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Interest in Bitcoin Drops to Near-Historic Lows in the US While President Trump has put crypto front and center as part of his administration, this has not translated into an extended interest in bitcoin in the U.S., at least on the internet front. According to Google Trends, a tool that helps to monitor how often specific terms are being searched across different areas, interest in bitcoin is near its all-time low numbers, even as cryptocurrency and crypto tangential themes, including prediction markets, have been getting mainstream attention since President Trump took office due to his crypto-friendly stance. During the week…

Ethereum traded near $2,463 on Aug. 24 after gaining 29.3% over seven days, outperforming Bitcoin’s 21.4% weekly advance as Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee said the long-awaited Ethereum rotation had begun. The market data does not support reports that $ETH gained more than 32% within 24 hours. Ethereum was up approximately 2.1% over the latest day, according to current price data. Its larger gain occurred across the full week. Lee argued in an Aug. 24 Fundstrat post that the conditions supporting an $ETH rotation had developed over almost a decade. He expects tokenization, stablecoins and artificial intelligence applications to strengthen Ethereum’s…

Ether ETFs Add $184.93M as Demand Stays Strong Wall Street’s crypto bid held firm through the closing bell. After a week of relentless buying, bitcoin ETFs finished Friday with another substantial inflow and pushed combined assets to $96.07 billion. Ether funds enjoyed their own five-day winning streak, while demand for $XRP and solana accelerated into the weekend. Bitcoin Funds Finish an All-Green Week Bitcoin ETFs attracted $307.45 million across seven funds, with no outflows recorded. Blackrock’s IBIT supplied $239.28 million, about 77% of the daily total. Fidelity’s FBTC followed with $30.19 million, while Grayscale’s Bitcoin Mini Trust added $13.62 million.…

Germany widened its lead in the number of providers licensed under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), with six of its cooperative banks added in the latest register update. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated its MiCA register on Friday, bringing the number of authorized crypto asset service providers (CASPs) to 331. Compared with an update from Aug. 12, the six additions were all German cooperative banks: Raiffeisenbank Aidlingen, Ihre Volksbank, VR-Bank Mittelfranken Mitte, Volksbank Euskirchen, VR Bank Ried-Überwald and Volksbank Backnang. Germany now accounts for 79 CASPs, ahead of France with 35 and the Netherlands…

The growing presence of financial institutions in cryptocurrency brings with it increasing demand for Wall-Street style systems in digital asset markets, such as servers that offer split-second advantages when executing trades. Solana-based DoubleZero looks to meet that demand by adding prediction market Kalshi’s order book to its low-latency market data feed. The DoubleZero Foundation said this will provide trading firms with a machine-readable view of a prediction market for pricing, hedging and signal generation on Solana, one of the major layer-1 blockchains. The foundation described DoubleZeroEdge as a transport layer, sending live exchange and onchain data over dedicated fiber, publishing…

India is set to take a significant step toward modernizing its bond market with the issuance of its first tokenized corporate bonds next month, according to a Reuters report citing three sources familiar with the matter. The pilot, which will test blockchain-based bond trading, marks a notable move by the country to integrate distributed ledger technology into mainstream financial infrastructure. Pilot Details and Participants The initial bonds are expected to be issued by REC, a state-owned power financing company, the sources said. Settlement for the tokenized bonds will likely use India’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital rupee, which…

Avalon Labs, a Bitcoin-focused on-chain finance platform, has expanded its Super Earn savings product with a new market-neutral yield pool designed for equity perpetual futures strategies. The pool aims to generate returns by capturing funding rates and price gaps across major exchanges, including Hyperliquid, Binance, and Bybit, while targeting an annual percentage yield (APY) of approximately 15% with reduced directional market exposure. How the market-neutral yield pool works The strategy leverages the differences in funding rates—periodic payments exchanged between long and short traders in perpetual futures—and price discrepancies across centralized and decentralized exchanges. By simultaneously taking offsetting positions, the pool…

Yes, the IRS taxes NFTs as property, and that single fact drives everything else. Creators who mint and sell generally owe ordinary income tax (and often self-employment tax); collectors who buy, hold, and flip owe capital gains or losses on each sale. Art-like or “collectible” NFTs may be subject to a higher long-term capital gains tax rate than the standard brackets, and marketplaces now issue Form 1099-DA, so the IRS sees more of your activity than it did two years ago. Three things to do this week: Log every transaction with a date, USD value, and wallet address. Save the…

Ethereum trades at $2,472 as of 24 August 2026, up 0.38% on the day and roughly 28% over the past seven sessions. That is the strongest weekly performance $ETH has printed all year, and it came out of nowhere for anyone who was not watching the macro tape. Three catalysts stacked on top of each other in the space of 48 hours. The US Treasury announced it would at least double its buybacks of longer-dated government debt, lifting the operation size from around $2 billion to $4 billion. That pushed long-end yields lower and reopened the risk appetite window that…

The five-day run in spot crypto ETF flows is becoming harder to dismiss as a one-off asset rotation. Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $307 million in net inflows on August 21, while spot Ethereum ETFs added $185 million, according to the original report from WuBlockchain. Both product categories have now posted five consecutive sessions of positive net flows. That symmetry matters. Bitcoin products usually lead flow cycles, but Ethereum ETFs often lag or leak assets during risk-off stretches. A multi-day streak across both asset classes suggests the buying is not limited to a single narrative, such as a flight to…