Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to Shanghai courts on August 18, the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court released a landmark judgment clarifying the criminal liability of 'traffic inciters' in crypto-related telefraud cases. Between February 2022 and April 2023, three defendants lured 30 victims into offshore scam

According to HyperliquidNews monitoring, Hyperliquid's total open interest reached 350,890 positions on August 18, hitting an all-time high.

According to RootData's latest tokenized asset dashboard data, Bitget ranks first in TradiFi asset depth with approximately $155 million in liquidity and a 27.2% market share. Gate follows closely with $154 million in depth and 27.1% market share, while Binance places third with $144 million in dept

From 06:30 to 06:45 (UTC) on August 18, 2026, ETH/USDT traded within the 1899.98–1906.72 USDT range, with a 15-minute return of +0.28% and an amplitude of 0.35%. Overall, the market showed a low-volatility, narrow-range consolidation pattern as it sought direction near the $1,900 level. The primary drivers of this market move were concentrated selling pressure in the order book and conflicting technical signals. Order book data shows that sell volume was 2.3 times buy volume, while the bid-to-as

Binance shared customer identity and transaction data with Russian investigators despite exiting the Russian market in September 2023, according to a Reuters report. Russian authorities used the information to charge Yuri Belenkiy, a 49-year-old IT specialist, with terrorism financing for donating o

According to a Reuters report, Binance provided Russian authorities with customer identity and transaction details on October 13, 2025, leading to the detention and prosecution of Yuri Belenkiy, a 49-year-old IT specialist. Belenkiy was accused of sending more than US$700 between January 2023 and

According to KOL Kuai Dong, multiple crypto traders reported their accounts were frozen today after receiving small deposits from HTX to addresses on other exchanges. Community members suspect the transfers were used to trigger KYT/AML compliance blocks on rival platforms, similar to address

According to ChainCatcher, DGrid AI unveiled its $DGAI token economics on August 17, with a total supply of 1 billion tokens. The allocation includes 50% for node network operations and node incentives, 8% for airdrop rewards, 15% for community growth, 10% for team incentives, 10% for early

TokenWorks is preparing to launch FWAir, a new mechanism allowing artists to introduce NFT collections directly into Fake World Assets (FWA), with the first collection expected this week according to co-founder Adam (Rhynotic on X). The initiative aims to expand FWA beyond trading existing NFTs by c

According to Decred, the L1 blockchain discovered a security vulnerability on August 18 evening (Beijing time), with a patch to be released the same day. The project advised users to disable voting and mining functions before upgrading and pledged to issue an announcement immediately after the patch

According to Foresight News, o1.exchange founder Jerry Pan announced the platform will cancel its Launchpad vesting and distribution features. The decision follows community feedback citing concerns that these functionalities could be exploited for rug pulls and fraud

According to Foresight News, OKX launched CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) stock perpetual futures on August 18 at 14:45 UTC+8.

According to The Defiant, global prediction market search interest has fallen 83% from its World Cup peak as of August 17. Google Trends data shows the weekly index for "prediction market" dropped from 100 on June 7-13 to 17 on August 9-15, with the daily peak of 100 occurring on July 19 during the

World Liberty Financial received conditional approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank, World Liberty Trust Company, National Association. The proposed institution would issue

According to the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), World Liberty Financial received conditional approval on Friday to establish World Liberty Trust Company, a national trust bank that would issue and manage USD1 stablecoin. The USD1 has surpassed US$4 billion in circulation. The ba

According to Cryptopolitan citing DefiLlama, real-world asset (RWA) deposits in DeFi protocols reached $3.98 billion as of August 18, surging 6x from $651 million one year ago. Tokenized RWA issuance totals $34.55 billion but shows only 11.5% on-chain utilization, with private credit accounting

According to HyperliquidNews, HIP-3 cumulative trading volume has surpassed $525 billion.

According to BlockBeats, on August 18, NAVI Protocol officially launched NAVI Prime lending framework, becoming Sui's first curator-style lending vault. The protocol, which launched on Sui mainnet in 2023, has achieved a historical TVL peak of $1 billion and accumulated over 1.1 million users. NAVI

According to Ripple's statement released on Tuesday, the company partnered with Jeonbuk Bank to deploy Ripple Payments for real-time cross-border remittances. The partnership enables 24/7 settlement with transactions completed in seconds to minutes, compared with traditional SWIFT transfers that

According to CoinGecko, over the past 24 hours, the top three tokens by trading volume on Upbit were USDT with a 17.29% share ($72.79 million), XRP at 8.95% ($37.70 million), and BTC at 7.75% ($32.64 million).