Bitcoin traded at $77,143 (down 1.7% over 24 hours) on the site CoinGecko snapshot fetched at 00:28 UTC on August 23, 2026, with ether at $2,424.62 (down 3.9%) and solana at $94.08 (down 0.3%). XRP was up 1.1% at $1.49. Global crypto market cap sat near $2.61 trillion, bitcoin dominance was about 59.3%, and 24-hour volume was about $128 billion.
The tape cooled after Friday’s squeeze. Farside still shows heavy U.S. spot bitcoin ETF inflows for August 20 and 21. ZeroStack told the SEC it swapped roughly $1 billion of MemeCore tokens for stock and warrants. Solana’s upgrade board still lists the slot-time cut as pending. Coinbase Payments and Kraken both posted venue incidents overnight.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs add $606.3 million on August 20
Farside's full bitcoin ETF flow table shows a $606.3 million net inflow on August 20, 2026, with BlackRock's IBIT taking $503.0 million of that session. August 21 added another $307.5 million, including $239.3 million into IBIT. Ether products on the same table printed $219.5 million on August 20 and $184.0 million on August 21. The figures are millions of U.S. dollars and do not include weekend sessions.
ZeroStack swaps about $1 billion of MemeCore tokens for stock
On August 19, 2026, ZeroStack (Nasdaq: ZSTK) signed a securities purchase agreement to issue 3.5 million common shares and pre-funded warrants for up to 36,198,293 more shares in exchange for 925,925,926 MemeCore (M) tokens. The 8-K values the shares and warrants at $25.19 each and the tokens at $1.08 fair market value as of August 14, 2026, for aggregate consideration of about $1 billion. The tokens are not to be staked, and share issuance above a 19.99% cap waits on Nasdaq Rule 5635 shareholder approval. Warrant shares carry a lock-up of up to 10 years.
Solana still lists the 400 ms to 200 ms slot cut as pending
The Solana Foundation upgrade page for reduced slot times, updated August 2026, still labels the change a pending feature activation. SIMD-0525 would cut default slot duration from 400 milliseconds toward 200 milliseconds in four 50 ms steps, with the first 400 ms to 350 ms gate targeted in Agave v4.2. Each later step can pause if block skip rates climb, and Anza's schedule is explicitly tentative. A separate Foundation note dated August 19, 2026 walks through validator vote costs and MEV effects at the 200 ms end state.
BTCS posts $1.5 million Q2 gross profit as Imperium hits 61% of sales
BTCS (Nasdaq: BTCS) furnished August 20 results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026: $2.4 million revenue, up 14% from Q1, and $1.5 million gross profit at a 61% margin. Imperium DeFi revenue rose 48% quarter over quarter to $1.5 million, or about 61% of sales, while NodeOps and Builder+ infrastructure slipped to $0.9 million from $1.1 million. Total assets fell to $89.3 million from $129.0 million, mainly on ether prices and digital-asset sales, and gross debt dropped to $50.4 million from $74.8 million, including $8.2 million of Aave repayments. The company sold no ATM shares in the quarter.
PowerCompute holds 315.1 bitcoin after a heat-curtailed July
PowerCompute (Nasdaq: PWCM) reported 7.9 bitcoin mined net in July 2026, down from 8.7 in June, and sold 11.1 bitcoin. The treasury stood at 315.1 BTC on July 31, valued at about $20.2 million using a $64,000 bitcoin price that day, of which 307 BTC sat against a loan facility. Seasonal heat curtailment at Oklahoma and Mississippi sites also produced about $91,000 of energy sales. After month-end the company said it refinanced about $18 million of debt into an Arch Lending facility secured by bitcoin, and marked the stack at about $21.5 million on August 19 using $68,200.
Coinbase Status opened incident vk5z4hq911n5 at 04:31 PDT on August 22, 2026. The notice says some users may have trouble completing payments using USDC on Polygon through Coinbase Payments. Payments on other networks, including Base and Ethereum, are not affected, and the post says funds are safe. As of the overnight check the incident was still marked Investigating, with no later resolution note on the page.
Kraken identifies an HBAR deposit delay and starts a fix
Kraken Status opened an HBAR funding-gateway incident at 20:24 UTC on August 22, 2026, saying deposits may be delayed while other funding methods worked. At 20:29 UTC it said the issue had been identified and a fix was being implemented. At 20:46 UTC it moved to Monitoring after a fix was implemented. The page did not yet mark the incident Resolved overnight.
