XRP price traded near $1.36 on Aug. 31 after falling roughly 7% over seven days, as fading momentum and leveraged position unwinding offset record weekly demand from U.S. spot exchange-traded funds. Summary XRP price retreated from $1.48 to $1.36 but remained above its 4-hour Supertrend support at $1.341. U.S. spot XRP ETFs attracted $110.49 million
Crypto platforms are suffering massive losses to sophisticated exploits despite many having undergone independent security audits. A new CoinGecko report shows that between January 2025 and July 2026, crypto platforms suffered a staggering $3.63 billion in losses across 245 documented incidents. Notably the top 10 largest attacks accounted for more than 72.5% of the total
Bitcoin traded at $78,500 as the Japanese yen breached 160 per dollar in Tokyo trading, while a U.S. strike on Iran’s Larak Island added to bearish price prediction. The moves followed Friday’s broad dollar advance and hawkish remarks from Warsh at Jackson Hole, which lifted expectations for a Federal Reserve rate hike. Bitcoin’s daily loss
Bitcoin developers supporting BIP-110 are preparing a separate BLAKE2b proof-of-work chain for a proposed Sept. 1 launch after an earlier minority branch failed to attract enough SHA-256 mining support. Summary Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr’s supporters plan a BLAKE2b breakaway chain after BIP-110’s minority branch stalled. The original BIP-110 proposed temporary restrictions on arbitrary data, not
The two-month-old network processed a record 5.52 million transactions on Aug. 30 as users launched 22,600 tokens and memecoin trading tools drove most of the $2.66 million in revenue. Source link
Polymarket has strengthened its trade surveillance and investigation systems ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, as the prediction market operator faces scrutiny over insider trading and American access to its international platform. Summary Polymarket says its surveillance systems can identify anomalous trading as the U.S. midterm elections approach. The company uses blockchain analytics, machine learning
Bitcoin again closed in on the $81,000 mark on Thursday before dropping again as its stellar week continued. The leading cryptocurrency was recently trading for $80,236 after notching as high as $80,793 earlier in the day in New York. Bitcoin is now up more than 2% over the past day after gaining 10% in a
Zakura released an open-source cryptography toolkit on Aug. 29 that it says can reduce the time required to construct some private Zcash transactions from more than three seconds to below 200 milliseconds. Summary Zakura Common cuts transaction construction from over three seconds to under 200 milliseconds, developers claim. Mobile proof generation improved more than fourteenfold,
USDC settled 99.3% of x402 AI agent payment volume during Q2 2026. Circle’s USDC circulation reached $73.3 billion by the end of Q2 2026. Circle is expanding USDC use across AI agents, retail, and global payments. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said USDC accounted for 99.3% of payment volume processed through the x402 protocol during the
Crypto projects spent approximately $638 million repurchasing their native tokens between January and Aug. 31, according to Allium Labs figures cited by the Financial Times. Summary Crypto projects spent $638 million on token buybacks this year, exceeding last year’s comparable total. Hyperliquid and Pump.fun represented nearly 90% of tracked repurchases, according to Allium Labs data
