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Existing QR Network Extends Crypto Acceptance Travelers and local customers can now use Binance Pay at more than 3,700 businesses across Bhutan, extending cryptocurrency acceptance through a familiar domestic payment system. Binance announced the integration Aug. 17 as payment providers increasingly connect digital assets with established QR networks. The expansion follows the initial national tourism payment rollout, which began with more than 100 participating merchants in May 2025. The platform’s global merchant footprint exceeded 21 million by March, providing the commercial backdrop for Binance’s Bhutan expansion. SB Seker, head of Asia-Pacific at Binance, described the integration as a model for…

0G Private Computer has processed more than 250 billion tokens across 17 million requests while expanding its private AI service to 28 models and adding U.S. dollar payments. In an Aug. 18 press release shared with crypto.news, 0G Labs said that Private Computer had also produced 15 million Trusted Execution Environment attestation proofs since launching on April 27. The platform began with seven models and now offers 28 through a web console and an application programming interface compatible with OpenAI’s API. Users can access text, image, audio, and video generation tools from one account. According to the company, Private Computer…

Yield farming means putting your crypto to work inside decentralized finance protocols, lending it, pairing it into liquidity pools, or staking it, to earn fees, interest, or bonus tokens in return. Two warnings before you touch a wallet: smart-contract bugs and impermanent loss can erase gains fast, and a sky-high advertised APY is often just token emissions, not real revenue. DeFi’s total value locked climbed to roughly $94 billion in early 2026, but that growth hasn’t made the risks disappear. Yield farming = deposit crypto → earn fees, interest, or tokens Biggest dangers: smart-contract exploits and impermanent loss Rule of…

Ethereum is trading in the green on Wednesday following a poor start to the week. The positive performance over the past 24 hours comes despite several on-chain and derivatives indicators suggesting traders remain reluctant to make significant new commitments. Holdings across major wallet groups changed only modestly, while exchange net flows remained close to neutral. US spot Ethereum Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) showed some improvement at the beginning of the week, although broader American investor sentiment remains weak. From a technical perspective, $ETH retains a mildly bullish short-term bias above its 20-day and 50-day Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs). However, the 100-day…

Crypto is trading on a cautious note. The upswing in bitcoin, the leading digital asset by market value, has stalled since last Wednesday, with prices pulling back to just under $64,000 from the high of nearly $67,000. July hike to end forward guidance Citadel’s rate hike call is less about where the data land and more about tactics, specifically, why Warsh has more to gain from raising rates today than from waiting until September. A surprise hike Wednesday, Frank Flight, head of macro strategy at Citadel Securities, writes, “would emphatically end the forward guidance era in which every policy move…

The clock is ticking for everyone running Cardano infrastructure. The Cardano Foundation has officially ratified a hard fork initiation, setting off a five-day countdown that leaves little room for delay — and zero tolerance for those who miss the deadline. Key takeaways The Cardano hard fork initiation was ratified on July 13, 2026 at 21:45 UTC at an epoch boundary. Hard fork enactment is scheduled for July 18, 2026 at 21:45 UTC. All nodes and infrastructure operators must upgrade to hard fork compatible versions before enactment. Failure to upgrade will result in incompatibility with the upgraded Cardano network. Cardano Foundation…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was on the verge of revealing its first major rulemaking effort in the digital assets sphere, having been set to propose its “Regulation Crypto,” but the agency cancelled the Friday meeting in an end-of-day statement on Thursday. “Due to an unforeseen scheduling issue,” the SEC is moving the meeting to “a later date,” according to a statement from an agency spokesperson. In the absence of progress in the Senate’s Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the legislation that would establish a legal foundation for crypto market activity in the U.S., the industry had looked to…

Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced a temporary suspension of deposits and withdrawals on the Conflux network for its native token, $CFX. The suspension is scheduled to begin at 11:00 p.m. UTC on August 24, aligning with the network’s upcoming upgrade and hard fork. Why Is Binance Suspending Conflux Transactions? The suspension is a standard precautionary measure taken by exchanges during network upgrades and hard forks. Such events often involve changes to the underlying blockchain protocol, which can temporarily affect transaction processing and network stability. By pausing deposits and withdrawals, Binance aims to ensure the safety…

Ionic Digital, a Bitcoin miner repositioning its power sites for AI infrastructure, generated 90% of its second-quarter revenue from leasing. Its Q2 accounts show an uneven transition: operating revenue has shifted away from mining faster than reported earnings have shifted away from Bitcoin. The Ward County lease with AI infrastructure provider Nscale produced $43.8 million of Ionic’s $48.6 million in Q2 revenue, while mining contributed $4.8 million, according to the company’s second-quarter filing. Ionic recognized that lease revenue on a straight-line basis even though recurring base rent began after the quarter, making cash collection the next measure of the shift.…

In a groundbreaking pilot backed by Dubai’s government, ten physical real estate towers have been fractionalized into 7.8 million digital tokens. These tokens are now approved for secondary-market trading through regulated platforms, with a minimum participation threshold of AED 2,000, equivalent to approximately $540. Settlement for transactions occurs within 3 to 5 seconds via the $XRP Ledger (XRPL), with Ripple Custody safeguarding the digital assets throughout the process. Dubai Land Department moves to tokenization The Dubai Land Department, the official government entity responsible for real estate registration and regulation in the emirate, selected XRPL as the foundation for this initiative.…