Starlink's AI-driven support system highlights the potential for AI to revolutionize customer service efficiency and sales conversion rates.

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BlackRock's loan sale reflects a strategic shift in BDC management, potentially influencing middle-market lending dynamics and investor strategies.

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Strive's innovative use of preferred equity for Bitcoin acquisition highlights a shift in corporate treasury strategies, balancing risk and yield.

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Bitcoin gains 16-22% over six months, nearly doubling S&P 500 returns and crushing gold. Prediction markets put 57% odds on hitting $80K by

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Heightened volatility in crypto options suggests potential market turbulence, impacting investor strategies and risk management approaches.

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UK Banks Still Blocking Bitcoin, Policy Group Tells Parliament

Bitcoin Policy UK has slammed British banks for applying blanket restrictions to lawful bitcoin activity. 

The organization said in an announcement Friday that it had submitted evidence to the Crypto and Digital Assets APPG’s parliamentary inquiry into banking access, revealing that no improvements had been made over the past three years in how banks treat bitcoin activity. 

The issue: UK policy treats “crypto” as one thing, so bitcoin is caught by rules written for unbacked tokens and issuer-dependent stablecoins.

The British government has said since 2023 that banks should assess case by case rather than restrict by sector. The group says practice has not followed, and that the gap is widening as the UK moves toward full implementation of its cryptoasset regime in 2027. 

Bitcoin Policy UK called on British banks to give reasons for rejecting bitcoin-related activity. 

“Almost three years after we first raised blanket banking restrictions with the City Minister, our evidence to the Crypto and Digital Assets APPG inquiry shows the problem hasn’t improved,” Bitcoin Policy UK said in a Sunday post on X.  

“Roughly 40% of bank-to-exchange transfers in the UK are currently blocked or delayed.”

The organization filed evidence with the Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group’s inquiry into banking access. 

A joint survey by Startup Coalition, the UK Cryptoasset Business Council and Global Digital Finance, published in January 2025, found that half of the UK fintech and crypto firms it canvassed had been refused a bank account or had one closed, and that only 14% had opened and kept an account with one of the country’s nine largest banks. Most were UK-based operations rather than firms with no domestic presence.

Virgin Money, Metro Bank, Starling Bank, TSB and Chase UK block transfers and card payments outright, while Barclays and HSBC cap transfers at £2,500 ($3,400) per transaction, Bitcoin Policy UK said. 

It added that 80% of the exchanges said restrictions had increased over the previous year. None reported an improvement. An IG Group survey from August 2025 found 40% of active crypto investors had a payment blocked or delayed by their own bank.

The submission makes four requests: a regulatory statement that bitcoin activity through an FCA-registered exchange should not face blanket restriction; a duty on banks to give specific reasons and an appeals route; confirmation that FCA registration can serve as a risk basis, as in Hong Kong; and a published periodic measure of restriction levels.

In December, City Minister Lucy Rigby said that Britain can “without a doubt” compete with the United States and become an international hub for cryptoassets.

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Strive Stock Soars After 1,110 Bitcoin Buy 

Strive, Inc. bought 1,110 bitcoin last week, the Dallas-based company’s largest single-week purchase in months, lifting its treasury to 21,356 coins, according to Monday filing. 

The company’s stock (Nasdaq: ASST) soared following the news, with shares trading over 7% higher on Monday. Strive is an asset manager which rebranded in 2025 as the first publicly traded asset-management bitcoin treasury company. In January 2026, Strive completed the acquisition of Semler Scientific in an all-stock deal — the first instance of a publicly traded Bitcoin treasury company acquiring another publicly traded Bitcoin treasury company. 

An 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed Strive made the buys from August 17 through August 21 at an average price of about $73,409 per bitcoin, including fees and expenses, for a total near $81.5 million. 

The buy raised Strive’s holdings roughly 5.5% from the 20,246 coins it reported in mid-August, and it lands at prices well above the low-$60,000 range the firm paid through most of the summer. 

Strive funded the purchase with proceeds from at-the-market offerings of its ASST and SATA shares. Cash and cash equivalents stood at $171.9 million, up from the $154.1 million the company reported in July.

A faster pace as prices climb

Monday’s filing marks a sharp change in cadence. Strive bought 147 bitcoin between August 3 and 7 at an average of just over $64,800, then another 79 the following week at $63,231. Last week’s total exceeds those two rounds combined by a factor of five.

The acceleration tracks a rally in the underlying asset. Bitcoin rose nearly 25% last week, closing Friday at $77,387, and traded near $80,000 on Monday. 

ASST closed Friday at $18.22, up almost 13%, and gained more than 5% in premarket trading Monday. SATA preferred shares held near their $100 par value.

Strive now ranks as the seventh-largest public corporate holder of bitcoin, behind Strategy’s 840,447 coins, Twenty One Capital, Metaplanet, MARA and Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company.

Strategy, by contrast, has sat out the market for close to two months while rebuilding its dollar reserve.

Chief executive Matt Cole said Sunday he holds “very strong” conviction that the bitcoin bear market has ended, pointing to breakouts against both the dollar and gold.

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Bitcoin Rally Accelerates, With $80,000 in Sight After ETFs Have Stellar Week 

Bitcoin’s price surged further on Monday, flirting with $80,000 after U.S. exchange-traded funds had their best week since October. 

The leading cryptocurrency was recently trading more than 2% higher over a 24-hour period after flying past $79,155. It earlier on Monday morning in New York reached as high as $79,954. 

Over the past week, the coin has risen 25%. Its rise comes after a sluggish June and July when it mostly traded below $65,000. 

Last week, U.S. investors reversed course and bought up shares in the Bitcoin ETFs, which had their best week since October, when bitcoin notched its record of $126,080. Data from Farside Investors shows that the funds — managed by the likes of BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale, and Morgan Stanley — received $1.9 billion in new cash. 

“This is one of the benefits of a commodity in a constant state of supply shock,” Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst Eric Balchunas wrote on X on Monday. 

The surge in interest in bitcoin’s was triggered by the Treasury Department’s announcement last week to at least double the size of its long-dated bond buybacks.

Since the Treasury made the announcement, yields have gone down, while bitcoin and gold have shot up. The dollar last week was trading at a three-month low and on track for its worst week of August. Bitcoin, on the other hand, had its best week since 2023. 

Positive regulatory news coming out of the White House also helped: President Donald Trump held a meeting with crypto executives earlier last week, and urged lawmakers to get the Clarity Act over the line. 

Lawmakers will vote on the long-awaited crypto legislation, which the digital asset industry has long called for, in September. The proposed law will establish a framework for distinguishing between digital assets that are securities, commodities or payment stablecoins. 

Bitcoin notched an all-time high in October but was hurt later that month after the biggest liquidation event in crypto history saw over $19 billion in bets closed. The coin continued its plunge after the Federal Reserve made it clear it was in no hurry to lower interest rates and investors increasingly threw money at artificial intelligence-related stocks. 

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Strategy Again Skips Bitcoin Buy And Establishes USD Cash Dollar Reserve 

Bitcoin treasury Strategy has established a new cash reserve that it will use to buy Bitcoin, according to a Monday filing. 

The Nasdaq-listed company said it not only had increased its typical cash buffer to $5.1 billion but also created another pot of $1.59 billion which it may use to buy bitcoin and stock. 

Strategy has not bought bitcoin since June, instead focusing on stock buy-backs and creating a cushion — as well as occasionally selling bitcoin. 

“USD Cash is a separately designated pool of U.S. dollar liquidity that the Company may retain for future deployment for general Bitcoin Treasury Company purposes, which may include acquiring bitcoin, paying declared cash dividends on Strategy’s preferred stock and interest on its outstanding indebtedness, repurchasing Strategy’s MSTR Stock or preferred stock, repaying, repurchasing or redeeming Strategy’s outstanding convertible notes, increasing the USD Reserve, and other similar Bitcoin Treasury Company purposes,” the filing stated. 

Strategy has said that its buyback plan — approved in July — is about balance-sheet strength rather than retreat. President and CEO Phong Le has said that Strategy intends to remain a long-term bitcoin buyer. 

Shares of Strategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) were trading higher Monday morning in New York. The company’s stock rallied last week as the price of bitcoin rose. 

Strategy said in the filing that it sold about $2 billion in common shares last week, and also repurchased $136.4 million of its Stretch preferred shares.

Corporate software company Strategy — formerly MicroStrategy — started buying bitcoin in 2020 as a way to protect shareholder returns. 

It has since spent nearly $64 billion on the cryptocurrency largely using leverage and now holds 840,447 BTC worth $66.4 billion at today’s prices, making it the largest corporate holder of the digital coin. 

Investors can get exposure to Bitcoin via stock and dividend-paying instruments that Strategy has issued. 

Bitcoin’s price recently stood at $79,031, up 25% over a seven-day period. 

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Smart Money Helping Support Bitcoin Rebound, Says Pantera Capital

American investment firm Pantera Capital’s portfolio manager has said “smart money” is helping push bitcoin’s price higher. 

Cosmo Jiang, portfolio manager at the firm, said in a Friday CNBC interview that the next resistance for the coin’s price could be around $80,000 and that while small pullback was possible, “smart money” was now flooding into the space. 

Bitcoin surged this week on positive regulatory news coming out of the U.S. and news that the Treasury Department would at least double the size of its long-dated bond buybacks.

“From everything we see, positioning is starting to reverse,” Jiang said. 

“People are going from very much on the sidelines and even net short positioning to now realizing they want to be long, for what could be a very big technology.”

Bitcoin was recently priced at $77,412 after surging more than 23% over the past week. The biggest cryptocurrency touched as high as $79,319 earlier on Friday. 

While spending most of June and July below $65,000, bitcoin has benefited from news that came out of the White House this week.

President Donald Trump held a meeting with crypto executives earlier in the week, and urged lawmakers to get the long-awaited Clarity Act over the line. 

The crypto legislation, which aims to make it clear which digital assets the SEC and CFTC will watchdog, has been called for by industry bigwigs for years. A vote will now go ahead on the proposed law in September. 

Bitcoin surged on Trump’s comments. On the same day, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the department would at least double the size of its long-dated bond buybacks. 

Non-yielding assets including bitcoin and gold jumped on the news. 

Jiang added that a slew of positive fundamentals in the crypto space — including stablecoin adoption, prediction markets, perpetual futures, and “the crossover of AI” — would help push bitcoin’s price higher. 

“It’s really hard not to be bullish,” he said.

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Solana’s live monetary-policy vote is forcing the network to confront a basic governance question: what happens when the validator setting a default vote for delegated stake has a disclosed interest in preserving staking yield?

Solana Company provides the clearest test case. The Nasdaq-listed SOL treasury company and validator operator announced on Aug. 21 that it would oppose SGP-0002, a proposal to accelerate disinflation. Its earlier financial results showed that staking on company-held SOL produced $2.512 million of its $2.526 million in second-quarter revenue, or 99.4%.

Under Solana’s new governance design, delegated stake follows a validator’s position by default. A native staker can override that position for an individual stake account before the validator votes, after it votes or when it abstains from voting. This makes the company’s position influential while preserving a direct choice for the owners of its delegated stake.

On Aug. 23, SGP-0002 remained in voting with about 5.27 million SOL For, 547,019 SOL Against and zero Abstain across 24 votes. For represented about 90.6% of decisive stake at that moment. This was a timestamped snapshot, and the totals were already changing.

The public voter table and decoded Against ballots showed no vote attributable to Solana Company, HSDT or its validator operation at that observation. Unknown address labels limit entity-level attribution, so the record establishes the company’s announced intention rather than a verified company ballot.

An accepted SGP would record a directional mandate. Protocol implementation and activation require later technical work, which means the live tally measures stakeholder preference rather than an immediate change to SOL issuance.

The validator’s stake in the result

Solana Company says predictable inflation and staking yield help institutions model returns and adopt SOL. Its opposition follows the economics described in its own financial statements, while its advance disclosure lets delegators decide whether that default position matches their own preference.

The company’s second-quarter results classify $2.512 million as GAAP staking revenue on company-held SOL. Cash flow and validator commission revenue are separate measures. The company also said the 31,200 SOL earned as quarterly staking rewards were automatically restaked.

Its income statement reported a $32.7 million operating loss and a $30.3 million net loss, including $25.4 million of realized digital-asset losses. These figures describe different parts of the company’s finances. Together, they show why the staking-revenue share cannot serve as a direct estimate of the proposal’s effect on cash or profitability.

Timing adds another boundary. The 99.4% share covers the quarter ended June 30, while the company’s own validator cluster launched in July. Its quarterly filing says a portion of company SOL depends on third-party custody, staking or infrastructure providers. By the filing date, outside parties had delegated roughly 500,000 SOL to the new cluster.

The headline number therefore measures the company’s exposure to staking economics. Revenue from operating its own validator remains a separate question. Any future effect from faster disinflation would vary with its SOL balance, staking participation, commissions, SOL price, fees, MEV and activation timing.

Delegators hold the practical check on that alignment. Solana’s documentation says a native staker can override a validator’s position without undelegating. The override reallocates the stake account’s effective vote while leaving the economic delegation in place.

