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SuperRare to Close Trawler Auction on August 18th

SuperRare to Close Trawler Auction on August 18th

SuperRare will close the auction for the one-of-one Trawler artwork on August 18th at 16:00 UTC.The current bid is 0.69 ETH. The auction follows the sale of all 50 editions of Displaced.Refer to the official tweet by RARE:All 50 editions of Displaced by x are sold out too!The 1/1 auction for Trawl…

Tria Adds Robinhood Chain Support, Bringing Tokenized Assets Into Everyday Spending

Tria Adds Robinhood Chain Support, Bringing Tokenized Assets Into Everyday Spending

New York City, United States, August 18th, 2026, ChainwireIntegration lets users hold Robinhood Chain assets in self-custody, move them across chains through Tria’s BestPath routing and use supported assets to top up the Tria CardTria, the leading self-custodial neofinance platform, today announced …

Jane Street’s Bitcoin ETF Exposure Hits $1B, Goes 5X Bigger On XRP In Q2

Jane Street’s Bitcoin ETF Exposure Hits $1B, Goes 5X Bigger On XRP In Q2

Jane Street more than doubled its exposure to Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the second quarter (Q2) and saw its holdings of XRP ETFs surge more than fivefold, according to its latest 13F filing.As of June 30, the trading firm reported Bitcoin ETF holdings of approximately $1.01 billi…

3 Battles Japan Is Losing at Once, Will Bitcoin Feel the Yen Shock?

3 Battles Japan Is Losing at Once, Will Bitcoin Feel the Yen Shock?

Japan is losing three financial battles at once as its currency, bond, and debt defenses fail together. The yen has erased most of a rare US-backed rescue, and Bitcoin traders are bracing for the yen shock.Tokyo raised rates, spent an estimated $88 billion in two days, and brought in the US Treasur…

Metaplanet Invades Saylor’s Home Turf. Couldn’t Japan Fund Its Bitcoin Ambitions?

Metaplanet Invades Saylor’s Home Turf. Couldn’t Japan Fund Its Bitcoin Ambitions?

Metaplanet will move 2,100 Bitcoin and $2.5 million in cash into Super League, a small Nasdaq-listed gaming media firm. The $134.6 million deal, announced Tuesday, creates a US treasury vehicle named Superplanet.The move drops Metaplanet into the market Michael Saylor’s Strategy (formerly MicroStra…

NEAR Protocol: Gas Keys go live on mainnet - 18 Aug 2026

NEAR Protocol: Gas Keys go live on mainnet - 18 Aug 2026

NEAR Protocol reports, "Gas keys are live on NEAR mainnet," introducing access keys that pre-fund their own gas and support up to 1,024 parallel nonce sequences from a single key.For builders, each key can cover its own transaction fees while multiple nonce sequences allow transactions to be submitt…

Luxury Homes Help Push Home Prices Higher in July — Market Talk

Luxury Homes Help Push Home Prices Higher in July — Market Talk

1046 ET - U.S. home prices increased 0.27% month-over-month in July, Redfin says. That's essentially flat from a 0.28% growth rate in June. Prices rose 3.4% from a year earlier, the fastest annual growth in a year. Buyers are still contending with high housing costs including high mortgage rates kee…

Blockchain.com Admitted to Nigeria SEC's Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme

Blockchain.com Admitted to Nigeria SEC's Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme

Admission advances Blockchain.com's engagement with Nigerian regulators and reinforces the Company's broader commitment to operating within clear regulatory frameworks globallyLAGOS, Nigeria, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Blockchain.com has been admitted into the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Com…

Bitcoin Stays Locked in 'Stalemate' — Market Talk

Bitcoin Stays Locked in 'Stalemate' — Market Talk

1353 ET - Bitcoin is up 1.9% to $64,223, and remains within it's recent general trading range between around $52,700 at its floor, and a short-term realized price just above $67,000. This "stalemate" between the two sides has kept bitcoin prices in place, says Bitfinex in a note. "Situations combini…

Harmony plans rollback, wiping 109,000 transactions after ONE exploit

Harmony plans rollback, wiping 109,000 transactions after ONE exploit

Harmony plans to roll back its blockchain to Aug. 11 following an exploit that created forged ONE tokens, discarding more than 109,000 transactions confirmed after its chosen checkpoint.The layer-1 network said Monday that validators would revert to blocks recorded at 11:25 pm UTC on Aug. 11. New bl…

THORChain: Unstoppable Wallet adds native support - 17 Aug 2026 to 23 Aug 2026

THORChain: Unstoppable Wallet adds native support - 17 Aug 2026 to 23 Aug 2026

THORChain's ecosystem recap says Unstoppable Wallet adds full THORChain and Maya Protocol support, including native storage, transfers, and swaps for RUNE, CACAO, and THORChain-secured assets. The support is scheduled to go live in the announced week.Native storage, transfers, and swaps give users a…

20-Year Tech Veteran Spent 15,000 Hours Trying to Kill Bitcoin, What Did He Find?

20-Year Tech Veteran Spent 15,000 Hours Trying to Kill Bitcoin, What Did He Find?

Jeff Booth spent about 15,000 hours trying to kill Bitcoin. He failed. The Canadian entrepreneur says the attempt left him more convinced the network cannot be broken.Booth is a founding partner at Ego Death Capital and a director at Core Scientific. He wrote the 2020 book The Price of Tomorrow. His…