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The platform has also retained considerable scale. Weekly active users recently stood at approximately 1.19mn, while the protocol generated $4.19mn in fees and $1.14mn in earnings during the latest reported week. However, the headline expansion masks a weaker underlying trend. PancakeSwap is attracting more users than it did in previous years, but those users are trading smaller amounts and generating less revenue. The protocol remains fundamentally strong in absolute terms, yet its current growth is not translating into equally strong economic activity. PancakeSwap is becoming a broader trading platform PancakeSwap’s core product remains its automated market maker, where users trade…

Bitcoin’s implied volatility has now plunged to a new 2026 low. This comes after U.S. Treasury yields climbed to their highest levels of the year. The combination has caught the attention of market participants, with Jeff Park, head of alpha strategies at Bitwise, recently warning that the setup could eventually produce a sharp move in Bitcoin. “Bitcoin implied volatility hits YTD low,” Park wrote on X. “US bond yields hit YTD high. This can only end one way.” This is a potentially important divergence between the cryptocurrency market and the broader macro environment. Bitcoin has been trading in a relatively…

US President Donald Trump announced that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Iran had urged him to postpone the planned military attacks. Trump said the planned operation against Iran would be very comprehensive and powerful, but he suspended the attack plan after regional countries requested time for diplomacy. Trump stated that allies in the region believe an agreement is close, and that the first phase of talks focuses on the security and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. According to Trump, once this is agreed upon, negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program will begin. The Strait of Hormuz stands…

Sui stores data as individual objects instead of tracking account balances, separating it from Ethereum, Solana, and most other blockchains. Each object carries its own ID, owner, and version history, letting the network process unrelated transactions at once instead of running everything through one shared ledger state. How Is Sui’s Object Model Different From Account-Based Blockchains? Ethereum and Solana use an account-based model, where the ledger tracks a balance tied to each wallet address. Every transaction touches that shared state, so the network processes transactions in strict order to avoid conflicts. Sui, built by Mysten Labs and launched on mainnet…

Alchemy Pay, a renowned cryptocurrency-fiat payment gateway, is pleased to announce that it has successfully acquired a Money Transmitter License (MTL) in Michigan. The core objective of obtaining this license is to expand its regulated U.S. footprint to 19 states. This approval is going to open many new opportunities in terms of cryptocurrency conversion. 🔒#AlchemyPay has secured a Money Transmitter License (MTL) in Michigan, extending its regulated U.S. footprint to 19 states.The latest approval marks our ongoing effort to establish compliant payment infrastructure across major U.S. economic regions and strengthen our ability… pic.twitter.com/Gm5lSQIM48 — Alchemy Pay|$ACH: Fiat-Crypto Payment Gateway (@AlchemyPay)…

An AI financial adviser receives the same client three times, with the finances and tolerance for risk left unchanged. The first prompt asks for a diversified long-term portfolio. The second introduces bank failures and capital controls, while the third imagines an economy in which autonomous software buys services and pays other machines. The client hasn’t moved an inch, yet Bitcoin can travel from the middle of the pack to the front. Leading language models ranked Bitcoin around fifth among eight forms of money when researchers framed the task around ordinary reliability. The asset moved toward the top once the prompt…

PayPal has reported $486.4 billion in total payment volume for the second quarter on July 28, up 10% year over year. It also confirmed a reorganization that hands crypto its own division inside the company. The unit, Payment Services & Crypto, sits alongside Checkout Solutions & PayPal and Consumer Financial Services & Venmo. In the same presentation, PayPal listed stablecoins as one of three areas it is expanding into under an “innovating with discipline” heading, next to agentic commerce and identity and biometrics. Crypto Holdings Cost $81 Million Further, revenue came in at $8.68 billion, up 5%. Non-GAAP earnings were…

The community of Polygon holders is now pressing for clarity on whether the recent Polygon Labs profitability push will trickle down to them. One of the token holders, Just Hopmans, said, Polygon Labs is becoming a for-profit payments company, while $POL is roughly 98% below its ATH. Holders have no equity in Polygon Labs and no claim on its future profits. He further posed, How will the success of this company create measurable value for $POL and the Polygon network? Source: X How will $POL holders benefit? $POL, the native governance token in the Polygon ecosystem, was rebranded from MATIC…

Dubai-based crypto exchange Bybit has enabled six tokenized stocks to serve as collateral for margin trading and lending products, expanding the financial utility of blockchain-based equities. The update allows eligible retail and institutional users to use tokenized shares of Nvidia (NVDAX), Robinhood (HOODX), Circle (CRCLX), Tesla (TSLAX), Alphabet (GOOGLX) and Apple (AAPLX) as collateral for margin trading and borrowing through Bybit’s Unified Trading Account, Crypto Loans and Institutional Loans. The feature is available subject to Bybit’s lending terms and product availability. Bybit first introduced xStocks in June through a partnership with tokenization platform Backed, listing more than 60 tokenized US…

Bitcoin-treasury company Empery Digital sold 1,635 $BTC for $102.2 million from July 1 through Aug. 6, leaving it with 1,279 $BTC, according to its latest quarterly filing. Of that total, 954 $BTC was restricted as collateral against $35 million of debt. Subtracting the pledged balance from total holdings leaves 325 $BTC unrestricted, down from 1,375 at June 30. The post-quarter sales rapidly reduced a treasury that had already been used to fund cash needs earlier in the year. Empery sold 1,167 $BTC for $80.1 million during the first half, when it spent $54.0 million on share repurchases, repaid $50.0 million…