Monthly Archives: August 2026

Strategy added to its BTC treasury for the first time in two months, while continuing to bolster its cash reserves and buy back its perpetual STRC preferred stock. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/strategy-buys-370m-bitcoin-first-acquisition-june?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Crypto projects spent a record $638 million on token buybacks so far in 2026, as more protocols are turning their revenue into buybacks to return more value to token holders. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/hyperliquid-pumpfun-90-record-638m-crypto-buybacks?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Bitcoin approached the August monthly close below key resistance with markets once again pricing in a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike in September. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/markets/markets-pivot-to-september-fed-rate-hike-five-things-to-know-in-bitcoin-this-week?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Blockaid said an attacker used an Ankr liquid staking token and E-mode to overborrow from More Markets and drain about $9.3 million in WFLOW from a lending reserve. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/more-markets-lending-reserve-drained-93m?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek said the company’s app and exchange were unaffected by the Tectonic breach and continued operating normally. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/cronos-network-halt-tectonic-exploit-75-million?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Bitcoin moves toward a post quantum future, Solana validators agree to curb rampant inflation and the bull case from Bernstein is for Bitcoin to peak at $500K this cycle. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/bitcoins-new-quantum-defenses-189m-sol-cancelled-hodlers-digest?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Michael Saylor’s “We’re Back” post hints Strategy may resume Bitcoin buying after a two-month pause to strengthen its balance sheet. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/saylor-signals-strategy-is-back-to-bitcoin-buying?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Russia’s largest bank, Sber, plans to accept USDT and Ether alongside Bitcoin as loan collateral as the country introduces regulated crypto trading under a new law. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/russia-sber-bank-bitcoin-ether-usdt-crypto-loans?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Trump-linked Real Trump Coins said it never authorized GOLD or any digital token as questions persisted over its X account, associated domains and the concentrated token supply. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/real-trump-coins-denies-gold-token-launch?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The vulnerabilities posed denial-of-service and validator resource risks but were patched before Polygon publicly disclosed them. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/polygon-discloses-security-flaws-fixed-in-recent-hard-forks?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound