Bitcoin spot exchange volume fell to its lowest level since Glassnode’s series began in 2019. BTC remains stuck around $62,000 to $65,000 with little spot demand.
The original developer created two NFT contracts and displayed them as one collection, leaving Robinhood Kitties traders split between V1 and the community takeover. V1 buyers favor contract provenance and thin listings; takeover supporters point to bot-heavy minting and deployer-linked wallets.
Some Anthropic backers expect an IPO valuation of at least $2 trillion as early as October, but the company has set no target. Polymarket odds of reaching $2 trillion by year-end rose as high as 60%.
MarsCoin more than doubled over several days and appeared to set a new all-time high above a $60 million market cap.
TOAD reached an all-time high near $23 million in market cap.
Robinhood Chain reached a record 375,000 active addresses as DEX volume rose to $361 million and launchpad volume rebounded to $212 million. Uniswap controls 97% of the chain’s DEX liquidity.
An unresolved ethics fight and a shrinking Senate calendar have stalled the CLARITY Act, leading Galaxy Digital to cut its estimated 2026 passage odds from 75% to 10%. Trump is expected to meet crypto and prediction-market executives on Aug. 19.
CASHCAT fell 9.9% over 24 hours after its post-Robinhood rebound above a $150 million market cap lost steam. Its holder count still rose to about 61,000.
Wallet 0x66f8 closed its 2,136 BTC short for a $1.65 million profit, then opened a 40x long on 200.82 BTC. Wallet 0xff84 now holds the largest tracked onchain Bitcoin short.
Coldcard Mk3 firmware bypassed its hardware random-number generator and used a guessable software fallback. Attackers stole more than 1,778 BTC across three waves, with no confirmed attacks after Aug. 6.
CATE’s rebound faded as its market cap slid back toward $2.5 million. Price kept falling despite roughly 42,900 holders, with no clear catalyst for another run.
Situational Awareness’s leveraged AI-stock portfolio collapsed in July, prompting crypto comparisons with LUNA and SBF. Estimates of the loss remain disputed.
TradeXYZ allocated about $3.4 million, or 12% of perpetual-fee revenue, to buy roughly 59,000 HYPE through TWAP orders. TradeXYZ also plans to make HIP-3 fees configurable from a 90% discount to three times standard pricing.
Solana processed a record 4.24 billion transactions in July.
Pump.fun alerts followers when selected traders call out tokens, but tracked traders often held positions for zero or one minute. One hired trader sold 17 seconds after buying, leaving followers little time to react.
Ether.fi launched tokenized stock and metals trading, Aave V4 borrowing on Optimism against full portfolios, and fiat rails in more than 30 currencies. Revenue across its business lines will fund ETHFI buybacks.
Pump.fun generated a record $10.03 million in protocol fees from August 3 to 9, up 12% week over week. It bought back and burned 2.15 billion PUMP worth $5.02 million.
Sushi and 0xDeployer deployed the Pools.fun factory contract on Robinhood Chain before the launchpad went live Aug. 15. Pools.fun now buys and burns the top three community tokens daily.
TokenWorks allocated 327 ETH to buy FWA for a team reserve at a rate of 1 ETH every two hours. It has bought about 14.68 million FWA, or 1.47% of supply, with 221 ETH left.
Basecat launched on Base under contract 0xb2000000000000000000004c27f6523082f41d01. Traders linked it to a cryptic Base App post, but the account did not confirm a connection.
BIP-110 closed after drawing 2.53% miner support, and its minority fork produced only two blocks from August 8 through August 11. The main BIP-110 client's node share later fell to 6.5%.
UPONLY holders can earn ANSEM through the token pair, tying demand for UPONLY to ANSEM rewards. DEALER also routes its creator rewards to ANSEM, DEALER and NORMIE.
Ethereum client teams left EIP-8363 out of the next upgrade after it missed the cutoff, pushing any adoption to at least 2027. Critics dispute its plan to shrink issuance as the share of staked ETH rises.
Strategy spent $189.8 million buying back STRC and sold Bitcoin to help fund it. STRC remains below $95, short of its $100 target.
The OCC gave World Liberty Trust preliminary conditional approval to form a national trust bank. It plans to replace BitGo as the issuer and custodian of World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin for institutional clients.