Bitcoin (BTC), XRP, Ethereum and Shiba Inu (SHIB) Price Analysis for August 31: Is It Bulls' Last Chance?
Market feels stronger than any point in 2026, however, the clear picture is yet to be painted out there.
31 Aug 2026, 01:01
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Market feels stronger than any point in 2026, however, the clear picture is yet to be painted out there.
31 Aug 2026, 01:01
Open sourceBitcoin moves toward a post quantum future, Solana validators agree to curb rampant inflation and the bull case from Bernstein is for Bitcoin to peak at $500K this cycle.
31 Aug 2026, 00:36
Open sourceGabriel Perez used his access to Trump's speeches before delivery to bet on "presidential mention market" contracts, profiting more than $107,500 before the CFTC caught up with him.
31 Aug 2026, 00:31
Open sourceThe human brain runs on 20 watts. Set that against AI energy use, and the real contest turns out to be electricity. The post Your Brain Runs on 20 Watts. AI Wants a Power Plant appeared first on BeInCrypto .
31 Aug 2026, 00:00
Open sourceThe Austin and Kyoto hard forks, deployed quietly on the Bor and Heimdall clients before public disclosure, closed denial-of-service and consensus-hardening flaws that Polygon says were never exploited.
30 Aug 2026, 23:31
Open sourceSchnabel says the ECB should issue euro reserves on-chain, casting stablecoins as complements, not settlement anchors. The post ECB Wants the Euro Directly on Blockchain. Will It Kill Stablecoins in Europe? appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 23:00
Open sourceSpot Bitcoin ETFs shed $201.9 million on Aug. 28, ending a nine-day inflow run, even as Ethereum funds extended a 10-day streak with fresh cash.
30 Aug 2026, 22:31
Open sourceJapan’s yen weakened again this week despite roughly $97 billion spent supporting it over the past month. Its slide puts renewed pressure on officials to act, with potential consequences for Bitcoin. Why Japan’s Yen Rescue is Fading The currency fell to 160.16 yen per dollar on Friday, 28 August, giving up more than half its The post Japan’s Yen Falls Again Despite $97 Billion Aid. Risk For Bitcoin? appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 22:28
Open sourceThe S&P 500 is up 12.65% in 2026, yet record options and margin debt echo the leverage that broke 1907. The post S&P 500 Is Up 12% in 2026 But a 1907 Crash Signal Is Back appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 22:04
Open sourceAs part of the agreement, rival prediction market platforms are reportedly barred from advertising at the tournament and on its ESPN broadcasts.
30 Aug 2026, 21:28
Open sourceCircle's wrapped Bitcoin was overcollateralized at its Aug. 27 snapshot, yet WBTC and cbBTC remain thousands of times larger as Arc becomes the next distribution test. The post CEO Jeremy Allaire says Circle built “the platform for the internet financial system”, but cirBTC has only 40 BTC appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 21:00
Open sourceA Bitcoin rally to around $79,000 lifted the company's 840,447 BTC roughly $2.8 billion above its cost basis, as Saylor's "We're Back" post fueled speculation that Strategy may resume buying.
30 Aug 2026, 20:39
Open sourceSberbank plans bitcoin, ether and USDT loan collateral as Russia's crypto law starts, but domestic payments stay banned. The post Russia’s Largest Bank Wants Bitcoin and Ethereum as Collateral appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 19:59
Open sourceHelium soared 170% in a weekend as bearish traders were forced out. Here is whether it is too late to buy HNT. The post Helium Price Soars 170% in One Weekend: Is It Too Late to Buy HNT Now? appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 19:58
Open sourceRipple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty has argued that passing the CLARITY Act could boost job creation and economic growth in the United States.
30 Aug 2026, 19:52
Open sourceLi says the attacker manipulated the price of Tectonic's illiquid TONIC token before borrowing against the inflated collateral, a Mango Markets-style hack.
30 Aug 2026, 19:40
Open sourceGENIUS reserves stop at 93 days while Treasury expands liquidity buybacks across 10- to 30-year debt. The post US treasury relies on stablecoins to fund short-term debt, but they can’t fix its $28B long-bond problem appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 19:25
Open sourceSaylor says MicroStrategy is back. Debt is covered, STRC nears par, and the Bitcoin buying pause may finally end. The post Michael Saylor Says ‘We're Back': 3 Reasons MicroStrategy May Resume Buying Bitcoin appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 19:17
Open sourceMichael Saylor’s “We’re Back” post hints Strategy may resume Bitcoin buying after a two-month pause to strengthen its balance sheet.
