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A flaw in cryptocurrency wallet software made some recovery phrases predictable, leading to an estimated at least $5.69 million in stolen funds since May, blockchain security firm Coinspect said, CryptoSlate reported. Coinspect said it was able to predict recovery phrases in at least five wallet apps by exploiting a vulnerability in the random number generator of the CryptoJS library. The firm said hackers exploited the flaw multiple times, with about $3.14 million drained on May 27, another roughly $2.55 million traced between May 30 and July 13, and a third attack between July 20 and 21 that caused about $40,000 in losses. The firm added that more than 2,000 seed phrases across five blockchain networks appear to have been affected, although the list of impacted apps and the full scale of the damage remain unclear.

Strategy shares rose by more than 10% and moved above $135.

Shares of Bitcoin strategic buyer Strive rose 110% from a month earlier to top $24, while gaining around 12% intraday.

Lagrange said via its official social media channel it has joined Hanwha STEP, a partner program run by Hanwha Vision that provides sales, marketing and technical support across its channel, technology, and A&E network. Lagrange added, "As an official STEP partner of Hanwha Vision, we can now make AI records technically provable."

RQD Clearing, which provides clearing and settlement infrastructure for U.S. stock and options trading, said it raised $74 million to expand its infrastructure into digital assets and on-chain finance markets. The equity investment was led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, the technology investing arm of Bain Capital, with participation from ABN AMRO Clearing Bank and Nyca Partners. RQD said it plans to use the funds to expand across North America, Asia, and the Middle East, while building out digital asset custody and tokenization products. RQD Clearing is a U.S.-licensed broker and is known to handle order execution for crypto exchange Bitget’s U.S. stock trading feature, Stock+.

Crypto-related stocks in the U.S. market are broadly higher. SharpLink (SBET) is up 4.09%, Bitmine (BMNR) 3.19%, Gemini (GEMI) 6.83%, Bullish (BLSH) 2.96%, Circle (CRCL) 4.48%, Strategy (MSTR) 8.17%, and Coinbase (COIN) 4.04%.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $80,000. BTC is trading at $80,000.22 on the Binance USDT market.

According to data from on-chain analytics platform Santiment, ETH balances on major centralized exchanges have fallen by about 1.4 million, or roughly 18%, to around 6.28 million from about 7.69 million since June 3. Santiment’s data showed an additional 275,000 ETH left exchanges since Aug. 19 alone, pushing exchange holdings to their lowest level in the period measured. Over the same period, BTC balances on exchanges rose about 0.25%. Crypto moved off exchanges to external wallets such as private wallets is generally seen as a sign holders have no near-term intention to sell, suggesting selling pressure in the market is easing.

AI-based education company Genius Group, which has added Bitcoin to its balance sheet, plans to buy $827 million worth of Bitcoin by 2031 through a preferred share issuance, BitcoinTreasuries reported. Earlier in the first quarter of this year, Genius Group sold all of its Bitcoin holdings to repay $8.5 million in debt.

Ethena announced four major ecosystem changes, including a buyout of locked tokens held by early investors, unification of its token and equity structure, the introduction of a revenue-based buyback mechanism, and the cancellation of monthly VC unlocks. The Ethena Foundation said it has completed a buyout of all locked tokens held by some large seed-round investors that had sold ENA over the past nine months. Separately, the foundation said it signed a master framework agreement with Ethena Labs, transferring the protocol’s intellectual property and all value it generates to the foundation. As a result, residual cash flows tied to the protocol’s growth will no longer go to equity investors in Ethena Labs and will instead be controlled through governance by ENA token holders. The foundation also said a "Fee Switch" governance proposal has been formally submitted to use net revenue generated across various business units under the Ethena brand for programmatic ENA buybacks. The proposal has passed approval by the risk committee. In addition, Ethena said it has fully removed concerns over persistent selling pressure from future monthly VC unlocks by releasing all unvested tokens at once. Tokens held by the core team will remain subject to the existing lockup and vesting schedule. The move is aimed at strengthening the link between the ENA token and the protocol’s value.

TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol developed by Term Structure Labs, announced on Aug. 26 that it has secured a strategic investment from YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs. The company did not disclose the investment amount. TermMax was also selected for YZi Labs’ "E이지 레지던시 시즌 3" and has raised more than $8 million to date. Its key early investors include Cumberland DRW, which led its 2023 seed round, as well as HashKey Capital, Decima Fund, Longling Capital and MZ Web3 Fund.

According to Artemis data, stock token and other RWA perpetual futures accounted for 51% of Hyperliquid’s trading volume, up from 0.1% in July 2026. This marks the first time perpetual futures have made up more than 50% of the platform’s total monthly trading volume. Over the same period, total volume fell 30% from a year earlier, indicating RWA-based growth on the platform accelerated rapidly even as broader market activity contracted.

