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08/09/2026 08:28 AM BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls After Miners Produce Just Two Blocks
TLDR: The BIP-110 Bitcoin fork produced only two blocks in about eight hours, while Bitcoin’s main chain advanced by 48 blocks. The minority chain inherited Bitcoin’s mining difficulty despite securing only a small fraction of the network’s total hashpower. Its next difficulty adjustment may take roughly 350 days at the observed pace, compared with about [...]
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08/09/2026 08:15 AM XRP Bottom Signal Emerges, But $1.35 and $1.80 Hold the Key
TLDR: XRP holds near $1 as analysts watch whether the token can defend its key monthly support. EGRAG Crypto sees $1.35 as the first structural hurdle and $1.80 as the major macro trigger. Crypto Patel expects XRP could revisit $0.85 to $0.65 before establishing a stronger accumulation setup. CoinGecko data shows XRP gained 0.59% daily [...]
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08/09/2026 07:46 AM GSR Warns DAO Treasury Concentration Creates a Negative Feedback Loop
TLDR: GSR says native-token concentration exposes DAO treasuries when prices, revenue and activity fall. Projects often seek hedges after selloffs, when higher volatility makes protection more expensive. Collars can protect a token floor by funding the hedge through a sold call, not stablecoin reserves. Separating operating reserves from long-term holdings can help DAOs preserve runway [...]
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08/09/2026 07:32 AM Kalshi’s 2026 Trading Volume Tops $148B, Making Up 85% of All-Time Activity
TLDR: Kalshi generated over $148B in 2026, equal to about 85.5% of its more than $173B lifetime trading volume. 2026 volume is already 6.2 times Kalshi’s full 2025 total of $23.8B, with nearly five months still remaining. World Cup markets produced about $27B in volume, while July trading reached roughly $37.7B to $41.05B. Kalshi’s 15-minute [...]
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08/09/2026 06:44 AM Crypto Can Advance Without CLARITY Act, Grayscale Research Says
TLDR: CLARITY Act passage this year looks unlikely due to Senate calendar and election politics. Bitcoin’s store-of-value demand stays steady even without new market structure legislation. SEC and regulators expected to fill legislative gaps through rulemaking on tokenized securities. Investment and developer activity could shift overseas without comprehensive US crypto rules. Grayscale Head of Research [...]
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08/09/2026 06:36 AM South Korean Retail Investors Pour $4.6 Billion Into U.S. Stocks as KOSPI Rout Deepens
TLDR: South Korean retail investors bought $4.6B of U.S. stocks in July, a 627% jump from June’s $633M total. The KOSPI remained about 33% below its June peak by Aug. 7 after posting its worst monthly fall since 2008. Samsung and SK Hynix drove about 76% of the KOSPI’s 2,257.8 trillion won market-value decline during [...]
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08/09/2026 05:21 AM Bitcoin Demand Strengthens as ETFs Add $865M and New Wallets Hit One-Year High
TLDR: U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $865.3M from Aug. 3-7, signaling a sharp rebound in institutional demand. CryptoQuant tracked 11,792 BTC entering ETF-linked wallets, the second-largest weekly increase of 2026. Santiment recorded 2.27M new Bitcoin wallets in one week, the highest wallet-creation total in a year. Coldcard-related transfers helped lift active Bitcoin wallets to 751,000, [...]
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08/09/2026 04:28 AM Crypto Card Spending Hits Record $759M as Stablecoins Drive Everyday Payments
TLDR: Crypto card spending reached a record $759M in July 2026, up roughly 2.5x from $306M a year earlier. Nearly 9M crypto card purchases were made in July, with the average transaction size at approximately $86. USDC captured 58% of July crypto card spending, while USDT added 26%, making digital dollars dominant. RedotPay, EtherFi, and [...]
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08/09/2026 03:44 AM Ethereum Bull Case Strengthens as ETF Inflows, Lower Fees, and Bullish Fractal Align
TLDR: Ethereum median mainnet fees fell over 99%, from above $2 in January 2024 to below $0.02 by March 2026. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs drew $244.9M in weekly inflows, extending their positive streak to five weeks. Ethereum mainnet throughput roughly doubled while median Layer 2 transaction fees declined by about 95%. Crypto Patel’s fractal marks [...]
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08/09/2026 02:47 AM Bitcoin BIP-110 Fork Splits Chain as Main BTC Network Pulls Ahead
TLDR: BIP-110 fork trails Bitcoin by 21 blocks after enforcing nodes rejected block 961,632 early on August 9. Only 51 of 2,016 blocks signaled BIP-110 support in the prior period, equal to just 2.53% miner backing. BIP-110 requires version bit 4 signaling through block 963,647 before forced lock-in begins at 963,648. The minority fork lacks [...]
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