Add to Google Preferred Sources Bitcoin has remained stuck around $63,000 for roughly 36 hours after losing about $3,000 during the week, with its market cap at $1.265 trillion and dominance below 57%. The altcoin market showed sharp divergence: WLFI and Worldcoin led gains with over 13% weekly increases, followed by Chainlink at 13% and…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined “Lean Ethereum,” a multi-year plan that could reshape how the network verifies transactions, stores data, handles privacy and prepares for quantum computing.

Strategy (NASDAQ: $MSTR) left its Bitcoin (CRYPTO: $BTC) holdings unchanged over the past week even as the company continued to buyback its preferred stock (NASDAQ: $STRC).

TradingKeyAug 17, 2026 4:00 AM View all comments(0)  • Spot Ethereum ETFs drove renewed institutional engagement and net capital inflows. • Macroeconomic support came from moderating Treasury yields and Federal Reserve expectations. • On-chain fundamentals reinforced valuation while technical indicators displayed neutral to buy signals.

Ripple hasmintedanother 10 million $RLUSD on the $XRP Ledger. Data from XRPScan shows that Ripple’s $RLUSD issuer account minted 10 million tokens in a transaction processed on August 17. The transaction was successfully confirmed on the $XRP Ledger and incurred a fee of just 0.000405 $XRP.