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Venom Foundation, the platform backing the Venom blockchain, has reportedly expressed support for a single blockchain TPS standard model. In this respect, the Venom Foundation has urged the blockchain market to adopt an inclusive and verifiable model for transaction-per-second (TPS) standards. In the official press release, the platform pushed L2 and L1 networks, auditors, institutional infrastructure consumers, and benchmark platforms to bring more reproducibility and transparency to performance claims. Hence, the proposed approach would permit each of the TPS figures to get a seamless accompaniment from standardized information elaborating on the measurement of the results. Venom Proposes Unique, Common Blockchain…

Over the last 24 hours, there have been three distinct developments involving Bitcoin [$BTC]. First, Glassnode data showed that active Bitcoin addresses rose to 0.98 million daily. The spike may reflect security concerns rather than renewed investor demand. Many Coldcard users may have moved funds into newly created wallets after the firmware exploit became public. Moving Bitcoin [$BTC] requires on-chain transactions. That pushed active addresses to their highest level since December 2024. Source: Glassnode Bitcoin OG whale wakes up This coincided with the transfer of 49.97 $BTC, or approximately $3.23 million, by an early Bitcoin holder who had kept the…

Going broadly, it seems the markets have hit resistance. Looking in a bit, most of the major high-cap assets have suffered rejections this week, with Ethereum hitting resistance around $1,900. At the same time, Bitcoin has resistance around $65k, while its dominance has fallen to below 60%. In contrast to this, $ETH Dominance has been capped below 11%. This puts even more emphasis on Ethereum, especially as in Q3 its gains have reached over 2x that of Bitcoin. This naturally makes the $ETH/$BTC ratio one of the most important ratios to look at in the portion of August that follows…

Some of the world’s biggest banks have completed real cross-border payments using tokenized money in a test led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), another sign that tokenization is moving into the plumbing of global finance. Project Agorá, which brings together five central banks and 28 commercial lenders including JPMorgan, Citi, UBS, Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered, processed roughly $1 million (CHF 800,000) in real-value transactions across six currencies — the U.S. dollar, euro, British pound, Japanese yen, Swiss franc and South Korean won. The pilot used tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits to settle corporate, interbank…

L2Beat, an analytical research platform, removed about $7 billion in non-circulating $RAIN tokens from Arbitrum’s Total Value Secured. The analytics platform said the assets were held in project-controlled multisignature wallets and should not have counted toward the network’s secured value. The change was not linked to an exploit, protocol failure, or capital withdrawal. L2Beat’s head of research, donnoh.gwei, said the adjustment corrected how the platform treated tokens controlled by the project team. $RAIN Valuation Faces Scrutiny After TVS Drop The removal caused a sharp drop in Arbitrum’s reported TVS. L2Beat clarified that the decline resulted from a methodology change rather…

India’s crypto tax debate has returned after the Bharatiya Janata Party announced new national office-bearers on August 17. The organizational reshuffle has revived discussion about wider economic reforms, although it contained no proposal to change virtual digital asset taxation. Reports about a possible Modi cabinet reshuffle also remain speculative. Therefore, the current 30% VDA tax and 1% TDS remain firmly in place. Crypto commentator Pushpendra Singh raised possible reforms on X, including lower capital-gains taxes and changes to crypto taxation. 🔥 Big Crypto Tax Shake-Up Coming?I have a feeling the next big move could be MASSIVE for Indian investors 🇮🇳What…

NAVI Protocol has launched NAVI Prime, a Sui-based lending framework designed for funds seeking more clarity, transparency, and control over capital management. NAVI Protocol said NAVI Prime was built for funds with more demanding requirements around clarity, transparency, and control. Deployed on the Sui blockchain, the framework provides lending infrastructure for institutions and professional capital. 1/Today, we’re introducing NAVI Prime.A new lending framework on @SuiNetwork designed for capital that demands greater clarity, transparency, and control.👇🧵 pic.twitter.com/9RILmz6krX — NAVI Protocol (@navi_protocol) August 17, 2026 According to the announcement, NAVI Prime focuses on giving professional investors a more transparent and controllable way…

There is a fierce battle being waged between Bitcoin [$BTC] bulls and bears as the price climbs back above $65K once more. The on-chain metrics covered in recent days showed that strong, sustained demand is not yet present to support a bullish trend reversal. Source: CryptoQuant On 5th August, as Bitcoin approached $65K, the centralized exchange Binance saw a spike in taker buyer volume. This buying spree was not large enough to overcome the limit sell orders sitting overhead. After absorbing the influx of demand, buyer exhaustion saw short-term price dips towards $64K in the last 48 hours. The $65K-$67K…

Ethereum developers are currently reviewing 66 proposals to narrow them down as part of scoping the next major Ethereum upgrade, Hegotá, with several proposals aimed at bringing more privacy capabilities into the protocol. FOCIL is currently the only Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) scheduled for inclusion in the upgrade. Frame Transactions (EIP-8141), Keyed Nonces (EIP-8250) and Recent Roots for Frame Transactions (EIP-8272) should also be included to “unlock native privacy, allowing privacy apps to work without having to rely on intermediaries,” wrote Ethereum Foundation contributor Toni Wahrstätter in a Sunday X post. FOCIL, short for Fork-choice enforced inclusion lists, seeks to…

The Injective ecosystem just added another milestone to its growing AI ambitions. The blockchain has officially become a core member of the x402 foundation under the Linux foundation, joining a roster that includes Google, AWS, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, Circle, and other major industry participants. It’s a notable development, especially as the race to build infrastructure for AI-driven finance starts shifting from theory to deployment. AI Infrastructure Moves Beyond The HYPE The announcement comes just a day after Injective unveiled its new AI agent SDK, giving developers a toolkit to build autonomous AI applications directly on-chain. According to the protocol,…