Monero (XMR) extends its gains, trading above $397 on Thursday after finding support around the key support zone the previous day. Strengthening derivatives metrics and a constructive technical outlook suggest momentum is building, hinting at a further rally for XMR.

Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM) remain under pressure, with both altcoins correcting slightly so far this week. XRP nears the key $1.00 support zone on Thursday, while XLM trades below critical technical levels.

On August 12, Hyperion DeFi, the first U.S.-listed company to build on Hyperliquid, announced its record net income of $31 million in the second quarter. This amount is more than tripled since the company made a profit of $8.8 million during the first quarter. Hyperion attributed the jump in its net income to the rising...

Bitcoin (BTC) is trading around $63,000 at press time, after three consecutive days of losses.

Arizona has managed to reimburse cash amounting to $171,332 to 35 victims of crypto ATM scams as per a refund law, enacted last September, which is part of a crackdown on cash-to-crypto conversions prevalent in the United States and elsewhere. The change is clear in the machines themselves. Data from Coin ATM Radar reveal that...

Bitcoin (BTC) is showing signs of growing market exhaustion, with weakening liquidity and subdued demand leaving the market vulnerable to a sharp move, according to a Glassnode report on Wednesday.

Bitcoin (BTC) is showing several signs of a potential market bottom as multiple indicators show improving market conditions, according to CryptoQuant analysts.

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has announced that it plans to spend $250 billion building US infrastructure in the next 18 months. The bank plans to focus on data centers, chips and power generation. The plan lands as a major boost for stakeholders of the AI and computing buildout, even as data centers ramp up...

Google announced this week that its Gemini app has passed 1 billion monthly users.  This development comes in spite of the fact that independent testing ranks Gemini’s strongest models below releases from its rivals, Anthropic and OpenAI.  Gemini hits 1 billion monthly users Google, which is currently running its Made by Google showcase, announced this...

SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) shares had a big Wednesday, jumping 11% and ending the session at around $148. That puts the stock well above where it started trading after its IPO. SpaceX is now sitting roughly 10% higher than its $135 IPO price and about 41% above the low it hit on Aug. 3. The stock...

An attacker drained 99.7% of the tx XRP bridge reserve on August 9, taking 199,916 XRP worth about $200,000 by feeding the software fake deposits.

LAB token, which the blockchain analytics firm BubbleMaps warned holders about, has fallen 99%. The token’s combined value of an early presale group has dropped from about $1 billion to roughly $6.8 million.  Why did LAB crash?  The LAB crash started in early June, just days after it hit its all-time high of $27.22. BubbleMaps...

Lovable raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, doubling in eight months, with the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund joining as co-lead investor.

Uber has sold all its shares in Serve Robotics, the sidewalk delivery robot company it spun out five years ago.  Serve only learned about the sale when the regulatory filing became public.  Regulatory filing details Uber’s Serve divestment Uber revealed the sale in a regulatory filing last week. The document shows the sale happened between...

New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin issued letters to Kalshi, Coinbase, Polymarket, and Gemini Titan, informing each company that the council has begun investigating allegations of “false, deceptive, unconscionable, and objectionable marketing practices.”  The announcement comes right as the city’s fight with prediction markets made headway with both a major lawsuit and a federal...

Google DeepMind has released a sign-language-to-text model called SL2T, and it will be inside Gboard and Live Transcribe on the new Pixel 11.  The company says it is the first sign language AI to ship in a real consumer product.  Signing to the phone instead of typing People who can hear and speak have been...

Top U.S. banking and investment firm, Goldman Sachs, has agreed a deal to purchase NEOS Investments, a Connecticut firm that runs options-based income ETFs, in a cash-and-equity deal worth up to $2.25 billion. The transaction, announced Wednesday, deepens Goldman Sachs’ push into one of asset management’s fastest-growing corners and lands the firm among the ten...

Asset manager Fidelity has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to permit staking in its Ethereum (ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF), the Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH), which holds over $898 million in net assets.

A $500 scam kit sold on a cybercrime forum builds a fake $TSLA presale, harvests 12-word recovery phrases, and inflates fake balances to bill victims twice.

Shares across the AI infrastructure industry rose on Wednesday after CoreWeave, Super Micro Computer and Nebius Group all reported quarterly results eclipsing analyst forecasts. This rally also dragged server makers, memory suppliers and optical component firms to higher numbers in one single session. Nebius leads gainers, CoreWeave closes behind Nebius Group (NBIS) was up there...

Tencent Holdings reported Q2 2026 revenue of RMB204.8 billion, a figure up 11% from a year earlier. However, reported net profit barely moved as the Chinese tech giant poured even more funding into AI infrastructure.  The revenue figure, equal to about US$30.4 billion for the three months ending 30 June, came in just ahead of...

Bitcoin (BTC) is extending its decline below $64,000 at the time of writing on Wednesday, as Gold (XAU/USD) maintains its breakout momentum, trading near $4,420.

OpenAI shipped a preview ChatGPT desktop app for Linux with Codex, covering Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora about a month after Anthropic reached the platform.

Hyperliquid has ramped up its lobbying of U.S. regulators in search of a compliant way to bring perpetual futures to the country. The Information reporter, Yueqi Yang, who interviewed Hyperliquid Policy Center on the matter, revealed that the perp exchange “has stepped up outreach to U.S. regulators as it looks for path to U.S. markets.”...

Geneva, Switzerland, August 12, 2026 — Messari and Nansen, leading platforms in blockchain research and analytics, have released independent reports examining activity across the TRON network  during the second quarter of 2026. The reports highlight record transaction and address activity, continued protocol development through governance upgrades and progress toward post-quantum capabilities, as well as broader...

San Mateo County may soon become one of the first places in the United States to regulate the commercial use of humanoid robots. The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to start creating local rules that would require businesses to get a permit before using humanoid robots for work. San Mateo...

The Bank of England has selected Polygon Labs, NOBO Finance, and business-data provider Dun & Bradstreet to run the next round of its Digital Pound Lab. These companies are testing how a central bank digital pound and private stablecoins could settle different parts of the same cross-border trade deal. What problem is the Bank of...

Wintermute, a London-based algorithmic trading company and liquidity provider, is planning to invest roughly $1 billion in high-frequency trading and Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers over the next five years.

Kalshi still runs its flight-cancellation markets. It relabeled the settlement source as Primary Source Agency, and FlightAware's lawsuit vanished in a day.

Suspected Chinese operators turned freely available AI agents into an autonomous hacking tool that broke into Taiwanese government networks over four days in early July, according to the Financial Times.  The Israeli AI firm Dream said the attack broke into at least 85 accounts and stole more than 2500 personnel records.  How were Taiwanese government...