Bitcoin introduced the model now called Nakamoto Consensus, but Ethereum, $BNB Smart Chain, $XRP Ledger, Solana, and Tron took different routes, while Dogecoin and Zcash still run much closer to Bitcoin’s original playbook. Excluding stablecoins, all of these cryptocurrencies mentioned below are the top digital assets by market valuation. What a Consensus Algorithm Actually Does
Bitcoin entered Monday, Aug. 24, near $77,364 after one of its strongest weeks since 2024. The cryptocurrency gained 22.1% over seven days and briefly approached $80,000 before its momentum slowed, according to current Bitcoin market data. The rally lifted Bitcoin from approximately $64,000 within several sessions. Traders must now navigate three U.S. events that could
Bitcoin has risen by approximately 23% in the last week and is trading above $77,000. At this point, Bitcoin climbed above the 200-day moving average for the first time since November 2025, and recorded its biggest weekly gain since March 2023. Altcoins also experienced simultaneous increases. Ethereum rose by 30%, Solana by 25%, and XRP
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee highlighted the asset manager’s inflows as a sign of resilient demand amid falling crypto prices. Bitwise has pulled in $1.8 billion in investor capital during a period marked by declining cryptocurrency prices, according to figures highlighted this week. The inflow was noticed and shared publicly by Tom Lee, the Fundstrat co-founder known
Ripple affiliate SBI Holdings has made an additional investment in Fasset, which is a stablecoin payments firm based in the UAE. The latest injection comes after the previous strategic investment in the company in May 2026. Further, this deal values Fasset at $1 billion based on the share acquisition price.
Showing U.S. households that bitcoin BTC$77,553.91 had gained 14% over the previous year made them more likely to buy crypto, offering evidence that past returns can pull new investors into the market. According to a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland working paper, researchers randomly divided participants in a 2025 survey into a control group and
The following is a guest post and opinion from Vincent Maliepaard, VP of Marketing at Sentora. Tokenized funds have stopped being a novelty. Tokenized US Treasury funds alone now hold roughly $16 billion in distributed value and the list of issuers includes most of the largest names in traditional asset management. Issuance is a solved
An eCash fork, which would create a separate ECX asset for Bitcoin holders, produced Alpha-chain blocks from height 963,648 on Aug. 23. The permanent fork did not happen: the project’s current roadmap now places the 1:1 allocation of permanent ECX at a Mainnet launch around Bitcoin block 973,728 on Oct. 31. For holders, miners and
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said on Aug. 23 that several developing economies increasingly rely on $USDT for domestic commerce, international trade and dollar denominated savings. “The economies of several developing countries rely heavily on $USDT, both for domestic and foreign trade,” Ardoino wrote in a post. He said Tether’s financial inclusion mission was becoming more