Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla's ruling on Tuesday, Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm will face a retrial on unresolved money laundering and sanctions charges on April 26, 2027, at the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse in New York. The retrial was originally scheduled for

According to Odaily, Flop Labs published its initial FLOP token economics proposal, allocating 172 billion tokens by year 10 with a final annual inflation rate of 0.6%. The plan includes no VC allocation or presale; all FLOP must be earned through network participation. Miner rewards account

According to Odaily, Flop Labs announced its FLOP tokenomics framework with no venture capital allocation or pre-sale, all tokens earned through network participation. The protocol projects cumulative supply of 17.2 billion FLOP by year 10 with a final annual inflation rate of 0.6%. Of the total al

According to on-chain data, an address associated with Tron founder Justin Sun unlocked 5,000 stETH via Lido for the first time since July 18, 2025. The transaction valued approximately $12.3 million. Sun currently holds around 243,000 stETH on-chain, worth an estimated $600 million. The

According to Bloomberg, Blackrock processed more than $5 billion in direct bitcoin-to-ETF conversions in July, following a significant reduction of the minimum transaction size from $25 million to $1 million for its iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). "It's going to keep growing because we keep

According to Foresight News, Cypherpunk Technologies (Nasdaq: CYPH), a Zcash treasury company, released its positions on five key issues in Zcash's NU7 upgrade voting on August 24. Cypherpunk holds 323,394.38 ZEC (approximately 1.91% of total ZEC supply) and controls 4.2 Gsol/s of Equihash mining po

According to Bitcoin News, Strive Asset Management purchased 1110 Bitcoin for approximately $81.5 million between August 17-21, bringing total holdings to 21356 BTC valued at approximately $1.7 billion at current prices. The purchase makes Strive the 7th largest Bitcoin holder among publicly

According to Bloomberg reporter Emily Nicolle, Bitcoin surged 23% this week, marking its largest weekly gain in over three years and ending a prolonged period of sideways trading since summer. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent's proposal to expand long-term Treasury repurchase programs prompted

According to Lookonchain, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF recorded net inflows of 4,038 BTC today (Aug 26), with 27,403 BTC inflow over the past 7 days. Ethereum ETF saw net inflows of 75,150 ETH today, while 7-day inflows reached 352,893 ETH.

According to Aave Labs, the Aave App launched early access on August 26 with a Ghost Pass invite mechanism. Users who receive Ghost Pass can view their available invitations on the app's activity page and send invites to friends through the in-app process, allowing recipients to bypass the

Veteran investor Cathie Wood recently doubled down on Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) despite a sharp decline in its stock price over the last year. Circle is a crypto company known for its USDC stablecoin,

XRP surged 43.7% over the past seven days through Aug. 26, outperforming every other top-10 cryptocurrency. US spot XRP exchange-traded funds attracted $77.47 million of net inflows between Aug. 18 and Aug. 25, while Korean traders drove 16.3% of Upbit's total turnover early Aug. 26. The rally

According to Bernstein analysts, Circle (NYSE: CRCL) stock closed at $92.02 on Aug. 25, up 47% in a month. The brokerage reiterated a price target of $140, citing stablecoin payments, blockchain-based capital markets, and tokenized assets as key growth drivers. Analyst Gautam Chhugani argued Circle'

According to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, on Aug 26, GLD (gold ETF) and IBIT (BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF) have returned to the top 10 most-traded ETFs, signaling a market shift away from AI enthusiasm toward inflation-hedge trades. Meanwhile, semiconductor ETFs that dominated trading

Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp. announced Wednesday the launch of State of Solana, a public real-time data and research platform consolidating Solana market, network, staking, validator, yield and

According to The Block, DeFi Development Corp. today launched State of Solana, a real-time data and research platform for tracking Solana network metrics including market performance, staking, validators, yields, and ecosystem indicators. The company currently holds approximately 2.3 million SOL, va

Park Hyun-joo, Chairman of Mirae Asset Group, announced plans to expand digital assets to 150 trillion won at a May 26 event in Seoul. The expansion is driven by Mirae Asset's '3.0 strategy,' which merges traditional assets like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix stocks with digital assets through