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OpenAI is losing its leaders in cascade as it approaches a public offering that could value the company at $1 trillion. The hemorrhage occurs as its rival Anthropic has just surpassed OpenAI in annualized revenues.

Reddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18. The operation could force index funds to buy about 16.7 million RDDT shares to replicate the new index composition. This is almost three normal trading days concentrated around a single rebalancing. The stock has already jumped more than 11% after the announcement.

Nigel Farage has just regained his Clacton parliamentary seat with 63% of the votes. His return to Parliament also reignites an investigation suspended since his resignation in July. The British standards commissioner is interested in several million dollars in donations and benefits received from two men linked to crypto.

The prospect of a monetary tightening in September is fading in the United States. The latest inflation and consumption data have reassured the markets and reduced expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike. This scenario change offers a respite to risky assets, including cryptos. However, caution remains warranted, as U.S. debt and geopolitical tensions could still weigh on the Fed's upcoming decisions and market trajectories.

The crypto derivatives market could cross a new regulatory milestone. Nasdaq has submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission a proposal aimed at simplifying the listing of options linked to crypto ETFs. The text mainly seeks to set common criteria for funds exposed to digital commodities. This approach comes as U.S. regulations remain in flux. This approach comes as U.S. regulations remain in full development.

Binance cuts ties with 16 crypto players. Since August 14, 2026, the giant no longer processes their transactions in order to comply with international sanctions related to the war in Ukraine and anti-money laundering requirements. Among the targeted platforms is HTX (formerly Huobi), a global heavyweight in the sector. Under European and American regulatory pressure, Binance now prioritizes compliance over interconnection between exchanges. This decision reveals how sanctions and regulation are beginning to reshape relations between major crypto platforms.

Donald Trump opens the door to a new form of response against foreign criminal networks. In a memo signed on August 12, 2026, the American president authorizes certain licensed private companies to participate in cyber operations under federal supervision. Crypto scam networks are among the targets, but the precise rules of these interventions are still to be written.

Bank Leumi teams up with Galaxy Digital to launch Bitcoin, Ether and Solana trading in its app by 2027.

Is Wall Street taking advantage of crypto volatility to advance its pieces? In the second quarter of 2026, JPMorgan significantly increased its exposure to bitcoin and Ethereum, while reconnecting with XRP. The bank's latest regulatory filings reveal $355.7 million invested in BlackRock's IBIT Bitcoin ETF, as well as a 338% increase in its position on the Ethereum ETHA ETF. This move contrasts with recent capital outflows recorded by spot Bitcoin ETFs and reveals a striking gap between short-term turbulence and institutional choices.

France faces a new leak of sensitive data. A hacker claims to have extracted information concerning nearly 678,000 taxpayers following fraudulent access to the DGFiP system. Bercy confirms the intrusion and data exfiltration, but not this number yet. Individuals and professionals are among the potential victims.

Solana prepares SIMD-0553: a fee change that could reduce the crypto validators' revenue. All the details here!

KPMG has just confirmed what Tether has been promising for years: a complete audit, not just a simple attestation. The result is a 6.8 billion dollar reserve surplus with an unqualified opinion to boot. But a detail that Paolo Ardoino does not highlight somewhat cools the enthusiasm.

Trezor has just warned 13,689 clients after a data leak at one of its logistics providers. Names, emails, phone numbers, and delivery addresses were exposed according to the affected users. Wallets were not hacked and no private keys leaked. Good news for cryptos. A bit less so for personal data.

The quantum threat pushes Ethereum to reconsider its cryptographic choices. Poseidon, long considered as a hash function suitable for zero-knowledge proofs and the post-quantum era, has just been discarded by the network's researchers. Behind this change lies much more than an algorithm choice. Thus, Ethereum is revising the cryptographic foundations of its future architecture. A new approach now promises better performance, enhanced auditability, and safer integration. It remains to understand why Poseidon lost the race, what gains its replacement offers, and at what pace this transition could reach the network.

