Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance platform linked to the Trump family, has hit the brakes on its plan to sell digital tokens tied to a Trump-branded luxury resort in the Maldives. The project was announced with fanfare back in February 2026, but as of mid-August, no public token sal

ChainCatcher report: Freddie Mac stated that the average U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage rate declined from 6.69% a week ago to 6.67%, ending five consecutive weeks of increases. The U.S. labor market showed signs of cooling, with July price gains slowing and key inflation indicators falling to their lo

ChainCatcher report: Goldman Sachs has announced the acquisition of NEOS Investments, an ETF issuer with $30 billion in assets under management, including the Bitcoin High Income ETF (BTCI), which has $1.1 billion in assets under management.

Riot Platforms, one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miners, sold 4,300 BTC during the second quarter to help fund operations and its expanding data center business, according to the company’s latest earnings report.What Riot Still HoldsDespite the sale, Riot still holds a substantial Bitcoin

ether.fi announces that EtherFi Cash is deploying a dedicated Aave V4 instance on the Optimism chain to support its credit card backend. EtherFi Cash currently has $22 million in active borrowing, with projected lending capacity of $500 million by 2027, and is used by 70,000 cardholders for cryptocu

European stock indices have been climbing steadily in 2026, powered by a surprisingly potent force: the continent’s AI hardware and infrastructure companies. The STOXX Europe 600 has risen approximately 10-11% year-to-date as of early August, with AI enablers like ASML and Infineon acting as signifi

QuickSwap’s DAO has formally greenlit a six-month migration window for converting Old QUICK tokens into New QUICK, with conversion rates that get progressively worse the longer holders wait. The vote passed on August 4, 2026, and the clock is now ticking toward a final cutoff date of February 5, 202

FG Nexus has abandoned its Ethereum treasury strategy less than a year after launch, redirecting its focus toward real estate development.In an Aug. 12 SEC filing, the Nasdaq-listed merchant bank disclosed that it sold all of its digital assets before June 30 and held no cryptocurrency at quarter-en

Odaily Planet Daily report: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has released the agenda for the inaugural meeting of its Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC). The committee will hold its first meeting on August 20, focusing on regulatory issues related to emerging areas such as crypt

Thailand’s digital asset industry is entering a new phase of regulatory maturity as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) prepares to implement the Travel Rule later this year. Developed in line with the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the regulation requires digita

Huo Xing Finance reports, according to The Defiant, Geoff Kendrick, Global Head of Digital Assets Research at Standard Chartered, stated that his previous target price of $100 for UNI by end-2030 may have been too low. Kendrick noted that the rate of protocol fee burn on Uniswap’s Robinhood Chain ha

Tempo on Aug. 12 launched Tempo Earn, a product that lets fintechs pay their users rewards on idle stablecoin balances and keep part of the return, with payroll platform Deel as the first named deployment.Section 4(a)(11) of the GENIUS Act bars any permitted payment stablecoin issuer from paying hol

Analyst QinbaFrank noted that by the end of Q2, CoreWeave had approximately 1.5 GW of operational power and 3.7 GW of contracted power, with a backlog of about $104 billion in orders—not including over $2.5 billion in new commitments added at the beginning of Q3; Nebius plans to deploy over 1 GW ann

Odaily Planet Daily report: Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX has announced it will fully shut down its platform on September 23, 2026, at 4:00 UTC. BitMEX CEO Peter Wilkinson stated that the exchange operated for over 11 years without losing customer funds due to any hacks. Wilkinson noted that BitM

PANews, August 14: According to Forbes, AI data infrastructure company Databricks has announced the completion of a $5 billion strategic funding round, led by Coatue, with participation from Blackstone, MGX, and T. Rowe Price. Sixth Street Growth joined as a new investor. The company’s post-money va