Bitcoin tops $77,000 as best week since 2023 pulls altcoins along for the ride
BTC has gained 24% since Monday and reached the level implied by its inverse head-and-shoulders break, with shorts still taking a contrarian position.
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BTC has gained 24% since Monday and reached the level implied by its inverse head-and-shoulders break, with shorts still taking a contrarian position.
Coinkite urged Coldcard users to generate new seed phrases, warning that existing vulnerable seeds remain unsafe despite the security upgrade.
Cointelegraph · Aug 21, 2026
Binance Agent OS connects tools like ChatGPT and Claude directly to the exchange's markets, though safeguards wall agents off from user funds—and leave much of the oversight to users themselves.
Decrypt · Aug 21, 2026
The rally in hard assets isn’t necessarily about what the Treasury is doing, but what its move signals to the market.
Bitcoin gains 20% in two days as Strategy sees its BTC treasury climb out of the red.
Strategy’s common stock rose 10% in Friday pre-market trading to $120, the highest level in two months.
Bitcoin ETF inflows pushed August’s total to a 2026 high of $2.07 billion as Bitcoin traded above $75,000 and Ether climbed to $2,357.
Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $606 million on Aug. 20 and ether funds $221 million, both bigger than the prior day, confirming the institutional bid behind bitcoin's run.
The token touched $0.004126 minutes before the network stopped producing blocks, while MANTRA later said an attacker exploited a vulnerability in software used by the chain.
CoinDesk · Aug 21, 2026
The proposal would let the FIU investigate suspected violations and refer unregistered crypto operators directly to law enforcement.
Cointelegraph · Aug 21, 2026
Clearpool and Cicada Partners are building an institutional lending product using RLUSD, though the XRP Ledger features underpinning it are still awaiting activation.
The token recovered to about $0.0044 after setting a new low, while exchanges paused deposits and withdrawals from the halted MANTRA Chain.
Cointelegraph · Aug 21, 2026
The two-day short liquidation total has reached about $3.8 billion, after Thursday's figure set a record going back to 2021.
UAE clients will be able to buy and hold crypto through Capital.com’s app, expanding beyond price exposure through contracts for difference.
Cointelegraph · Aug 21, 2026"Bears in pain, right now," wrote bitcoin analyst James Check.
An options trader opened a large straddle on XRP, betting on wild price swings by Aug. 28.
CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara traded barbs during a CFTC meeting over prediction markets, manipulation, and regulatory standards.
Decrypt · Aug 20, 2026
The BTC price reclaimed its 200-day moving average for the first time in nine months as its rally gained momentum after the US Treasury expanded its bond buybacks.