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OKX EU Inflows Jumped 5x in July as Regulation Tightens
The direction is clear: European money is leaving unlicensed platforms for licensed ones.
On OKX over the last 30 days, inflows from users exiting unlicensed exchanges rose fivefold, with a further €100M+ coming from regulated entities.
2026's Network Halts: Who Stopped, Who Nearly Did
On Wednesday, Solana came 33 minutes from stopping. A single routing fault at one hosting provider, which held over a quarter of all staked SOL, knocked 28.83% of the network offline. At 33.34% the chain loses finality. Solana got 86% of the way there, then recovered.
And it was the lucky one. In 2026 four chains actually went dark:Читать полностью…
• Sui, twice (about 6h, then 6h44m)
• Base, twice in a single week
• Starknet, at the start of the year
Ethereum, BNB, Aptos, Hyperliquid and Avalanche never flinched.
VanEck launches a trading card game to teach investing
Investment manager VanEck has launched Market Forces TCG, a physical trading card game built to make investing concepts stick with younger audiences by teaching them through play rather than lectures.
Matches surface real principles like diversification, risk management, portfolio construction and time in the market versus timing it. The debut run is capped at 12,000 units with serialized collectible chase cards, made with Orange Cap Games and illustrated by Marvel alumni Chris Wahl and Max Ward.
Goldman Sachs to acquire NEOS in $2.25B crypto ETF deal
Goldman Sachs has agreed to buy ETF manager NEOS Investments for up to $2.25 billion in cash and stock, handing the Wall Street giant a ready-made Bitcoin and Ether income ETF business.
NEOS runs about $30 billion across 19 options-based income ETFs, including its Bitcoin High Income (BTCI), Boosted Bitcoin (XBCI) and Ethereum High Income (NEHI) funds. Rather than holding the coins, they run options strategies on crypto-linked exposure to pay out monthly income, with yields driven largely by selling option premium. Co-founders Troy Cates and Garrett Paolella join Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Fidelity Plans to Add Staking and Quarterly Payouts to $898M Ethereum ETF
Fidelity is preparing to add Ethereum staking and quarterly cash distributions to its Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH), which currently holds around $898M in net assets.
Under normal conditions, FETH could stake up to 100% of its ETH, while keeping enough assets available for redemptions, expenses and liquidity needs.
Net staking rewards would first cover fund expenses, with the remaining amount distributed to investors at least quarterly. Fidelity may also sell some ETH to fund the payouts.
Fed Injects $5.179B Into Financial System Through Treasury Purchases
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is conducting a $5.179B Treasury bill purchase operation today, August 12, as part of its routine reserve-management program.
The purchases target Treasury bills maturing between September and December 2026 and are designed to maintain ample bank reserves and support smooth functioning of short-term funding markets.
BitGo Adds a Quantum Risk Score for Bitcoin Wallets
BitGo rolled out quantum risk controls for Bitcoin wallets, led by a Quantum Risk Score that flags which addresses have public keys already exposed on-chain.
Exposed public keys are the weak point a future quantum computer could target. Alongside guided address remediation and safer UTXO defaults, the score lets institutions migrate funds before any such threat exists. BitGo is among the first major custodians to ship these tools.
Bitget launches $300M fund to back quant firms
Bitget Institutional has rolled out Project Archimedes, a $300M capital program aimed at quantitative trading firms, asset managers and market makers.
The money splits into two tracks. A $100M Capital Provider Program funds emerging quant firms running market-neutral strategies, with returns shared under an agreed structure. A $200M Interest-Free Lending Program gives established institutions interest-free capital once they meet set trading-volume or position requirements, cutting their funding costs. Eligible firms first pass strategy assessment, due diligence and drawdown reviews.
River AI Raises $1.1B to Build a Personal AI Stack
River AI, the two-month-old startup from xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1B across seed and Series A, one of the largest rounds for any company founded this year.
The round was led by General Catalyst and AMP, with strategic checks from Nvidia and AMD plus Y Combinator and Temasek. River is building personalized AI that users and organizations own and control, and says its API runs reinforcement-learning training two to four times cheaper than closed rivals.
Whatnot Raises $545M Series G at a $20B Valuation
Live-shopping marketplace Whatnot closed a $545M Series G at a $20B valuation, roughly double the $11.5B it was worth after its Series F last October.
The round was led by ICONIQ, Lightspeed and Avra, with returning backers including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, DST Global and Alphabet's CapitalG, plus new investors like Kleiner Perkins. Whatnot has now raised about $1.5B since 2019 and plans to expand and lean further into AI.
Harmony Protocol Exploited as Attacker Mints 4B ONE Tokens
An attacker minted bout 26% of supply, inflating the token count from around 15B to 19B and sending ONE down 38%.
