🎢 Glassnode: Altcoin futures OI exploded by +$9.2B in a single day on Friday, pushing the combined total to a new ATH of $61.7B. Such rapid inflows highlight how altcoins are increasingly driving leverage, volatility, and fragility across digital asset markets.

🆕 #SOMI Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined SOMIUSDT Perpetual Contract Pre-Market Trading (2025-08-25). binance

📈 #LINK token trading volume just hit its highest weekly level in nearly a year. In the past 7 days, LINK did ~15% of its 180-day volume.

🇺🇸👀 #AVAX #ETF Grayscale files S-1 for Avalanche ETF

🕵️‍♂️ Smart money are buying #TRX:

- Whale "TNQsyU" spent 5.02M USDT to buy 13.73M TRX yesterday.
- Smart trader "TWfFe1" who made $277K trading TRX before, spent $500K to buy 1.414M TRX an hour ago.

🕵️‍♂️ BlackRock deposited 1,703 #BTC ($190M) into Coinbase Prime.

🔮💸 Billionaire heiress lost >$80m in cryptocurrency after following investment advice given to her by a psychic. cointelegraph

👍 #YGG The YGG team made a buyback of YGG for 1 million USDT. x

🗽👀 Bitso management held a series of meetings in Washington, D.C., as part of a plan to enter the U.S. market.

🇯🇵🥳 Japan's finance minister recognizes that cryptocurrencies deserve a place in diversified investment portfolios.

💰 #BTC #MSTR Michael Saylor's 'Strategy' buys 3,081 Bitcoin worth $342 million.

💰 #ETH Bitmine (#BMNR) reported that they acquired 190,500 ETH last week and now own 1,713,899 ETH.

🎩 #BNB Former Bitmain executives will launch treasury firm BNB backed by YZi Labs, aiming to raise $1 billion. theblock.co

🙋‍♂ #SOL Sharps Technology, Inc. announces >$400M private placement to create Solana's largest treasury. prnewswire

✅👀 #ETH ETHZilla (#ETHZ) announced board approval of a share repurchase program worth up to $250 million and said it now owns a total of 102,237 ETH.

🗽👀 Broker Webull will once again provide cryptocurrency trading services to US customers.

💰 #SOL DeFi Development (#DFDV) will sell $125 million worth of stock, with proceeds going toward the purchase of SOL. source

🐶 #SHOT Safety Shot received a $30M strategic investment from the BONK and FalconX team.

📊👀 Report CoinShares on crypto financial flows over the past week:
- Last week, outflows from investment products into digital assets totaled ~$1.43 billion;
- #BTC had $1 billion in outflows;
- #ETH had $440 million in outflows;
- #XRP ($25M), #SOL ($12M), and #CRO ($4.4M) saw inflows.

🔮🙋‍♂ Kalshi will expand into the crypto sphere following the appointment of John Wang as head of crypto.

💳🤝 #XRP Gemini have launched a credit card in partnership with Ripple. coindesk