No matter what the market's doing — green, red, sideways — new projects keep launching every week. And the best window to get involved is the earliest one: before the token, before the crowd, while the door's still open.

We rounded up 12 fresh projects with open waitlists into one Early Access Radar — DePIN, perp DEXs, Neobanks, Prediction Markets. A few minutes each, all in one place, so you don't have to go hunting.

FlightAware sued Kalshi, alleging the prediction market used its flight-tracking data without permission to run flight-cancellation betting markets and falsely presented FlightAware as a partner.

The suit claims Kalshi violated FlightAware's trademark and contract rights, and seeks a temporary restraining order plus injunctions. FlightAware warns the markets could strand travelers, disrupt airline operations, and even push people toward unsafe actions.

It piles onto Kalshi's mounting legal troubles, from a New York illegal-gambling suit to blocked sports contracts in Washington and Michigan.

Anthropic signed a 20-year, $9.1B lease for 191 MW of capacity at Riot Platforms' Rockdale campus in Texas, per Bloomberg, marking the Bitcoin miner's biggest pivot into AI infrastructure.

The contract runs through June 2048, with full deployment targeted for June 2028 and 96 MW online by December 2027. Extension options could lift total revenue to $16.1B. Riot secured $573M from Morgan Stanley for initial construction, and its shares jumped about 25% after-hours.

It is the clearest sign yet of Bitcoin miners repurposing cheap power and ready-built sites into compute for the AI boom.

Vitalik Buterin overlaid his 2023 Ethereum roadmap onto the current plan, reshuffling and reprioritizing items rather than starting from scratch.

Quantum safety moves up the list, joining native rollups, strong default privacy, and AI-accelerated formal verification as headline priorities. Several original targets were deprioritized or replaced with what Vitalik called superior constructions.

The refresh signals where Ethereum's long-term research focus is heading, even as much of the 2023 plan still stands.

After weeks of persistent selling, Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs returned to positive net flows, while corporate treasury adoption continued with new Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana allocations by public companies.

Corporate Treasuries

• Strive acquired 147 BTC, increasing its holdings to 20,167 BTC.

• BitMine purchased 7,391 ETH (~$14.2M), bringing its total holdings to 5.81M ETH.

• Strategy sold 1,690 BTC and raised $653.1M, increasing its USD reserve to $4.65B.

• MARA disclosed selling 23,093 BTC for $1.63B in H1 2026, ending June with 35,577 BTC.

ETF Flows

BTC ETFs: +$865M

ETH ETFs: +$244M

Two prediction market startups announced shutdowns today: Fireplace, a pro trading terminal aggregating Polymarket, and Trepa, a precision-guessing prediction game.

Trepa blamed a lack of product-market fit for its accuracy-based format, while Fireplace is winding down its Polymarket trading terminal. Both broke the news through their own channels.

The twin closures point to a shakeout in prediction market tooling, even as venues like Polymarket keep drawing heavy volume.

Between 2017 and 2022, dozens of crypto projects promised to move travel on-chain — flights for Bitcoin, hotel rooms as NFTs, Booking com cut out of the loop. Barely one in four is still alive.

The other three in four didn't make it, and their stories are the real lesson: a $19M raise that shipped almost nothing, dead project domains that are online casinos today, and two separate teams who wrote the same obituary six years apart people came to invest, not to travel. We tracked every one that died.

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) sold 1,638 BTC for about $104.7M at an average of $63,957, below its $75,419 cost basis, a rare sale for Michael Saylor's firm.

The proceeds went to capital management, roughly $52M toward STRC preferred-stock dividends and about $81M of preferred-share buybacks, not a shift in Bitcoin conviction. It caps Strategy's first stretch as a short-term net seller: just 37 BTC added over two months, then 1,638 offloaded in a week.

Strategy still holds 842,138 BTC and remains a net buyer for the full year, having accumulated roughly 175,000 BTC across 2026.

Wallets tied to crypto payment provider Coinsbuy were drained of roughly $7.9M in an exploit spanning both TRON and Ethereum on Aug 9, according to security firm Specter and flagged by PeckShield.

The attacker is now converting the stolen funds into Monero (XMR) to bury the trail. Coinsbuy says it froze a six-figure sum with help from ChangeNOW and briefly paused deposits and withdrawals, both since resumed. GoPlus Security assessed the breach as consistent with a hot-wallet private-key or admin-access compromise.

Coinsbuy has not yet published a technical postmortem or named the attack vector; its last release notes predate the incident.

MARA Holdings (formerly Marathon Digital) sold 23,093 BTC for about $1.6B over the first half of 2026, the bulk of it (20,880 BTC) in Q1 and another 2,213 BTC in Q2, per its Q2 results.

The sales cap a treasury-policy shift from strict HODL to opportunistic selling. Proceeds funded operations, debt repurchases and a pivot into AI and data-center infrastructure. MARA's Bitcoin stash is now 35,577 BTC (about $2.1B), down 29% year over year, with roughly 9,270 BTC pledged as collateral.

The company also posted a $611M Q2 net loss on revenue of $174.9M, down 27%, as Bitcoin weighed on results.