The Crypto Professor

The next few years will be the start of major blockchain adoption.

Decentralized Exchanges, Prediction Markets and Stablecoins will lead the way.

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 Riot Platforms lands $9.1B Anthropic AI compute lease

- 20-year deal, 191 megawatts from its Rockdale, Texas campus
- Runs through 2048; two 5-year extensions could push total to $16.1B
- Reported customer is Anthropic, though Riot's disclosure only says "leading frontier AI" lab
- Shares jumped 25% after-hours, but gave back most regular-session gains
- Deployment is gradual, live in late 2027, full capacity by mid-2028
- Fixed-price, bond-like revenue insulated from BTC price and mining difficulty
- Part of a wider Anthropic pattern: also $10B with Volta Infra, $45B with xAI

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

@zippy257 Absolute shambles

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 Strategy's $4.6B cash buffer buys nearly 3 years before real BTC stress

- Holds 840,447 BTC as of Aug 9, dollar reserve now $4.65B, up $650M
- Saylor says his personal "never sell" stance doesn't bind the public company
- Dollar duration extended 143 days to 2.7 years, covering dividends and interest
- Strategy still claims it intends to remain a net buyer long-term

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 Fake Wasabi Wallet app steals 6 BTC from Apple's App Store

- 27th crypto wallet clone found on the App Store this year
- Fake Ledger app remains the worst case so far, $9.3M stolen
- April's fake Ledger Live drained musician G. Love's 5.9 BTC retirement stash after he entered his seed phrase
- FBI: US crypto fraud losses hit $11B in 2025, up from $9B the year before
- No word yet on whether Apple's removed the listing or who built it

27 wallet clones and counting... Apple need to do better

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 XRP left behind as market bounces, ETF inflows stall

- XRP dropped 5% to $1.03 while BTC, ETH, and SOL climbed 1-4% on the week
- XRP ETF inflows slowed 93% week-over-week to just $1M, while BTC/ETH funds pulled in 100s of millions
- Nexo analyst calls the pattern "quiet absorption," not capitulation or breakout

Bulls like Digital Ascension's Jake Claver still float XRP as a future BIS tier-one bridge asset

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 Fantom backer Harry Yeh dies after fall in Paraguay

- Found dead after a fall from the 30th floor of Asunción's Jade Park tower on Aug 7
- Cause not yet determined as accident, suicide, or third-party involvement
- Apartment found with doors open and interior disturbed; evidence sent to prosecutors
- Yeh founded Quantum Fintech Group and led Tomb Finance within the Fantom ecosystem

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 BTC holds $65K as Senate punts CLARITY Act to September

- Bill fell short, 51 of 60 votes needed, pushed to Sept 14 at earliest before recess
- Market shrugged it off, strategists believe the delay was already priced in
- Real support coming from consecutive days of ETF inflows and a softer dollar post-jobs report
- Saylor posted Strategy's buy chart captioned "Doing business," days after selling 1,638 BTC for buybacks

BTC up 3.7% on the week, recovering from an early-August low near $62,000

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

@Shillprofessor_ Can't see it until 2028 tbf

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 AI models predict Bitcoin hitting $150K by December

- Claude Fable 5's prediction cites shrinking float: 1.32M BTC left to mine, 4M lost forever
- Points to CLARITY Act clarity, Fed rate cuts, and ETF holdings past 1.5M BTC as catalysts
- Counterpoint: June delivered the worst monthly ETF outflow on record (~$4B)
- BTC finished H1 down nearly 33% while tech stocks rallied

Every AI model has a bull case for Bitcoin... almost like there is a built in data bias?

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

@web3cowboy Hard to argue, Claude has never done math correctly for me 😂

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 $1.8B leverage trap builds on Solana near $80

- SOL funding rates hit an 11-month high as traders pile into leveraged longs
- Price approaching key $80 resistance/breakout level
- Weakening underlying market metrics contradict the bullish positioning
- Sets up a classic squeeze scenario if the breakout fails

Does anyone else believe Solana is destined to go to $50?

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 BIP-110 Bitcoin fork mines two blocks, then stops

- Controversial soft fork attempt briefly split Bitcoin into two chains
- A quiet miner boycott halted the enforcing chain almost immediately
- Developer warns holders risk losing real BTC if they sell fork coins
- Near-zero miner support undercuts the fork's long-term viability

A fork nobody wanted and mining blocks nobody asked for.

What has happened here?

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

@MeiYiXing1 Most can't and won't

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 Most CEX's can't prove solvency, 4 years post FTX

- "Audited" and proof-of-reserve badges largely reflect snapshot reviews, not ongoing solvency checks
- Industry still lacks a standardized, continuous verification framework
- Investors continue to rely on badges that don't actually confirm funds are backed

Four years, zero real accountability infrastructure. Can most CEX's really survive the next few years?

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 Grayscale: CLARITY Act unlikely to pass this year

- Research director cites a packed Senate schedule and election-year gridlock
- Says failure won't hurt BTC demand or stablecoin growth short-term
- Warns capital and developer activity could drift offshore without the law
- SEC expected to keep patching gaps via rulemaking regardless

Remember, seventeen years without comprehensive regulation and somehow the industry survived.

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

@RicoPointEth Projects closing all over the place, genuinely sad to see

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 Crypto shakeout: 100+ projects fold in 2026

- BitMEX, BitMart, Movement Labs, and Storj Labs all announced closures in one week alone
- Even Moonbeam, a Polkadot parachain, shut down permanently, stranding user funds
- North Korean-linked hackers behind 66% of all 2026 hack losses, up from 64% in 2025
- Survivors share one trait: revenue in dollars, not their own token (Hyperliquid, Aave, Ether Fi)

Every industry calls it's graveyard a growth spurt. Crypto is struggling.

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

@keizmaticcxz Interesting, not heard of SmashPay

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

🚨 Brazil sets 24-hour hold on crypto transfers above $10,000

- Rule applies from Jan 1, 2027 to transfers over $10,000 to foreign providers or self-custody wallets
- Threshold counts across a customer's combined transactions in a single day
- Providers can release funds early after completing risk reviews
- Central bank cites rising use of stablecoins to move fraud proceeds quickly

Nothing reassures crypto users like being told "trust us, it's just precautionary."

[The Crypto Professor @TheCryptoProfes]

@Natalia77351991 Agreed, we won't have one without the other