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.
Rektguy will mint 10,000 Rekt Tradooor NFTs through OpenSea on Robinhood Chain on August 21 at 12 p.m. ET. The mint costs 0.02 ETH, with early access for Rekt Markets subscribers and Rektguy and REKT holders.
CATE climbed more than 100% from its recent lows after dropping about 80% from its all-time high. Promoters have resumed pushing the memecoin as its price recovers.
TOAD reached an all-time high near $23 million in market cap before a sustained selloff erased much of the move. One tracked wallet was down 56% on its position.
SOL extended its rally above $90 for the first time in over three months, taking its three-day gain past 20%. The initial jump above $80 liquidated nearly $40 million in SOL shorts within an hour.
XRP climbed about 41% this week to $1.39 after its lowest weekly close in nearly two years fell below $1. It led the five largest crypto assets by market cap during the broader rally.
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.
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.
Coldcard released firmware 5.6.1 after weak Mk3 seed generation was linked to a $114 million theft. The update requires physical entropy and patches more USB and firmware-validation bugs, but old seeds remain unsafe and users must move funds to new ones.
Trump told U.S. envoys to stop talks with Iran until Tehran is ready to sign a deal, extending the break after a 60-day agreement expired. Oil gained more than $2, adding macro pressure for Bitcoin.
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.
ZEC moved above $660 after breaking $570, putting its roughly $750 all-time high next. It also outperformed Bitcoin during the broader rally.
Solana processed a record 4.24 billion transactions in July.
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.
Interfold launched FOLD for bonding and governance on its privacy network, which targets private data collaboration and anonymous voting. Public bonding is not fully open, and governance locking is still pending.
Bitcoin spot exchange volume fell to its lowest level since Glassnode’s series began in 2019. Spot demand has since turned slightly positive alongside perpetual futures, but the spot-demand recovery remains shallow.
After closing its Bitcoin short for a $1.65 million profit and switching long, wallet 0x66f8 had 240 BTC and 3,738 ETH liquidated. The positions were worth about $25.65 million.
SPCXX reclaimed its $135 IPO price after a post-earnings dip, reversing its latest move below that level. Short interest had previously dropped from 34% to 11%, linking much of the earlier rebound to short covering.
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.
Ansem launched Z500, an onchain index of curated token launches. Each launch airdrops part of its supply to ANSEM holders.
Tether and Circle minted $3 billion of stablecoins over two days, with Tether issuing $2 billion of USDT on Tron. Combined USDT and USDC supply now exceeds $250 billion.
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.
Fomo generated about $38.85 million in 24-hour Solana spot volume, nearly twice Axiom’s $19.90 million, and also beat Axiom in daily revenue.
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.
Binance launched Agent OS and an MCP server that let authorized AI tools access market data, account details and trading. External withdrawals are blocked, and agents operate through isolated sub-accounts.