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Ondo Perps, the real-world asset (RWA)-backed perpetual futures exchange built by Ondo Finance, has surpassed $8 billion in cumulative trading volume, according to a statement from the project. The milestone underscores growing demand for derivative products tied to tokenized assets, a sector that has gained traction as traditional finance explores blockchain-based rails. What Ondo Perps Offers Ondo Perps is designed to provide perpetual futures trading on assets that are backed by real-world instruments, such as U.S. Treasuries and money market funds. Unlike conventional crypto perps that rely on volatile collateral, Ondo Perps uses yield-bearing RWA tokens as margin, allowing traders…

Arbitrum activated ArbOS 61 Elara on Aug. 20, adding optional protocol-level transaction screening, priority-fee support and an alternative data-availability interface for dedicated chains, while changing base-fee administration and expanding Stylus capacity on Arbitrum One. The upgrade went live after approval through Arbitrum governance. The governance proposal included compliance and priority-fee capabilities in ArbOS 61 but left them intentionally disabled on Arbitrum One and Nova. The compliance filter is therefore not a new screening system for users of Arbitrum One; it is configurable tooling for owners of dedicated Arbitrum chains. Chain Owners Control the Filter Arbitrum’s technical documentation says compliance filtering…

Bitcoin treasury firm Strive bought 20 $BTC in the final week of July 2026, but its gross Bitcoin exposure per effective common share slipped by roughly 0.03% in the period. Strive’s Aug. 3 filing records 20 $BTC bought from July 27 through July 31, at an average price of approximately $63,191, including fees and expenses. Its Bitcoin holdings climbed 0.10%, from 20,000 $BTC on July 24 to 20,020 $BTC on July 31, and effective common shares climbed about 0.13% in the same period, from 84,099,973 to 84,209,973. Effective common shares combine Strive’s Class A and Class B stock. Using the…

The $NFT market recorded $95.48 million in sales over the past seven days, rising 170% as a single $55.03 million transaction involving the hybrid $NFT project Pandora accounted for most of the increase. According to a CryptoSlam seven-day dashboard captured on Aug. 22, $NFT sales increased to $95.48 million from approximately $35.29 million during the preceding period. The number of buyer addresses climbed 49% to 172,739, while seller addresses increased 50% to 159,275. Total transactions grew by a smaller 7.5% to 962,992, showing that the sharp increase in dollar volume was not matched by an equivalent rise in the number…

More than a dozen digital asset treasury companies have moved into artificial intelligence and data centres as falling crypto prices weaken demand for the DAT model. Bloomberg reported that the shifts have not stopped steep share declines. K Wave Media has fallen about 71% since its May pivot. Lixte Biotechnology and Alpha Compute have each dropped roughly 33% since announcing their own changes. The figures measure performance after the pivots and do not prove causation. The implosion of the once-hot market for cryptocurrency treasury stocks is prompting a number of firms to pivot to AI in an attempt to win…

$XRP Ledger app activity has picked up, with tagged transactions jumping 28.6% as more applications become active on the network. Developer-related activity on the $XRP Ledger is showing renewed momentum, with new data pointing to a noticeable rise over the past week. According to an X post from XRPL dUNL validator Vet, source-tagged transactions have increased sharply as more applications and services come live on the ecosystem. $XRP Ledger Records Stronger App Activity According to the data, source-tagged transactions reached 676,800 per week, representing a 28.6% increase compared to the first week of the reporting period. An accompanying chart shows…

Not Swaps, and Not Preempted Even If They Were U.S. District Judge Vernon D. Oliver’s ruling rests on a threshold point rather than preemption: for the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction to attach, a contract must be a swap traded on a designated contract market. Oliver held it is the judiciary’s role, not the agency’s, to decide what counts as a swap, rejecting Kalshi’s argument that any such challenge must be brought against the CFTC itself. On the statute, Oliver read “the occurrence, nonoccurrence, or the extent of the occurrence of an event” to concern whether an event happens and to what…

TradFi trading kept up the pace in August, with a new focus on memory stocks and semiconductor companies. On-chain trading keeps shifting toward equities and metals, as pure crypto trades remain slow. Contracts for tradfi assets like equities and metals are still attracting more active traders. Multiple platforms try to expand the representation of equities, metals, commodities, and securities, as token and pure crypto trades lose their appeal. Crypto exchanges and decentralized platforms are now starting to reshape the way equities are traded, reaching a new audience of decentralized traders. As Cryptopolitan reported earlier, HIP-3 is already reflecting the shift,…

Fidelity Digital Assets has identified six significant risks that could challenge the prevailing investment thesis that the proliferation of AI agents will inevitably drive growth for public blockchains. The analysis, reported by BeInCrypto, offers a counterpoint to the optimism surrounding AI-blockchain integration, urging investors to consider potential pitfalls. Closed systems may outcompete public blockchains One of the primary risks highlighted is that AI agents may not actually rely on public blockchains. Instead, closed systems developed by major technology and financial firms could capture the demand by offering superior performance, lower costs, better user experience, and clearer regulatory compliance. This could…

A Week of Very Bad News for Bitcoin By any normal standard, bitcoin should be falling. The Coldcard hardware wallet theft has topped $116 million, with waves of drains continuing since the exploit surfaced on July 30. Michael Saylor’s Strategy disclosed it sold 1,638 $BTC for about $104.7 million (its third sale of the year) while wallets linked to the company moved another 1,030 $BTC on Wednesday, stoking fears of a fourth. In Washington, the Clarity Act’s cloture vote is set to fail after Senate Democrats balked over ethics talks, and Polymarket odds on the bill becoming law in 2026…