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  • SEC Unveils Two Crypto Funding Exemptions and Token Safe Harbor
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 19, 2026 at 9:21 am

    The SEC proposes crypto funding exemptions and a conditional token safe harbor, with disclosure rules and a 60-day public comment period. The post SEC Unveils Two Crypto Funding Exemptions and Token Safe Harbor appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI Predicts Where SpaceX Stock Could Be in 5 Years
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 19, 2026 at 8:48 am

    Wall Street has stopped valuing this company of rockets, Meta AI, however, predicts the market prices of Starlink monetization, and the price prediction ladders from $205 in 2027 to $410 by 2031.The 2027 case rests on subscriber economics. Starlink ended Q1 with 10.3M subscribers and revenue up 91.9% year over year in the August 4 The post Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI Predicts Where SpaceX Stock Could Be in 5 Years appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • XRP Price Prediction: Lowest Since 2024, $1 at Risk
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 19, 2026 at 7:53 am

    XRP tests critical $1.00 support after dipping to November lows. Full technical breakdown, key levels, and an early-stage Bitcoin L2 alternative traders are watching. The post XRP Price Prediction: Lowest Since 2024, $1 at Risk appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • AI Predicts XRP: Claude Makes a Prediction that May Anger the Ripple Maxis
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 18, 2026 at 1:16 pm

    XRP enters the second half of 2026 in an unusual position: legally cleared, institutionally adopted, and yet stuck near the same $1 level it has hovered around for months. We put the question to Claude, asking it ‘AI predicts XRP’, and it gave a measured and interesting response.As of mid-August 2026, XRP trades around $1.00, The post AI Predicts XRP: Claude Makes a Prediction that May Anger the Ripple Maxis appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • XRP Price Prediction: Can $1 Be Reclaimed This Week?
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 18, 2026 at 12:55 pm

    XRP hovers near $1 after a death cross confirms bearish momentum. Full technical breakdown, key levels, and an early-stage Bitcoin L2 alternative. The post XRP Price Prediction: Can $1 Be Reclaimed This Week? appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • California Governor Odds: Becerra Leads as Primary Day Nears
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 18, 2026 at 11:14 am

    The California governor prediction market favored Xavier Becerra before voting, with Steve Hilton and Tom Steyer also in contention. The post California Governor Odds: Becerra Leads as Primary Day Nears appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • Bitcoin Price Analysis: Can BTC Break Out of This Range and Hit $65K?
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 18, 2026 at 10:05 am

    Bitcoin trades near $64,215 as ETF outflows and rising yields cap upside. Key support, resistance levels, and an early-stage presale alternative. The post Bitcoin Price Analysis: Can BTC Break Out of This Range and Hit $65K? appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • CZ Wallet Abandoned After Traders Earned Big on Signals
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 18, 2026 at 8:27 am

    Changpeng Zhao retired his public wallet after traders profited by front-running burns, sending $965,000 in assets to Giggle Academy. The post CZ Wallet Abandoned After Traders Earned Big on Signals appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • Clarity Act Uncertainty Keeps DeFi’s Bigger Market Bet on Hold
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 18, 2026 at 7:28 am

    The CLARITY Act could expand DeFi into tokenized equity and bond markets, but Senate uncertainty is keeping institutional capital on the sidelines. The post Clarity Act Uncertainty Keeps DeFi’s Bigger Market Bet on Hold appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC AI Trade Driving BTC Forecasts
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 17, 2026 at 3:46 pm

    Bitcoin trades near $63,571 as ETF outflows and macro signals collide. Full technical breakdown, key levels, and where smart money is rotating next. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC AI Trade Driving BTC Forecasts appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • Strange New Chinese AI ‘KIMI’ Predicts the Price of XRP by the End of 2026
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 17, 2026 at 2:31 pm

