Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to PeckShieldAlert, approximately 1 billion MemeCore (M) tokens were minted and transferred to address 0x69cB...F6FF4681 today. Two batches of approximately 463 million tokens each were minted from separate addresses, with the combined holdings currently valued at approximately $1 million.

According to Blockworks' Q2 report, XRP spot trading volume on centralized exchanges declined 53.5% quarter-over-quarter to $57.6 billion. The token finished the quarter at $1.04, down 19.9%, and maintained its position as the fourth-largest non-stablecoin asset with a $65.8 billion market

According to CoinGlass data, Bitget's Intel (INTC) futures holdings ranked third globally with a 24-hour increase of 54.35%, valued at approximately $16.36 million. Total INTC futures open interest across all platforms reached $190 million.

Gate News, August 19, 2026 — According to a Gate announcement, the platform has adjusted the funding rate settlement frequency for the UNITREE Perpetual Contract. Funding rates will be settled every four hours starting at 16:20 (UTC+8) on August 19, 2026. This adjustment aims to improve users’ trading experience and reduce the risks arising from rapidly changing market conditions.

According to PANews, on August 19, OSL Group announced that USDGO has become an approved custodial asset on Ceffu, an institutional digital asset custody platform. Qualified Ceffu clients can now deposit, hold, and withdraw USDGO through their custody accounts. USDGO, issued by Anchorage Digital

According to Binance, on August 19, SanDisk (SNDK) U.S. stock perpetual contracts on Binance recorded trading volume of approximately $63.7 billion, surpassing Bitcoin USDT perpetual contracts' $59.6 billion volume, making SNDK one of the platform's highest-volume contract products. TradFi assets a

According to The Business Times, Vietnam is accelerating its pilot-regulated cryptocurrency market, with the first domestic digital asset trading platforms expected to launch as soon as Q3 2026. The initiative aims to address anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing gaps. Vietnam has

According to ChainCatcher citing Forbes, blockchain pioneers Scott Stornetta and Stuart Haber have joined prediction market platform SafeBets as advisors. The platform allows users to make predictions using free credits without real-money investment, with correct predictions rewarded in Unicoin

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes announced on August 18 that he is leading Flop Labs, a crypto project targeting the economy of autonomous artificial-intelligence agents, with a token airdrop planned for the fourth quarter of 2026. The announcement describes FLOP as a currency for AI agents to pay for

According to Finance Feeds, on August 18, Arthur Hayes announced he is leading Flop Labs, a new crypto project targeting autonomous AI agents, with plans for a FLOP token airdrop in Q4 2026 before the network's blockchain

Binance published its 45th Proof of Reserves report on August 1, 2026, revealing user Bitcoin holdings of approximately 657,000 BTC, up 2.55% (16,349 BTC) from the July 1 snapshot. User Ethereum holdings fell to roughly 3.98 million ETH, down 2.57% (105,154 ETH) month over month. User USDT holdings

Bitcoin.com has integrated USDU, a UAE-registered dollar-backed stablecoin, into its self-custody wallets. The integration pairs a global wallet provider used by millions with a token issued by Universal Digital Intl. Limited, which maintains 1:1 dollar backing through liquid reserves at regulated U

According to ChainCatcher, Decred released mandatory security patch version v2.1.6 today, addressing a critical consensus-layer vulnerability designed to prevent potential deanonymization attacks during mixing sessions. The patch also fixes multiple denial-of-service (DoS) attack vulnerabilities rel

According to Odaily, SafeBets launched on August 19 a prediction market model that requires no real capital investment. Users receive 100 virtual tokens from the platform and consume 1 token per prediction. Correct predictions earn Unicoin token rewards, while incorrect ones result in loss of virtua

SUI is trading near $0.64 after declines of 4.19% in the past 24 hours, 6% over 7 days, and 13.53% over 30 days, according to CoinMarketCap data. A crypto analyst has identified this price level as an ideal accumulation zone, outlining two potential scenarios: a bullish breakout toward $0.745 if a h

Securitize Corp. and Neuberger Berman launched the Neuberger Securitize High Income Tokenized Fund (ticker: HINC), a multi-chain tokenized bond fund operating on Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and Sui. The fund primarily invests in high-yield corporate bonds, collateralized loan obligations, and

Bybit released a security report showing the exchange prevented more than $700 million in potential losses during the first half of 2026, covering the period from January 1 through June 15. The report, disclosed roughly a year and a half after hackers drained $1.46 billion from its Ethereum cold

According to Bybit's H1 2026 Risk & Security Report, the exchange prevented over $700 million in potential losses during the first half of 2026 by intercepting more than 30,000 suspicious withdrawal requests, protecting close to 20,000 users. The report also details that Bybit blacklisted over 10,00

According to an announcement yesterday (August 18), Neuberger Berman and Securitize launched HINC, a tokenized fixed-income fund operating across Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche and Sui. The fund, designed for accredited investors, primarily invests in high-yield corporate bonds, collateralized loan

According to Sei network's official post on X, Eidos, the storage rebuilding initiative for Sei's Giga upgrade, has launched Phase 1. The project restructures the original single-threaded Merkle tree database into a flat, high-concurrency data engine to improve speed and efficiency. The Giga upgrade