Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

CoinDesk reports:Dutch prosecutors have sold the remaining crypto assets recovered from the collapsed platform Knaken, raising approximately €2.2 million. The funds will enter the bankruptcy estate for subsequent creditor claims, but remain limited compared to the scale of affected customers' funds.

AI infrastructure is evolving from a technology industry "CapEx cycle" into a financing cycle supported by the entire financial system.Written by Jim, MSX MaiTongEdited by: Frank, MSX MaotongOver the past two years, the most important number in Wall Street’s discussion of AI has been GPUs, data cent

The most important crypto news today is not a price move. It is the gap that opened over the weekend between Washington's political theatre and Washington's actual legislative math. On Wednesday, President Trump is expected to sit down with the CEOs of Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket

The five-year contract adds an estimated $70 million in annualized revenue as the Bitcoin miner expands its AI compute business.HIVE Digital Technologies' high-performance computing arm, BUZZ HPC, has signed a five-year GPU cloud contract worth $350 million, according to reports from CryptoBriefing

The charter clears a path for the firm's USD1 stablecoin to operate under federal oversightWorld Liberty Financial has obtained a conditional charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, according to reports from NFTevening and Forkast. The two outlets describe the approval differentl

Harmony rolled back Mainnet Shard 0 to block 92,730,034 and Shard 1 to block 94,978,278 to remove forged ONE minting records after block 92,730,036 (timestamp: 2026-08-12 07:25:37 UTC+8). The team selected a replacement database with unified auditing for each shard.

Written by: FinTaxSummaryAs crypto assets gradually integrate into the mainstream financial system, tax treatment across jurisdictions has evolved from initial regulatory gaps toward formalized frameworks. The OECD’s 2020 publication, Taxing Virtual Currencies, was among the earliest studies to syst

When a single infrastructure project costs more than the GDP of a small country, the usual rules start to break down. Meta and BlackRock’s joint venture to build a $14 billion AI data center campus in El Paso, Texas is running into exactly that problem: the project is so large that conventional insu

Written by: Luke Leasure & Nick CarpinitoCompiled by AididiaoJP, Foresight NewsFirst, look at the macro picture: CPI remains moderate, and equities continue to outperform crypto.On Wednesday, the CPI rose 0.1% month-over-month, in line with market expectations and a notable rebound from -0.4% the pr

American consumers did something in July they hadn’t done since last October: they closed their wallets. Retail sales fell 0.6% month-over-month, according to the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau data released on August 14, marking the first decline in nine months and the steepest drop since May

Bitcoin BTC$63,501.46 steadied above $63,000 on Monday, clawing back a fraction of last week's losses with a 0.8% gain since midnight UTC.Without an obvious catalyst, the largest cryptocurrency appears to be tracking U.S. equities. Nasdaq 100 index futures are up 0.5% to their highest point since Ju

ChainCatcher report, according to The Block, Bitcoin mining company HIVE Digital Technologies, through its subsidiary BUZZ High-Performance Computing, has signed a five-year GPU cloud services agreement worth approximately $350 million with an undisclosed investment-grade client. The contract is exp

ME News reports that on August 17 (UTC+8), CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that Bitcoin’s short-term holders (STHs) are currently in a state of unrealized loss relative to their entry cost, but the magnitude of realized losses remains limited, with no signs of large-scale selling or capitu

Bitcoin is stuck near $63,513 and is building liquidity around $62,484.Ethereum failed to reach $2,000 and remains inside the 4H FVG.DXY broke below support at 99.475, opening the way to lower inefficiency zones.FOMC minutes, PMI, and positioning ahead of Jackson Hole will be the week’s main trigger

HuoXing Finance reports that on August 17, according to TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), the XYZ:UNITREE contract on Hyperliquid is trading at $98.96. At the current exchange rate of 1 USD = 6.7487 CNY, this equates to approximately CNY 667.86, representing a 342.9% increase over Unitree Techno