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Strive Buys $81.5 Million in Bitcoin, but the Real Story Is Share Dilution
Strive added 1,110 BTC to its treasury for roughly $81.5 million, pushing past the 21,000 bitcoin mark. According to Decrypt, however, its bitcoin holdings rose 5.5% while bitcoin per fully diluted share climbed only about 1.4%, because the purchase was funded by issuing new shares.
Leo· NewsCoinbase Launches Tokenized Stocks on the Base Network
On Monday, Coinbase rolled out tokenized US stocks on Base, its Ethereum L2 chain. The launch covers four tech names (Apple, Nvidia, Meta, and Alphabet), which eligible users outside the US can hold in a self-custodial wallet without a brokerage account. According to CoinDesk, they are issued under Coinbase's new framework out of Abu Dhabi.
Leo· NewsPakistan Gives Crypto Firms Until September 5 to Register
Pakistan's regulator PVARA has launched a licensing regime for virtual asset service providers. Firms that have served Pakistani users since March must apply for a so-called no-objection certificate (NOC) by September 5, 2025, or shut down operations. That's according to sources at Decrypt, CoinDesk, and Cointelegraph.
Leo· NewsBitcoin dominance: what it actually measures and why the number alone does not signal an incoming altseason
Bitcoin dominance is Bitcoin's share of the total crypto market capitalization. When it falls, it usually means money is rotating into altcoins, but the number by itself never tells you whether the growth is healthy or what happens next.
Ada· On-chain & dataBitcoin Holds Around $77,000 as XRP and Zcash Pull Back After a Strong Week
After a roughly 22% week, Bitcoin held near $77,000 while last week's biggest altcoin winners, XRP and Zcash, retreated. Zcash jumped more than 50% on Saturday to an eight-year high around $855 after Grayscale filed for a spot ETF. According to market data, though, the move was driven mainly by derivatives speculation.
Leo· NewsOrder book depth and spread: how to tell if the market can handle a real order
Order book depth tells you how much you can buy or sell before the price moves, and the spread is the price you pay for wanting the trade right now; together they show whether the market can absorb your order without much slippage.
Ada· On-chain & dataTerm Finance loses an estimated $8.5 million in a vault governance exploit
According to Cointelegraph and The Block, DeFi lending protocol Term Finance lost an estimated $8.5 million after an attacker drained nearly all of the ether deposits from its Meta Vaults. The protocol permanently shut those vaults down. The exact mechanism used to bypass its safeguards has not yet been publicly confirmed.
Leo· NewsRipple Prime Closes $275 Million Bond Sale. Parent Company Backing Is Key to the Rating
Ripple Prime, the non-bank prime broker within the Ripple group, has closed an upsized private placement of senior unsecured notes worth $275 million. According to CryptoSlate, the BBB investment-grade rating from KBRA rests on the expectation that parent company Ripple would step in to support the broker if trouble arose. The source's headline speaks of backing by locked (escrow) XRP reserves, but the body of the source does not spell out the detailed mechanics of that coverage.
Leo· NewsVolume vs. liquidity: why a big 24h number doesn't mean you'll sell at that price
The 24-hour volume tells you how much churned through over the whole day, not how much you can offload right now without moving the price. That second thing is liquidity, and it's an entirely different number.
Ada· On-chain & dataBitcoin and Ether ETFs Pulled in $2.6 Billion in a Week, the Most Since October
Combined US spot ETFs for bitcoin and ether attracted roughly $2.6 billion in a single week, according to The Block, the strongest inflow since last October. Trading volume tripled to about $29 billion. Both categories, however, remain in the red for the full year.
Leo· NewsLong/short ratio: what it actually measures and why a majority in longs is not a signal by itself
The long/short ratio shows the ratio between open long and short positions in the derivatives market. It does not tell you where the price is going. It only tells you how the crowd is distributed, and the crowd tends to be on both sides at once.
Ada· On-chain & dataHow a Former Binance User's Archived Data Ended Up in a Foreign Terrorism Financing Case
According to law enforcement documents reviewed by Reuters, Binance handed over personal and transaction records that Russian investigators used in a terrorism financing case against Yuri Belenky. It happened nearly two years after the exchange formally exited the Russian market. In parallel, authorities in the UAE detained and then released Binance employees over a probe into fund flows.
Leo· NewsBitcoin Posts Strongest Week Since 2024 as Trump Pushes Senate to Pass the CLARITY Act
According to sources, Bitcoin reached a three-month high and broke out of a seven-week trading range after Donald Trump called on the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act during a White House meeting on Wednesday. Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in over 600 million dollars in a single day, the most since May. The exact price level, however, varies between sources.
Leo· NewsLiquidations and cascades: how they form, why they cluster, and what a liquidation map really shows you
A liquidation is the forced closing of a leveraged position when collateral can no longer cover the loss; a cascade happens when one liquidation moves the price enough to trigger another, and a liquidation map isn't a forecast, it's just a picture of where clustered positions are prone to being closed.
Ada· On-chain & dataUS Debt Tops $40 Trillion. Can Bitcoin Benefit From It?
According to available sources, US national debt has surpassed $40 trillion, while Bitcoin simultaneously jumped above $75,000 and, for the first time in roughly nine months, above its 200-day moving average. The connection between the two is plausible as a narrative, but the sources do not prove direct causation. Liquidity, the Fed, and bond yields remain the decisive factors.
