Ethereum Jumps 18% As Spot Volume Surges Across Exchanges
Ethereum surged 18% intraday as spot trading volume jumped sharply across major global exchanges, putting ETH back at the center of the market’s risk-on move. Market data showed ETH trading near the $2,500 level during the rally, with spot volume reportedly rising about 400% compared with the prior 24-hour average. That is a major move,…
BTCPay Server Patches Critical LND Credential Bug After Lightning Wallet Drain
BTCPay Server has released version 2.4.2 to patch a critical vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated remote access to LND credential files, after attackers used the issue to drain merchant Lightning wallets. The project’s release notes describe a serious bug involving .macaroon files, which are used by LND to manage access permissions. In plain English, those files…
Luke Dashjr Removed As BIP Editor After BIP-110 Controversy
Luke Dashjr has been removed as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor after a dispute around BIP-110, marking a rare governance flashpoint inside Bitcoin’s usually slow-moving technical process. The change was merged through Pull Request 2248 in the bitcoin/bips repository, removing Dashjr from the editor list in BIP 3. The move followed controversy over BIP-110, a…
Wintermute Says Institutions Drove 72% Of Its Spot OTC Volume In H1 2026
Institutional investors accounted for 72% of Wintermute’s spot OTC trading volume in the first half of 2026, up from 59% a year earlier, showing how professional capital is becoming a larger part of crypto trading flow. The figures come from Wintermute’s own OTC flow report, so they should be read carefully. This does not mean…
Empery Digital Sells 1,635 Bitcoin As Treasury Buffer Shrinks
Empery Digital has disclosed the sale of 1,635 BTC for $102.2 million, using the proceeds to support debt repayment and share buybacks as its unrestricted Bitcoin buffer narrows. The company’s Form 10-Q filed on August 7 shows total holdings fell to 1,279 BTC. Of that, 954 BTC was pledged as collateral, leaving 325 BTC unrestricted.…
SharpLink Reports $394M Q2 Loss As Ethereum Revaluation Hits Results
SharpLink reported a $394.3 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026, with the result driven largely by non-cash Ethereum revaluation losses and liquid staking token impairment charges. The company’s filing shows $321.0 million in unrealized ETH losses and $76.1 million in impairment charges tied to liquid staking tokens. At the same time, staking…
Strategy Boosts Cash Reserve As Bitcoin Treasury Model Gets More Complex
Strategy has added $650 million to its USD reserve and repurchased $109 million of STRC preferred stock, showing again that the company’s Bitcoin strategy is no longer just a simple accumulation story. The company, formerly MicroStrategy, filed an update showing the reserve increase was funded through MSTR common stock ATM sales. It also sold 1,690…
BitMine Pushes Ethereum Treasury Past 5.8M ETH
BitMine Immersion Technologies has added another 7,391 ETH to its balance sheet, pushing its Ethereum treasury to about 5.81 million ETH. The company’s Ethereum position now represents roughly 4.8% of circulating supply, while more than 5 million ETH is staked through its validator platform. That makes BitMine one of the most aggressive public-company examples of…
BlackRock Cuts IBIT In-Kind Conversion Minimum To $1M
BlackRock has reduced the in-kind conversion minimum for its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, potentially making the mechanism available to a wider group of institutional participants. The change was disclosed in an updated IBIT filing and relates to in-kind creation and redemption activity, not retail holders directly swapping ETF shares for…
Riot’s Anthropic Deal Shows Bitcoin Miners Are Moving Deeper Into AI Compute
Riot Platforms has signed a long-term data center lease agreement tied to Anthropic, giving the Bitcoin miner another route into AI and high-performance computing as miners continue looking beyond block rewards. The company’s filing describes a 20-year lease agreement for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale campus. The deal carries total revenue…