    A supply squeeze this tight changes what moderate buying can do. Kimi AI predicts XRP runs to $1.60 to $2.20 by year-end, and the price prediction settles on $1.85 as the base case built on three concrete catalysts.The first arrived on August 10, 2026. The OCC granted Ripple conditional trust bank approval, moving RLUSD toward The post Strange New Chinese AI ‘KIMI’ Predicts the Price of XRP by the End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • Gerber Warns Strategy’s Bitcoin Leverage Could Trigger a Selloff
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 17, 2026 at 1:45 pm

    Ross Gerber questions Bitcoin utility, criticizes Strategy’s leverage model and warns miner shifts toward AI could pressure the network. The post Gerber Warns Strategy’s Bitcoin Leverage Could Trigger a Selloff appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • Sam Altman ChatGPT AI Predicts Bitcoin Could Be Entering Its Most Important 5 Months of 2026
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 17, 2026 at 1:30 pm

    Two dates in Washington and one week of ETF flows explain why the calendar suddenly matters. ChatGPT AI predicts that the next five months will be unusually consequential, and the price prediction for Bitcoin runs from $78,000 to $92,000 by the end of 2026, with $85,000 as the base case.September 15 is the first trigger. The post Sam Altman ChatGPT AI Predicts Bitcoin Could Be Entering Its Most Important 5 Months of 2026 appeared first on […]

  • Jane Street Reports Major Position Across XRP ETF
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 17, 2026 at 10:46 am

    Jane Street reported a sharp rise in Bitwise XRP ETF shares, alongside exposure to other XRP funds, in its latest SEC 13F filing. The post Jane Street Reports Major Position Across XRP ETF appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • XRP Price Prediction: Wells Fargo Disclosed Millions in XRP Holding
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 17, 2026 at 9:58 am

    Wells Fargo disclosed $9.18M in Bitwise XRP ETF holdings. Full XRP price analysis, key levels, and what the institutional filing means for traders. The post XRP Price Prediction: Wells Fargo Disclosed Millions in XRP Holding appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • Bitcoin Price Analysis: Can BTC Hit $64K This Weekend?
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 14, 2026 at 12:25 pm

    Bitcoin trades near $62,850 as ETF outflows offset soft inflation data. Key support, resistance levels, and an emerging L3 presale alternative. The post Bitcoin Price Analysis: Can BTC Hit $64K This Weekend? appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • SEC Delays Vote on Exemptions for Crypto Fundraising
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 14, 2026 at 11:15 am

    The SEC postponed a meeting on crypto fundraising exemptions as the Senate left for recess without voting on the CLARITY Act. The post SEC Delays Vote on Exemptions for Crypto Fundraising appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • “World’s First” Trump Prediction Market Product Killed, What Happened to Truth Predict?
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 14, 2026 at 11:09 am

    Trump Media drops its native Truth Predict exchange plan, steering users to Crypto.com’s OG.com as regulatory risks remain unresolved. The post “World’s First” Trump Prediction Market Product Killed, What Happened to Truth Predict? appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • Polymarket CLARITY Act Odds Crashed From 82% to Under 20%, Does September 15 Save the Bill?
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 14, 2026 at 11:03 am

    The CLARITY Act heads toward a September Senate vote as unresolved ethics provisions and falling Polymarket odds cloud its prospects. The post Polymarket CLARITY Act Odds Crashed From 82% to Under 20%, Does September 15 Save the Bill? appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • Dario Amodei Claude AI Predicts the Next Chapter for XRP in 2026
    by Ahmed Barakat on August 14, 2026 at 9:36 am

    Whales are absorbing more than 10 million tokens a day while exchange supply drains to a seven-year low. Claude AI predicts that squeeze matters, and the XRP price prediction lands at $1.30 to $1.40 by year-end 2026, with $1.35 as the realistic base case.The regulatory piece is the largest variable. The Senate shelved the CLARITY The post Dario Amodei Claude AI Predicts the Next Chapter for XRP in 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

  • Holy Grail In Cancer Treatment? Moderna Erupts After Melanoma Vaccine Late-Stage Trial Success
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 11:40 am