Harmony asked exchanges to freeze funds tied to four wallets, paused its token bridge, and said it is working on a patch and rollback options. The team has not yet explained how the attacker was able to mint the tokens.
eToro to Buy TradeZero for Up to $231M in US Push
eToro agreed to acquire US online brokerage TradeZero for up to $231M in cash and new shares, its biggest move yet to expand in the American market.
Founded in 2015, TradeZero brings broker-dealer infrastructure, execution technology and access to Canada, on roughly $80M of revenue at an 81% gross margin. eToro says the deal is accretive in year one and adds an experienced active-trader team.
River Markets Raises $8.5M Seed for a Prediction-Market Prime Broker
The startup is building a prime brokerage for prediction markets: a single terminal and API to trade every venue like Kalshi and Polymarket, with cross-exchange routing and the pro order types desks expect, such as icebergs, pegs and stop-losses.
It is pitched as institutional infrastructure for one of crypto's fastest-growing arenas, event contracts.
👉 x.com/river_markets/status/2087179350470963533?s=20
Coinbase Opens a Tokenization Hub in Abu Dhabi
The hub will bring tokenized RWAs on-chain, much of it on Coinbase's Base network, as the exchange pushes institutional tokenization into the Middle East. ADGM has become a magnet for on-chain finance under the FSRA's virtual-asset framework.
It follows Coinbase taking exposure to a tokenized Mubadala Capital fund that has already drawn about $75M on-chain.
FlightAware Sues Kalshi Over Alleged Flight-Data Misuse
FlightAware sued Kalshi, alleging the prediction market used its flight-tracking data without permission to run flight-cancellation betting markets and falsely presented FlightAware as a partner.
The suit claims Kalshi violated FlightAware's trademark and contract rights, and seeks a temporary restraining order plus injunctions. FlightAware warns the markets could strand travelers, disrupt airline operations, and even push people toward unsafe actions.
The International 15 started today in Shanghai, and Dota's biggest tournament just became a prediction market
For a decade TI has been about one thing: sixteen teams, one Aegis, the highest stakes in esports. Now the crowd is not just watching, it is pricing the outcome in real time.
Team Vision (PARIVISION) leads at 25%, fresh off winning the Esports World Cup 2026. Team Yandex sits second at 20%, then it drops off fast: Falcons 15%, BoomBoys 14%, and and Spirit at 8%, and a long tail of dark horses down to LGD at 3%.
Mirae Asset pumps another $35M into Korbit
Mirae Asset is putting a further $35 million into Korbit, weeks after the Korean financial group took control of the crypto exchange and began rebranding it as Digital X.
July's takeover made Mirae the first Korean financial group to control a licensed crypto exchange, lifting its stake to about 97% for roughly $96 million (141.4 billion won). The new capital funds the plan to rebuild Korbit into an "intelligent investment platform" that blends real-world assets, security tokens, stablecoins and traditional markets with crypto.
South Korea tightens crypto transfers to offshore platforms
South Korea is tightening how money moves to offshore crypto platforms, after Bybit, MEXC and HTX had their apps pulled from the local Google Play store.
Under revised rules, exchanges can require proof of account ownership, the purpose of a transaction and the source of funds, and can delay or reject a transfer when that information is insufficient. Transfers of 10 million won (about $7,000) or more to overseas exchanges or self-hosted wallets will face enhanced suspicious-transaction monitoring.
Miden Introduces Privacy-Focused USDCx Stablecoin Ahead of Mainnet
Zero-knowledge blockchain Miden is preparing to launch USDCx, a privacy-focused stablecoin backed 1:1 by Circle’s USDC through its xReserve infrastructure.
USDCx will allow users to hold and transfer stablecoins without publicly exposing balances, counterparties or transaction histories, while Miden’s selective-disclosure system enables users to reveal transaction details when required for compliance.
Miden uses client-side proving, allowing transactions to be executed and proved on users’ devices rather than exposing transaction data to the network. The project aims to bring privacy to institutional use cases including B2B payments, payroll, cross-border payments, private trading and corporate treasury management.
DAOs are sitting on $7.5B, and how they store it splits them into two camps
Single-token treasuries keep almost everything in their own coin. Uniswap holds $1.05B, mostly UNI. That looks great when the token is up and becomes a trap when it is not, because the treasury and the token crash together.
Diversified treasuries spread the risk instead. Mantle leads at $1.59B across multiple assets, and 310 DAOs now store this way versus just 50 that stay single-token.
The gap says a lot: 310 diversified DAOs holding $4.40B already outweigh the 50 concentrated ones on $3.17B. The market is slowly learning that a treasury denominated in your own token is not really a treasury.
