Crypto’s easy-money era is ending in a wave of failures

Inflated valuations and weak business models are driving crypto’s shakeout, Global Settlement Network CEO Ryan Kirkley says.
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Inflated valuations and weak business models are driving crypto’s shakeout, Global Settlement Network CEO Ryan Kirkley says.

XRP enters the second half of 2026 in an unusual position: legally cleared, institutionally adopted, and yet stuck near the same $1 level it has hovered around for months. We put the question to Claude, asking it ‘AI predicts XRP’,…

Proceeds funded STRC dividends and repurchases, while $149.1 million was added to Strategy’s US dollar reserve, which reached $4.8 billion.

Strategy kept its bitcoin holdings unchanged at 840,447 BTC through Aug. 16 while lifting its U.S. dollar reserve to $4.8 billion. Common-stock sales funded the reserve increase, STRC repurchases and preferred-stock dividends. Strategy Leaves Bitcoin Holdings Unchanged Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq:…

Harmony said selectively restoring transactions could create inconsistent chain state, as Ravencoin faces a separate rollback dispute after an exploit.

Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company raised $333.7 million via the sale of common stock.

Developers are narrowing the list for the Hegotá upgrade, including a package to change how wallets approve and pay for transactions, giving developers of privacy apps more of the tools they need inside Ethereum itself.

DefiLlama’s founder said Apple removed one fake app within days after the company documented it draining funds from a small crypto wallet.

Financial firms are partnering with specialists to build infrastructure, blurring lines between traditional and decentralized finance into a unified sector.

Grayscale projects Ethereum’s annual supply inflation could shrink to roughly 0.4% and Solana’s to 1.1% by 2031 if two pending network proposals pass, pushing both issuance rates below gold’s roughly 1.8% annual supply growth. Two Networks, One Scarcity Bet Ethereum…