    Holy Grail In Cancer Treatment? Moderna Erupts After Melanoma Vaccine Late-Stage Trial Success Moderna’s shares soared as much as 83% in premarket trading in New York after its personalized cancer vaccine, developed in collaboration with Merck & Co., reduced the risk of melanoma returning in a large, late-stage trial. The result marks the first positive Phase 3 trial for a personalized cancer vaccine by any company.  The study […]

  • Georgia Man Deported From Fiji Charged Over $165 Million Crypto Ponzi Scheme
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 11:20 am

    Georgia Man Deported From Fiji Charged Over $165 Million Crypto Ponzi Scheme Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A Georgia man accused of wire fraud and money laundering appeared in a Los Angeles federal court on Monday after being deported by Fijian authorities to face the charges following his flight to the South Pacific island. A price chart on the Bybit website for the cryptocurrency Ethereum on a computer screen in […]

  • Unitree IPO Soars 460% As “Strong Retail Appetite” May Ignite Physical AI Listing Boom
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 11:05 am

    Unitree IPO Soars 460% As “Strong Retail Appetite” May Ignite Physical AI Listing Boom Summary: Unitree Soars 460% in Shanghai IPO  Solactive China Humanoid Robotics Index Plunges As IPO “Drew Funds Away”  Unitree IPO 5,550 Times Oversubscribed As UBS Says Grey Market Points To 3.5x Open Unitree Robotics, one of the most closely watched technology IPOs in Shanghai this year, made its trading debut earlier Wednesday and closed […]

  • Jeff Currie: Forget $91 Brent, The Real Crisis Is $170 Diesel
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 10:55 am

    Jeff Currie: Forget $91 Brent, The Real Crisis Is $170 Diesel Brent at $90.94 looks almost civilized. Jeff Currie thinks that is exactly the problem: everyone is staring at crude while the real energy shock is already showing up in the fuels people actually buy. As OilPrice reports, “Nobody on the planet earth consumes crude oil,” Currie told CNBC. Refineries do. Everyone else consumes gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, and those […]

  • Disengagement: Trump Vows New Strategy To ‘Strangle’ Iran Over Time
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 10:33 am

    Disengagement: Trump Vows New Strategy To ‘Strangle’ Iran Over Time Summary No talks: Trump confirms US-Iran negotiations are off, vows to ‘strangle them’ over time. Hormuz attack: Tanker hit, injuring a crew member. Houthis escalate: Attacks shut Yemen’s Mokha port. Diplomacy stalled: Qatar says not mediating until Oman-Hormuz deal finalized. Iran hardens: Tehran says it maintains an offensive posture. Strait of Hormuz […]

  • 7 Federal Agencies & Big Pharma Quietly Built A Pandemic-Industrial Complex
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 10:30 am

    7 Federal Agencies & Big Pharma Quietly Built A Pandemic-Industrial Complex Authored by Jon Fleetwood via substack, Nearly 14 years before COVID-19, HHS created the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) and centralized federal health, biomedical, regulatory, homeland-security, and military functions around a government-directed countermeasure pipeline. Creating what this website refers to as […]

  • Saudis Offer To Sell Oil Near Oman, A Sign They’re Sailing Dark Through Hormuz
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 9:45 am

    Saudis Offer To Sell Oil Near Oman, A Sign They’re Sailing Dark Through Hormuz Saudi Arabia spent weeks finding ways around the Strait of Hormuz. Now it is starting to send tankers straight back through it. According to OilPrice.com, Saudi Aramco resumed crude loadings from its Ras Tanura and Juaymah terminals inside the strait last week, ending a three-week gap in activity at the ports, according to Kpler and Vortexa data cited […]

  • Sovereign Debt Crisis: The French Left Wants To Simply Burn The Debt
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 9:00 am

    Sovereign Debt Crisis: The French Left Wants To Simply Burn The Debt Submitted by Thomas Kolbe For economic illiterates, socialists and social-state engineers, the world consists of one fundamental problem: Where does the credit come from that is supposed to turn the visions of central planners into a new reality? Once that question has been answered and the shaky financing is in place, the work can begin. Ideally, socialists […]

  • The Super El Niño To Beat All Others?
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 8:15 am

