🎮 SharpLink Gaming keeps crushing the corporate ETH treasury game

Yesterday, they scooped up 143,593 ETH worth $667M, bringing their stash to 740,760 ETH 🤯. On top of that, they still hold $84M in cash ready for future buys.

Since launching their program in June, SharpLink has already earned 1,388 ETH from staking. 💵

While retail panics on dips, corporations quietly keep stacking Ethereum like there’s no tomorrow. 🐳

📉 The current correction, though dramatic at first glance, remains moderate — just -8% from the local peak 👀

📊 According to CryptoQuant:

• Mid-term support (111-day SMA) sits at $109,600
• Realized price for short-term holders is around $106,800

⚡️ This creates a strong demand zone at $107K–$110K, where stabilization and a potential rebound are likely.

⚡️ SoFi goes Lightning-fast with Bitcoin

SoFi is set to become the first US bank to integrate the Bitcoin Lightning Network and Universal Money Address (UMA) through a partnership with Lightspark.

🌐 The service will launch later this year, starting with US → Mexico remittances, in the massive $740B global remittance market.

How it works:

💵 USD → BTC (real-time) → sent via Lightning → lands as local currency in recipient’s bank.

📧 UMA allows transfers with simple, email-like addresses.

✅ 24/7 availability
✅ Lower fees than national averages
✅ Full transparency on rates

SoFi’s 11.7M members will soon be able to send money abroad in seconds — no Western Union lines, no hidden fees, just Bitcoin rails.

⚠️ Fake CAPTCHA = Stolen Crypto

DNSFilter warns of a new malware scam: hackers use fake “I’m not a robot” CAPTCHA pages to trick users into running commands that install Lumma Stealer — malware that drains crypto wallets, browser passwords, 2FA tokens, and even password vaults.

😨 In one case, 17% of users followed the malicious instructions, which could have led to instant wallet compromise.

⏱️ Stolen funds are laundered in under 3 minutes via DEXs, leaving almost no chance of recovery.

🔑 Stay safe: never copy-paste commands from suspicious prompts, use unique passwords, and double-check sites before entering credentials.

👉 Hackers’ speed is their biggest weapon — vigilance is yours.

Crypto companies have raised $15B through Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) this year — far surpassing traditional venture rounds 💰

✅ DATs = firms buying BTC, ETH, or even altcoins (like Hyperliquid’s HYPE, now $1.5B held) as corporate reserves instead of cash.

🚀 Announcements often pump stock prices — e.g., Lion Group’s $600M Hyperliquid facility boosted shares +20%.

📉 Meanwhile, VC deals plunged 56% YoY (856 vs. 1,933 in 2024), as big players (DCG, Paradigm, Galaxy) shift capital from startups to DATs.

July alone saw $6.2B raised, the biggest monthly record ever — showing Wall Street now favors crypto on balance sheets over venture bets. 💪

👉 2025 is shaping up as the year corporate treasuries, not VCs, drive crypto adoption.

🇪🇸 Spain just sent shockwaves through the crypto community!

A local investor was hit with a €9M tax bill for a simple DeFi collateral loan — no profits, no withdrawals! 🙀

📉 The law requires paying upfront before appealing, with cases dragging on for up to 8 years.

⚖️ Lawyers warn this aggressive taxation is likely illegal, but until resolved, it creates huge risks for anyone using DeFi in Spain.

👉 For crypto investors, Spain may no longer be a friendly destination.

💸 Hyperliquid has officially become the most profitable company in the world by revenue per employee — a staggering $102.4M per worker with just 12 people on the team!

For comparison, this outpaces giants like Tether and even OnlyFans. 👀

⚡️ The stat highlights not only Hyperliquid’s explosive growth but also how lean crypto-native firms can massively outperform traditional companies in efficiency and profitability.

🚀 Circle launches Circle Gateway mainnet — a new cross-chain solution for USDC

With Gateway, USDC across multiple blockchains is treated as one unified balance, solving key issues:

1️⃣ No more fragmented liquidity across chains.
2️⃣ Near-instant transfers (<1s, next-block finality).
3️⃣ No need to over-allocate capital for rebalancing/withdrawals.

How it works: deposit USDC into the Gateway smart contract → unified balance is created → seamless cross-chain transfers.

✅ Available now on Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Ethereum, OP Mainnet, Polygon PoS, and Unichain. Arc and more chains coming soon.

SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci predicts Bitcoin could hit $180K–$200K by the end of this year — and he calls that a “conservative” estimate! 🔥

His reasoning: supply vs. demand. 🧮 Only 450 BTC are mined daily, while institutional appetite is growing fast. Compared to 3 years ago, today’s conferences are packed with big funds instead of just retail investors. 🧐

Notably, last year Scaramucci forecasted $100K BTC by end of 2024 — and Bitcoin actually hit $108K in December. Now he’s raising the bar even higher. 🚀

🇨🇳 China may soon greenlight yuan-backed stablecoins as part of its push to expand the global use of its currency, Reuters reports.

📝 A roadmap could be approved by the State Council in late August, setting targets for yuan adoption worldwide and defining the role of regulators, including the PBOC. Senior officials are expected to outline the limits and business applications of stablecoins. 💳

The first testbeds will be Hong Kong and Shanghai, with cross-border use also on the agenda at the upcoming SCO summit in Tianjin (Aug 31–Sep 1).

If approved, this could mark a major step in China’s digital currency strategy. 💴🌐

🛡 Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, Robinhood, PayPal, Ripple & others teamed up with law enforcement (plus sleuths like ZachXBT) to launch Beacon Network — the first real-time crypto crime response system. 🥩🐷

🔎 The network tracks stolen funds, blacklists suspicious wallets, and can automatically freeze assets when hackers try to cash out on exchanges.

With at least $47B stolen since 2023, the goal is clear: fight hacks, scams, and illicit funding — and maybe even get victims’ money back. 💸

🐋 7-Year Bitcoin Whale Sells $76M to Go Long on Ether!

An OG whale holding 14,837 BTC (~$1.6B) sold 670 BTC ($76M) to open four leveraged ETH positions totaling 68,130 ETH. Most were at 10x leverage around $4,300. 🧐

Price dipped after the move, hitting $4,080, putting three positions close to liquidation, but ETH is now back near $4,287 (+2.9% 24h). 📈

Institutions are stacking ETH too: two wallets added 9,044 ETH each, while BitMine Immersion Technologies boosted its treasury to 1.52M ETH ($6.6B).🚀

🦊 MetaMask Launches Its Own Stablecoin — mUSD

MetaMask is rolling out MetaMask USD (mUSD) later this year on Ethereum and Linea. Unlike most stablecoins, mUSD is native to the wallet from day one, aiming to be the default dollar unit across its 100M+ users.

📌 Issued by Bridge (Stripe-owned) and powered by M0, mUSD will be 1:1 backed by cash & U.S. Treasuries, with real-time transparency and cross-chain liquidity.

At launch, users can on-ramp, hold, swap, bridge, and spend mUSD directly inside MetaMask — even via the MetaMask Card at Mastercard merchants. 💳

With stablecoins nearing $1T monthly volume and new U.S. regulation in place, MetaMask is positioning mUSD to deepen DeFi liquidity, cut onboarding friction, and capture stablecoin yield. 💰

📊 In 2025, the gap between newly mined Bitcoin and purchases by public companies has hit a 12x imbalance!

Corporates are stacking BTC far faster than miners can produce it — a clear sign of growing institutional hunger.

When supply can’t keep up with demand at this scale… you know what usually happens next 🚀

💰 Big players double down on Solana

The four largest corporate holders of SOL boosted their balances by 15.9%, now owning a combined 3.68M SOL worth around $686M.

🏆 Leader of the pack — Upexi, holding 2M SOL.

Institutions keep stacking, showing growing confidence in Solana’s long-term play. 🚀

Tether and Circle are meeting this week with CEOs of South Korea’s “Big Four” banks — Shinhan, Hana, KB, and Woori — to discuss partnerships, possible won-backed stablecoins, and distribution of USDC/USDT in the country. 💰

🇰🇷 South Korea is drafting new laws to regulate local stablecoins after shelving its CBDC tests. Banks are already filing trademarks and hinting at launching won-pegged tokens next year.

Looks like Seoul could soon become the next battlefield for stablecoin dominance 🧐

🐋 CryptoQuant reports that Bitcoin whales have accumulated over 16,000 BTC ($1.8B) in the past week

The data focuses on wallets holding between 1,000–10,000 BTC, showing strong buying activity during the recent market dip. 📉

This trend highlights continued institutional and large-scale investor confidence in Bitcoin, as they treat price corrections as accumulation opportunities rather than exit signals.

Long story short: while short-term sentiment looks shaky, whales are clearly betting on the long game. 📈