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CryptoSlate Aug 31, 3:50 PM

Bitcoin on course for best August since 2017 despite renewed US-Iran hostilities

Bitcoin is on track to log its best August performance since 2017, demonstrating remarkable resilience against back-to-back macro shocks as escalating US-Ira...

CryptoSlate Aug 31, 2:50 PM

Why the SEC’s $75 million crypto path is not the same deal Congress is offering

The SEC proposal and Congress’s unfinished ancillary-asset framework diverge on who qualifies, what investors can enforce and how overlapping rules would int...

CryptoSlate Aug 31, 1:45 PM

DeFi protocols just lost $83 million to an attack financial regulators already warned about

Malicious actors exposed two decentralized finance (DeFi) lenders to over $84 million in losses over four days, using variations of a price-manipulation stra...

CryptoSlate Aug 31, 12:45 PM

Bitcoin treasury company registers 93% of shares for resale and puts third of its crypto into options

The shares are already issued and may never be sold, while loan, treasury and cash risks remain. The post Bitcoin treasury company registers 93% of shares fo...

CryptoSlate Aug 31, 11:30 AM

Michael Saylor’s $13,400 Bitcoin floor exposes the exact order of losses inside Strategy’s debt stack

The filed ratio moves with cash and claims, while MSTR dilution and legal priority shape real losses. The post Michael Saylor’s $13,400 Bitcoin floor exposes...

CryptoSlate Aug 31, 10:19 AM

XRPL consensus freezes after removing just 12% of central nodes – but a simple tweak triples XRP defense

At 60% participation, two random links raised simulated quorum-failure thresholds from 11% to 38% and 12% to 33%. The post XRPL consensus freezes after remov...

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CryptoSlate Aug 31, 8:25 AM

A 36-day staking bottleneck is costing Ethereum depositors over $350,000 in lost rewards daily

The 35.75-day backlog represents an annualized opportunity-cost estimate as deposits share a 256 ETH-per-epoch activation gate. The post A 36-day staking bot...

CryptoSlate Aug 31, 6:30 AM

XRP’s next rally could put this 115 million-token short under pressure

The Aug. 25 CFTC snapshot shows 115.7 million XRP-equivalent net short against rising dealer and asset-manager net longs. The post XRP’s next rally could put...

CryptoSlate Aug 30, 8:00 PM

CEO Jeremy Allaire says Circle built “the platform for the internet financial system”, but cirBTC has only 40 BTC

Circle's wrapped Bitcoin was overcollateralized at its Aug. 27 snapshot, yet WBTC and cbBTC remain thousands of times larger as Arc becomes the next distribu...

CryptoSlate Aug 30, 6:25 PM

US treasury relies on stablecoins to fund short-term debt, but they can’t fix its $28B long-bond problem

GENIUS reserves stop at 93 days while Treasury expands liquidity buybacks across 10- to 30-year debt. The post US treasury relies on stablecoins to fund shor...