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Hyperliquid has announced the launch of HyperCore’s manual lending feature on its testnet, marking a significant step in the platform’s ongoing development of its lending infrastructure. The move allows developers and users to interact with lending functions in a controlled environment, while mainnet lending operations remain limited to portfolio margin mode. Testnet Launch Details The testnet deployment introduces manual lending capabilities that enable HyperEVM smart contracts to access HyperCore’s lending functions through CoreWriter and read-only precompile contracts. This technical integration is designed to test the system’s robustness and compatibility before any potential mainnet expansion. According to Hyperliquid’s announcement, all lending…

As of August 25, 2026, the Ethereum price is trading around $2,510, holding just below daily resistance after a sharp advance pushed momentum readings into overbought territory. Bitcoin topping $80,000 and a Fear & Greed Index of 74 confirm the broad risk appetite driving the move. $ETH/USDT — daily chart with candlesticks, EMA20/EMA50 and volume. Key takeaways $ETH trades near $2,510 with a daily RSI of 80.39, deep in overbought territory that markets rarely sustain for long. Bitcoin’s surge past $80,000 and a Fear & Greed Index of 74 are fueling broad risk appetite across the crypto market. Uniswap V3…

Nasdaq-listed AIXC (AIXC) has decided to completely withdraw from its digital asset treasury strategy, planning to gradually liquidate its cryptocurrency holdings to refocus on its core robot leasing and operations business, according to a report from CryptoSlate. As of the end of the second quarter, the company held 46 $BTC, 616 $ETH, 6,659 $SOL, and 1,308 $BNB, along with smaller amounts of $ADA, $LINK, $TRX, $USDT, and $XRP. The company was sitting on an unrealized loss of approximately 50% on these holdings. Background: A Shift in Corporate Crypto Adoption AIXC’s move marks a notable reversal in the corporate trend of…

Plume Network bakes KYC and compliance into the chain by building identity checks, transfer restrictions, and sanctions screening into its core protocol modules instead of leaving each app to build its own rules. A user who completes identity verification once can carry that verified status across every asset issuer on the network, rather than repeating KYC for each new platform. This approach targets a specific problem: tokenizing real-world assets like treasuries, private credit, or real estate requires legal compliance that most general-purpose blockchains were never built to handle. What Is Plume Network? Plume is an EVM-compatible blockchain built specifically for…

Justin Sun said Thursday that a federal judge rejected an effort by World Liberty Financial to move all of his claims into private arbitration, marking the latest development in his legal dispute with the crypto project. Sun said in a post on X that his individual claims will remain in open court following a hearing in California federal court. He said the judge also rejected World Liberty’s argument that all claims connected to his companies must be arbitrated. The parties were instead ordered to meet and determine which company related claims should remain in court and which should proceed through…

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said real-world asset tokenization is dismantling traditional market-making structures and could make automated market makers, or AMMs, central to financial markets. In a post on X, Adams argued that tokenization is not just an infrastructure upgrade but a fundamental shift in how liquidity is provided and which assets are traded. Tokenization Moves Beyond Infrastructure Adams highlighted that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved stock token trading by Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange, while the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has also conducted live trading tests. These developments suggest that tokenized securities are…

Ethereum traders have been watching one chart more closely than almost anything else in the crypto market this week, and for good reason. The $ETH $BTC breakout that just played out on the pair’s price chart has broken a downtrend that stretched across several months, and it’s raising a question that hasn’t been asked seriously in a long time: is Ethereum finally about to outperform Bitcoin again? Key takeaways $ETH/$BTC broke above the 0.03205 level, ending a multi-month downtrend and pushing past its previous lower high. A retest zone between 0.0270 and 0.0260 is the next critical test for confirming…

Webull said Wednesday that cryptocurrency trading accounted for $2.25 million, or a little over 1% of the platform’s record $198 million revenue for the second quarter of 2026. Revenue for the period was up 51% year-over-year, according to online brokerage and digital trading platform’s Wednesday earnings release. That’s as equity and options trading generated $112 million of the quarterly income, or about 56% of the total $198 million. Webull president and director Anthony Michael Denier during a Wednesday earnings call said the company was in the process of gradually rolling out crypto deposit and withdrawal capabilities. Online brokerage Robinhood also…

Ripple’s $RLUSD has crossed the $2 billion market-cap milestone this month, which now puts the stablecoin much closer to PayPal USD ($PYUSD), which has a market value of about $2.9 billion. But market capitalization alone doesn’t show which stablecoin is used more. On-chain activity suggests $PYUSD still has the larger user base and generates more transfer volume. Meanwhile, $RLUSD shows a different pattern: fewer active addresses but high activity relative to its supply. $RLUSD Is Smaller, But Its Supply Is Moving As of August 24, RWA.xyz data puts $RLUSD’s market cap at about $2.02 billion, with 84,514 holders. Its monthly…

In brief CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara clashed during a CFTC roundtable in Washington, D.C. Duffy singled out Kalshi while questioning whether prediction markets face the same regulatory scrutiny as established exchanges. The clash comes amid a fight between federal and state regulators over prediction markets. A CFTC roundtable on prediction markets turned heated Thursday when CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara traded insults over market manipulation and regulation. The confrontation unfolded during a Commodity Futures Trading Commission meeting in Washington, D.C., as executives from traditional finance, crypto, and…