🇯🇵 #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

🕵️‍♂️🐳 #ETH Whale "0x7C10" sold 2,217 ETH ($9.5M) bought at the price low three months ago, locking a profit of $4M.

👍 #SSV Kraken is introducing distributed validator technology to its Ethereum staking infrastructure with SSV Network. theblock.co

💸 Someone just lost ~$1M in tokens and #NFT's after signing phishing batch transactions disguised as Uniswap swaps.

📊 #BTC #ETF CQ: BlackRock’s iShares ETF dethrones exchanges, becomes largest known Bitcoin holder.

🇵🇭🙋‍♂️ #BTC Philippine Congressman Migz Villafuerte has filed House Bill 421, proposing the establishment of a Philippine Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The bill calls on the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to purchase 2,000 Bitcoin annually for five years — a total of 10,000 BTC — and hold them for 20 years to safeguard national security and debt stability.

🆕🇦🇪 #BNB CZ announced that BNB is now available for trading at Rakbank, one of the UAE's largest banks.

📊👀 #BNB State of BNB Chain in Q2 2025:
- BNB's market capitalization rose 7.5% to $92.6 billion, while BNB Smart Chain revenue declined 37.5% YoY to $44.1 million (the decline in revenue was driven by a 90% reduction in base gas commission);
- Daily volume on DEX grew 45.2% to $3.3 billion, the highest among all networks (PancakeSwap was the market leader with an 85.1% share, while Uniswap and StableSwap also showed significant growth);
- The number of active addresses and transactions per day increased by 33.2% and 101.9%, respectively, thanks to Binance Alpha campaigns.

🤬💸 CoinGlass: Almost $100 million has been liquidated in the last hour

💰 #ETH SharpLink approved a $1.5 billion share repurchase program: If there are periods when our shares are trading at or below the net asset value (NAV) of our ETH assets, issuing new shares as part of our capital raising efforts will result in a lower ETH per share value. In such a scenario, the most advantageous action may be to repurchase our common shares.

🐳 #BTC #ETH SpotOnChain: Two whales who bought 100,784 BTC 7 years ago started opening long positions in ETH while selling BTC

🤝💰 #BNB Huaxing Capital, which is listed on the Hong Kong Exchange, has partnered with YZi Labs and is planning to acquire BNB for $100M

👨‍⚖️ #WEMIX A South Korean court has ordered Wemade to compensate former and current employees to the tune of about 9.939 billion won.

🇺🇸🍿 #macro Powell:
- Possible easing of QE if labor market allows;
- Labor market softens, economy slows;
- Rebalancing of risks may require policy adjustment

🇺🇸👀 #macro Traders now believe the probability of a Fed rate cut in September has risen to 90%.