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Key takeaways PUMP is down 3% on Wednesday after rallying nearly 13% the previous day. Futures Open Interest climbed to a record $258.62 million, indicating increased speculative positioning. The funding rate surged to 0.039%, reflecting a sharp shift toward leveraged long positions. Pump.fun (PUMP) declines 3% on Wednesday as traders take profits following an almost 13% rally during the previous session. Despite the pullback, derivatives data indicates that speculative demand continues to strengthen. PUMP futures Open Interest has risen to an all-time high of $258.62 million, while the funding rate has turned sharply positive. Pump.fun’s network metrics also show improving…

On Aug. 18, Ripple deepened its push into traditional finance, securing a South Korean banking deal as its prime brokerage raised $275 million.The crypto payment company revealed that South Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank became the country’s first regional lender to deploy Ripple Payments for cross-border business transfers, replacing SWIFT-based correspondent-bank transfers that can take days to reach recipients.Hours later, Ripple Prime closed an upsized $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes to support its expanding US business.Together, the announcements show Ripple pushing deeper into two parts of financial infrastructure: cross-border payments for banks and the clearing, financing and brokerage services…

Key takeaways HYPE trades below $59 after recording a second consecutive day of gains. The Hyperliquid Policy Center and trade[XYZ] have submitted recommendations on pre-IPO perpetual markets to the SEC. The proposed instruments would provide price exposure before a company lists publicly without granting shares or investor rights. Hyperliquid (HYPE) trades above $58 on Wednesday, extending its recovery for a second consecutive session as buyers target a breakout above the psychological $60 level. The decentralized exchange’s native token maintains a broadly bullish technical structure above its major moving averages. Momentum indicators are also improving without suggesting that the rally has…

Bitcoin fell 14.2% in the second quarter, while institutional Bitcoin ETF holdings rose 7.5% over the same period, climbing from 498,389 to 535,723 BTC equivalent. Fewer institutions drove that increase, with the number reporting Bitcoin positions through 13F filings falling roughly 6.8%, from about 2,000 to around 1,900.Those figures are Bitcoin Strategy’s second-quarter estimate, built from public 13F filings the SEC collects but does not itself aggregate this way.CoinShares, using its methodology on the prior quarter, counted just 261,000 BTC held by professional 13F filers. It put the professional share of US-traded spot Bitcoin ETF assets at 20.8%, well below…

The Broadcasting, Media and Communications Standards Commission resolved a corrective request for access blocking at its communications review subcommittee on 18 August. The commission found Polymarket to be information that abets gambling under the Criminal Act and information for similar acts under the National Sports Promotion Act. Australia’s ACMA blocked Polymarket a year earlier, in August 2025, under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. South Korea’s media standards regulator ordered domestic internet providers to block Polymarket on 18 August, finding that the platform’s winner-take-all prediction markets amount to illegal gambling under the country’s criminal code. The Broadcasting, Media and Communications Standards…

The SEC’s new crypto fundraising proposal deliberately treats tokens as free to trade as soon as a buyer acquires them, unless the issuer or another law says otherwise.Insiders typically know more than the public while a token project is still being built, and their incentives do not always line up with everyone else’s.The Senate’s July 22 CLARITY draft would force insiders to hold a token for a full year before its network clears a specific control test, then six more months once it does. The bill also limits how much they can sell, but the SEC’s proposal skips those requirements.QuestionSEC…

Metaplanet is set to take majority control of Super League Enterprise, which will retain its Nasdaq listing and existing advertising and media business. Super League will be renamed Superplanet and begin with 2,100 BTC, while Metaplanet has further investment capacity and will receive long-term warrants. Completion is targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026, with the transaction still dependent on shareholder approval and regulatory processes. Metaplanet is extending its Bitcoin treasury strategy into the US through a proposed investment in Nasdaq-listed Super League Enterprise. The Japanese company will transfer 2,100 BTC, worth about US$132.1 million (AU$186.26 million), plus US$2.5 million…

SOL Strategies may sell part of its Solana treasury to meet obligations, as much of its holdings remain pledged against debt.According to an SEC filing, the company said it had C$1.87 million in cash as of June 30 and that roughly C$22 million of digital assets were unencumbered and available for conversion into fiat.SOL Strategies also reported C$37.33 million of current liabilities, although those obligations are staggered and do not represent a single payment due immediately.The financial statements show those obligations include about C$3.31 million of accounts payable, a C$7.75 million HoudiniSwap acquisition note, C$784,000 owed to a vendor, a…

Eight of 12 capitulation signals were firing as of 12 August, and all 12 reached their capitulation zone at some point in the prior three months, VanEck said. VanEck flags that its drawdown signal fires on an absolute minus 35% rule; on its own percentile rule the count would be seven of 12. Bitcoin closed 11 August at US$63,549 (AU$89,604), about 49% below its record and flat on the month. VanEck says eight of the 12 signals in its Bitcoin capitulation dashboard were firing as of 12 August, and that the market is nearing or already in an accumulation phase…

ZisK’s new four-GPU benchmark claim has lowered the headline hardware count in Ethereum’s real-time proving race. In February, CryptoSlate examined a roughly 12-GPU setup as a possible centralization risk. The new figure could bring proof generation closer to independent operators, provided the workload and operating conditions are comparable.ZisK is an open-source zero-knowledge virtual machine project, and on Aug. 18 it said its v1.1.0-alpha prover recorded a 9.62-second p99 on four RTX 5090 GPUs. A follow-up said 99.7% of tested Ethereum blocks finished in less than 10 seconds.Jordi Baylina amplified the result as a milestone combining four-GPU proving with claimed 128-bit security and…