    The Super El Niño To Beat All Others? The World Meteorological Organization predicts the sea surface temperature anomaly in the El Niño/La Niña indicator area in the Pacific Ocean to rise to an average of +2.9° Celsius in the August-September-October period. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, this would constitute the strongest El Niño since records started in 1950 and could lead to wet and stormy conditions across […]

  • The Case For Britain Backing Its North Sea Oil & Gas Industry
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 7:30 am

    The Case For Britain Backing Its North Sea Oil & Gas Industry Authored by David Whitehouse, chief executive of Offshore Energies UK, via City AM, Jackdaw and Rosebank could strengthen UK energy security by increasing domestic oil and gas production while demand remains substantial. The projects are expected to support billions of pounds of investment, thousands of jobs, and a broad UK offshore supply chain. […]

  • Germany Opens New Drone Security Center Amid Fears Of Russian Hybrid Warfare
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 6:45 am

    Germany Opens New Drone Security Center Amid Fears Of Russian Hybrid Warfare European officials have for years been warning about what they allege is heightened Russian hybrid and sabotage warfare targeting Europe and its airspace in connection with the long-running Ukraine war. They’ve been further sounding the alarm in the wake of this month’s drone incident near a runway at Leipzig Airport. Reports say a drone carrying […]

  • Hellish: Ceuta Mothers Weep In Streets; Rapes Force Women To Flee; Kids’ Parks Smeared In Shit
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 6:00 am

    Hellish: Ceuta Mothers Weep In Streets; Rapes Force Women To Flee; Kids’ Parks Smeared In Shit Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Spanish mothers in Ceuta are in tears on live television. Hospitals are overflowing. Beaches and parks that once hosted families are now open-air camps of garbage, feces and makeshift shacks. And the Civil Guard has confirmed at least 15 rapes since the late-July mass migrant invasion – […]

  • Alexander Vindman Suffers Double-Digit Loss To Socialist Angie Nixon In Florida Senate Primary
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 5:27 am

    Alexander Vindman Suffers Double-Digit Loss To Socialist Angie Nixon In Florida Senate Primary Alexander Vindman – a central Russiagate figure who flipped out when Donald Trump asked Ukraine to investigate Biden family corruption – and who was offered the job of Ukraine’s Minister of Defense three times two months before the infamous ‘perfect’ Trump-Zelensky call – was just beaten out of a Florida Senate seat by Democratic […]

  • We’re All On Borrowed Time…
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 3:25 am

    We’re All On Borrowed Time… Authored by Brad Todd via The What For Substack, We bought our house in the same year I discovered Piemonte, and that was fortuitous. The house came with a walk-in wine cellar and the family-owned vineyards strewn across the rolling Italian hills from LaMorra to Serralunga D’Alba provided a learnable collection of producers to fill it up. It is a good thing I have enjoyed the chore of curating this […]

  • Why Are So Many Democrats Being Arrested On Fraud Charges?
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 3:00 am

    Why Are So Many Democrats Being Arrested On Fraud Charges? An obvious pattern is emerging.  Multiple Democrat officials have been arrested and charged with fraud or related federal crimes over the past two years and the trend seems to be growing.  Democrat politicians and DNC members are over-represented when it comes to fraud and it’s starting to look like the entire party has been pilfering the cookie jar for quite some time. […]

  • Where Have All The Conservatives Gone?
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 2:35 am

    Where Have All The Conservatives Gone? Authored by Nikolai G. Wenzel via The Daily Economy, Fusionism, a new book by Stephanie Slade, a Senior Editor at Reason, attempts to make sense of the seemingly incoherent New Right. Although Slade proposes a renewal of fusionism as a remedy to conservatism’s drift and the challenges facing a divided Republic, the book’s greatest strength lies in its analysis of the trends to date. The […]

  • Illegal Immigrant Killer Found Not Guilty By Insanity, Flees US During Hospital Leave
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 2:10 am

