Trading
ETF
Bitcoin ETF inflows snap after $3 billion streak as ETH, XRP and Solana keep buying
Bitcoin funds lost $201.9 million Friday while rival crypto ETFs still attracted fresh capital.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Evernorth’s XRP strategy hinges on one number after Nasdaq vote
The firm can authorize up to 10 billion shares, but its pitch to investors rests on growing XRP faster than its diluted share count.
Trading
Ethena is targeting the $120 trillion Wall Street stock market to hunt yields 5x higher than Bitcoin
The protocol is moving into equity perpetual basis trades as it tries to rebuild USDe and reach the $7.5 billion threshold for ENA buybacks.
Hacks
Cosmos misjudged a critical bug for 4 months before hackers stole nearly $6 million across 6 chains
The vulnerability was patched in the main codebase in May but later proved broader than engineers initially believed.
Market
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh triggers a $488 million crypto liquidation cascade as rate-hike expectations rise
Bitcoin dropped from around $80,000 to below $77,000 as the Fed chair reopened the door to higher interest rates.
DeFi
Ripple moves to shrink XRP Ledger attack surface as AI audit tests lending push
More than 10,000 lines of dormant bridge code could disappear as an AI-only audit probes Lending Protocol V1.1.
ETF
BlackRock just pulled in 115% of all Bitcoin ETF inflows in a single day as rival funds bleed cash
IBIT single-handedly kept Aug. 27 flows above water as Fidelity and Grayscale lost more than $110 million.
Digital Asset Treasuries
A zero-revenue public company tried to copy Michael Saylor to avoid delisting, but its stock immediately crashed 25%
Alpha Modus wants 3,170 BTC as it tries to cure a listing deficiency and repair negative equity.
Wallets
Ledger says the viral “hack” was already patched, but two real bugs still needed fixing
The company disputed OneKey’s framing while separately closing two Ethereum signing vulnerabilities.
Exchanges
KuCoin can block your crypto transactions even if you never sent it to these 17 sanctioned platforms
New compliance rules allow KuCoin to flag indirect links through intermediary wallets and services, pushing sanctions screening beyond direct transfers.
Quantum
Bitcoin now has a quantum computing escape route, but 7 million BTC may still be exposed
StarkWare’s new Quantum-Safe Bitcoin method gives hidden-key holders a migration path while already-exposed coins remain vulnerable.
Stablecoins
The next currency crisis may be harder to contain because of stablecoins, New York Fed report shows
New York Fed research shows dollar tokens gain traction during financial stress, weakening the banking chokepoints governments traditionally rely on.
