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Secret Network executed a 1.079 billion-SCRT mint on Aug. 21 as backers of Proposal 365 moved to keep the Cosmos-based layer 1 operating ahead of SCRT Labs’ Sept. 1 support cutoff.Proposal 365 passed and scheduled the v1.26.0-community-continuance upgrade for block 26,790,327. Results from that block record the full mint as a finalize-block upgrade event, with no normal user transaction or mint transaction hash.After the upgrade, the live secret-4 node reported software version 1.26.0 and reached block 26,806,270. Those observations establish that the upgrade ran and block production continued, while the proposal still leaves development, infrastructure and validator participation dependent on…

In brief Binance launched Binance Agent OS, a developer platform bundling its APIs, wallet hub, x402 payment layer and a skills marketplace. Once authorized, agents can read market data, check balances and trade across spot, margin, convert and futures. The move joins a crowded race to wire AI agents into crypto. Binance is letting AI agents trade on its platform, launching a developer system on Wednesday that connects tools like ChatGPT and Claude directly to the exchange’s markets, wallets and trading functions.The world’s largest crypto exchange unveiled Binance Agent OS, a platform bundling its APIs, an agent-focused wallet hub, its…

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 up another 5-10% with BTC leading; BTC at $77.4k The BTC ETFs saw $606M in inflows and ETH had $219M, new local highs Over $1.2B in crypto shorts liquidated in past 24 hours, nearly $5B in 2 days CFTC Chair says he’ll write the crypto rules himself if Congress won’t Pump Fun posts 2 biggest back-to-back revenue days since January, PUMP +25% 🏛️ CFTC Chair Says He’ll Write Crypto Rules…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Cardano’s development roadmap for its Dijkstra-era scaling work has been structured around a two-phase rollout, with Ouroboros Leios and related throughput improvements central to the plan. The first phase, involving Linear Leios and nested transactions, targets code completion in the fourth quarter of 2026. A second phase, involving Ouroboros Peras, is planned for the second quarter of 2027. This is a roadmap story, not an adoption victory lap. Cardano has long talked about scaling toward much larger user numbers, but those goals remain future ambitions. The important…

In brief Bitcoin climbed 7.9% over 24 hours to around $77,137—up 23.2% on the week—after touching an intraday high of $79,320. The rally triggered a short squeeze, with CoinGlass logging about $1.5 billion in total crypto liquidations across 178,777 traders in 24 hours—roughly $1.21 billion of it in shorts. The surge follows a week of bullish Washington sentiment, including Trump backing the Clarity Act and signaling regulators are working to bring Hyperliquid onshore.. Bitcoin extended its rally on Friday, punishing traders who had bet against it and wiping out more than a billion dollars in bearish positions.The largest cryptocurrency changed…

A Massachusetts woman lost $56,000 after scammers allegedly posed as employees of her bank and convinced her to transfer her savings into a supposed “safe account.” The 43-year-old Hingham resident told police that the scheme began around 6 p.m. when she received an unexpected call from someone claiming to work in her bank’s fraud department, according to Fall River Reporter. The caller allegedly told the woman that someone had recently visited her bank branch and attempted to impersonate her to make a wire transfer. Although the supposed transaction had been stopped, the caller claimed the woman’s account had been compromised…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Arbitrum has activated its ArbOS 61 “Elara” upgrade, adding new tooling for Orbit chains, including an optional protocol-level compliance filtering feature for enterprise deployments. The upgrade went live on August 20. Node operators are required to update to Nitro v3.11.3. Elara also expands the Stylus contract size limit from 24 KB to 96 KB, giving developers more room for larger smart contracts. The compliance filter will likely attract the most attention. But the key word is “optional.” The feature is designed for private or enterprise Orbit chain…

In brief XRP jumped as much as 14.21% in 24 hours to $1.40, making it the best-performing asset among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap today. The daily candle closed above both the 50-day and 200-day EMAs for the first time since XRP’s death cross locked in earlier this month. The move rides the same Bitcoin short squeeze and Treasury-driven liquidity wave that’s been ripping through crypto all week. Crypto is having one of its best weeks in months, and XRP just grabbed the wheel.Bitcoin punched through $72,000 this week on the back of a record short squeeze—traders who…