That mechanism was already in use. One override recorded at 14:52:53 UTC on Aug. 23 directed 15.585838993 SOL For SGP-0002. Its size confirms only that the path was functioning; it offers no basis for inferring broad delegator resistance.

Solana Company highlighted the same power in its announcement, saying holders could override an operator and that it disclosed its positions so delegators could act. The governance design surfaces a validator’s economic alignment and lets stake owners separate their governance choice from their staking relationship.

What SGP-0002 can actually change

SGP-0002 asks Solana to double annual disinflation from 15% to 30% while leaving the 1.5% terminal inflation rate unchanged. The related SIMD-0550 model estimates about 18.89 million fewer SOL issued over six years under the faster schedule.

At the model’s 68% staking-participation assumption, nominal staking yield moves from 5.84% under the current schedule to 4.34% in the first year of the faster path, followed by 3.00% and 2.25% in years two and three. These are proposal scenarios. Solana Company’s realized revenue could differ because the model excludes validator commissions and additional yield sources such as MEV and block rewards.

Faster disinflation reduces issuance and nominal staking yield relative to the current schedule. The resulting company-level effect has no fixed percentage because stake balances, prices, fees, participation, commissions and implementation timing can all change.

Solana’s public materials also conflict on the rule used to judge the live result. The governance proposal repository policy says there is no quorum and approval requires For stake to equal at least two-thirds of For plus Against. The governance FAQ and dashboard display a one-third participation requirement alongside a two-thirds approval threshold. Current finalization code locks and records the totals after the end epoch without resolving that policy conflict.

Voting runs through epoch 1023 and closes at the epoch-1024 boundary. Solana Developers estimated that boundary for Thursday at approximately 15:30 UTC, with live slot timing determining the actual wall-clock close.

A successful vote would move the proposal into an Accepted state. Solana’s governance policy separates that state from Implemented and Activated, with technical work normally proceeding through one or more Solana Improvement Documents.

The immediate test is therefore institutional. Solana has made validator preferences visible and given native stakers a working override. Credibility now depends on whether that mechanism keeps the governance choice with delegators when a validator’s economic interest is plain.

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A recent Zilliqa Ledger bug exposed at least 6,772 accounts, according to the post-mortem, and enabled the theft of 683,130,969.66 ZIL across 66 successful attack-window transactions. The disclosure turned an earlier unquantified security flaw into a measured loss and exposure record while, as of the same date, legacy transactions remained paused and holders faced an undated migration to Zilliqa EVM.

The figures measure different parts of the incident. Zilliqa separates 51 drained accounts from the 6,772 accounts whose private keys were shown to be exposed. The post-mortem leaves the number of affected people unquantified.

The exposed-account total is a floor. The 683.13 million ZIL total is exact for the compromised accounts currently known, according to the post-mortem, and it could rise if investigators prove that additional compromised accounts produced theft transactions.

Why four signatures matter

Zilliqa said the application generated 40 random bytes but copied the wrong 32 bytes into its signing buffer, retaining eight bytes of zero padding and discarding eight bytes of entropy. That forced the high 64 bits of every affected nonce to zero.

Four or more biased signatures produced by the legacy Ledger application for the same account could then allow an attacker to reconstruct its private key from public blockchain data in seconds on ordinary hardware, according to Zilliqa. Already-published signatures cannot be withdrawn, so correcting the application can protect new keys but cannot repair keys already exposed.

The bulk scan behind the published count required at least five native signatures in a single signer era. The mathematical exposure floor is four biased signatures. Accounts with exactly four signatures were therefore absent from the bulk population count. Zilliqa's live per-address checker uses tighter parameters and reports four-signature cases, while re-running the wider scan under those parameters remains outstanding.

Zilliqa's historical reconstruction dated the first proven theft to March 4. KuCoin reported anomalous outgoing transactions from one of its cold wallets on July 19, roughly four and a half months later. On July 20, the attacker's last transaction came at 09:19:09 UTC, and Zilliqa disabled legacy transactions around 12:59 UTC.

The post-mortem also split responsibility among the companies. Zilliqa said it wrote the original affected application implementation, while the flaw survived years of maintenance under Ledger without either party finding it. KuCoin's report exposed the active incident.

The Zilliqa Ledger bug is limited to the application's legacy, non-EVM signing path. Zilliqa EVM activity, recovery phrases, assets held on other blockchains through the same device, and listed software-wallet signing paths are outside the disclosed scope.

Zilliqa's Aug. 20 status update said recovery would use migration of every legacy holder to Zilliqa EVM, with the legacy side retired. It had not announced a migration-tool launch date because timing still depended on an external security audit, review of its findings and any required remediation. Asset tracing and exchange coordination were continuing.

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BounceBit will retire its standalone Layer 1 and reissue BB on BNB Chain after the company said an authorization flaw moved about 286.5 million BB from nine accounts.

For holders, the immediate remedy is a 1:1 reconstruction of balances. The larger consequence is unresolved BounceBit token utility: its previous gas, staking, rewards and governance roles belonged to a network that will not return.

BounceBit attributed the incident to protocol-level authorization logic inherited from the Evmos stack. It said the flaw let a caller identify another account as the funding source without the required approval, while private keys, signatures and wallets remained uncompromised. The response ends the network instead of patching and restarting it, making BB’s remaining economic role the central question.

A replacement ledger for BounceBit token utility, not a rollback

BounceBit is using block 20,697,260, timestamped 21:02:35 UTC on Aug. 19, as the cutoff for the BEP-20 reissue. Transactions made after that block will not carry over to the replacement ledger.

The retired chain will stay retired. BounceBit is recognizing an earlier account state on a different network, leaving both unauthorized movements and legitimate activity after the cutoff outside the new token record.

For most holders, distribution is automatic. Addresses with at least 10 BB at the snapshot will receive the same amount at the corresponding address on BNB Chain. Balances below 10 BB will be reserved for a later claim portal. Staked and unbonding BB are included, even though the old chain no longer produces blocks.

Exchange users depend on another ledger. The snapshot records an exchange’s wallet, while the venue maintains each customer’s balance. BounceBit says it is working directly with exchanges where the cutoff reduced a venue balance, but users must wait for their exchange to announce when trading, deposits and withdrawals will resume.

The timing remains open. BounceBit says the new contract has been deployed but is withholding its address while exchange due diligence continues. It has not announced the exact distribution time.

Balance continuity is the part BounceBit has defined. BounceBit token utility is still being redesigned.

Before the shutdown, BounceBit documented five broad roles for BB: proof-of-stake participation, validator rewards, gas, platform currency and composability, and onchain governance. The migration disclosures provide no one-for-one replacement for four of those roles and defer the broader platform plan until after distribution.

BB could gain substantial utility through future integrations. BounceBit says the replacement token will enter an existing environment that includes CeDeFi V4, Prime, Strategy and RWA and Promo vault products, and it plans to pursue wider DeFi use on BNB Chain. For now, that is a product environment plus a development commitment, rather than a defined replacement for the old token’s network jobs.

The chain carried the product ledger

BounceBit says its CeDeFi and RWA businesses remained outside the chain exploit’s immediate impact. Its architecture documentation describes a design that separated custody, execution and onchain accounting. Assets or trading activity held outside BounceBit Chain therefore occupied a different layer from the authorization flaw.

Customer state is the unresolved part. BounceBit described the chain as the base or single settlement layer for protocol activity. Positions, collateral and rewards were recorded there. BB-Tokens were minted and burned there, while Prime exposures were reflected onchain even when custody and execution occurred elsewhere.

That architecture allows externally held assets to remain separate from a chain failure while still leaving customer-facing records to reconcile. BounceBit has not explained how BB-Tokens, stBB, vault receipts, rewards or every redemption path will be represented after the old ledger is abandoned. Its claim that the products can continue also provides no independent position-level confirmation that every balance and right was unaffected.

The shutdown exposes a portable operating business surrounding a chain-dependent token economy. Custody and yield rails can continue on other infrastructure, but BB’s old economic contract now has to be rebuilt through new protocol rights, incentives and demand.

The snapshot answers the quantity question by defining who is entitled to how many replacement tokens. The promised roadmap still has to answer the value question by defining what holders can do with them. Until distribution and position reconciliation are complete, BB holders have a specified balance claim and an unfinished utility proposition.

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Bitcoin and Ethereum surged last week as falling Treasury yields, renewed US crypto optimism, and a wave of short liquidations sent digital assets sharply higher.

Bitcoin climbed more than 20% and approached $80,000, while Ethereum gained about 30% in its strongest weekly advance since May 2025.

The rally drew fresh $2.6 billion in ETF inflows, forced billions of dollars in bearish positions out of the market, and pushed both assets to multi-month highs.

Interestingly, the breakout produced a sharp split between the companies behind crypto’s two largest corporate treasuries.

Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, used the strength to raise capital without adding to its BTC holdings, while BitMine Immersion Technologies, the largest ETH holding company, continued buying the digital asset into the rally.

Strategy uses the rally to build a $6.7 billion cash buffer

Strategy's decision to sit out Bitcoin's breakout coincided with one of its largest capital raises, leaving the company with more cash to deploy than at any point in its Bitcoin-buying campaign.

Between Aug. 17 and Aug. 23, Strategy said that it sold 18.26 million MSTR shares for about $2.01 billion in net proceeds.

Rather than recycle that money into Bitcoin, it directed $300 million into its existing USD Reserve, used $136.4 million to repurchase STRC preferred shares, and placed most of the remainder into a newly created USD Cash account.

That pushed the company's dollar liquidity to $6.69 billion as of Aug. 23, including $5.10 billion in its reserve and $1.59 billion in the new cash pool.

The distinction between the two accounts gives Strategy considerably more flexibility than the headline cash figure suggests.

The USD Reserve is primarily intended to cover preferred-stock dividends and interest obligations, while USD Cash can be used to buy Bitcoin, repurchase MSTR or preferred shares, repay convertible debt or fund other treasury transactions.

Strategy said the additional liquidity would allow it to respond more quickly to market conditions, including “dislocations” in Bitcoin and its own securities.

The timing stands out because Bitcoin's rally carried the asset back above Strategy's average acquisition price of $75,385.

The company currently owns 840,447 BTC acquired for about $63.36 billion, but did not add to that position during a week when capital markets were strong enough for it to raise more than $2 billion from common shareholders.

Instead, Strategy used part of the proceeds to retire 1.43 million STRC shares, adding another layer to a capital-allocation strategy that now extends well beyond simply issuing equity to buy Bitcoin.

The company still has $516.6 million authorized for additional preferred-stock repurchases and a separate $1 billion authorization to buy back MSTR.

With billions now sitting in cash, Strategy has effectively given itself the option to wait for cheaper Bitcoin, distressed prices in its own securities, or other opportunities before deploying the capital.

BitMine keeps buying after Ethereum’s 30% surge

BitMine took the opposite approach, treating Ethereum's sharpest weekly gain in more than a year as a reason to keep accumulating rather than wait for a pullback.

The company bought another 32,447 ETH during the week, lifting its holdings to 5.85 million tokens as of Aug. 23. That represents about 4.8% of Ethereum's circulating supply and leaves BitMine close to its stated goal of controlling 5% of all ETH.

The purchase extended a buying streak that has continued every week since the company launched its Ethereum treasury strategy in June 2025, even as the asset's price rose sharply. ETH's roughly 30% weekly gain was its strongest since May 2025 and pushed the token back above $2,400.

Chairman Tom Lee framed the move as part of a broader breakout rather than a reason to slow purchases. BitMine pointed to two previous periods since 2021 when ETH posted comparable weekly gains, both followed by substantially larger advances over the following months.

The company has also committed most of its existing holdings to staking. About 5.07 million ETH, or roughly 87% of its treasury, is currently staked, allowing BitMine to generate yield while maintaining exposure to further price appreciation.

Lee said:

“Annualized staking revenues are now projected at $330 million.”

That gives BitMine more room to remain aggressive than Strategy, whose Bitcoin holdings generate no native yield and whose growing preferred-stock and debt obligations require significant dollar liquidity.

BitMine reported just $308 million in cash and marketable securities alongside its crypto holdings, reflecting how heavily its balance sheet remains tilted toward Ethereum.

The contrast became sharper after last week's rally. Strategy used strong markets to raise cash and preserve flexibility for the next dislocation. BitMine used the same market strength to move closer to its supply target, effectively betting that Ethereum's breakout still has further to run.

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Riot Platforms has secured up to $573 million of interim financing for the $9.1 billion data-center lease tied to Anthropic, but the facility matures about a year before the Bitcoin miner expects the project to start generating rent.

Earlier this month, Riot disclosed that it had secured a 20-year lease for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, campus, describing the tenant only as a “leading frontier AI lab.”

However, CNBC and other reports subsequently identified the customer as Anthropic, the developer of Claude. Riot has not publicly named the tenant.

The first 96 MW is scheduled for delivery in December 2027, with the remaining 95 MW expected by June 2028. Riot estimates the initial lease will generate about $9.1 billion through June 2048, with two five-year extensions potentially lifting the total contract value to $16.1 billion.

