Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to BitMart founder Sheldon, the exchange's Chinese official account has been hacked, and the related content was not published by current staff members.

According to Odaily and on-chain analyst Yujin, AKE rose 52-fold over the past month, from $0.00019 to $0.01. The token's market maker had previously manipulated SIREN, XPIN, and BTR tokens, pushing each by over 10-fold. In early July, the market maker first compressed AKE's price by 60%, allowing l

According to its latest 13F filing submitted August 14 and covering positions through June 30, 2026, Wells Fargo disclosed a combined $9.18 million exposure to the Bitwise XRP ETF across two line items tied to the same CUSIP. The position represents notable institutional activity in the product,

Gate News reported that, according to an announcement from the KITE project team, KITE tokens will be swapped for tokens under the new contract at a 1:1 ratio. Gate has suspended KITE deposits and withdrawals, and users’ KITE tokens held on Gate will automatically be included in the swap. Trading will not be affected during the token swap. After the swap is completed, Gate will resume deposits and withdrawals for KITE tokens under the new contract. The new KITE token contract address is 0x118B70

According to Decrypt, Dutch prosecutors sold seized cryptocurrency from the defunct Knaken exchange, raising $2.5 million (€2.2 million) to repay creditors. Knaken, which operated without proper licensing

According to CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr., short-term Bitcoin holders (STH) are down 6% on average as of mid-August, with an unrealized loss level indicating market stress but no signs of capitulation-style selling. The STH MVRV ratio stands at 0.94, having remained below the 1.0 breakeven lev

According to The Data Nerd, a wallet transferred 289,760 LINK (~$2.74M) to its Gnosis Safe multisig address hours ago. The wallet has been continuously withdrawing LINK from Binance over the past month.

Glassnode reported that bitcoin trades near half its October 2025 peak while US stocks reached record highs on August 7. The analytics firm noted consumer confidence remains among the weakest readings of the past decade even as households moved capital out of cash into assets. Core inflation held at

JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in October 2025 over regulatory concerns, according to a source familiar with the matter. The termination adds to challenges facing the prediction market platform as industry scrutiny intensifies. However, a Polymarket spokesperson s

According to a source familiar with the matter, JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in October 2025 over regulatory concerns. A Polymarket spokesperson said the company maintains active operational relationships with JPMorgan across multiple entities, including

According to PPP prediction market tool, on Aug 17, a profitable address (0xc69bd5567b40ef4d11922eaa57e1f9be1c642076) purchased $130,000 worth of DNS victory predictions against T1 in the KeSPA Cup League of Legends matchup on Polymarket. The address acquired 213,471.1 shares at an average price of

According to PANews, on August 17, CSOPSKHYNIX2LUSDT—tracking South China Morning Post-listed SK Hynix daily leveraged (2X) product on Hong Kong Exchanges—accumulated trading volume of over $20 million within 7 days of launch, according to Binance

Austria's Financial Market Authority (FMA) fined crypto platform Bitpanda 70,000 euros ($82,000) on Friday for violating the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, marking the regulator's first published final penalty under MiCA. Bitpanda failed to submit a crypto-asset

According to Foresight News, Harmony announced on August 12 a blockchain rollback plan to address a forged minting attack. The network will roll back to block 92,730,034 on shard 0 and block 94,978,278 on shard 1 (both timestamped August 12, 07:25:37 UTC), with new blocks regenerating from

According to SafePal's statement released Saturday, a flaw in its order-tracking plug-in gave attackers unauthorized access to personal data of roughly 39,798 customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026. The exposed information includes names, email

According to BlockBeats, KIOXIA surged 13.9% to $390.73 on August 17, becoming the top gainer among all active contracts on Trade.xyz, according to TradingBeats monitoring.

According to MPost, Binance provided Russian law enforcement with personal and transaction data of a Bulgarian-resident user, Yuri Belenkiy, in 2025. The information was subsequently used to bring terrorism-financing charges against Belenkiy, a 49-year-old IT specialist. Investigators had

Coldcard wallet, manufactured by Coinkite, suffered the largest hardware wallet breach on record after a firmware bug enabled attackers to steal 1,778 Bitcoin worth approximately $112.7 million from over 8,600 addresses between July 30 and August 6, 2026. The vulnerability originated in firmware ver

Dutch prosecutors sold the last cryptocurrency seized from collapsed trading platform Knaken for €2.2 million, providing the first pool of usable funds for a bankruptcy estate now under scrutiny by thousands of customers. The Rotterdam court declared Knaken bankrupt on July 16 after prosecutors

Shiba Inu slipped to $0.0000054 on Monday, marking another fresh low this week and deepening a slump that has reshaped trader sentiment in the token's derivatives market. Eight out of ten cryptocurrency exchanges tracked by TradingView reported