🇺🇸👀 #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.

⛏️🧐 #BTC Currently, two mining pools, Foundry USA and AntPool, control 48% of Bitcoin's hashrate.

Recently, Foundry USA mined 8 Bitcoin blocks in a row.

The recent 51% attack attempt on Monero sparked debate over whether Bitcoin’s mining power is becoming too centralized.

🗽📊 #BTC-#ETF's are in a neutral flows regime, mirroring the macro uncertainty of the past 10 days.

When flows sit in this regime, Bitcoin’s returns tend to be flat on average, but with a wide range of possible outcomes.

Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech later this week might help set the tone, but even that isn’t a sure signal.

🔮📈 #BTC Research: New model shows that Bitcoin could reach $10M by 2031 and $20M by 2035.

🔮 #BTC Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong predicts BTC will reach $1,000,000 by 2030.

🇭🇰 #BTC Hong Kong-based Ming Shing said it is entering into an agreement with Winning Mission Group to buy 4,250 BTC at an average price of $113,638. theblock

📉 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net outflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$315.9 million.

Total net outflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$240.2 mln.

🏦 #ETH #RWA DBS Bank offers tokenized structured bonds on the Ethereum blockchain, expanding investor access. coindesk

🤔 The Fed's Christopher Waller urged policymakers and bankers to stop fearing DeFi and stablecoins, saying they will drive the next wave of innovation in the US payments system. cointelegraph

📈 Cryptocurrency token buybacks hit $40 million a week as protocols replicate corporate buyback scheme. theblock

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. US Government Wallets received 76.56 ETH ($332k) from Coinbase and currently holds 65,232 ETH ($281m);
2. 0x17E0 bought 5,001 ETH ($21.76 million) at $4352 - at a lower price than his last sale;
3. BTC OG, owning 14,837 #BTC ($1.69 billion), sold 670.1 BTC ($76 million) and opened longs for 68,130 ETH ($295 million).