📊👀 #SOL State of Solana in Q2:
- App revenue on the Solana network was down 44.2% from the previous quarter;
- App revenue leaders PumpFun, $156.9 million (-43.9%); Axiom, $126.6 million (+641.3%); Jupiter, $66.4 million (-15.6%); Phantom, $53.5 million (-65.4%); Photon, $32.5 million (-72.4%);
- Solana retained the second place among networks in terms of DeFi TVL;
- Leading protocols on Solana ranked by DeFi TVL traffic volume in Q2: Kamini, Raydium and Jupiter;
- Total real asset value (in $) on Solana totaled $390.6 million #RWA at the end of Q2, up 124.8% YTD;
- Solana continues to be a DePIN center;
- 64.8% of SOL's working capital supply is in staking.

👀 #BTC #ETF Hedge fund Brevan Howard just disclosed ownership of $2.3 billion worth of Bitcoin ETFs.

Brevan is now the largest institutional holder of BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF.

🇺🇸👀 #AVAX #RWA Dinari, an SEC-registered broker-dealer, is launching tokenized US stocks on Avalanche.

📊👀 As #ETH continues to absorb a larger share of altcoin liquidity, the dominance of memcoins over altcoins continues to fall.

📈🤔 #XRP About 3 billion XRP has been added to circulation in the last 12 months.

📊 Glassnode: #BTC’s average entry price for newer investors and its standard deviation bands help identify overheated zones. $127K marks the +1σ level and key resistance; a breakout could open the path to $144K (+2σ), where prior market tops often trigger increased sell-side pressure.

🇺🇸🐶 #DOGE #ETF Grayscale files S-1 for Dogecoin ETF

🇳🇴🏦 #BTC Norges Bank, Norway’s central bank, increases its Bitcoin equivalent exposure from 6,200 to 11,400 BTC in Q2, an 83% jump.

The position is almost entirely in Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), with a small addition in Metaplanet.

📈🤔 CryptoRank: Linea activity surges ahead of the #LINEA TGE. The roadmap says the burn mechanism will go live in Q3, meaning the TGE & airdrop should happen very soon.

💰 Fundraising Rounds by Stage

2025 YTD, crypto fundraising saw 1,056 rounds split as follows:

— Seed: 16%
— Strategic: 15%
— M&A: 12%
— Pre-Seed: 7%
— Series A: 7%
— Incubation: 5%

Early-stage still leads, but strong Strategic & M&A activity signals a maturing market.

📈 #USDC usage on Aptos (#APT) is at all-time highs. Monthly USDC transfer volume ~$8.6b, and monthly USDC transfer count ~23.1m.

📊🤔 Analysts Spot Buyer Fatigue in #BTC

This could trigger a correction before capital rotates into altcoins — a pattern seen in previous market cycles.

The Cryptoasset Sentiment Index has risen to 0.91, while Google searches for altcoins have hit new highs, signaling growing appetite for risk assets.

Many experts expect an altseason in September, when at least some altcoins may begin outperforming Bitcoin.

🗓 Major Upcoming Events in August: #FP #KTAI #EDEN #RICE #DAM #SAPIEN #BAND #VIC #ALMANAK #CSPR #JUP #LINEA

🔁 #RONIN #ETH Ronin is returning to Ethereum as an L2. cointelegraph

📉 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net outflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$14.1 million.

Total net outflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$59.3 mln.

📈👀 #RWA Institutional Funds onchain are now a $1B market. source

🗽🕹 New York lawmakers propose a 0.2% tax on the sale or transfer of cryptocurrency. #regulation

👍 Gemini has filed for an IPO on the Nasdaq under the ticker #GEMI. theblock

🇺🇸 #BTC American Bitcoin is exploring acquisitions in Japan and Hong Kong. cointelegraph

🇺🇸📉 Bitcoin Archive: the US dollar has lost ~10% of its value so far this year. #macro

🇺🇸🍿 Digital Currency Group (DCG) is being sued by two subsidiaries over a $1.1 billion promissory note related to Three Arrows Capital (3AC). cointelegraph