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Flare announced Aug. 12 that XRP holders can now use FXRP as collateral for options, perpetual futures and spot trades on Derive. The FXRP integration lets users open positions from self-custodial wallets while the XRP supporting FXRP remains on the XRP Ledger. The integration provides XRP holders a

Bernstein analysts raised Robinhood’s (HOOD) stock price target to $160 per share on August 17, citing tokenization and prediction markets as key growth drivers. On the same day, CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost posted on X that the average daily outflow from Binance’s 10 largest UNI transactions reached a five-year high when UNI’s price approached $3. CryptoQuant’s Binance UNI Outflow Data Darkfost uses the daily outflows generated by Binance’s largest transactions as a proxy for tracking accumulat

Bitcoin (BTC) extended its mild decline, trading at around $63,090 on Aug. 17. The BSC-based meme coin “Niu Lai” retreated after its market cap surpassed $40 million. “Niu Lai” sparked a bizarre movie-watching frenzy: on its opening day, the film had 251 screenings but was watched by only 122 people. Ethereum developers are currently reviewing 66 proposals to narrow the scope of Hegotá, the next major Ethereum upgrade. Macro Events & Crypto Hotspots According to GMGN data, the market cap of the

According to Foresight News, stablecoin payment layer Stable released its 2.0 whitepaper, designating USDT as the primary gas fee and settlement asset for its mainnet, with additional support for PYUSD. The platform targets institutional stablecoin settlement infrastructure, with key use cases

South Korea's token securities market faces supply constraints ahead of its scheduled February implementation, as fractional investment operators exit the sector and new product launches slow. Casa Korea shut down its service on the 10th after selling all underlying assets, while Funble announced an

World Liberty Financial announced today that the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has given preliminary conditional approval for it to establish World Liberty Trust Company (WLTC), a national trust bank. The bank will focus on stablecoin services, including issuing and

According to DefiLlama founder 0xngmi, the platform delayed its mobile app launch after spending months requesting Apple to remove phishing apps impersonating DefiLlama from the App Store. The founder noted that after the team downloaded one malicious application and documented a small

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

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 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

According to Foresight News, XMAQUINA's first xDEUS staking phase ended today. An on-chain snapshot will be taken tomorrow (Aug 17) at 21:00 Beijing time to record participants' governance weights and distribute 1 million DEUS from the first reward pool. The second phase will immediately follow, dis

According to Crypto.news, Cardano's governance company Intersect announced the Dijkstra upgrade roadmap split into two phases: the first phase launches in Q4 2026, introducing Linear Leios scaling, nested transactions, new serialization, and PlutusV4 changes; the second phase activates the Ouroboros Peras consensus protocol via separate hard fork targeting Q2 2027. Linear Leios introduces an endorsement block mechanism certified by stake pools to boost throughput while preserving the existing Pr

Ethereum developers are currently reviewing 66 proposals as part of scoping the Hegotá upgrade, the network's next major protocol enhancement. The review process aims to narrow down proposals for inclusion, with several focused on integrating privacy capabilities into the Ethereum protocol. FOCIL cu

According to Ethereum Foundation contributor Toni Wahrstätter, Ethereum developers are reviewing 66 proposals on Sunday to narrow them down for the Hegotá upgrade, the next major Ethereum upgrade scheduled for 2027. FOCIL, which seeks to improve censorship resistance through validator-enforced

According to ChainCatcher, Ethereum core developers are planning the Hegotá upgrade targeted for 2027, with 66 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) currently in the candidate pool. Developer Toni Wahrstätter announced on X that upcoming core developer meetings will evaluate these proposals to

According to Odaily, World Liberty Financial announced that the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has preliminarily approved its establishment of World Liberty Trust Company (WLTC), a national trust bank. The bank will specialize in stablecoin operations, including issuing and

According to Lido, the NEST automated LDO buyback mechanism went live on mainnet on August 15. NEST is a rule-based mechanism that automatically purchases LDO through CoW Swap when DAO staking revenue surplus exceeds $40 million, allocating 50% of the surplus to buybacks. Daily purchase limit is

According to ChainCatcher, citing Chainwire, Ondo Finance's tokenized stocks platform Ondo Stocks has reached a total value locked (TVL) of $1.01 billion in less than a year since launching in September 2025. The platform became the highest-TVL tokenized equities service globally within 48 hours of