Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to Lookonchain, whale address 0x8447 withdrew 5,000 ETH from Kraken today (August 18) and staked the assets, valued at approximately $9.53 million. Combined with 5,300 ETH withdrawn yesterday, the address accumulated a total of 10,657 ETH (approximately $20.07 million) over the two-day

According to Odaily, FOMO's spot trading volume surpassed $100 million for the first time today (August 18), as announced by FOMO co-founder Paul on X.

Bitcoin (BTC) has seen a slight rebound, temporarily trading at around $64,310 on August 18. According to an official press release issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Treasury has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking under the GENIUS Act, seeking public comment on regulations governing the issuance, provision, and sale of payment stablecoins in the United States. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency conditionally approved Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial’s a

According to bits.media, Moscow Exchange plans to launch perpetual futures for Bitcoin and Ethereum to professional investors on August 18. The derivatives exchange also intends to expand tradable cryptocurrencies to ten assets. The exchange previously introduced crypto derivatives in summer 2025, c

According to Galaxy Research's Q2 2026 report, crypto margin lending declined 16.78% to $56.16 billion, marking a 40.13% decline from the peak of $78.69 billion in Q3 2025. DeFi lending fell 27.61% to $20.43 billion, while CeFi borrowing dropped 9.62% to $22.98 billion—the first time CeFi exceeded D

According to Lighthouse data, Meme coin 'Bull Arrives' briefly surpassed Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse in China's daily box office rankings on August 18, with the movie's real-time box office reaching 2.3 million Chinese yuan. On-chain data from GMGN shows the token on BNB Chain is now

According to Payward, the Kraken parent company plans to scan for vulnerabilities across all Payward environments using Claude Mythos 5 over the coming weeks. Findings will be integrated directly into its existing security

According to Cointelegraph, Binance plans to apply for a license from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and is expected to restart services in the country in 2027. The FCA prohibited Binance Markets Limited from conducting regulated activities in the UK in June 2021, and Binance halted new

Onchain Lens reported on Aug. 18 that a dormant wallet that received Bitcoin in 2011 transferred 8.54 BTC (approximately $539k) to the crypto exchange Kraken after remaining inactive for more than 15 years. Based on BTC’s price of approximately $14 when it was received, its value has increased approximately 4,600-fold. Onchain Lens: Dormant 2011 Wallet Transfers 8.54 BTC (Source: Arkham) According to data from on-chain monitoring platform Onchain Lens on Aug. 18, 2026, an old wallet that receive

According to Bitcoin.com, Russia's Central Bank unveiled new draft rules on August 18 requiring brokers, trust companies, forex dealers, and crypto exchanges to include crypto asset holdings in their capital calculations, with crypto holdings capped at no more than 25% of total capital. The holdings

Bitcoin rebounded to around $64,360 on August 18, driven by macroeconomic conditions, including a rise to 69% in the market-implied probability that the Fed will leave interest rates unchanged in September. Meanwhile, the 2-year U.S. Treasury yield has fallen by approximately 20 bps since July 23. BTSE COO Jeff Mei said ETF outflows last week caused early weakness in Bitcoin and Ethereum, while noting that traders still favor AI stocks. Details of Four U.S. Macro Data Releases A few weeks ago, t

According to Onchain Lens, a newly created wallet withdrew 57,000 HYPE (approximately $3.36 million) from Coinbase on August 18.

According to Decrypt, security firm Bitdefender warned that pirated downloads of the Hollywood film 'Odyssey' have been injected with Lumma Stealer malware, which can steal cryptocurrency wallets, passwords, and browser data from users. The malicious files began spreading days after the movie's

According to Santiment Intelligence on August 17, approximately 28,000 bitcoins flowed back to exchanges, lifting balances to six-week highs. Exchange BTC holdings rose from about 1.304 million on July 28 to approximately 1.332 million on August 16, reversing 84% of prior outflows. During the

According to Reuters, on August 18, Edward Zimbardi, a Georgia man, was extradited from Fiji and charged with 12 counts of wire fraud, 12 counts of money laundering, and one money laundering conspiracy charge related to a $165 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. Between June 2022 and August 2023,

According to ChainCatcher, Centrifuge launched governance proposal CP172 on August 18, exploring the conversion of CFG tokens to company equity. The proposal offers a 1:1 exchange ratio: 1 CFG converts to 1 share of Centrifuge Inc., recorded in tokenized form. CFG holders with 100,000 or more token

According to Toni Wahrstätter, a member of the Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Architecture team, on August 18, the Hegotá upgrade is taking shape with two primary proposals: FOCIL as the main upgrade to enhance censorship resistance, and Frame Transactions as the execution layer upgrade to improve t

According to The Block, Ark Invest, the firm led by Cathie Wood, purchased $15.4 million worth of Block Inc. stock and $1 million of Securitize stock on Monday. The fund also acquired $22.8 million in Nvidia shares during the same trading

According to Cryptopolitan, Compound's DAO voted to approve a record $52 million two-year development budget on August 17 and completed leadership restructuring, signaling a strategic pivot toward institutional DeFi. COMP token surged more than 10% in 24 hours to approximately $18 in response. Of t

According to ChainCatcher, Uniswap will complete deployment when Arc mainnet launches in September. The integration will provide on-chain liquidity infrastructure supporting lending, structured products, LP strategies, and token issuance across DeFi applications. Arc, a blockchain from Circle,