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Bitcoin
DeFi

PENDLE Breaks Downtrend With 12% Rally as Whale Deposits Spark Selling Fears

PENDLE surged 12% and broke its descending channel even as a whale moved $1.28M to Binance, with derivatives data pointing to renewed bullish momentum.

August 21, 2026

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Markets

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperliquid Surge Into Overbought Territory on Treasury News

BTC, ETH and HYPE all posted sharp rallies and flashed overbought RSI readings as Treasury bond buybacks fueled a broad crypto risk-on move.

August 21, 2026

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Markets

Walmart Stock Drops 8.9% as US Same-Store Sales Miss, Even as Digital Sales Surge

Walmart shares fell as much as 8.9% after US comparable sales grew just 2.6%, missing the 3.7-3.8% Wall Street expected, despite beats on earnings and revenue.

August 20, 2026

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Blockchain

Binance Launches Agent OS, Letting AI Tools Like Claude and ChatGPT Trade Crypto

Binance launched Agent OS, a developer platform with a new MCP Server that lets AI tools such as Claude Code, ChatGPT and Cursor access trading and wallet data.

August 20, 2026

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bitcoin

Coinbase CEO Predicts $300K-$400K Bitcoin by 2030, Opens Abu Dhabi Tokenization Hub

Brian Armstrong says Bitcoin is 'very likely' to hit $300K-$400K by 2030 as Coinbase opens a tokenized-securities hub in Abu Dhabi and predicts 60+ Senate votes for the CLARITY Act.

August 20, 2026

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Regulation

CFTC Holds First Innovation Advisory Committee Meeting, Vows Crypto Rules With or Without Congress

The CFTC's new 43-member Innovation Advisory Committee held its first meeting, with Chair Mike Selig saying crypto will get market structure rules regardless of the CLARITY Act's fate.

August 20, 2026

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Altcoins

Star ETH Short Seller Wiped Out for $23.9M — Then a Bundled Meme Coin Surfaces

Hyperliquid trader pension-usdt.eth, once up $49M shorting ETH, was fully liquidated for $23.9M — and on-chain sleuths flagged a bundled meme coin launch.

August 20, 2026

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Altcoins

XRP Surges 19% to $1.24 as Ripple Ramps Up RLUSD Minting

XRP broke out of its multi-week range with a 19% surge to $1.24 as Ripple minted tens of millions of RLUSD across the XRP Ledger and Ethereum.

August 20, 2026

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DeFi

ENA Hits Local High as Ethena Posts Record Deposits Despite Fewer Users

ENA touched $0.09 as Ethena's TVL rose to $4.4B, but daily active users fell 48% even as net deposits hit a record $214M, per Artemis data.

August 20, 2026

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Regulation

US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers Over $6M Bitcoin Extortion, University Data Theft

The DOJ charged 17 alleged Mabna Institute members over a Bitcoin-demanding HBO hack and theft of 31.5TB of data from hundreds of universities worldwide.

August 20, 2026

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bitcoin

US Bitcoin ETFs Pull In $517M in Strongest Daily Haul Since May

US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $517.2M on August 19, led by BlackRock's IBIT, as Bitcoin pushed toward $70,000 in the strongest daily haul in months.

August 20, 2026

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Markets

US National Debt Tops $40 Trillion for the First Time in History

Total US public debt surpassed $40 trillion on August 19, up $17 trillion since 2020, as the government now borrows roughly $6 billion a day.

August 20, 2026