Nasdaq-listed Hyperliquid Strategy (PURR), a publicly traded company holding digital assets centered on Hyperliquid (HYPE), raised $647 million through share issuance in the fiscal year ended June 30 and more than doubled its HYPE holdings, The Block reported. Through Aug. 19, the company accumulated 16.5 million HYPE at an average price of $46.77 and spent a total of $773.4 million, lifting its HYPE holdings 134% to 29.3 million from 12.5 million immediately after the merger.

A trader who entered a 20,000 ETH long position just before the market surge has now opened a new 20x leveraged long position in 100,000 SOL, worth about $10.45 million, according to Lookonchain. The SOL entry price was $104.55. The trader is also maintaining a 4x leveraged long position in 20,000 ETH, worth about $49.91 million, with an unrealized gain of about $11.19 million. The ETH entry price was $1,936.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $79,000. BTC is trading at $78,920.05 on the Binance USDT market.

Hyperliquid’s policy arm, the Hyperliquid Policy Center, submitted a comment letter tied to the first meeting of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Innovation Advisory Committee held on Aug. 20. In the letter, the group argued perpetual futures should be treated as a key CFTC innovation priority as the product has expanded beyond digital assets into equities and commodities. It also said perpetual futures can reduce costs and risk by eliminating the need to repeatedly roll over futures contracts when hedging long-term risk, and said the CFTC is drawing the market into the U.S. regulatory fold as it works on guidance for listing perpetual futures in the United States. The group added real-time management of orders, positions, and collateral on public blockchains could reduce counterparty and settlement risk, and could be introduced within existing laws and regulatory frameworks.

A sharp rise in ZEC may be a sign of a Bitcoin correction, CryptoQuant analyst Maartun said. Maartun described surprise spikes in ZEC as a representative leading bearish indicator that has historically appeared before major market pullbacks.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened mixed today. - S&P 500: +0.39% - Nasdaq: +0.87% - Dow Jones: -0.11%

Avalanche Foundation economists have proposed scrapping the current model of paying validator rewards through new token issuance and shifting to a zero-inflation model that would reward validators based on value actually generated by the network, Crypto Briefing reported. Avalanche validators currently receive annual rewards of around 6% to 7% through newly issued AVAX tokens, but the structure dilutes the value of existing holders. The report added that all transaction fees on Avalanche’s C-Chain are burned, creating a structural limitation under which validators do not directly share in fee revenue even as network activity increases. Against that backdrop, the proposal aims over the long term to halt new token issuance and move to a revenue-sharing model that would redistribute part of network fees and protocol revenue to validators, bringing inflation toward 0%.

Alphamodus Holdings, an AI company focused on in-store customer analytics and listed on Nasdaq under AMOD, said it is pursuing a plan to add 3,170 BTC to its balance sheet, worth more than $200 million at current prices. The company said the move, if completed, could significantly increase shareholders’ equity and help address a shortfall under Nasdaq’s listing maintenance standards related to shareholder equity. It added actual recognition will depend on securing the BTC, the accounting treatment, and whether Nasdaq determines the company meets its continued listing requirements. Alphamodus said it reviewed a similar plan in May last year but did not move forward at the time because Bitcoin was near an all-time high.

The combined market capitalization of the 50 public companies with the largest Bitcoin holdings has fallen by $83 billion, to $67 billion from $150 billion in July 2025, as shares of Bitcoin-accumulating firms declined, the Financial Times reported, citing an FT analysis. Among the 50 companies, 43 are trading below their share prices from before announcing their Bitcoin buying strategies, while 35 have lost more than half their value from those levels. Strategy’s market capitalization alone has dropped by $79 billion from its peak in 2025. With BTC down about 30% over the past year, companies that funded purchases through borrowing or new share issuance posted steeper stock declines, and the top 50 companies as a group turned net sellers in July, selling 2,500 BTC more than they bought. Strategy also sold about 7,000 BTC for $430 million from late June to mid-August to raise cash needed for interest payments and other obligations.

Robinhood announced the listing of MORPHO.

Coinbase’s wrapped Bitcoin asset cbBTC will be supported on Robinhood Chain, Robinhood’s layer-two network, through Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), Crypto Briefing reported.

Charles Schwab will soon let SCHW Crypto customers trade SOL, AVAX and LINK, BWE News reported. The major U.S. financial firm began offering BTC and ETH trading earlier this year.

XRP spot ETFs drew $28.14 million on Aug. 26, marking the second-largest daily inflow of the year, The Crypto Basic reported. Since Aug. 20, the funds have recorded total net inflows of $97.45 million over five trading days. Cumulative net inflows since the launch of XRP ETFs reached $1.62 billion, while total net assets hit a record high of $1.4 billion.