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The proposal would add illustrative examples to the existing definition without changing it. A qualifying digital asset would need an on-demand contractual redemption right, a direct redemption right with the issuer for a known cash amount, and at least one-to-one segregated reserves held in short-term, highly liquid assets. The FASB said active secondary markets alone would not suffice if the holder lacks a direct issuer redemption right, and reserves comprising crypto assets or gold would disqualify a token due to valuation risks.

The order applies to data centers with peak electricity demand above 25 megawatts, removing them from the state's Permit Fast Track Program and prohibiting state agencies from signing non-disclosure agreements related to data center projects. Developers seeking streamlined review must now agree to Pennsylvania's environmental, energy, workforce, and community requirements and obtain local approvals. The state will create a public map of proposed facilities and require operating data centers to report energy and water consumption annually starting July 2027.

Shapiro also directed the Special Counsel for Energy Affordability to seek utility rules making data centers cover certain grid costs and face curtailment first during emergencies unless they secure enough power. More than 100 data centers have reportedly been proposed in Pennsylvania, though only 20 have submitted permit applications to the Department of Environmental Protection.

Researchers from MIT, the University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Yale studied active U.S. X users in September and October 2024, using a browser extension to collect their feeds. The correlation between amplified content and stated values was -0.229 for Democrats versus -0.041 for Republicans, with more negative numbers indicating greater misalignment. A replication produced a similar split at -0.199 for Democrats and 0.0372 for Republicans. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that replying to posts that clash with one's values may inadvertently signal to X that users want more of the same. The researchers did not examine whether accounts behind value-misaligned replies were human or automated.

Cypherpunk Technologies acquired the mining fleet through an equity-based transaction valued at $33.33 million. The operation is already online at US facilities, producing roughly 4.2 GSol/s, or about 18% of Zcash’s current network hashrate. The company’s existing Zcash holdings stand at 323,394 ZEC, about 1.9% of circulating supply, with a stated target of eventually holding 5%. Cypherpunk has pitched Zcash mining as offering more attractive economics than Bitcoin mining or AI data center workloads at current market conditions, though those economics depend on ZEC price, network hashrate, mining difficulty and operating costs.

The card supports more than 600 currencies and assets, with holdings converted into US dollars at point of sale. A single purchase can draw from multiple balances, with users setting the order in which assets are spent. The card is issued by Lead Bank on Visa’s network and powered by Stripe Issuing, with physical and virtual versions available to eligible US customers. Cashback rates depend on average assets held across Krak, Kraken and Kraken Pro.

Krak is positioning the card as an alternative to credit-based rewards programs. A Morning Consult survey of 2,001 US adults commissioned by Krak found that 42% of credit card holders worry about paying off their monthly balance, while 60% said they would switch to a debit card offering rewards without taking on debt. Krak has issued more than 135,000 multi-asset cards across the UK and European Economic Area since launching there in December 2025.

Announced on Tuesday, the service will be part of Custody+, the bank's suite of custody and settlement tools. The move expands on plans Citi revealed in October to launch institutional Bitcoin custody in 2026. Citi said more than 80% of its asset-servicing event volume is now processed in real time, while its Citi Token Services platform supports near-instant, 24/7 transfers of tokenized deposits across select markets.

Payward said Monday it will deploy Mythos 5 to scan its infrastructure for security flaws, with findings routed to its security teams for review and patching through its existing program. Flaws discovered in third-party open-source software will be reported to project maintainers, an approach the company says could strengthen open-source code used across the crypto industry. The move follows an open letter from over 40 Bitcoin and crypto companies — including Kraken, Ark Invest, Coinbase, Block and BitGo — sent last week to Anthropic, OpenAI and other leading AI labs, demanding trusted-access programs for qualified defenders. Organized by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, the letter argued that developers protecting open-source financial infrastructure need frontier AI to find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.

Polymarket's "Fed Decision in September?" market puts the odds of no change at 74%, with a quarter-point hike at 25% and a cut near 1%, on $33.9 million in volume. CFTC-regulated exchange Kalshi lands almost identically at 73.5%, backed by close to $10 million wagered, while Myriad has "No Change" trading around 71%. The spread across all three is tight enough to read as consensus.

