🗣 #ETH Etherealize CEO Vivek Raman: The global financial system will run on Ethereum, with trillions of dollars in institutional assets tokenized, traded, and settled onchain.

ETH to $80K is not a what if, it's a when.

📊👀 #BTC seasonality: September is historically the worst month. October and November usually bring the rebound.

🇺🇸 #CBDC The U.S. House of Representatives added a ban on CBDCs to the defense policy bill. cointelegraph #regulation

🤝 #RWA SBI Holdings and Startale Group have teamed up to launch an onchain platform that allows 24/7 trading of tokenized stocks and real assets. theblock

📊 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net outflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$194.4 million.

Total net inflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$287.6 mln.

😎 #ETH Arthur Hayes announced that he has bought ETH. Predicts ETH could reach $20k this cycle and noted that between #ETH and #SOL he is currently betting on ETH. x

🇪🇺 #ETH #SOL The EU is accelerating plans for a digital euro stablecoin with a potential launch on the Ethereum or Solana blockchain. x

📊 #BTC Shares of cbBTC are up 160% in 2025, undermining wBTC's dominance - its supply is down 17% since cbBTC launched. theblock

🙅‍♂️ Pennsylvania lawmaker proposes banning state employees from trading cryptocurrencies. cointelegraph #regulation

🇯🇵 #XRP Ripple and SBI plan to distribute the #RLUSD stablecoin in Japan by 2026. coindesk.com

📊 CryptoRank: an overview of the DeFi landscape. Lending remains DeFi's largest category by TVL.

📊 Friday expiration of ~$4.8 billion worth of options**:
- Nominal value of #BTC options: $3.83 billion
- put/call ratio: 1.31
- max pain point: $118,000

- Nominal value of #ETH options: $948 million.
- put/call ratio: 0.82
- max. pain point: $4,250.

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. New wallet 0x2607 withdrew 11,950 #ETH ($51.32 million) from Binance;
2. New wallet bc1qcn withdrew 1,046 #BTC ($118.27 million) from Binance;
3. trader 0x2611 lost more than $1.85M on #ENA long. To avoid liquidation, he deposited another $1.7M into Hyperliquid;
4. Whale sold 172.9 BTC ($19.47 million) to buy 4,567 ETH on the spot. In the last two days, he bought 55,039 ETH ($237 million).

⚖️ Financial firm Kroll is facing a class action lawsuit over a data breach that affected lenders FTX, BlockFi and Genesis. cointelegraph

🆕 #BNB Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined XPLUSDT Perpetual Contract Pre-Market Trading (2025-08-22) binance #Binance #Futures

🏦 Swiss investment bank UBS reports that Chinese family offices are investing about 5% of their portfolios in cryptocurrency. x

🕵️‍♂️🐳 #ETH Whale "0x7C10" sold 2,217 ETH ($9.5M) bought at the price low three months ago, locking a profit of $4M.

👍 #SSV Kraken is introducing distributed validator technology to its Ethereum staking infrastructure with SSV Network. theblock.co

💸 Someone just lost ~$1M in tokens and #NFT's after signing phishing batch transactions disguised as Uniswap swaps.

📊 #BTC #ETF CQ: BlackRock’s iShares ETF dethrones exchanges, becomes largest known Bitcoin holder.