📊 #LINK Santiment: observed the highest LINK activity in 8 months and the highest number of whale transactions in 7 months.

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. AguilaTrades shorted ETH again, resulting in another loss of $416k. In the last 20 hours, he made 7 trades, all of which were unprofitable, for a total loss of $1.95 million;
2. A wallet affiliated with Galaxy Digital funded Hyperliquid's account with $125 million over the past two days. He then bought spot #ETH , #HYPE , #BTC, #PUMP and #FARTCOIN and opened shorts on #BTC, #ETH, #DOGE, #PUMP, #FARTCOIN and #S to hedge;
3. Whale/organization creates 2 more wallets and accumulated 33,402 ETH ($158 million). 379,317 ETH ($1.8 billion) accumulated in the last 10 days;
4. Whale placed 130,000 #SOL ($26.45 million) on Binance, OKX, Bybit and Gate.

🤑😱 #BTC The fear and greed index is 75 - greed.

🏴‍☠️ Hacker Radiant Capital turned the stolen $53M into $102.54M, for a profit of $49.5M (+93.5%).

10 months ago, the hacker stole $53 million from Radiant Capital and exchanged it for 21,957 ETH. He recently started selling ETH, selling 9,631 ETH ($43.94 million) at an average price of $4562, leaving 12,326 ETH ($58.6 million).

🔮 Analyst: Based on historical trends of the ETH/BTC Ratio, #ETH could reach $8656 if #BTC reaches $150,000.

🔮 #ETH Fundstrat predicts ETH price of $12,000 to $15,000 by the end of the year. cointelegraph

🤔 Swyftx lead analyst: all market movement is based on the assumption that the Fed will cut rates next month, which could have disastrous consequences if it doesn't. cointelegraph

📊👀 #BTC Glassnode: After a -9% drawdown in July, BTC recovered strongly, now trading just 1% below its ATH. This rebound signals a renewed attempt to push into price discovery, supported by recovering sentiment and a re-acceleration in on-chain activity.

💸📉 #USDC Coinbase reduces USDC fees for MetaMask users on Base. theblock.co

👍 #GLP GMX finalizes $44 million plan to compensate GLP holders affected by recent hack. theblock.co

🔝 Top Ethereum Ecosystem projects without a token (yet)

#ETH rally toward its ATH is shining a spotlight on leading projects still without tokens. From privacy rollups and restaking to infrastructure, these protocols could play a key role in the next cycle.

⛏️ #BTC Jack Dorsey claims Proto has outperformed China in Bitcoin mining chip design.

🕵️‍♂️ #BTC Over the past 17 hours, this address has received 5,250 BTC, all from Kraken. It does not appear to be a Kraken internal wallet and now holds a total of 6,545 BTC.

Address: bc1p8jkwplu835wtjfuzzj3pwkzydyf98qlvvufyudutvqdlpns04h4qqqhnea

🤔 BRN's head of research sees traders' leverage rising. Open interest in #ETH options hit a record $16 billion and altcoin OI climbed to $47 billion, which could increase volatility. theblock.co

📈👀 #ETH According to Beaconchain data, the amount of ETH in the Ethereum validator exit queue has bounced back sharply, with 699,600 ETH (worth ~$3.29B) currently waiting to exit, estimated at 12 days and 4 hours.

🇦🇪🏠 #RWA Andrei Grachev: Growing our lending business - just signed an agreement with a large UAE real estate agency. Preparing a first crypto backed mortgage deal, financed by DWF Labs, for our first client.

🧑‍💻 #USDT #BTC Tether integrates Lightspark's Bitcoin Lightning infrastructure into wallet development kit. theblock

🇺🇸🗣 #BTC Bessent: We are not going to buy cryptocurrency, we will use confiscated assets.

🇺🇸⚡️ #macroUSA:
- Prominflation (PPI; July):
- m/m: 0.9% (pre: 0%)
- y/y: 3.3% (pre: 2.3%);
- Core PPI: 3.7% y/y (pre: 2.6%)
- Initial Jobless Claims: 226k (pre: 226k)

🏴‍☠️ BtcTurk likely hacked

📉 #BTC dominance hits 6-month low

Altcoin market growth is beginning to outpace Bitcoin, fueled by renewed strength in #ETH following the introduction of crypto-friendly regulations that support broader global adoption.