Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

According to ME News, on August 18 (UTC+8), crypto analyst Ali posted on X that Dogecoin (DOGE) is currently experiencing its most severe Bollinger Bands contraction since September 2023. Ali noted that DOGE’s price range has narrowed significantly, and such extreme compression of the Bollinger Band

ME News report, on August 18 (UTC+8), according to BIT (bit.com) market data, the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds rose to 5.29%, reaching its highest level since 2007, signaling a significant increase in market pricing of long-term risks and intensifying concerns over persistent inflation, the

Regulators weigh how to treat contracts tied to processing power as GPU-linked futures prepare to debutThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission is asking the public to weigh in on derivatives contracts built around computing capacity. CryptoBriefing reported the comment period on August 17, framing

Reports point to Japan's benchmark yield at a multi-decade high while the 30-year US Treasury yield also climbs amid debt worries.Bond markets in two of the world's largest economies are signaling renewed stress. Yahoo Finance reported that a Japanese government bond yield reached its highest level

Three bitcoin mining firms disclosed monthly production declines even as bitcoin's price climbed through JulyCleanSpark, BitFuFu, and Canaan disclosed declines in their bitcoin production for July, according to a report from CryptoBriefing. The drop occurred during a period when bitcoin's price was

The chip startup's new funding follows a deal with Nvidia and marks a shift toward what industry insiders call 'neocloud' infrastructure.Groq has closed a $350 million funding round that values the company at $3.5 billion, according to reports from Yahoo Finance and Cryptopolitan. The capital inject

ME News reports that on August 18 (UTC+8), the Sui ecosystem lending protocol NAVI Protocol announced the launch of NAVI Prime. This new lending framework is designed for capital seeking higher levels of clarity, transparency, and control, and is deployed on the Sui network. NAVI Protocol stated tha

Liquid, the multi-asset trading platform that launched in August 2025, has released a Chrome extension called Co-Invest that lets users execute trades without ever leaving their social media feeds. See a ticker symbol on X? Click it, size the position, confirm. That’s the whole workflow.The extensio

AI agents have initiated 14 million transfers through the x402 protocol over the past 30 days, a signal that machine-to-machine payments are moving from theoretical curiosity to measurable infrastructure. The protocol, which piggybacks on the long-dormant HTTP 402 “Payment Required” status code, has

Three of the world’s most powerful alternative asset managers just closed a deal that makes most infrastructure investments look like rounding errors. Blackstone, Brookfield Asset Management, and KKR have collectively financed a $16 billion lease-and-leaseback agreement with Kuwait Petroleum Corpora

ChainCatcher report: KOL Ansem (@blknoiz06) has launched the first on-chain index, z500, on Ansem.io. The protocol enables new project teams to airdrop a portion of their token supply to $ANSEM holders at launch and boost their ranking on the z500 leaderboard by buying and burning $ANSEM to signal l

ChainCatcher report: Yield Guild Games (YGG) has officially launched YGG 3.0, transitioning from a Web3 gaming pioneer to a cross-domain infrastructure layer that empowers communities with platforms for organizing human capital, skills, and resources across digital economy collaboration. The core of

BlockBeats news, on August 18, according to BIT (bit.com) market data, the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds rose to 5.29%, reaching its highest level since 2007, indicating a significant increase in market pricing for long-term risks and intensifying concerns over persistent inflation, the Feder

ChainCatcher report: The token issuance platform Printr has announced it will initiate its shutdown process, with all operations ceasing by August 31, 2026. The team stated that over the past three months, they have explored all viable pathways to secure a sustainable solution; however, due to insuf

Anthropic’s engineers have become editors more than writers. CEO Dario Amodei has disclosed that Claude, the company’s flagship AI model, now authors more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production codebase. Many of the company’s engineers no longer write significant code themselves.Tha