However, funding that buildout requires a much earlier capital commitment.

Notably, a Riot subsidiary entered into a senior secured delayed-draw facility administered by Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, providing access to up to $573 million for long-lead equipment and other initial development costs.

The borrowings will mature on Dec. 31, 2026, roughly 12 months before the first Anthropic capacity is due online.

The delayed-draw structure means the $573 million represents available borrowing rather than cash Riot has already received.

Riot has described the facility as interim financing while it finalizes an investment-grade credit backstop. The company has not disclosed the backstop provider, committed amount, or binding terms, leaving the financing handoff as a key execution point before the bridge matures.

Meanwhile, the broader capital requirement for the AI infrastructure is substantially larger. Riot estimates the Rockdale project will cost between $2.1 billion and $2.3 billion and expects debt financing to cover roughly $1.7 billion to $2.1 billion under an assumed 80% to 90% loan-to-cost structure.

Borrowings under the Morgan Stanley facility carry adjusted term SOFR plus 2.75%, or a defined base rate plus 1.75%, alongside other customary fees. The debt is secured primarily by assets of the project borrower and specified credit parties, with generally no recourse to Riot Platforms itself.

The disclosed collateral does not identify Bitcoin. Data from BitcoinTreasuries.net shows that the miner currently holds around 11,380 BTC, making it one of the largest public holders of the top crypto.

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Phantom Wallet is removing two networks from its app. Monad disappears on August 26, 2026, Sui on September 24, 2026. Anyone holding a balance there will no longer see it in Phantom afterwards. That does not mean the funds are gone: the coins stay on their blockchain, and you can reach them from another wallet with the same recovery phrase. You still have to act, because the convenient route through the app is only open until each cut-off date.

Both announcements arrived within a few weeks of one another and affect different numbers of investors. The Monad deadline is the tighter one, while the Sui deadline concerns the older network: SUI has been running on mainnet since 2023, whereas Monad only launched its own in November 2025. This article sorts out what happens on which date, which two routes are left to you, and where a simple move accidentally turns into a taxable sale.

Phantom Wallet and Sui: what ends on September 24

Phantom published the decision on August 24, 2026 at 01:01 UTC through the @phantom account on X. The wording there says that Phantom and Sui have agreed to end Sui support in Phantom on September 24 and to leave the door open for future cooperation. It comes with an assurance: "Your funds remain safe and fully under your control." Before September 24, the post continues, you can move your wallet to another app that supports Sui.

One distinction regularly gets lost in reports of this kind. Network support means that the wallet app displays the balances of a particular blockchain, calculates them, and can sign and broadcast transactions on it. When support ends, that is precisely what ends. The blockchain itself carries on unchanged, and your keys remain valid on it.

The integration did not have a long history. Phantom announced the Sui connection in December 2024 and switched it on on January 29, 2025. Roughly twenty months later, it is over. According to consistent reports in the trade press, this was a joint decision by both sides and not a unilateral removal.

Monad in Phantom Wallet: why August 26 is the harder deadline

For Monad there is a more detailed primary source. In its help article on the Monad exit, Phantom names August 26, 2026 as the transition date and writes unambiguously: "Your assets are not lost. They remain on the Monad blockchain and can be accessed using a compatible wallet with the same credentials." Your holdings are not lost, in other words; they stay on the Monad blockchain and can be opened in a compatible wallet with the same credentials.

After the cut-off date, Phantom no longer displays Monad balances and no longer processes Monad transactions in the app. The provider itself offers two routes: swapping the Monad holdings into a network that remains supported before the transition date, or exporting the secret recovery phrase from the settings and importing it into another Monad-capable wallet.

The fee waiver has limits

By its own account, Phantom has waived its in-house fee on cross-chain swaps from native MON to wrapped MON on Solana until the transition date. Network fees and trading venue fees still apply, as the help article states. The route is therefore not free, only cheaper.

A wrapped token is a representation of a coin on a foreign blockchain: the original is locked, and a tradable stand-in is created on the target chain at a ratio of one to one. For the holder that adds a further party carrying risk, namely whoever administers the lock. If you would rather avoid that risk, take the move to another wallet instead of the swap.

Are your coins gone when a wallet drops a network?

No. A self-custody wallet does not hold coins, it manages keys. The balances sit on the blockchain and belong to the address derived from your recovery phrase. If the app falls away, the address remains. What falls away is the convenient interface to it.

This design is the decisive difference from an exchange. When a trading venue delists a token or closes your account, it genuinely holds your coins in custody, and the question becomes one of withdrawal deadlines and, in the worst case, forced liquidation. We have written up the exchange deadlines currently running separately, and they are sharper than what is at stake here. With Phantom the case is milder: access never ends, only the convenience does.

Exporting your secret recovery phrase: the route without a transaction

Moving to another wallet is the route that triggers no transaction, costs no fee and leaves your tax position untouched. You import the same recovery phrase into an app that supports the network, and you see the same balances there. The coins do not move at all; you only change the window through which you look at them.

What you need to watch out for

The recovery phrase is the master key. Whoever holds it holds everything attached to it, including the balances on every other network under the same phrase. That is exactly why the export is the most delicate moment of the entire exercise. It belongs on a computer you trust, not in a cloud note and not in a photo. We have set out at length how to store the phrase safely for the long term in our guide to keeping your seed phrase secure.

If your Phantom wallet manages Solana or Bitcoin holdings alongside Sui or Monad, you have two options. Either you import the phrase into the new app as well and keep using both in parallel, or you set up a fresh wallet with its own phrase for the departing network and transfer the balances there. The second variant is cleaner, but it costs network fees and, for tax purposes, counts as a transfer between your own addresses, so it is not a sale. Which software wallets are candidates for which chains is set out in our software wallet comparison.

Swap instead of move: what the fee-free exchange really costs

The second route is the swap inside Phantom. It is more convenient because you never leave the app, and for Monad holdings it is exempt from Phantom's own fee until the transition date. Three items remain even so: the network fee of the outgoing chain, the fee charged by the executing trading venue, and the price deviation between the quote on screen and the actual fill.

That last item is readily underestimated. On thinly traded tokens, the gap between the expected price and the realised one quickly eats up more than any fee does. If you hold a larger position, check the price a second time before sending and split the swap when in doubt. On very thin pairs, execution through a regulated trading venue can work out cheaper than the swap in the wallet, simply because more counterparty is available there.

Tax on a wallet change: when a move becomes a sale

This is where the two routes part company clearly, and for German investors it is the most important passage in this text.

Moving to another wallet is a non-event for tax. You transfer between your own addresses, or you merely import the key; no disposal takes place, and the holding period runs on unbroken.

The swap is a different matter. An exchange of coin for coin counts, for income tax purposes, as the disposal of the asset given up and the acquisition of the asset received. Under section 23 of the German Income Tax Act, the gain remains tax-free if more than a year lies between acquisition and disposal; within the year, the exemption threshold of 1,000 euros applies to the sum of all private disposal transactions in the calendar year. Once it is exceeded, the entire gain becomes taxable, not merely the part above the threshold.

The contested case: wrapping

Whether wrapping the same coin onto another chain counts as an exchange is disputed among tax advisers. In economic terms you continue to hold the same thing; in legal terms you receive a different token. That is an assessment rather than settled law, and we are not aware of a supreme court decision on the point. The practical consequence for you: if you would rather avoid that uncertainty, take the wallet export and leave the holding alone. If you choose the swap regardless, record the date, price and quantity cleanly. A portfolio and tax tool takes that documentation off your hands, provided you enter the transaction promptly.

Sui wallet alternatives: what Phantom itself names

For Sui holdings, the reports on the announcement point to two applications as the destination for the move: Suiet and the official Sui wallet, which now trades under the name Slush. Both are self-custody wallets and therefore accept the import of an existing recovery phrase.

We are not assessing these applications here and make no recommendation. Before importing, check for yourself whether the app supports the derivation scheme of your phrase. If the new wallet shows a balance of zero after the import, the cause is often a different derivation path rather than the holding itself. In that case it helps to reveal further accounts under the same phrase in the settings of the new app before you panic.

Phishing at the deadline: why unsolicited migration help is almost always a scam

Every publicly announced deadline is a diary entry for fraudsters. The pattern never varies: a message that quotes the genuine occasion correctly, a tight time frame, and a link to a supposed migration tool that asks for the recovery phrase.

Phantom has given this a paragraph of its own in the help article, writing that the company will never contact you first, will never ask for your secret recovery phrase or your private key, and will never offer to move your funds for you. Any unexpected offer of help with the migration should be treated as an attempted fraud.

That rule carries further than the current case. No reputable provider needs your phrase in order to help you, and no genuine migration requires you to type it in anywhere except into the new wallet app itself, locally on your own device. We have broken down the other markers of such messages using the example of fake withdrawal requests from crypto exchanges. The sheer number of active BaFin warnings about crypto platform series shows how large the field has become.

Why wallets drop networks: what the retreat says about the market

Putting this in context means separating the evidence from the interpretation. The evidence is this: Phantom is ending support for two networks within a few weeks, in the Sui case by its own account in agreement with the network team.

The explanation behind it is where interpretation begins. Every additional chain in a wallet costs work permanently: its own node connection, its own signing logic, its own price sources, its own support desk. If usage does not carry that effort, the integration turns into a loss-maker. We are not speculating about orders of magnitude here, because we have no reliable usage figures for individual networks.

For you, one practical consequence follows regardless of which explanation is correct: a wallet's network list is no promise of permanence. It can change, and in the best case you hear about it four weeks in advance.

What the case teaches about self-custody and hardware wallets

The real protection in this episode is the recovery phrase. It is the reason a discontinued network integration turns into an annoyance instead of a loss. Anyone whose coins sit on an exchange has no such safety net.

For larger holdings, a hardware wallet moves the key onto a device with no internet connection. The software interface then stays interchangeable while the key stays where it is. Which devices support which chains and what they cost is set out in our hardware wallet comparison. It is worth checking the supported networks before you buy, because compatibility cannot be taken for granted there either.

Checklist: what to sort out by September 24

Open Phantom first and see whether you are affected at all. Many users never activated either of the two chains and have nothing to do.

If you find a Monad holding, time is short: only a few hours of room to manoeuvre remain in the app before August 26, 2026. For Sui holdings you have until September 24, 2026, though you should not push it into the final week, because network fees and waiting times tend to climb shortly before a deadline expires.

Note down your balance before the move as well. If a different amount appears in the new app after the import, you will want to know whether a price difference or a wrong derivation path is behind it.

Checking your Phantom move: what to take away

1. Establish whether you are affected and choose your route. Check your Phantom wallet for Monad and Sui holdings. If you want to keep them, export the recovery phrase and import it into a suitable app; you will find an overview of the candidates in the software wallet comparison.
2. Settle the tax consequence before you click. Moving between your own wallets is not a sale, whereas the swap is. Record the date, quantity and price of every transaction, most easily with a crypto tax tool that tracks the holding periods for you.
3. Secure the key for the long term. If this case forces you to export your phrase, it is the right moment to reorganise how you store it. For larger holdings the key belongs on a separate device: hardware wallets compared.

(As of August 24, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)

Ethereum trades at $2,472 as of 24 August 2026, up 0.38% on the day and roughly 28% over the past seven sessions. That is the strongest weekly performance ETH has printed all year, and it came out of nowhere for anyone who was not watching the macro tape.

Three catalysts stacked on top of each other in the space of 48 hours. The US Treasury announced it would at least double its buybacks of longer-dated government debt, lifting the operation size from around $2 billion to $4 billion. That pushed long-end yields lower and reopened the risk appetite window that crypto had been locked out of since spring. Almost simultaneously, the SEC published a proposed framework letting crypto projects raise capital under defined exemptions and exit securities classification once core managerial commitments are met, and President Trump publicly pressured the Senate to move on the Clarity Act, which is now scheduled for a procedural vote in September.

The market was positioned exactly wrong for all of it. More than $3 billion in leveraged crypto positions were wiped out in 24 hours, with short positions accounting for roughly 92% of the damage, around $2.77 billion. That is the fuel behind the vertical candle you see on the chart. $ETH went from below $1,950 to an intraday peak near $2,546 on 22 August, and it has held most of that ground since.

Institutional flow is confirming rather than fading the move. Spot Ether ETFs pulled in $71.47 million on 18 August with BlackRock's ETHA taking $64.68 million of it, and 30-day inflows reached $524.3 million. On the protocol side, the Ethereum Foundation activated the Platåberget public testnet on 17 August as the staging ground for Glamsterdam, targeted for Q4 2026.

So the fundamental backdrop is genuinely better than it was three weeks ago. The question is whether the chart can absorb a 29% move without giving it all back.

What does the Ethereum chart say right now?

ETH has flipped from a downtrend to a confirmed bullish structure for the first time since February, but it is doing so in deeply overbought territory.

The 200 EMA sits at $2,139.36 and had acted as a ceiling for the entire summer, sloping down and capping every rally attempt from May through mid-August. Price spent June crashing to roughly $1,512, then July and early August grinding sideways in a $1,850 to $1,980 box.