In France, the crypto threat no longer stops at the screens. In the Somme, a young couple suffered three home invasions for cryptos they claim never owned. The origin of this nightmare: compromised personal data, exploited by criminals convinced they would find a crypto wallet at their victims' homes. Recruitment of executors, violence, extortion: the case reveals how a digital leak can lead to a physical attack. After the verdict from the Amiens court, the couple now considers a radical decision: selling their house to flee.

For Andre Cronje, a large part of what the industry continues to call "DeFi" is no longer really so. The founder of Flying Tulip prefers to speak of "on-chain finance" when companies, teams or committees retain intervention power over protocols. What really remains of the promise of decentralization?

Metaplanet borrows at 4% to buy more Bitcoin, but its 43,000 BTC stash is underwater. Unsecured debt? Japan's hottest new craze.

The government of Monaco presented bill no. 1131 to the National Council on August 6. This reform aims to replace the framework adopted in 2022 and bring the Principality closer to European standards. At the heart of the text, MiCA accompanies a revision of the obligations imposed on crypto-asset service providers. The project also strengthens controls and compliance requirements in response to the expectations of the FATF and the European Commission.

XRP has just lost a level it had defended since late 2024. Briefly falling below $1, Ripple's token now shows more than a 5% drop over one month, unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Yet behind this weakness lies a paradox: long-term investors are massively accumulating, while derivatives markets intensify selling pressure and flows to ETFs have sharply dried up. Two opposing forces now clash around XRP, and their duel could determine the token's next move.

MEXC appears in almost all "best exchanges" lists for 2026, yet many readers still hesitate. That's logical. The platform ticks boxes that make an active trader dream: thousands of tokens, some of the lowest fees in the market, very fast access to new listings, but it also carries a mixed reputation on customer service and a regulatory status that, in Europe, has become complicated since summer 2026. This review sorts it out, without leniency.

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.

Binance has just taken second place in the tokenized stocks market by value. Launched on June 11, bStocks shows about 610.6 million dollars, compared to 601.2 million for Kraken's xStocks. It took less than two months to reverse the ranking. Ondo Finance remains ahead of the two platforms.

Pi Network migrated to protocol v26, but the Pi crypto price falls below $0.09. Discover full analysis here!

The Bank of England is already preparing the coexistence between stablecoins and the digital pound. Its Digital Pound Lab is testing a cross-border payment where an exporter receives an advance in stablecoin before a British importer settles the transaction with simulated digital pounds. However, London has still not decided to launch its CBDC.

DeepSeek has just reminded the AI industry that a high-performance model does not necessarily have to cost a fortune. Without any press release or spectacular announcement, the Chinese lab quietly deployed the final version of its flagship model. Behind this update lies a shift. The performance gap is narrowing, while the price gap is widening. For Web3, autonomous agent developers, and companies facing the growing cost of AI, this new equation could reshuffle the deck. DeepSeek is no longer just trying to compete but is attacking where its competitors are most vulnerable, the price.

The release of US inflation data on August 12 did not provide markets with the much-expected positive signal. Indeed, there is a slowdown in price increases, not forgetting the Fed's reservations about the economic trajectory. Bitcoin investors hesitate to adopt an aggressive accumulation policy. The crypto market thus remains dependent on upcoming economic data and, above all, on how the Federal Reserve chooses to interpret them.

Ethereum returns to the center of on-chain data after the awakening of four former whales linked to the early days of the network. On Tuesday, August 11, a Genesis wallet moved 2,680 ETH after eleven years of inactivity. This reserve, acquired for about 830 dollars, was then worth 5.03 million dollars. Two other wallets had already transferred 2,000 ETH each in July. These close movements reignite selling fears, as funds long considered dormant return to the market.

Coldcard lost 130 million dollars to hackers who knew where to look. But the real shocking figure lies elsewhere: 15 billion dollars in bitcoin fled in a rush to safer wallets. And according to Ledger, the attackers' secret weapon wasn't even new. It was AI.