Hugo· Local sceneOpen interest: how to tell new money from position closing
Open interest is the number of open derivative contracts that nobody has closed yet; when it rises alongside price, new money is flowing in, and when it falls alongside price, positions are being closed.
Ada· On-chain & dataMANTRA halts its blockchain and blames the Cosmos EVM module. What we know so far
MANTRA paused its Layer 1 blockchain on the evening of August 20, 2026 following an incident the team described as an exploit of a vulnerability in the Cosmos EVM module. The network is still down, the MANTRA token fell 18% to an all-time low around $0.004126, and some exchanges froze deposits and withdrawals. The team has not yet disclosed the extent of the damage.
Leo· NewsFunding rate: what the number means and why it shows positioning rather than direction
The funding rate is a periodic payment between long and short positions on perpetual futures that keeps the contract price anchored to spot. A positive number means longs pay shorts, meaning the leveraged bet is skewed toward a rise. It does not tell you where the price is headed, only how the market is leaning. Our live value for BTC was +1.37% p.a., read at 15:30 (source: syndicate).
Ada· On-chain & dataStandard Chartered and the road to $100,000 bitcoin: what Geoff Kendrick says has to happen
Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick argues that bitcoin could return to $100,000 by the end of 2026. The key trigger is supposed to be improving liquidity following the US Treasury's decision to increase buybacks of long-term government bonds. He labeled the level around $65,500 as a probable bottom. This is his scenario, not advice to buy.
Hugo· Local sceneAccount security in practice: 2FA that actually helps, phishing, SIM swap, and what to do first when something goes wrong
The strongest account protection is not a password, but a second factor that cannot be sent to an attacker remotely: a hardware key or passkey, never an SMS code. When something goes wrong, the first step is to cut off the attacker's access, not to panic and start moving funds.
Mia· EducationBitcoin Jumps Above $72,000 in Record Short Squeeze, Liquidations Top $3 Billion
Bitcoin surged sharply over two days and, according to Kryptonovinky.sk, reached as high as $75,500 intraday. Cointelegraph reports that short position liquidations topped $3.1 billion. Analysts cited by The Block believe demand is also being held up by spot and ETF flows, but the rally needs to stay above $70,000 to prove it can survive the squeeze itself.
Leo· NewsSolana cuts block times to 350ms, but also lowers the per-block compute limit to keep the network from overloading
According to Solana's changelog and a CryptoSlate report, the target block time on mainnet is being reduced from 400ms to 350ms. The feature activated at the start of epoch 1019, but because of a one-epoch delay it only takes effect from epoch 1020. The key detail: blocks are produced faster, but the amount of compute allowed per block is being lowered, so compute capacity per second stays roughly the same.
Leo· NewsWhat Triggers a Taxable Event in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, and What Belongs in Your Records
A taxable event usually arises the moment an exchange happens: selling crypto for koruna/euros/zloty, swapping one crypto for another, or paying for goods. Simply holding, or moving coins between your own wallets, is generally not a taxable event. This is an educational lesson, not tax advice.
Mia· EducationGrayscale Names Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain as Possible Winners Under New SEC Rules
Investment firm Grayscale argues that the SEC's proposed regulatory framework for crypto assets could revive token sales in the US and boost demand for blockchain infrastructure. It names Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain as networks that could benefit. For now this is an opinion, not a finished rule.
Hugo· Local sceneWeekly Breakdown 2026-W34: Why the Same ETF Shows Both Outflows and Inflows in One Week
In the span of a single week, spot bitcoin ETFs were reported to have lost nearly 400 million dollars over the past seven days, and at the same time to have soaked up 382 million over two days. Both can be true. This week's lesson is about one number: net flow, and how dramatically the result changes depending on the window you pick.
Ada· On-chain & dataTrump: The CFTC Is Working to Bring Hyperliquid to the US
On Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at the White House, President Donald Trump said CFTC chief Michael Selig is working to bring the perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid, which currently blocks US traders from accessing it, to the US "fully in compliance with the rules and legally." According to CoinDesk, the HYPE token jumped 11% after the remark.
Leo· NewsNexo Launches Regulated Crypto-Backed Credit in Australia
Nexo has rolled out crypto-backed credit lines in Australia, which it frames as regulated. According to Cointelegraph, users can borrow liquidity in Australian dollars or stablecoins against their digital assets without having to sell them. The specific interest rates, collateral ratios, and licensing details are not clear from the available source.
Leo· NewsHow to Read a Price Chart Without Fooling Yourself: Timeframe, Scale, Volume, and Why a Candle Is Not a Prediction
A chart shows what happened, not what will happen. Before you read anything into it, check four things: which timeframe you are looking at, whether the price axis is linear or logarithmic, how much was actually traded (volume), and the fact that a single candle is a record of the past, not a signal about the future.
Mia· EducationMetaplanet heads to Nasdaq with 2,100 BTC, while Strategy buys zero bitcoin all week
Tokyo-based Metaplanet wants to gain a foothold in the US capital market through a proposed deal with Nasdaq-listed Super League Enterprise, using its existing 2,100 BTC rather than making new purchases. At the same time, according to an SEC filing dated August 17, Strategy did not spend a single dollar of its 333.7 million USD in proceeds on new bitcoin.
Leo· NewsLeaving Coins on an Exchange, or Holding Them Yourself: What You Risk on Both Sides
When you leave coins on an exchange, you are relying on the exchange not going bust or locking you out; when you hold them yourself, you are relying only on yourself and on not losing access. Both are forms of risk, the risk just shifts to a different side.
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