Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

OpenAI has quietly shipped a feature that prompt engineers and ChatGPT power users have been improvising workarounds for since 2023: the ability to share a single prompt as a clickable link.The new “Share prompt” option, which started appearing in the ChatGPT web app around August 17, generates a li

Odaily Planet Daily reports: The Kobeissi Letter stated on X that the U.S. stock market demonstrated unprecedented resilience in 2026, and this year may become the first full year in at least three decades without a single day of more than 80% declining volume on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).A

Strategy holds 840,447 BTC after making no Bitcoin transactions last week.MSTR sales generated $333.7 million for reserves, dividends and STRC buybacks.The SEC 8-K filing confirmed Strategy’s dollar reserve reached $4.8 billion.Strategy Bitcoin Holdings remained unchanged at 840,447 BTC after the co

According to ChainCatcher, citing Bitcoin News, Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office has exited its positions in Intel and Micron Technology and established new positions in four publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies: Bitdeer Technologies, Riot Platforms, Hut 8, and IREN.

Odaily Planet Daily reports: The decentralized lending protocol Compound Finance has completed a leadership restructuring and approved a record budget of $52 million. The protocol’s total value locked has declined from its 2021 peak of $12 billion to $1.2 billion, and it is seeking to reignite growt

ME News reports that on August 17 (UTC+8), Rafael Schultze-Kraft, co-founder of Glassnode, stated that Bitcoin’s (BTC) current low-volatility environment does not necessarily indicate an investment opportunity, as the market may be forming a “volatility value trap.” Schultze-Kraft noted that BTC’s i

According to Beating Monitor, OpenAI has officially signed the contract for its Ohio super data center. This project had previously been disclosed, when OpenAI was still negotiating a long-term lease with SB Energy and NVIDIA was only considering providing guarantees. Now, the first phase of 4.25 GW

Regulators are reportedly working on rules that would let tokenized shares trade continuously, beyond standard market hours.The Securities and Exchange Commission is drafting a framework that would permit tokenized U.S. stocks to trade around the clock, according to reports from CoinGape and crypto.

ChainThink reports that on August 17, SoftBank will invest $200 million in construction robotics startup Gravis Robotics, giving it a post-investment valuation of approximately $1 billion.This funding round represents SoftBank’s largest Series A investment in a construction robotics company to date.

Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures traded flat as AI optimism balanced against energy price pressure and broader economic concerns.US stock futures traded largely flat on Monday, according to Yahoo Finance and CryptoBriefing, as traders balanced enthusiasm over artificial intelligence growth agains...

Wallet infrastructure company Dynamic Labs has shipped SDK V5, its most technically ambitious release yet. The headline feature is native Threshold Signature Scheme Multi-Party Computation, a cryptographic approach that keeps a complete private key from ever existing in one place at one time.Traditi

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is asking the public what it thinks about trading derivatives tied to computing capacity. With AI model training consuming GPU resources at a pace that makes electricity grids nervous, US regulators are preparing to treat computing power the way they’ve long

US banking regulators proposed in March 2026 to ease capital requirements for the country’s largest financial institutions, a move that could free up an estimated $2.5 to $2.6 trillion in lending capacity. The proposal represents a sharp reversal from the stricter Basel III Endgame rules that had be

ME News reports that on August 17 (UTC+8), Duquesne Family Office, managed by Stanley Druckenmiller, has exited its positions in Intel and Micron Technology and established new positions in four publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies: Bitdeer Technologies, Riot Platforms, Hut 8, and IREN. (Source:

Anthropic just posted the kind of revenue growth that makes even the most jaded Wall Street analysts do a double take. The AI company behind Claude reported Q2 2026 revenue exceeding $11.5 billion, up from $787 million in the same quarter last year. That’s a 14-fold increase.Nasdaq 100 futures climb