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Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy, raised $2.0065 billion by selling common shares from Aug. 17 through Aug. 23 and bought no Bitcoin. The transaction left its $1.59 billion USD Cash balance at the center of a wider capital-allocation contest.The company sold 18,261,118 shares of MSTR, its common stock, then used $136.4 million to repurchase 1,431,212 shares of STRC, a variable-rate preferred stock. It transferred another $300 million to its separately designated USD Reserve. The remainder, $1.5701 billion, went into USD Cash, according to Strategy’s Aug. 24 filing.Strategy reported ending balances of $5.10 billion in the reserve…

In brief Revolut has begun a phased rollout of EURR, a euro-pegged token, to selected customers in three EEA markets. The token is issued by Bridge Building S.A., a Stripe subsidiary licensed in Luxembourg, with Revolut distributing it through its app. Revolut says wider EEA availability and stablecoins in other currencies will follow this year. Neobank Revolut has started rolling out a euro-backed stablecoin to a selected group of customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, the fintech said in an announcement on Wednesday, in the first concrete product from a stablecoin plan it announced more than a year ago.The token,…

In brief ECB executive board member Piero Cipollone said the digital euro guarantees the maximum privacy current technology can offer, in an interview published Monday. Offline payments would be visible only to the payer and payee, while online the Eurosystem could not identify either party, though the banks involved could. The European Parliament agreed its negotiating position in July, with a pilot due in the second half of 2027 and first issuance targeted for 2029. A digital euro would give users as much privacy as current technology allows, a European Central Bank executive board member has said, in the bank’s…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Flowra has launched its Open Orderflow Auction framework for Solana validators, introducing a third-party block-building and MEV auction system designed around short, competitive ordering windows. The system, launched on August 21, uses 200ms mini-auction cycles in which registered searchers compete for transaction inclusion. It also integrates with Honeypot, allowing validators to run custom block policies without changing Solana’s core protocol. That distinction matters. This is not a Solana hard fork. It is not a native protocol-level upgrade. It is middleware infrastructure for validators and block builders, aimed…

In brief Judge Katherine Polk Failla adjourned Roman Storm’s retrial to April 26, 2027, in an order entered Tuesday. His motion for acquittal, argued on April 9, remains undecided. Storm was convicted in August 2025 of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, with the jury split on money laundering and sanctions violation charges. Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm will not be retried on the two counts a jury deadlocked on until the spring of 2027, after Judge Katherine Polk Failla adjourned the proceeding by more than six months.The order, entered Tuesday in the Southern District of New York,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Cardano has opened formal review on CIP-0197, a proposal designed to add optional post-quantum wallet protections through a zero-knowledge signature proof layer. The proposal, authored by researcher Robert Phair, focuses on protecting hierarchical deterministic wallets against future quantum-computing risks. The design aims to let users strengthen existing wallet addresses without immediately migrating keys. This is early-stage work. CIP-0197 is not live on Cardano mainnet. It is not mandatory. It should not be presented as an emergency response to an immediate quantum attack. But it is an important…

In brief Crypto-margined Bitcoin futures now make up about 12% of open interest, down from nearly 100% around 2019–2020. Bitcoin rebounded from around $57,000 to a weekly close near $79,175, today up about 1.88%. In the past 24 hours, $570.08 million in positions were liquidated, with shorts hit harder than longs. Bitcoin futures traders have all but abandoned crypto as collateral. The share of Bitcoin open interest that is crypto-margined—positions backed by Bitcoin itself rather than a stablecoin—is now about 12% across all exchanges, according to Glassnode’s long-run metric.That’s a long way from where it sat in 2019 and 2020,…

In brief Alibaba’s Qwen team is set to release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next on Wednesday, a Mixture-of-Experts model described as a preview of the Qwen4 architecture. The team’s pre-release briefing cites 125 billion total parameters with only 6 billion active per token. Hard benchmark scores haven’t been published yet, and the weights aren’t live on ModelScope as of this writing. Alibaba is set to release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next on Wednesday, a 125-billion-parameter model that activates just 6 billion per token. The Qwen team framed it as a preview of the next-generation Qwen 4 architecture, not a finished flagship.There is no official information on…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Altcoin markets are showing another burst of volatility, with PEPE recovering sharply and World Liberty Financial seeing steady activity after fresh regulatory-adjacent news. CoinGecko market data showed PEPE recovering to around $0.00000411 by August 23, up from roughly $0.00000258 on August 19. WLFI traded near the $0.059 to $0.060 range after news that the project had secured conditional preliminary approval from the OCC for a national trust bank charter. HTX, meanwhile, remained under pressure around the $0.0000017 range amid Binance transaction restrictions. This is not proof that…

In brief XRP closed at $1.4554 on the latest daily candle, down from a $1.5505 high. The 50-day moving average sits below the 200-day, with a death cross still active. The medium-term structure says bearish, but XRP isn’t alone. The crypto market flipped from fear to “extreme greed” this week for the first time since 2024, and the Ripple-linked XRP rode that wave hard.XRP, the cryptocurrency created by the co-founders of Ripple, erased its most bearish signal last week and took off, registering a 46% gain over seven days and topping a $91 billion market cap.Myriad: Where does XRP price…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The TON Foundation has confirmed that its legacy bridge will be permanently decommissioned on September 1, setting a deadline for users holding wrapped TON and related bridge assets to move back to native forms. The shutdown affects bridge-v3.ton.org, according to TON materials. Users holding Wrapped TON as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum or BNB Chain, or j-tokens such as jUSDT on TON, need to bridge assets back before the deadline to avoid losing access. This is a planned infrastructure transition. It should not be described as an…

In brief SpaceX plans to invest $100 billion in a new spaceport in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, on land acquired from Exxon. Construction is expected to begin in 2027, with initial flight operations targeted for 2029. The site will include five launch complexes, propellant production, power generation, vehicle processing facilities, and employee housing. Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to invest $100 billion in a new spaceport in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, as the company builds out infrastructure for its Starship rocket.Dubbed Starbase Louisiana, the facility will occupy coastal land acquired from Exxon. Construction is expected to begin in 2027, with initial flight operations…

Bitcoin is out of its bear market. But expect a possible pullback.  That’s according to analysts at crypto research firm CryptoQuant, who say the coin is behaving like it has done in the past. CryptoQuant founder, Ki Young Ju, wrote on X Tuesday that the asset had “entered into the early bull phase.” Ju Pointed to movements bitcoin made in its last cycle before entering a bull market, and said the coin was currently doing the same thing.  CryptoQuant research shows that bitcoin flows to derivative exchanges have started again, confirming that traders have entered “risk-on” mode, which “has marked…

In brief Multiverse Computing’s team published a method called Quantization-Aware Healing on the Hugging Face blog on August 25. They shrank OpenAI’s open GPT-OSS model from 120 billion parameters to 60 billion and compressed its memory to 4-bit—and the small version beat the full-quality model it was copied from on 7 of 9 tests. The trick: teach the shrunken model from the original smart version, not the weak halfway copy. >>>> gd2md-html alert: inline image link in generated source and store images to your server. NOTE: Images in exported zip file from Google Docs may not appear in the same…