Bitcoin Magazine published a summary of a conversation arguing that Bitcoin is becoming a new wealth-building asset for Gen Z as the generation accounts for less than 5% of the new home market. In the discussion, SALT Lending’s Hunter Albright connected housing affordability with the use of Bitcoin as collateral and the growing idea of borrowing against Bitcoin to fund a down payment, rather than locking coins up for 30 years. The summary also said Albright discussed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac recognizing Bitcoin, SALT’s five-year loan terms, and what a Bitcoin-powered life looks like in practice. The post carried a disclaimer stating that the views expressed were those of the participants, not necessarily those of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or affiliated entities, and that the material was for informational and educational purposes only. It also said the content should not be treated as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice, and did not constitute a solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell securities or financial instruments. The piece first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and was written by Patrick Green.

AltLayer (ALT) is scheduled to unlock about 246.59 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on Sept. 26, according to token unlock data from Web3 asset data platform RootData. The unlocked tranche is valued at about $1.76 million based on the figures cited in the update. The item was published by ChainCatcher as a 7x24 news flash. No additional details were provided in the source beyond the timing, token amount, and estimated value.

A larger share of Bitcoin holders may choose to borrow against their BTC instead of selling it over the next three to five years, according to Hunter Albright, chief revenue officer at SALT Lending. Speaking on BMTV, Albright said he expects Bitcoin-backed lending to become more common as the market matures and users grow more comfortable treating Bitcoin as collateral. He argued that this could reshape the relationship between Bitcoin, credit and stablecoins, with Bitcoin serving as long-term "money at rest" while stablecoins act as "money in motion" by providing transferable liquidity. The article says that for this model to move into the mainstream, the market will need more education around both Bitcoin and the mechanics of borrowing against it. It also points to a behavioral shift: holders may begin to view Bitcoin not only as an asset to accumulate and eventually sell, but also as collateral that can unlock liquidity while preserving Bitcoin exposure. The piece adds that this approach is already common in other parts of finance and notes that, in the U.S., borrowing against an asset generally does not itself count as a taxable sale, though individual tax outcomes depend on transaction structure and personal circumstances.

CrowdStrike, in coordination with the U.S. Justice Department, announced Tuesday the takedown of the Sality peer-to-peer botnet, which had been active since 2003. Over the past eight years, it used the EggJagger malware to hijack cryptocurrency payments, stealing at least 12.1 million rubles (approximately $150,000). Unspent stolen crypto was valued at around 147 million rubles (roughly $1.35 million) at its peak in January 2025. The operation involved authorities from the U.S., Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. CrowdStrike isolated over 15,000 infected machines into honeypots. The operator, tracked as SALTY SPIDER, previously launched a DDoS attack on Russian exchange AvanChange in September 2023.

CrowdStrike and the U.S. Department of Justice said they have disrupted Sality, a botnet that has been circulating since 2003 and spent the past eight years stealing cryptocurrency payments by swapping wallet addresses on infected computers. According to CrowdStrike, Sality mainly served as a delivery system for other malware, with EggJagger becoming its primary payload during that period. The security firm described EggJagger as a clipjacking tool that watches the clipboard for crypto wallet addresses and replaces them with addresses controlled by the operator, causing victims attempting to send Bitcoin or Ethereum to redirect funds to someone else instead. CrowdStrike estimated that EggJagger alone brought in at least 12.1 million rubles, or about $150,000. It also said most of the stolen coins were never spent, and that the untouched holdings reached a peak value of about 147 million rubles in January 2025, equal to a nominal $1.35 million. Authorities in the U.S., Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania took part in the takedown, while CrowdStrike said it isolated more than 15,000 infected machines worldwide by redirecting them to sinkholes under its control.

Jackson Hole is no longer only a central banking event in the traditional sense. Ahead of the Kansas City Fed’s annual symposium, a separate Wyoming Blockchain Symposium brought roughly 500 executives, investors, and lawmakers to the Four Seasons to discuss digital assets, while about 120 central bankers, economists, and policy officials were set to gather 35 miles away at Jackson Lake Lodge for a meeting themed around financial innovation and its implications for payments and policy. The shift matters because the Federal Reserve system has now explicitly placed crypto assets, stablecoins, instant payments, and other digital payment systems into the same policy conversation. The article argues that stablecoins are the clearest bridge between the two worlds. For users, they function as dollars that move easily on-chain. For central banks, they are privately issued monetary instruments backed by reserves such as short-term Treasurys and cash, tying them to questions around public debt, bank deposits, convertibility, payment access, and the global role of the dollar. BIS data cited in the piece put stablecoin market capitalization at about $320 billion as of the end of May, with roughly $28 trillion in 2025 transaction volume before adjustments for transfers between wallets controlled by the same entity. Bitcoin, by contrast, still trades on Jackson Hole’s older logic: rates, liquidity, and policy expectations. That leaves Kevin Warsh’s scheduled Friday speech, July PCE data, and the Treasury’s larger buyback operations as immediate signals for risk assets, even if blockchain itself gets little stage time.

Fortune said on Aug. 24 that Hyperliquid is emerging as a serious new force in crypto as the company speeds up plans to build a regulated business in the United States. The report said Hyperliquid, which has operated offshore since launching in 2023, became a major topic of discussion at the SALT conference held in Jackson Hole last week. Fortune argued that the company holds several advantages that other offshore firms have lacked when trying to enter the U.S. market. It pointed to CEO Jeff Yan’s U.S. birth background, reported support for perpetual contracts from Donald Trump and the chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the presence of Schamis and crypto lawyer Jake Chervinsky on the team. Fortune said Hyperliquid could quickly become a meaningful competitive threat to major crypto platforms including Coinbase, Kraken and Robinhood, drawing a comparison to Binance’s sudden rise in 2017.

The crypto market is set for a heavy week of token unlocks in the final stretch of August 2026, with total unlocked value expected to exceed $705 million, according to Techub News. The biggest named projects in the schedule include decentralized identity protocol Humanity, payments finance network Huma Finance, and Layer 1 blockchain platform Plasma. Humanity is scheduled to unlock 266.47 million H tokens on Aug. 25, worth about $18.3 million and equal to 7.92% of its released supply. Huma Finance will unlock 458.75 million HUMA on Aug. 26, worth roughly $10.07 million and representing 16.7% of released supply. Plasma is also set to unlock 88.89 million XPL on Aug. 25, with a value of about $8.91 million. Other projects listed for the same period include SoSoValue, Sahara AI, and AltLayer. BeInCrypto said token unlocks are key events for market liquidity, price swings, and investor sentiment.