The breakout candle did not just clear the 200 EMA. It cleared $2,200 and $2,430 in a single session, which is three separate structural levels in one move. Price is now trading 15.6% above the 200 EMA, and the moving average itself has started to curl upward for the first time in months.

That is the bullish read. Here is the caveat: RSI (14) prints 79.30 against its own signal line at 65.00. Anything above 70 is overbought, and 79 on the daily is the kind of reading that usually resolves through either a sharp pullback or an extended sideways cooling period. It rarely resolves by simply continuing straight up.

There is also the shape of the move to consider. The candle from $1,950 to $2,300 is close to vertical, which means there is almost no traded volume in that band. Thin ranges like that tend to get revisited eventually, because there are no resting bids inside them to slow a decline.

What are the upside targets for ETH?

$3,000 is the objective this structure points to, but it is a Q4 target reached in three steps, not a two-week move.

Start with why $3,000 is the number worth watching rather than an arbitrary round figure.

Measure the entire bear leg from the August 2025 all-time high near $4,950 down to the June 2026 low around $1,512. That is a range of roughly $3,438. The 0.382 retracement of that decline sits near $2,825 and the 0.50 retracement sits near $3,231. In other words, $3,000 falls almost exactly in the middle of the standard recovery band for a move of this size. It is also the round number that carries the heaviest resting order flow, and it sits inside the zone where ETH spent significant time trading in early 2026 before the breakdown, meaning there is real historical volume anchoring it rather than empty air.

From the current $2,472, that is a 21% move. For context, Ethereum just delivered 29% in a single week, so the magnitude itself is not the obstacle. The sequencing is.

Here is the path in order.

• Step one, $2,546. The swing high from 22 August. ETH tagged it, rejected, and has been building a tight range between roughly $2,424 and $2,483 since. Nothing happens on the upside until this clears on a daily close.
• Step two, $2,750. Above the swing high the chart is clean all the way to this level, marked as the upper yellow band. It was the last meaningful supply zone before the spring breakdown. This is the genuine test, because it is the first place where trapped sellers from the earlier decline get their chance to exit at breakeven. Expect the move to stall here at least once.
• Step three, $3,000. Only reachable if $2,750 breaks on expanding volume rather than a low-volume wick. On the chart above, this level sits off the top of the visible range, which is worth stating plainly: it is an extension target, not a level currently being tested.

The honest framing on that upper target is that it requires the macro tailwind to persist. Specifically, it needs the Clarity Act procedural vote in September to go the market's way, and it needs ETF inflows to keep running above $70 million a day rather than flattening out the way they did in mid-August. If either of those breaks down, $2,750 caps the move and $3,000 stays theoretical.

Where is support if Ethereum pulls back?

$2,430 is the first line, $2,200 is the real test, and $2,139 at the 200 EMA is where the bull case actually lives or dies.

Work down the chart in order.

• $2,430 is the immediate flip level. It was resistance on the way up and price is currently using it as a floor. Losing it on a daily close signals the breakout is being sold rather than absorbed.
• $2,200 is the next horizontal. This is a level ETH respected repeatedly in May before the breakdown, and it sits right at the midpoint of the August spike. A retest here would be normal and healthy, and it would work off the RSI overbought condition without breaking anything structurally.
• $2,139.36 is the 200 EMA and the single most important number on the chart. Ethereum spent four months below it. Falling back under it would reclassify the entire August move as a liquidation-driven spike rather than a trend reversal, and it would put $2,000 back in play immediately.

Below that, the air gets thin fast. The $1,900 area was the July and August base, and $1,800 is the horizontal that held through the whole summer recovery. A move to $1,800 would mean the macro trade unwound entirely, and realistically that requires the Treasury liquidity story to reverse or the Clarity Act to die in the Senate.

Is the ETH breakout sustainable or is this a squeeze?

It is both, and that is exactly why the next two weeks matter more than the last two.

Short squeezes are real price discovery, but they are not organic demand. The $2.77 billion in liquidated shorts created forced buying that has now largely exhausted itself. What replaces it determines the next leg.

The bullish evidence for sustainability: ETF inflows continued through and after the squeeze rather than reversing, corporate treasury accumulation is ongoing with BitMine holding roughly 5.82 million ETH or about 4.8% of supply, and the regulatory catalysts are forward-looking rather than already priced.

The bearish evidence: derivatives leverage has already reset once, with mid-August deleveraging cutting around $3 billion in open interest, and analysts have flagged concentrated leveraged positions on Aave as a hidden liquidation risk if price moves sharply in either direction. $Ethereum also remains roughly 50% below its August 2025 all-time high near $4,950, so there is a great deal of trapped supply overhead as price climbs.

The clean tell is the monthly close. August closes on Sunday. A monthly candle that closes above $2,400 means the market absorbed the breakout. A close back below $2,200 means it was sold into.

Ethereum price prediction summary

• Base case: ETH consolidates between $2,400 and $2,550 into early September, works the RSI back toward 60, then attempts $2,750 once the September Clarity Act vote clears. This is the most likely path, and it puts $3,000 in reach late in Q4 rather than this month.
• Bull case: a daily close above $2,546 on strong volume takes ETH to $2,750 within two weeks. Clearing $2,750 opens $3,000, which lines up with the 0.382 to 0.50 retracement band of the entire bear leg and would coincide with Glamsterdam anticipation building into Q4.
• Bear case: failure to hold $2,430 triggers a retrace into the thin $2,200 zone. Losing the 200 EMA at $2,139 invalidates the reversal, reopens $1,900, and takes $3,000 off the table entirely.

The level that decides everything is $2,139. Everything above it is a bullish structure with a pullback risk. Everything below it is a failed breakout.

The short answer first: you can buy more bitcoin at a price of around $77,000, but not every method is the right one at this level. If you are already invested, a bitcoin savings plan is the calmer route, because it smooths out the weekly and daily swings. If you have been standing on the sidelines for months and want to invest a fixed amount, a lump sum purchase is statistically no worse, and more often than not it is better. The useful question is therefore not which method wins in general, but which one suits your starting position and the amount you have in mind. That is what this text is about.

It is Sunday, August 24, 2026. Bitcoin gained 22.78 percent in the week from August 16 to 23 and, according to a CoinMarketCap reading taken on August 23 at 11:28 UTC, stands at $77,256.75. Trading volume over the past 24 hours came to $27.80 billion. It is the strongest bitcoin week since March 2024 and the first price level above $77,000 since the spring.

How to Buy More Bitcoin Cleanly at $77,000

The easiest way to get your head around the topic is to look at a concrete amount. Take 6,000 euros that you will not need in the next three to five years. That gives you three basic options. First: you invest everything today. Second: you spread the 6,000 euros over twelve months at 500 euros each and let a savings plan run. Third: you combine the two, buying part of it today in one go and the rest gradually. All three routes are legitimate, all three carry different risks. There is no single correct answer, but there is one that fits the reality of your life.

The underlying assumption matters: you buy bitcoin only with money you can absorb losing. Bitcoin regularly moves 20 to 30 percent up or down within a month. Anyone who cannot stomach that should halve the amount rather than switch strategy.

What Pushed the Bitcoin Price Up 22 Percent This Week

Last week's rise hangs on several events whose timing added up. On August 19, US President Donald Trump received the leadership of the crypto industry and its regulators at the White House and there publicly called for the Clarity Act to be passed. The bill is meant to end the turf war between the SEC and the CFTC and to classify crypto assets as either a security or a commodity depending on how they are built. It already passed the House of Representatives in 2025 and has been stuck in the US Senate for months.

On the same day, US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded net inflows of $517 million, the strongest day in three and a half months. Of that, $284.7 million went to the iShares Bitcoin Trust. Inflows into Ethereum came to $189 million. On top of that came the announcement by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that buyback limits for long-dated bonds would be doubled. That pushes long-term rates down and shifts capital into real assets, a category many investors count bitcoin among.

The point for your decision: the lift comes from a regulatory promise and from macro-driven reallocation, not from any new application. Whether the Clarity Act clears the Senate in 2026 is open. Prediction markets currently give it around a 16 percent chance, and the cloture vote in the Senate is scheduled after the return from recess on September 15. Anyone buying today is buying ahead of a regulatory promise that has yet to be delivered.

Lump Sum or Savings Plan: Which Strategy Suits Which Investor

A lump sum purchase means you swap your amount into bitcoin on a single day. The advantage: you are invested immediately, you pay the order fee only once, and you lock in the starting point of the next price move. The drawback: if the price falls ten percent the day after your purchase, you carry a visible paper loss, and that hits most investors emotionally harder than a quiet run of losses spread over weeks.

A bitcoin savings plan breaks the amount into equally sized portions and buys them at fixed intervals. The advantage: you smooth the swings, you never hit the single worst entry day, and you relieve yourself of the psychological question of whether today is the moment. The drawback: in rising markets a savings plan systematically lags the lump sum purchase, because later purchases are made at higher prices.

Academic work from Vanguard's research arm in the US shows that over long periods a lump sum purchase beats the savings plan in two out of three cases on average, because markets rise more often than they fall. For bitcoin the rule does not hold quite as neatly: price moves are more violent and recovery phases longer. That is why the bitcoin savings plan is usually the calmer choice for beginners, though it is not automatically the higher-returning one.

How a Bitcoin Savings Plan Works Technically and What It Costs

A crypto savings plan is a recurring chain of purchase orders at a provider of your choice. You set which day of the month a given sum is debited from your reference account and swapped into bitcoin at the market price. For this the provider charges you either a fixed order fee, a percentage markup on the market price, or it earns through the spread between the buying and selling price.

The cost range in Germany runs from roughly 0.5 percent per execution at the cheapest broker savings plans to more than 1.5 percent at convenient app solutions. Anyone saving 500 euros a month pays 60 euros a year at a fee of one percent. Over five years that is 300 euros flowing into the provider's margin instead of into bitcoin. If you are torn between two providers, the fee is the first criterion you may stop worrying about once it sits below one percent. Our comparison of regulated crypto exchanges provides an overview.

Which intervals work in practice

Monthly is the most common choice and works for most savers, because salary and outgoings are on a monthly rhythm. Weekly smooths the price swings more strongly, but triples the number of executions and with it the total fee, provided the provider bills per execution. Daily makes little sense at most German providers, because minimum amounts and per-execution fees bite. A two-week rhythm is a solid compromise where your broker allows it.

Why You Should Not Rule Out a Lump Sum Purchase at This Price

A widespread reflex says: after a rally you do not go in with a lump sum. That sounds sensible but is empirically questionable. If you examine bitcoin weeks with a gain of more than 20 percent since 2018, the price four weeks later was higher in the majority of cases, not lower. The reason lies in the structure of the bitcoin market: in many cycles rallies mark the transition into a momentum phase rather than the end of one.

What the Cost Average Effect and Volatility Really Mean for Your Calculation

The cost average effect is the mathematical consequence of the savings plan. If you invest the same euro amount every month, you buy less bitcoin at high prices and more at low ones. Your average entry price ends up below the arithmetic mean of all monthly prices. This is no magic effect but a consequence of the harmonic mean, which mathematically is always smaller than or equal to the arithmetic one.

Volatility, meaning the typical price movement over time, currently sits at around 60 percent a year for bitcoin. Equity indices such as the DAX move at around 20 percent. In everyday terms bitcoin therefore swings three to four times as much as a broad equity market. For the savings plan that is an advantage, because large swings amplify the cost average effect. For the lump sum purchase it is a risk, because the chance of a false start of 15 to 30 percent within a month is real.

How Large the Amount Should Be and When You Are Better Off Doing Nothing

A workable rule of thumb for the size of your bitcoin share of total assets sits between two and ten percent. Below two percent, bitcoin will not move your portfolio noticeably whatever happens. Above ten percent, a single asset class carries your financial wellbeing, and with an asset running 60 percent annual volatility that is careless. Anyone putting all their savings into bitcoin is speculating, however the order is structured.

There are moments when you are better off buying nothing. If you have no liquid emergency cushion of three to six months of net salary, your next euro belongs in an instant access savings account rather than in bitcoin. If you are servicing a loan at more than four percent interest, paying it down is the better return. And if you first heard of bitcoin within the past seven days, give yourself a week to think before you trigger an order.

Which German Providers Come Into Question for Savings Plans and Lump Sum Purchases

German investors have several routes. Regulated crypto exchanges based or licensed in the EU offer both lump sum purchases and savings plans, often with BaFin-registered custody solutions. Neobrokers from the traditional securities world offer crypto savings plans as ETP-like constructs, where you hold bitcoin economically without holding the coins yourself. Pure crypto apps offer the lowest entry amounts, often from one euro, but the highest percentage fees.

Which route suits you depends less on the provider's name than on two questions: do you want to transfer the coins to your own wallet later, or is custody at the provider enough for you? And do you trust yourself with a seed phrase and a private key, or should a third party handle custody? Anyone wanting to hold the coins themselves picks an exchange that allows withdrawals to a hardware wallet. Anyone taking the convenient route picks a neobroker with a crypto savings plan.