Lovable Raises $400M in Series C at $13.3B Valuation, Accelerating AI Coding Expansion
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable has raised $400M in Series C funding at a $13.3B valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and co-led by EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund.
Lovable says users have created 60M+ projects, while Lovable-built apps now generate 900M+ monthly visits. The platform is used by nearly two-thirds of the Fortune 500, with customers including Adidas, NVIDIA, and Deutsche Telekom.
Kalshi and Blanket Bring Hedging to Small Businesses
Kalshi teamed up with Blanket, an AI tool built by economist Lauris Zminsky, that helps small businesses hedge real-world risks using its prediction markets.
Describe a risk like a hurricane, a fuel-price spike or an unusually warm winter, and Blanket's AI surfaces Kalshi yes/no markets that could offset the loss. Blanket only recommends contracts and never executes trades or holds funds. It is independent, and Zminsky does not work for Kalshi.
Solana RWA Ecosystem: Third in Size, First in Trading
Everyone argues who leads RWA. By total value it is still Ethereum. But tokenized stocks tell a different story.
Solana holds just 23% of tokenized-stock market cap, yet settles 95-97% of all on-chain trading volume. Others hold the shares. Solana trades them.
The whole Solana RWA market is up 6.8x in a year to $2.35B, led by BlackRock's BUIDL, with a wild mix from tokenized T-Bills to collectible cards.
Crypto.com Launches Tokenized US Stock Derivatives
Crypto.com rolled out derivatives tracking 1,500 US stocks and ETFs, including Apple, Tesla and Nvidia, offering synthetic price exposure with trades from just $1, around the clock.
Issued by Foris Capital and settled through broker Alpaca, the products are live for users in the EEA and approved markets. Holders get no voting rights, only dividend-equivalent adjustments to their positions.
ENS Foundation Takes Over Its $65M Endowment
ENS tokenholders approved the Next Era of ENS DAO proposal with about 70% support, putting the $65M endowment under a newly operational ENS Foundation with a five-member board, an executive director and staff.
The DAO keeps its 54.6% token majority and authority over the protocol, but the Foundation can now do what a purely decentralized body cannot: engage institutions like ICANN and defend ENS trademarks. The endowment is funded from .eth registration fees.
xAI Launches Grok Bot, a 24/7 Autonomous Agent
xAI unveiled Grok Bot, a multi-agent AI system that operates autonomously across apps, tools and websites, running around the clock on its own cloud computer.
Rather than answering a single prompt, Grok Bot is pitched as an always-on agent that chains tasks across the web on xAI's own infrastructure. It extends xAI's agent push after the Grok Build coding agent and the Grok Computer effort.
Bitget Pre-IPO Board. Trade IPOs Before the Bell
The biggest AI companies in the world are still private, and normally that means only insiders and funds get exposure. Bitget changes that: its pre-IPO board lets you trade the names before they ever ring the bell, all USDT-margined and 24/7.
Three are live right now on Bitget: OpenAI at a reported ~$852B (20x), Anthropic at ~$965B (20x), and Moonshot AI, the team behind Kimi, at a rumored ~$50B (10x).
Anthropic Eyes an IPO as Soon as October
Anthropic is targeting a late September or early October IPO and has begun meeting investors, the Wall Street Journal reported, months after a confidential SEC filing that could bring one of the largest AI listings yet.
Recently valued near $965B, the AI lab has lined up Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley for a possible Nasdaq listing, as it races OpenAI to public markets. Separately, Anthropic said it will watermark the text and files its models generate, adding C2PA metadata to comply with the EU AI Act, applied worldwide.
Early Access Radar: 12 Waitlists to Join Now
No matter what the market's doing — green, red, sideways — new projects keep launching every week. And the best window to get involved is the earliest one: before the token, before the crowd, while the door's still open.
We rounded up 12 fresh projects with open waitlists into one Early Access Radar — DePIN, perp DEXs, Neobanks, Prediction Markets. A few minutes each, all in one place, so you don't have to go hunting.
Check the full list here 👉 cryptodiffer.com/tools/waitlists
Anthropic Signs $9.1B AI Deal With Riot Platforms
Anthropic signed a 20-year, $9.1B lease for 191 MW of capacity at Riot Platforms' Rockdale campus in Texas, per Bloomberg, marking the Bitcoin miner's biggest pivot into AI infrastructure.
The contract runs through June 2048, with full deployment targeted for June 2028 and 96 MW online by December 2027. Extension options could lift total revenue to $16.1B. Riot secured $573M from Morgan Stanley for initial construction, and its shares jumped about 25% after-hours.