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Cointelegraph.com - 10:11 Aug 13, 2025
The NFT market cap has hit $9.3 billion, up 40% since July, as ETH tops $4,600 The non-fungible token (NFT) sector surged to a market capitalization of more than $9.3 billion as Ethereum-based collections increased along with the price of Ether. NFT data tracker NFT Price Floor showed on Wednesday that the overall market capitalization for NFT collections had hit $9.3 billion, a 40% uptick from July. According to DappRadar data, NFTs had a market capitalization of $6.6 billion last month. Ether (ETH), which recently pushed past the $4,000 milestone, has been a key driver behind the NFT market surge. At the time of writing, ETH traded above $4,600 and had a market capitalization of over $557 billion, according to CoinGecko. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:05 Aug 13, 2025
OKB skyrocketed after OKX unveiled a 65 million token burn, a fixed 21 million supply and major upgrades to its Polygon-powered X Layer network. OKB, the native token of crypto exchange OKX, gained almost 160% on Wednesday after the platform revealed an overhaul to its blockchain ecosystem and tokenomics, including a major burn. The rally, which briefly pushed OKB (OKB) prices as high as $135 from a daily low of $45, came as OKX confirmed it will conduct a one-time burn of 65,256,712.097 OKB from historical repurchases and treasury reserves. After the burn, the total OKB supply will be fixed at 21 million. OKX also revealed that it will upgrade its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM)-based public chain, X Layer, “to build it into a leading public chain with a dedicated focus on DeFi, payments, and real-world asset (RWA) applications.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 08:35 Aug 13, 2025
Explore the history of attempts to change Bitcoin’s 21-million hard cap and why it has proven to be hard to create an alternative to the apex asset. A hard cap is the maximum supply of a cryptocurrency that can ever exist. It’s hardcoded into the blockchain’s code and sets a strict limit on how many tokens or coins can be created. This limit promotes scarcity, which can help boost the value of each token over time. Take Bitcoin (BTC), for example. Its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, set a hard cap of 21 million coins. No matter how much demand there is or how many miners try to produce new Bitcoin, the supply will never exceed 21 million. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 08:03 Aug 13, 2025
Ethereum whale group “7 Siblings” sold $88.2 million in ETH within 15 hours as short-term traders locked in profits. The mysterious Ethereum whale collective known as “7 Siblings” has offloaded $88.2 million worth of Ether over the past 15 hours. Holding about 1.21 million Ether (ETH), valued at $5.6 billion, the group sold 19,461 ETH at an average price of $4,532, blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain revealed in a Wednesday post on X. Between Feb. 3 and April 7, the whale group acquired 103,543 ETH for $229.7 million at an average price of $2,219. The haul included a $42.2 million purchase of 24,817 ETH at $1,700 in early April, according to data accumulated by Lookonchain. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:00 Aug 13, 2025
BNY Mellon will manage and custody the assets backing OpenEden’s Moody’s “A”-rated tokenized US Treasury fund, expanding the bank’s presence in blockchain-based finance. Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform OpenEden partnered with The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) to manage and custody the underlying assets of its flagship tokenized US Treasury product, TBILL. OpenEden announced the partnership Wednesday, bringing one of Wall Street’s largest and oldest custodians into the growing market for tokenized Treasurys. OpenEden said TBILL is the first tokenized US Treasury fund with a Moody’s “A” rating to have its assets managed by a global custodian. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 00:27 Aug 13, 2025
Coinbase has revived its fund to boost USDC liquidity in DeFi, starting with supporting the stablecoin on Aave, Morpho, Kamino, and Jupiter. Coinbase is relaunching its Stablecoin Bootstrap Fund first introduced in 2019 to boost the liquidity of the stablecoin USDC in a range of popular and emerging decentralized finance protocols. Coinbase said on Tuesday its first placements will provide USDC (USDC) liquidity into Ethereum-based lenders Aave and Morpho, and Solana-based trading platforms Kamino and Jupiter. “As we scale the fund over time and distribute liquidity across more protocols and stablecoins, we’re particularly eager to collaborate with pre-launch teams or those seeking to drive stablecoin growth from day one,” it added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:45 Aug 12, 2025
