CATE pushed to fresh highs after climbing from below $10 million four days earlier. Its market cap approached $100 million as the rally continued.
Cyberleek paired purported unreleased GTA 6 footage with a Solana memecoin and lets holders spend CYBERLEEK to vote on what may leak next. Its claimed access to a playable build remains uncertain.
Eric Trump said no new Trump coin was launching and called the Robinhood Chain rumor fraudulent. TRUMP had surged more than 33% before the denial.
Solana processed a record 4.24 billion transactions in July.
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.
Ansem launched Z500, an onchain index of curated token launches. Projects burn ANSEM to unlock premium launch tiers and reserve at least 3% of each new token for ANSEM holders.
Stripe bought OpenRouter for about $7 billion, adding a router used by 8 million developers across more than 400 AI models. The deal could pair that distribution with Stripe’s stablecoin and wallet products, though that integration remains uncertain.
Grayscale filed its fifth amendment to rename the Zcash Trust as The Zcash ETF and set a 2.5% annual fee. Shares are expected to begin NYSE trading as ZCSH around August 25, subject to regulatory approval.
Justin Sun says a California judge kept his individual claims against World Liberty Financial in open court. WLFI co-founder Zach Witkoff says the judge issued no ruling and indicated that many claims should go to arbitration.
SPCXX nearly returned to its $135 IPO price this week. Traders also noted that its Hyperliquid perpetual wicked lower alongside Bitcoin.
The Senate scheduled a procedural vote on the CLARITY Act for September 15. CFTC Chair Michael Selig directed staff to explore crypto market-structure rules if Congress keeps the bill stalled, including a route for leveraged and margin trading under CFTC oversight.
ZEC surged 47% to $865, its highest price since January 2018. The rally accelerated after Grayscale filed to convert its Zcash Trust into a U.S. spot ETF.
The Treasury doubled long-end debt buybacks to at least $4 billion per operation after the 30-year yield hit 5.34%. Bitcoin rose about 21% after the announcement to above $79,000, with roughly $3.8 billion in shorts liquidated over two days, though the buyback's role remains unclear.
Trump said CFTC Chair Mike Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States legally. No formal plan or timeline has followed, and HYPE later traded above $80 at a new high.
CASHCAT fell to about $0.107, down 47% from ThinkingUSD’s mid-July short entry near $0.199 and about 10% over 24 hours. The short gained roughly $92,000.
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.
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.
Strategy raised $333.7 million through MSTR sales and spent $132.2 million to retire $138.9 million of STRC. It bought or sold no Bitcoin and added $149.1 million to its cash reserves.
TokenWorks has used 167 ETH of a 327 ETH allocation to buy FWA for its reserve, making it a top-five FWA holder.
Coinbase added Basecat, DebtReliefBot, Dolphin and Grass to its listing roadmap. The addition gives all four assets a possible route to Coinbase trading.
ENA rose about 69% from August 17 as dollar-denominated open interest more than doubled to $237 million. Coin-denominated open interest increased only 23%, so price appreciation drove most of the leverage growth.
Interfold launched FOLD for bonding and governance on its privacy network. Some airdropped tokens remain nontransferable and begin vesting September 1 over two years.
The SEC proposed Reg Crypto, letting qualifying token issuers raise up to $75 million a year without full registration and smaller teams raise up to $5 million over four years. Form TR could end the investment contract once promised managerial work is finished or permanently stopped.
Coldcard released firmware 5.6.1 after weak Mk3 seed generation was linked to Bitcoin thefts. Users who generated seeds from 2021 through July 2026 must create new ones with physical entropy and move their funds.
Cypherpunk Technologies activated a 4.2 GSol/s U.S. mining fleet through a $33.33 million equity-funded deal with Winklevoss Capital. The fleet controls about 18% of Zcash hashrate, but full warrant issuance would leave the new shares at about 28.7% of the enlarged total.