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Alvin Lang Aug 09, 2026 09:54 LDO has collapsed to levels that now sit below what was already a bearish analyst year-end forecast, while retail piles short and top traders quietly position long — the next $0.06 move resolves … Market Context: Why LDO Is Where It Is Lido DAO has quietly become one of the more telling setups in the liquid staking sector — not because of any bullish catalyst, but because the relentless compression has pushed it into territory that is now technically below what was already a bearish forecast. CoinCodex, publishing on July 29, 2026, called for…

Key TakeawaysMark Esper urged passing the CLARITY Act to extend financial controls and protect US sanctions power.Failing to pass CLARITY could allow China to set digital payment rules and erode US dollar dominance.CLARITY expands the Patriot Act to stop rogue actors while keeping crypto innovation onshore in the U.S. Mark Esper: CLARITY Act ‘Not Merely a Financial Services Bill’ While the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, commonly referred to as the CLARITY Act, awaits a possible Senate vote in September, former defense officials have highlighted the initiative’s relevance in the defense field. Mark Esper, who served as the U.S. Secretary…

HR software provider Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, an anti-tokenmaxxing product that helps a company track and contain its AI spending. One of the most interesting features is that it maps how much individual employees, teams, and roles are spending and if they are genuinely more productive, or generally producing more AI slop. The company promises the tool will show “which engineers have high AI spend whose peers frequently ask them to redo work in code reviews,” the company says in its blog post. The tool was born after Rippling went all in on tokenmaxxing at the start…

Aug 08, 2026 09:51 AAVE sits at $90.12, pinned below every meaningful moving average with taker sell flow running nearly 2:1 over buyers. The 65% probability path points to a test of the $87.93–$86.33 support zone be… The Immediate Setup AAVE is trading at $90.12, balanced on a knife-edge just above its daily pivot of $90.01 — and that symmetry is deceptive. The price is below the SMA 7, below the SMA 50, below both key EMAs, and $9 south of the 200-day SMA at $99.59. Every short-term mean in the stack is acting as overhead resistance, not support. With…

Key TakeawaysAn ethereum whale sold 7,323 ETH ($13.96M), pushing realized losses on the position above $19 million.The whale bought ETH at an average $2,723 between February 2022 and March 2023, then staked it for years.Separately, a new wallet received 1,346 BTC ($87.28 million) from Galaxy Digital in a fresh OTC-style move. Three Years, One Capitulation Onchain sleuths flagged the exit, tracking a wallet that had held its Ethereum position since early 2022. The whale accumulated ETH at an average price of $2,723 across purchases made between February 2022 and March 2023, then staked the holdings rather than trading around them…

OpenAI said Friday it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra after an internal review found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity — enough to warrant concern over its capabilities. OpenAI said in a blog post Friday that this model, which is still in development, reached its “critical cybersecurity threshold,” meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems. Under the company’s “Preparedness Framework,” which it created in 2023, this triggered additional safeguards. “While we continue to benchmark and assess this model, our preliminary evaluations indicate strong…

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Lawsuit accuses North Korea and Lazarus Group of orchestrating the $1.5 billion theft, as court-ordered asset freeze supports recovery efforts and Bybit expands collaboration with law enforcement and industry partners to strengthen accountability for crypto-related cybercrime Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today announced that it has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), its Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), and the Lazarus Group, which U.S. authorities have identified as the DPRK-linked hacking group responsible for the February 2025 cyberattack. Bybit has also secured…

Ted Hisokawa Aug 07, 2026 12:22 USDC and CCTP are now live on OKX’s X Layer, offering regulated stablecoin functionality and cross-chain interoperability for DeFi and payments. Circle has launched native support for USDC and its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) on X Layer, OKX’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible Layer-2 blockchain. The move introduces regulated stablecoin infrastructure to X Layer, potentially boosting adoption for payments, DeFi protocols, and cross-chain transactions. USDC, Circle’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, now enables dollar-denominated payments, lending, and borrowing on X Layer. The integration also brings institutional-grade on/offramps via Circle Mint, deepening USDC’s presence in OKX’s trading ecosystem, which…