Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

When your banking sector needs a capital boost, you apparently reach for the entity that never runs out of cash: the state cigarette monopoly. China is deploying the China National Tobacco Corporation as a strategic investor in a CNY 260 billion (roughly $38.7 billion) capital raise for the Industri

South Korea’s Hanwha Investment & Securities is actively building a blockchain-based securities platform, set to go live in the first half of 2027, ahead of the country’s landmark shift in how tokenized assets are legally recognized.The platform, called the Digital Asset Platform (DAP), will run...

Stellar (XLM) is trading at $0.1922, up 4.4% over 24 hours, as the network holds its lead in tokenized non-US sovereign debt, a position it has maintained since February. According to data from RWA.xyz as of August 20, Stellar holds roughly $490 million in tokenized sovereign debt issued outside the

In Brief:Cardano’s Dijkstra rollout separates Linear Leios and Nested Transactions from Peras, creating two phases spanning 2026 and 2027 mainnet upgrades.Four node releases will introduce testing features, resolve Genesis issues, support Leios, and prepare Cardano for the hard fork transition.Dijks

CoinDesk reports:Strive has once again signaled a potential increase in its Bitcoin holdings, shifting market focus to its next disclosure filing. Company Chairman and CEO Matt Cole posted a Bitcoin holding tracker page on X, an action that has previously preceded announcements of new Bitcoin purcha

Vitalik Buterin praised Poseidon’s role in privacy proofs as Ethereum explores faster general-purpose STARK systems.Binary-field SNARKs can make SHA2 and BLAKE2s practical inside proofs, reducing Poseidon’s earlier advantage.Ethereum targets a production-grade leanVM in 2027, with broader consensus

SUI price is stuck between two major EMA bands, while the Sui Foundation’s buyback program has crossed 609,800 tokens. The setup offers a potential recovery, but the chart still needs convincing evidence.SUI Price Needs To Clear $0.9650SUI price is trading between the 200-day EMA near $0.9650 and th

Polish prosecutors have expanded their criminal case involving crypto exchange Zondacrypto by formally charging an additional suspect, identified as Romana Ż., with allegedly taking part in an organized criminal group and misappropriating user funds.According to an announcement from Poland’s Nationa

TL;DRVitalik Buterin says roughly 90% of his net worth is exposed to crypto, effectively placing most of his wealth on the opposite side of a potential 50% Bitcoin crash. The debate centers on whether advanced AI could threaten Bitcoin’s security within two years. Buterin argues that decentralized n

According to ChainCatcher, data from Coinglass shows that if ETH breaks above $2,611, the total liquidation value of long positions on major CEXs will reach $989 million. Conversely, if ETH falls below $2,368, the total liquidation value of short positions on major CEXs will reach $715 million.

What if you could turn a decentralized mining network into a global army of ethical hackers? That’s the premise behind RedTeam, a subnet on Bittensor that pits miners against each other in competitive security challenges. And the results, at least on paper, are hard to ignore: bot detection efficacy

The exploiter linked to the third wave of attacks on Coldcard wallets has now moved 45% of the coins stolen, according to Galaxy Research.The firm said the funds have been transferred either to Ethereum through THORChain or into Coinjoin, in an effort to launder the stolen assets. During Wave 3, the

TL;DR:Avalanche surpassed 100 million cumulative unique addresses, reaching 102,408,337 on September 6 after network growth accelerated sharply from mid-2025 onward.C-Chain added 707,000 addresses in Q2 2026, while TVL reached roughly $2.1 billion and Avalanche9000 reduced custom Layer 1 deployment

For years, the knock on big university endowments was simple: all that sophistication, all those expensive fund managers, and they still couldn’t beat the S&P 500. That narrative is getting a rewrite this fiscal year, and the authors are named SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic.Major US university en...

CoinDesk reports:An Ethereum proposal still in draft form is seeking to change how users pay for on-chain transaction fees. Under the design, users will no longer need to hold ETH upfront to initiate transactions; ERC-20 tokens in their wallets can be used directly to pay for gas, and applications c