Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

President Donald Trump is expected to attend a White House meeting on Wednesday with executives from cryptocurrency, prediction market and financial sectors as his administration increases focus on digital asset regulation and event-contract oversight. The meeting is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET at th

Bitcoin traded flat this week while traditional markets rallied significantly, with gold posting its best weekly performance since January and the S&P 500 breaking to a new all-time high on a 3.6% gain. Gold miners surged 21.3% in their strongest week since 2008, driven by cooling July CPI data

According to GMGN, BSC-based meme coin MarsCoin dropped to a market cap of $6.59 million, with a 1-hour decline of 80.12%.

According to on-chain detective Specter, a data breach likely occurred as early as April or no later than early May, based on the timeframe covered by the stolen data. Users experienced phishing attacks and asset losses during that period, but the relevant party did not maintain transparency, warn u

According to Odaily, CZ announced today that he will donate Binance coins (BNB) and Binance Life tokens worth $960,000 to Giggle Academy. After testing Trust Wallet, CZ found the wallet overwhelmed with Meme coins, prompting him to destroy some tokens. He realized the transparent nature of

According to ChainCatcher, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently posted on X that the Bitcoin community deserves credit for advancing technical concepts like Utreexo, a UTXO (unspent transaction output) state optimization solution. Ethereum's current scaling roadmap aims to combine

According to Bitcoin.com's Week in Review newsletter, gold posted its best week since January this week, with the gold mining ETF GDX surging 21.3% for its best week since 2008. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 broke to a new all-time high with a 3.6% weekly gain, while Bitcoin traded flat. The rally was

According to GMGN data, Meme coin MarsCoin on Binance Smart Chain crashed 65% in just one minute on August 16 evening, plunging its market cap from $21 million to $7 million. The token had surged over 400x earlier the same day, peaking at a record $36 million market cap before the sharp

According to CoinDesk, after the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation took full effect on July 1, over 1,700 unlicensed crypto platforms were required to cease operations, leaving only 323 companies with valid licenses. Approximately 10 million users were forced to migrate their assets, c

Solana is trading near $75 after breaking above a previous resistance area, with traders monitoring a $73-$75 support zone that could determine the next directional move. Technical analyst EliZ identifies short-term upside targets at $80, $85, and $87.20 if the support holds, while Echo Analysis pre

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted preliminary conditional approval on Thursday for World Liberty Trust Company, a national trust bank tied to World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump and his family. The approval clears a major step for the

According to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Thursday, World Liberty Trust Company, a Florida-based national trust bank backed by Trump and his family, received preliminary conditional approval to issue and manage USD1, a dollar-pegged stablecoin. The OCC's decision requires a

Bitcoin is trading near $63,000 as traders monitor whether the $62,200 liquidity zone will hold and allow price to reclaim the $63,400 resistance level. The cryptocurrency fell from above $65,000 and is now consolidating in a range where analysts Kaz and Michaël van de Poppe have identified key

Harvard University's endowment kept its BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust holdings unchanged in the second quarter, ending two consecutive quarters of selling even as Bitcoin and the ETF declined in value. Harvard Management Company reported 3,044,612 IBIT shares worth $101.4 million as of June 30, un

According to Galaxy Research, attackers stole over 1,755 Bitcoin (approximately $110 million at the time) from about 5,000 Coldcard hardware wallets as of August 3. Coldcard manufacturer Coinkite Inc. notified users of a security flaw in the device's key generation mechanism. Block Inc.'s

According to NCSC and The Hacker News, Apple patched a critical authentication vulnerability in macOS screen sharing on August 6 through emergency updates to macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, Sequoia 15.7.9, and Sonoma 14.8.9. CVE-2026-65400 (CVSS 9.8) allows attackers without valid credentials to access Macs

Grayscale projects that Ethereum's (ETH) annual supply growth could fall to approximately 0.4% and Solana's (SOL) to around 1.1% by 2031 if two pending tokenomics proposals are implemented as written, according to a research note released this week. Ethereum Improvement Proposal 8361 (EIP-8361),

According to Grayscale research released in August, Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) tokenomics overhauls could reduce both networks' annual supply growth to 0.4% and 1.1% respectively by 2031, falling below gold's roughly 1.8% yearly supply growth. Ethereum's EIP-8361 would gradually burn

According to Cointelegraph, DeFiLlama announced on August 16 that it delayed the official mobile application launch due to persistent phishing apps impersonating the platform on Apple App Store. The team spent months reporting malicious applications to Apple without success before the company

DefiLlama delayed the launch of its mobile app while spending months attempting to get Apple to remove phishing apps from its App Store that impersonated the analytics provider, according to the company's pseudonymous founder, 0xngmi. The founder stated in a Saturday X post that the team waited