CALWIRE Crypto Report (Saturday, August 15, 2026)

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Paul Tudor Jones’ investment firm increases stake in BlackRock's bitcoin ETF after year of selling
Calls fell 85.2% to 148,000 underlying shares, while puts slipped 1.4% to 715,000. — CoinDesk

Meta Patents Cameras That Recognize Faces and Log Your Actions
The filing would turn raw footage into labeled clips of who did what, without anyone opting in. — Decrypt

Here’s what happened in crypto today
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain... — Cointelegraph

The $11.2 billion in 2026 funding that killed crypto’s permissionless era
Dubai-based crypto lawyer Irina Heaver and her team parsed every crypto deal in the first half of 2026. BlackRock, Goldman, and Pe... — CoinDesk

Bitcoin to $1M by 2030 is ‘mathematically impossible’ says Markus Thielen
The trillions required to boost Bitcoin to a price of $1 million per coin is not going to happen by 2030... or perhaps ever, says... — Cointelegraph

Bitcoin’s $16.3 billion Wall Street stress test splits into four positional patterns — CryptoSlate

Trump-Linked World Liberty Gets Conditional Bank Charter for USD1 Stablecoin
The proposed World Liberty Trust Company would take over issuance of the USD1 stablecoin from BitGo. — Decrypt

Clarity survives (barely), Strategy sells and the untold story of Mastercard's $1.8 billion deal: Crypto's week in 5 stories
Washington kept crypto’s biggest legislative hope alive, Wall Street pushed deeper into digital assets, and a security scare sent... — CoinDesk

Bitcoin could bottom in October, altcoins are ‘basically dead,’ Swan CEO says
Klippsten said Bitcoin could bottom about a year after its previous peak and argued that crypto’s best outcome is to become part o... — Cointelegraph

Wall Street's private blockchain obsession is a 'race to the bottom,' Ethereum advocate Raman warns
Centrally controlled, permission-only networks have a role to play in finance, but need a transparent, open base to reap the benef... — CoinDesk

Institutional investor Paul Tudor Jones adds 109,446 BlackRock Bitcoin ETF shares while cutting calls by 85% — CryptoSlate

Kalshi ordered to stop broad range of prediction markets in Washington
Kalshi must implement initial geofencing by Aug. 19 and a GeoComply multi-source geofencing system by Sept. 2.

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