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Pump.fun Distributes 4.85B PUMP Tokens to 124 Wallets in Scheduled Unlock
The Aug. 14 unlock distributed roughly $13.6M worth of PUMP across 124 addresses, extending insider releases that have shadowed the token's 30% weekly rally.
Venezuela Settles Trade in Stablecoins as Sanctions Cut Off Dollar Banking
Locked out of correspondent banking, Venezuela routes cross-border payments through USD-pegged tokens — a sovereign-scale test of on-chain dollar settlement.
Bitcoin Options Skew Falls to 4% as Traders Strip Pre-Fed Hedges
The 1-week 25-delta skew fell to roughly 4% from elevated June levels as large traders accumulate $70,000 strike calls ahead of Wednesday's Fed decision.
KPMG Clears Tether's 2025 Books With Unqualified Opinion After Years of Reserve Questions
The Big Four firm physically counted every gold bar in Tether's custody and found reserves exceeding liabilities by $6.814 billion, the company said Aug. 13.
Tether Lands First Full Audit, Posts $6.81B Reserve Surplus for 2025
KPMG U.S. issued an unqualified opinion on Tether International's financials, physically verifying gold bar holdings under U.S. GAAP.
Pump.fun Recaptures 51.7% of Launchpad Fees After Robinhood Chain Rivals Fade
Total fees across 125 token launchpads rose 77 percent to $75.39 million in 30 days as Robinhood Chain protocols briefly undercut Pump.fun's dominance.
SKALE Labs Launches Agent Pit Sandbox for AI Prediction Market Strategy Testing
The gas-free network replicates Polymarket's order book and settlement mechanics, letting developers stress-test autonomous trading agents before deploying live capital.
Bank of Russia Approves Retail BTC, ETH and USDT Access; Excludes XRP
A Bank of Russia draft directive permits public exchange access for three major digital assets, imposing a 300,000-ruble annual cap for non-qualified investors while excluding XRP.
EIP-8363 'Tapered Issuance Burn' Draws DeFi Pushback Over Decentralization Risk
The proposal would cut new ETH issuance to zero once 50 percent of supply is staked, alarming DeFi builders and institutional stakers.
Bitmine Buys 13,000 ETH From BitGo, Holds 4.8 Percent of Supply
The $24.36 million purchase extends Bitmine's 58-week accumulation streak as the firm targets 5 percent of Ethereum's total supply.
SharpLink CEO Opposes EIP-8363, Warns Tapered Issuance Burn Would Hurt ETH Staking Yields
Joseph Chalom says the proposal to burn consensus-layer rewards as staked ETH rises would eliminate validator issuance and raise capital costs across DeFi.
TRON Holds 49 Percent of Global USDT Supply as Q2 Revenue Rises 15.9 Percent
The network hosts over $90 billion in USDT, nearly half of global supply, as daily active addresses and transactions climb quarter-over-quarter.
Stablecoin Supply Hits $305B as On-Chain Transfers Cross $15.6T
Ethereum holds $161 billion in supply and leads transfer volume, while Solana and Tron capture high-throughput payments and emerging-market remittances.
TUT Surges 10x After Aster DEX Perp Listing Triggers Short Squeeze
Aster DEX's Aug. 6 launch of 5x leveraged TUT perpetual futures drove a liquidation cascade that pushed the token to an all-time high by Aug. 9.
Venezuela's Dollar Freeze Made Stablecoins Work Outside Crypto
Cut off from correspondent banking and SWIFT settlement, Venezuela has routed trade through USDT and USDC — giving stablecoins their clearest proof of utility in real-economy commerce.
Saylor Posts Buying Show as Strategy Holds 842,138 BTC Worth $54.86B
Strategy's founder posted 'Doing ₿usiness' Saturday, a phrase he has used repeatedly ahead of confirmed Bitcoin purchase announcements.
1inch Launches Aqua to Spread Single-Wallet Liquidity Across 13 Chains
Aqua lets market makers quote positions on multiple protocols simultaneously from one wallet, with atomic reversion if a trade exceeds the available balance.
RWA Deposits Triple to $7.4B in Q2 as Total DeFi Deposits Fall 15 Percent
A CoinShares and Token Terminal report shows tokenized assets expanding across lending, spot trading and derivatives even as total DeFi deposits contracted.
EIP-8363 Would Cut ETH Issuance to Zero at 50% Staked. Critics Say the Cure Is Worse Than the
The Tapered Issuance Burn proposal from Justin Drake and Jerome de Tychey draws opposition from Lido, Ether.fi and Bitwise over DeFi collateral risk and monetary policy credibility.
Ethereum ICO Wallet Wakes After 11 Years, Moves First ETH Since 2015
Address 0x6A53, dormant since the 2014 presale, sent 0.1 ETH to Coinbase — the first on-chain movement from a wallet holding 2,000 ETH acquired at a $620 entry.
Ethereum Wallet 0x7378 Accumulates $9.1 Million in LIT
On-chain data shows wallet 0x7378 acquired 3.91 million LIT over two months at an average price of $2.33, aligning with broader whale accumulation.
Fed Holds at 3.5%-3.75%, Putting Tokenized Treasury Yields in Focus
The Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged, sustaining the yield floor for tokenized Treasuries and tightening the capital-flow competition against DeFi lending pools.
Ethereum Whale 0x8c58 Buys 27,000 ETH via Galaxy Digital OTC After Three-Month Dormancy
The anonymous wallet secured 27,000 ETH through Galaxy Digital's over-the-counter desk in its first major capital deployment in three months.
Proof of Play Shuts Down, Open-Sources Pirate Nation Assets as PIRATE Token Falls 99.7%
The studio behind on-chain game Pirate Nation ceased operations Tuesday, releasing code and art under a CC0 license and leaving PIRATE token support to an independent foundation.
