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Payment channels similar to Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning are coming to Cardano (ADA) by means of a new state channel architecture dubbed Cardano Lightning. Currently in pre-production deployment, the system was presented in detail during an August 24 Cardano Community livestream featuring PolyCrypto software engineer Ilja von Hoessle. At its core, Cardano Lightning consists of bidirectional payment channels that allow two parties to send and receive payments directly. More precisely, either party can close a channel at any time, without putting the other party’s funds at risk. “Bitcoin itself is slow, but it’s secure. What you’d ideally like to do is…

Aave began onboarding early users to its mobile app on iOS on Wednesday, moving its consumer savings product into early access while Android and web users remain on a waitlist. Aave founder Stani Kulechov said Ghost Passes let users invite friends to skip the waitlist. The announcement marks a phased opening rather than the software’s first appearance in Apple’s store. The App Store already listed the Aave app and showed a recent version update before Wednesday’s onboarding announcement. Deposits, Yield and Withdrawals Aave’s current product page describes the mobile product as a savings app and emphasizes depositing, earning and withdrawing.…

IOG Product Manager Carlos Lopez De Lara has reminded Cardano’s DReps and SPOs about an upcoming governance deadline that could affect the network’s ability to approve key protocol changes. The initiative centers on voting for four newly elected Constitutional Committee members before the September 1 deadline. According to Lopez De Lara, the vote is particularly important because Cardano needs a fully seated Constitutional Committee to approve an upcoming Constitution Update linked to the network’s planned Leios scalability upgrade. He warned that failing to seat enough committee members could create a governance bottleneck. As a result, Cardano could be unable to…

President Donald Trump has called on Congress to approve a “fair” version of the CLARITY Act as the crypto market structure bill approaches a 60-vote test in the Senate. President Donald Trump said during an Aug. 19 White House event that Congress needed to “take the next step” by passing legislation that sets federal rules for the U.S. digital asset market. Joined by executives from Coinbase, Gemini, Ripple, Chainlink Labs, and other technology companies, Trump called for a “fair version” of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. The request pointed to negotiations over provisions that have kept the bill from…

After making a respectable gain in July, Bitcoin entered August, but historical data indicates that the market may be about to enter one of its most erratic times of the year. Although July has historically been a positive month for Bitcoin, August has performed inconsistently in prior market cycles, so the upcoming weeks will be crucial in determining whether the recovery can continue. Evaluating median returns The average August return for Bitcoin since 2013 is slightly over 1%, according to historical monthly return data; however, the median return is actually negative. This disparity can be attributed to a few exceptionally…

Every swap on a decentralized exchange leaves a small mark behind: a price that no longer matches the wider market. That gap, tiny as it usually is, quietly funds an entire industry of arbitrage bots and MEV searchers. New research from the MEV-X research team, working with academic collaborators from HSE University, digs into exactly how much value gets created by these micro-dislocations, and who actually ends up keeping it. The findings point toward a specific answer for AMM fee optimization: pools that charge nothing on arbitrage trades capture the most total value, even though that sounds backwards at first…

The larger limit applies to liquidity-support buybacks in the 10- to 20-year and 20- to 30-year Treasury sectors. The new U.S. Treasury ruleset takes effect Sept. 9 and continues through the current refunding quarter, which ends Nov. 4. The Treasury disclosed that the change reflects consistently strong participation in the longer-dated operations. Market participants have submitted significant volumes of high-quality offers, giving Treasury a reason to increase the amount it is prepared to purchase. An updated buyback schedule will be released later. Treasury plans to provide further details on future operation sizes at its next Quarterly Refunding announcement on Nov.…

A Pseudonymous trader, ‘watershedpath’, is sitting on a $58 million paper profit from his largest-ever long position in $HYPE on-chain, Arkham revealed in a post. However, the trader withdrew $18.5 million from the position. It is a rare insight into the strategy of one of the largest holders of Hyperliquid’s native token. Who is this $HYPE whale? Arkham estimated the position in question at $111 million, which makes it the largest long on $HYPE on-chain. It looks like the position has been held for a while now. The on-chain data firm stated that the trader holds this position “for almost…

Anyone who wants to check whether a crypto platform is authorised at all in the European Union sooner or later comes across an official register built for exactly that purpose. The European securities regulator ESMA has maintained a register of non-compliant firms since February 2025. It is meant to collect, across Europe, those providers that supply crypto-asset services without the required permission. We downloaded the register file on August 16, 2026, counted it line by line and called up every web address stored in it individually. The result sits awkwardly beside the European ambition of this register. Of 167 entries,…

The world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder has responded to a multibillion-dollar blow to its balance sheet in trademark fashion as Strategy chairman Michael Saylor posted the laconic message “Bitcoin Drive engaged,” which the market may interpret as a signal that the company’s forced defensive phase is ending and that it could soon return to major cryptocurrency purchases. The intrigue lies in the fact that this bullish teaser appeared immediately after the publication of an extremely difficult financial report. Strategy posted a net loss of $8.22 billion for the second quarter of 2026. Bitcoin Drive engaged. pic.twitter.com/sFpTPiMdak — Michael Saylor (@saylor)…