Crypto Industry News & Market Trends

GRAM price rebounds as Telegram begins wallet rollout

GRAM has rebounded toward $1.40 after Telegram began releasing its self-custodial Gram Wallet to selected users, while trading volume jumped about 137% around the announcement.　　SummaryGRAM gained about 2% over 24 hours after briefly approaching $1.46.Telegram will release Gram Wallet gradually to its billion-plus users.The wallet supports self-custody, fee-free transfers, and Telegram Collectibles.GRAM faces immediate resistance near $1.39, followed by $1.45.　　Telegram begins phased Gram Wallet release　　Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said the company had started giving selected users access to Gram Wallet before expanding availability over the next several weeks.　　“Well be gradually rolling it out to our billion+ users over the next couple of weeks,” Durov said in a Telegram post.　　BREAKING: Gram Wallet on Telegram launches for select users, rolling out to billion+ users over the next couple weeks. pic.twitter.com/fx1upeWEzN　　— MSB Intel (@MSBIntel) August 31, 2026　　Built directly into the messaging app, Gram Wallet will become the default wallet displayed in Telegrams user settings. The product uses a self-custodial structure, allowing users to control their assets instead of leaving custody with a centralized service provider.　　You might also like:　　Telegram applies for .gram domain to offer users personal websites　　Telegram plans to support instant, zero-fee transactions through the wallet, according to Durov. Users will be able

09-01Industry

Webot‘s CEO Says Today’s Trading Bot Is Blind. AI Is How It Learns to See

Webot hosted Beyond the Bot: How AI Is Rewiring Automated Trading. Automated trading is already widely used. The discussion was about how far AI should go inside a bot that already runs in the background, and what needs to be in place before it is allowed to do more.　　Jay Hua, CEO of Webot US and a former vice president at Goldman Sachs, was the main speaker. He was joined by Alevtina Labyuk, chief strategic partnerships officer at BeInCrypto, who previously held marketing roles at companies including Visa; Abay Beyshenkulov, a partner at VComms, a PR firm that works with business and tech companies on media visibility; and Modern Mining, founder of the YouTube channel of the same name, who has run Webot grid bots for about three years.　　The hour moved in a fairly straight line: first the market, then what AI is actually useful for, then what Webot plans to build.　　What the market is doing now　　Modern Mining kept the price discussion grounded. Bitcoin had been stuck for months and then finally moved higher. He did not rule out a short-term pullback, and he also did not sound finished with Bitcoin.　　Hua went a step further. The market is getting more mature,

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Bitcoin September forecast maps $81,319 target after 24% rally

Bitcoin traded near $77,700 today, Aug. 31, putting the largest crypto asset up about 23.5% over 30 days. CryptoSlates market signal registered a bullish 68 out of 100 after a late-week pullback. The score measures trailing market conditions.　　CryptoSlate published its latest Bitcoin September forecast at the Aug. 30 close. The model used a $77,667 reference price and produced an $81,319 median for Sep. 29. The projected gain is about 4.7%, compared with Bitcoins 23.5% advance during the preceding month.　　Actual daily closes run from $62,813.75 on Jul 31, 2026 to the $77,667.57 reference close on Aug 30, 2026. The projected median and 50%, 80% and 95% predictive bands then extend to Sep 29, 2026; exact terminal scenarios are listed beside the chart.　　Measured from the reference close, the models median adds about $3,651. The central forecast therefore preserves additional upside into late September at a much slower pace after the August rebound.　　The model also maps a broad distribution of possible September prices. Its P80 estimate, the 80th-percentile point in that distribution, was $91,049. Its P20 estimate, the 20th-percentile point, was $72,502. The labels identify relative positions in the modeled distribution, with P80 marking the upper estimate and P20 marking the lower estimate.　　The

09-01Industry

Bitcoin gains 24% as CryptoSlate price prediction model maps a volatile September

