🚀 Macro & Regulation

• US 30-year Treasury yield nears 5%, as both stocks and bonds decline; S&P 500 drops 1%, tech giants under pressure, and gold hits new highs.

• Traders anticipate a 90% probability of a 25bps rate cut by the Federal Reserve in September.

• Mastercard's European crypto head hints at the possibility of developing its own blockchain in the future.

• Gemini announces IPO launch (Ticker: GEMI).

• Crypto.com CEO signals IPO considerations.

• Coinbase to offer traditional stock futures, starting with Mag7 and crypto stock indices.

• Ethereum Foundation plans to sell 10,000 ETH for research, funding, and donations.

• El Salvador will host the world’s first government-backed Bitcoin conference in November.

• The US SEC and CFTC will allow the trading of some spot crypto tokens on registered exchanges.

🍀 Corporate Treasuries

• Strategy acquires 4,048 BTC at an average price of $110,981 (about $449 million).

• Ether Machine raises $654 million in ETH prior to listing.

• SharpLink buys 39,008 ETH at an average price of $4,531, holding a total of 837,230 ETH.

• Yunfeng Financial Group (affiliated with Jack Ma) acquires 10,000 ETH as a reserve asset.

• CEA Industries buys 3,888,888 BNB (around $33 million), targeting 1% of the total supply by year-end.

• Conflux Foundation authorizes its ecosystem fund and listed companies to collaborate in the DAT framework, locking tokens for at least four years.

• Cleancore Solutions raises $175 million for DOGE treasury strategy.

• SonicStrategy secures $40 million investment from Sonic Labs for its $S treasury.

• Tron Inc. receives an additional $110 million from shareholders, bringing its TRX treasury to $220 million.

• HashGlobal launches the first compliant BNB dividend fund, targeting $100 million in AUM by year-end and $3 billion in three years.

• Deutsche Bank purchases $47 million worth of Strategy stock in Q2, holding 658,700 shares valued at over $220 million.

• Hong Kong-listed Huajian Medical acquires 20.31% of Guofu Quantum for HKD 3.142 billion, advancing its RWA exchange strategy.

🔍 Projects & Protocols

• $RESOLV completes buyback of 519,700 tokens at an average price of $0.14, with 90% of last week’s protocol revenue used for buybacks.

• $XVS Venus Protocol hacked, resulting in a loss of $27 million.

• $BGB partners with public chain Morph for strategic collaboration, upgrading to its Gas + governance token; burns 2 billion of 11 billion total supply.

• $ETHFI ETHZilla to deploy $100 million in ETH to EtherFi.

• $CHX SmartGold to tokenize $1.6 billion in gold IRA assets on-chain (in collaboration with Chintai Nexus).

• $ENA Ethena announces dividends for ENA token holders, with monthly income reaching $61 million and USDe supply surpassing $12.4 billion.

• $STRK Starknet suffers multiple outages.

• $AVAX partners with Toyota to develop autonomous taxi infrastructure.

• $PUMP introduces "Project Ascend" dynamic fee structure.

• $WLFI signs token burn agreement for 47 million tokens; ALT5 buys $750 million in WLFI at $0.20, holding around 7.8% of supply.

• Linea launches Ignition liquidity incentives, distributing 1 billion LINEA tokens.

• Hyperliquid hits a new revenue high in August, surpassing $102 million.

• Bunni hacked, losing $8.3 million.

• Kite AI secures $18 million in funding (led by PayPal and General Catalyst).

• Kraken collaborates with Backed to list xStocks on Ethereum.

• Monad Cards to launch second wave of tokens.