Research
Market
Bitcoin’s bottom signal is flashing, but six months of data shows a trap waiting for early buyers
VanEck recorded eight active signals on Aug. 12, while comparable clusters trailed Bitcoin’s baseline at 90 and 180 days.
Regulation
SEC crypto custody rewrite enters White House review with key rules still undisclosed
Advisers, funds, banks and state trust companies now face an active review with October only a target.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Bitcoin hit $80,000 but failed to restore BTC treasury premiums at Strategy, Twenty One Capital, or Metaplanet
Strategy, Twenty One Capital and Metaplanet still face a funding bind as common-equity discounts collide with debt, pledged coins and dilution.
Outage
Pyth Network’s API overhaul threatens to freeze unpatched smart contracts across 300 DeFi protocols
Direct callers now need API keys, while Sui builders had to align their SDK, endpoint and on-chain package.
Governance
Staking Ethereum could soon look entirely different under a new deposit proposal
The Ethereum proposal opens staking to future key formats, but replacing validator signatures still requires separate protocol upgrades.
AI
Smart AI deposits could soon force banks to raise loan rates for everyday borrowers
A sensitivity case shows how faster, programmable switching could reduce banks’ interest-rate capacity in 10-year equivalents, not loan balances.
Governance
Solana takes its first step toward sub-second speed by cutting block confirmation times across the network
Solana's epoch 1021 averaged 365.4ms spacing with a 0.077% skip rate, while the 300ms stage remained pending.
Derivatives
Bitcoin is trapped between $75,000 and $80,000 ahead of a massive Friday derivatives settlement
Deribit’s expiry concentrates reported call exposure at $75,000 and $80,000, where dealer hedging can pin or amplify a move.
Digital Asset Treasuries
How a $35M AVAX hit sent one company’s earnings into a tailspin
The Avalanche treasury authorization targets a stated market disconnect while the June 30 token treasury shows why earnings remain exposed.
Technology
Bitcoin Core’s hidden database just shrank by 40 GB – if you know how to trigger it
The change is merged to master, but operators must rebuild the optional index to capture the space saving and plan for another rebuild after a downgrade.
Digital Asset Treasuries
A 2,712 BTC treasury company just lost its Bitcoin strategy chief with no successor named
The Smarter Web Company has not named who will inherit Jesse Myers’ implementation, analytics and investor-facing duties while directors retain overall strategy and risk authority.
Mining
Bitcoin’s security risk starts when one block gets far more fees than the next
As Bitcoin’s block subsidy declines, researchers are looking beyond total miner revenue and toward a more granular security signal: how sharply transaction fees change from one block to the next.
