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2 Trillion Tokens in 7 Days: B.AI Sparks Developer Frenzy With Accessible Compute

On August 24, next-gen AI infrastructure platform B.AI hit a major milestone: cumulative token throughput across its sitewide free-access campaign officially crossed the 2 trillion threshold. The record-breaking run follows a series of aggressive, developer-first plays that have turned heads across the industry. While rising prices from leading model providers have sparked cost anxiety across […]

CryptoSlate•News Desk1 Sept

Cross-chain oracle compromise triggers liquidations and frozen vaults across multiple DeFi networks

Full Sail confirmed vault losses, Virtue reported 47 liquidations and Volo paused withdrawals while Sui and IOTA remained online.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright1 Sept

UK is hunting the $86 billion Russia-linked crypto pipeline as it moves to double sanctions fines

Banks and payment providers must investigate network indicators now, but the 100% OFSI ceiling still needs legislation.

CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo1 Sept

Russia just switched on a crypto market that doesn’t fully exist yet

Most provisions took effect Sept. 1, but draft rules and a July 2027 transition limit what can operate now.

CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo1 Sept

How short liquidations cleared $500B in crypto positions before institutional buyers took over

Crypto added roughly $500 billion in market value in a matter of days as Bitcoin ran from about $63,500 toward $80,000 last week. A liquidation squeeze powered much of the first phase, and regulated investment products then supplied fresh capital once forced buying began to fade. Tom Lee told Milk Road that the crypto liquidation […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos1 Sept

XRP investors poured $320M into ETFs while the funds sat on a $746M paper loss

Five major US spot XRP products held XRP with a combined fair value $746.1 million below accounting cost at the end of June, but investors kept buying anyway. According to SEC filings, Bitwise, Canary Capital, Franklin Templeton, 21Shares, and Grayscale recorded roughly $629.9 million in primary-market share creations against $309.1 million in redemptions during the […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos1 Sept

Cronos validators erase transaction history to contain massive $75 million lending protocol exploit

The network-wide pause appears to have kept most affected assets on-chain, but users still lack a restart timetable or official accounting.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright1 Sept

How Saylor’s $2 billion capital loop is quietly rewriting the rules of Bitcoin ownership

His essay preserves self-custody while legitimizing the layered claims that now finance Strategy’s balance sheet.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright1 Sept

Strategy splits $603 million share sale between Bitcoin purchases and STRC support

One week of common-stock sales funded a $369.7 million Bitcoin purchase, $202.5 million of STRC buybacks and dividends, and a $30 million cash increase.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright31 Aug

Ontology halts mainnet transactions as technical team investigates potential security issue

The project said no incident or asset loss had been confirmed, while a public node remained at block 20,770,893 and no restart time was disclosed.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright31 Aug

Phemex puts 82 tokens on notice over liquidity and project compliance concerns

Each market met at least one risk criterion, but Phemex did not disclose which issue applied to each pair.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright31 Aug

AI data centers are learning the power trick Bitcoin miners mastered first

Every answer you get from an AI chatbot begins with electricity. The words appear on your screen, but the actual work happens in a distant building packed with computer chips. Those chips draw power, move data, and produce enough heat to require heavy-duty cooling from AI data centers. When you multiply that process across millions […]

CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac31 Aug

Bitcoin gains 24% as CryptoSlate price prediction model maps a volatile September

The median forecast points to $81,319 by Sep. 29, with $80,000 resistance and a break in ETF inflows testing the rally.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright31 Aug

Why Bitcoin’s $2B corporate treasuries are a ticking time bomb of hidden conditional supply

PowerCompute and USBC show how collars, options and secured loans can turn passive holdings into contractual obligations.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright31 Aug

Massive Bitcoin derivatives gap between CME and Coinbase threatens violent position shakeout

The 41,252.1 BTC CME position dwarfs Coinbase's 151.62 BTC residual, while any hedge leg could offset a squeeze.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright31 Aug

Bitcoin on course for best August since 2017 despite renewed US-Iran hostilities

Bitcoin is on track to log its best August performance since 2017, demonstrating remarkable resilience against back-to-back macro shocks as escalating US-Iran hostilities and a hawkish pivot from the Federal Reserve test the durability of the digital-asset rebound. Data from CryptoSlate shows that the largest cryptocurrency is trading near $78,400 as of press time, bringing […]

CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo31 Aug

Why the SEC’s $75 million crypto path is not the same deal Congress is offering

The SEC proposal and Congress’s unfinished ancillary-asset framework diverge on who qualifies, what investors can enforce and how overlapping rules would interact.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright31 Aug

DeFi protocols just lost $83 million to an attack financial regulators already warned about

Malicious actors exposed two decentralized finance (DeFi) lenders to over $84 million in losses over four days, using variations of a price-manipulation strategy previously targeted by US regulators. The larger incident hit Tectonic on the Cronos blockchain, where security firm GoPlus estimated roughly $75 million was affected. Three days earlier, Moonwell’s MAMO lending market on […]

CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo31 Aug

Bitcoin treasury company registers 93% of shares for resale and puts third of its crypto into options

The shares are already issued and may never be sold, while loan, treasury and cash risks remain.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright31 Aug

Michael Saylor’s $13,400 Bitcoin floor exposes the exact order of losses inside Strategy’s debt stack

The filed ratio moves with cash and claims, while MSTR dilution and legal priority shape real losses.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright31 Aug