Bitcoin’s August rally rode $6.55B in short liquidations as ETF flows flip negative
Funding jumped 42% on Binance under $80,000 while ETFs saw $201M+ in net outflows on Aug. 28.
Funding jumped 42% on Binance under $80,000 while ETFs saw $201M+ in net outflows on Aug. 28.
CME bitcoin futures open interest rose to about 122,000 BTC as CryptoQuant flagged a rare hedge-fund net-long flip.
The burst included multiple uploads minutes apart and a ballroom video, alongside a separate WWII-generals battlefield image.
The bank tied any expansion beyond Bitcoin to Sept. 1’s regulated-crypto framework as its CFO questioned digital ruble demand.
A 9.6% one-day drop in Open Interest puts $222 as the breakdown trigger and $188 as the next downside reference.
The model offers $18/month hosted access or 300GB+ weights on Hugging Face, after a week atop OpenRouter charts.
Avici says $500,800 was taken from 1,685 users’ card-funding balances, with refunds promised but no timeline given.
The Austin and Kyoto hard forks shipped the fixes before disclosure, and Polygon says Bor v2.10.0 and Heimdall v0.11.0 are now mandatory.
The network’s RWA value rose about 360% in 2026, while XLM traded near $0.18 and stayed down roughly 11% YTD.
The call lands as Treasury doubles long-end bond buybacks to $4B per operation starting Sept. 9.
The order ties the payment to “mention markets,” a contract type now drawing sharper insider-info scrutiny.
He argues dashboards miss off-contract collateral use and that settlement speed, not composability, caps leverage loops.
A BIS-linked study also finds stablecoin issuer rules still diverge sharply across five major jurisdictions.
Total category assets fell to $97.6B after briefly topping $100B as BTC traded below $78,000.
A 59-page order bars enforcement tied to a directive telling agencies to stop using Claude, and DOJ is expected to fight it.
The roadmap leans on parallel-run execution and validator coordination, with AI-assisted cryptanalysis cited as a second timeline pressure.
Kraken- and Galaxy-linked vote reallocations in the final minutes pushed SGP-0002 over the two-thirds threshold in Solana’s first network-wide vote.
The deal follows an FCA warning to Premier League clubs about crypto-linked sponsorships from unauthorized firms.
Binance Research tied about two-thirds of April 2026’s $621M DeFi losses to access-control failures, not code bugs.
Traders are treating $83.3K as the pivot where spot support must replace leverage to sustain upside.