🕵 #BTC #MSTR Strategy Vice President and CFO Andrew Kang has sold $20 million worth of MSTR stock so far this month.

📈👀 Ethereum just passed $142 Billion in stablecoins. #ETH #stablecoin

🇺🇸🌪 #TORN U.S. DOJ in Roman Storm case: If the evidence shows that the software is truly decentralized and automates exclusively peer-to-peer transactions, and if the third party does not have the right to dispose of and control users' assets, new charges under Section 1960(b)(1)(c) against the third party will not be approved. If there is criminal intent, there may be other charges.

📊📈 #BTC CQ: The number of Bitcoin transactions paying less than 1 satoshi per vB has grown to a daily high of 193K or 40% of total on August 17 (red area, first chart).

These transactions are low-value transactions, with most of them transferring less than 0.0017 Bitcoin, and as low as 330 sats (red dots, second chart).

🤔 #BTC CQ: Taker Buy Sell Ratio - Bybit hits 11.57. This means massive long positions are building. It's already the 7th large spike this week. They keep logging, despite the price falling.

🗣 #ETH Etherealize CEO Vivek Raman: The global financial system will run on Ethereum, with trillions of dollars in institutional assets tokenized, traded, and settled onchain.

ETH to $80K is not a what if, it's a when.

📊👀 #BTC seasonality: September is historically the worst month. October and November usually bring the rebound.

🇺🇸 #CBDC The U.S. House of Representatives added a ban on CBDCs to the defense policy bill. cointelegraph #regulation

🤝 #RWA SBI Holdings and Startale Group have teamed up to launch an onchain platform that allows 24/7 trading of tokenized stocks and real assets. theblock

📊 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net outflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$194.4 million.

Total net inflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$287.6 mln.

😎 #ETH Arthur Hayes announced that he has bought ETH. Predicts ETH could reach $20k this cycle and noted that between #ETH and #SOL he is currently betting on ETH. x

🇪🇺 #ETH #SOL The EU is accelerating plans for a digital euro stablecoin with a potential launch on the Ethereum or Solana blockchain. x

📊 #BTC Shares of cbBTC are up 160% in 2025, undermining wBTC's dominance - its supply is down 17% since cbBTC launched. theblock

🙅‍♂️ Pennsylvania lawmaker proposes banning state employees from trading cryptocurrencies. cointelegraph #regulation

🇯🇵 #XRP Ripple and SBI plan to distribute the #RLUSD stablecoin in Japan by 2026. coindesk.com

📊 CryptoRank: an overview of the DeFi landscape. Lending remains DeFi's largest category by TVL.

📊 Friday expiration of ~$4.8 billion worth of options**:
- Nominal value of #BTC options: $3.83 billion
- put/call ratio: 1.31
- max pain point: $118,000

- Nominal value of #ETH options: $948 million.
- put/call ratio: 0.82
- max. pain point: $4,250.

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. New wallet 0x2607 withdrew 11,950 #ETH ($51.32 million) from Binance;
2. New wallet bc1qcn withdrew 1,046 #BTC ($118.27 million) from Binance;
3. trader 0x2611 lost more than $1.85M on #ENA long. To avoid liquidation, he deposited another $1.7M into Hyperliquid;
4. Whale sold 172.9 BTC ($19.47 million) to buy 4,567 ETH on the spot. In the last two days, he bought 55,039 ETH ($237 million).

⚖️ Financial firm Kroll is facing a class action lawsuit over a data breach that affected lenders FTX, BlockFi and Genesis. cointelegraph

🆕 #BNB Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined XPLUSDT Perpetual Contract Pre-Market Trading (2025-08-22) binance #Binance #Futures

🏦 Swiss investment bank UBS reports that Chinese family offices are investing about 5% of their portfolios in cryptocurrency. x