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Social chatter around ZEC hit six times its August baseline before the price peak, then vanished as the ETF launched. Zcash has been one of the best-performing assets this year. It has managed to attract significant institutional capital. This week, asset manager Grayscale Investments launched the first exchange-traded fund that tracks the spot price of ZEC. But interest in the privacy-focused token peaked shortly before its price reached a recent high. Zcash Crowd Showed Up Early Data shared by Santiment revealed that social chatter faded by the time the ZEC spot ETF launched. Grayscale converted its 2017 Zcash trust into…

The debasement trade is back — and will benefit bitcoin.  That’s according to asset manager Grayscale’s crypto research team, who wrote in a note this week that the U.S. government debasing its currency would lead to cash hitting digital assets.  “Unchecked government debt growth undermines the credibility of fiat currencies and drives investors to seek out alternative stores of value like physical gold and certain cryptocurrencies,” the note by the firm’s head of research, Zach Pandl, read, adding that primarily bitcoin would benefit.  US public debt has reached over $40 trillion. The Treasury is buying back bonds to ease rising…

Bitcoin slid Friday afternoon, cooling down after a phenomenal run following huge investment from U.S. ETF buyers.  The leading cryptocurrency was trading for $77,379 on Friday afternoon in New York after dropping more than 3% over a 24-hour period.  Bitcoin hit a high this week of $81,281 but slowed down after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh gave his first major speech as head of the central bank — saying on Friday that he had “more work to do” to fight inflation.  The Bitcoin price has in the past dropped when the Federal Reserve thinks inflation is too high because it…

Washington, United States, August 28th, 2026, Chainwire As prediction-market volume hits record highs and regulators circle, identically worded midterm questions are trading several points apart depending on the venue. Predictions.io now tracks 9,700+ markets across Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold in one place – with free fee and odds calculators so traders can see what a price actually costs them. Prediction markets have never been bigger, or more contested. Kalshi, Polymarket and Polymarket US together posted a record $50.59 billion in combined volume in July, with Kalshi accounting for roughly 74.5% of the total. In the same month, New York City…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 28th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has launched Earn Plus, a new flexible savings product, and introduced a limited-time event that offers eligible users an APR boost of up to 800%. Earn Plus is a flexible savings product that allows users to stake stablecoins and earn daily interest. The product offers 100% principal protection, with interest generated from low-risk, high-liquidity assets. Earn Plus has no lock-up period or maximum subscription limit, allowing users to stake and redeem assets at any time, with redemptions processed within seconds. Interest is calculated hourly and settled…

Costa Rica, August 28, 2026 — Frogbet, a new cryptocurrency casino and sportsbook, has officiallylaunched at frogbet.com, debuting a catalog of 70 original games developed entirely in-house alongsidemore than 7,000 titles from providers including Pragmatic Play, Hacksaw Gaming and BGaming.Every Frogbet original is provably fair, allowing players to cryptographically verify the outcome of anybet at any time. The proprietary catalog spans in-house slots, eight blackjack variants, poker, and a fullrange of instant games including Mines, Dice, Plinko, Crash, Limbo and Keno — none of which areavailable on any other platform. According to the team, Frogbet’s proprietary slots are the first…

Singapore, Singapore, August 27th, 2026, Chainwire TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol built by Term Structure Labs, announced on August 26 that it has received a strategic investment from YZi Labs. Terms were not disclosed. TermMax was selected for YZi Labs’ EASY Residency Season 3 and has raised more than $8 million to date. Its earlier backers include Cumberland DRW — which led the 2023 seed round — HashKey Capital, Decima Fund, Longling Capital and MZ Web3 Fund. The protocol has been live on mainnet since April 2025 and now runs across 10 EVM-compatible chains, with 60 fixed-rate markets, 40 strategy…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 27th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has launched IPO Express, a new event offering eligible users access to SHEIN’s IPO subscription, ahead of its scheduled listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, 2026. The first-in-market opportunity is designed to allow users to gain economic exposure to SHEIN’s post-listing performance using USDT and receive mirror credits, without directly holding SHEIN shares. MEXC is committed to removing barriers to market participation, based on the belief that opportunity should not be limited by identity, capital size, or geography. IPO allocations have traditionally…

Decentralized lending protocol Moonwell has proposed no cbETH repayment in its latest reserve round, even as the Base market for Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH carries a $1.77 million net shortfall.The allocation, published by risk service provider Anthias Labs on Aug. 24, would leave 2.8095 cbETH of listed reserves unused months after a February oracle error created the bad debt.Moonwell’s live Base markets API showed the imbalance was still present at 11:28 UTC on Aug. 25. It reported $1.93 million supplied and $1.94 million borrowed, with negative $8,223.63 liquidity and 100.43% utilization in its cbETH market calculation.Infographic showing Moonwell cbETH reserves,…

Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have continued their winning streak, attracting billions of dollars in new investment over the past week.  U.S. investors have thrown $2.56 billion since last Monday, according to Farside Investors data, helping push the leading cryptocurrency’s price higher.  And this week alone, nearly $652 million in fresh cash has hit the products managed by the likes of BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, and Fidelity.  Bitcoin was recently trading for $78,302 after jumping nearly 25% over a seven-day period. The coin touched as high as $81,160 on Monday.  Bitcoin’s rise comes after a sluggish June and July when it mostly traded…