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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Chainlink has announced 12 new integrations across 10 blockchains, adding another weekly update to its growing cross-chain data and infrastructure footprint. The integrations span DeFi, liquidity, and data services, according to Chainlink’s update. The development reinforces Chainlink’s position as one of the most widely used oracle and infrastructure networks in crypto. That does not mean LINK’s price must move. This is an operational development story, not a price prediction. The point is that Chainlink continues to expand its network reach across multiple ecosystems. TL;DR Chainlink announced 12…
In brief HashKey Exchange has begun distributing Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money market fund, grBENJI, through its Earn channel. The fund holds U.S. government money market instruments and dollar cash, with returns tracking short-term Treasury yields. The product is restricted to professional investors, with no offering to the public in Hong Kong. Franklin Templeton has begun distributing its tokenized money market fund through HashKey Exchange, giving the Hong Kong platform’s clients access to a blockchain-wrapped pool of U.S. government debt.The Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Liquidity Fund, traded as grBENJI, invests primarily in U.S. government money market instruments and dollar cash assets,…
In brief Bitcoin gained 23.2% over seven days as gold climbed and the dollar weakened. The Treasury said it would at least double planned purchases of longer-term government debt. Analysts said sustained pressure on the dollar and long-term Treasuries would strengthen the case for a fiscal-credibility trade. Bitcoin gained 23.2% over seven days as gold climbed and the dollar weakened, reviving the “debasement trade”–-buying scarce assets to protect against inflation and the declining purchasing power of currencies such as the dollar.Bitcoin broke out of a weeks-long $62,000-to-$67,000 range after the U.S. Treasury announced expanded buybacks of long-dated bonds, climbing above…
In brief Ox Alpha, a free “stealth model,” launched August 20 on OpenRouter, OpenCode, Cline, and Nous Research’s portal+. A viral claim that Ox Alpha beats Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE came from a 10-task sample; two separate full 113-task runs landed near 63%, roughly level with GPT-5.6 Sol. Google, Xiaomi, DeepSeek, and Microsoft’s MAI were all floated as the model behind it; but the most popular theory points to Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.3 family. AI enthusiasts are getting very excited about an AI model called Ox Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on August 20 with no company…
In brief Hugging Face is working with a bank to gauge buyer interest in a sale that could value the AI developer platform at $13 billion or more. No deal has been reached and no buyer has been named. A $13 billion price tag would nearly triple Hugging Face’s $4.5 billion 2023 valuation. Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. Per the reports, the company has retained a bank to gauge interest from potential buyers, but no deal has been reached,…
In brief Strive purchased 1,110 Bitcoin at an average price of $73,409. The company issued 3.65 million common shares and 441,313 preferred shares during the same period. Its total Bitcoin holdings reached 21,356 BTC. Public asset manager Strive bought 1,110 Bitcoin, worth around $87.5 million, last week while issuing more common and preferred shares to fund its treasury strategy.Co-founded in 2022 by Vivek Ramaswamy, Strive’s Bitcoin holdings increased 5.5% between August 17 and August 21. But the new shares meant its Bitcoin per fully diluted share—a measure of how much Bitcoin corresponds to each share—rose by only about 1.4%.Myriad: Bitcoin…
In brief A scheduled unlock will release 14,175,778 Hyperliquid tokens on August 29, worth about $1.2 billion at current prices. The release equals 1.4% of total supply and 2.7% of HYPE’s market capitalization. Nearly 47% of the unlocked tokens go to insiders — the largest single share of this release. Hyperliquid, the layer-1 blockchain and perpetual futures exchange, is on a tear—and investors in the project’s native token HYPE are reaping the benefits.Hyperliquid, which trades as HYPE, touched an all-time high of $83.27 on Sunday before slipping to around $77.50, data from CoinGecko shows. The token’s market cap sits near…
Strive, Inc. bought 1,110 bitcoin last week, the Dallas-based company’s largest single-week purchase in months, lifting its treasury to 21,356 coins, according to Monday filing. The company’s stock (Nasdaq: ASST) soared following the news, with shares trading over 7% higher on Monday. Strive is an asset manager which rebranded in 2025 as the first publicly traded asset-management bitcoin treasury company. In January 2026, Strive completed the acquisition of Semler Scientific in an all-stock deal — the first instance of a publicly traded Bitcoin treasury company acquiring another publicly traded Bitcoin treasury company. An 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange…
Bitcoin’s price surged further on Monday, flirting with $80,000 after U.S. exchange-traded funds had their best week since October. The leading cryptocurrency was recently trading more than 2% higher over a 24-hour period after flying past $79,155. It earlier on Monday morning in New York reached as high as $79,954. Over the past week, the coin has risen 25%. Its rise comes after a sluggish June and July when it mostly traded below $65,000. Last week, U.S. investors reversed course and bought up shares in the Bitcoin ETFs, which had their best week since October, when bitcoin notched its record…
In brief Tom Lee’s Bitmine bought another 32,447 ETH, worth roughly $81 million, last week. Bitmine says its 5.85 million ETH represents about 4.8% of the supply. The price of Ethereum is up more than 30% in the last week. Bitmine Immersion Technologies is another step closer to its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum’s supply after buying another 32,447 ETH, worth roughly $81 million, last week.The company said Monday that it held 5,847,611 ETH, worth around $15 billion as of August 23.Myriad: Ethereum next price move? Click to make your prediction.With Ethereum’s supply at approximately 120.7 million tokens, the…
Bitcoin treasury Strategy has established a new cash reserve that it will use to buy Bitcoin, according to a Monday filing. The Nasdaq-listed company said it not only had increased its typical cash buffer to $5.1 billion but also created another pot of $1.59 billion which it may use to buy bitcoin and stock. Strategy has not bought bitcoin since June, instead focusing on stock buy-backs and creating a cushion — as well as occasionally selling bitcoin. Strategy increased USD Reserve to $5.10B, established additional USD Cash of $1.59B, and repurchased $136M of $STRC. As of 8/23/26: Strategy holds ~4%…
Bitcoin price gains can draw new buyers into crypto by lifting expectations for future returns, a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland experiment found.According to the report, participants shown Bitcoin’s previous 12-month performance became more bullish on crypto. They were about 2.5 percentage points more likely to own it in a later survey, researchers found. With roughly 11% of respondents owning crypto before the experiment, that change amounted to about a 23% increase in the likelihood of ownership.The results offer rare experimental evidence for a dynamic long associated with speculative markets: past gains can influence what investors expect next and, in…
In brief Strategy has not bought Bitcoin since June, and has now gone a second straight week without selling any either. It raised $2.01 billion net selling MSTR stock, six times the previous week’s total. Most of that went into USD Cash, a newly created pool the company said may be used to acquire Bitcoin. Strategy raised just over $2 billion selling its own shares last week without touching its Bitcoin, according to an 8-K filed Monday, and put most of the proceeds into a liquidity account it created the same day.The Bitcoin treasury company sold 18,261,118 MSTR shares for…