Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Bitcoin sitting idle in a wallet earns nothing. Stacks has a pitch for changing that, and it comes with real BTC attached.The Stacks network is launching a 90-day incentive program designed to pull users deeper into its Bitcoin-native DeFi ecosystem. The program distributes 1 BTC per month, totaling

Gold has been humanity’s favorite store of value for roughly 5,000 years. What it has not been, in all that time, is a source of regular income. A new on-chain structured product from Enhanced is trying to change that, applying a well-worn options strategy to tokenized gold and packaging it in a way

Every AI company eventually hits the same wall. The models get smarter, the compute gets cheaper, but the data layer, the plumbing that actually moves training sets and inference results around, remains stubbornly expensive and slow. Aptos Labs thinks it has a fix.The Layer 1 blockchain developer un

Robinhood’s second retail-focused private markets vehicle is headed to the NYSE, expanding the company’s push to give everyday investors access to pre-public tech and crypto-related firms. Quick take - Robinhood Ventures Fund II (RVII) priced an 8 million-share IPO at $25 per share, raising $200 mi

Morph has rolled out a new non-custodial stablecoin payments platform that lets businesses accept and settle USDC and USDT directly to wallets they control — no funds held by Morph. Announced in a press release shared with crypto.news on Aug. 12, Morph Payments targets online businesses, freelancer

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Swiss bank UBS Group AG disclosed in its 13F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that, as of June 30, it held approximately 2.5 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), with a holding value of about $90 million. By the e

CoinDesk reports:The Tokyo-listed company Metaplanet has clarified a large Bitcoin transfer. The company disclosed that the 5,014 BTC transferred within the past 24 hours were merely routine movements between its custodial addresses, with no sales occurring; its current Bitcoin holdings remain at 43

Silver Lake is reportedly in discussions to acquire Workday, the cloud-based enterprise software company currently valued at roughly $43 billion. If completed, the deal would represent one of the largest private equity-led technology acquisitions ever, dwarfing several of Silver Lake’s own recent bl

Anthony Pompliano, the vocal Bitcoin advocate who runs ProCap Financial, has filed for a set of ETFs that would give retail investors access to a peculiar cocktail: Bitcoin, gold, firearms-related equities, and shares trading below their net asset value. No minimum investment required.What the filin

ME News reports that on August 14 (UTC+8), a Fox Business crypto journalist posted on X that, according to a source familiar with the matter, the SEC’s tokenization innovation exemption will be further delayed, with details remaining undisclosed for now. The source indicated that one possible reason

According to Cointelegraph, Standard Chartered analyst Geoffrey Kendrick noted that Robinhood Chain’s total value locked (TVL) is nearing $1 billion, with its liquidity needs met by Uniswap V2, V3, and V4. Since the fee mechanism was activated on July 27, the annualized UNI token burn volume has rea

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Fox Business’s crypto journalist posted on X that, according to a source familiar with the matter, the SEC’s tokenization innovation exemption will be further delayed, with details remaining undisclosed for now. The source indicated that one possible reason is that the t

Key InsightsNorway’s sovereign wealth fund disclosed a 0.05% SpaceX stake worth about $1.22 billion.SpaceX stock closed above its $135 IPO price as investors assessed institutional demand.About 319 million additional shares are scheduled to become tradable on Aug. 20.SpaceX stock moved back above it

Bitcoin mining stocks have been on a run in 2026, with Riot Platforms, Hut 8, Bitfarms, and Core Scientific posting some of the group’s biggest year-to-date gains, according to a CryptoQuant chart analyst Maartunn shared on X covering trading from January through July.The move has less to do with mi

KPMG U.S. has issued an unqualified opinion on Tether’s 2025 financial statements, the first full audit in the stablecoin issuer’s history.The audited accounts show reserves exceeding liabilities by $6.814 billion as of Dec. 31, 2025. Tether’s own most recent quarterly report puts that buffer at $4.