💰 Blockchain startup Legion has completed an initial £5m funding round led by VanEck and Brevan Howard Digital. fortune

🙋‍♂👀 #OM MANTRA Chain proposes to cancel the ERC20 version of the OM token and migrate it entirely to MANTRA Chain. This initiative aims to grow the ecosystem by consolidating liquidity, adjusting token inflation to 8%, setting OM's maximum offering at 2.5 billion and improving network security.

💰 Kraken has acquired Capitalise .ai, an Israeli firm that specializes in automating trading without writing code. coindesk

👀 🇺🇸 The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Lisa Cook, a member of the Fed's Board of Governors.

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📉 #BONK Since Aug 1, daily fees have dropped from $1M to just $24K, while daily volume fell from $114M to $2M.

🕵️‍♂️ Newly created wallet withdrew 234,083 #UNI ($2.36M) and 485.765 #ETH ($2.04M) from Binance in the past 2 hours.

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
#BTC-ETFs:
NetFlow: -3,644 BTC ($411.79M) 🔴
Fidelity outflows 2,180 BTC ($246.39M) and currently holds 199,127 BTC ($22.5B);
#ETH-ETFs:
NetFlow: -55,913 ETH ($232.82M) 🔴
Fidelity outflows 37,690 ETH ($156.94M) and currently holds 728,939 ETH ($3.04B).

📊📉 #BTC demand is fading. Apparent demand dropped from 174K BTC in July to just 59K today.

#ETF buying also hit a 4-month low, while MSTR slowed sharply. Weak demand growth points to more consolidation ahead.

🎢🤔 #ETH Sentora: One key risk in leveraged (re)staking: exits through ETH's validator queue currently take ~16 days.

This means that a 10x loop could take ~1yr to unwind, effectively trapping traders in negative carry and heightening liquidation or slippage risk.

📈 #ETH CQ: CME Open Interest hits ATH by $8.3 billion

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DEX aggregators simplify #DeFi by finding the best swap rates, with growing usability and multichain support driving strong 30-day volume growth. #JOE #NAVX #PSP

🙅‍♂👀 #BNB Shares of Windtree Therapeutics will be delisted from Nasdaq pursuant to Rule 5550(A)(2) source

🇺🇸👀 #macro #FOMC Meeting Minutes:
- Most Fed officials felt it was appropriate to keep the interest rate unchanged (except Bowman and Waller) and expect inflation to rise in the short term;
- Vulnerabilities in the hedge fund, stablecoin and non-bank lender sectors require monitoring.

🗽🤔 #S Sonic Labs plans to enter the US capital market:
- Propose to launch an ETP/ETF for the S token;
- Enter Nasdaq through the PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equity) mechanism;
- Create a Sonic USD Entity:
- Bitgo is designated as a custodian for proposed financial products.

🆕👀 #SAPIEN Coinbase list Sapien (SAPIEN).

📊📈 #USDC on Tier‑1 CEXs hits all‑time high. From 6B→13.2B in just 14 days (Aug 4 → Aug 18, ERC‑20). cryptoquant

🙋‍♂ Team #LIBRA team regained access to $57M USDC after judge unfroze assets

📊🤔 #BNB While biotech play Windtree Therapeutics (WINT) crashes 77% to $0.11 on Nasdaq non-compliance (shares < $1, likely OTC-bound), BNB soars to new highs.

Stacking BNB didn't save WINT—proof that direct crypto bets beat penny stock gambles.

🆕👀 Coinbase today added the following assets to its roadmap: Awe Network (#AWE), Dolomite (#DOLO), Flock (#FLOCK), Solayer (#LAYER) and SPX6900 (#SPX).

📊👀 #ETH Historic Ethereum treasury holdings