In brief Strategy is sitting on roughly $1.4 billion in unrealized gains on its Bitcoin holdings. The company holds 840,447 BTC acquired at an average price of $75,385. Bitcoin’s rally follows months of pressure that pushed Strategy’s position roughly $13 billion underwater in July. Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin treasury company Strategy is back in the black on its massive Bitcoin holdings after a five-day rally pushed BTC above the company’s average acquisition price.The company holds 840,447 BTC, worth around $64.97 billion. With Bitcoin trading around $77,000, Strategy is sitting on an unrealized gain of roughly $1.4 billion, or 2.4%.Myriad: Will Strategy…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Offchain Labs is advancing work to integrate zero-knowledge proofs into Arbitrum’s BoLD settlement protocol, a move designed to reduce withdrawal times from seven days to a few hours while preserving optimistic fraud proofs. The system would use ZK fast confirmations alongside Arbitrum’s existing dispute architecture. That means the plan is not to remove fraud proofs entirely, but to add a faster proving layer that can improve user experience. The upgrade is not live on mainnet yet. A DAO vote is still required before deployment. So this is…

In brief In a packed week, Trump hosted crypto executives at the White House and pressed Congress to pass a “fair version” of the Clarity Act—a nod to disputed ethics provisions he says single him out. At the CFTC’s inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee meeting, Chairman Mike Selig framed the bill as protection against “another Gary Gensler” but warned that if Clarity stalls over “Democratic obstruction,” the agency will use existing authorities to build its own crypto regime, having already directed staff to explore rules. The SEC formally proposed Regulation Crypto Assets—allowing certain offerings up to $5 million over four years…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Optimism governance has approved the reallocation of 546.9 million OP tokens from user airdrop reserves into a Strategic Ecosystem Fund managed by the Optimism Foundation. The tokens are valued at roughly $49 million, according to the validated governance trail. The proposal passed with support from core development delegate Test in Prod and shifts capital toward strategic partnerships and ecosystem incentives. That is a major governance decision. But it should be framed precisely. Optimism has not necessarily terminated all user reward initiatives. The vote reallocates a large pool…

In brief The Agave v4.2 client turned on the first 50ms slot-time cut, from 400ms to 350ms, this week. I- t’s step one of four under the approved SIMD-0525 proposal, each gated to a later epoch so the network can pause if block-skip rates rise. Solana’s goal is a 2x faster confirmation and tighter leader windows that double as a censorship-resistance measure. The speedy Solana network just got faster, upgrading the way transactions on the network are processed for the first time since genesis. What it means is applications on Solana will now confirm transactions a bit quicker—increasing the efficiency…

In brief Microsoft disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting its Entra ID cloud identity service. CVE-2026-69836 received a CVSS score of 10.0 and requires no existing privileges or user interaction to exploit. Microsoft said it fixed the vulnerability and confirmed it was not exploited in the wild. Microsoft disclosed a critical vulnerability in its Entra ID identity platform that could allow an unauthorized attacker to remotely execute code without existing privileges or user interaction.Tracked as CVE-2026-69836, the vulnerability received a CVSS score of 10.0, the highest possible rating. The flaw affects Microsoft Entra ID, the company’s cloud-based identity…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Aave’s debt profile is drawing attention after a risk assessment found that fewer than 9% of loan positions account for roughly half of the protocol’s total outstanding debt. The concentration is largely tied to E-mode users running leveraged positions involving WETH borrows backed by liquid-staking wrappers, according to the validated source trail. Ethereum’s sharp intraday volatility brought that structure back into focus because correlated staking-loop trades can become vulnerable when market conditions move quickly. That does not mean Aave is insolvent. It also does not mean a…

A Dallas businessman has been accused of using falsified financial records to obtain more than $40 million in loans, with prosecutors alleging the scheme defrauded banks and lenders of more than $20 million. Garrett Douglas Johnson, 41, was charged August 19th after a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment accusing him of five counts of bank fraud and one count of wire fraud. Johnson maintained residences in Dallas, Texas, as well as Kingston and Edmond, Oklahoma, and allegedly presented himself as an owner, manager or partner of several businesses. Prosecutors say Johnson operated a yearslong fraud scheme between 2018…