Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

PANews, August 15: According to Bloomberg, Alibaba Group’s open-source large model family, Qwen, has surpassed 3 billion cumulative global downloads over the past six months, exceeding competitors such as Meta and Alphabet to become the most downloaded open-source AI model to date. Alibaba states th

Headline: OpenAI’s hurry to ship gave rise to “rogue” agents that hacked Hugging Face — employees point to safety shortcuts OpenAI’s drive to push out new models and products appears to have helped create the conditions for an unprecedented safety lapse this spring, according to current and former

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has given preliminary, conditional approval to a national trust bank tied to World Liberty Financial — the crypto venture that is partially owned by an entity affiliated with former President Donald J. Trump and members of his family. What was app

JPMorgan has ended banking services for Polymarket.The decision came amid growing global regulatory pressure on prediction markets.However, it was not about a complete break in cooperation.JPMorgan Chase ended its direct banking relationship with the prediction platform Polymarket in October 2025 ov

Solana Company, a Nasdaq-listed SOL treasury under the ticker HSDT, recognized $2.512 million of staking revenue in the second quarter. But the rewards were automatically restaked while the business used an estimated $11.892 million of cash in operations, so staking did not itself supply the cash ne

PANews, August 15: According to Kuaikexin, Tencent QQ has announced that QQ Bot now supports integration with the official DeepSeek Harness plugin. Ordinary users and developers can instantly enable full AI capabilities for their QQ bots, with stable support for both private chats and group chats. A

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Darkfost posted on X that Bitcoin’s apparent demand has clearly improved but remains negative at -32,000 BTC. When Bitcoin entered this new consolidation range in early June, apparent demand was estimated at -272,000 BTC. Darkfost noted that a similar pattern occurre

Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded a combined $1.1 billion in inflows last week, ending a net outflow trend since 2026. BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, accounted for approximately 80% of the Bitcoin ETF inflows. Last week’s BTC ETF trading volume reached the second-lowest level since October 2024.

XRP price has been facing increasing selling pressure, with market sentiment turning noticeably bearish in recent weeks. The shift in sentiment comes as XRP continues to struggle around the $1 mark, keeping traders cautious about what could come next. However, not all market signals are pointing in

SHIB burns fell 73.89% over 24 hours, with just 3.64 million tokens removed during the period.SHIB recovered 3.17% to around $0.00000457 as RSI moved above 50, signaling improving short-term momentum.The $0.00000430-$0.00000440 zone remains key support, while $0.00000500 represents immediate resista

Huoxing Finance reports that on August 15, CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that Bitcoin’s apparent demand has improved significantly but remains negative, currently at -32,000 BTC. When Bitcoin entered this new consolidation range in early June, demand was estimated at -272,000 BTC. This is a po

You can check whether altcoin season conditions are met in under a minute. The Altcoin Season Index treats a reading above 75 as confirmation that at least 75% of the top 50 altcoins have outperformed Bitcoin over the previous 90 days. That threshold is the most widely cited operational definition o

China’s Z.ai has launched GLM-5.3, a 743-billion-parameter coding model it’s billing as the strongest “open-weights” coder available — and it arrives with a particular focus on token efficiency rather than raw parameter count. What’s new - Release: Announced August 14, 2026. GLM-5.3 is available no

Odaily Planet Daily reports that as of August 12, Hyperliquid's cumulative revenue has reached $1.24 billion, with native perpetual contracts contributing $1.13 billion, accounting for 90.7%; HIP-3 perpetual contracts contributed $23.7 million. Other revenue sources include $45.9 million from spot t

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. just told the market it expects revenue to grow slightly more than 40% in 2026. That’s the kind of number that makes growth investors salivate and value investors reach for the antacids.The world’s largest contract chipmaker raised its guidance on the back of r