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News
Aug 31, 2026
3 min read
CoinDCX has listed Tether Gold (XAUT) for trading and launched a systematic investment plan on the token starting at ₹100. The listing brings the largest tokenized gold product by market cap to Indian investors, with gains falling under India's 30% virtual digital asset tax.
Bitcoin crossed $80,000 on August 24 for the first time since May 15, backed by $1.92 billion in weekly ETF inflows and over $4 billion in liquidated shorts. One trader maps a path back to $45,000, while Bernstein holds $150,000 and Citi's base case sits at $82,000.
Pi Network began deploying Protocol 27 to Testnet 1 on August 21, with September 15, 2026 as the Mainnet target. The Core Team calls it the final planned upgrade in the current sequence, adding smart-contract authentication and groundwork for RPC servers, DEX functions, and AMM pools.
Crypto
Aug 22, 2026
3 min read
Strategy returned to an unrealized gain of about $1.4 billion on its 840,447 BTC after bitcoin cleared the company's $75,385 average cost. Spot ETFs took in $606 million on Thursday, Standard Chartered flagged a possible run at $126,000, and Coinbase's CEO looked to 2030.
News
Aug 17, 2026
4 min read
Crypto India Magazine released NARRATIVE Issue 2, The Institutional Era of Crypto, on August 15, 2026. Marc Liew of Jito Foundation fronts the cover story, with features on custody, market infrastructure, and DeFi, three HER Story profiles, and four contributor essays.
AI
Aug 11, 2026
3 min read
Workato has opened its third AI Collaboration Hub in Hyderabad, after San Francisco and Singapore. The site at Aurobindo Orbit puts customers, GSI partners, and Workato engineers in one room to co-build agentic AI against live enterprise systems. Workato India employs more than 200 people.
DeFi
Jul 24, 2026
2 min read
Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX will shut down on September 23, 2026, following a strategic review by parent company HDR Global Trading. Users have been asked to close open positions and withdraw their assets ahead of the closure as the platform begins an orderly wind down.
Robinhood took its Arbitrum-built Layer 2, Robinhood Chain, live on public mainnet on July 1. The launch brings 24/7 Stock Token trading to more than 120 countries, adds onchain lending through Robinhood Earn, and routes 10% of chain fees back to the Arbitrum ecosystem.
Crypto
Jul 10, 2026
3 min read
Attackers backdoored the official Injective npm SDK on July 8, 2026, planting code that stole crypto wallet seed phrases and private keys across 18 packages. The poisoned version was downloaded 310 times before a clean release shipped. Here is how the attack worked.
Germany's Federal Ministry of Finance has floated ending the one-year crypto tax exemption as part of its 2027 budget. If passed, all crypto gains would become taxable regardless of holding period, ending a key perk for long-term holders.
Trump's 2025 ethics filing shows crypto ventures, led by World Liberty Financial and his TRUMP meme coin, generated more than $1.4 billion, outpacing his real estate income as bitcoin and meme coin prices slide.
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Chinese exile Guo Wengui to 30 years in prison for a $1 billion fraud that used his Himalaya Exchange crypto platform and political dissident branding to solicit victims worldwide.
Crypto
Jun 24, 2026
3 min read
The CoinDCX H1 2026 report shows Indian crypto investors traded ₹14,664 crore in the first half of the year while Bitcoin fell roughly 51%. Assets under custody rose across every generation, led by Gen Z at 63%, and Bitcoin's share of traded volume climbed to 22.43%.
Crypto
Jun 22, 2026
3 min read
On-chain investigator ZachXBT says an X user who asked him to unfreeze 5.73 BTC at Changelly instead exposed an alleged Indian scam ring tied to over $1M in thefts targeting Americans, including elderly victims, since 2025. The account was later deleted.
News
Jun 20, 2026
3 min read
Crypto game studio Uncharted is closing its flagship Ronin title Fishing Frenzy on June 25 after failing to prove its crypto gaming thesis. The wind-down includes $62,845 in USDC payouts, refunds, and a frozen, spend-only FISH token.
AI
Jun 19, 2026
3 min read
Clarkson University researchers built Rex, an AI framework that lets diffusion and flow-matching models reverse their own process with far less error. The work was accepted as an Oral at ICML 2026, the top 0.7% of submissions.
SpaceX prices its record $75 billion IPO at $135 a share, listing on the Nasdaq as SPCX on June 12. The $1.77 trillion debut drags an 18,712-BTC treasury into public markets and turns Dogecoin into a sentiment proxy for the largest listing on record.
Strategy bought 1,550 Bitcoin for about $101 million on Monday, its first purchase below cost basis, days after a $2.5 million sale that helped tip Bitcoin into a 14% crash. The weekend rebound to $63,700 wiped out $504 million in short positions as an on-chain metric neared past bottom levels.
AI
Jun 5, 2026
3 min read
Bots and AI agents have surpassed human traffic on the internet for the first time, according to Cloudflare CEO and…
Trezor and Tropic Square have disclosed a TROPIC01 chip vulnerability in the Safe 7 hardware wallet, uncovered during an independent Ledger Donjon audit using a laser fault injection attack. The flaw affects one of three security layers, and Trezor says user funds remain safe.
The DOJ and CFTC are investigating former Rep. George Santos over Kalshi bets tied to his attendance at Trump's State of the Union address. Kalshi froze his account and referred the case, as prediction-market insider trading scrutiny widens.
Bitcoin's price crash pulled BTC below $65,000 on Tuesday, a two-month low, after Strategy sold Bitcoin for the first time in nearly four years. The selloff sparked $1.23 billion in liquidations, while Peter Schiff asked if the drop is a "harbinger" of trouble in risk assets.
Brussels-based Keyrock has been named the successful bidder for the assets of bankrupt crypto trading firm BlockFills, agreeing to pay $3.25 million. The deal awaits approval at a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing scheduled for June 16, 2026, months after BlockFills filed for Chapter 11.
Coinbase launched direct INR rails in India on June 1, 2026, letting customers deposit and withdraw rupees via IMPS without P2P workarounds. The exchange added spot trading, perpetual futures, local rupee order books, and Coinbase Advanced tools, backed by FIU-IND registration.