Bitcoin traded near $77,700 today, Aug. 31, putting the largest crypto asset up about 23.5% over 30 days. CryptoSlates market signal registered a bullish 68 out of 100 after a late-week pullback. The score measures trailing market conditions.　　Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $78,878.39 24-hour change: up 0.05% 24H Up 0.05% 7D Up 0.21% 30D Up 26.26%　　CryptoSlate published its latest Bitcoin September forecast at the Aug. 30 close. The model used a $77,667 reference price and produced an $81,319 median for Sep. 29. The projected gain is about 4.7%, compared with Bitcoins 23.5% advance during the preceding month.　　Actual daily closes run from $62,813.75 on Jul 31, 2026 to the $77,667.57 reference close on Aug 30, 2026. The projected median and 50%, 80% and 95% predictive bands then extend to Sep 29, 2026; exact terminal scenarios are listed beside the chart.　　Measured from the reference close, the models median adds about $3,651. The central forecast therefore preserves additional upside into late September at a much slower pace after the August rebound.　　The model also maps a broad distribution of possible September prices. Its P80 estimate, the 80th-percentile point in that distribution, was $91,049. Its P20 estimate, the 20th-percentile point, was $72,502. The labels

09-01Industry

How Scrapping Weekly F&O Expiries Could Reshape Retail Trading in India

Retail F&O losses hit ₹91,685 crore in FY26 as 87.7% of traders lost money.About 59% of index-options turnover came from same-day expiry contracts in FY26.CAS turnover hit $4.1B on Aug. 31, nearly 40 times its post-launch average.　　Scrapping Weekly F&O Expiries would change how Indian retail traders access short-duration derivatives, where activity remains concentrated near expiry. While some market participants have proposed removing weekly contracts, SEBI has neither proposed nor approved such a change. Even so, fewer expiries would materially affect users by changing trading frequency, capital allocation, and execution risk.　　Weekly Options Concentrate Retail Risk Near Expiry　　SEBI data show that 59% of index-options turnover in FY26 came from contracts expiring on the same day. Moreover, about 97% occurred within one week of expiry. Therefore, fewer weekly F&O expirations would reduce repeated opportunities to enter contracts approaching settlement and limit recurring events that attract short-term speculation.　　That concentration becomes more significant when viewed alongside retail trading losses. Active individual derivatives traders fell 18% to 87.5 lakh in FY26, yet their aggregate net losses still reached ₹91,685 crore.　　In addition, 87.7% of individual traders lost money, while options accounted for about 92% of total losses. Consequently, short-duration derivatives remain a key area of concern in

09-01Industry

MEXC launches Visa crypto card with USDT cashback and Apple Pay support

MEXC has launched a Visa-linked Global Card offering eligible users up to 10% cashback in USDT as monthly crypto card spending reached $759 million in July, roughly 2.5 times its level a year earlier.　　SummaryMEXC has launched its Global Card with USDT spending through Visa, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.The card offers 4% to 10% cashback, with monthly rewards capped at up to 800 USDT.Purchase fees are waived through Sept. 30 before a rate starting at 1% takes effect.A separate MEXC Earn product offers cardholders up to 7% annualized returns on subscribed USDT.U.S. residents cannot apply for the card under MEXCs current regional restrictions.　　According to MEXCs Aug. 31 announcement shared with crypto.news, the Global Card is a virtual Visa card that lets eligible users spend USDT through the card network while supporting Apple Pay and Google Pay for mobile payments.　　The exchange is waiving purchase fees from launch through Sept. 30 and charges no issuance, annual, or top-up fees. Once the promotion ends, purchase fees will start at 1%, according to MEXCs published fee information.　　Transactions use Visa‘s exchange rates, while MEXC said it does not apply an additional exchange-rate markup. Foreign exchange fees may still be charged for certain currencies under Visa’s

09-01Industry

Crypto market moves ‘as one block’ despite broader rally: Cryptex co-founder

The crypto market has posted sharp gains across Bitcoin and several major altcoins, but Cryptex Finance data covering 36 assets and roughly 92% of the digital asset market shows that capital remains heavily concentrated in Bitcoin and Ethereum despite prices rising across the market.　　Cryptex Finance co-founder Joe Sticco told crypto.news that participation in the recent rally had spread across the market, but the allocation of capital had not followed at the same pace, leaving cryptocurrencies trading more like a single group than a market in which investors are selecting individual winners.　　Cryptexs market index stood at 1,199.69, almost 20% above the base level of 1,000 set on Feb. 20. The index tracks 36 assets across five sectors using Coinbase pricing, giving Sticco a larger sample than Bitcoin or a handful of major altcoins alone.　　Over the trailing seven days, however, the index had risen only 1.92%. Sticco said the figure matters because much of the rally that produced large percentage gains from recent lows took place within roughly 72 hours between Aug. 19 and Aug. 21, followed by several days of relatively flat trading.　　“Measure from the low, and you get a rally. Measure the trailing week, which is what most readers think

