BitGo Holdings completed its acquisition of NYDIG’s institutional trading business on Aug. 27, adding derivatives, structured products, execution and financing services to its U.S. institutional platform.

The companies did not disclose the purchase price, payment structure, revenue contribution or acquired assets’ valuation. BitGo’s release said approximately 30 NYDIG employees and its institutional client trading relationships moved to the NYSE-listed company.

BitGo acquisition adds institutional market services

The acquired business works with asset managers, hedge funds, corporations, family offices and other professional investors. Its services include derivatives, financing, structured products and customized trading strategies.

Those operations expand BitGo beyond its existing custody, wallets, settlement, staking and trading infrastructure. The company can now offer institutions more services through one platform, although it has not detailed when every acquired product will become available under the BitGo brand.

CEO Mike Belshe said the acquisition would help BitGo support the “full lifecycle” of institutional digital assets. His claims that the deal will scale the company’s platform, improve efficiency and attract more clients remain forward-looking.

BitGo also said the acquisition and expanded products are “expected” to make client assets more likely to remain on its platform. It did not provide financial forecasts or retention targets supporting that expectation.

NYDIG shifts toward power and computing infrastructure

NYDIG will focus its resources on power generation, Bitcoin mining and high-performance computing data centers following the sale. Its website describes a development pipeline exceeding three gigawatts.

The company says more than one gigawatt could be delivered during 2027 and 2028. That schedule is a company projection and remains subject to construction, financing, energy availability and customer demand.

NYDIG expanded this business in 2025 by acquiring Crusoe’s Bitcoin mining operation, including more than 270 megawatts of power-generation technology. The latest transaction separates its institutional trading franchise from that growing power and computing portfolio.

NYDIG CEO Tejas Shah said the company sees a major opportunity in high-performance computing development. NYDIG has not disclosed the expected revenue, customers or financing attached to its stated pipeline.

Federal oversight supports BitGo’s integrated model

BitGo completed the acquisition after converting its trust operation into a federally chartered national trust bank. The charter strengthens the regulatory foundation for custody and settlement, but it does not automatically place every trading or derivatives service under one regulator.

Different products may still fall under banking, securities, commodities or state rules. BitGo did not identify which legal entities will provide the acquired derivatives and financing services or whether customers must sign new agreements.

The company completed a U.S. initial public offering in January, raising approximately $212.8 million after pricing shares at $18. As crypto.news reported, BitGo’s IPO valued the custody company at about $2 billion.

BitGo shares closed Aug. 27 at $7.16, up approximately 1.9% during the session. The share movement coincided with the announcement, but available market data does not establish that the acquisition caused the gain.

Integration details become the next test

The immediate task is transferring NYDIG’s clients, employees and operations into BitGo without interrupting trading or financing services. Pete Janney, now BitGo’s head of financial infrastructure, said the companies expect a smooth transition, but no timetable was provided.

Investors will next look for acquisition costs, revenue contributions and integration expenses in BitGo’s SEC disclosures. No separately indexed filing detailing the transaction’s financial terms was available when this article was prepared.

The deal follows BitGo’s wider push into institutional infrastructure. In related coverage, BitGo Korea secured registration to provide institutional custody and crypto transfers shortly before the NYDIG transaction.

The acquisition leaves BitGo with a broader range of services, but its commercial value will depend on client retention, product integration and the profitability of the acquired operation.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency revised its bank supervision and enforcement framework on Aug. 27, directing examiners to focus on material financial risks and substantive violations rather than minor procedural deficiencies.

The OCC released two updated policy manuals alongside a joint final rule with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. It also proposed a separate rule dividing violations of banking laws into “substantive” and “technical” categories.

The manuals establish current OCC policy, while the legal-violation framework remains a proposal. Its provisions will not become binding unless the OCC completes the federal rulemaking process.

OCC supervision will focus on material financial risks

The revised enforcement manual establishes three principles: escalation, tailoring and limiting corrective actions to measures needed to resolve a specific deficiency.

