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Unitree IPO: crypto derivatives traders on Hyperliquid price 4x upside on debut
Hyperliquid traders value Unitree at nearly $38 billion versus $9 billion at its IPO, leaving leveraged bets vulnerable when trading begins, Allium analysts said.

Swiss mega-bank UBS ramps up its Bitcoin exposure with a massive 24-fold surge in ETF call options
Direct holdings of IBIT also rose 12% to 407,890 shares, while put option exposure dropped roughly 53% to 143,300 underlying shares during the quarter.

Why the world’s second-largest Bitcoin mining power is shutting down rigs in its capital city
The Energy Ministry enacted the year-round restriction to mitigate power-capacity shortages as energy-intensive mining facilities continue to strain regional grids.

Paul Tudor Jones’ investment firm adds to IBIT stake after year of selling
Calls fell 85.2% to 148,000 underlying shares, while puts slipped 1.4% to 715,000.

Wall Street rewrote crypto's rules with $11.2 billion in checks
A lawyer in Dubai tracked every crypto funding round of 2026's first half. The permissionless era didn't survive the data.

Clarity survives (barely), Strategy sells and the untold story of Mastercard's $1.8 billion deal: Crypto's week in 5 stories
Washington kept crypto’s biggest legislative hope alive, Wall Street pushed deeper into digital assets, and a security scare sent billions of dollars of bitcoin moving between wallets.

TradFi obsession with permissioned blockchains is 'race to the bottom,' Etherealize CEO Vivek Raman warns
Centrally controlled, permission-only networks have a role to play in finance, but need a transparent, open base to reap the benefits blockchain technology offers.

Trump expected to attend White House meeting with crypto CEOs, sources say
Those involved in a meeting of CEOs from the worlds of crypto, prediction markets and AI anticipate President Donald Trump will take part in next week's gathering.

Trump-backed World Liberty wins conditional bank charter from federal regulator
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said it granted "preliminary conditional approval" to World Liberty Trust Co. on Friday.

Bullish (BLSH), Coinbase (COIN), Circle (CRCL) slide as SEC delay weighs on tokenization trade
Bullish, Coinbase, and Circle were among the names lower on Friday after the regulatory setback.

Strategy responds to MSCI’s proposed index exclusion rules
The bitcoin treasury company said index providers should measure markets rather than determine which assets public companies are allowed to own.

Bank Leumi taps Galaxy (GLXY) to offer crypto trading in Israel
Bank Leumi customers will be able to trade bitcoin, ether and solana through the bank’s investment app from early 2027.

Volatility exits crypto, TradFi markets even as U.S.-Iran risks linger, sovereign debt rises: Crypto Daily
The day ahead in crypto: Aug. 14, 2026

Trump family 's World Liberty Financial (WLFI) delay plans to sell Maldives resort token
The token’s sale has been pushed back due to the Iran war disrupting travel in the region.

Bitcoin (BTC) price slips as U.S. PPI fails to spark gains, ETFs see August's first two-day drawdown
Spot bitcoin ETFs saw back-to-back outflows for the first time since late July as BTC retraces last week's gains and altcoins struggle to find direction.

Stablecoin issuer RedotPay said to put U.S. IPO plan on hold: Bloomberg
A spokesperson for the stablecoin payments company declined to comment on any IPO plans.

Live updates: BTC price slips below $63,000 as oil and yields climb
WTI crude tops $82 a barrel, adding inflation pressure and weighing on risk assets as bond yields rise.

XRP price: Cluster of headwinds gang up on bitcoin and wider crypto market
Top cryptocurrencies nurse losses as regulatory picture sours. ETF flows and traditional markets offer little support.

Bitcoin (BTC) holding firms Strategy and Metaplanet face stock-index exclusion under MSCI’s new proposal
A new consultation targets "non-operating companies" broadly. Two familiar names still land on the deletion list.

JPMorgan debanked Polymarket in late 2025
JPMorgan cut banking services for Polymarket last year amid regulatory worries, forcing the platform to find a new lender.

Ethereum (ETH) developers are exploring new token standards as privacy returns to focus
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at where privacy is headed in the Ethereum ecosystem

BlackRock and Fidelity are quietly turning bitcoin ETFs into a two-firm market
BlackRock's IBIT and Fidelity's FBTC are attracting the vast majority of new bitcoin ETF money, leaving smaller funds increasingly sidelined as institutional investors consolidate around the industry's largest players.

Coinbase-backed Stand With Crypto calls on members to campaign against banks blocking digital asset transactions
Stand With Crypto UK is telling its members to file formal complaints with high-street banks over sector-wide transfer bans.

Netomi CEO says $5 trillion AI customer experience market could boost stablecoin demand
Puneet Mehta, a former high-level Wall Street engineer and data scientist, said the rapid expansion of AI enterprise software will increase demand for stablecoins and blockchain.