    Illegal Immigrant Killer Found Not Guilty By Insanity, Flees US During Hospital Leave An illegal immigrant found not guilty by reason of insanity in a 2019 killing managed to flee the United States on a one-way flight to his native Tajikistan while on an approved 48-hour pass from a state mental health facility. Now a Soros-backed prosecutor is under fire for his pattern of pursuing insanity pleas for violent offenders who are […]

  • Minority Leader Jeffries Drops The Mask, Signals Democrats Are Coming For The Court
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 1:20 am

    Minority Leader Jeffries Drops The Mask, Signals Democrats Are Coming For The Court Hakeem Jeffries has developed a habit of saying out loud what his party once preferred to keep vague. Hakeem Jeffries (photo: Anna Moneymaker, Getty) Speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Atlanta, the House minority leader told the audience that Democrats see “[a] variety of different options that are on the table, […]

  • Forbes Editor Fired Over $6m Payoff Had Threatened Companies Who Dared Hire Outgoing Trump Admin Officials In 2021
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 12:55 am

    Forbes Editor Fired Over $6m Payoff Had Threatened Companies Who Dared Hire Outgoing Trump Admin Officials In 2021 Authored by Monica Showalter via American Thinker, Remember how vindictive the political scenario after Joe Biden first took office? It wasn’t just the draconian prosecutions of Jan. 6 protestors, most of whom were non-violent and unarmed, many of them little old ladies. One guy got sent to jail who wasn’t even at the […]

  • Derek Chauvin Seeks To Dismiss Charges In Death Of George Floyd
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 12:30 am

    Derek Chauvin Seeks To Dismiss Charges In Death Of George Floyd Derek Chauvin’s legal team filed a new court petition Tuesday morning seeking to dismiss the charges against the former Minneapolis police officer and vacate his convictions, arguing that the case that sent him to prison for the death of George Floyd rested on a foundation that never had legal standing to begin with. Attorney Greg Joseph submitted the 31-page filing […]

  • ICE Proposes Insurance Coverage For Local Officers Involved In Immigration Arrests
    by Tyler Durden on August 19, 2026 at 12:05 am

    ICE Proposes Insurance Coverage For Local Officers Involved In Immigration Arrests Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has proposed an insurance plan to shield local police officers involved in immigration arrests from financial liability if they face allegations of misconduct during those arrests. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk outside the Ventura […]

  • Fauci Aide Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy That Shielded EcoHealth Records, Countered Lab-Leak Narrative
    by Tyler Durden on August 18, 2026 at 11:40 pm

    Fauci Aide Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy That Shielded EcoHealth Records, Countered Lab-Leak Narrative Dr. David Morens, the longtime senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty in Greenbelt federal court on Tuesday to conspiracy to commit offenses and to defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371). The plea caps a records scandal that began with his own emails […]

  • Inside The DSA’s Dilemma: Grow The Democratic Party Or Become It
    by Tyler Durden on August 18, 2026 at 11:15 pm

    Inside The DSA’s Dilemma: Grow The Democratic Party Or Become It Authored by Russ Jones via The Epoch Times, The Democratic Socialists of America’s national leadership was split 14-13 in Chicago this summer. Not over whether to endorse Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for president in 2028, but over whether the group’s own 120,000 members should even get to vote on the question. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks […]

  • Rubio Announces Sanctions Against International Criminal Court President & Top Lawyer
    by Tyler Durden on August 18, 2026 at 10:50 pm

    Rubio Announces Sanctions Against International Criminal Court President & Top Lawyer Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday new sanctions against International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane and Senior Trial Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye as tensions flare between the court and the Trump administration. “These individuals have directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute […]

  • Why Teens Are Struggling To Find Summer Jobs
    by Tyler Durden on August 18, 2026 at 10:25 pm

    Why Teens Are Struggling To Find Summer Jobs Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, Joslyne Baird has been looking for a job for about a year to help her family pay the bills. She began her job search at 14 years old, applying to summer camps and grocery stores around her small Kentucky town of about 1,500 people, without success, she told The Epoch Times. “I’m looking for babysitting jobs, mowing jobs, cleaning jobs, and so […]

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