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Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick stated that Bitcoin’s move above $65,500 strengthens the argument that the cycle low may already be in. Prabhjote Gill·Stocktwits Published Aug 20, 2026 | 7:57 AM EDT
HSBC and Standard Chartered have carried out the first live cross-border interbank transaction using tokenised deposits on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger.
DeFi Technologies (Nasdaq: DEFT) appointed Russell Starr as Strategic Advisor. Starr is a seasoned capital markets executive, entrepreneur, and financier with experience in complex transactions, financings, and public markets.
$XRP has recovered the $1.0 psychological level after dropping to $0.98, its lowest level since 2024.
Lower US yields, ETF inflows and fresh regulatory hopes push crypto prices higher
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The Ethereum Foundation has confirmed the “Glamsterdam” protocol upgrade is now expected to launch sometime in the third quarter of 2026, having originally targeted June. The delay comes alongside several technical milestones the Foundation disclosed in a Monday blog post.
Bitcoin has managed to push closer to the psychological $70,000 level after reclaiming $69,000. Meanwhile, Ethereum has jumped above $2,300 and is outperforming Bitcoin on a percentage basis. The question is now whether crypto is back indeed or just a relief rally has returned with a vengeance.
DeFi Technologies (NASDAQ: DEFT) partnered with OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute to integrate the DVIO Index as a recurring institutional data reference and sponsor the Digital Money Summit 2026 in London (19–20 May 2026).
Bitcoin ran from around $64,100 to nearly $70,000 within hours on Aug. 19, once the US Treasury unexpectedly doubled its planned buybacks of long-dated government debt. The move pushed bond yields lower and forced roughly $1.4 billion of crypto short positions out of the market in just four hours.