Peter Schiff says bitcoin has become “anti-gold,” arguing the asset’s recent slide will continue as war-driven inflation fears send gold and silver higher, a divergence he says proves bitcoin never behaved like digital gold in the first place.

Gold muscled back above $4,400 an ounce this week, hitting its highest level in roughly two months as a brutal U.S. jobs print, relentless Chinese central bank buying, and suddenly softer Federal Reserve expectations sent traders scrambling back into bullion.

Coinbase has secured regulatory approval in Abu Dhabi to build an international hub for tokenized securities, giving the crypto exchange a supervised base for bringing traditional stocks onto blockchain networks outside the United States.

Moneygram has launched its Ramps service on Solana, giving wallets and applications on the blockchain a direct connection between cryptocurrency and the company’s global cash network.

Anthropic has agreed to take 191 megawatts of computing capacity at Riot Platforms’ Rockdale campus in Texas. The 20-year agreement could ultimately be worth $16.1 billion, accelerating Riot’s transformation from bitcoin miner to AI infrastructure provider.

Strategy has realized more than $102 million in losses from its 2026 bitcoin sales, as Michael Saylor’s company keeps selling coins below its average purchase price to fund dividend and buyback obligations.

Meta plans to give billions of people a free personal AI agent that writes code, builds businesses and manages the household. The company is backing that pledge with up to $145 billion in spending this year.

Keel Infrastructure has decommissioned all of its U.S. bitcoin mining operations as it converts power-rich sites for AI and high-performance computing. The transition comes with weaker earnings and continued bitcoin sales, but the company says $819 million of liquidity gives it room to fund development.

Bitcoin ETFs opened the week with $144.67 million in net outflows, snapping a five-session inflow streak. Ether funds also slipped into the red, while solana and HYPE ETFs attracted fresh capital.

Luke Dashjr is taking a sabbatical from his leadership roles at the Jack Dorsey-backed bitcoin mining pool Ocean as he turns his attention toward the BIP-110 fork and open-source development, just as developers behind the stalled minority chain begin organizing an aggressive proof-of-work (PoW) overhaul designed to revive their fork.

The White House says the Senate has until September 15 to advance the Clarity Act after Democrats blocked a procedural vote before the August recess, with prediction markets now pricing roughly a one in four chance the bill becomes law in 2026.

XRP fell over 3% to hit a year-to-date low of $1 on Tuesday, extending its slide to nearly 60% since its January peak.

The AB Foundation, an Irish nonprofit crypto charity chaired by former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, is being dissolved through a voluntary strike-off after failing to conduct operational meetings beyond its launch.

Arthur Hayes argues Washington and Tokyo are quietly coordinating to push the yen higher, a shift he says would flood markets with fresh dollar liquidity and become a powerful bullish catalyst for bitcoin.

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