Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

The push to bring onchain trading into U.S. equity market structure is no longer a side conversation. Hyperliquid Policy Center and Douro Labs, a core contributor to Pyth Network, have asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to repeal Rule 611 under Regulation NMS, the trade-through rule t

Curated lending vaults have quietly become one of DeFi’s most compelling growth stories, approaching $9 billion in total value locked. What makes the number more interesting is who controls it: just three curators, Steakhouse Financial, Sentora, and Gauntlet, manage roughly 76% of all tracked TVL in

Jane Street, one of the most influential quantitative trading firms on Wall Street, added $630 million worth of Bitcoin ETFs in the second quarter of 2026, pushing its total position to approximately $1.06 billion. For a firm that slashed those same holdings by roughly 71% just one quarter earlier,

PUMP, the native token of Solana’s dominant memecoin launchpad Pump.fun, has climbed roughly 8% to trade near $0.0029, pushing its market capitalization to around $1.13 billion. The rally comes as a golden cross pattern begins forming on the daily chart, a technical signal that tends to get bulls re

Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies has restarted a steady program of Ethereum treasury buying, adding 9,926 ETH during the week ending Aug. 16. The company says the purchase brings its Ether holdings to roughly 5.82 million ETH—about 4.8% of Ethereum’s circulating supply—putting it close to it

China’s credit engine just ran in reverse. Net new yuan loans fell by 340 billion yuan, or roughly $50.4 billion, in July 2026, the sharpest monthly contraction ever recorded and a milestone that has happened only three times since 2000.To put the rarity in context: the previous instances were July

Technical chart pattern coincides with Pump leading daily gains across the broader crypto marketPump has become the standout performer in crypto markets, leading gainers among major digital assets. The token, associated with the Solana blockchain, drew attention after its price chart formed what ana

Key InsightsThere will be some key crypto news that will impact the industry this week.The FOMC will publish minutes of the last meeting on Wednesday.Trump will meet senior crypto executives later this week.Crypto news this week will focus on monetary policy and U.S. regulatory developments as Bitco

DTCC and DTC plans may settle Treasuries, ETFs and Russell 1000 securities on to Stellar in the first half of 2027. Globally, in Q1 of 2026, Stellar reported 22.5 billion operations, 10.6 million addresses and $5.5 billion in stablecoin payment volume. Stellar’s expansion in payments, tokenization a

Farcaster, the decentralized social protocol that once looked like crypto’s best shot at building a Twitter alternative, is undergoing a leadership overhaul. Neynar, which has served as a core infrastructure provider for the Farcaster ecosystem, is taking over stewardship of the protocol, the flagsh

CoinDesk reports:Foreign media reported that Stripe acquired the AI routing platform OpenRouter for over $7 billion—a deal significant not just for its price, but for bringing model invocation, usage billing, and payment settlement under one company. For Stripe, this represents a further expansion i

Developers are weighing dozens of changes for the network's coming hard fork, with privacy tooling at the centerEthereum's core developers are working through a long list of proposed changes for the network's next major upgrade. Reports point to 66 separate proposals under consideration, a number th

TL;DRWorldClaw offers access to 43 Chinese AI models, including systems from Alibaba, Baidu, Z.ai, DeepSeek and Moonshot. The Hong Kong platform accepts World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin, creating a direct commercial link with the Trump-backed crypto venture. The arrangement has drawn scrutiny over U.

XRP has struggled to hold its ground in August and is facing renewed downside risk after slipping below the psychologically important $1 level.Analysts are now warning that the crypto asset could have further room to fall before establishing a durable market bottom.Battle Around $1 IntensifiesCrypto

CoinDesk reports:Company disclosures show that Bitmine Immersion Technologies purchased another 9,926 ETH, amounting to approximately $19 million, bringing its total holdings to 5,815,164 ETH. According to the figures cited, this portion of ETH is valued at approximately $11 billion, bringing the co