Grayscale converted its Zcash Trust into ZCSH, which began trading on NYSE Arca on August 25 with a 2.5% fee. Barry Silbert said Grayscale will spend the full first-year management fee on ZEC awareness and education.
Canada plans to unveil retaliatory tariffs against the US on Tuesday after trade talks broke down. The escalation could trigger risk-off selling in crypto and weigh on Bitcoin.
Bitcoin jumped from $75,500 to above $81,000 as roughly $793 million in crypto shorts were liquidated over 24 hours. It later pulled back toward $80,000.
Trump said the U.S. will not resume talks until Iran is ready to sign a deal and left military action on the table. Oil gained more than $2, adding pressure to Bitcoin.
Former X product head Nikita Bier said crypto trade buttons are coming soon. The feature would let users trade directly from posts.
Strategy raised about $2 billion through MSTR share sales and spent $136 million repurchasing STRC, with no Bitcoin buys. It now holds $6.7 billion in USD, including a $1.6 billion cash pool that may fund future Bitcoin purchases.
The Senate scheduled a procedural vote on the CLARITY Act for September 15 at 2 p.m.
SOL hit $103 after rising about 30% in a week, then pulled back to $98. The move followed two months of trading between $70 and $84.
Investors pulled a net $389.7 million from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs from August 10 to 14, the largest weekly outflow in six weeks. Fidelity’s FBTC accounted for $153 million.
LayerZero introduced ATLAS, a headless trading backend on Zero that handles matching, clearing, settlement and risk for venues. The fall launch will start with spot crypto and perpetual futures, with GTE set to provide access.
The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index rose to 74, keeping sentiment in greed as Bitcoin traded near $79,777.
SPCXX nearly returned to its $135 IPO price this week. Its Hyperliquid perpetual also wicked lower alongside Bitcoin.
Bitwise launched self-custodied model portfolios for Coinbase tokenized stocks, with Glider handling automatic rebalancing. Access is limited to eligible users outside the U.S.
Thailand’s SEC opened public comment on rules for locally listed spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs. The funds would keep at least 80% average net exposure to one asset and trade only on the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
TokenWorks has used 167 ETH of a 327 ETH allocation to buy FWA for its reserve, making it a top-five FWA holder.
The SEC published Reg Crypto and opened a 60-day public comment period. The plan would let qualifying token issuers raise up to $75 million a year without full registration, with Form TR ending investment-contract status after promised managerial work is finished or permanently stopped.
XRP gained about 53% for the week and reached a seven-month high near $1.70. U.S. spot XRP ETFs added $39.8 million during the week.
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.
TradeXYZ allocated about $3.4 million, or 12% of perpetual-fee revenue, to buy roughly 59,000 HYPE through time-weighted orders. It also plans to let HIP-3 markets set fees from a 90% discount to three times the standard rate.
Standard Chartered became the first bank to distribute Hong Kong-regulated HKDAP to eligible institutional clients and partners. It plans tokenized money market fund services in Q4 and is testing the stablecoin for internal settlement.
Solana processed a record 4.24 billion transactions in July.
Coinbase launched 1:1-backed tokenized stocks on Base for eligible users outside the U.S. Day one brought about $4.5 million minted, $3 million in DEX liquidity and $10.8 million in 24-hour volume.
Fomo captured 46% of daily Solana trading-platform spot volume, taking the lead as Axiom fell below 30%. Axiom had controlled more than half of the market before Fomo’s rise.
A wallet bought YT-reUSD on Pendle, pushing PT-reUSD down roughly 3% and triggering $36.4 million in liquidations on Morpho. The oracle worked as designed, reUSD held its peg and lenders took no losses.
CATE recovered to a $79.24 million market cap after two steep selloffs, then eased to about $63 million. Its holder count reached a record 112,000.