According to Cointelegraph, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that there is a 20% chance that quantum computers will be able to crack modern cryptography by the end of 2030.
According to Fortune magazine, stablecoin startup M0 announced the completion of a $40 million Series B funding round led by Polychain and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Endeavor Catalyst Fund and existing investors including Pantera and Bain Capital Crypto. M0 co-founder and CEO Luca Prosperi declined to disclose his startup's valuation. The funding round involves equity and locks up the startup's cryptocurrency reserves—tokens that can only be sold after a specified period of time. To date, M0 has raised nearly $100 million.
M0 is building a network where stablecoin issuers can deploy their tokens without having to worry about moving assets between blockchains like Ethereum or Solana, or making cumbersome software decisions like changing Circle's token to PayPal's. M0 aims to bring as many stablecoin issuers as possible onto its network. This includes the crypto wallet MetaMask, which recently announced a partnership with M0 to launch its stablecoin.
Tether to Launch USDT on RGB, Expanding Support for Native Bitcoin Stablecoin
According to an official blog post, stablecoin issuer Tether announced plans to launch USDT on RGB, a next-generation protocol for issuing digital assets on Bitcoin. Tether stated, "RGB mainnet version 0.11.1 recently launched. By introducing USDT to RGB, Tether is helping to open up new frontiers for Bitcoin currency. Users will be able to hold and transfer USDT and Bitcoin simultaneously in the same wallet, enjoying the benefits of privacy and sovereign transactions, and even send and receive value offline. Combining the security of Bitcoin with the stability of Tether marks a significant step towards the true integration of stablecoins into the Bitcoin ecosystem."
SlowMist Technology's Chief Information Security Officer, 23pds, posted on the X platform that researchers discovered serious configuration errors on some Tencent Cloud servers during a routine scan in late July 2025, which resulted in the accidental exposure of sensitive internal credentials and source code to the public network. These errors made key configuration files directly accessible to external parties, posing extremely serious potential risks.
AirNet Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: ANTE) announced the completion of its previously announced registered direct offering to certain investors. The company raised approximately $180 million in gross proceeds through the sale and purchase of 80,826,225 shares of common stock and accompanying warrants. Before deducting offering expenses, all proceeds were paid in digital assets, including approximately 819.07 Bitcoin and 19,928.91 Ethereum. This financing solidifies AirNet's strategic transformation into a dedicated participant in the digital asset ecosystem, with the company hiring a team of experienced cryptocurrency experts to advise on a complex, multifaceted strategy designed to maximize shareholder value.
According to Jinshi.com, the number of initial jobless claims in the United States in the week ending August 23 was 229,000, in line with expectations of 230,000. The previous value was revised from 235,000 to 234,000.
The revised annualized quarterly rate of real GDP in the second quarter of the United States was 3.3%, in line with expectations of 3.10% and the previous value of 3.00%.
According to an official announcement, Binance has upgraded its execution trading service, aggregating spot and over-the-counter (OTC) options quotes from the industry's largest network of liquidity providers. This service prioritizes internalized order flow to reduce market impact, providing tighter spreads, faster execution, and more competitive quotes for large cryptocurrency trades, while also delivering the privacy, security, and institutional-grade service users expect. Previously, Binance's execution trading service relied primarily on liquidity from its own native order book. With this upgrade, Binance will aggregate quotes from multiple liquidity providers to ensure optimal execution.
According to CoinDesk, crypto trading infrastructure startup aPriori has completed a $20 million round of funding, bringing its total capital raised to $30 million. Participants in this round include HashKey Capital, Pantera Capital, Primitive Ventures, IMC Trading, GEM, Gate Labs, Ambush Capital, and Big Brain Collective.
Founded by a group of former Jump Trading, Coinbase, and Citadel Securities engineers, APriori is applying high-frequency trading methods to DeFi to address issues such as excessive spreads and MEV leakage while redistributing MEV to stakers. The company has launched a liquidity staking platform and AI-powered DEX aggregator Swapr, and plans to use the new capital to expand its products and recruit more.
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. government began publishing gross domestic product (GDP) data on a public blockchain on Thursday, marking the Trump administration's latest endorsement of the cryptocurrency industry. According to Commerce Department officials, the move will create an alternative avenue for publishing economic data—not a replacement for existing ones. The initial release will cover nine blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. The plan is to place so-called cryptographic hashes of the data on these blockchains.
Commerce Department officials said the Trump administration intends to expand the program's scope in the future. They said the blockchain initiative is unrelated to the dismissal of the Bureau of Labor Statistics director. Officials said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was the driving force behind the push to publish the data on a blockchain. Earlier this year, Lutnick also said he planned to change the way GDP data is reported to remove the influence of government spending. GDP data is released by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
According to market news, the U.S. Department of Commerce stated that the U.S. government has released the latest GDP data to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, TRON, STELLAR, AVALANCHE, ARBITRUM and Polygon.
According to official news, DeFi Development Corp., a US-listed company, announced that it had increased its holdings by 407,247 SOL, bringing its total holdings to 1,831,011 SOL (approximately US$371 million).
Bitcoin-first protocol Portal to Bitcoin secures $50 million in new funding
According to CoinDesk, the Bitcoin-first protocol Portal to Bitcoin has received $50 million in new financing led by Paloma Investments, bringing the project's total financing to $92 million. The funds will be used to support the expansion of the company's adapter BitScaler. BitScaler can scale native Bitcoin without the use of wrapped tokens, custodial bridges, or "messaging or other insecure alternatives." Portal plans to use the new funds to expand its funding program and attract institutional and community liquidity providers. The company is also currently conducting pilot integrations with wallets and custodial platforms to demonstrate non-custodial token swaps.
21Shares applies to the US SEC to launch spot SEI ETF
21Shares tweeted that it has submitted an S-1 filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), planning to launch the Sei ETF that tracks the price of SEI tokens.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) clarified its position in a staff advisory focused on foreign-based exchanges (FBOTs), saying that companies that feel pressured to leave the United States can still operate domestically as "foreign exchanges," according to The Block.
“U.S. firms that were forced to open a presence in a foreign jurisdiction to facilitate crypto-asset trading can now return to U.S. markets,” said CFTC Acting Chairwoman Caroline Pham. The advisory statement does not make any changes to agency policy but is intended to “remind” such firms of potential action.
Frax founder to serve as CTO of blockchain project Stable
Frax Finance founder Sam Kazemian tweeted that he will be joining the blockchain project Stable as Chief Technology Officer, while continuing his role as CEO of Frax. Stable is an institutional-grade blockchain built for stablecoins.
Time.fun launches mobile app, now available for iOS and Android
Time tokenization platform Time.fun tweeted that it has launched the Timefun mobile app, which is available on both iOS and Android.
