US Treasury authorizes sanctions on anyone operating in Iran's crypto sector
Digital assets were named among five sectors targeted in what Treasury called an 'Economic D-Day' campaign, alongside technology, gold, aviation and shipping.
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Bitcoin price revisits $80K as crypto short liquidations top $220M in 24 hours
Bitcoin returned to the $80,000 mark for the first time since mid-May amid bullish momentum at the start of the new TradFi trading week.
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Bitcoin ETFs add $338M as six-day inflow streak reaches $2.26B
US spot Bitcoin ETFs continued their strong run with another day of net inflows, pushing the six-day total past $2.26 billion.
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Strategy raises $2B selling MSTR stock, establishes cash reserve for potential Bitcoin buys
The company has not bought Bitcoin since June and has created a liquidity account it said may be spent on more purchases.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs grew $23B last week but only $2.6B was new money
Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs booked their strongest inflow week since October, though most of the gain came from appreciation of existing holdings.
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Coinbase launches tokenized stocks on Ethereum L2 Base
The tokens represent shares held by regulated custodian Alpaca and can be traded or used in DeFi applications on Base.
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Franklin Templeton's tokenized Treasury fund grBENJI lists on HashKey Exchange
HashKey's Earn channel begins distributing the tokenized money market fund, which holds US government money market instruments and dollar cash.
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Hugging Face explores $13B sale months after OpenAI agent breach
The AI platform is fielding buyout interest at nearly triple its 2023 valuation, weeks after a security breach caused by OpenAI.
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Hyperliquid hits record high ahead of $1.2B token unlock
HYPE is riding a record price high into its largest remaining token supply release.
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Strive buys $81.5M in Bitcoin after issuing more shares
Strive paid an average of $73,409 per Bitcoin, lifting its holdings from 20,246 BTC, according to an August 24 SEC filing.
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Mysterious AI model Ox Alpha tops benchmarks, beats Claude Fable
The free model reads a million tokens, takes video input, and has developers guessing who built it.
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