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🔥 Bullish: VanEck sticks to its $180K Bitcoin price target by year-end in its latest report.

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🇺🇸 The U.S. Treasury is inviting public comment on the GENIUS Act, seeking innovative ideas for detecting illicit activity involving digital assets.

Comments are due by October 17 as part of implementing the Trump-signed legislation.

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⚡️ New: BTCS, the Ethereum treasury firm, announces a one-time ETH dividend and loyalty payout totaling $0.40 per share in ETH to reward shareholders and deter short-sellers.

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🚨 New: ETHZilla, a treasury-focused Ethereum firm, unveils a rebrand and begins trading on NASDAQ under the ticker $ETHZ today (formerly $ATNF).

The company holds 94,675 ETH valued at about $419 million and has $187 million in cash.

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🗞 Catch up on the news from the last 24 hours!

🔥 Nearly 94% of XRP's circulating supply is in profit as the price climbs above $3.

⚡️ Larry Fink of BlackRock has been named interim co-chair of the World Economic Forum.

🔥 Metaplanet added another 775 BTC, about $93M, bringing its total to 18,888 BTC worth roughly $2.18B.

🇺🇸 Fed Chair Powell is scheduled to speak Friday, Aug. 22 at 10:00 A.M. ET on the economic outlook and the framework review.

🚨 Ethereum's leveraged short positions surge to a fresh record high.

🚨 ZachXBT says the WhiteRock engineer rumored to have "passed away by a missile" is still active.

🇭🇰 CMB International, a subsidiary of one of the world's largest banks, has launched regulated crypto trading in Hong Kong.

🔥 Strategy has purchased 430 BTC for $51.4M.

🇳🇱 Dutch firm Amdax to launch Bitcoin wealth venture AMBTS, aiming for 1% of BTC exposure long term.

🔥 Volkswagen Singapore partners with FOMO Pay to accept crypto payments for vehicles and services.

🚨 Kalshi markets price Gemini at 59% to be the top AI by end-2025, ahead of ChatGPT at 17% and Grok at 15%.

⚡️ Faraday Future launches its C10 Crypto Treasury, targeting up to $1B in top 10 crypto assets as part of its AI + Web3 strategy.

🚨 ETH on centralized exchanges hits a nine-year low.

🚨 Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. will allow stock sales at lower levels to raise funds for buying more Bitcoin and covering expenses, Bloomberg reports.

🚨 Billionaire VC Chamath Palihapitiya files for a $250M SPAC called American Exceptionalism Acquisition Corp. A, targeting energy production, AI, DeFi and defense.

🇺🇸 Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lender, files for an IPO with Goldman Sachs, Jefferies Financial Group, and Bank of America leading the offering.

🇺🇸 The US Treasury invites public comment on the GENIUS Act, seeking ideas to detect illicit activity involving digital assets.

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⚡️NEW: Tom Lee argues that Ethereum is where Wall Street and AI intersect.

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🇺🇸 Today: The OCC says community banks can partner with stablecoin companies to spark innovation and roll out new products.

Comptroller Jonathan Gould notes that stablecoins open up new ways for these banks to meet their communities’ payment needs, even as the regulator updates its supervisory framework.

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🚨 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs now expects the Fed to cut interest rates three times before year-end, as the U.S. job market softens.

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🚨 UPDATE: In just one hour, more than $83,000,000 was liquidated, with $81.53M coming from long positions.

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🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: Roughly $121.7 million worth of BTC and $196.6 million worth of ETH were sold on Aug. 18.

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🚨 Update: roughly 910,461 ETH, worth about $3.9B, is currently stuck in Ethereum’s exit queue.

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🔥 BREAKING: Google raises its stake in Bitcoin miner TeraWulf to 14%, making it the company’s largest shareholder.

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🇺🇸 NEW: Illinois governor signs two bills to shield crypto consumers, blasting Trump's "crypto bros" for shaping federal policy.

The measures establish regulatory oversight of digital asset exchanges, set cybersecurity standards, and introduce anti-fraud protections.

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🇰🇷 TODAY: South Korea's Financial Services Commission has issued administrative guidance directing crypto exchanges to pause any new lending activities until clear guidelines are in place.

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🚨 UPDATE: BlackRock's spot Ethereum ETF sold 19,500 ETH, worth $87.2 million, on August 18.

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🔥 BULLISH: Japan's 3D-printed housing firm Lib Work Co. says it will adopt Bitcoin as part of its corporate treasury, planning to buy about $3.3 million worth of BTC as a hedge against inflation.

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⚡️ UPDATE: Polymarket users are predicting a 71% chance the Fed will cut rates by 25 basis points in September.

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🔥 DONALD TRUMP JR.: “Crypto will shape the future of finance.”

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🚨 BREAKING: Tether taps Bo Hines, former White House Crypto Council executive, as Strategic Advisor for digital assets.

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🔥 BULLISH UPDATE: SharpLink acquired 143,593 $ETH at ~$4,648, lifting its total holdings to 740,760 $ETH.

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