Atomiq, a Bitcoin swap infrastructure provider in the Starknet ecosystem, halted its swap services on August 20 after detecting an AI-based security attack, confirming no user funds were compromised. …
Public Bitcoin miners are spending billions on artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, with capital expenditures outpacing revenue by 15-to-1, according to BlocksBridge Consulting's Mi…
Hudson River Trading signed a multibillion-dollar, multiyear agreement with CoreWeave to expand computing infrastructure for its trading research and models, making HRT one of the first customers to g…
Beldex, a privacy-focused blockchain infrastructure company, has raised $8 million in a new funding round led by Sigma Capital, bringing its total capital to $36 million. The funds will be used to dev…
Nasdaq-listed Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) disclosed on August 19 that it holds 16,278 Ethereum and 301,971,219 Worldcoin tokens, with the Worldcoin stake representing about 8.4% of the circulating…
Ionic Digital, a Bitcoin miner repositioning its power sites for AI infrastructure, generated 90% of its second-quarter revenue from leasing, with the Ward County lease with AI infrastructure provider…
BlackRock explored the intersection of artificial intelligence, geopolitics, and asset tokenization in a recent episode of its podcast The Bid, published August 20, 2026, hosted by Oscar Pulido and pr…
Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 uncovered Operation ASTERIX, an AI-powered crypto phishing campaign, after finding a misconfigured server exposing approximately 885,000 phone numbers, including 316,002 Germ…
Tokenized AI stocks on Solana have surpassed $465 million in cumulative trading volume, while Circle minted over $10 billion in USDC on the network in a single month, according to Coinfomania. Trading…
Bitdeer Technologies announced a five-year offtake agreement worth approximately $400 million in contracted revenue for AI cloud services, covering about 50% of the capacity at its new 9.5 MW liquid-c…
Hyperliquid's HYPE token surged 19% to $69.88, with trading volume of $1.352 billion, following President Trump's statement that CFTC Chairman Mike Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid into the U.S. …
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission requested public comment on August 19 on how U.S. exchanges should list and oversee derivatives tied to AI computing capacity, with comments open for 60 days a…
Industry leaders at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2026 warned that autonomous AI agents could dramatically improve Web3 user experience but also enable cyberattacks at unprecedented scale, with Rya…
President Donald Trump hosted a crypto summit at the White House, urging the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act to maintain U.S. financial dominance. Attendees included Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Robin…
OKX, a cryptocurrency exchange, restricted employees in Hong Kong and those traveling through mainland China from using Anthropic's Claude model after its enterprise account was briefly suspended in e…
Bitcoin jumped more than 8% in 24 hours, climbing above $69,000 for the first time since June, and Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, said in a CNBC interview that the upcoming halving …
President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a 'fair' version of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act at an Aug. 19 White House event, urging lawmakers to approve the crypto market structure bill…
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, proposed allocating roughly 20% of Flop Network's FLOP token supply to testnet participants over 10 years, as part of a self-funded decentralized computing network …
Rapid7's Operation ASTERIX uncovered a crypto phishing campaign that used AI coding tools, including GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, to build counterfeit Trezor, Ledger, and Exodus wallet apps and val…
Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of Gemini, called Bitcoin's dip to around $69,000 an 'unprecedented' buying opportunity, comparing the AI-driven capital rotation to a time machine that offers a 50% dis…