The computational power dedicated to securing the Bitcoin blockchain has climbed to a record 955 quintillion hashes per second, according to data circulating among industry trackers on 27 August

Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest bought 339,113 shares of Bitmine Immersion on 27 August, spending roughly $16

August 28, 2025, marks the 11th anniversary of the passing of Hal Finney, a pioneering figure in the Bitcoin community and the first recipient of a Bitcoin transaction from its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto

Tether, issuer of the roughly $167 billion USDT stablecoin, said on 28 August it will introduce USD₮ on RGB, a protocol that allows digital assets to be issued and transferred directly on Bitcoin

Blockchain tracking service Whale Alert flagged a fresh creation of 1 billion USDT by Tether Treasury on 28 Aug 2025, worth roughly $1

American Bitcoin, a bitcoin-mining startup founded by Donald Trump Jr

Offchain Labs, the developer behind Arbitrum, has partnered exclusively with Succinct Labs to integrate modular zero-knowledge (ZK) proving technology into the Arbitrum Layer 2 network

Tether Treasury minted $1 billion worth of USDT stablecoins on August 27, 2025

Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest dollar-pegged stablecoin, said on 28 August it will launch USD₮ (USDT) directly on Bitcoin using the RGB protocol, making the token the first major stablecoin to exist natively on the network

Stablecoin issuer Tether said on 28 August it will introduce its US dollar-pegged token, USD₮, on RGB, a recently launched protocol that allows digital assets to be issued directly on the Bitcoin blockchain