What the Clarity Act and the ETF Tailwind Mean for Your Timing

Regulatory impulses have repeatedly triggered short-term price jumps in recent years, but they have rarely determined the long-term direction on their own. Should it become law, the Clarity Act would give US trading venues more legal certainty in handling crypto assets. Institutional inflows through ETFs could accelerate. Should the bill fail in September or October, a price setback is likely, because part of the rally rests on that expectation.

For your savings plan both outcomes are irrelevant, because by construction it absorbs either case. For a lump sum purchase the following applies: anyone timing their purchase date around a political vote accepts the corresponding headline risk. Anyone setting that date independently is buying a position in the running cycle, with no special expectation attached.

How to Factor Tax and the Holding Period In at the Point of Purchase

In Germany, bitcoin counts as a private economic asset under Section 23 of the Income Tax Act. Price gains from a sale are tax-free after a holding period of twelve months, provided you hold them as private assets. If you buy on August 24, 2026, a sale from August 25, 2027 onwards will be tax-free, assuming the current legal position holds. Within the holding period the gain is charged at your personal income tax rate plus the solidarity surcharge and, where applicable, church tax, once annual gains exceed 1,000 euros. Losses within the year can be offset against other private disposals.

With a savings plan, every monthly tranche has its own holding period. The tranche from August 2026 becomes tax-free in August 2027, the tranche from September 2026 in September 2027. Your broker should manage these tranches automatically using the first-in-first-out method. For the tax report, using a crypto tax tool from the outset pays off, so that a later partial sale does not force you to sort order CSVs retrospectively.

Buying More Bitcoin: What to Take Away

Three numbered steps with which you can make the decision today.

1. Set your budget before choosing a provider. Define the bitcoin share of your total assets at between two and ten percent and work out what that means in euros. Halve the figure if a loss of 30 percent would cost you sleep. Only then do you compare the exchanges that fit.
2. Choose the method that suits your starting position. If you are already invested and want to top up, a bitcoin savings plan is the calmer route. If you have been waiting for months and the move is getting on your nerves anyway, buy three quarters of your target position today in one go and put the rest into a savings plan. You will find the providers for that in the savings plan comparison.
3. Think about custody and tax from the start. Small amounts may sit at the exchange, larger holdings belong in your own wallet. Anyone planning to hold for the long run picks capable hardware. The overview is in the hardware wallet comparison.

For context on this week and the triggers of the price jump, see our article Bitcoin Price Above $75,000: 3 Reasons for the Rally. If you want to go deeper into the macro-financial framework, the connection between the dollar, gold and bitcoin is in our analysis Dollar at a Two and a Half Month Low, Gold Above $4,400, Bitcoin Up 8 Percent.

Two market reports serve as primary sources for this text: the overview by CNBC on the White House meeting and the inflow data on spot bitcoin ETFs at The Block.

(As of August 24, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)

Bitcoin Savings Plan in Austria: How the Moving Average Price Is Calculated for Tax

Bitcoin savings plans spread the purchase across many individual transactions. Anyone investing 200 euros a month, for instance, inevitably buys their bitcoin at different prices. For the later tax calculation the question therefore arises: which purchase price applies when only part of the coins is sold?

Austria uses the moving average price for this as a matter of principle. Where units of the same cryptocurrency are acquired one after another and held at the same crypto address, their acquisition costs are merged into a single average price. With a wallet, the wallet as a whole can serve as the relevant reference unit instead.

How the Calculation Works

An investor buys through a savings plan:

• 0.01 BTC for 300 euros
• 0.01 BTC for 400 euros
• 0.01 BTC for 500 euros

In total they then hold 0.03 BTC with acquisition costs of 1,200 euros.

The moving average price therefore comes to:

1,200 euros ÷ 0.03 BTC = 40,000 euros per BTC

If the investor subsequently sells 0.01 BTC, acquisition costs of 400 euros are as a rule attributed to that portion.

What is not decisive, then, is whether the bitcoin sold are the ones bought first, last or at a particular price.

Every New Savings Plan Purchase Shifts the Average

The average price is not fixed for good. Every further purchase of the same cryptocurrency at the same relevant address or wallet changes it.

Anyone buying a further 0.01 BTC for 600 euros, for example, then holds:

• 0.04 BTC
• total acquisition costs: 1,800 euros
• new average price: 45,000 euros per BTC

At the next taxable sale this updated average price is used as a matter of principle. The Austrian crypto asset regulation prescribes this method both for the capital gains tax deduction and for the income tax assessment.

Several Wallets Can Carry Different Average Prices

Anyone spreading their savings plan holdings across several wallets should note that not all of a person's bitcoin are automatically merged into a single average price. The Austrian rules attach in principle to the respective crypto address or wallet. As a result, two wallets holding bitcoin belonging to the same person can carry different acquisition costs for tax purposes.

With an Austrian provider obliged to withhold capital gains tax, that provider may determine whether the individual address or the wallet as a whole is used as the reference unit. Once used, this reference unit is then also decisive for the assessment.

Legacy Bitcoin Holdings Are Treated Separately

One important exception concerns bitcoin acquired up to and including February 28, 2021. Such legacy assets are not included in the moving average price of the newer holdings. Bitcoin for which flat-rate acquisition costs were applied because tax data was missing likewise do not feed into the normal average price. Despite regular savings plan purchases, investors may therefore face a tax separation between older and newer holdings.

When Does Tax Actually Arise?

The savings plan purchase itself does not as a rule trigger income tax on price gains. The holding becomes relevant for tax purposes above all on a later realisation, for instance on a sale for euros. For bitcoin acquired after February 28, 2021, realised gains are as a rule subject to the special tax rate of 27.5 percent. The holding period plays no role in principle.

Example:

• average acquisition costs: 40,000 euros per BTC
• sale of 0.1 BTC at a price of 70,000 euros
• sale proceeds: 7,000 euros
• acquisition costs: 4,000 euros
• taxable gain: 3,000 euros

At 27.5 percent this produces a tax of 825 euros as a matter of principle.

Conclusion

With a bitcoin savings plan, Austria does not work out the acquisition price for tax separately for each unit sold. For bitcoin of the same kind acquired one after another at the same relevant address or wallet, the moving average price applies in principle. Every new savings plan purchase shifts that average. Legacy holdings from before March 2021 and certain flat-rate valued holdings, by contrast, are treated separately. With long-running savings plans in particular, investors should therefore document purchase history, wallet transfers and the tax cost basis used in each case on a lasting basis.

(As of August 24, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)

Anyone forced to close an account at a crypto exchange should download the full transaction history before the cut-off date. The reason is crypto tax: it is up to you to prove to the tax office when you bought and what you paid. Once the account is closed, the trading record is as a rule no longer retrievable, and the burden of proof still sits with you.

This is not a theoretical question at the moment. Over the coming weeks, several trading venues reach deadlines after which accounts are closed, balances are sold off by force, or individual tokens are pulled from trading. It also catches investors who did nothing wrong and simply happened to be at the wrong exchange.

Crypto Tax and the Duty of Proof: Why the Exchange Does Not Keep Your Records for You

A crypto exchange is not a German credit institution. It issues no annual tax certificate, it withholds no capital gains tax, and once the business relationship ends it owes you nothing beyond the statutory minimum. What is left of your trading year is whatever you secured yourself.

With a securities account in Germany, the bank does this work. It knows your acquisition costs, offsets losses and reports the result. In crypto, that automatic process does not exist. For private investors, gains from selling Bitcoin or other crypto assets fall under other income and are declared on the Anlage SO form, using figures that you supply.

That shifts the risk. If you sit down to your tax return next April and discover the exchange has been offline for seven months, you do not have an evidence problem with the exchange. You have one with the tax office.

What the Tax Authorities Want to See on Private Disposals

A private disposal means a sale within the statutory period whose gain is taxable. For crypto assets, Section 23 (1) sentence 1 no. 2 of the German Income Tax Act applies, the rule for other economic assets. It turns on whether no more than one year lies between acquisition and disposal.

The entire data requirement follows from that one sentence. To show that a sale took place after the one-year period expired, you need the acquisition date. To calculate a gain, you need the acquisition cost in euros. And to prove that you stayed below the exemption threshold, you need every transaction of the calendar year, not only the large ones. Under the wording of the law, the total gain from private disposals stays tax-free only if it came to less than 1,000 euros in the calendar year.

An exemption threshold is a different thing from an allowance: once it is exceeded, the entire gain becomes taxable and not merely the part above it. Someone who ends the year at 1,050 euros pays tax on 1,050 euros. That is exactly why completeness matters and an approximate overview does not.

Five Deadlines Before the End of September: Which Accounts Are Closing Now

What prompted this article are deadlines already running, not a forecast. According to the notices of the respective providers and consistent reports in the trade press, five dates fall before the end of September that concern German investors directly:

• BitMart ends trading on August 26, 2026 at 01:00 UTC; by its own account, the exchange accepts withdrawal requests only until 05:00 UTC the same day.
• Kraken has set a withdrawal deadline of August 27, 2026 at 14:00 UTC for a series of delisted tokens; remaining balances are liquidated by the exchange itself thereafter.
• Bitfinex permits withdrawals for 13 affected tokens until August 31, 2026 at 10:00 UTC.
• Luno closes its EU accounts on September 1, 2026; selling and euro withdrawals are possible only until August 31.
• BitMEX, following its own delisting notice in August, has announced the closure of the entire exchange for September 23, 2026.

A detailed list of these dates with the respective times can be found in our overview of crypto exchange deadlines. For the tax question, one point is decisive that rarely appears in the announcements: all of these notices govern how long you can withdraw your money. None of them says how long you will still reach your data afterwards.

Transaction History, Tax Report and Account Statement: What Separates the Terms

These three things get mixed up in everyday use, even though they are worth very different amounts.

Transaction history

The transaction history is the raw file of every movement on your account, usually a CSV with timestamp, trading pair, quantity, price and fee. It is awkward to read and at the same time the most valuable thing you can take with you, because everything else can be reconstructed from it.

Tax report

A tax report is an already processed summary that calculates gains and losses by a particular method. It is convenient, but only as good as the assumptions behind it, and it is hard to verify without the underlying raw data.

Account statement

The account statement shows deposits and withdrawals in euros. It proves that money moved, but says nothing about which coins were bought when and at what price. As the sole basis for crypto tax it will not do.

If you have to choose between the three formats, take the raw data. A finished report can be produced from it at any time, for instance with one of the programs in our comparison of crypto tax tools and portfolio trackers. The other way round does not work.

Section 90 of the Fiscal Code: Why “the Exchange No Longer Exists” Is Not an Excuse

There is a provision that fits precisely this case, and in the debate about crypto tax it usually falls by the wayside. Section 90 of the German Fiscal Code obliges the parties involved to cooperate in establishing the facts. For matters abroad, subsection 2 requires them to exhaust every legal and factual possibility to clarify the facts and obtain evidence.

The uncomfortable part for you sits at the end of that subsection: nobody can invoke a lack of means to clarify matters if they could have secured those means through the way they arranged their own affairs. Someone who knew their account would close at the end of the month and still did not pull the export is therefore in a worse position than someone whose exchange collapsed without warning.

In practice this leads to estimation. If the tax office cannot determine the tax base, it may estimate it under Section 162 of the Fiscal Code, and an estimate rarely turns out in your favor. In the worst case an acquisition price of zero is assumed, so that the entire disposal proceeds count as gain.

FIFO and the Holding Period: Which Data Decide Tax Exemption

FIFO stands for “first in, first out” and means that where several holdings of the same kind exist, the ones acquired first count as sold first. The law prescribes this order expressly for equivalent foreign currency amounts, and the tax authorities apply the same thinking to crypto holdings held per wallet or per exchange.

The tax exemption of a sale therefore hangs on one very specific piece of information: the date of the oldest acquisition in each case. Anyone who has been buying regularly for years has dozens of such dates. They sit in the transaction history and nowhere else.

An example makes the difference tangible. Suppose you bought Bitcoin in small amounts over three years and sell part of it in the fall. If the matched purchase lies more than a year back, the gain stays tax-free under current law. If you cannot document the date, the exemption counts as unproven, because the burden of establishing circumstances that reduce tax sits with you. The same applies to holdings in Ethereum or any other coin.

Forced Liquidation and Delisting: Why an Enforced Sale Is Still Taxable

Many of the current cases do not end with someone selling voluntarily. In a delisting followed by liquidation, the exchange sells the remaining holdings itself and credits the customer with the proceeds. For tax purposes that is a disposal like any other. The fact that you did not trigger it changes nothing about that.

An awkward combination follows from this. The taxable event and the loss of access to the data fall on the same date. The disposal you have to declare in the following year therefore takes place at exactly the moment when the records for it disappear. How such a forced sale plays out in detail is something we set out in our piece on the forced sale at a crypto exchange.

On top of that come costs that eat into the proceeds. Several venues winding down charge fees on balances left behind after the cut-off date; what that adds up to we have collected in our text on residual balances after an exchange closes.

