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Cryptocurrency analytics company Santiment reported that the sharp drop in Chainlink’s ($LINK) supply on exchanges has strengthened investor accumulation and suggests that selling pressure may decrease. According to data shared by Santiment, the amount of Chainlink held on well-known cryptocurrency exchanges has decreased by more than 15.7 million $LINK in the past month. This figure corresponds to approximately a 12% drop in the $LINK supply on exchanges. A net outflow of 1.04 million $LINK occurred from exchanges on Sunday alone. Santiment noted that this was one of the largest daily $LINK outflows recorded recently. According to the analysis firm, the…

Coinbase Vice Chair Ryan VanGrack recently told CBS News that the much-talked-about Clarity Act would still be on track to pass before the August recess. VanGrack claims that he remains optimistic because legislation is never linear. “Last-minute negotiations and compromises are the norm, not the exception when it comes to DC,” the Coinbase executive stated. He has noted that the substance is largely done, given that there is a “multi-hundred-page bill” with customer protections and law enforcement tools. According to VanGrack, it is particularly significant that this bill is the product of extensive negotiations with Republicans and Democrats. “And, typically,…

Two exchanges are quietly redrawing the map of the crypto options market, and the split tells a story bigger than any single trading session. Deribit still runs the table with 49.3% of total options volume, and its grip on Bitcoin contracts is even tighter at 55.3%. But Bybit has carved out a real foothold in Ethereum options, pulling in 38% of that segment’s volume — enough to suggest the era of one exchange dominating every corner of crypto derivatives may be winding down. Key takeaways Deribit holds 49.3% of the overall crypto options market and 55.3% of Bitcoin options trading…

Robinhood Chain has become one of the biggest blockchain stories of July 2026. Although the network launched with tokenized stocks as its headline feature, memecoins quickly became the main driver of activity. Within days, daily trading volume climbed past $500 million, showing how rapidly community-driven assets can shape a new blockchain. That momentum has also increased interest in early-stage projects like MemeToro ($MT), which is building AI-powered memecoin tools on $BNB Chain before public exchange listings. Robinhood Chain’s Growth Has Been Driven by Memecoins Robinhood launched its Arbitrum-powered Layer-2 blockchain on July 1, 2026 to support tokenized finance and around-the-clock…

In the ongoing debate over BIP-110, Michael Saylor recently claimed that although BIP-110 was permitted to challenge Bitcoin [BTC], it was widely rejected by the larger Bitcoin community. For context, proponents of BIP-110 ran modified Bitcoin software with different rules to create a fork, and they were able to do so without obtaining permission thanks to Bitcoin’s design. However, a fork only gains significance if it is adopted by a sufficient number of miners, users, wallets, exchanges, custodians, investors, and companies. In this case, the expected support was not fulfilled as Saylor claimed, About 99.85% of Bitcoin’s hashpower stayed with…

Despite Ethereum’s [$ETH] prolonged price weakness, holders have continued moving more supply into staking rather than withdrawing. Total staked $ETH rose from roughly 36 million in early 2026 to a record 41.9 million, even as the dominant altcoin fell toward $1,800. Source: CryptoQuant This steady increase suggests lower prices have not weakened the incentive to lock $ETH for yield. Since staking is absorbing additional Ethereum supply through this downtrend, it also reduces the immediate amount available for trading. Source: CryptoQuant More importantly, recent inflows near 28,700 $ETH remain below earlier spikes above 200,000 $ETH, showing accumulation has become less aggressive.…

Circle (CRCL) shares rose about 10% in premarket trading Wednesday after the stablecoin issuer reported second-quarter earnings that topped profit expectations, even as revenue came in slightly below Wall Street forecasts. The company posted adjusted earnings of 18 cents a share, beating analysts’ consensus estimate of 16 cents, while revenue and reserve income rose 7% from a year earlier to $701 million, missing expectations of $712 million. Net income from continuing operations reached $48 million, topping analysts’ estimates of $43 million, while adjusted EBITDA climbed 8% to $143 million. $USDC, Circle’s dollar-backed stablecoin, continued to expand. Circulation reached $73.3 billion…

Avalanche’s (@avax) on-chain fundamentals kept improving through the first half of 2026, with daily transactions and stablecoin supply both well above where they were a year ago. The odd part is that $AVAX has not followed. The token trades near $6.60 for a market cap of around $2.85 billion, a long way from its old highs. That split between how much the network is used and what its token is worth is the real story heading into the back half of the year. Two metrics carry most of the weight here: transaction counts and stablecoin supply. Both point in the…

On Tuesday, August 4, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit turned down Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) appeal to overturn his conviction and 25-year prison sentence. The former FTX founder and CEO was convicted of several counts of fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering in March 2024. He was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion in financial penalties. He also gets 3 years of supervised release at the end of his prison term (year 2044). In the latest court proceedings, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers argued that the 2023 trial was unfair and biased. They also…

BitGo Holdings launched BitGo Link on Aug. 3, giving institutional trading and treasury teams one interface for viewing and moving capital held across BitGo and connected cryptocurrency exchanges. The New York Stock Exchange listed digital asset infrastructure provider described Link as a centralized control layer for external exchange accounts. It allows clients to monitor buying power, initiate transfers and manage user permissions without signing into each venue separately. The product connects with BitGo’s wider custody, settlement and prime brokerage services. However, BitGo did not disclose Link’s fees, customer numbers, supported assets or a complete list of connected exchanges in its…