The OCC said enforcement responses should be proportionate and predictable. Examiners must consider the financial risk, legal violation and institution’s size and complexity when deciding whether formal action is warranted.

Veteran trader Peter Brandt said he remained long Bitcoin on Aug. 28 as the cryptocurrency traded near $80,000 after another unsuccessful attempt to establish a decisive breakout above $82,000.

The crypto traded at approximately $79,771 at the time of writing, up about 1.2% during the session. It reached an intraday high near $81,280 before retreating, keeping the closely watched $80,000–$82,000 area unresolved.

Brandt disclosed his position in an X post listing several active trades. Alongside Bitcoin, he reported long positions in wheat, soybeans, corn, soybean meal, sugar and the Mexican peso. He was short lean hogs.

The trader did not disclose his BTC entry price, position size, leverage or intended exit level. He also warned that his positions could change within one day, limiting the statement’s value as a longer-term price forecast.

Peter Brandt remains long after buying the breakout

Brandt’s current position follows a major change in his technical outlook. On Aug. 20, he said he bought Bitcoin after an inverse head-and-shoulders pattern completed and the price broke above its neckline.

The pattern normally consists of three troughs, with the middle decline extending below those on either side. Technical traders often interpret a move above the neckline as a possible bullish reversal, although the formation does not guarantee further gains.

Brandt had previously assigned a roughly 60% probability to another BTC decline. He abandoned that view when the pattern completed, saying price action had changed the setup rather than continuing to defend his earlier scenario.

As crypto.news previously reported, Bitcoin entered Brandt’s projected $58,000–$62,000 range before later breaking higher. The cryptocurrency fell to about $57,717 on July 1 and then recovered toward $79,500 by Aug. 21.

That sequence matters because Brandt’s earlier bearish target was reached before his long entry. His latest position therefore represents a response to new price information, not necessarily a reversal of a failed forecast.

Bitcoin’s $82,000 level blocks another breakout

The crypto moved above $80,000 on Aug. 25 for the first time since mid-May. The price reached approximately $81,238 before losing momentum.

Friday’s intraday high near $81,280 produced another test of the same region. However, BTC had not recorded a sustained move above $82,000 at the latest snapshot.

Repeated tests make the zone technically relevant, but describing it as resistance remains a chart interpretation. A brief intraday move above the level would not necessarily confirm a breakout. Traders commonly look for a daily close and continued trading above the range.

Bitcoin’s session low was approximately $78,828. That leaves the market within a relatively narrow band between immediate support around $78,000–$79,000 and overhead resistance extending toward $82,000.

A decisive move outside that range could provide clearer evidence about short-term direction. Until then, both bullish continuation and another consolidation remain possible outcomes rather than confirmed forecasts.

August rally drew support from ETFs and macro conditions

The crypto has gained approximately 28% during August, putting it on course for its strongest monthly advance since November 2024. The move followed a decline of more than 50% from its October 2025 peak.

Institutional flows supported the recovery. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted approximately $1.92 billion across five trading sessions during the week ending Aug. 21, with BlackRock’s IBIT receiving the largest portion.

The rally also followed changes in U.S. Treasury bond markets. Treasury officials announced larger buyback operations for older long-dated securities, while the dollar weakened and long-term yields declined.

In related coverage, Bitcoin gained 27% as debt concerns and Treasury buybacks returned to focus. Short liquidations accelerated the advance as bearish derivatives positions closed.

These forces provide context for Brandt’s position but do not prove that the rally will continue. ETF flows can reverse, short-covering provides temporary demand and macroeconomic conditions can change quickly.

What confirms Brandt’s Bitcoin setup next

The first test is whether BTC can close and remain above the $80,000–$82,000 range. Such a move would strengthen the breakout structure Brandt cited when opening his position.

Failure to hold the upper range could return attention to Friday’s low near $78,828 and the earlier breakout area. The exact invalidation level cannot be confirmed because Brandt has not published his stop or risk parameters.

His statement that positions may change within a day is also important. It means followers cannot assume he remains long after the disclosure without a newer update.

Brandt’s trade confirms only his position at the time of publication. BTC’s price behavior around $82,000, rather than the trader’s reputation, will determine whether the technical breakout continues.

