Gate Insights and Crypto Market Analysis

XRP is functioning as the native bridge asset on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), with 2 million payments between AI agents reported on the network, according to RippleXity. Over the past 72 hours, XRP accounted for 0.16% of decentralized exchange (DEX) trades through automatic routing, data from Vet, an XRPL

Silver is testing a major resistance zone near $66-$67 after rebounding from its July lows. The metal traded near $65.84 on the daily chart and $65.65 on the weekly chart, where a rising short-term channel collided with the upper boundary of a broader descending structure that has guided prices

Apex Group has launched The Inner Circle, an invitation-only network for up to 100 family offices to share private-market co-investment opportunities. Membership is restricted to family members, principals and chief investment officers who pass an Apex qualification process, with the first

AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) closed at $71.14 on August 17, 2026, after answering the four-year question of whether it could raise enough capital to complete its satellite constellation. Following a $1.15 billion convertible offering completed last month, management reported pro forma cash and liquidity e

Gold traded near $4,430 on Tuesday as weaker U.S. economic data reduced expectations for another Federal Reserve rate increase and kept the dollar under pressure. Spot gold was up 0.2% at $4,424.28 an ounce at 1:30 a.m. GMT on Aug. 18, extending gains for a third session, while December U.S. gold

Transaction Network Services has appointed Michael Johnson as Global Managing Director of its Payments Market business, elevating the former Asia-Pacific payments chief to oversee strategy and growth across the company's merchant acceptance, connectivity and transaction-orchestration products. The a

Solana (SOL) recovered from the $74-$75 support region and was trading near $76.04 after testing lower Fibonacci retracement levels. The rebound followed a technical setup suggesting a potential short-term low formation, with two chart-based analyses identifying upside resistance targets near $78 an

Hong Kong stocks displayed mixed performance on Tuesday (18th), with the Hang Seng Index closing up 0.07% at 25,471.15 points after heavyweight stocks drove an afternoon recovery from earlier losses. The divergence emerged as the Hang Seng Tech Index fell 0.9% to 4,739.18 points despite the main

US 30-year Treasury rates reached 5.31% on May 17 local time, marking the highest level since 2007, while 10-year Treasury rates climbed to 4.728%. The surge stems from Big Tech companies—including Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle—issuing approximately $194 billion in corporate bonds through

Long-term government bond yields in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan rose to multi-decade highs on the 18th, according to the Korea Center for International Finance. The US 30-year Treasury yield reached 5.33%, the highest level since June 2007 when it hit 5.40%. Japan's 10-year bond yie

Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing on August 17 and gained access to Claude Mythos 5, the AI company's most capable model for identifying and fixing software vulnerabilities. Payward plans to integrate Mythos 5 into its defensive

Bitcoin is testing a technical breakout near $64,000 after climbing above a descending trendline and the 50-day simple moving average. The move coincides with compressed Bollinger Bands, a setup that reflects reduced volatility and can precede larger price swings once a range breaks. A confirmed mov

Fidelity Asset Management, the world's third-largest asset manager, recorded 708 billion won in fund outflows in South Korea during the six months ending June. The company's assets under management declined from 3.893 trillion won at the end of last year to 3.185 trillion won by the end of June,

Nigel Farage, the pro-crypto leader of Reform UK, won the Clacton by-election on August 14, 2026 with 63% of the vote, but his return to Parliament immediately triggered the reopening of an ethics investigation into his personal finances. The victory automatically resumed a Parliamentary Standards i

Austria's Financial Market Authority (FMA) fined crypto exchange Bitpanda 70,000 euros, approximately $82,000, marking the first publicly disclosed enforcement penalty under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). The Vienna-based company violated procedural requirements

The USD-KRW exchange rate traded at 1,411.80 won at 3:30 PM in the Seoul foreign exchange market, down 1.20 won from the previous close of 1,413.00 won. This represents the lowest closing level since October 2 last year, driven by exporter settlement volumes and offshore selling pressure. The

The Bank of Russia proposes setting an annual limit of 300,000 rubles for unqualified investors purchasing approved digital assets through each Russian intermediary, while qualified market participants would have unrestricted access as to the amount they can invest. This approach creates a legal framework for cryptocurrency transactions in Russia but effectively makes retail access introductory and experimental. The annual cap of 300,000 rubles per intermediary sharply reduces the practical valu

Crypto exchange Binance provided the personal data and transaction history of IT specialist Yury Belenky at the request of Russian authorities, Reuters reported, citing investigative documents. The data package provided by the exchange included his transaction history, date of birth, address, phone number, and copies of his Russian passport and Bulgarian residence permit. Russia’s Investigative Committee is using this information in a terrorism financing case opened against Belenky in October, a

The Moscow Exchange is preparing to launch perpetual Bitcoin and Ether futures trading for professional investors. The plans were announced by Maria Patrikeeva, managing director of the derivatives market. According to Patrikeeva, the exchange intends to expand its range of cryptocurrency instruments, eventually increasing the number of available cryptocurrencies to ten and gradually adding perpetual futures on the most popular assets besides Ether and Bitcoin. Perpetual Futures Overview Perpetu

KOSPI declined 1.55% on May 18 as KB Securities analyst Lee Eun-taek warned that US 10-year Treasury yields trending above 5.0-5.5% could trigger capital flight from AI-related risk assets. Speaking at a press briefing at Korea Exchange in Seoul's Yeouido district on May 18, Lee stated pension