XRP is slightly up 1.11% today, trading around $1.0046 after opening at $0.9935 and dipping to an intraday low of $0.9882. The streak of daily closes above $1 reached 635 sessions as of last week, nearly snapping twice this month after a bridge exploit drained roughly $200,000 through a connection between the TX Chain and the XRP Ledger. On the daily chart, XRP's 50-day EMA has crossed below its 200-day EMA, forming a death cross that confirms sellers have run the short-to-medium-term trend. The weekly picture is heavier: the 50-week EMA is still above the 200-week EMA, keeping the golden-cross structure intact, but the gap has been closing for months and the weekly ADX now reads 33.7, signaling a strong trend pointed in the wrong direction for longs. Whales have reportedly bought roughly 380 million XRP near the $1 level over the past week, but alongside $1.5 billion in freshly opened leveraged long positions that could accelerate a break below $1 if forced liquidations trigger.

The Aug. 20 deadline shifts the release line to bug fixes and gives new v32 features their final normal window before the October target. The v32 milestone listed 17 items open and 79 closed on Aug. 17. Those entries span feature pull requests, bug reports, build and logging work, a private-broadcast test failure, and the release-schedule ticket itself. GitHub publishes no blocker ranking, so the raw count says more about unfinished scope than release risk. Two open changes carry a "Needs rebase" label — a proposal to reject unencrypted v1 outbound clearnet connections and a change to limit simultaneous HTTP clients — meaning the patches no longer apply cleanly. An open descriptor-wallet fix proposes preserving access to existing Miniscript wallets when a recomputed descriptor identifier differs from the stored record, following a reported upgrade-related load failure. Maintainers aim to split the 32.x branch and issue v32.0rc1 on Sept. 10, with v32.0 tagging targeted for Oct. 10.

OpenRouter routes traffic from around 8 million developers to more than 400 AI models and takes about 5% on the inference spend passing through it. Stripe already processed OpenRouter's payments, making this a vendor buying its own customer. The deal comes three months after the startup raised $113 million at a reported $1.3 billion valuation, with annualized revenue around $50 million in March — roughly 50 times revenue. Stripe paid $1.1 billion for stablecoin firm Bridge and picked up usage-based billing startup Metronome in January 2026, a tool already used by OpenAI and Anthropic.

The acquisition also hands Stripe a live read on enterprise AI spending across every major lab at once. U.S.-origin models fell from roughly 70% of OpenRouter's token volume in mid-2025 to about 30% a year later, with cheap Chinese open-weight models absorbing the difference. Whoever sets the routing defaults has a hand on that dial.

SafePal said the exposed data spans customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026, and includes names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers and purchase details. The company stressed that wallet credentials were untouched — seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords, bank details, payment card numbers and government IDs were not involved. SafePal, a non-custodial wallet suite backed by Binance and Animoca Brands serving 30 million users, said it has fixed the issue and notified affected customers.

While no funds were directly stolen, the mix of names, home addresses and evidence of crypto ownership is precisely the kind of data that can steer criminals toward high-net-worth holders. Chainalysis documented 46 violent incidents in the first half of 2026 with more than $30 million stolen, calling the year on pace to be the worst on record, with home invasions increasingly overtaking kidnappings.

Sono spent $5 million to acquire 68.49 BTC during the first six months, ending June with 69.78 BTC valued at $4.118 million. The company recorded an $890,000 net digital-asset treasury loss for the half, though weekly covered calls on its holdings produced $93,000 in net option income. Sono posted a $5.792 million net loss for the period, including $3.335 million from continuing operations, and warned that additional financing may not be available on acceptable terms.

First-half financing activities brought in $7.050 million, including $5.050 million from four secured convertible debentures and $2 million from a pre-funded warrant. The filing lists a partial Bitcoin sale among available liquidity measures but does not confirm one has occurred or indicate timing.

Chainalysis Government Solutions filed the challenge in the US Court of Federal Claims on July 27, alleging ICE's decision was "arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable." The one-year award runs from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027, covering forensic software and support services for Homeland Security Task Force investigations. The complaint remains under seal due to confidential and proprietary information, with the court granting that status on July 31. TRM intervened in the case on July 28, with responses due Friday and oral argument scheduled for Sept. 2.