U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs posted gains across all five sessions, attracting $853.54 million in their strongest week since April 17. Ether funds added about $245 million, while XRP, solana and HYPE ETFs also finished the week with net inflows. Blackrock Drives $905M Into Bitcoin, Ether ETFs in One
Putting a phone in airplane mode shaved just 4 to 11 minutes off charging times in CNET’s tests, a far cry from the 25% speedup some users claim. The small gain comes from disabling power-hungry radios like cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS, but fully powering the device down is a more effective shortcut. Your phone […]
Mark Esper, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, stresses the CLARITY Act would extend Patriot Act provisions to digital assets, modernizing the identification and special measures apparatus against foreign institutions to target threat actors such as North Korea and criminal organizations. Mark Esper: CLARITY Act ‘Not Merely a Financial Services Bill’ While the Digital Asset
Conversations in Berlin are taking place to decide whether Germany will support Joachim Nagel, the current president of the Bundesbank, in a potential bid for the Presidency of the ECB. Nagel, who would emerge as a dark horse, has a negative stance on bitcoin and crypto. Joachim Nagel’s Bid To Become ECB President Under Consideration […]
Senate Banking Committee minority staff say the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act fails five minimum standards, potentially leaving pensions exposed and failing to stop President Trump’s next $1.4 billion in crypto profits. A procedural Senate vote is set for Sept. 15. Minority Staff Fault the Bill on Five Counts The Minority Staff of the Senate […]
The Senate will hold a procedural vote on the CLARITY Act Sept. 15 after missing its August window, while the SEC advances a parallel crypto rulemaking agenda. Bitwise says the delay puts the bill in a “walking dead” state. What Happens When the Senate Votes Sept. 15? U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) issued a statement […]
Polymarket traders now price the CLARITY Act at a 21% chance of becoming law this year. The Senate filed a cloture motion on Aug. 8 after missing its pre-recess vote, pushing the fight into September. Why Is the CLARITY Act Priced at 21%? Polymarket traders assigned the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act a 21% chance […]
Arthur Hayes argues the artificial intelligence buildout is a leveraged real estate bubble that he says will end in a government bailout larger than 2008. He expects the resulting liquidity creation to carry bitcoin past $1 million. What Hayes Thinks the AI Buildout Really Is Arthur Hayes, co-founder of Bitmex and chief investment officer at […]
This week’s metrics show tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) have cracked another ceiling, with total value locked (TVL) blowing past $38 billion and hitting $38.17 billion on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026. The RWA sector is now just $1.83 billion shy of punching through the $40 billion mark. Tokenized RWAs Push Deeper Into TradFi The tokenized RWA […]
BIP-110 proponents are debating whether to change the proof-of-work algorithm on their stalled minority chain after it managed to mine only two blocks before Bitcoin’s enormous difficulty effectively brought activity to a signficant crawl. The BIP-110 chain split from Bitcoin after mandatory signaling began at block 961632 on Aug. 8. Nodes enforcing BIP-110 began rejecting










