquidity to make loans secured by graphics processing units (GPUs). These specialized electronic chips underpin the AI industry by processing vast amounts of data in parallel. The arrangement represents an intersection between two investment themes: the increasing demand for private credit to finance AI infrastructure and efforts to tokenize real-world assets…

Following the intense investment period in the cryptocurrency sector in 2020 and 2021, the weeding-out process is reportedly accelerating. Ryan Kirkley, CEO of Global Settlement Network (GSN), stated that projects that achieved high valuations but failed to create a sustainable revenue model are beginning to exit the market. According to Kirkley, since the beginning of 2026, more than 100 cryptocurrency and blockchain projects have ceased operations, filed for bankruptcy, or effectively disappeared. This trend in the sector is largely attributed to the investment frenzy of 2020-2021. Kirkley noted that during this period, numerous startups raised significant amounts of capital at…

Prioritizing Infrastructure Over Consumer Apps Draper University has announced the Apex Growth Accelerator, a 10-week Silicon Valley residency program created in partnership with the Cardano Foundation and Orion Fund to scale early-stage Web3 startups. Offering up to $70,000 in seed capital for a target 3.5% equity stake, the residency is built specifically for investment-ready teams operating on the Cardano network. Applications are open through Sept. 1, with the core in-person program commencing Oct. 12 at Draper University’s San Mateo campus. The accelerator focuses on high-growth financial verticals, specifically real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, institutional decentralized finance (DeFi), and enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure.…

The $GENIUS Act mandates Treasury bill reserves. FASB wants stablecoins counted as cash. The Treasury is writing enforcement rules for January 2027. Every provision points the same direction, and it is not toward protecting retail investors. The debate over stablecoin regulation in Washington has been framed, from the first hearing to the most recent markup, as a question of consumer protection. Are reserves adequate? Can holders redeem at par? Is the issuer solvent? These are the questions that legislators ask in public, the questions that lobbyists answer in testimony, and the questions that journalists use to structure their coverage. They…

We will begin with the mandatory disclaimer, as we are well aware that historical performance does not guarantee similar moves in the future. However, history does tend to rhyme, and that’s what happened in July for $BTC. The question is: will August follow suit, as the month has not been kind to the largest cryptocurrency, especially the last four editions. July Brought Some Gains Before we explore what happened in July, here’s a brief outlook of the painful June, which set the stage for a rebound during the seventh month of the year. The 2026 edition of June became the…

Prediction market participants on Kalshi are pricing in a 29% probability that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by 25 basis points at its September meeting, according to the latest trading data. The majority of traders, 70%, expect the central bank to hold rates steady, while a slim 1% anticipate a quarter-point cut. These probabilities, derived from real-money trading on Kalshi’s Fed rate contracts, offer a market-based view of monetary policy expectations. Unlike traditional surveys, prediction markets reflect the collective judgment of participants who have a financial stake in the outcome, providing a dynamic and real-time gauge of sentiment.…

Dogwifhat ($WIF) became a multi-billion-dollar coin by combining a viral dog photo, a fully distributed token supply on Solana, rapid listings on major exchanges, and backing from a handful of well-known crypto traders, with no product, roadmap, or founder identity attached. What Is Dogwifhat and Where Did the Meme Come From? The coin’s image shows a Shiba Inu named Achi wearing a pink knitted beanie. The original photo was posted on Instagram in November 2018, and the picture later spread as a profile-photo trend among gamers on Twitter in 2019, years before anyone attached a token to it. A Solana-based…