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Riot’s Anthropic Deal Shows Bitcoin Miners Are Moving Deeper Into AI Compute

Riot’s Anthropic Deal Shows Bitcoin Miners Are Moving Deeper Into AI Compute

Riot Platforms has signed a long-term data center lease agreement tied to Anthropic, giving the Bitcoin miner another route into AI and high-performance computing as miners continue looking beyond block rewards. The company’s filing describes a 20-year lease agreement for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale campus. The deal carries total revenue […]

Coinbase Expands Derivatives Trading To UK Professional Clients

Coinbase Expands Derivatives Trading To UK Professional Clients

Coinbase has launched futures, options, and perpetuals for professional clients in the United Kingdom, expanding its derivatives offering through its MiFID authorization. The rollout is not for UK retail users. Eligibility is limited to users classified as Professional Clients, which means they must meet criteria tied to trading activity, portfolio size, or relevant professional experience. […]

BlackRock Cuts IBIT In-Kind Conversion Minimum To $1M

BlackRock Cuts IBIT In-Kind Conversion Minimum To $1M

BlackRock has reduced the in-kind conversion minimum for its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, potentially making the mechanism available to a wider group of institutional participants. The change was disclosed in an updated IBIT filing and relates to in-kind creation and redemption activity, not retail holders directly swapping ETF shares for […]

Strategy Boosts Cash Reserve As Bitcoin Treasury Model Gets More Complex

Strategy Boosts Cash Reserve As Bitcoin Treasury Model Gets More Complex

Strategy has added $650 million to its USD reserve and repurchased $109 million of STRC preferred stock, showing again that the company’s Bitcoin strategy is no longer just a simple accumulation story. The company, formerly MicroStrategy, filed an update showing the reserve increase was funded through MSTR common stock ATM sales. It also sold 1,690 […]

BitMine Pushes Ethereum Treasury Past 5.8M ETH

BitMine Pushes Ethereum Treasury Past 5.8M ETH

BitMine Immersion Technologies has added another 7,391 ETH to its balance sheet, pushing its Ethereum treasury to about 5.81 million ETH. The company’s Ethereum position now represents roughly 4.8% of circulating supply, while more than 5 million ETH is staked through its validator platform. That makes BitMine one of the most aggressive public-company examples of […]

SharpLink Reports $394M Q2 Loss As Ethereum Revaluation Hits Results

SharpLink Reports $394M Q2 Loss As Ethereum Revaluation Hits Results

SharpLink reported a $394.3 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026, with the result driven largely by non-cash Ethereum revaluation losses and liquid staking token impairment charges. The company’s filing shows $321.0 million in unrealized ETH losses and $76.1 million in impairment charges tied to liquid staking tokens. At the same time, staking […]

Empery Digital Sells 1,635 Bitcoin As Treasury Buffer Shrinks

Empery Digital Sells 1,635 Bitcoin As Treasury Buffer Shrinks

Empery Digital has disclosed the sale of 1,635 BTC for $102.2 million, using the proceeds to support debt repayment and share buybacks as its unrestricted Bitcoin buffer narrows. The company’s Form 10-Q filed on August 7 shows total holdings fell to 1,279 BTC. Of that, 954 BTC was pledged as collateral, leaving 325 BTC unrestricted. […]

Luke Dashjr Removed As BIP Editor After BIP-110 Controversy

Luke Dashjr Removed As BIP Editor After BIP-110 Controversy

Luke Dashjr has been removed as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor after a dispute around BIP-110, marking a rare governance flashpoint inside Bitcoin’s usually slow-moving technical process. The change was merged through Pull Request 2248 in the bitcoin/bips repository, removing Dashjr from the editor list in BIP 3. The move followed controversy over BIP-110, a […]

Wintermute Says Institutions Drove 72% Of Its Spot OTC Volume In H1 2026

Wintermute Says Institutions Drove 72% Of Its Spot OTC Volume In H1 2026

Institutional investors accounted for 72% of Wintermute’s spot OTC trading volume in the first half of 2026, up from 59% a year earlier, showing how professional capital is becoming a larger part of crypto trading flow. The figures come from Wintermute’s own OTC flow report, so they should be read carefully. This does not mean […]

BTCPay Server Patches Critical LND Credential Bug After Lightning Wallet Drain

BTCPay Server Patches Critical LND Credential Bug After Lightning Wallet Drain

BTCPay Server has released version 2.4.2 to patch a critical vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated remote access to LND credential files, after attackers used the issue to drain merchant Lightning wallets. The project’s release notes describe a serious bug involving .macaroon files, which are used by LND to manage access permissions. In plain English, those files […]

