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The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced that it will sunset its novel activities supervision program and return to monitoring banks' novel activities through the normal supervisory process.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcreg20250815a.htm
BitMine bought an additional $600M worth of ETH
The total ETH reserves of BitMine now stand at 1.297 million ETH, approximately $5.77 billion.
https://x.com/embercn/status/1956517072357515598
The crypto market is down
BTC Dominance - 58.34%
Market Cap - $4.01T
BTC - $117,452 (-1.38%)
ETH - $4,433 (-4.45%)
BNB - $831 (-2.19%)
SOL - $187 (-4.04%)
MYX - $1.89 (+10.51%)
OP - $0.725 (-5.14%)
https://dropstab.com
Binance has announced the Booster campaign with OpenEden (EDEN) on Binance Wallet
Start Time: August 18th, 2025, at 11:00 UTC
Eligibility: Users with 61 or above Binance Alpha Points
Rewards: 20,000,000 EDEN
https://x.com/binance/status/1956341118221873505
Tether Treasury has minted 1B USDT on Ethereum
https://whale-alert.io/transaction/ethereum/0xd964b5e3d05b1515862f0583a47963e4d3c72e187e44c2ddc07026a0ded9ca1f
Circle to Offer 10 Million Class A Shares at $130 Each
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/08/15/circle-to-offer-10-million-class-a-shares-at-usd130-each
The SEC delays decision on Bitwise Solana ETF and 21Shares Core Solana ETF, with new deadline is set for October 16, 2025.
https://x.com/cointelegraph/status/1956151426226225183
The crypto market is down
BTC Dominance - 58.11%
Market Cap - $4.08T
BTC - $119,067 (-3.3%)
ETH - $4,637 (-2.67%)
BNB - $849 (-0.8%)
SOL - $195 (-6.4%)
LINK - $22.69 (-5.49%)
ENS - $27.18 (-8.16%)
https://dropstab.com
Coinbase Completes $2.9B Deribit Acquisition
https://www.coinbase.com/ru/blog/deribit-joins-coinbase-unlocking-the-future-of-global-crypto-derivatives
Bessent on crypto reserve: “Not going to be buying it, will use confiscated assets”
https://x.com/deitaone/status/1955967031011930463
GMX said users affected by the security exploit can now claim their distributions.
GMX said the $44 million distribution will be issued in GLV, also pledging a $500,000 incentive pool to users who keep their allocated GLV.
https://www.theblock.co/post/366890/gmx-44-million-compensation-plan
AI agents will become Ethereum's ‘biggest power user,’ Coinbase devs say
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-agents-ethereums-biggest-power-user
Tron founder Justin Sun files a lawsuit against Bloomberg seeking to prevent disclosure of his "highly confidential, sensitive, private, and proprietary financial information.”
https://x.com/cointelegraph/status/1955789034581528651
Nayib Bukele: "El Salvador's unrealized profit is $468 million"
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1955725065091170500
🔥BTC reached its new ATH of $124k
https://dropstab.com/coins/bitcoin
Crypto exchange Gemini’s public S-1, originally filed confidentially in June, reveals the company plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker GEMI
https://www.theblock.co/post/367160/gemini-ipo-filing-exchange-targets-nasdaq-as-gemi-reveals-dip-in-revenue
The U.S. crypto mining company American Bitcoin, backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, is seeking acquisition targets in Asia.
The firm is targeting a listed company in Japan and may also look at Hong Kong to emulate Michael Saylor’s Strategy by stockpiling crypto in corporate treasuries.
https://www.ft.com/content/61abe931-390c-499a-951f-d0e95672fb0b
Binance has announced the 34th TGE on Binance Wallet with RiceAI (RICE) via PancakeSwap
Subscription: Aug 18th, 2025, from 8:00 to 10:00 UTC
Eligible users need to use Binance Alpha Points to participate
Additional 40,000,000 RICE for upcoming campaigns
https://x.com/binancewallet/status/1956302380393435220
PublicAI (PUBLIC) trading has started on Binance Alpha, KuCoin, MEXC, and others.
PUBLIC is now trading at ~$0.06 (~0.8x from the sale price on CoinList: $0.07).
FDV: $60M
https://www.kucoin.com/trade/PUBLIC-USDT
SharpLink Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results; Now Holds 728,804 ETH in Total
https://investors.sharplink.com/sharplink-reports-second-quarter-2025-results-now-holds-728804-eth-in-total/
Andre Cronje Launches Fundraising for New DeFi Project Flying Tulip
https://x.com/andrecronjetech/status/1956047290348548559
Citigroup plans to expand its crypto services:
- Launch custody services for the reserves of stablecoin issuers.
- Deploy payment solutions using stablecoins.
- Become a custodian for issuers of crypto ETFs — a market currently dominated by Coinbase.
Citigroup is one of the top‑3 US banks, with total assets exceeding $2.5 trillion.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/citigroup-considers-custody-payment-services-stablecoins-crypto-etfs-2025-08-14/
Sophon is launching the Guardian NFT Buyback Program on Easeflow's NodeStore
https://blog.sophon.xyz/node-buyback-program/
Turkish Exchange BtcTurk Hacked for $50 Million
https://x.com/CertiKAlert/status/1955970837900661238
Overlay Protocol (OVL) trading has started
OVL is now trading at ~$0.26
FDV: $24.13M
https://www.mexc.com/exchange/OVL_USDT
Coinbase and crypto payments infrastructure platform Mercuryo are partnering to lower on-ramping fees for USDC users on Base.
On-ramp fees could drop by about 50%.
https://www.theblock.co/post/366842/coinbase-usdc-fees-metamask-base-circle-stablecoin-layer-1
Coinbase DEX Launched to 1% of its user base
https://x.com/shaaa256/status/1955607980876915074
Non-custodial wallets are not in scope of Google Play’s Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Software Wallets Policy
https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/1955741506440192463
BTC Overtakes Google in Market Cap
https://companiesmarketcap.com/assets-by-market-cap/
Ethereum Wallet MetaMask Will Likely Unveil Its Own Stablecoin this Week
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/08/13/ethereum-wallet-metamask-said-to-unveil-its-own-musd-stablecoin-this-week