U.S. headline CPI rose 3.4% year over year in July and core CPI rose 2.5%, matching forecasts. The print cut pressure for a September Fed hike, but Bitcoin stayed near $64,000.
Trump says the U.S. has total control of the Strait of Hormuz, but ship traffic fell to two on Aug. 12 from roughly 120 a day before the war. The disruption could pressure Bitcoin if higher oil prices revive inflation fears.
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.
After closing at $138.74, SPCX fell back near $133, below its $135 IPO price. The bounce from roughly $108 followed the Aug. 6 insider-share unlock, which left more shares available to sell.
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.
Backpack Securities launched tokenized Take-Two shares on Solana through Sunrise for round-the-clock trading. An August campaign gives one entry toward 25 GTA VI prizes for each $100 traded on supported Solana venues.
An attacker exploited Harmony's signature and receipt checks to mint about 4 billion ONE, around 26% of supply, and roughly 2.8 billion was sold into exchanges. Harmony paused its bridge, asked exchanges to freeze four wallets and is considering a rollback.
A Teraswitch routing failure took 28.83% of staked SOL offline for about 33 minutes, close to Solana’s 33.34% finality-halt threshold. Around 90 validators lost a combined 333 SOL in rewards before traffic recovered.
Bitcoin perpetual trading on Binance and Bybit has fallen to its lowest level since 2023, with spot volume at its lowest since February 2024. Elevated open interest leaves Bitcoin exposed to liquidation-driven moves.
Kalshi now streams full order books, trades and low-latency sports and crypto perpetual data through DoubleZero Edge. The feed gives users access to L1 and L2 market data over dedicated network infrastructure.
Unitree's Hyperliquid pre-IPO market traded near four times the $22.30 offer price amid heavy IPO demand. Robotics-linked BOT rose 14% as traders used crypto markets for exposure.
CASHCAT rebounded above a $150 million market cap after its post-Robinhood-listing drop. The token gained 37.3% after passing 50,000 holders.
Abu Dhabi's FSRA licensed Coinbase to establish an international tokenization hub in ADGM. The license covers tokenized securities offerings under regulator oversight.
The CFTC used emergency authority to direct Kalshi to continue operating under federal rules after New York’s attorney general sued it in July. The order escalates the fight over whether federal or state authorities control prediction markets.
Ethereum client teams left EIP-8363 off the next upgrade after it missed the cutoff, delaying any adoption until at least 2027. Franklin Templeton's crypto CIO opposes its plan to burn validator rewards once half of ETH is staked.
MoneyGram launched cash-to-crypto and crypto-to-cash access on Solana, with Rift as the first wallet integration. Cash deposits cover more than 25 countries, and cash-outs reach over 170 countries and territories.
USYC reached $3.0 billion, making it the largest product in the $15.3 billion tokenized U.S. Treasury market. BUIDL follows at $2.7 billion and USDY at $2.1 billion.
Ansem’s Discord post sent MANLET from below $600,000 to above $7 million in market cap on Stonkfun. Pump.fun and Fomo displayed separate verified MANLET tokens, creating ticker ambiguity.
TOAD pushed to roughly $23 million in market cap after an earlier high near $20 million.
FIRE is distributing tokenized-stock rewards based on holding duration, with one holder reporting $4 received as the project begins a TikTok campaign around the mechanism.
TradeXYZ allocated about $3.4 million, or 12% of perpetual-fee revenue, to buy roughly 59,000 HYPE through TWAP orders. The move follows plans to make HIP-3 fees configurable from a 90% discount up to 3x standard pricing.
Four Hyperliquid wallets initially built a combined 5,375 BTC short near $64,000. The largest wallet, 0xff84, cut its position from 1,793 BTC to 1,143 BTC as Bitcoin rose, moving its liquidation level to $64,461.
A holder valued a Cash Cat NFT bought for almost nothing at 0.3 ETH.
The OCC said crypto firms conducting permitted digital-asset activities can pursue national bank charters. A charter could cover federally regulated crypto custody and other banking services.
Crypto commentators are comparing Situational Awareness’s steep July loss with LUNA-style failures, while broader discussion centers on its leveraged AI-stock portfolio. Claims about the size of the decline vary.