Cole Villemain, former co-founder of Pudgy Penguins, sold out the 44,444 NFTs of his new collection Spritehood Wisps on Robinhood Chain this Monday, August 11, for 1,282,852 dollars according to the on-chain count by Lookonchain. The sale was full within a few hours. Is a sellout enough to erase the liabilities of Pudgy Penguins?
For years, Strategy made "never sell a single satoshi" a true credo. In 2026, this promise shatters. Michael Saylor's company has already recorded more than 102 million dollars in realized losses by repeatedly selling bitcoins below their average purchase price. Behind these sales lies a more complex reality than simple accounting arbitrage: the growing pressure of institutional financing. These sales operations question the robustness of the model defended by the most famous publicly traded bitcoin holder.
Bitcoin’s July recovery gave Bitget’s Protection Fund a significant lift. The reserve averaged $351 million during the month and peaked at $365.9 million as BTC recovered from June’s correction. The figures highlight a direct consequence of holding a Bitcoin-denominated safety reserve: stronger BTC prices increase its dollar value, while downturns can quickly work in the opposite direction.
BlackRock opens the floodgates on its Bitcoin ETF. Twenty-five million? That was yesterday. Now one million will do. The whales are circling.
The BRICS face a decisive summit in an unprecedented climate of tension. Gathered in New Delhi on September 12 and 13, 2026, the ten members of the bloc must present a common vision on strategic issues such as dedollarization and economic cooperation. The exercise promises to be delicate. Territorial rivalries between some partners, combined with commercial pressures from Washington, weaken the image of a united front. This meeting will determine whether the BRICS can still turn their ambitions into a real alternative to the dollar-dominated financial system.
In 2026, more than 100 crypto projects have shut down, filed for bankruptcy, or ceased operations, according to RootData. This wave has affected exchanges, wallets, DeFi, NFTs, and some blockchains. In late July, BitMEX, BitMart, Movement Labs, and Storj Labs announced their closure or bankruptcy filings within a single week. Meanwhile, Moonbeam stopped producing blocks on July 31. The sector is therefore entering a broad and highly visible phase of consolidation.
OpenAI has just suspended the internal development of Astra, its future artificial intelligence model. Indeed, its capabilities in offensive cybersecurity and code generation have crossed a threshold that teams no longer consider controllable. For the digital ecosystem, this decision sounds like a warning. At a time when financial infrastructures, blockchain, and decentralized protocols rely on the reliability of code, the AI race now progresses faster than the measures meant to regulate it.
On November 1st and 2nd, 2026, the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bucharest hosts a new edition of AI Expo Europe, a conference claiming the title of the largest AI gathering in Eastern Europe. On the agenda: more than 100 speakers from NVIDIA, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, or IBM, and about one hundred exhibitors presenting concrete artificial intelligence solutions.
Bitcoin, the great sage, is about to tear itself apart. Miners turn a deaf ear, developers brandish the axe. Is a split inevitable? Hold onto your hats.
