Cryptocurrencies

CME CEO Terry Duffy says the CFTC waves through manipulable prediction markets. Chairman Selig called the claim fake news.

Meanwhile, ZEC exploded by over 11% in the past 24 hours to exceed $560.

Bitcoin Magazine Iranian Hacking Crew Charged in Sprawling Theft Case — Including $6M Bitcoin Ransom A $10 million reward is being offered by the feds for information on the defendants. This post Iranian Hacking Crew Charged in Sprawling Theft Case — Including $6M Bitcoin Ransom first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and

MicroStrategy stock hit a two-month high as bitcoin neared $69,800, yet its treasury stays $4.69 billion underwater.

Binance runs its global exchange under Abu Dhabi’s regulator. Emirati police still detained two of its employees over financial crime inquiries, the New York Times reported. All have been released. A third staff member, who leads the company’s Dubai arm, answered questions at a police station in July. A Foothold Built

Meme coin season added $3 billion in a day. Volume and fee data reveal whether Solana, BNB or Robinhood Chain leads.

ETH is breaking higher as investors pull coins from exchanges, ETFs attract fresh cash, and major buyers step into the market.

Anthropic expects its stock market debut to match or beat the largest listing in history, according to people familiar with the matter. The bar is SpaceX, and it sits at $85.7 billion. The Claude developer could file publicly for the offering as soon as the end of August. Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao

Kinetics Internet Portfolio, a mutual fund with $248 million in assets, disclosed a direct equity stake in Ripple Labs itself rather than in XRP, according to a newly filed SEC report. The distinction matters. Institutional money is choosing Ripple, the company, over XRP, the token. What the SEC Filing Actually Shows

[PRESS RELEASE – Montevideo, Uruguay, August 20th, 2026] Aligned allows fintechs and institutions to build financial products on Ethereum, with one-click solutions for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services. Today, Aligned, a full-stack Ethereum infrastructure project, has launched $ALIGN*,