2026-08-18 The amount involved exceeds $165 million, and Edward Zimbardi has been indicted for allegedly operating a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. 2026-08-18 Ark Invest bought shares of Block, Securitize, and Nvidia yesterday. 2026-08-18 AI voice-to-text company Wispr Flow completed a $280 million Series B funding round, led by Menlo Ventures. 2026-08-18 Gambler was liquidated for 288 BTC, worth $18.55 million, and still holds 512 BTC in short positions. 2026-08-18 South Korea's KOSPI index expands gains to 3%, SK Hynix rises over 6%. 2026-08-18 N3XT, founded by the former chairman of Signature Bank, launches instant cross-border payment services with approval from Wyoming. 2026-08-18 Approximately 28,000 bitcoins have flowed back into exchanges, erasing 84% of the six-week outflow volume. 2026-08-18 M&G Investment Company increases holdings of Korean government bonds, believing the market's rate hike pricing is excessive. 2026-08-18 Jim Cramer: The AI boom is reshaping the memory industry cycle, and Micron's stock still has the potential to double. 2026-08-18 The $60 million capped discounted buyback program saw almost no participation, and the Monad Foundation has ended the locked MON buyback. 2026-08-18 Peter Schiff stated that the Bitcoin rebound provides holders with a selling opportunity, with $65,000 as a resistance level. 2026-08-18 U.S. leveraged ETF market exposure rises to $420 billion, adding over $100 billion in the past three weeks. 2026-08-18 Pando Rings attacker, after two months of silence, exchanged 3 million DAI for 1,570 ETH and sent 800 ETH to Tornado Cash. 2026-08-18 Alliance Co-founder: Decentralized social graphs are not the core value of Farcaster in attracting users; social trading may be the direction. 2026-08-18 Neynar will seek a new operations team for Farcaster, Clanker, and others, and return the company's remaining funds. 2026-08-18 Printr will cease operations on August 31, 2026, canceling the token generation event and airdrop. 2026-08-18 Total market cap is approximately $2.8 billion, with tokenized stocks' market share rising to 15% within the year. 2026-08-18 South Korean stock index opened more than 2% higher, with SK Hynix rising 5.8%. 2026-08-17 Ansem launches on-chain token index z500, projects can improve their ranking through airdrops and burning ANSEM. 2026-08-17 TVL grew over 45%, Robinhood Chain tokenized RWA share dropped to 6% 2026-08-17 Strategy prioritizes the development of STRC, cash reserves, and credit business, and does not currently consider stock buybacks. 2026-08-17 Unitree Technology's Pre-IPO perpetual contract on Trade.xyz briefly broke through $106 in the early morning, reaching an all-time high. 2026-08-17 Pump.fun launches zero-fee trading 2026-08-17 Trump says he does not seek to extend the memorandum of understanding with Iran. 2026-08-17 US stocks closed with AI concept sectors such as storage and optical communications strengthening. 2026-08-17 OpenAI's annualized revenue is projected to exceed $40 billion, with enterprise business ARR growing 32% month-over-month in July. 2026-08-17 BitBox discloses two critical hardware wallet vulnerabilities, fixed in firmware v9.26.5 2026-08-17 Coinbase Adds Cluster Protocol CP to Listing Roadmap 2026-08-17 Anthropic's annualized revenue has surpassed $65 billion, growing over 7 times compared to the end of last year. 2026-08-17 Binance Pay integrates with over 3,700 merchants in Bhutan, supporting USDT settlement. 2026-08-17 After more than 15 years of dormancy, an address transferred 8.54 BTC to Kraken, valued at approximately $539,000, representing an increase of about 4,600 times from the time of receipt. 2026-08-17 The Central Bank of Russia plans to set the upper limit for professional market participants' crypto asset holdings at 25% of total equity. 2026-08-17 Coinbase lists US500 perpetual contracts, allowing long or short positions on the 500 largest US companies. 2026-08-17 OCC conditionally approves the trust bank license application of World Liberty Financial, a crypto company associated with the Trump family. 2026-08-17 The prediction market prices the probability of the Fed keeping rates unchanged in September at approximately 74%. 2026-08-17 HIVE Digital signs a $350 million five-year AI cloud services contract, deploying 2,016 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs. 2026-08-17 $6 million in Bitcoin was physically converted to BITB through a broker last week. 2026-08-17 Zhibao Technology completes private placement of 2,380 Bitcoins, with non-U.S. investors participating. 2026-08-17 Bitcoin returns to $64,000, with short liquidations reaching $57.4 million. 2026-08-17 Binance plans to apply for a UK FCA license, with some services expected to resume in 2027. 2026-08-17 Ethereum developers plan to prioritize the privacy transaction proposal in the 2027 Hegotá upgrade, with FOCIL confirmed to be included. 2026-08-17 USD/JPY rose above 159.5, up 0.1% from the previous trading session's close. 2026-08-17 Michael Saylor: Strategy will utilize all resources to bring STRC back to par value. 2026-08-17 BitMart founder refutes rumors of withdrawal restrictions and unpaid salaries, exchange to end trading on August 26 2026-08-17 IBIT call option exposure increased 24-fold, with UBS holding 407,890 shares of IBIT valued at $13.6 million. 2026-08-17 Castle Securities: Fed policy may keep U.S. Treasury yields elevated, with long-term interest rate risks rising. 2026-08-17 twyne completes $2.5 million seed funding round, co-led by cyber Fund and Ethereal Ventures 2026-08-17 21Shares Polkadot ETF's Q2 "staking yield" comes at a high cost: for every $1 in rewards paid, a $4.52 loss is realized. 2026-08-17 HSBC: The Fed's reduction of holdings will make U.S. Treasuries more reliant on price-sensitive buyers 2026-08-17 Analysis: In 2026, the U.S. stock market may set a 30-year record, with no widespread sell-off signals emerging yet.