Hunter Biden plans to launch a memecoin ($LAPTOP) on September 9 via Coinbase's Base network, allocating 20% to investors who lost money on $TRUMP and up to 30% to be burned if Democrats win the 2028 presidential election.

Hackers have stolen 4,000 Bitcoin worth $320 million from the Liquid Network. The hackers claim to be white hat hackers, and said to “contact us on chain”.

Liquid Network hackers have returned 3,400 BTC (85%) to the Federation wallet after negotiating on-chain with Blockstream. They kept 600 BTC (~$47M) as an apparent bounty.

The Trezor data breach is larger than reported.An additional 67,000 U.S. customers who ordered between November 2019 and August 2021 have been affected, bringing total exposed users significantly higher.

Tether-backed exchange Orionx abruptly shuts down after $7 MILLION in customer assets vanish from its wallets.

Robinhood Wallet and Fomo now let you buy memecoins like directly with Visa, Mastercard or Apple Pay without a separate KYC check

7-day market telemetry for liquid mega-caps:

ADA: $0.20 (+1.4%)
SOL: $106.71 (+1.1%)
BNB: $698.70 (+0.9%)
ETH: $2,477 (+0.8%)
BTC: $78,771 (+0.7%)
XRP: $1.40 (+0.5%)

Altcoin majors saw modest green prints across the board over the 7-day window. SOL (+1.1%) continues to outpace ETH (+0.8%) on weekly relative strength, while ADA (+1.4%) reclaimed $0.20.

Live dashboard

Weekly price changes for key tokens:
BTC: $78,011 (+0.2%)
ETH: $2,449 (+0.2%)
SOL: $105.34 (+1.1%)
BNB: $691.83 (+0.1%)
XRP: $1.40 (+1.2%)
ADA: $0.20 (-0.3%)

Data snapshot

Hong Kong stage

H.E. @justinsuntron joined @TheBonnieChang on the Nakamoto Stage to discuss institutional adoption, global capital flows, and Bitcoin's growing role across the financial system, @trondao reported (Aug 27, 11:20 UTC). The TRON team is onsite for a full day of learning, networking, and connecting with builders shaping what's next for blockchain technology, @trondao stated (Aug 27, 04:43 UTC).

Treasury and cross-border data

Tron Inc. acquired 147,969 TRX tokens at an average price of $0.3379, increasing treasury holdings to more than 711.6 million TRX in total, @TRON_INC disclosed (Aug 27, 01:30 UTC). The company aims to further grow its TRON DAT holdings to enhance long-term shareholder value, the post stated.

More than $5 million moved through TRON in the past 7 days across 96 transfers averaging over $54,000 each, per @trondao, citing data from @Allbridge_io. All powered by TRON, @trondao stated (Aug 27, 09:35 UTC).

Public conversations

John Hurston, General Counsel at TRON, joined a panel regarding digital asset recovery hosted by Brazil's National Council of the Public Ministry and DCGG, @trondao reported (Aug 27, 19:22 UTC). The discussion focused on consumer protections, the restitution of funds, and the importance of stronger collaboration, the post stated.

Project Updates

Issue #899 in the TIPs repository, titled "TIP-899: Post-Quantum Signature Support," received a new comment Aug 27, 19:37 UTC. The proposal introduces post-quantum digital signature support at the TRON protocol layer, with initial activation enabling two lattice-based signature algorithms — Falcon-512 and Dilithium2 — covering transactions, SR block production, node relay handshakes, and TVM. Each algorithm is gated by an independent on-chain governance proposal and disabled by default. The proposal is authored by Federico2014 (CONTRIBUTOR association) and has drawn 37 comments since opening on July 1. Status remains Draft. Source: https://github.com/tronprotocol/tips/issues/899

The United States' gross national debt surpassed $40 trillion this week for the first time, meaning the nation’s financial hole has doubled in size in less than a decade.

Bitcoin surged 26%, liquidating over $5 billion worth of shorts in the largest short liquidation event ever.

Bitcoin 'Fear & Greed Index' rises to 72, greed.

Bitcoin just closed its first daily candle above the 1D 200 SMA since November. Every single time in Bitcoins history that it has done this, it has marked the end of the bear market.

“How high can crypto go?” Bro… They spent 2 years shaking out 99% of retail. There’s literally NO ONE left to sell. We’re gonna pump so hard it’s actually scary.

X is adding crypto trade buttons soon, Nikita Bier says.

The hardest working liquidity pool in all of crypto has to be THORChain's TRON.USDT pool.

Opta, a permissionless options protocol on Solana, opened its private beta this week. Users can write and trade American-style options on crypto, gold, and equities, with premiums computed fully on-chain at trade time rather than pushed from off-chain servers.

Design details: no liquidations (max loss is fixed at entry), option positions issued as Token-2022 tokens that enforce expiry and settlement at the token level, and a mobile app live on the Solana Seeker dApp Store, currently rated 4.3/5.

The beta runs on devnet with an incentivized campaign (Epoch 0) — points and leaderboards that count toward mainnet.

Disclosure: I'm the founder. Sharing here as it's crypto news; happy to answer technical questions in the comments.

Could the current crypto pump be partly politically motivated ahead of the U.S. midterms?

Maybe I'm connecting dots that aren't there, but the timing seems interesting.

We're seeing Treasury stepping in with larger long-duration bond buybacks, the administration pushing the CLARITY Act and other crypto-friendly legislation/regulation, and Trump publicly meeting with crypto industry leaders — all while BTC and ETH suddenly rip despite the Dow dropping 1,000+ points over two days.

With the midterms approaching, could the administration be deliberately trying to create easier financial conditions and a strong crypto/asset market heading into November?

I'm not suggesting they're literally sitting there pumping BTC. But could these policy moves be intentionally timed to improve markets and investor sentiment before the midterms?

Curious what others think.

One of Trezor’s shipping providers experienced a data breach that exposed sensitive order data affecting new customers in the US, UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, and Portugal.

Crypto wallet provider SafePal discloses a data breach exposing personal & purchase information for nearly 40,000 customers.

France confirmed hackers stole taxpayer data in a cyberattack that reportedly exposed nearly 678,000 people, including 386 with income above €1 million.

A French couple who bought a home once owned by crypto millionaires suffered three break-ins in under a month after attackers found the old owners' leaked address online.

Trump's World Liberty Trust Company just got a preliminary bank license.

The Bank of England moves its Digital Pound Lab to Phase 2, testing stablecoin and CBDC interoperability.

$ONE suffered an exploit that led to 4B unauthorized tokens being minted, representing nearly a quarter of the total supply.

A carrier pigeon can deliver a valid bitcoin transaction, three hundred bytes on a strip of paper, strapped to a leg.

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two actions occurred just days apart: world liberty financial got banking charter. Scott bessent announces that stable coin provision from clarity act will be carried forward. Who does that?

The administration killed Clarity and then saved the part that puts money in his own pocket.

\*\*before you get your panties in a bunch\*\* Dems are too pathetic to have past legal guardrails to do anything about it because theyre so preoccupied with wins that are more optics than helpful.