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Bitcoin (BTC) hit $65,000 after Tuesday’s Wall Street open as US stocks rebounded in spite of geopolitical pressure.Key points:Bitcoin reaches $65,000 for the first time since Aug. 10 as risk assets navigate fresh US-Iran signals.Analysis warns of surging US 30-year bond yields, which hit 29-year highs of 5.34%.BTC price analysis flags decision time on a head-and-shoulders bottoming structure.Bitcoin diverges from US stocks as Trump says Strait of Hormuz “open”Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD building on the week’s gains as the S&P 500 bounced from 7,696, its lowest level since Aug. 4.BTC/USD four-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewThis came after US president Donald…

New York City, United States, August 18th, 2026, Chainwire Integration lets users hold Robinhood Chain assets in self-custody, move them across chains through Tria’s BestPath routing and use supported assets to top up the Tria Card Tria, the leading self-custodial neofinance platform, today announced support for Robinhood Chain, connecting one of the fastest-growing new networks for tokenized real-world assets to Tria’s cross-chain infrastructure and global payment ecosystem. The integration allows users to hold supported Robinhood Chain assets in wallets they control, move assets across chains using Tria’s BestPath routing technology, and route supported assets through Tria to top up the…

PORT VILA, Vanuatu, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Vantage Markets expanded its Pre-IPO CFD offering with the launch of its Unitree Pre-IPO CFD for eligible clients, available from 10 August 2026 under the symbol UNITREEUSD. The launch provides eligible clients with exposure to movements in the applicable reference price of Unitree Robotics, a company operating in the fields of embodied artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. The Unitree Pre-IPO CFD is a leveraged derivative product that provides eligible clients with exposure to movements in its applicable reference price, as determined in accordance with Vantage’s applicable pricing methodology and trading terms. It does…

Building an emergency savings fund is an important financial milestone. But where should your money go once your emergency savings account is fully funded? Should you start investing? Save for other expenses? Take a vacation?  As a financial educator and a former NFCC-certified credit counselor, I’ve helped thousands of people answer this question. In most cases, the answer is similar. There’s a specific progression of financial moves that nearly anyone can make to increase their financial stability.  If you’ve fully funded your emergency savings, here’s where I recommend putting your money next. Signs your emergency savings are adequately funded How…

Strategy did not sell Bitcoin over the past week, but it sold $333.7 million of MSTR stocks.It used the proceeds to increase its cash reserves to $4.8 billion and repurchase $132.2 million worth of STRC preferred shares.This Monday marks the eighth consecutive week since Strategy (MSTR) stopped announcing its Bitcoin (BTC) purchases. Since June 30, it has been all about either selling or holding its digital asset stash while raising cash reserves and repurchasing Perpetual Stretch (STRC) Preferred shares.Strategy’s Bitcoin HoldingsThe company’s latest Form 8-K filing at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveals it still hasn’t bought any…

Bitmine owns 4.8% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 96% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 14 months In July, ETH outperformed Nasdaq 100 by 2,500 basis points, the largest since July 2025, reflective of the strengthening fundamentals of crypto Bitmine repurchased 1.7 million shares of common stock in the past week, and has repurchased over 20.8 million shares cumulatively since July 2026 under its previously announced $4 billion share repurchase program Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is…

Edelman Financial Engines has disclosed a $34 million position in spot Bitcoin ETFs — a stake that now exceeds some of the firm’s other holdings in major tech companies.  While the position is still tiny in the investment advisor’s portfolio, it is still larger than its $25 million position in Amazon.  The position — held in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust and Grayscale’s flagship product — tracks closely with the public views of its founder, Ric Edelman.  Edelman has been advocating for Bitcoin ETFs since 2019, years before the SEC approved spot products in January 2024. He also founded the Digital…

SafePal went public on August 16 with a data breach. Nearly 40,000 customers had their personal details exposed through a flaw in an order-tracking plugin — and the company didn’t catch it for months. The numbers are specific: 39,798 users. Orders placed between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026. Data exposed includes names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase information. Not a vague, hand-wavy “some customer data” disclosure — this is granular, and SafePal laid it out plainly. The company said the flaw was an authorization defect, meaning the plugin allowed unauthorized access to customer order records…

Miami, Florida, USA, August 16th, 2026, PlayNewswire BiggerZ is strengthening its position as a fairness-first betting platform, bringing casino gaming, sports betting and prediction markets together under one account while making transparency, verifiability and clearly defined rules central to the player experience. As online betting platforms expand across crypto, casino gaming, sports and prediction markets, BiggerZ is taking a different approach to how these products are presented to players: fairness should be explained rather than simply claimed. The platform’s approach is built around four principles – transparency, clarity, verifiability and defined rules – applied at the moments where players would…

Ethereum replaces Poseidon with SHA and BLAKE for future Layer 1 upgrades. Binary-field SNARK advances make traditional hash functions practical again. The roadmap targets leanVM in 2027 with wider deployments planned for 2028. The Ethereum Foundation is changing its long-term cryptography strategy by replacing Poseidon with SHA and BLAKE for Layer 1 development. The shift […] Ethereum replaces Poseidon with SHA and BLAKE for future Layer 1 upgrades. Binary-field SNARK advances make traditional hash functions practical again. The roadmap targets leanVM in 2027 with wider deployments planned for 2028. The Ethereum Foundation is changing its long-term cryptography strategy by replacing…