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In brief X users have been posting since early August about password reset emails, login alerts, and account lockouts they never triggered. X has not admitted or reported a new data breach; researchers trace the activity to a 2021-2022 API flaw, a 2025 dataset of 201 million records, an active botnet, and a phishing campaign running since July. Proton, which some X users rely on as a recovery email, is separately dealing with a service disruption tied to a hardware failure, unrelated but relevant if that’s the inbox tied to your account. X users have spent the past several weeks…

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust exchange-traded fund has delivered better returns since its 2024 launch than Vanguard’s popular S&P 500 fund.  That’s according to Bloomberg data highlighted by the firm’s senior ETF analyst, Eric Balchunas, who said that the BlackRock product’s cumulative percentage return was only slightly ahead of Vanguard’s in the time period.  BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF is up 71% since its January 2024 debut, while Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF up 66% on a total-return basis.   Hard to believe $IBIT is beating $VOO since inception but it’s true..altho it’s close. And to be fair, IBIT’s path to 70% looks like the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Shiba Inu exchange outflows fell 42%, pointing to a cooling in short-term wallet activity after a period of stronger movement. The decline matters because exchange outflows are often watched as a sign of holder behavior. When tokens leave exchanges, traders may interpret it as accumulation or reduced immediate sell pressure. When outflows slow, that signal becomes weaker. But the metric needs careful treatment. A fall in outflows does not automatically mean holders are preparing to sell. It simply shows that fewer tokens are leaving exchanges during the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Shiba Inu netflow indicators have turned more bearish after around 145 billion SHIB moved toward exchanges, giving traders another sign that short-term positioning may be shifting. Exchange inflows can matter because tokens moving onto trading platforms may become available for sale. That does not mean every token will be sold, but it can increase perceived sell-side risk. For SHIB, the move comes as traders are already watching burn data, exchange outflows, meme coin rotation, and broader market appetite. The netflow shift adds another layer to that picture.…

Bitcoin is up this month but there’s one place where it’s more significantly more expensive: South Korea.  The so-called Kimchi Premium — when bitcoin costs more on Korean exchanges — is back as retail investors pile back into the coin. Bloomberg first reported the news and CoinGecko data shows that bitcoin’s price is nearly 1% higher on Upbit, Korea’s biggest exchange, than Binance.  Named after a popular dish in the Asian nation, the phenomenon comes down to Korea’s market being partly walled off. Prices have historically run higher there because of strong local retail demand combined with strict capital controls…

September 1st, 2026 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates class=”ql-align-justify”>Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has expanded its Islamic Account with 20 additional Shariah-compliant trading pairs, the first batches that will bring the total number of new pairs to 100 this year. The newly added pairs include: NIGHT/USDT, XPL/USDT, SOMI/USDT, MON/USDT, IP/USDT, RECALL/USDT, CC/USDT, SEI/USDT, ZKC/USDT, ZORA/USDT, WAL/USDT, XAN/USDT, STRK/USDT, AI16Z/USDT, ATH/USDT, ZBT/USDT, S/USDT, 2Z/USDT, CAMP/USDT, and INIT/USDT. Each verified Shariah-compliant pair has undergone review by Bybit’s Shariah advisory partners to confirm compliance with Islamic finance principles prior to listing. The expansion will continue in stages, with new…

On August 24, next-gen AI infrastructure platform B.AI hit a major milestone: cumulative token throughput across its sitewide free-access campaign officially crossed the 2 trillion threshold. The record-breaking run follows a series of aggressive, developer-first plays that have turned heads across the industry.While rising prices from leading model providers have sparked cost anxiety across the ecosystem, B.AI took the opposite approach. The momentum kicked off on August 17, when B.AI opened up free access to DeepSeek V4 Flash—shattering platform throughput records at 220 billion tokens in a single day. That was followed by sitewide free access to Tencent Hy3, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp,…

In brief Gal Gadot said the contract for “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” took six months to negotiate, the longest she has worked on. She said SAG approached her lawyers for pointers on updating its own agreements to protect other actors. The $70 million film was shot in a bare warehouse, with its sets and lighting generated by AI. “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot took on a role in a Bitcoin thriller produced with artificial intelligence tools despite her fears of the technology, she told the Happy Sad Confused podcast.”I am afraid of AI, but I am going to be afraid and…

September 1st, 2026 – London, London class=”ql-align-center”>ALKEMYA METACORE SCSp SECURES INITIAL USD 50 MILLION INVESTMENT AHEAD OF LISTING OF TOKENISED EQUITY NICKEL OFFERING Alkemya Luxembourg S.à.r.l. (“Alkemya”), the sponsor, is pleased to announce that Alkemya Metacore SCSp has secured USD 50 million in a pre-launch capital raise for its precision industrial nickel wire business backed by Class 1 nickel wire. It is announcing the sale of additional ALKN tokens in a new tranche (the “Token”) at USD 1.0 per Token.  The offer, which is being arranged by Hanover Square Capital (UK) Ltd, will take place on Bitfinex Securities. The offer…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors are mixed with Hype leading; BTC at $78k ETF inflows stay green with $217M for BTC and $88M for ETH Kraken in talks with Hyperliquid to bring perps to the US (HYPE +3%) Former SEC & CFTC officials urge lighter rules for perps Robinhood Chain beats Hyperliquid in revenue as token leaders soar 💰 Saylor Sold BTC at $62,000 And Bought It Back at $80,000Strategy spent the summer doing something…

Bitcoin’s roughly 50% decline from its October 2025 high has created a useful test for the institutional investment thesis. It is relatively easy to make the case for a new asset while prices are rising, correlations are favorable and capital is flowing into the market. The more revealing exercise comes after a major drawdown, when investors can revisit the original assumptions and determine which were structural and which were simply products of the preceding cycle. That is effectively what BlackRock has done in its latest research, Re-Underwriting Bitcoin: Still a Portfolio Diversifier. Rather than treating the recent drawdown as evidence…

A pharmaceutical distributor is confirming unauthorized access to its cloud systems that resulted in data exfiltration. McKesson says it discovered the incident on August 25th, involving unauthorized access to third-party applications. The company says the affected data relates to a subset of customers in its oncology and multispecialty division as well as its medical-surgical unit. The extortion group ShinyHunters claims it obtained access through vishing calls that tricked employees into revealing Okta single sign-on credentials, then pivoted to Salesforce and Snowflake platforms. The group alleges roughly 284 million patient-record lines and about one terabyte of data were taken between August…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Shyft Finance is set to open its first two curated yield vaults on Ethereum, with the regulated GAP3 Partners FZCO serving as the Co-Curator for both vaults. GAP3 Partners FZCO is a Dubai-based Virtual Asset Service Provider that obtained an active license from the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) last year. As a Co-Curator, GAP3 provides research, analysis, and recommendations to Shyft around each of its vault strategies. shCORE and shYIELD are Shyft’s first two Ethereum-based vaults. With their initial allocations established and vault contracts already…

In brief The UK’s National Crime Agency has frozen $13.6 million (£10,024,041.33) held in a Premier League bank account under the Proceeds of Crime Act. The money was the opening instalment of a four-year sponsorship deal with Sorare, the crypto fantasy soccer card game. Sorare separately faces a Gambling Commission prosecution over allegedly running gambling without a licence, with trial due next June. Britain’s National Crime Agency has frozen more than $13.6 million (£10,024,041.33) sitting in a bank account belonging to the Premier League, England’s top soccer division and the most-watched league in the world, as it investigates the crypto…