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Total stablecoin supply topped out near $322.121 billion in mid-May 2026, according to stablecoin market data from defillama.com, before giving back more than $14 billion in less than three months. June delivered the heaviest blow, wiping out approximately $11.41 billion in a single month, the steepest monthly contraction since TerraUSD imploded in May 2022. By August 2, 2026, total stablecoin supply had fallen to roughly $307.561 billion. Tether Sheds Billions as Circle Follows Close Behind Tether’s $USDT, the largest stablecoin, fell from roughly $189 billion in early May to about $183.216 billion by August 2. Circle’s $USDC dropped from a…

$XRP has become one of the most discussed cryptocurrencies over the past few years. Coming out of its protracted regulatory obstacle has left the crypto’s proponents feeling that it has significant underlying potential to fulfill. As such, $XRP users in the current dispensation are reviewing various metrics and information that could affect the cryptocurrency’s price movement, particularly amid the ongoing regulatory adjustments across multiple jurisdictions. XRPL and XRPScan Limitations One factor that $XRP users consider closely is the cryptocurrency’s whale composition. Such whales typically influence markets by their actions, often dictating the dominant market sentiment. That is why $XRP users…

On July 31, decentralized exchange Aster announced that its Vault beta has concluded and the feature is now available to all users. Any user who meets the platform’s requirements can now set up their own Vault or invest in one. This lets traders package their perpetual trading strategies into products others can invest in, while building a public performance history. According to Aster, creating a Vault requires holding at least 100 ASTER tokens and putting in a minimum deposit of $100 in a supported asset. The company set up three separate Vault types, giving managers more leeway to decide who…

Ethereum is headed for a potentially significant moving-average crossover, but it is still below resistance as the emerging golden-cross setup arrives. Ethereum’s recovery structure may be strengthened by the signal, but price must first do some of the necessary work to generate it. Right now, $ETH is trading at about $1,874. While the 100-day moving average is still falling, close to $1,919, the 50-day moving average has turned upward and is now at about $1,824. As a result, there is less space between them in both directions. A bullish golden-cross configuration would be produced by Ethereum if the 50-day average…

Nasdaq-listed crypto treasury company ZeroStack warned that substantial doubt exists about its ability to continue operating over the next year, reversing its assessment from three months earlier. In a Form 10-Q filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, ZeroStack reported $2.6 million in cash, negative working capital of $600,000 and an accumulated deficit of $339.1 million as of June 30. The company also posted an $82.5 million fair value loss on digital assets and a net loss of $61.3 million for the first half of 2026. ZeroStack said its 75.1 million Zero Gravity (0G) tokens had…

All eyes are on Cardano, as its much-awaited intra-era hard fork is set to go live in the next few hours. The van Rossem hard fork governance action met the required ratification thresholds across all voting groups on July 13 and was subsequently ratified at the epoch boundary of Epoch 643. According to protocol, the hard fork will automatically be enacted on the next epoch boundary on July 18, 2026 at 21:44:51 UTC (slot height: 192,844,800). As well as Plutus improvements and Plutus Cost Model enhancements, the van Rossem hard fork lays the foundation for the next upgrade, the Dijkstra…

Bitstamp accounted for $20 billion, or 77%, of the $26 billion decline in Robinhood’s reported crypto notional volume from the first to the second quarter of 2026. Volume attributed to Bitstamp fell 48%, from $42 billion in the first quarter to $22 billion in the second quarter. The Robinhood App declined 25%, from $24 billion to $18 billion, accounting for the remaining $6 billion of the sequential drop. Robinhood’s crypto notional shrank 39%, from $66 billion to $40 billion, and Bitstamp supplied more than three-quarters of the drop. The headline total now folds two different customer mixes into one number,…

What Hayes Thinks the AI Buildout Really Is Arthur Hayes, co-founder of Bitmex and chief investment officer at Maelstrom, argues that the multitrillion-dollar artificial intelligence infrastructure boom resembles a real estate credit bubble rather than a traditional technology expansion. In an essay titled “Situationship,” published on Aug. 4, Hayes compared data center financing to the 2008 financial crisis rather than the earnings-driven dot-com crash of 2000, arguing an AI credit bust could trigger government intervention and liquidity that propel bitcoin toward $1 million. Hayes wrote: “Once the authorities sufficiently panic because their AI-created GDP growth is just another run-of-the-mill property…

Ethereum price has slipped to about $1,875 after sellers rejected its latest move above $1,900, leaving the $1,850 support zone and nearby liquidation clusters in focus. Ethereum price loses momentum below $1,900 According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum ($ETH) price traded at $1,874.90 on Aug. 14 after moving between an intraday low of $1,869.32 and a high of $1,891.30. The asset was down 0.6% on the daily candle at the time the chart was captured. The latest decline extended $ETH’s failure to hold the $1,900 level, which has repeatedly attracted selling during August. Price briefly traded above $1,920 earlier in…

Binance APAC Head SB Seker believes India needs its own rupee-pegged stablecoin, arguing it would let Indian users and institutions hedge against dollar volatility instead of remaining exposed to currency swings beyond their control. “Having Indian rupee stablecoins will be critical because it allows users and institutions in India to reduce the exposure they have from a foreign exchange perspective,” Seker said. Why Dollar-Pegged Stablecoins Still Dominate Most global stablecoins, including $USDT and USDC, are pegged to the US dollar largely because that’s where deep liquidity and settlement infrastructure already exist. Tron alone processes over 60% of global $USDT volume,…