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vault rotation frozen after 20% TVL drain

THORChain’s development roadmap just got restructured around a single, unavoidable milestone: the THORChain v3.20 update. A consensus issue discovered during vault rotation has forced the network to pause all churning — and until v3.20 ships, that pause stays in place. What began as a modest point release has grown into a major deployment carrying security patches, the long-awaited Monero integration, and a new router V6. This is the most consequential release on THORChain’s near-term calendar. Key takeaways THORChain’s vault rotation (churn) is paused until v3.20 ships, due to a consensus bug triggered during churning. The planned v3.19.4 patch has been…

Altcoins

Early Uber Investor Urges Selling Bitcoin for Solana

Prominent angel investor and early Uber backer Jason Calacanis has once again taken aim at Bitcoin, saying he would rather invest in projects building real products. Calacanis wrote that if $BTC were owned by his brother, he would recommend selling half of it and reallocating the proceeds into "productive projects" such as Solana and Bittensor ($TAO). "The $BTC power bottom is in!" Calacanis joked before adding that Solana and $TAO are "actually delivering new products — not just projects and promises," he said. No Solana investment For years, Calacanis had insisted that he had never owned Solana and questioned the…

Bitcoin

Remixpoint’s Entire Crypto Portfolio Turns Profitable as Unrealized Gains Hit $15.4M

Japan-listed energy and cryptocurrency investment firm Remixpoint Inc. announced that all of its cryptocurrency holdings have moved into unrealized gains as of 9:00 a.m. UTC on Aug. 24. The company reported total unrealized gains of 2.631 billion yen ($15.4 million), a sharp reversal from the 1.945 billion yen in unrealized losses recorded at the end of June. Portfolio Breakdown and Holdings Remixpoint’s crypto portfolio consists of five major digital assets. As of the latest reporting date, the company held: 1,503 $BTC (Bitcoin) 901 $ETH (Ethereum) 13,920 $SOL (Solana) 1,191,204 $XRP (Ripple) 2,802,311 $DOGE (Dogecoin) The company did not disclose the…

Regulation

Coinbase Business Expands with AI Agent Payments and USDT Support

Coinbase has announced new capabilities for its Coinbase Business payment service, introducing support for AI agent payments and $USDT (Tether) transactions. The move allows companies to accept payments from autonomous AI agents and from customers using the popular stablecoin, with settlements automatically converted to $USDC. AI Agents Can Now Make Payments The integration leverages the open standard x402, which enables AI agents to initiate and complete payments through existing checkout systems. When an AI agent pays, funds are settled instantly in $USDC, Coinbase’s native stablecoin. This development marks a significant step in the practical use of AI in financial transactions,…

Exchanges

Can BTC Break Above $64,000?

Bitcoin’s short-term outlook depends on whether it can reclaim the key $64,000 resistance level while large liquidity clusters continue to build on both sides of the market. A confirmed breakout could expose targets between $65,000 and $67,200, while another rejection may send $BTC toward the heavier liquidity zone between $61,500 and $62,400 first. Bitcoin Faces a Crucial $64,000 Resistance Test Bitcoin has returned to the $64,000 area, but the chart does not yet confirm a clean breakout. The next 12-hour close could determine whether $BTC is reclaiming resistance or merely retesting it before another pullback. Bitcoin 12-Hour Chart. Source: EliZ…

Bitcoin

US Spot Ethereum ETFs Experience Strongest Daily Inflow in 9 Months! Here’s All the Data

US-based spot Ethereum ETFs experienced strong investor demand on August 19th. According to the latest data, a total net capital inflow of approximately $517.2 million was recorded in spot Ethereum ETFs. This marks the highest single-day net inflow into Ethereum ETFs in the last nine months. BlackRock’s Ethereum ETF, ETHA, stood out in terms of capital inflow. The fund recorded a net inflow of approximately $122.12 million. Fidelity’s FETH product came in second with an inflow of $36.54 million. BlackRock’s staking-enabled ETHB fund received $9.71 million in capital injections, while Morgan Stanley’s MSSE product received $2.25 million. Franklin Templeton’s EZET…

Ethereum

Fed study finds Bitcoin returns can spur crypto buying

Information about Bitcoin’s previous gains can change how much cryptocurrency U.S. households want to own and whether they subsequently buy it, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland working paper published on July 14, 2026. Researchers Michael Weber, Bernardo Candia, Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko examined recurring surveys containing between 15,000 and 25,000 responses per wave. The surveys drew participants from the Nielsen Homescan Panel and included a randomized information experiment conducted during the second quarter of 2025. The paper found that households shown Bitcoin’s trailing 12-month return raised their desired crypto allocation by about two percentage points. That…

Regulation

Aero’s New Liquidity Model — Delphi Digital Reveals Changes

Delphi Digital announced changes to Aerodrome’s liquidity payment model via a recent tweet. The update indicates that emissions will be paid in $AERO while fees will be collected in dollars. This shift could significantly impact the profitability of the protocol, especially if $AERO’s price increases without a corresponding rise in fees, according to the official tweet from Delphi Digital. What Went Down Recent insights from Delphi Digital highlight a pivotal change in Aerodrome’s liquidity payment mechanism. Under the new structure, $AERO will be used for emissions while fees will be denominated in dollars. As such, when $AERO appreciates, it could…

Altcoins

Morph launches enterprise stablecoin payment platform with non-custodial design

Ethereum layer-2 network Morph has officially launched Morph Payments, a stablecoin payment platform designed for enterprise use. The service enables businesses to accept stablecoin payments via simple payment links, without requiring custom development, while customers can pay using their existing wallets and preferred blockchain networks. How Morph Payments works Morph Payments is built to simplify the acceptance of digital dollar-pegged assets for businesses. According to the project’s announcement, companies can generate payment links and share them with customers, who can then complete transactions using their own wallets and networks. The platform supports settlement on the business’s preferred network, and also…

Exchanges

Analyst Reveals Critical Level That Could Accelerate the Decline, Giant Whale Bets Against This Price Level for September! Here...

The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has been trading in a narrow range recently. While $BTC continues to hold the $60,000 level, on-chain data analyst Axel Adler stated that if Bitcoin falls below $61,500, selling pressure in the market could intensify further. Accordingly, Axel Adler examined the $BTC UTXO stress indicator in his latest blog post. The analysis indicated that Bitcoin has re-entered a high-stress zone as the $BTC UTXO indicator rose above the critical threshold of 70 to 71.58. According to the analyst, this indicates that a significant portion of the circulating Bitcoin supply is in loss territory, and pressure on…

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