Airbnb: Q2 Gross Booking Value Rises 16% to $27.2B
Airbnb reported Q2 2026 GBV of $27.2 billion, up 16% year‑over‑year, with revenue at $3.608 billion and adjusted EBITDA at $1.3 billion.
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Bitcoin Clears Bear Market Trendline: Fireworks Loading or Just More Chop?
Into the eleventh month of this bear market, the $BTC price has finally managed to break beyond the major bear market trendline. Could this be a signal that the bear market has ended and that Bitcoin is going to rise from here, or is there just going to be more sideways chop as the $BTC price continues to form a bottom?
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Ether.fi Separates Restaking From ethereum:0xcd5fe23c85820f7b72d0926fc9b05b43e359b7ee as Staking Risk Debate Grows
Ether.fi debuts weETHs to split restaking risk from weETH, rolls out audited safety invariants, and receives Credora’s A+ with ~0.098% PD amid debate.
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Ondo Finance Control Fight Moves to Delaware Court
21Shares Ondo Trust’s amended S-1 names Delaware courts as exclusive forum for key disputes; no Chancery filing confirms a control case as of Aug. 9.
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OFAC Sanctions Shelbit and Aban Tether Over Iran Crypto Flows
U.S. Treasury’s OFAC lists no sanctions for “Shelbit” or “Aban Tether” as of 2026-08-09, despite analytics reports on Iran-linked crypto flows and solana:Es9vMFrzaCERmJfrF4H2FYD4KCoNkY11McCe8BenwNYB activity.
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Trump Media Scraps CRO Treasury Venture as Token Falls 5%
Trump Media, Crypto.com and Yorkville terminated their planned CRO treasury venture, interim CEO Kevin McGurn told Axios on Aug. 7. CoinGecko flagged CRO moving on the news.
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Polymarket Replaces Snapshot Settlement After $8.2M Manipulation Study
Polymarket shifts to Chainlink TWAP at 2026-08-07T00:00:00Z and adds $1,000,000 in August liquidity rewards after a study reported $8.2M manipulation.
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XRPL Confidential Transfers Put Institutional Privacy Up for Validator Vote
XRPL rippled added Confidential Transfers on June 27, 2026 as XLS‑0096 advances. The amendment enables encrypted MPT balances; activation needs >80% validator support for two weeks.
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Berkshire: Q2 Operating Earnings Rise 16% to $13.0B
Berkshire Hathaway Q2 operating earnings rose 16% to $13.0B, with $4.5B in buybacks. Net earnings including investment gains more than doubled to $25.7B.
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Local Stablecoins May Accelerate Dollarization Instead of Preventing It
BIS says 98% of stablecoins are USD-denominated and $35T moved on-chain. Data from Argentina, Turkey, and Nigeria shows local coins may entrench dollar use.
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Atlassian Surges 35% as Cloud Growth Reaccelerates
Atlassian shares jumped 35% to $149.07 after August earnings, as market reports cited reaccelerating cloud growth to ~31% YoY and total revenue up ~28%.
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Fiserv Cuts 2026 EPS Outlook to $7.20-$7.40
Fiserv lowered its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $7.20–$7.40 on Aug. 6 and cut organic revenue outlook to ~‑1% to 0%, down from $8.00–$8.30 and 1%–3%.
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Vangrid Raises $9M for a Spatial Data Network Built for Physical AI
Vangrid has no public filing or press note confirming a $9M raise as of 2026-08-08; the startup markets a spatial data network for Physical AI.
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Chainalysis: Violent Crypto Thefts Top $30M in H1 2026
CertiK reports 52 verified wrench attacks and $124,180,400 recorded exposure in H1 2026. Chainalysis flags rising crypto-violence and links to bitcoin:native price moves.
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Base App Goes Multichain: Can Less Base-Centric Mean More Growth?
Coinbase’s Base App now supports multichain access. With Base TVL ~$4.65B and USDC at 85.6% share, will less Base‑centric UX drive broader growth or fragment it?
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Deutsche Telekom Lifts 2026 Buyback Ceiling to €5 Billion
Deutsche Telekom confirms a €2.0bn 2026 buyback in three tranches, per July 1 EQS filing. The separate “up to $5bn” figure belongs to T‑Mobile US.
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Wintermute Registers as SEC Broker-Dealer for Stocks and Options
SEC datasets show no Form BD for Wintermute or Wintermute USA LLC as of 2026-08-07; equity and options broker-dealer registration remains unconfirmed.
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Can Bitcoin Escape the Bear Market? The Moment of Truth Has Arrived
Just over 300 days since the bear market began at the $126K top, the $BTC price has another chance to pierce through the bear market trendline. Do the bulls have enough in the tank for the breakout, or could a rejection send the bulls home to think again?
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Tether Takes Tokenization Into Saudi Real Estate
Tether’s Hadron outlines real‑estate tokenization, as Saudi Arabia launches an RWA center and records first tokenised deals. Key signals to watch.
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Filecoin (FIL) And The Graph (GRT): As LLM Dataset Partnerships And L2 Indexing Demand Increase, Do FIL And GRT Become The Core “AI Data + Query” Infra Or Keep Lagging Higher‑Beta AI Tokens? financepolice.com/filecoin-f…
Avalanche (AVAX) And Aave (AAVE): After New Subnets And Cross‑Chain Money Markets Go Live, Do AVAX And AAVE Re‑Center Blue‑Chip DeFi Or Remain In The Shadow Of L2 Governance Tokens? financepolice.com/avalanche-…