Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to BlockBeats, Arthur Hayes released the whitepaper for FLOP on September 7, introducing an AI inference blockchain where agents pay miners for compute verification. FLOP aims to make AI inference power a purchasable, verifiable on-chain commodity—agents pay FLOP to request inference, mine

According to Coinglass data, over the past 24 hours, the crypto market saw total liquidations of $210 million, with long positions accounting for $113 million and short positions $97.41 million. A total of 66,889 traders were liquidated during the period, with the largest single liquidation

According to ChainCatcher, over the past 7 days, Bybit's BTC wallet balance declined 1.5%, the largest decrease among the top 10 exchanges by holdings. Bybit's reserve assets also experienced a net outflow of $59.49 million during the same period, alongside MEXC's $50.72 million outflow.

Robinhood Chain's decentralized-exchange volume surged past $3 billion in a single day for the first time on September 4, driving Uniswap to burn a record $1.15 million worth of UNI as activity accelerated across the newly launched Ethereum Layer 2. The network's daily DEX volume crossed the $3 bill

According to CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr., Bitcoin's 30-day realized market cap change turned positive on Aug 24 after 87 consecutive days in negative territory, and rose to +0.88% on Sept 6. The realized market cap reached $1.068 trillion, an increase of $9.36 billion over the past 30 days, i

Bitcoin is experiencing its sharpest deleveraging phase since 2023, according to CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost, as reported by WuBlockchain. Binance's open interest briefly dipped below its 180-day average, currently standing at approximately $9.6 billion compared to the average of $8.3 billion.

Robinhood Chain's decentralized-exchange volume surged past $3 billion for the first time on September 4, triggering a record $1.15 million UNI burn by Uniswap. The network more than tripled daily DEX volume from $989 million on August 28. Uniswap burned

David Hoffman, co-founder of Bankless, sold ETH in May and shifted his investments into LIT and ZEC. The move sparked discussions in the crypto community as LIT and ZEC demonstrated strong performance following the sale. Hoffman's decision reflects an investment rotation strategy that has drawn

According to CryptoRank, RWA perpetual futures contracts reached $2 trillion in trading volume during Q3 2026, up from $1.27 trillion in Q2. With three weeks remaining in the quarter, the surge reflects rapid growth in tokenized stocks, commodities, indices, and other traditional assets

Altcoin perpetual futures open interest surpassed Bitcoin for the first time since December 2024, according to Coinalyze data from September 7. Bitcoin perpetual open interest stood at approximately $23.9 billion, accounting for about 37% of perpetual-futures open interest tracked by the platform,

According to Coinalyzes, altcoin perpetual futures open interest surpassed Bitcoin's for the first time since December 2024 on September 7. Bitcoin perpetual open interest stood at approximately $23.9 billion, accounting for 37% of total perpetual-futures open interest tracked by the platform,

According to DefiLlama data, social trading platform Fomo generated $1.76 million in daily revenue on Friday, surpassing memecoin launchpad Pump.fun's $1.1 million. Over longer periods, Pump.fun maintains its lead, generating more than $57 million in revenue over the past 30 days compared

According to Coinglass, on September 7 at 3:55 PM UTC, 68.8 million USDT were transferred from Binance to an unknown wallet.

According to ChainCatcher, trader BonkGuy (@theunipcs) recently denied insider trading accusations and disclosed he has invested over $500,000 in MEME token at an average market cap of approximately $45 million. BonkGuy stated that MEME sits at the core of the meme/stock narrative and believes the t

According to HTX market data, Bitcoin broke below the $79,000 level, trading at $78,999.99 with a 24-hour decline of 0.99%.

According to analyst Edgy (The DeFi Edge), altcoin ETFs showed sharp momentum reversals in early September. During the week of August 24-28, SOL ETF recorded net inflows of $142.7 million, XRP ETF $110.5 million, and HYPE ETF $56.8 million, totaling $309 million. However, in the following week (Augu

U.S.-listed cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds recorded approximately $205.8 million of net inflows on Friday, September 4, extending institutional demand. Bitcoin ETFs dominated flows, attracting $174.6 million, with BlackRock's IBIT accounting for $117.4 million and Fidelity's FBTC

The attacker behind exploits on Coldcard bitcoin hardware wallets has moved 45% of stolen assets from the third wave of attacks, according to Galaxy Research. The exploiter ran 97.09 BTC ($7.8 million at Monday's prices) through CoinJoin transactions on Sunday, following a previous swap to ether

According to Galaxy Research, the Coldcard exploit attacker moved 97.09 BTC ($7.8 million) on Sunday, representing 45% of stolen assets from Wave 3 attacks. The attacker swapped coins to ether via THORChain on September 2, then ran stolen bitcoin through CoinJoin transactions for laundering

Cryptocurrency transaction volume across the Middle East and North Africa reached approximately $350 billion annually, more than tripling from roughly $100 billion in 2022, according to an estimate cited by the Bitcoin Policy Institute. Saudi Arabia recorded the fastest growth rate in the region at