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After years of stalled bills, misguided enforcement, and catastrophic collapses, almost any comprehensive crypto legislation began to look like progress. But Clarity is turning that hunger for progress into a political trap, argues Berkeley Law lecturer Hermine Wong.
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Your day-ahead look for Aug. 21, 2026
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Laser Digital Japan will offer liquidity to domestic crypto providers, with institutional trading services planned to follow as the appetite for crypto in Japan grows.
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BTC has gained 24% since Monday and reached the level implied by its inverse head-and-shoulders break, with shorts still taking a contrarian position.
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Coinkite urged Coldcard users to generate new seed phrases, warning that existing vulnerable seeds remain unsafe despite the security upgrade.
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The rally in hard assets isn’t necessarily about what the Treasury is doing, but what its move signals to the market.
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Bitcoin gains 20% in two days as Strategy sees its BTC treasury climb out of the red.
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Strategy’s common stock rose 10% in Friday pre-market trading to $120, the highest level in two months.
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Bitcoin ETF inflows pushed August’s total to a 2026 high of $2.07 billion as Bitcoin traded above $75,000 and Ether climbed to $2,357.
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Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $606 million on Aug. 20 and ether funds $221 million, both bigger than the prior day, confirming the institutional bid behind bitcoin's run.
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The token touched $0.004126 minutes before the network stopped producing blocks, while MANTRA later said an attacker exploited a vulnerability in software used by the chain.
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The proposal would let the FIU investigate suspected violations and refer unregistered crypto operators directly to law enforcement.
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Clearpool and Cicada Partners are building an institutional lending product using RLUSD, though the XRP Ledger features underpinning it are still awaiting activation.
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The token recovered to about $0.0044 after setting a new low, while exchanges paused deposits and withdrawals from the halted MANTRA Chain.
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The two-day short liquidation total has reached about $3.8 billion, after Thursday's figure set a record going back to 2021.
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UAE clients will be able to buy and hold crypto through Capital.com’s app, expanding beyond price exposure through contracts for difference.
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"Bears in pain, right now," wrote bitcoin analyst James Check.
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An options trader opened a large straddle on XRP, betting on wild price swings by Aug. 28.
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