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US-Iran Agreement Eased Markets, Why Did the Cryptocurrency Market Remain Cautious?

BitcoinAug 5

The preliminary agreement announced over the weekend between the US and Iran has boosted risk appetite in global markets, but the cryptocurrency market has not seen a similarly strong sense of relief. In particular, expectations of a possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz led to rapid price fluctuations in energy markets. While oil prices experienced a sharp decline, a more optimistic atmosphere emerged in Asian and US stock markets. From a global markets perspective, this development means that one of the biggest uncertainties regarding energy supply has been reduced. The decline in oil prices has strengthened expectations that inflationary…

UK’s tokenization roadmap aims to generate $44.15B annually by 2035

RegulationAug 5

The tokenization sector is gaining pace, with the UK government being the latest to announce its entry. The UK has released a tokenized finance roadmap with the first government bond issuance set for the first quarter (Q1) of 2027. They projected $44.15 billion in annual economic output by 2035. In line with this roadmap, about 54 firms, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Coinbase, Ripple, and Circle, have joined the UK government’s tokenization task force to develop live use cases. However, Barclays and PwC were cautious, projecting about $29.45 billion for the same period. This is assuming the…

Avalanche Foundation Sets Out Its Economic Research Agenda With Clear Streams and Priorities

AltcoinsAug 5

The Avalanche Foundation’s agenda aims to measure ecosystem output, capture protocol-level value, and distribute it in ways that strengthen $AVAX economics and security. Research will examine protocol revenue, validator incentives, staking sustainability, burns, revenue sharing, and capital allocation as issuance declines over time across the network. Findings will appear through the public Economics of Blockchain series, with the agenda remaining open to revision as evidence develops and Avalanche evolves further. The Avalanche Foundation has published an economic research agenda designed to explain how activity across the network can translate into value for $AVAX. The framework starts from a deceptively simple…

Coinbase Says ‘It’s Time to Get It Over the Finish Line’

LegalAug 5

Armstrong Urges Senate to Advance the CLARITY Act Crypto exchange Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong urged lawmakers in an X post on July 27 to advance the CLARITY Act, arguing that the bipartisan proposal would strengthen consumer protections, expand law enforcement tools, and deliver regulatory clarity for the cryptocurrency industry. Calling for an immediate vote, the Coinbase executive maintained that lawmakers had spent thousands of hours developing the compromise and should complete the legislative process without further delays. Coinbase CEO Says the CLARITY Act Is Near the Finish Line The X post also included a clip from Armstrong’s July…

Coinbase CEO touts agentic finance as Base tops 100M AI payments

ExchangesAug 5

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is pushing back against calls for crypto to pivot to artificial intelligence, arguing AI agents will instead stoke demand for crypto-based financial services. Armstrong took to X on Sunday to tout agentic finance (AiFi), highlighting Coinbase’s Base network, $USDC and x402 as the infrastructure for autonomous machine-to-machine payments. “AI being a megatrend takes nothing away from crypto,” Armstrong wrote, because AI agents will need programmable money rather than traditional banking rails. “If anything, it makes crypto more important,” he added. His comments come as crypto companies increasingly position blockchain networks as payment infrastructure for AI agents,…

The Hashgraph Group Launches Partner Network as Enterprises Prepare for Agentic AI

BlockchainAug 5

Enterprises are moving quickly toward agentic AI, but deploying autonomous software safely inside existing business systems remains one of the industry's biggest challenges. The Hashgraph Group (THG) believes the next opportunity isn't just building AI agents. It's helping companies integrate them into real-world operations. The Swiss engineering company, which develops Web3 and AI infrastructure on Hedera, has launched the Hashgraph Partner Alliance (HPA), a global programme designed to help consulting firms, system integrators and software companies deliver enterprise-grade Web3 and agentic AI solutions to clients. Rather than building products from scratch, partners can generate revenue by referring customers, implementing THG's…

“It’s Still Too Early for Bitcoin to Hit Bottom, These Levels Could Be Seen!”

BitcoinAug 5

The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin ($BTC), surged above $66,000 following news of a potential agreement between the US and Iran. While talk of a bottom for $BTC, which has recovered for the second time from $60,000, is increasing, Wintermute notes that it’s still too early to say Bitcoin has hit the bottom. Wintermute, a leading market maker in the crypto world, has analyzed the recent surge and says that $BTC could still fall to $50,000. Wintermute analysts stated in their latest weekly report that it is still too early to determine whether the market has reached its bottom. Analysts stated that…

Market Size, Trends, and What’s Driving Growth in 2026

RegulationAug 5

Real-world asset tokenization has quietly become one of crypto’s most consequential growth stories in 2026, even as Bitcoin and most other digital assets have traded well below their late-2025 highs. The value of tokenized RWAs that can actually be traded on-chain has roughly tripled over the past year, institutional heavyweights from BlackRock to JPMorgan have moved from pilot programs to production, and a major clearing infrastructure pilot could reshape how traditional securities settle. Here’s where the market actually stands, and why the headline numbers you’ll see cited vary so widely. Key Takeaways On-chain, freely tradable RWA value (excluding stablecoins) reached…

Aptos crosses 4.5 billion total transactions as daily activity hits record

AltcoinsAug 5

Aptos is processing transactions at a pace that few blockchains have matched, and its latest numbers make that case plainly. The network recorded 13.2 million transactions in a single 24-hour window, its highest daily activity level in the past week, according to data from Chainspect. To put that figure in context, Aptos has now processed more than 4.51 billion transactions since launching in October 2022, roughly one transaction for nearly every other person on Earth, as Chainspect noted on X. Aptos is a layer-1 blockchain built for high transaction throughput and low fees, designed to support everything from DeFi and…

Inside the CME and CFTC’s battle over onchain perpetual futures

LegalAug 5

It’s highly unusual for the largest derivatives exchange operator in the U.S., the CME Group, to be at war with its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) — but that's now happening in a situation brought about by the agency's decision to allow blockchain-based perpetual future products. Last month, the CME sued the CFTC and its chairman, Mike Selig, challenging his decision to let ‌the prediction markets platform Kalshi and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) list crypto perps, decentralized derivative contracts that allow users to speculate on the price of an asset with leverage and no expiration date. Now, both…