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In brief Bitcoin dropped as low as $76,877 on Friday after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole keynote, confirming the resistance zone flagged earlier this week. September rate-hike odds jumped to roughly 56% from about 35% a day earlier after Warsh said the Fed still has “work to do” on inflation. Myriad traders are still pricing Bitcoin’s next major move at 77% for $84,000 versus 23% for $55,000, largely unmoved by Friday’s selloff. Bitcoin fell as low as $76,877 on Friday, giving up most of a double-digit weekly gain after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s first Jackson Hole keynote warned…

Six decade-old wallets moved $40 million this month, but Galaxy’s data shows dormant coin activity at its lowest since 2022 and 2026 on pace for under half of last year’s total.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Senator Elizabeth Warren that the United States never lent Japan a cent. It bought yen instead. Accordingly, Japan owes nothing, so nothing can go unpaid. Warren had warned that taxpayers would eat the loss if Japan failed to repay. Treasury’s own monthly filings back Bessent on how the yen intervention worked. They also weaken her wider case. The Fund Can Only Hold Euros and Yen The Exchange Stabilization Fund is a Treasury reserve the secretary can tap without a new vote in Congress. Its foreign cash comes in just two currencies. On June 30, the…

Trump Digital Gold (GOLD) lost 98% of its value within hours of launching on Solana (SOL) Saturday. A verified merchandise account that Donald Trump follows promoted the token. The token peaked above $50 million in market value early in the day. It now sits near $770,000, according to DexScreener. Blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain says wallets tied to the team sold first. Trump Digital Gold (GOLD) Price Performance. Source: DexScreener How the Trump Digital Gold Launch Unraveled The promoting account, @realtrumpcoins1, holds a verification badge and 42,300 followers. Its bio calls it an official partner of the Trump Organization. Trump follows…

Ripple is moving to shrink the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) attack surface as it prepares to expand native lending.The company has recommended removing more than 10,000 lines of unused XChainBridge code while Lending Protocol V1.1 undergoes an AI-only security review through Sherlock’s Audit Engine.The parallel efforts come as crypto platforms face renewed pressure to strengthen their defenses. More than $1.31 billion was lost across 344 security incidents in the first half of 2026, with code vulnerabilities remaining the industry’s most common attack category.Axelar leaves Ripple with 10,000 lines it no longer wantsThe original case for keeping XChainBridge (XLS-38) weakened after Ripple…

Washington, United States, August 28th, 2026, Chainwire As prediction-market volume hits record highs and regulators circle, identically worded midterm questions are trading several points apart depending on the venue. Predictions.io now tracks 9,700+ markets across Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold in one place – with free fee and odds calculators so traders can see what a price actually costs them. Prediction markets have never been bigger, or more contested. Kalshi, Polymarket and Polymarket US together posted a record $50.59 billion in combined volume in July, with Kalshi accounting for roughly 74.5% of the total. In the same month, New York City…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 28th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has launched Earn Plus, a new flexible savings product, and introduced a limited-time event that offers eligible users an APR boost of up to 800%. Earn Plus is a flexible savings product that allows users to stake stablecoins and earn daily interest. The product offers 100% principal protection, with interest generated from low-risk, high-liquidity assets. Earn Plus has no lock-up period or maximum subscription limit, allowing users to stake and redeem assets at any time, with redemptions processed within seconds. Interest is calculated hourly and settled…

Costa Rica, August 28, 2026 — Frogbet, a new cryptocurrency casino and sportsbook, has officiallylaunched at frogbet.com, debuting a catalog of 70 original games developed entirely in-house alongsidemore than 7,000 titles from providers including Pragmatic Play, Hacksaw Gaming and BGaming.Every Frogbet original is provably fair, allowing players to cryptographically verify the outcome of anybet at any time. The proprietary catalog spans in-house slots, eight blackjack variants, poker, and a fullrange of instant games including Mines, Dice, Plinko, Crash, Limbo and Keno — none of which areavailable on any other platform. According to the team, Frogbet’s proprietary slots are the first…

Singapore, Singapore, August 27th, 2026, Chainwire TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol built by Term Structure Labs, announced on August 26 that it has received a strategic investment from YZi Labs. Terms were not disclosed. TermMax was selected for YZi Labs’ EASY Residency Season 3 and has raised more than $8 million to date. Its earlier backers include Cumberland DRW — which led the 2023 seed round — HashKey Capital, Decima Fund, Longling Capital and MZ Web3 Fund. The protocol has been live on mainnet since April 2025 and now runs across 10 EVM-compatible chains, with 60 fixed-rate markets, 40 strategy…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 27th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has launched IPO Express, a new event offering eligible users access to SHEIN’s IPO subscription, ahead of its scheduled listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, 2026. The first-in-market opportunity is designed to allow users to gain economic exposure to SHEIN’s post-listing performance using USDT and receive mirror credits, without directly holding SHEIN shares. MEXC is committed to removing barriers to market participation, based on the belief that opportunity should not be limited by identity, capital size, or geography. IPO allocations have traditionally…