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Ethereum has just delivered its strongest daily gain of the summer, jumping 9.51% to $2,098.70 after opening at $1,916.50 and running as high as $2,112. It outperformed Bitcoin by a wide margin, and it is now sitting 1.13% below the single most important level on its chart. Ethereum price today in USD Why Ethereum Price is up today Same trigger as the rest of the market: the US Treasury announced it will at least double its long-dated bond buybacks, pushing yields down and the dollar lower in a move analysts labelled “QE Lite.” Easier financial conditions send capital back toward…

SoFi delivered record second-quarter 2026 earnings, driven by strong growth in revenue, lending volumes, customer acquisition and product usage as the fintech company expanded both its consumer and enterprise offerings, according to a Wednesday statement. The company reported $1.2 billion in total net revenue, up 43% from a year earlier, while net income rose 61% to exceed $156 million. Adjusted EBITDA approached $358 million, up 44%, with diluted earnings per share increasing to $0.12. “Despite continued market uncertainty, our business model continues to prove its durability,” SoFi CEO Anthony Noto stated. “For the first time, we added twice as many…

The $ENS DAO is voting to install a new Security Council, moving to restore the emergency veto that protects the naming protocol after its co-founder blocked an earlier renewal last month. Nick Johnson, who goes by nick.eth, filed the executable proposal on Sunday and moved it to an onchain vote the same day on Tally. As of Monday the measure had 712,320 $ENS votes in favor, zero against and 66,730 abstaining, clearing the majority-support bar and sitting at 779,050 votes toward the DAO’s 1 million-token quorum. Voting closes around July 20. The proposal hands the DAO’s only backstop against malicious…

Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum targeting foreign cybercrime networks. The White House says crypto theft represents about 30% of reported cybercrime losses. Vetted private companies can support government-led cyber operations against transnational criminal organizations. President Donald Trump has signed a new National Security Presidential Memorandum aimed at foreign criminal organizations behind cyber-enabled attacks, placing crypto theft among the financial crimes driving pressure on U.S. authorities. The White House says Americans lost nearly $21 billion to cybercrime last year. The measure gives federal agencies broader authority to coordinate cyber operations against transnational criminal organizations operating abroad. It also creates…

Aster, a cryptocurrency derivatives platform, has announced a perpetual futures trading competition centered on three private company contracts: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Unitree. The event, which began at 4:00 a.m. UTC today, runs through 11:59 p.m. UTC on Aug. 24, offering a total prize pool of $10,000 in ASTER tokens. Competition Structure and Eligibility The contest covers the UNITREE/$USDT, ANTHROPIC/$USDT, and OPENAI/$USDT trading pairs. Prize money is split evenly between two categories: trading volume and realized PnL, with $5,000 allocated to each. Rankings are based on combined trading results across all three products, and participants can win in both categories. In…

In brief The Base accelerator plans to select 10 startups for its eight-week Batches 004 accelerator. Each selected team will receive a $100,000 investment from the Base Ecosystem Fund. The program is targeting startups building AI agents, trading, payments, and financing products. The team behind Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network, is narrowing its startup accelerator to 10 teams for its latest cohort, with each selected company receiving a $100,000 investment upfront, Coinbase announced on Wednesday. Applications for Base Batches 004 are open through September 9, Coinbase said. The eight-week virtual program will conclude with a Demo Day in New York…

Credit unions now have a production-ready path to offer Bitcoin and other digital asset services without relying on outside platforms after DaLand CUSO and Circuit, an 80-member credit union collaborative, announced that Circuit’s Digital Asset Initiative has moved into implementation. The program grants participating institutions access to DaLand’s CODE Engine and Coin2Core technology, which integrates digital asset capabilities directly into core banking systems from Corelation KeyStone, Fiserv DNA, and Jack Henry Symitar. Under what DaLand calls a “Hybrid Custody” model, credit unions retain custody, member relationships, and data rather than routing customers to third-party crypto platforms. Three credit unions are…

The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative has announced a grant allocation to the Freedom of the Press Foundation to support work on WEBCAT, an open-source project designed to help browsers verify website code against a signed manifest. According to the Foundation’s Aug. 5 announcement, the funding is intended to support a verification library that Ethereum wallets can integrate, along with Chromium-browser research, implementation support, an independent audit and proposed standardization work. Focus on front-end integrity The Foundation described a gap between encrypted website connections and verification that the code delivered by a site matches code approved by its developers.…

Barclays analyst Benjamin Budish estimates Coinbase processed roughly $152 billion of trading volume during the quarter, well below the Street’s expectation of about $178 billion. He expects adjusted EBITDA to come in roughly 3% below consensus, pointing to weaker blockchain rewards and institutional trading revenue. Clear Street’s Owen Lau also lowered estimates, projecting approximately $160 billion in trading volume and $301 million in adjusted EBITDA after weaker-than-expected retail activity. Benchmark’s Mark Palmer similarly reduced his EBITDA forecast to $377 million, while Compass Point expects revenue to slightly miss consensus but believes EBITDA will be roughly in line with expectations. Coinbase…

$CASHCAT has become one of the biggest memecoin stories of July 2026. After launching on Robinhood Chain shortly after the network went live, the token produced life-changing returns for some early buyers while helping push the chain into the spotlight. As traders search for the next project before public listings, attention is gradually shifting toward presales. Among them, MemeToro ($MT) is gaining interest by combining AI-powered token creation, prediction markets, and SocialFi on $BNB Chain rather than relying on a single viral meme. $CASHCAT Shows How Fast Memecoin Narratives Can Grow The success of $CASHCAT highlights how quickly attention can…