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Meanwhile, bitcoin's open interest has surged to a 3-year high, hinting at a more volatile immediate future.

XRP is back near $1 even as network activity rebounds, whale deposits to Binance collapse, and derivatives exposure builds near recent lows. The token fell to about $0.98 this week before recovering toward $1, according to CryptoSlate data, extending a retreat that has erased much of its May rally. Crowd commentary around XRP simultaneously reached […] The post Record user activity and a collapse in whale selling should send XRP soaring, so why is it still pinned at $1? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The bankers want people kept in lower-yield deposits for the good of the financial system as it's existed for generations, and their argument is gaining ground.

DefiLlama’s founder said Apple removed one fake app within days after the company documented it draining funds from a small crypto wallet. DefiLlama delayed the launch of its mobile app while it spent months trying to get Apple to remove phishing apps from its App Store that impersonated the analytics provider, according to the company’s pseudonymous founder, 0xngmi. “We waited ‘till all the fake apps were taken down before we launched ours to avoid any user getting scammed,” 0xngmi said in a Saturday X post. DefiLlama had tried for months to get one malicious app removed, but Apple took it down “in days” after the team downloaded the app and documented a small wallet being drained, 0xngmi added. Read more

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The state reserve is separately tied to IBIT, while the filing names neither the owning portfolio nor a reliable dollar value. The post Texas refuses to sell as its $10 million Bitcoin bet sinks to $6.6 million appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Financial firms are partnering with specialists to build infrastructure, blurring lines between traditional and decentralized finance into a unified sector.

The Hegotá upgrade aims to introduce more native privacy for Ethereum applications. Ethereum developers are currently reviewing 66 proposals to narrow them down as part of scoping the next major Ethereum upgrade, Hegotá, with several proposals aimed at bringing more privacy capabilities into the protocol. FOCIL is currently the only Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) scheduled for inclusion in the upgrade. Frame Transactions (EIP-8141), Keyed Nonces (EIP-8250) and Recent Roots for Frame Transactions (EIP-8272) should also be included to “unlock native privacy, allowing privacy apps to work without having to rely on intermediaries,” wrote Ethereum Foundation contributor Toni Wahrstätter in a Sunday X post. FOCIL, short for Fork-choice enforced inclusion lists, seeks to allow a committee of validators to force pending transactions into blocks to boost the network’s censorship resistance, while the other proposals could provide protocol primitives for privacy applications. Read more

Grayscale's July 17 SEC filings said its Ethereum and Solana staking ETFs would convert staking rewards to cash and distribute them to shareholders at least quarterly, with the changes expected around Aug. 7. Solana and Ethereum are each weighing protocol changes that would reduce that income at the source. Solana developers want to accelerate disinflation […] The post Wall Street finally turned staking into a dividend, now Ethereum and Solana want to shrink it appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The big elephant in the XRP ETF room is back.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) gave World Liberty Financial, a DeFi venture associated with President Donald Trump, preliminary conditional approval to charter a national trust bank built around its roughly $4 billion USD1 stablecoin. World Liberty Trust Company would eventually handle USD1 issuance and reserve custody directly, moving both under federal […] The post Trump-linked World Liberty Financial wins OCC bank approval as $112 million DeFi position sits near liquidation appeared first on CryptoSlate.

After the major inflows during the first week of August, all eyes turned to the second. However, reality settled in.

XRP, ZEC, ADA, and BCH stand in one corner, while XMR and LINK are in the opposite.

XRP still battles for that key level as of press time. But is the worst behind it?

Despite the massive price slump, analysts are still hopeful DOGE is approaching an important turning point.

Gen Z traders are putting more money into ETFs on Binance, with such funds accounting for 25% of their equity trading volume in early August, up from 14.6% in June.

President Donald Trump and the heads of the SEC and CFTC are expected to meet crypto and prediction-market executives at the White House next week as the industry’s biggest legislative priority faces dwindling odds of becoming law this year. According to reports, the Aug. 19 gathering is expected to include executives from Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz, […] The post Trump to meet Coinbase, Ripple and crypto leaders as CLARITY Act odds collapse to 10% appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Galaxy Israel's Lior Lamesh said the future of finance will run on open, programmable rails.

The paper trail instead reveals Binance pricing failures, on-chain ADL and a disclosure gap regulators have yet to close. The post Crypto crash liquidations face massive data gap as public records contradict $18B Solana claim appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The additions come as Bybit’s TradFi perpetuals lineup grows to more than 200 products spanning equities, ETFs, commodities, indices and private companies. Dubai-based crypto exchange crypto exchange Bybit has launched pre-IPO perpetual contracts tied to Chinese robotics firm Unitree and artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI, expanding its push into private-market trading. The USDT-denominated and settled contracts give traders price exposure without ownership of the underlying shares. Bybit said its TradFi perpetuals lineup has grown to more than 200 products since launching in April, spanning equities, ETFs, commodities, indices and pre-IPO companies. Unitree received approval from China’s securities regulator in July for an initial public offering on Shanghai’s STAR Market. The perpetual gives traders exposure to the robotics company before its shares begin trading publicly. Read more