🔝 Top DeFi Protocols by Total Value Locked launched this summer

#DeFi this summer was defined by modular design, #RWA access, and cross-chain liquidity. This chart tracks the top protocols by TVL, with some already exceeding $200M in TVL.

📊🤔 CQ: #BTC VDD Signals Easing Long-Term Holder Pressure

If this selling pressure keeps easing, it will certainly provide relief to the market and may allow for a renewed move higher, provided demand steps in.

👍 #USDT Tether is considering investing in gold mining. coindesk

🔄 Omni Network is rebranding to Nomina

The update includes a new name, logo, and visual identity, along with a token migration.

- #OMNI → #NOM at a 1:75 ratio
- Circulating supply: 2.9B NOM
- Total supply: 7.5B NOM
- Staking to be paused until after migration.

📊👀 #BTC – The EMA ribbons have been acting as a good buy zone for BTC since price broke out above it and flipped it as support.

So far, price has tested the EMA ribbons 4 times, and each time it has bounced back from the support.

The EMA ribbons are currently around $93,900. If the price takes a deeper pullback, this area might act as a strong support zone.

👍 #HYPE Hyperliquid will release its own #USDH stablecoin.

🐳 #BTC CQ: Over the past thirty days, whale stocks have fallen by over 100,000 BTC

🇺🇸👀 #macro USA (Aug):
- Nonfarm Payrolls: 22k (pre: 73k);
- Unemployment: 4.3% (pre: 4.2%)

🇺🇸👀 #macro FedWatch: Traders now believe the probability of a Fed rate cut in September has risen to 99%.

💰 Wildcat Labs raises $3.5M in seed round to develop its real estate secured lending protocol. theblock

💸✅ #CRO #TRUMP Trump Media closed a $105 million CRO token purchase in a deal with Crypto .com. coindesk

🤔🍿#WLFI #TRX #SUN Justin Sun stated that he is going to buy $10 million worth of WLFI as well as other altcoins for another $10 million.

🇰🇿🙋‍♂ The Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA) announced the launch of an initiative that will allow participants in the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC), as well as applicants seeking authorization or registration with the AIFC, to pay regulatory fees in $-linked stablecoins.

🤬💸 CoinGlass: >$115 million liquidated in the last hour

💸 James Wynn's long 25x leveraged #ETH position has been fully liquidated.

🇵🇾👀 #BTC Paraguay plans to create a strategic BTC reserve

🔝 DropsTab: Top Tokens with Buyback Programs by Revenue Last Week

📊👀 #BTC #ETH Sentora: Both Bitcoin and Ethereum recorded significant outflows from exchanges this week, hinting at ongoing accumulation.

🇺🇸👀 #AVAX #ETF Bitwise Avalanche ETF was registered in Delaware

💼📈 #BTC Funds and Public Companies Control 11% of Bitcoin

The share of BTC held by funds and public companies is rising quickly. As more firms add Bitcoin to their treasuries, this trend continues to accelerate.

📉🤔 #BTC Glassnode: Bitcoin's Futures funding rates are cooling, now around $366k/hour - near the neutral threshold of $300k/hour for this cycle. A break below this level would signal fading demand and deepen the off-chain divergence from prior bullish phases.