Altcoin News
AIGrain Presale Round 2 Begins as First Presale Phase Concludes, September 1 Listing Announced Excerpt
AIGrain has completed its first presale round and opened Round 2, with the project announcing September 1 as the planned date for its listing and bonus distribution.
Altseason Index Stuck Near 30 as Bitcoin Dominance Tops 56%
Capital rotation into altcoins has yet to arrive in 2026, with the Altcoin Season Index sitting far below the 75 threshold that defines a confirmed altseason.
Wells Fargo Discloses $9.18 Million Stake in Bitwise XRP ETF
Wells Fargo revealed a $9.18 million position in the Bitwise XRP ETF in its latest 13F filing, making it the largest disclosed institutional holder of the fund for the quarter.
Canton Network's First Revenue Puts Its Institutional Privacy Bet to the Test
Canton Strategic Holdings posted its first-ever quarterly revenue from the privacy-focused Canton Network, offering an early signal on whether institutional blockchain adoption can translate into real business.
BarnBridge Becomes Second Dormant-DAO Takeover in a Month, Security Firm Warns
An attacker quietly bought up governance tokens of the abandoned BarnBridge protocol, passed a malicious proposal, and drained roughly $776,000, the second dormant-DAO takeover in three weeks following a similar $20 million exploit at BonkDAO.
BitGo Moves $7.3 Billion in Wrapped Bitcoin From LayerZero to Chainlink
Crypto custody firm BitGo is shifting roughly $7.3 billion of Wrapped Bitcoin from LayerZero to Chainlink's cross-chain protocol, the largest move yet in a wave of institutional migrations following LayerZero's April security crisis.
AI Financial Explores Sale of Payments Unit After Steep WLFI Treasury Losses
AI Financial is reportedly in talks to sell its main payments business for up to $15 million after a crypto treasury strategy built around the WLFI token left the company facing steep losses and going-concern doubts.
93% of Robinhood Chain Activity Is Memecoins, Raising Questions About Tokenization Push
Nearly all early activity on Robinhood's new Ethereum layer-2 network is coming from memecoin trading rather than the tokenized stocks the brokerage is pitching as the network's long-term purpose.
Solana Processes Record 159.5 Million Transactions in a Day as MoneyGram Deal Expands Reach
Solana hit a new daily transaction record on August 11, even as a validator routing fault briefly pushed delinquent stake close to a critical threshold.