💰 #ETH Bitmine (#BMNR) acquired another 9,613 ETH ($45.6 million) and now owns 1,585,461 ETH ($7.5 billion).

🖼📉 #NFT sales fell 25% to $134 million this week.
Despite the drop in sales, market participant activity continues to increase with the number of NFT buyers up 25.7% and the number of NFT sellers up 25.9%.
Courtyard at Polygon regained the top spot in the collections ranking with $14.7 million in revenue (+42%)

🙋‍♂ #OKB OKX launches $100M X Layer ecosystem fund.

👀 #BTC #MSTR Michael Saylor posts the Saylor Bitcoin tracker, hinting at buying more Bitcoin.

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:
- Whale spent another 6,000 BTC ($689.5 million) to buy ETH and has now purchased 278,490 ETH ($1.28 billion) at an average price of $4,585 and has a long of 135,265 ETH ($581 million);
- A smart trader who made huge profits on #PEPE, sold 128.87 billion PEPE ($1.45 million) to buy 2,517 #AAVE ($923k) and 61,567 #PENDLE ($367k) and now holds 2.35 trillion PEPE ($26.6 million), 12.74 million ENA ($9.4 million), 21,298 AAVE ($7.6 million) and 734,289 PENDLE($4.45 million);
- Whale spent 3 million USDT to buy 267.35 billion PEPE via 2 wallets (1 and 2)
- 5 new wallets purchased 19,332 ETH ($92m) in the last 2 days;
- Hacker who stole >$300M from Coinbase users acquired 38,126 SOL ($7.95M) via two addresses (1 and 2).

💰 Top 7 Funding Rounds of This Week

🤬💸 CoinGlass: >$300 million liquidated in the last 30 minutes

🐳📉 #BTC whale sold 24,000 BTC worth over $2.7 billion, causing today’s -$4,000 crash in minutes.

They still hold 152,874 BTC worth more than $17 billion.

📈 #ETH Open interest in ETH futures on exchanges has reached a new all-time high of $71 billion.

🇺🇸👀 The SEC's Crypto Task Force is hitting the road and hosting a series of roundtables across the country to provide opportunities for additional stakeholders to offer feedback and to hear from representatives of crypto-related projects. sec.gov

🔓📝 Upcoming major token unlocks:
#ALT 6.03% ($8.63M) – Aug 26
#ZND 13.4% ($7.79M) – Aug 25
#SAHARA 3.97% ($7.34M) – Aug 27
#BIO 1.05% ($5.21M) – Aug 29
#UDS 3.11% ($3.79M) – Aug 31
#SOSO 5.78% ($3.64M) – Aug 25
#SIGN 3.64% ($3.52M) – Aug 29

🇯🇵 #BTC Metaplanet bought another 103 BTC. They now own 18,991 BTC.

📉 #BTC #ETH #ETF Last week (August 18-22), total net outflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$1.17 billion.

Total net outflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$237.73 million.

🇵🇭 #BTC The Philippines has proposed a bill to create a strategic reserve of 10,000 BTC with a 20-year freeze. theblock.co

🤝 #LINK #LINK SBI Group and Chainlink are collaborating to bring crypto technology to Asia. cointelegraph

🇫🇷🙊 #TON Pavel Durov said, French authorities have been unable to find evidence for more than a year since his arrest in August 2024, so the case is going nowhere. Also criticized the French government, calling the investigation "unprecedented" and "absurd."

📊 #BTC Willie Wu: the reason BTC has been slow to rise in this cycle is because the supply of BTC is centered around the large whales that peaked their stocks in 2011 (orange and dark orange). They were buying BTC at $10 or lower. It takes >$110k of new capital to absorb each BTC they sold.
This difference in value, supply, and pace of sales has a significant impact on the amount of new capital needed to drive the price up.

🆕 #BNB Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined BIOUSDC Perpetual Contract (2025-08-25) binance #Binance #Futures

🤔🔮 #ETH Vitalik Buterin says lack of interest payments makes prediction markets "unattractive" for hedging. theblock

👍 Binance Alpha will be the first platform to list Multiple Network (#MTP).
Once trading begins, users who have accumulated at least 200 Binance Alpha Points will be able to receive 750 MTP tokens on a first-come, first-served basis. If the rewards are not fully distributed, the threshold will automatically decrease by 15 points every hour. x

👍 GALAXY, JUMP, MULTICOIN SET TO RAISE $1 BILLION TO BUY SOLANA TOKENS