⛏️📈 #BTC mining difficulty hit a new ATH

🤔 #BTC The movement of old inactive wallets can signal the start of distribution — a pattern seen in previous Bitcoin cycles.

📊 #ZORA #SOL Base continues to surpass Solana in terms of new token launches.
Base saw explosive growth in the number of new token launches during July, from 6,649 at the beginning of the month to around 50,000 by the end of the month. theblock

🇬🇧🙋‍♂️ #BTC UK-based Smarter Web Company will raise another 8 million GBP to buy Bitcoin for the balance sheet. They currently own 2,050  BTC. source

👍 Binance Alpha will be the first platform to feature DarkStar (#DARK). Once trading begins, users who have accumulated at least 200 Binance Alpha Points will be able to receive 1,000 DARK tokens on a first-come, first-served basis. If the rewards are not fully distributed, the threshold will automatically decrease by 15 points every hour.

📊👀 Report CoinShares on crypto financial flows over the past week:
- Digital asset investment products had ~$223M in outflows last week;
- #BTC had an outflow of $404M;
- #ETH had an inflow of $133 million.

🇺🇸 CFTC announced the launch of the "Crypto Sprint" initiative to implement the recommendations of Trump's working group on digital assets. theblock

🏴‍☠️ SlowMist: the CrediX platform has been hacked.

👍 #ETH BitMine now owns ETH totaling >$3 billion. x

💰 #BTC Strategy acquired 21021 BTC last week.

💰 #ETH GameSquare bought another $10 million worth of ETH

🙋‍♂️ #TON Verb Technology Co. (NASDAQ: VERB) announced a private placement of approximately $558 million with Kingsway Capital to form TON's first publicly traded financial strategy company.

💰 #ETH The Ether Machine has acquired an additional $40M in ETH, bringing its total committed holdings to over 345,000 ETH as part of its aggressive onchain accumulation strategy.

📈🤔 #ETH open-interest saw exponential growth since 2024.

Sooner or later all this built-up volume will explode and send Ethereum to new highs.

🇯🇵 #BTC Japanese public company Convano acquired 21,000 BTC (~$2.4 billion).

💰 #SOL Development Corp. (#DFDV) announced the purchase of 110,466 SOL at an average price of $166.61.

🙋‍♂ #CFG #RWA Centrifuge has appointed a former Goldman Sachs executive as chief operating officer. coindesk

🤖💰 #AI AI startup OpenMind raises $20M led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group and Ribbit. theblock

📊👀 #BTC CQ: In the late-stage bull cycle, investor risk appetite wanes. The chart shows the metric exceeded 1.9 in March and December 2024, but now forms a lower peak, with holders selling coins, increasing market pressure. Investors still take profits, though each price surge yields a smaller premium over cost basis.

With two expected Fed rate cuts this year, I anticipate two more rallies before selling pressure surpasses demand, triggering a correction.

🇺🇸🇪🇺 EU to suspend trade countermeasures against US for 6 months. #tradewars

💰 #ETH SharpLink acquired another 18,680 ETH ($66.6 million). SharpLink currently own 498,711 ETH ($1.81 billion).