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Ripple Prime closed an upsized $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes, with Piper Sandler acting as lead placement agent. It is reported that there is no documented pledge of escrowed XRP or any explicit XRP-linked guarantee sitting behind these notes, despite Ripple’s XRP treasury being central to how rating agency KBRA framed the credit. Ripple Prime’s investment-grade profile rests heavily on the perceived strength of parent company Ripple, its cash balance, and its XRP holdings. However, that support is reputational and structural, not a lien on tokens sitting in escrow. Senior Unsecured Notes and Where XRP Escrow Actually Fits…

The treasury firm stepped up its ETH buying as Tom Lee said the crypto’s 30% weekly rally could signal a larger move ahead.

Bitmine owns 4.8% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 97% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 14 months ETH gained 30% in the past week, the largest weekly gain since May 2025 and July 2021. Both precedent instances were followed by subsequent gains of +170% and +167%, respectively. Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 5,067,309 staked ETH, representing $12.4 billion at $2,440 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in America…

The Bybit Card Advantage: Exclusive Pre-Sale Access to Tomorrowland Brasil 2027 Tickets – Chainwire HomeNewsroomThe Bybit Card Advantage: Exclusive Pre-Sale Access to Tomorrowland Brasil 2027 Tickets We use cookies to make Chainwire’s website a better experience. Cookies help us provide a more personalized experience and relevant advertising for you, and web analytics for us. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. The…

Nvidia just did something no AI system has managed before: a perfect score on ARC-AGI-3, the interactive reasoning benchmark designed to test whether AI agents can figure out unfamiliar environments without anyone holding their hand. The company’s AVO system, short for Agentic Variation Operators, completed all 183 levels across 25 public environments on August 21. It did so while requiring 12% fewer actions than VISTA, the previous top performer. The underlying model powering AVO is Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5, which on its own manages roughly 30% on the same benchmark. Nvidia’s system-level architecture turned that into 100%. What ARC-AGI-3 actually…

Three weeks of review turned up problems unrelated to the flaw that cost users $114 million, but updating still does not make a compromised wallet safe.

Bitcoin (BTC) gained more than 20% in five days, delivering the stock market’s average annual return about 140 times faster. The run then stalled at $79,500, just 0.6% short of $80,000. BTC traded near $76,750 on Friday, up 6.6% on the day. That leaves $80,000 about 4% away. The daily relative strength index (RSI) sits at 84.64, its highest reading of 2026. How Bitcoin Outran the Stock Market by 140 Times The math is simple. Since 1928 the S&P 500 has compounded at 10.02% a year, dividends included, per New York University’s Stern School dataset. Spread across five days, that…

Montevideo, Uruguay, August 20th, 2026, Chainwire Aligned allows fintechs and institutions to build financial products on Ethereum, with one-click solutions for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services. Today, Aligned, a full-stack Ethereum infrastructure project, has launched $ALIGN*, the native token of its ecosystem, with listings on major exchanges. Aligned is working to turn Ethereum into the world’s financial backend, and its ecosystem is the single integration fintechs, institutions, and enterprises use to build financial products on Ethereum. Less than one percent of the world’s assets are onchain, and most of what has moved sits on Ethereum as stablecoins, tokenized treasuries,…

Ethereum has staged a sharp breakout from its multi-week consolidation, with ETH now trading around $2.4K after reclaiming the descending trendline that had capped the broader recovery. The move is supported by a strong acceleration in momentum and a noticeable rise in short liquidations, although the sharp increase in RSI readings suggests the rally could become vulnerable to a near-term pullback. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily chart, ETH has decisively broken above the descending trendline that had been in place for months. The breakout is particularly significant because the price had spent several months consolidating below…

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