✴️ #BTC

Investment firm VanEck continues to believe that Bitcoin will reach $180,000 by the end of the year

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💼 #BTC #venture

CoinDesk: KindlyMD Raises $200 Million in Convertible Notes to Further Invest in Bitcoin

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🇺🇸 CoinDesk: The U.S. Treasury Department has begun work on Project GENIUS to gather input on illicit activity in the crypto industry

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🆕 Cointelegraph: A third of Katana’s total users are on the DeFi platform with a rewards system

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🆕 #SOL #memecoins

Solana has a new leading launchpad for meme coins: Pump has taken first place amid the collapse of LetsBonk

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🆕 #USDC

CoinDesk: Circle announced the acquisition of Malachite to launch its blockchain, Arc

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✴️ #BTC #ETH #XRP

The SEC has postponed decisions on applications to launch spot BTC and ETH ETFs from Truth Social, as well as funds based on XRP and Litecoin

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🆕 #USDE #PENDLE #ENA

Chaos Labs discusses the risks associated with USDe, as a trading strategy on Pendle has increased Ethena’s presence on Aave to $6.6 billion

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✴️ #BTC #mining

Google increased its stake in TeraWulf, the fifth-largest Bitcoin miner, to 14% amid the company’s plans to raise $400 million

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✴️ #BTC

CoinDesk: According to JPMorgan, the Bitcoin network hashrate increased by 4% in the first two weeks of August

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🇸🇬 Volkswagen Singapore has begun accepting payments in digital assets

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✴️ #BTC

MicroStrategy acquired 430 BTC (~$51.4 million) between August 11 and August 17 at an average price of $119,666

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✴️ #ETH

Publicly traded company BTCS has announced a one-time dividend payment to shareholders of $0.05 per share in Ethereum, becoming the first company globally to pay dividends in ETH. A bonus of $0.35 per share in ETH is also being offered for holding shares until January 26, 2026

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🇪🇺 CoinDesk: Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has launched spot margin trading with 10x leverage in Europe

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🇳🇱 #BTC

Cointelegraph: Dutch company Amdax plans to list its Bitcoin treasury on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange

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🇨🇳 #BTC #ETH #USDT

CMB International Securities, a subsidiary of China Merchants Bank, the world’s eighth-largest bank, has officially launched virtual asset trading in Hong Kong, supporting 24/7 trading of BTC, ETH, and USDT

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🇰🇷 Cointelegraph: Authorities in the South Korean city of Jeju intend to seize cryptocurrency assets from individuals evading tax payments

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🇷🇺 National Rating Agency (NRA): the large-scale introduction of the digital ruble, scheduled for September 2026, could annually bring up to 260 billion rubles to the Russian economy and up to 50 billion rubles to the banking sector by 2031

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🇯🇵 #BTC

Japanese public company Metaplanet has acquired an additional 775 BTC (~$93 million). The company’s total reserves now amount to 18,888 BTC, with a cumulative purchase value of approximately $1.94 billion

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🆕 #COIN

According to Ark Invest’s latest position disclosure, Coinbase accounts for 6.28% of the portfolio, while Bitmine Immersion Technologies represents 3.22%. The fund’s largest holdings are Tesla (10.28%) and Roku (6.45%)

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🆕 #COIN

The number of Coinbase Smart Wallet accounts has surpassed 1 million. August 16th saw the second-largest daily record for wallet creation (270,000), and nearly 279,000 new accounts have appeared this month in total following the launch of the Base app

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🆕 #SOL

A proposal, Alpenglow (SIMD-0326), to reduce block finalization time from 12.8 seconds to ~150 milliseconds, has been put to a community vote on the Solana network

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🆕 #ADA

Cardano developer EMURGO has announced the cessation of delegating Genesis ADA to seven public DReps to promote inclusivity and fairness in network governance, in response to community feedback

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✴️ #BTC #mining

CoinDesk: According to Jefferies, Bitcoin mining profitability rose 2% in July amid the BTC price rally

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✴️ #BTC

Cointelegraph: Galaxy’s Mike Novogratz believes Bitcoin reaching a $1 million mark by 2026 would signal serious problems

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🤖 #nft #ai

The Shanghai People's Court sentenced Wang and Liu to 8.5 and 7.2 years in prison, respectively, with fines of 550,000 and 500,000 yuan for NFT fraud. They sold AI-generated digital collectibles, falsely promising price increases and guarantees of capital preservation

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🇹🇭 Crowdfund Insider: Thailand launches the TouristDigiPay program, which will allow foreign tourists to exchange cryptocurrency for Thai Baht. The initiative aims to revitalize the tourism sector and will operate within a regulatory sandbox

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🆕 Manta Network has provided market maker Wintermute with a loan of 7.5 million MANTA tokens to ensure liquidity on cryptocurrency exchanges

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💸 #ETH

JPMorgan: Exponential growth of stablecoins is expected, and Ethereum, holding the majority of their assets on L1 and L2, is the primary beneficiary of this trend

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🇺🇸 #BTC

QCP: The recent BTC correction from $124k to $119k looks healthy and will not affect the overall upward trend, supported by corporate adoption and the US Treasury’s intentions to increase reserves in Bitcoin

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✴️ #ETH #USDC

Onchain Lens: A wallet linked to World Liberty Finance acquired 1911 ETH and 84.5 WBTC for a total of $18.6 million USDC, leaving $5 million USDC remaining in the balance for potential further purchases

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🆕 #ETH #BNB #COIN

Coinglass: Over the past week, 194.4k ETH flowed into CEX platforms, primarily to Binance (91.7k) and Bybit (56.7k). Simultaneously, a total of 310.8k ETH was withdrawn from Coinbase Pro, Kraken, and Bitfinex

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🇺🇸 #BTC

Cointelegraph: Trump-affiliated American Bitcoin is considering acquisitions in Asia to increase its BTC reserves

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🇺🇸 Bloomberg: The U.S. Federal Reserve plans to ease regulation of banks’ crypto activities by ending its supervisory program

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🤖 #BTC #mining #ai

Cointelegraph: Bitcoin miners and AI companies are competing for access to cheap and sustainable electricity

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