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

📊 Leading networks by capital inflows over the last 30 days

📉 #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

🔝 Top DEX Aggregators by volume growth in the last 30 days

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

🔝 #ADA, #XRP, #BTC and #SNEK tokens are currently trending on social media – Santiment

📊📈 #ETH #BNB CQ: Binance Dominates ETH Futures as Open Interest Soars

The exchange has already set a new all-time record this year, with more than $4T in ETH futures volume, surpassing the 2024 total of roughly $3.7T.

🗣 #BTC Billionaire Bill Miller IV says 1% of the $60T in global retirement accounts could add $30K to BTC’s price.