30 Aug 2026, 18:59
Open sourceThe lawsuit asks a federal court to block the $95 million TRM contract and require ICE to conduct a full and open competition.
30 Aug 2026, 18:51
Open sourceElon Musk backs a discrete universe theory that traders say proves quantum computers can never break Bitcoin. The post Elon Musk Backs the Physics Behind a Claim Quantum Computers Can't Break Bitcoin appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 18:37
Open sourceBitGo is paying roughly $42.5 million upfront for institutional trading capabilities as NYDIG prioritizes a claimed 3+ GW power-and-compute footprint, leaving profitability unproven on both sides. The post Wall Street’s favorite Bitcoin broker just walked away from institutional trading to chase gigawatts of power appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 18:10
Open sourceGold investor and longtime Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff has renewed his criticism of the cryptocurrency.
30 Aug 2026, 17:26
Open sourceCronos halted its blockchain after the Tectonic exploit, trapping most of the stolen funds before they could escape. The post Cronos Blockchain Stops After Reported $75 Million Hack Attempt appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 17:19
Open sourceBitcoin rebounds from Friday’s low as Strategy’s valuation expands and bitcoin dominance climbs above 60%.
30 Aug 2026, 16:39
Open sourceSony and Warner filed an Anthropic music lawsuit, saying torrented songbooks were used to train Claude. The post Anthropic Downloaded Music From Torrent Sites to Train Claude appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 16:26
Open sourceThe Aug. 25 unwind was capitalized into principal, while a one-time Sept. 24 test determines whether the $75,000 ceiling applies. The post One mid-tier Bitcoin treasury just gambled its entire BTC reserve on a single 30-day reset price appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 16:05
Open sourceFinance has spent centuries decoupling wealth from physical transport, but constantly erasing friction creates vectors for increasingly high-tech exploits.
30 Aug 2026, 16:00
Open sourceXRP at decisive moment as its next move might depend on it holding 3.2 billion support.
30 Aug 2026, 15:55
Open sourceAI agents push XRPL into a 105% wallet imbalance, swapping volatile XRP for stable RLUSD as microtransaction costs spike.
30 Aug 2026, 15:45
Open sourceA crypto developer narrowly escaped malware from a fake Claude AI link, only to find a poisoned backup file ready to reinfect his clean laptop.
30 Aug 2026, 15:27
Open sourceOCEAN still represented 2.45% of trailing-day blocks after buying out its co-founder, while CONVOY disclosed no operational footprint. The post Veteran Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr exits OCEAN pool – Will hash power follow him to new pool? appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 15:00
Open sourceShiba Inu burn rate sharply rose 1020% as million of tokens get sent to dead wallets.
30 Aug 2026, 14:50
Open sourcePlatforms could rely on foreign issuers only after reasonable diligence, while comments on the proposed standard remain open through Oct. 19. The post Treasury proposed GENIUS change forces US exchanges to audit foreign stablecoin or face delisting appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 14:35
Open sourceMore than 100 AI, security, finance, and technology organizations want governments and industry to prepare for attacks powered by increasingly capable models.
30 Aug 2026, 14:31
Open sourceA settled CFTC order adds a $65,000 penalty and three-year ban while crediting KalshiEX’s assistance. The post White House aide turned secret speech text into $107k on prediction markets before CFTC stepped in appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 13:30
Open sourceShiba Inu is still playing its own game, but the magnitude of its market movements might decrease quite soon.
30 Aug 2026, 13:30
Open sourceAmericans call crypto risky for retirement. Their insurance money already sits in private credit under federal scrutiny. The post American Insurers Secretly Put $16 Billion of Retirement Money Into Private Loans appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 13:15
Open sourceAs bitcoin surges back above $80,000, sophisticated trading firms are quietly collecting yield rather than making directional bet.
30 Aug 2026, 13:00
Open sourceTim Cook kept Bitcoin off Apple's balance sheet for 15 years. New CEO John Ternus has not said if that holds. The post Tim Cook Owns Crypto But Apple Never Bought Bitcoin: Will This Change? appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 12:46
Open sourceBitwise CEO’s reaction to $1B Solana ETF milestone exposes the structural bottleneck keeping XRP funds out of the billion-dollar elite.
