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A crypto mining pool that once ranked among the industry’s largest is now working through federal bankruptcy court instead of the blockchain. The Poolin bankruptcy filing became public this week after Poolin Technology PTE. LTD. and two affiliated companies sought Chapter 11 protection in New Jersey, setting off a court-supervised sale process that will determine what, if anything, is left for creditors once the mining equipment and remaining assets change hands. Key takeaways Poolin Technology PTE. LTD., Lonestar Taproot LLC and Lonestar Dream, Inc. filed jointly for Chapter 11 on July 22, 2026, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the…

Binance Dominates the Futures Battlefield Binance controls the largest share of bitcoin futures open interest, according to Coinglass.com futures stats logged on Wednesday. The total value of contracts still outstanding is 148,500 $BTC worth $9.61 billion. CME ranks second at 102,840 $BTC, or $6.66 billion, after posting a 6.82% jump in just one day. MEXC trails with $6.12 billion, while crypto platforms Bybit and Gate each sit near the $4.5 billion mark. CME’s Surge Reveals Who’s Quietly Returning CME trades on a regulated U.S. exchange, making it the preferred venue for institutional capital. Its daily increase outpaced nearly every major…

In brief The odds that the Fed pushes for “no change” on interest rates has fallen sharply on prediction markets in the last 24 hours. The odds of a quarter-point Fed rate hike have jumped: up almost 10% on Polymarket, and around 8% on Myriad. Fed-funds futures put the probability of an increase at 38.8% as of Monday afternoon. The odds that the Federal Reserve does the unexpected tomorrow just went up. Prediction-market traders today sharply raised the implied odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike, one day before the central bank’s two-day July meeting begins. On Polymarket—a prediction market…

$BNB Chain has become one of the busiest destinations for memecoin launches. As more creators look for simple deployment tools, launchpads are evolving beyond basic token creation into complete ecosystems with analytics, automation, and community features. Two projects attracting attention are Four.meme and MemeToro ($MT). While both are built around $BNB Chain, they take very different approaches. One focuses on making launches fast and inexpensive, while the other uses artificial intelligence to reshape how new meme projects are created. Four.meme Helped Standardize $BNB Chain Launches Four.meme has become one of the largest launchpads operating on $BNB Chain. The platform has…

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the SEC could move ahead with crypto rules even while the CLARITY Act remains stuck in Congress, potentially giving the industry a faster route toward regulatory clarity. The timeline is now more concrete than initially expected. The SEC has scheduled an open meeting for August 14 to consider proposing its first formal “Regulation Crypto” framework for certain digital-asset offerings. Scenario 1: SEC Moves Ahead With Regulation Crypto The biggest development could be the SEC formally proposing Regulation Crypto this week. Hougan described the approach as a “bypass road” around the CLARITY Act, arguing that Congress…

Crypto traders are betting that Unitree Robotics will be worth more than four times its IPO valuation when the Chinese robot maker debuts on the public markets. Unitree priced its Shanghai STAR Market offering at 150.80 yuan ($22.37) per share, valuing the company at roughly $9 billion. Pre-IPO perpetual contracts trading through Hyperliquid, however, were between $92 and $94 on Friday, equivalent to a valuation of about $38 billion, blockchain analytics firm Allium said in a report. The premium reflects lofty expectations for one of China’s closely watched robotics companies. Founded in Hangzhou in 2016, Unitree makes four-legged and humanoid…

Olenox Industries is an energy company that acquired Bitcoin miner CS Digital Ventures in May. It reported preliminary July production of 15.13 BTC against a June 30 balance sheet. The balance sheet carried $1.21 million of cash and $26.26 million of current liabilities. However, the output had a gross value of about $1.16 million at the Aug. 21 Bitcoin spot price of $76,371.25. It was not equivalent to disclosed revenue, sale proceeds or available cash. For part of the fleet, Olenox received the full Bitcoin output. It still owed a hosting invoice for power, management fees and profit share that…

Robinhood Markets will hold an “IPO Roadshow” on August 3rd for its new venture fund, Robinhood Ventures Fund II (RVII). Instead of keeping the pitch behind closed doors for institutional buyers, it’s streaming the whole thing on its app and on YouTube. RVII’s pitch rests on a single name: Y Combinator. The fund plans to build a portfolio around early- and growth-stage companies that have gone through the incubator, whose alumni include Airbnb, Stripe, and Coinbase. Access to YC-backed startups before they reach household-name status has traditionally required a seat at a top venture firm, or accredited-investor status paired with…

Artificial intelligence has become one of the fastest-growing narratives across the crypto industry. Instead of acting as simple trading assistants, modern AI agents are beginning to manage wallets, analyze blockchain data, and execute transactions on their own. This new category, often called Agentic AI or DeFAI, is changing what investors look for in a best crypto presale. Among the projects benefiting from this trend is MemeToro ($MT), which combines AI-powered token creation with a broader Web3 ecosystem built on BNB Chain. AI Crypto Agents Are Moving Beyond Automation Earlier generations of crypto bots relied on fixed trading rules. Modern AI…

Dubai-based crypto exchange crypto exchange Bybit has launched pre-IPO perpetual contracts tied to Chinese robotics firm Unitree and artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI, expanding its push into private-market trading. The USDT-denominated and settled contracts give traders price exposure without ownership of the underlying shares. Bybit said its TradFi perpetuals lineup has grown to more than 200 products since launching in April, spanning equities, ETFs, commodities, indices and pre-IPO companies. Unitree received approval from China’s securities regulator in July for an initial public offering on Shanghai’s STAR Market. The perpetual gives traders exposure to the robotics company before its shares begin…