Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

According to TechCrunch, AI startup Mirendil has entered into a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud, securing over $100 million in computing power to support its self-improving AI research. Benham Neyshabur, co-founder and CEO of Mirendil, stated that the agreement is valued at approximately ha

According to The Information, OpenAI has acquired certain patent assets from Rain AI, an AI chip startup, after earlier negotiations for a full acquisition fell through. Rain AI, a startup focused on developing AI chips, was founded approximately eight years ago and had investors including Sam Altma

BlackRock’s IBIT and ETHA dominated a $305 million wave into U.S. spot crypto ETFs on August 5, taking over 80% of the day’s total inflows, according to data tracked by SoSoValue and highlighted in the original report.The $197 million that entered IBIT added to its lead as the largest spot bitcoin E

Block Inc. quietly added 85 BTC to its corporate treasury, lifting its holdings to 9,117 BTC and moving the Jack Dorsey-led company up to 15th place on Bitcoin Treasuries.NET’s Bitcoin 100 list. The purchase was posted on X by Bitcoin Treasuries.NET, but the update did not disclose when the buy occ

Headline: Attacker Uses StrongBlock’s Own Governance to Drain $72K — A Cautionary Tale for Abandoned DAOs An attacker has siphoned roughly $72,000 worth of STRONG and STRNGR from StrongBlock after seizing control of the protocol’s abandoned on‑chain governance system via a malicious proposal, accor

Huo Xing Finance reports that on August 6, according to BIT (bit.com) market data, following the opening of U.S. markets on Thursday, semiconductor and optoelectronics stocks largely reversed earlier losses and showed significant recovery. Most semiconductor stocks rose: ASML increased 2.17%, Arm ro

The following is a guest post and opinion from Danyel Arenas, Co-Founder and CEO at KiiChain.Visa’s launch of its Stablecoin Platform is a sign that stablecoins are moving into mainstream financial infrastructure. The platform gives banks, fintechs and payment providers a way to access, hold, move a

Israel just fired a starting gun in the global quantum computing race. The country’s National AI Directorate, operating under the Prime Minister’s Office, published a government tender for Project Nexus on August 4, 2026. The goal: build a nationally owned quantum computing platform manufactured on

Huo Xing Finance reports, according to Wired, a security researcher who has been embedded in a North Korean hacking group’s system for nearly two years has issued a warning that attacks targeting individual employees and contractors are highly effective and widespread, leading to breaches at numerou

ChainCatcher report: According to the 10-Q filing submitted by Grayscale’s XRP Trust ETF to the U.S. SEC, the fund sold XRP worth over $180 million in the first half of 2026, reducing its holdings from 122.23 million XRP at the end of 2025 to 55.04 million XRP as of June 30. The sale of XRP due to s

PANews, August 6: According to Lookonchain monitoring, UNITREE has now launched on the Pre-IPO market. An address deposited 3 million USDC into Hyperliquid and began establishing a long position in $UNITREE. The trader currently holds a 5x long position, with 3,507 $UNITREE (valued at $264,000).

PANews, August 6: According to Fox Business, the New York Yankees and Polymarket have announced an agreement making Polymarket the official prediction market partner for the remainder of the Yankees’ season. Polymarket will be featured at Yankee Stadium, as well as during Yankees game broadcasts on

Brazil’s B3 has taken tokenization from concept to cattle pen. Earlier coverage of the exchange’s pilot highlighted how a farmer in southern Brazil used 10 tokenized cows as collateral to secure a loan of 100,000 Brazilian reais (about $19,600), effectively “herding” the animals into a blockchain-ba

Apollo Global Management is making a very large, very calculated bet that AI chips are the new real estate. The firm is structuring loans backed not by office buildings or toll roads, but by the physical processors that power artificial intelligence, and the lease payments those chips generate from

CoreWeave, the GPU cloud computing company that literally started as a crypto mining operation, has shed roughly 20% of its value over the past three months. Wall Street, apparently undeterred, thinks the stock could rally 65% or more from current levels.The NASDAQ-listed company (CRWV) has been tra