DAC8 and the Crypto Asset Tax Transparency Act: What the Tax Office Will Soon See Anyway

Alongside these wind-downs, the information available to the tax offices is changing. Under the EU directive DAC8, implemented in Germany through the Crypto Asset Tax Transparency Act, providers of crypto asset services become subject to reporting duties. The competent authority is the Federal Central Tax Office, which receives the data and passes it on according to taxing rights. The stated aim is to uncover cross-border arrangements.

For you this has one immediate consequence. Part of your trading data will in future reach the tax office without any action on your part, and it will do so from the exchange's point of view. If your own record then diverges from the reported one, you have to be able to explain the divergence. That works with complete raw data and fails with an estimate from memory.

The scope matters here: the providers carry the reporting duty, you do not. The report does not replace your tax return and does not necessarily contain the acquisition data that matters for the holding period. Above all it raises the likelihood that a gap is noticed.

Which Exchange Delivers What: Why You Should Check This Beforehand

How much a trading venue hands over varies widely, and it can hardly be compared reliably from the outside: the help centers of the large providers are largely blocked against automated retrieval, and what is written there often applies only to certain countries. A dependable list of who issues a finished German tax report and who supplies only a CSV file is therefore something we cannot present at this point.

What can be said: a full raw data export is common at most established venues, whereas a finished report under German tax law is the exception. Check this inside your account while you still have one. When choosing a new venue, this point is worth as close a look as the fees; our overview of regulated crypto exchanges classifies the providers licensed in the EU.

What Exactly to Export Before Access Ends

The following order is sorted by importance. If time is short, work through it from top to bottom.

The complete trading record

All trades since the account was opened, not only the current year. Make sure the export period really reaches back to the first purchase; many interfaces propose only the last twelve months by default. If an annual limit applies, pull the file several times, year by year.

Deposits and withdrawals in euros as well as all crypto transfers

These movements connect your bank account with the exchange account and your exchange account with your wallet. Without them there is no way to show later where a holding came from. Transfers between your own addresses are not a disposal, but you must be able to prove that the addresses were your own.

Staking, interest and bonus payments

These inflows are treated differently for tax purposes than a sale and frequently appear in a separate list that the standard export leaves out. Check whether your venue reports them separately, and download that file as well.

Fee statements and the final balance

Trading and withdrawal fees reduce the gain and should therefore be documented. A screenshot of the balance on the last day costs you fifteen seconds and is a serviceable anchor later, should a figure become disputed.

Save everything twice, in two different places, and do not change the file names. An unaltered original file with the name the exchange gave it looks more credible in a query than a table you named yourself.

If Access Is Already Gone: Which Routes Remain

If you are reading this text too late, not everything is lost. Contacting support is worth it even after the closure, because many providers have to retain data for a while for regulatory reasons, even when the interface has been switched off. A request for access under Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation is a legitimate way to obtain the data held about you.

Beyond that, your own traces help: bank statements show deposits and withdrawals with date and amount, old confirmation emails often contain individual trades, and transfers to your own wallet can be traced on the blockchain. Whatever you rebuild from this you should label as a reconstruction and document the method. How to proceed in such a case is described in our piece on crypto taxes without a complete history.

For larger amounts, or if you are unsure whether a gap might be judged reckless, going to a tax adviser with crypto experience is the more sober choice than trying to patch the matter up yourself.

Retention: How Long You Really Need the Data

A statutory retention period of the kind that applies to merchants does not apply to you as a private investor. What is relevant in practice are the periods within which a tax assessment can still be amended. The regular assessment period for income tax is four years and only begins at the end of the year in which the return was filed. In cases of tax evasion it extends to ten years.

There is a second reason, though, that reaches further than any deadline: the holding period itself. As long as you hold a position, you need its acquisition date, even if the purchase was ten years ago. Someone who bought in 2017 and never sold needs the records from 2017 in the year they decide to sell. The rule of thumb is therefore simply this: keep the acquisition data for as long as you hold the coins, and the sale data for at least five years afterwards.

If you are moving your holdings to a new venue anyway, that is a good moment to set up your filing cleanly once and for all. Which providers come into question is shown by our comparison of crypto exchanges.

Securing Crypto Tax Records: What to Take Away

1. Pull the complete export before the deadline of your trading venue expires. Trading record since the account was opened, deposits and withdrawals, transfers, staking inflows and fees, as the original file and backed up twice. Whether your provider is affected at all is answered by a look at the list of regulated crypto exchanges.
2. Bring the raw data into a form you will still understand in the spring. A CSV file on its own helps you little if you open it again only in April. A program from the comparison of crypto tax tools and portfolio trackers works out the holding periods and the gain on each sale from it.
3. When you next open an account, check what the provider will hand over to you later. Export function, period and format belong among the selection criteria, not the fee alone. The crypto exchange comparison is the starting point for that.

(As of August 24, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)

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Every crypto business looking to add exchange functionality without building the stack in-house needs a way to connect with an external exchange. Crypto exchange APIs offer that bridge. They let Web3 businesses embed swaps, cash-out options, cross-chain asset movement, and even fiat on/off-ramps.

The challenge is finding one that does it all well. Plenty of APIs can return exchange-related data, but far fewer are shaped to facilitate smooth business-oriented exchanges.

This article has sourced some of the best crypto exchange APIs that can deliver such functionalities in 2026. We rank them by functionality, asset coverage, and commission model.

After our evaluation, ChangeNOW proves to be the best crypto exchange API for Web3 business integrations. The solution provides access to deep liquidity sourced from both CEX and DEX, supports over 1500 crypto assets across 110+ networks, and over 2 million exchange pairs. It also allows businesses to offer both fixed-rate and floating-rate swaps with no setup or monthly fees. Revenue sharing is based on transaction volume and starts at 0.4% with an option to customize it.

The list of best crypto exchange APIs:

• ChangeNOW
• 1inch API
• 0x API
• SimpleSwap
• Fireblocks

Each of the above APIs has its unique commission model and the number of assets and networks it supports. The table below provides a direct comparison for easier evaluation.

Overview: ChangeNOW Crypto API is a non-custodial API that lets Web3 businesses integrate its exchange functionalities directly into their products. Its model is built as a plug-and-play layer where, when a business integrates it, users swap directly without leaving its page while ChangeNOW handles liquidity routing and execution. The API supports both fixed and standard rates, which gives businesses a simple way to expand their client base. It also offers 99.99% reliability, a 350 ms response time, 24/7 support, and free post-integration maintenance.

The API fits wallets, crypto exchanges, payment platforms, SaaS products, and fiat on/off-ramp services that need crypto-to-crypto, cross-chain, and fiat-connected exchange flows in one integration.

Asset Coverage: ChangeNOW supports 1,500+ crypto assets and 2M+ trading pairs across 110+ networks. It also has an optional fiat on- and off-ramp with support for over 70 fiat currencies.

Commission: ChangeNOW’s commission model is flexible to match businesses’ needs. Commission starts at 0.4% per transaction and can be customized by asset, pair, or swap size. Profits can be withdrawn in both fiat and crypto.

1inch API

Overview: 1inch serves more like an API infrastructure rather than a simple crypto exchange API. Its business page is made up of a suite of Web3 APIs ranging from swap and order book services, token data, price feeds, portfolio trackers, and more. These APIs are what connect businesses to 1inch’s DEX-aggregating capabilities and allow their users access to market data, price feeds, swaps, and more, depending on the API chosen.

Due to this collection, 1inch plays out well for business teams building cross-chain apps, trading interfaces, portfolio dashboards, or products where exchange swaps sit inside other DeFi functions.

Asset Coverage: 1inch gives businesses access to optimized swap routing for thousands of ERC‑20 tokens, stablecoins, wrapped assets, and real-world asset (RWA) representations across 13+ chains.

Commission: Since 1inch does not charge a standard swap fee, businesses earn commission through the integrator fee feature. They add a small fee (set in basis points) to swaps executed through their interface. The fee is deducted from the output tokens during execution and shared with the business through a designated wallet. However, since the real costs depend on the route, gas, volume, and enterprise terms, business teams should be careful when building revenue assumptions around this feature, as it could cost their users in excess.

0x API

Overview: The 0x swap API serves as a premier liquidity aggregator built to enable businesses to embed swaps into their products. The API applies the smart order routing system, which divides transactions among various liquidity sources to ensure minimal slippage. Its service boasts 99.92% uptime, a <250 ms response time, and more reliable execution rates. The API is ideal for Web3 businesses that need more control over on-chain execution.

Asset Coverage: With 0x API, users can access 9M+ tokens with liquidity from 370+ sources across 16+ chains. One additional feature of this API is that instead of relying on a fixed internal asset catalog, it allows businesses to tap active token markets where liquidity already exists.

Commission: 0x offers businesses two options to monetize their order flow. The first one is the integrator fee model, where businesses add a percentage fee on trades initiated within their interface. Second, it allows what it calls a ‘trade surplus,’ where if a user’s execution improves over the quoted price, the business gets to keep the positive slippage generated.

SimpleSwap

Overview: SimpleSwap operates as a lightweight crypto exchange API designed for products that need basic swap functionality with minimal setup. Its API model allows businesses to choose between three types of API keys: for all kinds of exchanges, only for fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat exchanges, or only for crypto-to-crypto exchanges. Once an integration has been built, users can create exchanges with SimpleSwap without having to switch between numerous tabs, while the business earns rewards in USDT.

Asset Coverage: The API supports more than 2,000 crypto assets across 280+ networks, along with more than 40 fiat currency options.

Commission: SimpleSwap API uses an affiliate-based commission model. Businesses integrating it can customize their rewards starting from 0.4% to 2% on every completed exchange. Customization can be done based on token, volume, or user segment.

Fireblocks

Overview: Fireblocks takes a different approach from most providers on this list. Rather than acting as an exchange or liquidity aggregator that facilitates swap integrations, it operates as an MPC-based digital asset platform built primarily for institutional custody and treasury management.

Among its key products is the Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS), an API-based solution that lets businesses create, manage, and secure wallets for any number of users without handling the security work themselves. With this API, businesses can manage their workspace, automate transaction flows, or use webhooks to get push notifications on workspace activity.

The API product is compatible with various businesses, including retail services, Web3 companies, financial services and banking, exchanges, and financial market infrastructures.

Asset Coverage: The WaaS API covers 1,500+ assets and comes with native support for 150+ blockchains where businesses can store assets. And even if a blockchain is not supported, Fireblocks offers raw signing so businesses can still securely manage their assets.

Commission: Fireblocks does not publish a public rate card. Pricing and commission are enterprise contract-based, calculated against outgoing transaction volume, cold storage usage, number of internal platform users, and wallet address count. Direct sales engagement is required for a quote.

Conclusion

A crypto exchange API can help generate revenue for Web3 businesses with minimal setup and cost required. However, that can only happen if the right choice is made. The list we have discussed above offers a good starting point to evaluate and choose from.

ChangeNOW stands out as the strongest all-around option for Web3 businesses that need crypto, fiat, cross-chain swaps, broad asset coverage, and flexible monetization in one integration. 1inch and 0x are stronger for businesses that need decentralized liquidity and smart routing, while SimpleSwap works better for those that require basic swap functionality with minimal setup.

Fireblocks stands apart from the rest. It isn’t built for swaps at all but for businesses that need secure wallets and custody infrastructure at scale. Therefore, the smart move is to match a business to the suitable provider. And before signing with any of them, first test their documentation and be sure to confirm how commissions are actually paid out.

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Hyperliquid has become one of the standout winners of the latest crypto rebound. HYPE surged from around $58 to above $80 in less than a week, delivering roughly 37% gains as capital rushed back into high-beta altcoins. The move has put $100 firmly into the Hyperliquid price prediction conversation, but it is also pushing retail toward projects sitting much earlier in their own growth cycle.

ChainSpin is one of them. The new crypto has passed $120,000 raised, with its live presale showing roughly $126,000 collected and more than 10 million $SPIN sold. Buyers are still entering Stage 1 at $0.0125, while ChainSpin already has its casino live with thousands of games alongside an operational sportsbook.

HYPE’s 37% run puts $100 back on retail screens

HYPE’s breakout accelerated dramatically on August 19, when the token gained almost 19% in a single session before continuing higher through the weekend. It reached above $83 on August 23, extending a rally that has taken the token from the high-50s into the $80 region within days.

The rally is not happening without catalysts. Hyperliquid continues to attract attention for its revenue and token-buyback model, with Q2 revenue reported around $169 million and approximately $141 million allocated toward HYPE buybacks. Institutional interest has also strengthened, with recent reporting highlighting Multicoin Capital building a position worth more than $100 million.

From around $80, $100 would add another 25%. A move to $150 would represent another 87.5% and take HYPE significantly deeper into large-cap territory.

The early HYPE trade, however, has already delivered extraordinary gains. Retail buyers searching for the next asymmetric setup are increasingly looking for tokens that have not yet entered public-market price discovery.

ChainSpin is still at the stage HYPE buyers wish they caught earlier

This is where ChainSpin offers a completely different entry point.

$SPIN remains in Stage 1 of a 12-stage presale at $0.0125. More than 10 million tokens have already been sold, Stage 1 is over 25% complete and the price is scheduled to increase as the presale moves forward.

