Cryptocurrency News & Market Updates
CPI, PPI, and FOMC minutes headline a two-week data window
TL;DR
CPI for July lands August 12, followed by PPI on August 13 and retail sales on August 14, three straight readings that test how much support builds behind the Fed’s hawkish dissent.
FOMC minutes from the July 28–29 meeting publish August 19, showing how the committee weighed a 9–3 vote marked by the first three-way, same-direction dissent since September 2016.
The window closes August 26 with the second estimate of Q2 GDP (advance: 1.5% annualized, down from 2.1% in Q1) and Nvidia’s fiscal Q2 earnings call at 5:00 p.m. ET.
Weekly BTC and ETH options expire on Deribit at 08:00 UTC on August 14 and August 21, alongside jobless claims, consumer confidence, new home sales data, and the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium we’re co-hosting with SALT (August 17–20).
No Fed, ECB, or Bank of England meeting falls in this window, but the two weeks open against a softer growth backdrop: July’s jobs report, released August 7, showed nonfarm payrolls falling by 23,000 against a forecast gain of roughly 83,000, with May and June revised down by a combined 103,000.
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War games: how we built Kraken to handle 10x the load
TL;DR
During the worst moments of the largest volume spike our platform had ever seen (in July 2025), about 11% of requests to our platform failed. That was unacceptable. We now run at an error rate of 0.111%, while carrying more than ten times the load.
We set a standard for load testing: the platform has to survive at least twice the heaviest load we have ever handled in production, on demand, every time we test for it.
Kraken sustains more than 230,000 successful requests per second in production, across five separate full-scale tests with zero incidents.
On February 5, 2026, one of the sharpest selloffs of past twelve months, every major service held with no incidents.
Peak demand is the only real test
No trading platform is judged on an average Tuesday. It is judged on the day Bitcoin sets a record, or the day a token sale opens and everyone arrives in the same minute. Those are the moments that tell you what a platform can actually carry.
Aug 6, 2026 • 3 min read
The Bullion Rush: trade gold and silver perps for a share of $20,000 in USDG
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