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A previously inactive Shiba Inu whale has resumed accumulating the token after spending more than seven months on the sidelines. According to on-chain data from Arkham Intelligence, the whale recently purchased 30.18 billion Shiba Inu in a single transaction valued at $125,270. The transaction quickly attracted the attention of the Shiba Inu community, as it marked the whale’s first significant purchase in months. Latest Purchase Lifts Holdings to 50.28 Billion $SHIB Before the latest acquisition, the whale had not bought any $SHIB for over seven months. The previous purchase occurred in December 2025, when the address acquired 70 million $SHIB.…

Corporate Limits and Illicit Flow Risks South Africa’s new proposed cross-border cryptocurrency framework risks severely damaging the domestic digital asset industry and driving financial activity underground unless key provisions are substantially revised, according to Farzam Ehsani, co-founder and chief executive officer of VALR. Commenting on the joint draft crypto asset manual released by the National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), Ehsani cautioned that attempting to apply decades-old capital controls to modern technology threatens employment, local investment, and business innovation. While acknowledging positive adjustments in the draft—specifically that a reportable event is triggered upon withdrawing funds from a…

Alex Scoresby, founder and CEO of Kapcrew Gaming, the studio behind the multi-chain board game Pixudi, recently participated in NeoPod’s fifth community AMA. During the wide-ranging conversation, Scoresby revealed that Neo N3 and SKALE are now the only two blockchain integrations still active for Pixudi, down from roughly ten. The AMA, hosted on NeoPod’s Discord server, covered Pixudi’s development history, its use of NeoFS for decentralized storage, the game’s free-to-play philosophy, and plans for an expanded multiverse of game boards. The game and its builder Kapcrew Gaming has built products and campaigns that have reached more than 30 million users…

Bitcoin fell to 15th place among global assets as technology stocks and new listings dominated the market-cap leaderboard. CompaniesMarketCap data placed the asset below Samsung, Meta, Tesla, Saudi Aramco, and SpaceX. The move came as BTC traded around $63,500, with a market value of about $1.275 trillion. The ranking showed a clear shift in investor focus toward AI, chips, and large public listings. Bitcoin Falls Behind Tech Giants in Global Asset Rankings Gold remained the largest global asset with a market value above $29 trillion, far ahead of every company and cryptocurrency. NVIDIA ranked second at about $4.96 trillion, while…

Ethereum [$ETH] recovered from $1,820 last week and traded inside an ascending channel throughout August. At press time, $ETH traded near $1,923, up 1.01% over 24 hours. Renewed whale activity supported the recovery. Are Ethereum whales buying $ETH? Onchain Lens reported that two whales accumulated 80,000 $ETH worth $152 million. One whale withdrew 30,000 $ETH, worth $57.21 million, from Coinbase Prime. The whale later distributed the tokens across three new wallets. Source: Onchain Lens Another whale acquired 50,000 $ETH, worth $95.73 million, from a Fidelity-linked wallet. That wallet later moved 36,530 $ETH, worth $69.94 million, to a new address. Meanwhile,…

Agent payments on the $XRP Ledger now support Mastercard’s Verifiable Intent standard, according to a recent X post by t54.ai, an AI infrastructure company building an agentic economy on the XRPL. The x402 facilitator went live on the $XRP Ledger in February 2026, allowing AI agents to pay for services using $XRP and RLUSD with no need for an API key or accounts. According to t54.ai, developers can prove through the x402 Facilitator who authorized a payment, under what limits, and for which purchase, and Trustline screens it before settlement. They can also attach a Mastercard-aligned Verifiable Intent (VI) to…

Grand Jury Returns Second Superseding Indictment in New Haven U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan for the District of Connecticut announced Aug. 4 that a grand jury in New Haven had charged three St. Louis men with conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery. Sedric Louis, 32, John Davis, 34, and Martel Williams, 27, each face up to 20 years in prison under the Hobbs Act charge. Prosecutors allege that the men who organized the scheme brought in the trio to do the work on the ground, forcing their way into a Connecticut home, threatening the person inside, and compelling him…

Venus, the leading lending protocol on the $BNB Chain, is pleased to announce the expansion of decentralized lending by bringing higher-quality tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) as collateral on $BNB Chain. The core purpose of this strategic initiative is to expand on-chain lending on $BNB Chain. The future of lending isn’t more assets.It’s better collateral.Venus is bringing new forms of collateral onto @BNBCHAIN ：🏛️ Institutional custody access📈 Tokenized equities🪙 Tokenized goldDifferent assets One lending market.That’s how on-chain credit expands.… pic.twitter.com/u1NmpqmCUD — Venus Protocol (@VenusProtocol) August 6, 2026 $BNB Chain is a decentralized, high-performance blockchain ecosystem built for Web3 applications, decentralized finance…

An Ethereum ($ETH) whale that had been largely inactive for about three years has become active again. According to on-chain data, the address in question transferred millions of dollars worth of $ETH to the Kraken exchange, and it was calculated that if the transaction had been made for selling purposes, the investor could have realized a loss of approximately $6 million. The address 0x7C5…77b86 withdrew a total of 23,834.17 $ETH between February 15 and March 21, 2022, at an average price of $2,723.2. At that time, the total value of these Ethereums was approximately $64.9 million. The investor subsequently staked…

Ten once-prominent cryptocurrency networks now carry a combined market value of $12.06 billion, trading an average of 97.13% below their all-time highs. A recent report by Taurex noted that recovery needs across the group range from roughly 21.5x for Avalanche, the largest of the ten at $2.91 billion, to roughly 323x for Internet Computer, which sits furthest from its peak at 99.7% below. Blockchains fund security, developer grants and network growth through token issuance, validator rewards and treasury spending, models that work best when prices climb, and newly minted tokens still carry real dollar value. At this scale of drawdown,…