ChainSpin also publishes a planned listing price of $0.12, putting that level 9.6 times above the current opening-stage price.

The bigger retail hook is that ChainSpin is unusually early from a token perspective while already advanced from a product perspective. Its core platform is operating before $SPIN has reached its first exchange, allowing the project to build users while Stage 1 buyers are still securing the earliest presale allocation.

Hyperliquid proved how powerful buybacks can become

There is another reason the HYPE comparison is particularly interesting.

Hyperliquid has turned platform revenue into one of the central narratives supporting HYPE. Strong activity generates fees, and substantial amounts have been directed toward token buybacks. That mechanism has become a major part of the bullish HYPE thesis.

ChainSpin is building around a similar retail concept from a much earlier stage.

Its published SPIN Cycle is designed to direct portions of future platform revenue toward open-market $SPIN purchases. Tokens acquired through the model are intended to be divided between 60% permanent burns and 40% holder and staker rewards.

That means growing the platform can potentially create another source of $SPIN demand beyond investors simply buying the token.

Could $SPIN become the earlier asymmetric trade?

HYPE’s latest 37% run shows exactly why retail chases tokens with strong products, growing activity and buyback narratives. The difference is that Hyperliquid has already reached public markets and HYPE now trades around the $80 level.

ChainSpin remains before that stage entirely.

$SPIN is still $0.0125, the project has passed $120K raised, more than 10 million tokens have been sold and the main platform is already operating. Maximum supply is fixed at 1 billion $SPIN, while the published token model combines buybacks, permanent burns and holder rewards.

For traders looking beyond the next Hyperliquid price prediction, ChainSpin offers the earlier part of the same type of hunt: finding a working ecosystem before its token has experienced its first open-market valuation.

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FAQs

What is the latest Hyperliquid price prediction?

HYPE has surged roughly 37% from the high-$50s into the $80 region, putting $100 back into focus after its powerful August breakout.

What is the current ChainSpin presale price?

$SPIN remains priced at $0.0125 in Stage 1, with ChainSpin showing more than $126,000 raised and over 10 million tokens sold.

Why are buyers watching ChainSpin?

ChainSpin combines an opening-stage token price with an already-live core platform and a published model designed to connect future platform revenue with $SPIN buybacks, burns and holder rewards.

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Building crypto functionality can be challenging for many Web3 businesses due to inadequate coding skills or resources. But what if these businesses do not need to build or redesign such functionality and can instead use existing solutions?

This is what crypto widgets offer. They allow businesses to embed crypto functionality such as exchanges or payments, market data tracking, tickers, and portfolio views in their products. And since widgets directly integrate into a business’s app or website, they create a smooth, unified experience for users without redirecting them to another platform. All this happens while businesses can still modify colors and logos or set the widget up to match their design.

In this guide, we break down five of the best crypto widgets business teams can use to embed crypto functionality in their products. We evaluate them based on their asset coverage, customization model, and who they are best for.

Our evaluation finds ChangeNOW to be the best crypto exchange widget for integrating swap functionality into Web3 businesses. The widget combines broad asset coverage with over 1,500 cryptocurrencies available for exchange on more than 110 networks. Businesses can deploy it with minimal technical effort, customize it to match their products, and earn commission revenue from completed swaps.

The list of the best crypto widgets:

• ChangeNOW
• Swapzone
• CoinGecko
• MoonPay
• CoinMarketCap

The above providers offer different functionalities. Some focus on transactions, such as crypto swaps or payments, while others deliver live market data to display cryptocurrency prices, tickers, or portfolio details to site audiences. The table below provides a direct comparison for easier evaluation:

Overview: ChangeNOW Crypto Exchange Widget is a ready-made solution that allows businesses to put crypto swaps on their products in a couple of hours. This means users swap right where they are instead of getting routed elsewhere. In return, these businesses earn a commission on every transaction they facilitate, starting from 0.4% or higher, since there is an option to customize the commission based on specific assets/pairs. All this happens with a simple development setup that often does not require engineers.

Asset coverage: The ChangeNOW widget supports over 1,500 crypto assets, available for exchange on more than 110 networks and over 2M exchange pairs. New assets are constantly being added, so businesses always have access to the latest and most trending assets.

Customization: The widget offers several customization options to match brands’ designs. Businesses can set the widget to make it a classic rectangle or a landscape banner-style layout, set a default language or let users pick their own. They can also match the widget’s primary and background colors to their site’s design, and switch on a dark theme.

Best for: The exchange widget is suitable for small Web3 projects that already work with digital assets, including crypto news websites, exchanges, wallets, and other crypto-related services.

Swapzone

Overview: Swapzone Swap Widget is a feature that allows any website or application to embed swap options. Once embedded, users on these platforms can trade any asset from the entire Swapzone exchange crypto selection without leaving the platform. A key benefit of the swap widget is that it outputs data directly from the Swapzone aggregator to display the best price to users. Businesses embedding the widget earn a percentage of the service fee on every transaction made. The reward scheme is cumulative, meaning the higher the monthly volume, the greater the profits for businesses, with revenue-sharing rates ranging from 0.05% to 0.25% per swap across five commission tiers. Partners with higher volumes can also negotiate custom profit-sharing agreements.

Asset Coverage: The widget provides swap support for more than 1,000 crypto assets, including all those listed by Swapzone’s aggregator partners.

Customization: Businesses adding the Swapzone widget into their products can choose the theme they like, either dark or light, and the orientation, either horizontal or vertical. They can also choose their custom default tokens from various pairs available or whether they want Swapzone’s logo to be shown or not.

Best for: Crypto exchange comparison sites, portfolio trackers, and established Web3 platforms with steady swap volume.

CoinGecko

Overview: Unlike the first two providers, which offer swap widgets, the CoinGecko widget operates as a tool for displaying cryptocurrency market data. The widget is made up of several services termed the ‘widget library,’ which includes a coin ticker, coin price chart, coin converter, coin heatmap, coin list/market table, and a random coin widget. All these visualizers focus on data display pulled from CoinGecko’s own price/market data and include referral links and buttons that direct users to external trading platforms.

Asset Coverage: The widget supports tens of thousands of coins tracked by CoinGecko, though individual widgets only display selected assets.

Customization: Each CoinGecko widget has configurable width and height, theme (either dark or light), currency, locale, and (for some) number of coins shown.

Best For: Crypto media, blogs, and portfolio sites that want live price/market data display.

MoonPay

Overview: MoonPay widget is a fiat-to-crypto on/off-ramp. Its architecture allows websites or applications to embed both fiat-to-crypto purchases and crypto-to-fiat payouts directly into their interfaces. For a buy transaction, the user picks an asset and payment method, then completes the flow inside the widget itself. Businesses can integrate it as a fully hosted widget for fast deployment or use MoonPay’s headless SDK to build a custom UI. One requirement worth flagging is that every user must pass KYC and risk-management checks in line with applicable laws. Also, the widget is not available in every country, and some of its features are also restricted by region.

Asset Coverage: The widget supports 100+ cryptocurrencies across major chains and multiple fiat payment rails, including cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, bank transfers, and several local payment methods. Availability depends on the region.

Customization: Businesses can customize the widget to feel like a native part of their site or application. This can be done by adjusting button and background colors, choosing which cryptocurrencies customers can buy or sell, setting their own fees, or adding their logo to the transaction emails sent to customers. The widget also allows businesses to pre-fill user information such as their wallet address, email, selected token, fiat currency, amounts, and preferred payment methods.

Best For: Wallets, exchanges, and Web3 apps that need users to fund their accounts with fiat or cryptocurrency.

CoinMarketCap

Overview: CoinMarketCap operates as a market data widget similar to CoinGecko. The widget lists support for three layout formats on its official tools page: a coin ticker, coin price marquee, and coin price blocks. The ticker displays coin prices and can include fields such as market capitalization or trading volume. The marquee format operates as a running ticker, while the coin price blocks are used to present assets in separate price panels. All these solutions pull their data from the CoinMarketCap core dataset.

Asset Coverage: All three CoinMarketCap widgets cover tens of thousands of tracked cryptocurrencies. However, the number and type of assets that appear depend on what businesses configure.

Customization: The widget allows site owners to select a visual format, such as a ticker, marquee, or price blocks, and configure the assets to display. Businesses can also choose which stats to surface (ticker/rank/market cap/volume) and the theme, either light or dark.

Best For: News sites, blogs, and portfolio trackers.

Conclusion

As the crypto user base grows, so does the pressure on businesses to build products that meet their needs. But as we have seen, businesses no longer need an in-house developer team to address the issue. Widgets let them add crypto functionality in hours. And in most cases, this happens while they earn revenue.

The providers we have discussed above offer a good list to choose from. If your business wants users to swap crypto without leaving your page, ChangeNOW and Swapzone are the strongest options. If you need users to buy crypto with fiat, MoonPay fits that role. And if you simply want to display live prices and market data, CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap provide that. The secret is to match the widget to the right use case, and it will actually deliver on what your users need.

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TLDR

• Broadcom shares retreat as credit markets price higher risk from AI guarantees
• Broadcom credit risk rises as chip financing guarantees draw fresh market concern
• AI chip financing deals push Broadcom credit costs higher as shares lose ground
• Broadcom faces pressure as large financing backstops raise balance sheet questions
• Rising bond yields add pressure to Broadcom as AI financing commitments expand

Broadcom (AVGO) shares fell 2.02% to $361.00 Monday, and rising credit costs added pressure near the session’s lows. Bond markets also priced greater risk, while Broadcom expanded financial support for large chip financing packages across the technology sector. The move links equity weakness with growing concern over guarantees tied to expensive data center expansion and custom chip demand.

Broadcom Inc., AVGO

Broadcom Credit Risk Rises With Financing Exposure

Broadcom’s 5.15% bonds due in 2031 lost ground during August, and their yields climbed about 14 basis points. Meanwhile, five-year credit default swap costs increased 28 basis points, surpassing comparable moves recorded for Oracle and SpaceX. Those measures signal higher perceived credit risk, although Broadcom continues to generate strong cash flow from semiconductor operations.

Broadcom is discussing more than $60 billion of debt for a chip financing plan supporting Anthropic and other companies. The company could guarantee part of a senior-secured tranche, and negotiations continue over the structure and final allocation. That potential support would extend Broadcom’s exposure beyond direct chip sales and increase its role in customer financing.

Earlier this year, Broadcom agreed to backstop most of a separate $35 billion debt package for custom chip purchases. Apollo Global Management and Blackstone supplied capital, and the structure funded chips that firms planned to lease to Anthropic. The arrangement showed how chip suppliers can use balance-sheet support to expand customer purchasing power during rapid infrastructure spending.

AI Financing Guarantees Raise Balance Sheet Questions

Chipmakers have increased guarantees and related support during 2026, and large cloud infrastructure projects continue demanding heavy upfront capital. Broadcom and Nvidia have used these structures to support clients, while lenders finance equipment purchases through separate funding vehicles. This model can accelerate chip orders, but it can also shift part of customer financing risk toward suppliers.

Credit markets now focus on commitments that may sit outside traditional debt balances, including guarantees, leases, and purchase obligations. These commitments can become costly during an industry slowdown, and weaker customer finances could trigger payments from supporting companies. Broadcom therefore faces scrutiny over potential obligations, even while its core semiconductor business continues benefiting from strong infrastructure demand.

The latest stock decline does not prove financing guarantees caused the entire move, but credit indicators strengthened the market concern. Broadcom still holds a central position in custom chips, networking products, and infrastructure software serving large technology customers. However, larger financing commitments could add balance-sheet pressure if chip demand slows or funded customers struggle to meet obligations.

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TLDR

• INFQ stock drops 7.12% as Japan launches its first neutral-atom quantum system
• Infleqtion powers Japan’s Shunkai quantum computer with neutral-atom technology
• Japan’s Quantum Moonshot project targets a system with up to 10,000 physical qubits
• Shunkai starts near 50 qubits with plans to scale toward roughly 500 qubits
• Infleqtion expands its global quantum role through Japan’s Moonshot program

Infleqtion, Inc. (INFQ) shares fell 7.12% to $13.11 after a sharp morning selloff. The decline came as Japan launched its first operational full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer. Infleqtion supplied key quantum hardware for the project and remains a major technology partner.

Infleqtion Inc, INFQ

Infleqtion Supports Japan’s First Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer

Japan’s Institute for Molecular Science led the development of the new system with support from Infleqtion. The computer, called Shunkai, uses neutral-atom technology for quantum processing and system control. Infleqtion provided its quantum processing unit as part of the wider research program.

The project forms part of Japan’s Quantum Moonshot initiative, which supports advanced quantum computing research. Japan Science and Technology Agency selected Infleqtion as the program’s only foreign quantum partner. That role gives the company direct involvement in one of Japan’s leading quantum development efforts.

Shunkai is expected to begin operations with about 50 qubits during its early stage. Researchers plan to expand the platform toward roughly 500 qubits as development continues. The expansion will test system integration, reliability, and performance across larger neutral-atom computing workloads.

