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Stablecoin-margined XRP open interest on Binance fell to about $186 million on July 31, its lowest level since April 2025, according to CryptoQuant. Bybit held roughly $229 million in the same contract type, about $43 million more than Binance.XRP trades near $1.03, putting the token roughly 3% above the $1 level that has become the market’s most closely watched threshold.Binance carried more stablecoin-margined XRP open interest than Bybit in every prior snapshot tracked, including roughly $222 million against $195 million in March and about $205 million against $185 million in June.The July 31 reading shows that XRP leverage has shifted…

Real-world asset perpetuals took 32.2% of matched volume on Hyperliquid in the second quarter, worth US$213 billion, according to the Hyperliquid Research Collective. The share climbed from 1.8% to 20.7% to 32.2% over three quarters, and hit 52% of weekly volume in the week of 13 July. Those markets generated 6.6% of the protocol’s US$169 million quarterly revenue, and all of that record volume runs through a single deployer. Real-world asset perpetuals accounted for 32.2% of matched trading volume on Hyperliquid in the second quarter, worth US$213 billion (AU$302.46 billion), the third straight quarter the category has roughly doubled its…

Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs on 15 July that Japan has conveyed its position to Washington through diplomatic channels on previous occasions as well. A White House post of 12 March opened with the name of the US operation against Iran and ran Wii Sports music underneath, and had passed 100 million views by the time it reached the committee on 17 April. The Pokemon Company said on 6 March that it was not involved in a White House post using its characters and that no permission was granted. Japanese Foreign Minister…

Former OpenAI alignment researcher Naomi Bashkansky said she resigned from the AI company on July 23 and joined Conduit the next day as a founding researcher. At Conduit, she will work on models designed to turn non-invasive neural recordings into text that can direct AI agents, a goal her essay calls “telepathy.” Related ReadingOpenAI co-founders quit amid Musk’s legal firestormThe firm’s leadership exits have renewed focus on the firm’s AI safety practices. Aug 6, 2024 · Oluwapelumi Adejumo Bashkansky said she spent about 1.5 years at OpenAI, and described the new role in an Aug. 4 essay. She predicted that…

Both miners reported double-digit revenue declines and shifted from profits to sizeable losses after digital asset valuation declines weighed on earnings. MARA and CleanSpark are investing in AI and high-performance computing infrastructure to broaden revenue beyond Bitcoin mining. CleanSpark ended the quarter with substantial cash, Bitcoin holdings and assets while both companies continued expanding infrastructure. Bitcoin mining companies MARA Holdings and CleanSpark posted lower revenue and wider losses in their latest reporting periods as weaker mining economics and digital asset valuation declines hurt financial performance. Both businesses are continuing to expand into AI and high-performance computing as part of broader…

CoinDesk’s subsidiary and affiliate Bullish reported a 42.9% year-over-year drop in July trading volume even as its company-defined average trading spread widened 72.4%.The two figures produced a derived volume-times-spread proxy that remained slightly below its level a year earlier, so the wider spread did not fully counter the loss of activity on that calculation.The exchange operator reported a total trading volume of $30.7 billion in unaudited monthly metrics released Aug. 6, down 39.7% month over month. Related ReadingCrypto exchanges are losing retail traders but are filling the gap with Wall Street-style betsMajor crypto platforms like Binance are turning to gold, silver, oil and stock-linked products…

A warning posted on X on Aug. 5 urged Bitcoin users to avoid entering their own wallet addresses into public block explorers. It alleged that explorers log visitors’ internet protocol addresses, sell the information to Chainalysis, and ultimately expose it to government agencies.Public block explorers allow anyone to enter an address or transaction identifier to retrieve records from a blockchain. Like other websites, a hosted explorer receives connection details and the requested page.When that request includes a public blockchain address, the operator may technically be able to associate an internet connection with interest in the address.That creates a layer of off-chain…

BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded a combined $3.5 billion net decrease from capital-share transactions in the second quarter, reversing a $13.9 billion increase a year earlier, according to new SEC filings.The $17.4 billion year-over-year swing measures trust-level share creation and redemption activity.The Aug. 6 filings for the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) and iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA) use the capital-share line for contributions tied to issued shares less distributions tied to redeemed shares. It is separate from price-driven changes in the trusts’ net assets and investors’ individual profits or losses.IBIT recorded $4.3 billion of contributions for shares…

An unnamed institutional investor has drastically tightened its leash on AVAX One, raising the Nasdaq-listed crypto firm’s minimum liquidity requirement 35-fold and strictly excluding its namesake Avalanche token from counting toward the new threshold.The stringent restructuring, detailed in an Aug. 5 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, follows the July departure of CEO Jolie Kahn. Her exit triggered a default on a key-person covenant, forcing the digital asset treasury company to renegotiate its debt.Kahn previously orchestrated the firm’s pivot from agriculture to digital assets under the AgriFORCE moniker. Since her exit, the company’s shares have fallen about 42% to $3.20.…

PowerCompute will face its first monthly decision on 307 pledged BTC on Sept. 2, when its $18.13 million loan from Arch Lending reaches the end of its initial 30-day period. The Bitcoin treasury and mining company refinanced three existing facilities into the collar loan at an initial 2% annual rate, avoiding an immediate sale of the coins but accepting a recurring repricing and settlement clock.The filed Reset Confirmation sets an 8:00 a.m. EST reference-price check against a $58,860 floor and $66,370 ceiling. PowerCompute then has until 5:00 p.m. EST to accept a new quote or close out. For any new…