Top 7 Amberdata API Alternatives for Crypto Data in 2026

Top 7 Amberdata API Alternatives for Crypto Data in 2026

In this guide Why look beyond Amberdata How we evaluated Comparing the top 7 The top 7 alternatives CoinStats API Coin Metrics (Talos) Laevitas Tardis.dev Block Scholes Glassnode API Dune Coverage and delivery compared Which one should you pick? Conclusion FAQ Before this guide starts, the news that brought you here. On June 2, 2026, […]

Zapper Alternatives: 5 Best Free Crypto Portfolio Trackers in 2026

Zapper Alternatives: 5 Best Free Crypto Portfolio Trackers in 2026

In this guide What happened to Zapper How we picked these five Comparing the top 5 The 5 best Zapper alternatives CoinStats De.Fi Rotki Octav Jupiter Portfolio Coverage compared How to move your tracking Which one should you pick? The short version Frequently asked questions Zapper is gone. Not winding down, not pivoting. Gone. Visit […]

Top 7 CoinStats API Alternatives for Crypto Data in 2026

Top 7 CoinStats API Alternatives for Crypto Data in 2026

Updated August 3, 2026 · Pricing verified against public pricing pages, docs, and API terms. In this guide Why look beyond CoinStats API How we evaluated Comparing the top 7 The top 7 alternatives CoinStats API CoinAPI CoinDesk Data API Amberdata CoinPaprika API Glassnode API DexScreener API Coverage and delivery compared Which one should you […]

5 Best Crypto Trackers to Manage Your Wallets and Exchanges in 2026

5 Best Crypto Trackers to Manage Your Wallets and Exchanges in 2026

Last updated 3 August 2026. Pricing and app ratings were verified on that date. In this guide What makes a good crypto tracker Tracker, exchange app, or spreadsheet The 5 best crypto trackers at a glance CoinStats Kubera DeBank DEX Screener Live Coin Watch Zapper shut down: what to use instead Top picks by category […]

Best RPC Node Providers for Developers in 2026 (Reviewed & Ranked)

Best RPC Node Providers for Developers in 2026 (Reviewed & Ranked)

In this guide What is an RPC node provider The data layer to pair with your RPC The 5 best RPC node providers at a glance GetBlock dRPC Ankr Blockdaemon Tatum Top picks by category Comparison by use case How to choose your RPC provider Community and further reading Frequently asked questions Last year I […]

Best DeFi Tracker 2026: 7 Tools Compared (Free & Paid)

Best DeFi Tracker 2026: 7 Tools Compared (Free & Paid)

In this guide What a DeFi tracker actually does The four kinds of DeFi tracker The 7 best DeFi trackers at a glance CoinStats De.Fi Rotki Jupiter Portfolio DefiLlama DEX Screener TokenTax Top picks by category Comparison by use case How to choose your DeFi tracker Community and further reading Frequently asked questions about DeFi […]

Bitcoin And Ethereum Edge Higher As Traders Watch Altcoin Rotation

Bitcoin And Ethereum Edge Higher As Traders Watch Altcoin Rotation

Bitcoin and Ethereum edged higher into July 31, while a small shift in market dominance suggested traders were again watching whether capital was rotating toward major altcoins. The validated notes show Bitcoin rising 0.29% to about $64,145.86, while Ethereum traded around the $1,890 to $1,920 range, briefly dipping below $1,900 before recovering. At the same […]

NEAR Adds Staking-Based Payments For AI Compute Credits

NEAR Adds Staking-Based Payments For AI Compute Credits

NEAR has launched a staking-based payment model for NEAR AI, giving users a way to lock NEAR tokens and receive monthly compute credits instead of paying through traditional cloud billing or credit-card rails. According to the validated notes, the system gives users access to 43 hosted AI models, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. […]

Uniswap Fee Switch Activation Puts UNI Burn Mechanics Back In Focus

Uniswap Fee Switch Activation Puts UNI Burn Mechanics Back In Focus

Uniswap governance has activated a protocol fee switch on v4 liquidity pools, pushing protocol revenue higher and directing collected fees toward UNI buy-and-burn mechanics rather than direct distributions to tokenholders. The validated notes point to Uniswap Governance Proposal 100 passing with about 46.6 million votes in favor and roughly 1.27 million opposed. The mechanism collects […]

ENS Labs Scales Back Treasury Proposal After Delegate Pushback

ENS Labs Scales Back Treasury Proposal After Delegate Pushback

ENS Labs has revised a governance proposal after delegate criticism over treasury control, choosing to keep the DAO’s primary operational wallet custody in place rather than moving broader control to the Foundation. According to the validated notes, the revised plan scraps the more contentious transfer of the DAO’s operational wallet, which includes ETH and stablecoins. […]