🤔 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.

😨💸 CoinGlass: >$450 million liquidated in the last hour (almost $1 billion in the last 24 hours).

🙋‍♂ Gemini have launched a self-storage smart wallet. coindesk

📊👀 #BTC Glassnode: An age-weighted unrealized profitability (MVRV) composite for Bitcoin has held above its mean through recent drawdowns. This suggests sustained profitability across cohorts and minimal capitulation pressure, reinforcing a constructive backdrop for trend continuation.

✅ #COIN Coinbase completes $2.9 billion acquisition of Deribit.

🙋‍♂️ #SUI Mysten Labs appoints former Goldman Sachs head of digital assets Mustafa Al Niama as head of capital markets. coindesk

💰 #BNB Network Company (#BNC), the treasury asset management arm of CEA Industries, announced the purchase of 88,888 BNB.

📊👀 #ETH #BTC CQ: The ETH/BTC price ratio has exceeded its 365-day moving average, a level that historically marks the beginning of bull cycles for ETH.

📱 #VVV Venice introduced the Venice mobile app.

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
#BTC-ETFs:
NetFlow: +452 BTC ($53.9M) 🟢
ARK21Shares inflows 299 BTC ($35.62M) and currently holds 45,656 BTC ($5.44B);
#ETH-ETFs:
NetFlow: +154,179 ETH ($724.02M) 🟢
Blackrock inflows 105,900 ETH ($497.3M) and currently holds 3,376,382 ETH ($15.86B).

🗽🔮 The probability of a September rate cut is 94.4%. #macro

📊 #BTC Glassnode: At-the-money implied volatility for Bitcoin options remains near multi-year lows across all tenors. Historically, such suppressed volatility often precedes sharp moves, as traders tend to underprice risk before major market shifts.

🤝 #COIN Coinbase and Deribit announced an official partnership, with plans to build the most powerful global crypto platform, which will offer spot, futures, perpetual contracts and options.

🔝 Perpetual DEXs by volume growth in the last 30 days