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UNI is today’s top performer, skyrocketing by over 11%. Bitcoin’s gradual price recovery after Friday’s dip below $77,000 continues into the weekend, with the asset barely moving past $78,000 today. Most larger-cap alts have posted minor gains as well, but ETH remains below $2,500, BNB is still beneath $700, and XRP keeps fighting for $1.40. BTC Taps $78K The price explosion that took place within 48 hours in the middle of the month drove bitcoin out of its slumber, surging from under $65,000 to $80,000. Although the asset was stopped there at first and slipped below $75,500 last weekend, the…

Kalshi and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) both punished a White House teleprompter operator on Friday. Gabriel Perez had bet on Trump’s speech text before the president read it out loud. Perez gave up $107,539.02 in profit. He paid a $65,000 fine on top. He cannot trade for three years. Why the White House Staffer’s Fine Came In So Low The CFTC discounted the fine and said so in the order. It credited what it called exemplary cooperation. “Under the order, Perez must disgorge the profits he made from his unlawful trading totaling $107,539.02 and pay a civil monetary…

Polygon has disclosed several previously private security vulnerabilities that could have disrupted its proof-of-stake network, after deploying fixes through two recent hard forks.The vulnerabilities affected Polygon’s Bor and Heimdall clients and included denial-of-service risks, validator resource exhaustion and flaws affecting checkpoint and milestone processing, according to a Thursday disclosure from Polygon Labs’ Validators Support Team. Polygon said the flaws were fixed through the Austin and Kyoto hard forks, which were deployed privately and tested before being activated on mainnet and publicly disclosed. The most severe issue involved Heimdall, where a specially crafted transaction could force validators to perform excessive processing work,…

Deribit will remove its public Proof of Reserves page on Sept. 1, ending a daily check customers could use to verify balance inclusion and compare aggregate liabilities with published wallet holdings. Regulator-required reserve, reconciliation and audit controls will remain, but they do not provide the same daily public visibility.The exchange said the change reflects a wallet infrastructure overhaul during its integration with Coinbase. Deribit said roughly 90% of client assets have moved into Coinbase custody arrangements since Coinbase acquired the derivatives platform in August 2025. Its disclosures name Coinbase at the brand level but do not identify the specific Coinbase…

Washington, United States, August 28th, 2026, Chainwire As prediction-market volume hits record highs and regulators circle, identically worded midterm questions are trading several points apart depending on the venue. Predictions.io now tracks 9,700+ markets across Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold in one place – with free fee and odds calculators so traders can see what a price actually costs them. Prediction markets have never been bigger, or more contested. Kalshi, Polymarket and Polymarket US together posted a record $50.59 billion in combined volume in July, with Kalshi accounting for roughly 74.5% of the total. In the same month, New York City…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 28th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has launched Earn Plus, a new flexible savings product, and introduced a limited-time event that offers eligible users an APR boost of up to 800%. Earn Plus is a flexible savings product that allows users to stake stablecoins and earn daily interest. The product offers 100% principal protection, with interest generated from low-risk, high-liquidity assets. Earn Plus has no lock-up period or maximum subscription limit, allowing users to stake and redeem assets at any time, with redemptions processed within seconds. Interest is calculated hourly and settled…

Costa Rica, August 28, 2026 — Frogbet, a new cryptocurrency casino and sportsbook, has officiallylaunched at frogbet.com, debuting a catalog of 70 original games developed entirely in-house alongsidemore than 7,000 titles from providers including Pragmatic Play, Hacksaw Gaming and BGaming.Every Frogbet original is provably fair, allowing players to cryptographically verify the outcome of anybet at any time. The proprietary catalog spans in-house slots, eight blackjack variants, poker, and a fullrange of instant games including Mines, Dice, Plinko, Crash, Limbo and Keno — none of which areavailable on any other platform. According to the team, Frogbet’s proprietary slots are the first…

Singapore, Singapore, August 27th, 2026, Chainwire TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol built by Term Structure Labs, announced on August 26 that it has received a strategic investment from YZi Labs. Terms were not disclosed. TermMax was selected for YZi Labs’ EASY Residency Season 3 and has raised more than $8 million to date. Its earlier backers include Cumberland DRW — which led the 2023 seed round — HashKey Capital, Decima Fund, Longling Capital and MZ Web3 Fund. The protocol has been live on mainnet since April 2025 and now runs across 10 EVM-compatible chains, with 60 fixed-rate markets, 40 strategy…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 27th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has launched IPO Express, a new event offering eligible users access to SHEIN’s IPO subscription, ahead of its scheduled listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, 2026. The first-in-market opportunity is designed to allow users to gain economic exposure to SHEIN’s post-listing performance using USDT and receive mirror credits, without directly holding SHEIN shares. MEXC is committed to removing barriers to market participation, based on the belief that opportunity should not be limited by identity, capital size, or geography. IPO allocations have traditionally…

Berlin, Germany, August 26th, 2026, Chainwire TronBid expands its two-sided TRON resource marketplace, giving users new ways to rent Energy, trade Energy and Bandwidth, and reduce USDT fees for TRC-20 transactions. TronBid, a peer-to-peer marketplace for TRON network resources, has expanded its platform with new tools for users looking to rent TRON Energy, manage transaction costs and access network resources without maintaining large amounts of staked TRX. The platform now operates as a two-sided marketplace where both buyers and sellers can create orders for TRON Energy and Bandwidth. Understanding TRON Energy Usage TRON uses Energy and Bandwidth as its primary…