📈 Spot crypto trading volume on major exchanges rose to its highest since January in August.

📊👀 CryptoRank: Hyperliquid's #USDH bidding war intensifies. Launching native stablecoin to capture ~$220M/year leaked revenue.

Reduces external issuer reliance, boosts censorship resistance, fuels #HYPE buybacks, incentives, and TVL growth via lending/spot markets.

📈 #ADA now has 29.6% of its entire supply held by the top 100 addresses — and they are continuing to accumulate more ADA.

In addition, 54% of all available Cardano is in the hands of Long-Term Holders. x.com

📊🤔 #DeFi Sentora: Audits are essential for DeFi, but not a guarantee. Audited projects saw $3.3B+ in losses between '20-'25, driven by rugs, private key compromises and post-audit changes.

DeFi audits are the baseline, but effective risk management still requires active monitoring of risk metrics.

👍 #HYPE #ETF Vaneck plans to apply for HYPE-ETF and launch ETP in Europe. blockworks

🍿 #SCR According to a Scroll DAO delegate, Scroll DAO governance will be suspended, several members of the DAO leadership have resigned, and the next steps are unclear. x

📈 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net inflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$23 million.

Total net inflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$44.2 mln.

🙋‍♂️ #USDH #HYPE The odds of Native Markets winning the Polymarket vote on who will launch USDH have risen to 90% after accusations that another contender is trying to "bribe" voters.

🤔 Nemo Protocol claims unaudited code deployment led to $2.6 million exploit. theblock.co

🤔 #ETF Bloomberg analyst: the REX-Osprey cryptocurrency ETFs, which includes the #Bonk ETF, #Trump ETF, #BTC ETF, #XRP ETF and #DOGE ETF, will launch Friday if there are no SEC objections. cointelegraph

👍 #AVAX Avalanche Foundation plans to raise $1 billion to create AVAX treasury firms in the US. theblock.co

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. Bitmine bought another 46,255 #ETH ($200.43 million) and now hold 2,126,018 ETH ($9.27 billion).
2. CMJiHu contributed $527,590 $SOL ($117.5 million) to exchanges in the last 24 hours;
3. 4. 4 new wallets withdrew 78,229 #ETH ($342 million) from Kraken;
4. SharpLink transferred 379 million #USDC to Galaxy Digital, possibly to buy more ETH.

💸 #BTC Over the last 24 hours, ~$276 million worth of contracts have been liquidated, of which longs have liquidated ~$106 million and shorts ~$170 million.

🇭🇰🕹 Hong Kong proposes relaxing capital requirements for banks holding cryptocurrency. theblock.co #regulation

🤑😱 #BTC The fear and greed index is 54 - neutral.

📊🥳 The altseason index has reached 78, a score above 75 signifies the beginning of the alt season.

🇺🇸💰 #SOL #PENGU Sharps Technology purchased $400 million worth of SOL tokens for the balance and partnered with #NFT project Pudgy Penguins.

🗽 Figure IPO at $25 per share, raising nearly $788 million. coindesk

🤖 Top #AI-focused projects without own token (yet)

🆕 #PUMP Bithumb added #PUMP feed.bithumb.com