Category: crypto

U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs attracted $2.61 billion in five trading sessions, their strongest week since October 2025. Bitcoin ETFs received $1.92 billion, Ether ETFs attracted $697.47 million. BlackRock’s IBIT and ETHA led their categories. Bitcoin price increase and ETF demand contributed to the inflows.

MUBARAK’s price increased by 26.1% to $0.0266 on the BNB Chain, attracting fresh trading activity alongside a $200,000 network campaign. Daily volume reached $42.36 million, exceeding its market capitalization. Other meme tokens on the chain also saw gains, with trading contests adding incentives for activity. American traders may have limited access to these tokens.

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service has implemented a real-time AI system to detect suspected crypto price manipulation by scanning trading data, news, and online content. The system utilizes generative AI and machine learning to screen for abnormal price or volume changes, potential market abuse patterns, and false promotional claims.

Crypto and blockchain companies raised around $1.298 billion in six disclosed transactions during August 16-22, 2026. ZeroStack received $1 billion in MemeCore tokens, while Ripple Prime secured $275 million through debt offering. Other rounds included funding for AI trading, privacy blockchain, DeFi lending, and decentralized infrastructure projects.

The NFT market saw a significant increase in sales to $95.48 million over the past week, with a single $55.03 million transaction from the Pandora project driving most of the growth. The rise in sales was not matched by a proportional increase in the number of transactions, suggesting a concentrated transaction influenced the overall market…

The Sandbox identified a vulnerability in its cross-chain bridge that allowed an attacker to mint unbacked SAND tokens on Base and BNB Smart Chain, estimating the impact to be less than 0.01% of the total token supply. The project disabled transfers involving the affected networks, and plans to compensate eligible liquidity providers.

MANTRA Chain has resumed block production after deploying version 8.4.0 to fix a Cosmos-EVM vulnerability that caused a 30-hour transaction processing halt. The restart involved no blockchain rollback or changes to user balances. A post-incident report will be published soon to provide a complete analysis of the incident.

Despite Bitcoin’s rally, Strategy’s STRC preferred stock remains below its $100 value at $95.31, prompting concerns from Multicoin Capital co-founder Tushar Jain that the 12% dividend does not adequately cover the risk of further drawdowns. Strategy has used Bitcoin sales to fund dividends and share repurchases, but the stock has not returned to its stated…

South Korea has implemented a three-part digital finance program involving crypto accounts for 3,500 companies, legal recognition of tokenized securities, and deposit token trials with nine banks. This initiative aims to modernize the country’s financial sector and expand opportunities for corporate investors in the crypto market.

Binance is still opening and verifying new EU accounts after the MiCA deadline. Tests in multiple European countries found that new users could complete the process and make deposits. Binance is absent from the EU’s list of authorized providers and is pursuing approval through another member state. ESMA has instructed unauthorized providers to stop onboarding…