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Bitcoin trades near $64,000 heading into the most consequential US macro week of August, sitting almost on top of the market’s largest nearby demand concentration.The Aug. 12 inflation report, due less than 48 hours out, will help decide whether that floor holds or gets tested.Glassnode’s latest on-chain map puts that demand shelf at roughly $63,000, an area holding close to a tenth of Bitcoin’s circulating supply. The market’s repair test sits near $69,000, where recent buyers reach breakeven on their positions.Why Wednesday mattersJuly’s jobs report showed that payrolls fell by 23,000 against expectations for an 80,000 gain, and May and…

Grayscale withdrew its registration for the Cardano Trust ETF on Aug. 7, telling the SEC only that it “does not intend to proceed with the planned distribution.”The move was voluntary and came along with parallel registrations for Hedera and Polkadot, within about three minutes of each other that same afternoon.Two days later, ADA crossed a regulatory threshold that could have made its case for a spot ETF considerably easier. CME’s regulated ADA futures had traded for six months as of Aug. 9, the track record the SEC’s generic listing framework accepts as one path to spot-commodity ETP eligibility.Cardano’s only dedicated…

Strategy’s Bitcoin sales have funded repurchases of STRC preferred stock, while separate MSTR share sales have strengthened its dollar reserve. The latest disposal leaves Strategy with 840,447 BTC, with the coins sold at a lower price than the average cost of its overall holdings. The company retains substantial capacity for further preferred and common-stock repurchases following the latest capital transactions. Strategy has cut its Bitcoin holdings for a second straight week, selling 1,690 BTC for US$108.6 million (AU$154.21 million) between 3 and 9 August. The proceeds were used to purchase 1,152,020 shares of STRC, a variable-rate preferred stock, for US$108.6…

Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Chainlink (LINK) with a $200 price target for 2030, laying out a staged path to get there: $13 by the end of this year, $41 in 2027, $82 in 2028, $133 in 2029, and $200 in 2030.LINK trades near $7.47 today, meaning the 2030 target implies roughly 27 times the current price. Even the bank’s nearest milestone, the $13 call for the end of 2026, sits about 74% above LINK’s current price.The firm previously shared a $3,500 target for AAVE, which is close to 50 times the $70 initiation price. UNI carries a $100 target…

Buterin posted on 10 August comparing his 2023 roadmap diagram with the strawmap, saying some things in it are “completely new” and absent from his original. The strawmap sets five goals: seconds-level finality, 1 gigagas per second on the base layer, 1 gigabyte per second of layer-2 data, post-quantum security and privacy as a first-class feature. It is published by the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol cluster and maintained by four people including Buterin, having started as a workshop discussion document in January. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin set his 2023 roadmap diagram beside the Ethereum Foundation’s current planning document on 10 August…

AUSTRAC has suspended Cryptolink’s VASP registration for three months from 9 August, preventing its 96 Australian crypto ATMs from operating. The regulator said the latest action followed failures to submit required threshold transaction reports and respond to an information request. The suspension follows October 2025 enforcement action over late reporting and weaknesses in Cryptolink’s AML/CTF risk assessments, including a $56,340 infringement notice. Cryptolink’s 96 cryptocurrency ATMs have been taken offline after AUSTRAC suspended the operator’s Virtual Asset Service Provider registration for three months from Sunday 9 August. The Australian financial intelligence agency said the suspension reflected ongoing concerns over Cryptolink’s…

BlackRock head of digital assets Robbie Mitchnick said Bitcoin’s decoupling from equities is “healthy” and supports the case for holding it as a diversifier. US spot Bitcoin ETFs took US$853.5 million in the week to 7 August, their best since mid-April, with BlackRock’s fund taking about 80% of it. Bitcoin is beginning to pull away from equity markets, BlackRock head of digital assets Robbie Mitchnick said this week, as US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded their strongest week of inflows since April. In July, when AI had the huge pullback, Bitcoin outperformed significantly. That decoupling “is healthy because it’s part…

USBC increased a Bitcoin-backed loan to $18 million in late July. That created a price-dependent risk: the company could have to add collateral or repay debt within 24 hours. Using the filing’s July 31 inputs, the disclosed 130% call ratio equates to an illustrative Bitcoin price near $48,852.The company is developing a tokenized-deposit offering. In its Aug. 7 Form 10-Q, it said a fourth draw of $3 million on July 28 raised the balance under its Payward Interactive facility from $15 million. USBC had pledged 479 Bitcoin worth about $30.1 million as of July 31. The filing reported a 59.8%…

Strategy’s preferred stock STRC is steadily moving back toward its $100 target as the Bitcoin treasury company increases its purchases of the shares.Data from STRC.live showed that STRC traded around $95 on Monday, extending a recovery from its late-June low of about $74 as Strategy combined open-market repurchases with a 12% annualized dividend to narrow the security’s discount.Over the past three weeks, Strategy has acquired roughly 2.3 million STRC shares worth approximately $214.8 million. Its latest purchase was also the largest, with the company spending $108.6 million on 1.1 million shares during the week ended Aug. 9.That followed earlier purchases…

Crypto ATM firm Athena Bitcoin’s proposed $4.5 million settlement over telemarketing texts will face its final review in federal court on Aug. 10. Judge Mark E. Walker will consider whether to approve the agreement, class counsel’s proposed fee and a representative award.The settlement remained pending at the reporting cutoff.The case alleges that Athena sent more than one promotional text within a 12-month period to certain recipients more than 30 days after they had sent a message consisting only of “STOP.” Athena has denied wrongdoing or any violation of the law, and the settlement does not constitute a court finding that…