A renewed dispute among prominent Bitcoin voices has reopened a question that has followed the network since its major 2017 splits. The argument is not whether the protocol changed. Several upgrades have altered transaction handling, scripting, and validation without replacing its mining algorithm. Instead, the dispute concerns which changes preserve Bitcoin’s identity and which create
This week brings a heavy mix of inflation, consumer and energy data that could influence risk assets and crypto prices. Bitcoin is approaching a key resistance zone, while $XRP and Ethereum analysts are watching different technical setups. Here’s what could matter most for the market. Crypto This Week The week is packed with economic releases,
New York Stock Exchange President Lynn Martin said on Aug. 10 that the exchange is continuing to develop infrastructure for onchain settlement of tokenized securities, months after outlining plans for a dedicated digital trading platform. Speaking at a National Assembly seminar in Seoul, Martin also confirmed NYSE participated in The Depository Trust Company’s July tokenization
Joachim Nagel’s Bid To Become ECB President Under Consideration The position of European Central Bank (ECB) president could be open before 2027, and an anti-crypto economist might be in the race to take it over. Bloomberg reports indicate that discussions are underway to back a German economist for the ECB Presidency if a contingency arises,
Neo SPCC released NeoFS S3 Gateway v0.45.1 on Aug. 4, a patch update delivering three performance optimizations and a metadata fix to the S3-compatible interface for NeoFS decentralized storage. Two of the three improvements are enabled by NeoFS SDK Go RC21, which shipped days earlier alongside NeoFS Node v0.55.0. The release builds on S3 Gateway
Crypto venture funding market continues to express an active participation. In this respect, the past week has witnessed a total of $76.4 million in funding across the crypto ventures. As per the data from CryptoRank, Yellow Card has become the top project, with InvestiFi, and Vangrid following it. Subsequently, JPYC, Yooldo, Global Ledger, and ZIGChain
What Hayes Thinks the AI Buildout Really Is Arthur Hayes, co-founder of Bitmex and chief investment officer at Maelstrom, argues that the multitrillion-dollar artificial intelligence infrastructure boom resembles a real estate credit bubble rather than a traditional technology expansion. In an essay titled “Situationship,” published on Aug. 4, Hayes compared data center financing to the
AIxCrypto Holdings, a pre-revenue company building a robot-rental marketplace while holding digital assets, entered the third quarter with $577,328 in cash after its balance fell 97% in six months. Its nearest stated route to operating revenue, RoboShare, was still preparing a Los Angeles pilot as of Aug. 7. Cash and cash equivalents fell from $19.33
Tokenized RWAs Push Deeper Into TradFi The tokenized RWA sector takes physical and traditional finance (TradFi) assets and puts them onchain as digital tokens, opening the door to deeper liquidity, broader access, and transparent settlement. By connecting decentralized finance (DeFi) with traditional markets, tokenization lets investors trade fractional slices of off-chain assets without relying on
This week, Wintermute said institutional investors made up 72% of its spot OTC crypto flow in the first half of 2026, versus 59% a year ago. Professional investors are changing crypto markets by concentrating on fewer assets, utilizing derivatives, and muting the extreme price swings once associated with retail trading, the firm says. Institutions Are