Bitcoin bulls lift their price target to $137,000 as odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut increase. Key takeaways: July US CPI held steady at 2.7% year-over-year, boosting Fed rate cut bets to 93.9% for September. Key price support lies between $117,650 to $115,650, with a deeper drop potentially testing a CME gap at $95,000. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:27 Aug 12, 2025
Tron, Tether, and TRM Labs expand their crime-fighting unit with Binance as the first T3+ partner, as industry data shows crypto hacks are getting faster and harder to stop. Tron, Tether, and TRM Labs say their joint financial crime unit has frozen more than $250 million in illicit crypto assets since launching less than a year ago, and is expanding its reach through a new program that brings Binance on as its first member. Launched in September 2024, the T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU) is a public-private initiative designed to track and disrupt illicit blockchain transactions. The $250 million frozen is more than double the amount reported in the first six months after T3 FCU’s launch. In January, the unit disclosed it had intercepted over $100 million in illicit assets since its August 2024 debut. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:57 Aug 12, 2025
Federico Carrone, an Ethereum core developer, pledged $500,000 to the Tornado Cash co-founder’s legal fund after being detained in Turkey over alleged links to a privacy protocol. Ethereum core developer Federico Carrone said that he would contribute $500,000 to Roman Storm’s legal fund amid the Tornado Cash co-founder facing a potential retrial in New York. In a Monday X post, Carrone said his experience in Turkey led to the decision to increase his donation to Storm from $50,000 to $500,000. The developer reported that he had been detained by Turkish authorities for about 24 hours over alleged links to an Ethereum privacy protocol. “[A]fter what happened to me, I need to take a clear position,” said Carrone, adding: “I understand that the [Ethereum Foundation] will be matching donations up to another $500K for Roman Storm’s defense, which means our contribution can have double the impact. Our team is currently moving money to execute the transaction.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:34 Aug 12, 2025
DeepBook and Walrus’s “Winter Walrus” are ranked outside of the top 10 Sui ecosystem protocols, according to DefiLlama. Grayscale announced the launch of two single-asset trusts linked to the Sui ecosystem on Tuesday amid a recent surge in activity on the network. According to an announcement, the two trusts are investment vehicles that provide accredited investors exposure to the native tokens of DeepBook (DEEP) and Walrus (WAL). The move comes almost a year after Grayscale launched its first Sui product. DeepBook is an onchain order book that has reportedly processed over $10 billion in volume. Walrus is a platform that offers programmable data storage. The Walrus Foundation raised $140 million from Standard Crypto and others in March 2025. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:00 Aug 12, 2025
The two men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in February and later received a letter directing them to “self-deport” from the United States. Two Estonian nationals who co-founded the cryptocurrency mining service HashFlare are scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. In a Monday filing, US prosecutors pushed back against many of the claims made by lawyers for HashFlare co-founders Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turogin in their sentencing recommendation. The two men requested time served, while lawyers representing the US government have asked the judge to sentence them to 10 years in prison, arguing “the harm HashFlare’s victims suffered could not be more real.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:45 Aug 12, 2025
Bitcoin could pick up momentum above $120,000, with ETH, BNB, LINK, and UNI following suit. Key points: Bitcoin finds support at lower levels, but may face strong selling in the $120,000 to $123,218 zone. Net Ether ETF inflows of more than $1 billion on Monday suggest solid institutional demand. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:38 Aug 12, 2025
Pantera’s Dan Morehead nailed his prediction for Bitcoin’s Aug. 11, 2025 price, made in November 2022 as BTC was nearing its bottom. Pantera Capital’s adherence to the Bitcoin halving cycle enabled it to predict Bitcoin’s price with striking accuracy in 2022, underscoring how the asset’s supply schedule can influence valuations, even as skepticism about the cycles grows. In November of that year, Pantera published a price chart mapping Bitcoin’s (BTC) halving rallies and showing diminishing returns after each four-year epoch. Factoring in the typical timing between market bottoms and post-halving rallies, the firm projected Bitcoin would hit $117,482 by Aug. 11, 2025. On Aug. 11, Bitcoin closed above $119,000, according to Coin Metrics data cited by CNBC. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:56 Aug 12, 2025