Ripple has recommended withdrawing the XRP Ledger’s pending XChainBridge amendment after concluding that its primary use case is already served by Axelar and broader developer demand has not emerged.

Mayukha Vadari, a senior software engineer at RippleX, announced the recommendation on Aug. 27. XChainBridge, also known as XLS-38, remains in the XRPL validator voting process and has not activated on the mainnet.

Ripple estimated that withdrawing the proposal would allow developers to remove more than 10,000 lines of code from xrpld, the server software that powers the network. No code has been removed yet, and Ripple cannot complete the process independently.

XRP Ledger no longer needs XLS-38 for its EVM sidechain

XLS-38 was designed to provide a protocol-level framework for moving XRP and issued assets between the XRP Ledger and connected networks. Its intended users included public sidechains, private ledgers, permissioned networks and experimental chains.

The system relies on independent witness servers to monitor events on each connected ledger. Witnesses submit attestations confirming that assets were locked or destroyed before corresponding assets become available on the destination network.

One of the proposal’s main use cases was connecting the XRPL mainnet with its Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible sidechain. Ripple later selected Axelar to provide that connection instead.

The XRPL EVM Sidechain launched with Axelar as its mainnet bridge in June 2025. Axelar’s validator network verifies cross-chain messages and connects the sidechain with XRPL and other supported blockchains.

Ripple said the EVM sidechain is now “better addressed” through Axelar. That remains the company’s technical assessment rather than a finding reached through an independent security comparison.

Weak developer demand changed Ripple’s assessment

Ripple initially kept XLS-38 available because developers could still use it for private sidechains and specialized networks that Axelar was not designed to support.

However, the company said it found little evidence of active projects requiring the native bridge. No production deployment has publicly identified XLS-38 as essential to its planned operations.

Maintaining the inactive implementation still requires reviews, tests and compatibility work whenever developers update xrpld. Ripple argued that this creates an ongoing maintenance burden without providing a corresponding mainnet benefit.

The recommendation does not mean the broader XRPL ecosystem has abandoned interoperability. Ripple pointed to Axelar, Wormhole, zero-knowledge systems and layer-2 designs as alternative approaches suited to different security and privacy requirements.

Cross-chain systems also introduce distinct risks. As previously reported, bridge exploits have caused more than $4 billion in reported losses since 2021, making verification design and operational security central considerations.

Ripple cannot remove XChainBridge by itself

The official XRPL registry lists XChainBridge as a pending amendment with a default “no” vote. Ripple operates only one validator vote among the network’s independent participants.

An XRPL amendment normally requires support from more than 80% of trusted validators for two continuous weeks before activation. With 35 validators in the current default configuration, at least 29 affirmative votes would exceed that threshold.

Ripple’s recommendation therefore neither withdraws the amendment immediately nor forces other validators to oppose it. Validators decide independently which amendments their infrastructure supports.

That separation is consistent with other XRPL proposals. In related coverage, Ripple’s support for lending amendments did not establish their activation because the proposals still required the broader validator threshold.

Withdrawal would proceed through staged software changes

Ripple proposed beginning with a pull request that marks XChainBridge as obsolete in the xrpld codebase. Servers upgrading to that release would automatically vote against activation.

Support would decline as validators install the updated software. Once active validators recognize the amendment as obsolete, developers could remove the XChainBridge implementation and the related fixXChainRewardRounding code in a later release.

No pull-request deadline, software version or final removal date has been announced. The timing depends on community feedback, code review and validator upgrades.

Ripple has asked developers or organizations building with XLS-38 to present specific use cases. A credible active deployment could lead the company to reconsider its recommendation before the staged withdrawal begins.

Bitwise’s U.S. crypto exchange-traded products attracted approximately $100 million in net inflows on Aug. 27, led by demand for Solana, Bitcoin and Hyperliquid funds, according to company CEO Hunter Horsley.

Horsley said Solana products received about $40 million, the largest share of Bitwise’s daily intake. Bitcoin products followed with approximately $22 million, while Hyperliquid and XRP funds attracted about $20 million and $12 million respectively.

