Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Grayscale pulled the plug on three planned U.S. altcoin ETFs in a blink: the asset manager withdrew registration statements for Cardano, Hedera and Polkadot on Aug. 7, with the three Form RW submissions accepted by the SEC in a neat 190-second window between 4:33:37 p.m. and 4:36:47 p.m. ET. What h

AI models are becoming more powerful, but are the mechanisms controlling them keeping pace? Helen Toner, former OpenAI board member, warns that humanity’s ability to limit and ensure AI safety may have fallen behind the rate of model advancement, with some systems potentially finding ways to circumv

Pump.fun’s native token PUMP has gone from a quiet multi-month base to one of the highest-momentum moves on Solana in the span of 30 days — delivering 98.20% returns while the platform behind it continues to rank among crypto’s most profitable protocols. As of August 10, 2026, PUMP is trading at $0.

Pumpfun, a Solana-based memecoin launchpad, has recently overtaken Hyperliquid in 30-day revenue, achieving the third-highest revenue among crypto protocols over the past 24 hours. Pumpfun’s revenue surge positions it behind only Tether and Circle, and just ahead of Hyperliquid, a perpetuals protoco

Grayscale Investment, with $45 billion in AUM, has withdrawn registration filings for its proposed Cardano (ADA), Hedera (HBAR), and Polkadot (DOT) ETFs, ending the latest stage of plans that had been in place since 2025. The announcement comes just before CME’s regulated ADA futures complete six mo

Robinhood (HOOD) is introducing zero-fee crypto trading in the U.K. alongside stocks and shares ISAs, equities, options and futures, the company said on Monday.The all-in-one Robinhood app will bring U.K. customers access to over 50 cryptos including Bitcoin BTC$65,252.85, Ethereum ETH$1,926.76, XRP

ChainCatcher report: On August 10, UMX (The Unified Market Exchange), incubated by Li Lin’s Avenir Group, announced the launch of its invite-only public beta. UMX is positioned as a crypto-friendly securities platform for global professional investors, supporting spot, leveraged, futures, and option

According to the official announcement, UMX (The Unified Market Exchange), a crypto-friendly securities platform incubated by Li Lin’s Avenir Group, has launched its invite-only public test. UMX is positioned as a cross-asset trading platform for global professional investors. During the public tes

ChainCatcher report: According to an official announcement, H100, a Swedish publicly listed Bitcoin reserve company, has completed a Bitcoin acquisition transaction, purchasing 2,455.4 BTC at approximately $62,900 per BTC, increasing its total holdings to 3,506 BTC. This transaction is reportedly th

According to CoinGecko data, the top five traded tokens on Upbit over the past 24 hours were: USDT (17.65% of trading volume, approximately $63.37 million in turnover); CAP (8.11% of trading volume, approximately $29.10 million in turnover); XRP (6.17% of trading volume, approximately $22.15 mill

BlockBeats news: On August 10, according to an official announcement, Robinhood has begun offering cryptocurrency trading services to eligible customers in the UK, allowing users to buy and sell over 50 digital assets directly within its main investment app via Bitstamp, a established platform it ac

ChainThink reports that on August 10, Sweden’s Bitcoin treasury company H100 increased its holdings by 2,455.4 BTC, bringing its total holdings to 3,506 BTC. The company stated that the transaction was completed in April of this year, with NSD AS as the acquiring entity, and all acquired Bitcoin wer

ChainCatcher report: TSMC announced its July 2026 revenue results, with consolidated revenue reaching approximately NT$467.58 billion (about $14.3 billion), representing a 5.6% month-over-month increase and a 44.7% year-over-year increase. For the first seven months of 2026, cumulative revenue amoun

Huo Xing Finance reports, according to Bloomberg citing data from Smart Analytics Global, global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026 reached approximately 19,100 units, a year-over-year increase of over 200% (compared to about 5,100 units in the same period last year), with Chinese ma

ME News reports that on August 10 (UTC+8), Ethereum developers proposed a "Tapered Issuance Burn" mechanism, which plans to gradually burn a portion of validators' idealized rewards as the ETH staking ratio increases; when staking approaches 50% of total supply, ETH’s net issuance will drop to 0%. T