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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Bitcoin and Ethereum edged higher into July 31, while a small shift in market dominance suggested traders were again watching whether capital was rotating toward major altcoins. The validated notes show Bitcoin rising 0.29% to about $64,145.86, while Ethereum traded around the $1,890 to $1,920 range, briefly dipping below $1,900 before recovering. At the same…
NEAR has launched a staking-based payment model for NEAR AI, giving users a way to lock NEAR tokens and receive monthly compute credits instead of paying through traditional cloud billing or credit-card rails. According to the validated notes, the system gives users access to 43 hosted AI models, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.…
ENS Labs has revised a governance proposal after delegate criticism over treasury control, choosing to keep the DAO’s primary operational wallet custody in place rather than moving broader control to the Foundation. According to the validated notes, the revised plan scraps the more contentious transfer of the DAO’s operational wallet, which includes ETH and stablecoins.…
Uniswap governance has activated a protocol fee switch on v4 liquidity pools, pushing protocol revenue higher and directing collected fees toward UNI buy-and-burn mechanics rather than direct distributions to tokenholders. The validated notes point to Uniswap Governance Proposal 100 passing with about 46.6 million votes in favor and roughly 1.27 million opposed. The mechanism collects…
CleanCore Solutions has signed a 10-year colocation agreement with Cerebras Systems valued at $800 million, and the story is not just that a small public company has moved into AI infrastructure. It is that a company previously known in crypto circles for its Dogecoin treasury has now made a much larger corporate pivot. According to…