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The SEC killed its August 14 Reg Crypto vote with a vague 'scheduling issue.' The White House is set to convene crypto and prediction market executives the day before the CFTC's in…
The Babylon Bee and Alliance Defending Freedom filed a federal lawsuit August 11 against New Mexico's HB 182, a 2024 law requiring state-mandated AI disclaimers on political satire…
UBS Group AG disclosed roughly 2.5 million IBIT shares worth approximately $90 million as of June 30, 2026, per a Form 13F filed with the SEC on August 13. The position jumped 230%…
A Singapore-based maritime crewing agency is reportedly offering tanker crews a Hormuz transit bonus equal to one additional month's full salary on top of base pay, signaling that…
Wood Mackenzie projects US grid operators will honor roughly 28% of 1,066 gigawatts in data center power requests, leaving ~768 GW of hyped AI energy demand that will never touch t…
July 2026 headline PPI printed flat, pulling the annual rate from 5.5% to 4.7%. The entire deflationary move came from gasoline and energy. Strip that out and services are still cl…
The SEC's Division of Investment Management issued a no-action letter on August 12 allowing Franklin Templeton's registered funds to hold the FOBXX tokenized money market fund, val…
The Blockchain Association filed an amicus brief August 13 backing Custodia Bank's Supreme Court petition, warning that existing lower-court rulings give federal regulators a ready…
Researchers at the ELLIS Institute and Max Planck Institute decoded 315,320 hidden reasoning blocks from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google APIs using a single global encryption key fla…
The CFTC invoked emergency authority to keep Kalshi running after New York's $36 billion lawsuit, and used a hypothetical Bitcoin position to make the contagion case. That preceden…
The EIA's August 2026 Short-Term Energy Outlook extended its Hormuz disruption assumption from 'a few weeks' to at least 16 months of residual supply loss. The IEA followed a day l…
B Treasury Capital AB (BTC AB) is set to make what is being called Europe's first Bitcoin-backed preferred-stock dividend payment, distributing a 10% annual yield from its 172 BTC…
Goldman Sachs agreed to acquire NEOS Investments for up to $2.25 billion on August 12, 2026, picking up 19 options-income ETFs including BTCI, a Bitcoin covered-call fund. The deal…
Arthur Hayes published 'Yen-quake' on August 10, arguing the Fed's FIMA Repo Facility is the next tool in the U.S.-Japan currency stabilization playbook, and that any cap expansion…
The SEC posted a Sunshine Act notice scheduling an open meeting for August 14 to vote on proposed rules under Regulation Crypto. A decentralization off-ramp that could let projects…
U.S. household debt fell $13 billion in Q2 2026, the first quarterly contraction since the COVID lockdown quarter. Subprime auto originations hit a record high as 90-day delinquenc…
Nvidia announced MOUs with six major financial institutions to mobilize over $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing, using compute hardware as loan collateral. Larry Fink comp…
Block disclosed 9,117 BTC in corporate treasury holdings as of June 30, 2026, per its Q2 8-K. The company held its purchase mandate through more than $260M in H1 paper losses and e…
Bitcoin's BIP editors removed Luke Dashjr on Aug. 10, 2026, just 26 hours after a removal motion landed on the dev mailing list. The fork he championed got 2.6% miner support, stal…
BlackRock's Robbie Mitchnick confirmed IBIT's in-kind conversion minimum dropped 96% to $1 million, opening Bitcoin-to-shares swaps to mid-sized institutions and signaling the firm…
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