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Crypto on BriefTechNews.comhttp://brief-tech-news.com/categories/crypto/Recent content in Crypto on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright ©2021 <br> Designed & Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:29:15 +0000Bitcoin eyes $83,300 breakout as Moonwell loses $8.7M and Revolut ships a euro stablecoinhttp://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-crypto/Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:29:15 +0000http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-crypto/Bitcoin has rallied into a stacked $81,000-$86,000 supply zone, with analysts pointing to a close above $83,300 on continued ETF inflows as the trigger that could reopen the road to January’s highs. Lending protocol Moonwell halted Base markets after an attacker drained roughly $8.7M by borrowing real cbBTC against a manipulated MAMO collateral price. Revolut, with 80M users, launched a euro-pegged stablecoin EURR on Ethereum mainnet, aiming at the same playbook PayPal used with PYUSD. LayerZero is building an institutional exchange with Citadel Securities, DTCC, and ICE, and new research shows Uniswap v3’s many fee-tier pools are functionally one pool: the top venue captures 96.3% of capacity.Ethereum's Fast Blocks, Visa's Korean Stablecoin Push, and the Death of Microtransaction Feeshttp://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:13:32 +0000http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/Ethereum’s protocol developers outlined concrete timelines for reducing block times from 12 seconds to under 1 second within two hard forks, directly cutting idle capital and settlement costs for DeFi applications. Shinhan Financial Group signed with Visa to build Korea-specific stablecoin infrastructure, combining banking, card, and payment rails into a single institutional deployment. Meanwhile, EIP-8130 emerged as the preferred account abstraction path for EVM rollups, with Base targeting a 2x per-transaction cost reduction in its upcoming Cobalt upgrade.Coinbase puts Apple, NVIDIA and Google onchain, and five L2s admit their feeshttp://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-crypto/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:11:47 +0000http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-crypto/Coinbase went live with tokenized NVDA, AAPL, META and GOOGL on Base under the B20 standard, posting $4.55M in day-one onchain value and $10.8M in 24-hour volume across ~50 protocols. AI agents are now a distinct crypto user cohort paying in stablecoins, with Coinbase calling it the “Napster era” of machine commerce. Kinetiq is launching Elysium, an L2 that drops USDC gas for HYPE and targets block-time parity with Hyperliquid’s HyperCore. Gauntlet detailed its risk-aware Aria agent, which has triaged 450+ alerts and gated every production change behind one or two human approvals. A separate teardown showed five new L2s raised $1.06B but burned through only $2.5M in chain fees combined.Bitcoin up 21% in a week, XRP 46%, and Circle picks Sept. 16 for Arc mainnethttp://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-25-crypto/Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:11:32 +0000http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-25-crypto/Bitcoin held above $77,000 after a 21% weekly gain, with XRP up 46% over the same stretch, as markets waited on new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole debut. Bernstein reiterated Outperform on Circle with a $140 target, arguing the company’s growth no longer depends on the Clarity Act after USDC supply added $1.7B in a week. Circle set September 16 for the public mainnet launch of Arc, its permissioned proof-of-authority chain backed by BlackRock, DTCC, Mastercard, Visa, and nine other founding validators. Strategy sold $2B in MSTR shares without buying any bitcoin, parking the proceeds in a $1.59B “USD Cash” pool, while Gemini and Apex inked a deal to distribute crypto event contracts through brokerage clients.CFTC to Regulate Crypto With or Without Congress; Bitcoin Posts Largest Weekly Dollar Gain Everhttp://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-crypto/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:13:42 +0000http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-crypto/Bitcoin surged $14,264 in a single week to close at $77,387 — its largest-ever weekly dollar gain — while spot ETFs absorbed $1.92 billion in net inflows and the bitcoin-to-gold ratio hit its highest since May. The move came as the CFTC declared it will invoke existing statutory authority to regulate crypto regardless of whether the CLARITY Act passes, setting up a September 16 rulemaking showdown. Solana shipped a mainnet upgrade cutting slot time to 350ms, Ethereum researchers published a new timing attack on PoS attestation, and BounceBit is shutting down its L1 after losing $286.5M BB to a protocol-level exploit.Bitcoin tags $71K on $517M ETF day, Clarity Act gets an Oval Office pushhttp://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-crypto/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:23:28 +0000http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-crypto/Bitcoin broke $71,000 after spot ETFs pulled in $517 million on August 19, the largest single-day haul in months, and a separate $189 million flooded into ethereum products as the broader rally torched $2.7 billion of short positions. Ethereum added 18% on the same move. In Washington, Trump hosted a CEO-heavy Oval Office meeting to push the Clarity Act toward a September 15 procedural vote, and COIN, CRCL, and BLSH each jumped roughly 8 to 10% on the optimism. The technical beat was heavier: Tempo shipped a Touch-ID-gated authorization layer for agentic CI/CD, and an ethresear.ch post proposed a bridge-free cross-chain exchange model that would have made the 2022 bridge heists structurally impossible.