Ethereum products received approximately $1.4 million. The five disclosed categories total about $95.4 million, indicating that other Bitwise products or rounding accounted for the remainder of Horsley’s roughly $100 million figure.

The numbers are preliminary issuer disclosures. Bitwise had not published a fund-by-fund daily creation report alongside Horsley’s post, leaving independent confirmation dependent on later fund data.

Solana leads Bitwise crypto ETF inflows

Solana products captured approximately 40% of Bitwise’s reported daily inflows. Horsley did not identify every product included in that category, although the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF, or BSOL, is the company’s main U.S. Solana fund.

BSOL recorded more than $126 million in trading volume during the session, its highest total since launching on NYSE Arca in October 2025. The fund previously recorded about $108 million in volume on Aug. 24.

Trading activity has risen as BSOL has expanded beyond basic price exposure. The fund stakes most of its Solana holdings and distributes the resulting rewards after fees and expenses.

In related coverage, a major bank approved BSOL shares as collateral for loans with a maximum loan-to-value ratio of 25%. Bitwise reported at the time that BSOL held 8.18 million SOL and staked approximately 99% of its assets.

Those features may help explain why Bitwise’s Solana products outpaced its Bitcoin and Ethereum funds during Thursday’s session. However, one day of flows does not establish a lasting preference among institutional investors.

Hyperliquid and XRP capture another $32 million

Bitwise’s Hyperliquid products ranked third with approximately $20 million in reported inflows. Its XRP products added another $12 million.

Together with Solana, the three altcoin categories attracted roughly $72 million. That represented more than seven times the approximately $9.4 million combined difference between the disclosed Bitcoin and Ethereum figures.

The Hyperliquid total follows earlier demand for Bitwise’s BHYP fund. As previously reported, BHYP became the largest Hyperliquid ETF after a $19 million daily inflow in May.

XRP exchange-traded products have also experienced increased activity. In related coverage, XRP ETF cumulative flows crossed $1.57 billion as trading volume reached a record.

The daily distribution shows investors were adding exposure beyond Bitcoin. It does not reveal whether the buyers were financial advisers, hedge funds, retail brokerages or other institutions because exchange-traded fund creation data do not identify beneficial owners.

BSOL’s $126 million volume was not a $126 million inflow

Trading volume and net fund inflows measure different activity. Trading volume counts the total value of ETF shares exchanged between buyers and sellers during a session.

A share can trade several times without changing the number of shares outstanding. High volume therefore indicates liquidity and investor activity, but it does not mean the issuer received an equal amount of new capital.

Net inflows generally occur when authorized participants create additional ETF shares to meet demand. Outflows occur when shares are redeemed and assets leave the fund.

BSOL’s reported $126 million volume was consequently more than three times the approximately $40 million attributed to Bitwise’s entire Solana product category. The remaining trading involved transfers of existing shares or transactions that did not produce net creations.

This distinction is also relevant to Horsley’s broader $100 million figure. The amount describes reported inflows across Bitwise products, not the combined trading volume of those funds.

Bitcoin ETF streak supports broader crypto demand

Bitwise’s inflows came during a wider recovery in U.S. crypto investment products. Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded eight consecutive sessions of net inflows through Aug. 26, attracting approximately $2.8 billion, according to SoSoValue data.

BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for about $2.02 billion, or 72%, of that streak. The funds received approximately $232 million on Aug. 26, below the $606 million daily peak recorded on Aug. 20.

Bitcoin traded near $79,770 on Aug. 28 after reaching an intraday high around $81,280. It has gained about 28% during August as ETF demand, a weaker dollar and changes in long-term Treasury markets supported its recovery.

The flow backdrop does not ensure continued price gains. ETF creations can reverse, and inflows may follow price momentum rather than predict it.

The next confirmation will come from official fund-level data showing whether Thursday’s creations raised shares outstanding and assets under management. Investors will also watch whether Solana continues leading Bitwise’s product lineup or whether the allocation returns toward Bitcoin.