In brief The Base accelerator plans to select 10 startups for its eight-week Batches 004 accelerator. Each selected team will receive a $100,000 investment from the Base Ecosystem Fund. The program is targeting startups building AI agents, trading, payments, and financing products. The team behind Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network, is narrowing its startup accelerator
Abu Dhabi has been quietly turning itself into one of the world’s proving grounds for digital assets, and last week’s announcement from Coinbase confirmed just how far that ambition has traveled. The crypto exchange giant said it is establishing an international tokenization hub inside Abu Dhabi Global Market, a move that industry figures describe as
SpaceX is trading below its $135 IPO price. Marathon Digital is down 34% year to date. Coinbase has outperformed both. The math on which tech bet delivers risk adjusted returns has not been done until now. The largest IPO in history arrived in June 2026 and immediately became the most traded stock in the world.
Blockchain data platform Sentora has reported that 55% of stock token trading volume occurs when the U.S. stock market is closed. The finding suggests that price discovery for tokenized equities is increasingly moving on-chain, operating beyond traditional exchange hours. What the Data Reveals Sentora’s analysis of blockchain trading data indicates that a majority of activity
The cryptocurrency market experienced a strong upward movement after a long period of calm. According to data, Bitcoin ($BTC) briefly rose above $69,000, gaining approximately 5.7% in the last 24 hours. Ethereum (ETH) also climbed above $2,100, rising nearly 8.8%. The total value of the cryptocurrency market also increased by 4.7%, reaching approximately $2.4 trillion.
Japanese $BTC treasury company Metaplanet has disclosed a deal that will put a man Bloomberg describes as “Tokyo’s King of Death Spiral Financing” on both sides of the takeover. Metaplanet wants to take control of Nasdaq gaming company Super League Enterprise in a $135 million deal. Once the takeover is complete, Evo Fund, a Cayman
Bitcoin fell 14.2% in the second quarter, while institutional Bitcoin ETF holdings rose 7.5% over the same period, climbing from 498,389 to 535,723 $BTC equivalent. Fewer institutions drove that increase, with the number reporting Bitcoin positions through 13F filings falling roughly 6.8%, from about 2,000 to around 1,900. Those figures are Bitcoin Strategy’s second-quarter estimate,
ZetaChain announced via its official X account that its privacy-focused AI application, Anuma, has surpassed 210,000 users. The app enables users to maintain memory across different AI models while incorporating privacy features designed to protect user data. A ZetaChain-based crypto wallet is automatically created when an account is opened, integrating blockchain functionality seamlessly. Rapid User
As of August 19, 2026, the chart tells two different stories: shorter timeframes run hot while the daily structure still carries scars of a bigger correction. Bitcoin today trades around $65,930, and that split is the real story, not another simple price rally headline. BTC/USDT — daily chart with candlesticks, EMA20/EMA50 and volume. Key takeaways