09-01Industry

Ripple CTO Emeritus: BIP-110 Vote Loss Doesn't Justify New Chain

The new chain has replaced SHA256d, which is Bitcoins mining algorithm with BLAKE2b under its hard-fork rules.　　David Schwartz, the Ripple CTO emeritus, argued on August 31 that supporters of Bitcoins BIP-110 fork crossed from governance into an attack after rejecting the soft-fork result and continuing on a separate proof-of-work chain.　　His exchange with fork supporter loogart captures the dispute: whether losing a consensus fight justifies creating a new Bitcoin chain, or whether that move itself amounts to attacking the network.　　New Chain Goes Live　　The account loogart opened the exchange by describing the sequence from the groups perspective: it objected to the direction Bitcoin Core was taking, was told to fork, forked with a different proof-of-work algorithm, and is now building a separate chain, all while still being called an attacker.　　“You‘re not ’still‘ attacking,” Schwartz wrote in response to loogart’s take. “You switched from participating in governance to attacking when you refused to accept that you lost.”　　Loogart replied that their group had accepted defeat and continued their version of Bitcoin elsewhere. They argued that open dialogue, a soft fork, and eventually a hard fork cannot amount to an attack because no one was compelled to follow, writing, “Nobody was forced to follow us.”　　However,

09-01Industry

GameStop Stock Climbs After a $358 Million Fix. Will It Last？

GameStop stock climbed about 4% on Monday. The company paid $358.4 million in cash to stop a share count that could have continued to grow.　　The payment freezes the deal at roughly 55.5 million new shares. That equals about 12% of GameStops 448.7 million shares outstanding.　　GameStop (GME) Stock Performance. Source: Yahoo Finance　　Sponsored　　Sponsored　　Why GameStop Stock Rallied After the Dilution Fix　　On August 3, GameStop agreed to swap $1.4 billion of zero-coupon convertible debt for stock. The company would hand over shares and pay nothing.　　The catch sat in the pricing, as the share count depended on an average of GMEs price over 35 trading days. A cheaper stock meant more shares.　　Traders spotted the loop at once, and GME fell 12.25% that day to $19.06, down from $21.72 on July 31.　　$GME – GAMESTOP SHARES DOWN 3.1% PREMARKET AFTER CO ANNOUNCES PRIVATE EXCHANGE OF $1.4 BLN OF CONVERTIBLE NOTES FOR EQUITY　　— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) August 3, 2026　　Sponsored　　Sponsored　　GameStop has now killed the rest of that window. Noteholders take 73% of the deal in shares and 27% in cash. No further shares can be issued.　　The Warning Buried in the Filing　　Mondays amendment added a clause the August 3 release did not carry.　　“GameStop expects that participating noteholders may purchase or

09-01Industry

Strategy Buys 4,603 Bitcoin After Michael Saylor Says “Were Back”

The acquisition marks the companys first reported Bitcoin purchase since June and brings its total holdings to 845,050 BTC.　　The latest purchase came shortly after Executive Chairman Michael Saylor posted “We‘re ₿ack.” on X on August 30, alongside a chart tracking Strategy’s Bitcoin purchases. The timing of the post preceded the companys disclosure of the new acquisition.　　Strategy acquired 4,603 BTC for $370 million, added $29 million to USD cash, repurchased $152 million of STRC, and raised its Bitcoin holdings to 845,050 BTC while maintaining 0.0% net leverage. Source: Michael Saylor via X　　Strategy paid an average of $80,318 per BTC in the latest transaction. Its cumulative Bitcoin holdings were acquired for approximately $63.73 billion, including fees and expenses, at an average cost of $75,412 per BTC.　　Michael Saylor Signals Strategys Bitcoin Return　　Saylors “Were ₿ack.” post followed a period in which Strategy had paused purchases and sold part of its Bitcoin holdings. The company had previously reported Bitcoin sales during the summer as it adjusted its capital and liquidity management.　　The message signals Strategys return to BTC purchases after a roughly two-month pause to build $5.1 billion in USD reserves and repurchase preferred stock. Source: Michael Saylor via X　　Discover more　　Selecting Enterprise Cloud Computing Platforms　　NEWS　　Exploring Engineering

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