30 Aug 2026, 12:45
Open sourceFour Aerodrome pools showed $6.07 million in displayed liquidity while official Aave V3 records listed none of the B20 assets. The post Crypto stock tokens barely move over weekend, revealing markets become illiquid when Wall Street goes offline appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 12:40
Open sourceA teenage coder sold his Telegram Gift NFT for 15,000 Grams, roughly 40 times what Telegram guaranteed. The post Telegram Gift NFT Sells for $20,000 as Pavel Durov Backs Young Coders appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 11:59
Open sourceXRP bulls are failing to generate enough momentum to push the tides on the red side.
30 Aug 2026, 11:53
Open sourceThe US Treasury expects to borrow $739 billion from July through September while paying investors to hand back some of its older bonds. The pairing looks self-defeating because both transactions involve the same issuer. However, they are on separate ledgers and solve separate problems: auctions finance the government and create liquid benchmarks, while buybacks retire […] The post How $739B in new US debt could absorb crypto’s liquidity before buybacks even reach Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 11:50
Open sourceA meme coin now trades against tokenized GameStop on BNB Chain. Traders ask whether it can move the real stock. The post Crypto’s Next Meme Coin War? Traders Want Tokens That Can Move Real Stocks appeared first on BeInCrypto .
30 Aug 2026, 11:12
Open sourceSolana's growth on Hyperliqud suggests a different composition of investors and more volatile rally.
30 Aug 2026, 10:50
Open sourceLegendary XRP forecaster DonAlt flags a clean ETH breakout; see why holding $2,400 support could soon trigger another 30% surge for the market.
30 Aug 2026, 10:49
Open sourceRussia’s largest bank, Sber, plans to accept USDT and Ether alongside Bitcoin as loan collateral as the country introduces regulated crypto trading under a new law.
30 Aug 2026, 10:45
Open sourceBHWI has published parity tests, but downstream wallets still face packaging, platform and integration work. The post Popular Bitcoin wallets risk losing support for new hardware devices as critical security bridge stops accepting new devices appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 10:30
Open sourceThe Genesis Block, or Block 0, is the first-ever block on the Bitcoin blockchain, mined by Bitcoin pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
30 Aug 2026, 10:15
Open sourceDelaware Life Insurance Company's 2025 balance sheet took on a startling new shape when the insurer corrected its annual filing: roughly $17 billion of investments were classified as related-party holdings, about 39% of invested assets, versus roughly $1.4 billion and 3% in the earlier version. Clear Spring Life and Annuity Company made a separate correction […] The post The next shadow-banking problem comes from insurance companies, where nobody was looking for a bank run appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 09:33
Open sourceTrump-linked Real Trump Coins said it never authorized GOLD or any digital token as questions persisted over its X account, associated domains and the concentrated token supply.
30 Aug 2026, 09:04
Open sourceBitcoin’s oldest holders are showing signs of renewed activity, with another wallet moving 10 BTC that had remained untouched since 2011.
30 Aug 2026, 08:49
Open sourceRipple has pledged $300,000 in emergency aid to support communities affected by devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet.
30 Aug 2026, 07:49
Open sourcePrice moves will not trigger margin calls, but 60 days of delinquency can put the pledged Bitcoin at risk of sale. The post Borrowers can now use $250k in Bitcoin for a house down payment without margin calls, but one trap remains appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 07:05
Open sourceCardano's latest liquidation imbalance suggests ADA's next move may be more volatile than the price chart alone indicates.
30 Aug 2026, 01:01
Open sourceThe exploit caused the neobank's AVICI token to drop 49% from a 24-hour high, hitting a record low before paring some of the losses.
30 Aug 2026, 00:49
Open sourceThe Sept. 1 change removes a client Merkle check, leaving VARA reports and audited materials that are less public. The post Deribit moved 90% of client assets to Coinbase, then killed its daily proof-of-reserves check appeared first on CryptoSlate .
30 Aug 2026, 00:20
Open sourceThe company’s $4 billion contracted AI run-rate target was four times the $1 billion operating level measured Aug. 26, with recognition still gated by delivery and customer acceptance. The post Bitcoin miner IREN still gets 82% of revenue from BTC after clearing room for Microsoft AI cloud appeared first on CryptoSlate .
29 Aug 2026, 23:10
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