ETH open interest soared to a record high as Ether price rallied through $4,500. Is the rally sustainable? Key takeaways: Ether derivatives data shows weak demand for leveraged bullish positions. Corporations and TradFi favor independent layer-1 chains, challenging Ethereum’s dominance in decentralized finance. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:16 Aug 12, 2025
Former Binance executive Ryan Horn joins Hilbert Group to advise on Syntetika, an onchain platform for tokenized funds, as global finance races to bring traditional assets to blockchain. Former Binance dealmaker Ryan Horn has joined the advisory board of Hilbert Group, a Sweden-based, publicly listed digital asset manager, to support the rollout of Syntetika, its onchain platform for tokenized assets and funds. At Binance, Horn secured high-profile partnerships, including a deal with football star Cristiano Ronaldo. Hilbert Group manages crypto-focused investment products for institutional and professional investors. Through algorithmic trading strategies, it applies a traditional asset management structure to digital asset markets, including regulated oversight and fund governance. Syntetika, now in development, will issue and trade tokenized funds under regulatory oversight. It will integrate Galactica’s zero-knowledge system to verify users without exposing personal information and give investors tokenized... -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:44 Aug 12, 2025
After a New York jury found the Tornado Cash co-founder guilty of one of three charges he had been facing, US authorities still have the option of filing for a retrial. Roman Storm’s legal team and US prosecutors have agreed to extend procedural deadlines that could affect retrying the Tornado Cash co-founder on conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to violate sanctions. In a Monday filing in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Judge Katherine Failla approved a schedule agreed upon by Storm’s lawyers and the US government that will push the start of any potential retrial. Though prosecutors did not suggest whether they intended to retry Storm on the two felony charges, any scheduling on the matter would likely be pushed to later in 2025 beyond the 70-day deadline following “the conclusion of the initial trial.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:35 Aug 12, 2025
The $2.4 billion represents roughly 43.5% of the known money Donald Trump has gained from “personal enrichment” during his political career. US President Donald Trump has gained roughly $2.4 billion from his crypto-related ventures since entering the space in 2022, according to estimates from The New Yorker. The gains show a diversification of the Trump family’s crypto income streams and raise new concerns for a Commander-in-Chief overseeing the industry’s regulation in the United States. According to the report, Trump has gained an estimated $14.4 million from his non-fungible tokens (NFT) collections, $412.5 million from token sales via World Liberty Financial, $243 million from crypto deals with the United Arab Emirates, $13 million from Bitcoin (BTC) mining company American Bitcoin, $1.3 billion from BTC treasury company Trump Media and Technology Group, and $385 million from the Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin. Overall, Trump’s crypto ventures account for 43.5% of the known personal wealth he has accumul... -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:06 Aug 12, 2025
Ether price action targets all-time highs amid excitement over BitMine's giant accumulation plan, shifting the focus away from rangebound Bitcoin. Key points: Ether gains nearly 6% on the day as BitMine ups its ETH accumulation plans to nearly $25 billion. Chairman Tom Lee gets Michael Saylor comparisons as analysis says ETH price action is “defying gravity.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:00 Aug 12, 2025
AI systems are already ignoring shutdown commands. Decentralized audit trails are needed to prevent centralized AI from becoming humanity’s Skynet. Opinion by: Phil Mataras, founder of AR.io Artificial intelligence in all forms has many positive potential applications. However, current systems are opaque, proprietary and shielded from audit by legal and technical barriers. Control is increasingly becoming an assumption rather than a guarantee. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:55 Aug 12, 2025
Stablecoin laws are popping up all over the globe, but their differences could spell trouble for cross-border crypto projects. Stablecoins have been regulated in different ways across the globe, raising concerns about their viability and possibly putting up barriers for newcomers. Europe’s framework, Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA), varies significantly from the US’s GENIUS Act. Both are distinct from Hong Kong’s own stablecoin rules, which were finalized just two weeks ago. These three regulatory frameworks have provided clear standards for stablecoins. Reserve requirements, issuer licensing and permit schemes now have cut-and-dry conditions, which have undoubtedly made it easier for stablecoins to flourish. Read more
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