Tokenized Asset Market Cap Hits $339.5B Across 47 Chains as Equities and Commodities Expand
Token Terminal data tracks 4,942 tokenized assets across 316 issuers and 47 chains, with equities led by Ondo Finance and gold-linked tokens dominating commodities.
EIP-8361 Would Cut Net Consensus Yield to Zero at 50 Percent Staking Ratio
The draft proposal would burn a rising fraction of validator rewards as more ETH is staked, eliminating issuance incentives beyond 50 percent of supply.
USDGO Crosses $1B in Circulation as Institutional Stablecoin Demand Builds
The regulated enterprise stablecoin USDGO reached $1 billion in circulating supply in July, three months after crossing $100 million, placing it among the top six globally.
eToro Leads $12.5M Round for Extended DEX, Integrates Zengo Wallet
The investment pairs Extended's Starknet-based perpetuals engine with eToro's Zengo self-custody wallet, opening on-chain derivatives across crypto, equities and FX.
Bitcoin Spot Demand Stays Negative as On-Chain Metrics Suggest a Floor
Bitcoin holds above $63,800 with derivatives defensive and spot demand negative, while long-term holder activity and on-chain data point to support.
Strategy Sells 3,588 BTC for $216M in Third Disposal Under Monetization Program
The sale, Strategy's largest Bitcoin disposal to date, follows an identical transaction the prior week and marks a shift in how the company manages its BTC treasury.
Aave ARFC Targets V3 Wind-Down on Six Chains, $98.1M in Supplied Assets
The proposal covers 50 low-use reserves and 21 matured Pendle Principal Tokens across Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos.
ENS Labs Drops Operational Wallet Transfer From Foundation Proposal After Delegate Pushback
A revised executable draft removes the controversial plan to shift the ENS DAO's operational wallet to a new foundation entity.
Tether's Q2 Operating Profit Drops 69% to $1.5B, Slowing Excess Reserve Growth
The stablecoin issuer's Q2 2026 net operating profit fell sharply from $4.9B a year earlier, slowing the accumulation of capital above USDT's 1:1 backing.
Hyperliquid RWA Volume Tops $25 Billion, Overtakes Perps for First Time
Tokenized real-world assets drove 52 percent of Hyperliquid's $48.2 billion weekly volume from July 13 to July 19, the first time RWAs led all asset categories on the platform.
Aave Proposes Deprecating 75 Reserves Across Six Deployments, Hitting $98M in Supplied Assets
The Aave Risk DAO targets illiquid long-tail markets with $15.6 million in outstanding debt, aiming to cut oracle costs and reduce protocol complexity.
Zapper, Botanix, Odos Among DeFi Protocols Shutting Down in 2026
The closures point to deeper failures in product-market fit as capital flows toward RWA yields and integrated L2 infrastructure
Stablecoin Market Cap Hits $300B as DeFi, Payments Use Cases Expand
Stablecoins now anchor DeFi liquidity, cross-chain transfers and tokenized asset settlement, with the GENIUS Act providing a federal reserve framework for issuers.
Stablecoin Market Cap Hits $300B as On-Chain Use Cases Spread Beyond Trading
Total stablecoin market capitalization reached $300 billion, extending the asset class deeper into cross-border settlements, decentralized lending and payments.
Stablecoin Market Cap Hits $300 Billion as On-Chain Utility Deepens
Total stablecoin supply crossed $300 billion, driven by expanding roles in DeFi liquidity, cross-chain capital flows and global payments.
Odos DEX Aggregator Shuts Down July 30 After Routing $104 Billion in Volume
The four-year-old protocol's operating company announced its permanent closure, leaving large-trade users to migrate to 1inch, ParaSwap and Matcha.
Odos DEX Aggregator to Shut Down July 30 After Routing $104 Billion
The protocol's operating company announced permanent cessation of services Thursday, removing a major liquidity router from Ethereum, Polygon and Arbitrum.
Aave Sees $128 Million USDC Whale Transfer, Shows Market Shift
A large stablecoin movement from the DeFi lending protocol suggests a major player is repositioning assets, impacting Aave's liquidity
Bitcoin Readies Push Past Equities, Bonds as Fear Index Hits 28
After trailing traditional assets for weeks, Bitcoin shows signs of renewed strength with on-chain metrics suggesting institutional accumulation is underway
Bitcoin Whale Moves 717 BTC to OKX, Shows Selling Pressure
An unknown wallet transferred $54.25 million in Bitcoin to OKX, a move often preceding market liquidation during investor fear
Bitcoin Whale Moves 2,200 BTC in $170 Million Off-Exchange Transfer
The transfer between unknown wallets suggests strategic repositioning rather than immediate selling pressure
Bitcoin ETFs Hit With $70.5M Outflows as BlackRock Sees $61.5M Exit
Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded $70.5 million in net outflows, extending a four-day selling streak led by BlackRock's IBIT fund
747 BTC Worth $57 Million Lands on Coinbase Institutional as Demand Grows
A $57.19 million Bitcoin transfer from an anonymous wallet to Coinbase's institutional platform signals renewed large-scale investor interest
Bitcoin ETFs Lose $1 Billion as Institutions Exit, BTC Falls to $78,155
Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded $1 billion in net outflows this week, ending six weeks of institutional accumulation
Bitcoin Drops to $78,199 as Fear Index Hits 31
BTC fell 1.3 percent in 24 hours while short-term holders dump coins to exchanges amid broad market selloff
Bitcoin Crashes to Pennies on Revolut During Data Feed Outage
Millions of Revolut users saw BTC values plummet to near zero for several hours before the platform resolved the issue