Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Robinhood just made it a little easier for regular people to invest like venture capitalists. The company’s second private markets fund, Robinhood Ventures Fund II, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on August 13 under the ticker RVII, priced at $25 per share.The IPO raised $225.5 millio

BlockBeats report: On August 14, Tether, the issuer of USDT, announced that it has completed a full independent audit of its fiscal year 2025 financial statements by KPMG US and received an unqualified audit opinion—the most favorable opinion an independent auditor can issue. This audit, described a

Standard Chartered reported that Robinhood Chain rapidly accumulated liquidity through its Uniswap integration, with TVL approaching $1 billion, while driving an annualized UNI token burn of $90 million.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that, according to TRM Labs, a blockchain compliance analytics firm, after the full implementation of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), only 281 out of the original 1,343 crypto asset service providers applied for and received operational au

Bullish, the Peter Thiel-backed digital asset exchange trading on the NYSE under ticker BLSH, posted a net loss of $280 million for the second quarter of 2026. Investors responded by sending shares up 11.7% to $27.50.The loss, amounting to $1.78 per diluted share, stands in sharp contrast to the $10

BitGo's second-quarter earnings showed $4.329 billion of revenue, but almost all of the sales generated by its largest business line flowed back out as transaction costs.Revenue increased 79.6% from a year earlier, according to BitGo’s second-quarter earnings release. Yet the headline number can obs

For years, Tether’s critics had one reliable complaint: the company behind the world’s dominant stablecoin had never submitted to a full, independent financial audit. On August 13, 2026, that complaint expired.Tether announced the completion of its first comprehensive financial statement audit, cond

ME News reports that on August 14 (UTC+8), Bitcoin News posted on X that MSCI has proposed new rules targeting "non-operating companies." According to MSCI’s simulation conducted in May 2026, Strategy will be removed from its Global Investable Markets Index. Strategy, along with Metaplanet and Yello

Standard Chartered analyst Geoffrey Kendrick says his $100 UNI target for 2030 now looks too low. Six weeks of Robinhood Chain fees changed his math.BeInCrypto checked his numbers against on-chain data. The core claim holds up. One supporting figure does not.What Changed in 6 Weeks for the $100 UNI

Robinhood Crypto and Lighter have officially launched a live points incentive program that rewards eligible users for trading perpetual futures inside the Robinhood Wallet — and the timing is notable. Volume on Robinhood Chain’s Lighter integration remains in its early stages, creating a window wher

Chime Financial, one of the largest neobanks in the US with tens of millions of customers, is exploring how stablecoins could fit into its consumer banking platform. The company joined the Open Standard consortium backing Open USD, a proposed dollar-backed stablecoin designed for payments and global

On August 13, 2026, holders pulled 5.59 million MORPHO tokens off centralized exchanges in a single day. That is the largest net outflow since the token became transferable on November 21, 2024, according to on-chain data tracked by Santiment.When tokens leave exchanges at this scale, the read is fa

TL;DRGoldman Sachs is acquiring NEOS Investments in a cash-and-equity deal worth up to $2.25 billion, gaining a $1.1 billion Bitcoin income ETF.BTCI generates monthly income by holding spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products and selling call options, yielding about 27% but limiting upside during stron

XRP Network Activity Is Rising, But New Users Aren’t XRP is showing a puzzling split, given that the network is getting busier, but its user base is barely expanding. Therefore, this gap is becoming harder to ignore with XRP trading near the $1 mark.Market analyst Xaif Crypto highlighted that XRP’s

ME News reports that on Friday, August 14 (UTC+8), BTC and ETH options will expire, with open interest concentrated around several key strike prices. The notional open interest for BTC is approximately $1.28 billion, with the highest open interest at $64,000; the most concentrated call options are