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BreakingAug 22, 20264 min read

Perp DEX Open Interest Hits 2026 High as Traders Sit on margin Bets Longer

Open interest on perpetual DEXs pushed to a 2026 high Friday, per CryptoBriefing, as traders held margin positions longer and pulled flow from CEX venues.

BreakingAug 22, 20264 min read

Anthropic and OpenAI Combined ARR Tops $115B, Narrowing Gap With Microsoft

Anthropic and OpenAI's combined annualized recurring revenue crossed $115B, closing in on Microsoft's cloud tier and reshaping AI-linked crypto trades.

Apollo Study Pegs AI Wage Drag at $28B a Year, Says Jobs Aren't Vanishing

Pi Network Sets September 15 Deadline for KYC and Mainnet Migration, CryptoPotato Reports

Breaking Crypto News

Perp DEX Open Interest Hits 2026 High as Traders Sit on margin Bets Longer

Anthropic and OpenAI Combined ARR Tops $115B, Narrowing Gap With Microsoft

Apollo Study Pegs AI Wage Drag at $28B a Year, Says Jobs Aren't Vanishing

Pi Network Sets September 15 Deadline for KYC and Mainnet Migration, CryptoPotato Reports

Uniswap Hits Record $590K Daily UNI Burn on August 21 as Deflationary Shift Accelerates

Tokenized Equity on Solana Nears $470M as xStocks Drives Growth

Solana Cuts Block Time to 350 Milliseconds on Mainnet in Push for Faster Finality

Trump Pushes Clarity Act at White House Summit as CFTC Warns It Will Write Its Own Rules

SEC, CFTC Label XRP and SOL as Commodities in Joint Classification Shift

Bitcoin Tops $75K as Profit-Taking UTXOs Hit Record, Testing a Fresh Supply Wall

Rust Supply Chain Attack Exposes Solana Ecosystem Components to Remote Code Execution Risk

Samsung to Return Up to $79B to Shareholders as AI Chip Profits Surge

Kalshi Crypto Perpetuals Hit $17.98M Open Interest, Marking Regulated margin Milestone

South Korea Unveils Chip Windfall Fund to Bankroll Youth Jobs and AI Buildout

Ripple Backs RLUSD Credit Fund as XRP Rallies 26% in a Week

Bessent Signals 'Unprecedented' US Sanctions on Iran, Setting Up Fresh Risk-Off Test for Crypto

Rothera Powers Robinhood Prediction Market as Q2 Volume Hits 3.5 Billion Contracts

Anthropic Weighs IPO That Could Rival SpaceX's $75B Record, Report Says

Anthropic Preparing IPO Filing as Soon as End of August, Sources Say

Bitcoin Tests $70,000 as Intraday Short Squeeze Lifts Market

Fireblocks Network for Payments Clears $100B in Monthly Stablecoin Volume

Treasury Doubles Long-End Buybacks, Sparks 8% Bitcoin Rally in a Single Session

SEC Delays Crypto Innovation Exemption Amid Clarity Act Politics, Securitize Says

Gold Blows Through JPMorgan's Q4 Target at $4,525 as Treasury Liquidity Floods In

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Pull In $517M in a Single Day as Market Steadies

IEA Warns Iran War Is Roiling Global Energy Supply in Biggest Oil Shock Since 2022

Bitwise ETFs Clear $300M in Daily Trading Volume as Institutional Bid Deepens

Iran Strikes Dubai's Jebel Ali Port as 2026 Conflict With US, Israel Widens

OpenAI Rolls Out Private Safety Processing for Paying Users on Advanced Models

Polymarket Odds of BOJ Rate Hike Triple to 72.5% as Yen Intervention Fades