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The Taliban has effectively banned cryptocurrency trading across Afghanistan, shutting down exchange shops and threatening prosecution for traders and related businesses. The crackdown marks a significant shift for a country where digital assets had become a financial lifeline after the collapse of the Western-backed government and the subsequent freezing of international reserves. Scope of the ban and enforcement According to reports, authorities have closed more than 20 crypto exchange shops in Herat, a key trading hub near the Iranian border, and arrested at least 13 traders. The Taliban’s Ministry of Finance and central bank have classified digital assets as fraudulent,…

Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States, has announced the addition of two new tokens to its spot trading platform: Basecat ($BASECAT) and Detrilifbot (DRB). The listings, confirmed on [Date of announcement], mark the latest expansion of Coinbase’s digital asset offerings, which now span a broad range of tokens from established cryptocurrencies to newer, niche projects. Details of the New Listings According to Coinbase’s official announcement, trading for $BASECAT and DRB will commence on [specific date or timeframe] on supported platforms, including Coinbase Exchange, the Coinbase Android and iOS apps, and the company’s professional trading interface,…

Bitcoin’s hashrate has spent 316 days below its record as miners redirect power toward AI. The seven-day network average stood near 914 exahashes per second on Aug. 31, about 20.6% below its October 2025 peak of 1,151.6 EH/s. The stretch without a new high is the longest in a decade, exceeding the previous 252-day maximum in the same Blockchain.com series. The decline followed months of weak mining economics, summer power curtailments and a growing shift by some operators toward artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Twenty One Capital CEO Raphael Zagury has described the episode as Bitcoin’s first sustained “economic hashrate…

“Accessibility” has always been one of the biggest bridges between Wall Street and digital assets. From this perspective, the SEC’s move to reopen the regulatory framework around tokenized equities through an “innovation exemption” naturally brings 24/7 trading back into focus. The idea is simple: Give investors access to equities without market-hour restrictions, while bringing more liquidity to the market. Against this backdrop, it’s no surprise the move has triggered a frenzy, with the SEC potentially launching the initiative as early as Friday. But the bigger question for market participants is what this means for crypto. Notably, tokenization is already being…

TRON has released GreatVoyage v4.8.2, codenamed Pyrrho, as a mandatory network upgrade, requiring node operators to update before 23:59 Singapore Time on Aug. 16 to avoid affecting block synchronization. The release was detailed in a TRON developer announcement that lists the upgrade’s core changes. Mandatory upgrades in the GreatVoyage series are a regular part of operating the TRON network, and missing the deadline can cause a node to fall out of sync with the chain, with knock-on effects for the services that depend on it. Ethereum compatibility at the virtual-machine level The headline change is TVM compatibility with Ethereum’s Pectra…

It is the question every Bitcoin holder is asking after a brutal 2026: is the bottom in? Coinbase’s CEO says the low was near $60,000. Bitwise’s CIO agrees. Standard Chartered still sees $100,000 by year-end. And yet Bitcoin dipped below $58,000 weeks after those calls, and ETFs are still down billions for the year. This guide lays out the actual evidence on both sides, the signals that would confirm a bottom, and why the honest answer is more useful than a confident one. Where Bitcoin stands Bitcoin trades near $64,000 in late July 2026, roughly 50% below its October 2025…

Saturn has partnered with Ondo to add STRCon and other tokenized securities to its STRC-based products while securing an undisclosed strategic investment from the tokenization company. Saturn said in an Aug. 13 X thread that the agreement would bring Ondo’s “institutional-grade tokenized assets” into structured products built around Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock, which trades on Nasdaq under the STRC ticker. Saturn has partnered with @Ondo to bring institutional-grade tokenized assets into structured products on $STRC.Alongside the partnership, Ondo has made a strategic investment in Saturn. pic.twitter.com/wUGU0Y0BCO — Saturn Foundation (@saturn_credit) August 13, 2026 Under the…

Grayscale Investments has withdrawn the registration statements for three proposed single-asset exchange-traded funds tied to Cardano’s $ADA, Polkadot’s $DOT and Hedera’s $HBAR. The asset manager submitted three Form RW requests to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 7, telling the regulator it “does not intend to proceed with the planned distribution” of the trusts’ shares, according to the SEC filing. The withdrawals were sponsor-initiated under Rule 477 of the Securities Act of 1933, not the result of a formal SEC rejection. Grayscale said no securities had been issued or sold under the registrations, which had not yet become…

The CLARITY Act sets out to answer a question U.S. regulators have struggled with for over a decade: when does a crypto token count as an investment, and when does it behave more like a commodity such as gold. The answer determines who regulates a token, what its creators must disclose, and what rules a platform must follow when it lists that token or holds it on behalf of customers. Main Problem the Bill Is Trying to Fix When a company or development team creates a new token and sells it to fund a project, that sale can resemble an…

Alan Baratz, chief executive of U.S. quantum computing firm D-Wave Systems, has warned that sufficiently advanced quantum computers could one day render Bitcoin’s proof-of-work (PoW) protocol ineffective. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, Baratz stated that it is clear future quantum systems will outperform the specialized hardware currently used for major cryptocurrency mining, though the exact timeline remains uncertain. The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin Mining Bitcoin’s proof-of-work mechanism relies on miners solving complex cryptographic puzzles using application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). These machines are highly optimized for the SHA-256 hashing algorithm but are fundamentally limited by classical physics. Quantum computers, by…