Spritehood minted out 44,444 NFTs on Robinhood Chain, raising as much as $1.3 million within three hours. The sale also revived accusations over ColeThereum’s earlier NFT projects.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $144.7 million in net outflows on August 10, ending a five-day inflow streak that drew about $853.5 million.
A 1,310 BTC short on Hyperliquid faces liquidation if Bitcoin breaks above roughly $64,610. Short liquidations are building above $64,200, with long liquidations clustered below $63,600.
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.
FWA has used more than 100 ETH in protocol revenue to buy its token. Thirty percent of the purchased tokens were burned, equal to 0.5% of supply.
The SEC will meet August 14 to consider proposing Regulation Crypto, a rule that could let certain crypto firms raise capital without full SEC registration.
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.
BitMart is winding down and plans to end trading August 26. OpenGradient CEO Matthew Wang said his market-making team cannot withdraw funds and alleged insolvency; BitMart says withdrawals remain available and denies misusing customer assets.
Riot could supply Anthropic with 191 MW from its Rockdale site under a 20-year deal valued at $9.1 billion. RIOT shares rose more than 20% after the news.
Trump Media added 4,662 BTC in July using proceeds from partial iShares Bitcoin ETF sales, lifting its treasury to 14,139 BTC worth about $900 million.
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.
Solana processed a record 4.24 billion transactions in July. Its testnet cut slot times from 400ms to 350ms as developers work toward 200ms.
SPCX closed at $138.74, reclaiming its $135 IPO price after falling near $110. The move reversed much of the drop that followed the Aug. 6 insider-share unlock.
Standard Chartered initiated LINK coverage with a $13 end-2026 target and a $200 target for 2030. The bank expects tokenized assets to reach $4 trillion and drive demand for Chainlink infrastructure.
The StonkBrokers NFT floor rose above 13 ETH less than a month after its free mint.
Coinbase will roll out futures, perpetuals and options to eligible UK professional investors over the coming months. The offering covers more than 170 crypto and traditional-market contracts with leverage up to 50x.
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.
John Thune filed cloture on the motion to proceed to the CLARITY Act, with a vote set for September 15. It needs 60 votes and would only open Senate consideration, not pass the bill.
A Coldcard firmware flaw weakened seed entropy for five years and may have enabled the theft of an estimated 1,600–1,800 BTC. Five addresses hold nearly 83% of the confirmed stolen funds; no verified thefts from Mk4, Mk5 or Q devices have surfaced.
Chain Mancer NFTs climbed from a free mint to nearly $3,000, and MANCER briefly hit a $12 million market cap.
MARA sold 23,093 BTC for about $1.63 billion during the first half of 2026 at an average price of $70,631. It held 35,577 BTC as of June 30.
A flaw in BTCPay Server versions before 2.4.2 exposed LND wallet credentials and let attackers drain self-hosted Lightning nodes. Supporters offered a 10% recovery bounty capped at 3 BTC.
Bitcoin’s 30-day implied volatility index fell to its 2026 low as BTC traded in a roughly $200 range. BTC/USDT perpetual volume also logged one of its weakest days in five years.
Solana memecoin TOAD reached roughly a $20 million market cap within hours of launch after Mike Dudas bought and promoted it. The token gained about 50,000% in two hours.
BIP-110 was marked closed after its fork drew 2.53% miner support. The split chain resumed mining but fell 339 blocks behind Bitcoin.