Moonshot Program Targets 10,000 Physical Qubits

The next phase of the project began in April 2026 under Professor Kenji Ohmori’s research group. The team will improve stability, integration, and scalability across the full quantum computing platform. Researchers also plan to strengthen quantum error detection and correction capabilities.

The long-term target includes a fault-tolerant neutral-atom computer with up to 10,000 physical qubits. That scale would move the project beyond small research systems toward broader quantum computing applications. The program also aims to support more complex workloads across science, engineering, and industrial research.

External users are expected to gain access as the project develops and system capabilities improve. That access could support application testing across universities, laboratories, and commercial technology groups. It may also expand research into practical error correction methods for larger quantum systems.

INFQ Stock Falls Despite Major Quantum Milestone

The share decline contrasted with the company’s expanded role in Japan’s national quantum program. The announcement highlighted operational progress but did not prevent selling pressure during the session.

Infleqtion develops neutral-atom systems for quantum computing, networking, sensing, and security applications. Its portfolio includes quantum computers, optical clocks, radio-frequency receivers, inertial sensors, and Superstaq software. The company combines these products through a full-stack approach covering hardware and quantum software.

Infleqtion already works with major government and technology organizations across several markets. Its systems support projects involving NASA, the United States government, the United Kingdom, and NVIDIA. The Japan project now adds another large-scale deployment to the company’s growing quantum technology portfolio.

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Bitcoin (BTC) spent this past week ripping from the low $60,000s to just under $80,000, and to trader Nonzee, none of it looks like conviction.

They are calling the move a trap built on forced buying rather than real demand, and say the next leg is down, not up.

The Case for a Distribution Phase, Not a New Bull Run

Nonzee’s argument starts with the size of the squeeze, where more than $3.1 billion in short positions were wiped out during the run, and Bitcoin alone was responsible for roughly $1.65 billion of that figure. In their view, that is what actually pushed the price higher, not a change in sentiment.

“That was not a reversal. It was a liquidity squeeze,” they wrote.

The trader tied the timing to two catalysts: Trump putting the CLARITY Act back in the headlines and the Treasury Department increasing its long-term bond buybacks. Both, they argue, forced shorts out and pulled fresh longs into a market that was already stretched thin.

Their read on where things stand now is that the $70,000 fair value gap, a pricing gap left behind during an earlier fast move that traders watch for a return visit, has been filled, the short squeeze has run its course, and FOMO buying is happening in real time.

Next will come distribution, then the selloff, in their framing, with a downside path running from $77,000 to $67,000, then $55,000, before a final leg down to between $48,000 and $45,000.

Bitcoin was trading around $78,000 at the time of writing, up roughly 2% on the day and about 22% over the past week, according to CoinGecko. It has swung between $76,000 and $79,000 in the last 24 hours alone. Still, the OG crypto remains 39% below its all-time high of around $126,000, set back in October 2025, and it is still down 33% on a one-year basis despite the bounce.

A Choppy Few Days Either Way

Whether or not Nonzee’s call plays out, the past several days have already been rough on traders in both directions. BTC briefly touched almost $80,000 on Friday before slipping to around $75,500 over the weekend, as CryptoPotato reported, with the drop coinciding with reports that market maker Wintermute had built a sizable short position on Hyperliquid. During that stretch, altcoins fared worse, with ETH down 5% and XRP off by more than 6%.

The bounce also pushed the Fear and Greed Index to its highest reading since last October’s crash, a jump that has some drawing comparisons to the conditions right before that selloff wiped out billions in leveraged positions.

Elsewhere, HYPE printed a new all-time high above $82 even as BTC cooled off, and separately, data from analyst nocoffeenobrain shows open interest climbing from around $22 billion to nearly $25 billion during the rally, a slower pace than the move in price itself, which points to traders adding positions cautiously rather than piling on leverage all at once.

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ZEC is one of the best-performing top 100 cryptocurrencies over the past week, with its price surging by nearly 65%.

And while many market observers believe the bulls aren’t done yet, one analyst warned that a violent move south could come next. Here’s why.

ZEC is Not BTC

The cryptocurrency market has enjoyed a sudden and evident resurgence over the last several days, following the monetary policy changes in the US announced by the Treasury Department, among other factors.

ZEC caught the green wave and rallied harder than BTC, ETH, XRP, and many other popular cryptocurrencies, probably because another catalyst directly affected it. As CryptoPotato reported, the leading digital asset manager Grayscale revealed discussions with a Digital Currency Group (DCG) subsidiary over a contribution of roughly 200,000 ZEC to its Zcash Trust. Later, it was revealed that the product would be converted into an ETF, with the launch scheduled for August 25.

ZEC’s price briefly jumped to roughly $880 on August 23, representing the highest mark since January 2018. In the following hours, the bulls lost some steam, and the asset currently trades at around $848 (per CoinGecko), with a market capitalization of over $14 billion.

X user jussy recently opined that ZEC “is looking good” after its solid increase, anticipating further gains to $930 if it successfully breaks $850. For their part, Crypto Tony claimed that $1,000 is the minimum of the cycle.

Contrary to the predominant optimistic views, Crypto with Harris ₿ argued that ZEC’s “real value” lies below $500. The analyst reminded about the critical vulnerability Zcash experienced earlier this year, which triggered a massive price collapse. Back then, the crash prompted some prominent industry figures, such as Arthur Hayes, to sell their entire positions in the coin.

Crypto with Harris ₿ paid close attention to ZEC’s chart and noted that the price is well above its daily averages and even the upper Bollinger Band. In their view, this is proof that the move has already been “extremely stretched,” warning people to be aware of influencers who project rallies beyond $2,000.

“ZEC is ZEC. It is not Bitcoin,” they concluded.

Another Bearish Sign

Anyone looking to engage with ZEC should also take into account its recent exchange net flow.

Over the last several days, inflows have far outpaced outflows, indicating that many investors have abandoned self-custody and flocked to centralized platforms. This is considered a bearish signal as it increases immediate selling pressure.

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A meme coin tied to the GTA VI leak saga is having an absolutely wild run. CYBERLEEK, a Solana-based meme coin promoted by the person or group behind the alleged leaks, has jumped another 35% in the past 24 hours.

That comes after an almost unbelievable 40,000% surge over the past week. The token is now trading around $0.028, as fresh GTA VI gameplay footage continues to appear alongside its promotion.

CYBERLEEK, however, asserted that there is more to the token than a quick crypto gamble. They claim it is connected to a “secret project” and that the money raised will go toward building infrastructure and security for the project.

GTA VI Leaks

International Cyber Digest reported that CyberLeek has burned almost $1.5 million worth of developer tokens to argue that the meme coin isn’t a pump-and-dump scheme. The group has collected around $40,000-$70,000 or more in transaction fees. It also reportedly sought a 400 Monero “donation,” worth roughly $165,000 at the time, to initiate contact for potential advertising deals.

CyberLeek began posting GTA VI gameplay footage last week, which included details about the game’s map and free-roam gameplay, and was later removed from X following a copyright strike from Rockstar Games. The group said the token was created to raise funds for a “secret project” that cannot yet be disclosed because revealing it would give large corporations time to prepare defenses.

It denied that the project is a cash grab and added that the funding is intended for infrastructure and protection against corporate counterattacks.

CyberLeek’s posts briefly pushed the token’s market capitalization to over $20 million on Monday. According to the now-blocked website, the group had asserted that its actions were driven by objections to anti-consumer practices in the gaming industry, including digital pre-orders, paid single-player content, and limited long-term offline access. But the use of leaked footage to promote its own meme coin has raised serious questions.

Take-Two Hunts the Leakers

The leaks have continued despite Take-Two Interactive seeking information from Microsoft and Discord that could help identify those behind them. On August 22, two more videos were released, one showing supercar gameplay and an armed robbery, while the other featured a strip club scene.

Take-Two said in its court filings that GTA VI material, including audiovisual content, artwork, images and dialogue, had been posted through Microsoft’s GitHub platform and Discord. Microsoft said it was working with Take-Two and Rockstar to protect their creative work and intellectual property. Discord, meanwhile, said it reviews and complies with valid DMCA subpoenas. Rockstar has not publicly confirmed whether the leaked footage is authentic.

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After the market’s sudden revival, spotting a popular altcoin still stuck in the red on a weekly scale has become increasingly difficult. Fortunately for ADA’s investors and supporters, the asset is not among them, posting a solid 28% gain during the period.

We asked three of the most widely used AI-powered chatbots to gauge whether the rally could extend in the following months and whether a move toward $1 is possible before the end of 2026. Here are the answers.

Yes, But…

As of this writing, ADA trades at around $0.22, but ChatGPT noted that the asset has previously surpassed the $1 milestone, so a potential rise before New Year’s Eve wouldn’t be unprecedented. However, OpenAI’s platform warned that such an increase would require an exceptional market-wide rally, sustained growth in Cardano’s users, DeFi activity, and overall ecosystem development.

“The immediate challenge is proving this move is more than a relief rally. ADA would first need to recover and hold above progressively tougher areas around $0.30, $0.50, and its 52-week highs begore $1 becomes a credible target,” ChatGPT added.

Perplexity shared a similar thesis, stating that a rise to $1 is theoretically possible but would depend on “an exceptional confluence of catalysts and a very strong altcoin/bull market.”

It paid special attention to the $0.22-$0.24 range, claiming a decisive break and close above could open the door to a more substantial move north. Most importantly, Perplexity argued that ADA’s potential success would depend on Bitcoin’s strength.

“If BTC pushed to new highs and liquidity rotates aggressively into large-cap alts, ADA can outperform,” it said.

The primary cryptocurrency has been on a tear lately, with its valuation nearing $80,000 after a 25% weekly surge. It remains to be seen whether the rally will continue in the following days and whether it will indeed benefit altcoins like Cardano’s native token.

In addition, Perplexity outlined the potential launch of a spot ADA ETF as another major catalyst that could positively impact the price. Nonetheless, Grayscale recently pulled its filing for such a product, casting doubt on whether a financial vehicle of this type will see the light of day this year.

Not in 2026?

Google’s Gemini was more pessimistic, predicting that an ascent of ADA to $1 is more likely next year than in the remaining months of 2026. It claimed that most of the capital remains concentrated in top-tier cryptocurrencies like BTC and ETH and expects greater interest in other assets next year, when an altseason becomes more plausible.

“Crypto capital moves like a waterfall: money enters at the top in Bitcoin, and only after Bitcoin tops out and stabilizes do investors move profits down into riskier altcoins like Cardano. Because this multi-step profit rotation takes significant time to build, 2027 provides a much more realistic timeline for that capital to cascade into coins like ADA,” the chatbot concluded.

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Bitcoin’s explosive breakout has transitioned into a period of consolidation between $77,000 and $79,000. Despite the sharp expansion from the previous range, the price is now struggling to extend higher immediately, suggesting that the market may need to digest the move before choosing its next direction.

Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart

On the daily chart, BTC has undergone a significant structural shift after breaking above the long-standing descending trendline and the $65.9K-$67.1K resistance zone. The breakout triggered an aggressive rally through the $72K-$74.4K supply area, with BTC subsequently reaching almost $80K.

The price is now trading around $79K, placing it between the recently reclaimed $72K-$74.4K zone and the next major resistance area around $80.7K-$82.7K. This creates a relatively wide region in which consolidation could develop following the vertical advance.

The broader structure remains constructive while BTC holds above the $72K-$74.4K support zone. A sustained breakout above $80.7K-$82.7K would provide the next confirmation of bullish continuation. Conversely, losing $72K would weaken the current structure and raise the possibility of a deeper retracement toward the previous breakout areas.

BTC/USDT 4-Hour Chart

The 4-hour timeframe provides clearer evidence that momentum has temporarily cooled. Following the near-vertical advance from roughly $64K, BTC has formed a short-term descending channel around the $75K-$79K region.

The asset is currently positioned near the middle-to-upper portion of this structure. The channel appears more consistent with a corrective consolidation after the breakout than with a confirmed bearish reversal at this stage.

A clean breakout above the channel’s upper boundary and the recent highs around $79K would strengthen the case for another move toward the $80.7K-$82.7K resistance zone. In contrast, a break beneath the channel could send BTC back toward the $72K-$74.4K support zone, which represents the first major area buyers would need to defend.

Overall, Bitcoin could remain range-bound between roughly $74K and $81K in the near term as the market absorbs the magnitude of the recent rally.

Sentiment Analysis

The three-day Binance BTC/USDT liquidation heatmap reinforces the possibility of continued consolidation. Liquidity is distributed on both sides of the current price rather than being overwhelmingly concentrated in a single direction.

Notably, there is visible liquidity above the market around $78K and extending toward approximately $80K-$81K, while another substantial concentration sits below the price around the $74K-$76K region.

This two-sided positioning could encourage price to continue oscillating through the broader consolidation range as liquidity is cleared on either side. The heatmap therefore supports the technical picture of short-term consolidation rather than providing a strong directional signal by itself.

A sustained move beyond either side of these liquidity concentrations would likely be more informative. Until then, the combination of the 4-hour channel and the liquidation structure suggests BTC may continue consolidating between the major $72K-$74.4K support zone and the $80.7K-$82.7K resistance area before the next larger directional move develops.

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