Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) Chairman Tom Lee outlined the company’s ten-year vision on the Bankless podcast on August 25: “We are betting that Ethereum will become the primary venue where these activities take place; our mission is to help Ethereum remain the most important chain in the future.” The company disclosed that it purchased 32,447 ETH last week. BitMine’s ETH Holdings Progress: 5,847,611 ETH, Representing 4.8% of Supply Since launching its Ethereum treasury strategy on

According to BlockBeats, on August 25, a large whale (address 0x6046...) on Hyperliquid is now positioned just 2.5% away from its liquidation price. The address holds a 559.4 BTC short position opened yesterday at an average price of $79,318.4, currently worth approximately $45.21 million with an

According to RootData, a Web3 asset data platform, EigenCloud (EIGEN) will unlock approximately 38.35 million tokens valued at $8.59 million at 5:00 UTC on September 1. The unlock event represents a significant token release in the project's vesting

According to RootData data, ZetaChain (ZETA) will unlock 44.43 million tokens worth approximately $1.5 million on September 1 at 00:00 Beijing time.

According to ChainCatcher, citing RootData blockchain data platform, Audiera (BEAT) will unlock approximately 11.25 million tokens valued at around $1.41 million on September 1 at 9:00 AM Beijing time.

BitMine Immersion Technologies added 32,447 ETH over the past week, lifting its total Ethereum holdings to 5,847,611 tokens as of August 23, the company disclosed Monday. The position is now worth approximately $14.27 billion at BitMine's reference price of $2,440 per ETH. BitMine's holdings

According to Bernstein research released on August 24, USDC supply surged approximately $1.7 billion during the final week of August, reversing a six-month downtrend. Circle's stock price has rebounded 42% from lows triggered by OUSD competition concerns. Bernstein maintains an outperform rating on

From 02:15 to 02:30 (UTC) on August 25, 2026, BTC surged from 79,818.9 USDT to 81,075.3 USDT within 15 minutes, posting a 1.57% gain with a 1.57% amplitude and reaching a new 24-hour high. Risk-asset sentiment rebounded significantly, with the bid-to-ask depth ratio across the top five levels reaching 2.57. Bids clearly dominated, and market attention increased sharply. The primary driver of this move was the United States imposing “economic D-Day”-level sanctions on Iran, cutting off its oil re

The Hyperliquidity Policy Center (HPC) submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on August 24, requesting that cash-settled equity perpetual contracts be permitted to trade in the U.S. market as “security futures.” Currently, the cumulative notional trading volume of the offshore perpetual contract market has surpassed $5 trillion (according to DefiLlama data), with open interest nearing $13 billion. Four R

Uniswap and PancakeSwap handle 96.1% of all tokenized commodity trading volume on decentralized exchanges, processing $678.2 million worth of transactions over the past 30 days. The two platforms have established dominance in a market segment that did not meaningfully exist two years ago.

Uniswap and PancakeSwap have captured 96.1% of all tokenized commodity trading volume on decentralized exchanges over the past 30 days, processing $678.2 million in transactions. Gold-backed tokens dominate the category, accounting for roughly 80% or more of daily DEX volume, with Paxos Gold

According to Nikkei, Japan's Financial Services Agency plans to relax regulatory restrictions on stablecoins issued by trust banks, allowing individuals to conduct transactions exceeding 100 million yen. The agency intends to include the changes in upcoming tax reform

Gate News message, Machi (@machibigbrother) experienced a significant account recovery after being liquidated to below $60K. The account has since grown nearly 200 times, now holding $113M in long positions across BTC and ETH. Current positions include 23,350 ETH valued at $59M and 668 BTC valued at

POSCO International America completed a demonstration of tokenizing trade receivables as blockchain-based digital assets on the 25th, in collaboration with trade finance platform Olea and asset tokenization platform Intain. The demonstration aimed to improve asset visibility and reduce operational c

POSCO International Americas on August 25 completed a proof-of-concept for tokenizing accounts receivable on the Avalanche blockchain in collaboration with trading finance platform Olea and asset tokenization platform Intain. The companies issued trade-generated receivables as tokenized digital asse

According to CoinGlass data, global cryptocurrency liquidations reached $221 million in the past hour, with short position liquidations accounting for $217 million. Bitcoin liquidations hit $165 million, while Ethereum liquidations reached $48.1 million.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, the "Set 10 Major Targets" account's BTC short position has triggered its $80,500 stop-loss level. The account holds 1,830.724 BTC shorts opened at $76,397.56, with $8.06 million in unrealized losses. Additionally, it carries 12,756.739 ETH shorts opened at $2,37