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Sequans Communications reduced its Bitcoin treasury by 79.3% during the second quarter, leaving 314 BTC at June 30 as the cellular chipmaker used Bitcoin sales to help eliminate convertible debt and bolster cash.Holdings fell from 1,514 BTC at March 31 to 314 BTC three months later, a reduction of 1

Odaily Planet Daily report: Cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase is exploring the next generation of software development through its internal AI programming system, Forge. The platform has evolved from an early internal tool into an ecosystem encompassing multiple AI development capabilities a

Circle reported $701 million revenue and $143 million adjusted EBITDA.USDC circulation reached $73.3 billion during the second quarter.Arc mainnet launch targets institutional blockchain adoption.Circle Q2 earnings showed continued expansion in USDC adoption as the stablecoin issuer reported $701 mi

Huo Xing Cai Jing reports that BNB Chain officially launched the "Build the Era" open hackathon on August 5, 2026, inviting individual developers and teams to submit proposals for building the best AI Agent trading marketplace on BNB Smart Chain. Over 200,000 AI Agents registered on BNB Smart Chain

According to ME News, on August 5 (UTC+8), Mike Novogratz, CEO of Galaxy Digital, commented on the CLARITY Act during the Q2 earnings call, stating that the ethical provisions compromise proposed by Republican Senator Tillis and Democratic Senator Gallego came “too late” and is unlikely to make prog

The AI spending story just got a fresh data point, and the market liked what it saw. Stock index futures moved higher on Wednesday after earnings from Palantir Technologies and ON Semiconductor painted a picture of a corporate world that is not slowing down its artificial intelligence investment, no

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PANews, August 5: According to Forbes, Coinbase is making its internal AI engineering platform, Forge, the cornerstone of its “AI-first” strategy to reimagine its software development processes. Forge is built on the open-source agent framework OpenSWE and integrates capabilities such as agent orche

ChainCatcher report: On August 5, 2026, BNB Chain officially launched the "Build the Era" open hackathon, inviting individual developers and teams to submit solutions for building the best AI Agent trading marketplace on BNB Smart Chain. Over 200,000 AI Agents registered on BNB Smart Chain based on

ChainCatcher report, according to CNBC, Peter Diamandis, an early investor in SpaceX and founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, stated that SpaceX has the potential to become the world’s first company with a market capitalization of $10 trillion. Diamandis noted that the market has yet to find the right

Bitwise’s top strategist says crypto can keep growing even if Congress stalls the CLARITY Act. In an investor memo on Aug. 4, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan argued that the crypto industry won’t collapse if the Senate fails to advance H.R. 3633 before its August recess. “Crypto will b

A pair of large on‑chain movements has sparked fresh questions about whether big institutional holders are selling Bitcoin — or simply shifting custody. What happened - On Aug. 5, on‑chain analytics firm Lookonchain flagged a transfer of 1,030 BTC (about $66.1 million) from addresses it identifies

ChainThink reports that on August 5, Mike Novogratz, CEO of Galaxy Digital, stated during the Q2 earnings call that the ethical provisions compromise of the CLARITY Act, proposed by Senator Tillis and Senator Gallego, came too late to make significant progress before the recess, but there is still p

World Chain launches streamed EIP-7928 on mainnet Aug. 17.New feature enables parallel block verification for validators.Upgrade targets higher throughput without more hardware.World Chain said it will become the first production layer-2 blockchain to deploy streamed EIP-7928 block access lists, int

When the US and Japan teamed up to buy yen in early August, the financial world braced for impact. The last time these two coordinated a currency intervention was 1998, back when the Asian financial crisis was redrawing the map of global finance.The Bloomberg EM FX Carry Risk Premia Index dropped ro