Archive August 2026

Kevin Warsh believes that artificial intelligence is likely to permanently change the growth potential of the United States. In his first speech at Jackson Hole as Federal Reserve chairman, he described the current period as a "turning point in history." However, he admits that the Fed still does not know when productivity gains will appear, how employment will progress, and which companies will capture the created value. These questions therefore do not yet influence rate decisions.

Stablecoins do not constitute a credible means of large-scale payment, decided Pablo Hernández de Cos, head of the BIS, on Friday. Before the Jackson Hole symposium on August 28, he preferred tokenized bank deposits. The day before, his institute published a study highlighting very uneven issuance rules across markets.

After swallowing more than three billion dollars in nine days, Bitcoin ETFs suddenly hit the brakes, leaving the king of crypto stuck below $81,000 while Ethereum and Solana quietly keep marching ahead.

One week after the European Blockchain Convention, Barcelona returns to the technology scene. The AI Summit Barcelona takes place on September 22 and 23, 2026 at the World Trade Center, on the port. Only the second edition, but an immense ambition: to go from 1,500 participants last year to more than 10,000 this year, with NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic featured. Here's what to remember, and the code reserved for the Cointribune community.

Twelve years after his death, Hal Finney remains an inseparable part of Bitcoin's history. The cryptographer received the very first BTC transaction sent by Satoshi Nakamoto on January 12, 2009. Ten bitcoins to test a network that practically had no value yet. Today, those 10 BTC would be worth more than 800,000 dollars. And another question still refuses to disappear: Did Finney really know Satoshi's identity?

Stablecoins find themselves at the center of a new showdown between community banks and the crypto sector. Today, in the United States, the review of the CLARITY Act reignites opposition around the yields associated with these digital assets. The Independent Community Bankers of America demands a complete ban on rewards linked to these assets. Its leader Rebeca Romero Rainey rejects the idea of a compromise on this issue. At the same time, banks warn of a possible massive transfer of deposits to digital assets in this debate.

Ripple released a roadmap whose role is to make the XRP Ledger compatible with post-quantum signatures by 2028. Indeed, the project plans tests, a coexistence period between the old and new systems, as well as a global network migration. However, this protection is not yet activated on the main network. No computer is yet capable of calculating the private keys used to control XRP accounts.

Security remains a top priority across crypto, yet losses keep climbing, with over $3.63 billion stolen since 2025. CEXes are most exposed through private key compromise, while DEXes face smart contract exploits, increasingly compounded by fake UIs and malicious integrations. The actors have evolved just as fast. Rogue individuals have given way to organized cartels and state-sponsored groups, including North Korean hackers, who now use mixers, bridges, and staggered withdrawals to stay untraceable. This report examines the shifting threat landscape, from auditing and insurance protocols to the security infrastructure CEXes like Toobit deploy to protect users. We’ve summarized the key highlights, but be sure to dig into the full 15 slides in the full report here.