AI Financial Corp. has swapped ALT5 Sigma Canada for a secured note and restricted shares. As a result, only $1 million of note principal is due in the near term, while a separate, conditional $WLFI transferability window approaches. On Aug. 3, the company sold its indirect, wholly owned subsidiary to Prime Delta. Under the terms
Bitwise’s 10 Crypto Index ETF ended the first half of 2026 with nearly half the net assets it started with, while its 10-asset basket became more concentrated in Bitcoin. Net assets at BITW fell 48.27%, from $1.03 billion on Dec. 31 to $532.8 million on June 30, according to the fund’s quarterly filing. That contraction
SilverBox Corp IV shareholders are scheduled to vote Tuesday on a four-month extension that could prevent the SPAC from liquidating. Even if it passes, however, it would not preserve the $217 million trust tied to its proposed Bitcoin SPAC deal with investment firm Parataxis Holdings. The August 11 meeting is set for 10:00 a.m. Eastern
Dogechain, a separate Ethereum-compatible network from the Dogecoin blockchain, kept producing blocks after its announced 12:00 UTC shutdown on Aug. 8. Its project-run bridge page also remained online, while a Dogechain-specific QuickSwap route continued sending users to Polygon. Dogechain announced the cutoff in July and warned that assets remaining on the chain might become inaccessible
Chain Fusion is the set of protocols that let smart contracts on the Internet Computer ($ICP) read, hold, and sign transactions on Bitcoin and other blockchains directly, without routing funds through a bridge or a wrapped token. Instead of trusting a third-party custodian to lock up Bitcoin and mint a copy somewhere else, $ICP nodes
The Treasury auctions will total $125 billion from Aug. 11 through Aug. 13, while two inflation reports land hours before the corresponding 10-year and 30-year sales. The sequence will show whether softer bond demand and any resulting rise in yields coincide with pressure on Bitcoin. The Treasury refunding plan starts with $58 billion of 3-year
A dormant Bitcoin wallet that had sat untouched since the earliest days of the cryptocurrency just came back to life, sweeping 26.96 $BTC into a fresh address after 12.5 years of silence. The transaction landed on August 10, 2026, and it’s the latest in a string of old-coin reactivations that have crypto watchers asking the
Bitcoin BIP Editor Mark “Murch” Erhardt called for Luke Dashjr’s removal from the editorial team on Aug. 9, escalating a dispute over Dashjr’s handling of BIP110 and the proposal’s recent chain split. Murch posted the motion to the Bitcoin Development Mailing List and then opened GitHub pull request 2248 as a proposed implementation. Dashjr rejected
While leveraged positions of Bitcoin (BTC) investors in the cryptocurrency market are closely monitored, Alphractal CEO Joao Wedson drew attention to the increasing liquidation risk, particularly in long positions. According to Wedson, data from the past six months shows that long positions are accumulating faster than short positions in the Bitcoin market, and downward liquidity
Bitcoin pushed above $65,000 during early trading on Aug. 10 before slipping back below the level, extending its recovery as investors reassessed the U.S. interest rate outlook. $BTC was trading near $64,955 at the time of writing, up 0.3% over 24 hours and 3.4% over seven days. Its intraday high reached $65,363. The move leaves