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Coinbase’s Bitcoin premium index has remained negative for 91 straight days since May 19, the longest such stretch on record, according to CoinGlass. As of 10:30 a.m. UTC today, the latest reading stood at -0.1032%. The previous longest negative streak lasted 40 days, from Jan. 16 to Feb. 24 this year. The Coinbase premium index measures the Bitcoin price gap between Coinbase and global exchanges. A prolonged negative reading indicates BTC buying demand in the U.S. market is relatively weaker than in global markets. CryptoRank said a return to positive territory could be interpreted as an early sign that capital inflows from U.S. investors are resuming and could help support a market rally.

Bitcoin miner HIVE has signed a five-year, $350 million GPU cloud services contract with an investment-grade corporate client through its subsidiary BUZZ HPC, The Block reported. The deal is expected to add about $70 million in annual revenue, lifting BUZZ HPC’s annual recurring revenue to about $180 million. HIVE plans to build a dedicated cluster of 2,016 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs and bring it online in the fourth quarter of this year. The company has recently been expanding the power and data center infrastructure it had used for Bitcoin mining into its AI computing business. In June, it also signed a three-year, $220 million AI cloud contract.

Iran and the U.S. have approved a 60-day extension agreement, Alhadath reported, citing sources. Following the news, both WTI and Brent crude fell by more than $1 intraday, while futures for the three major U.S. stock indexes all moved higher.

Shiba Inu ecosystem contributor Mazrael said Shibarium’s fee-based SHIB burn mechanism has continued to operate normally despite weaker network activity in recent weeks, with hundreds of millions of SHIB burned over that period. On Shibarium, part of transaction fees generated in BONE, the network’s gas token, is used to automatically burn SHIB through the ShibTorch burn system. Mazrael added the burns have continued even if they have not drawn much attention. Separately, around 143.92 million SHIB was burned across the broader Shiba Inu ecosystem over the past seven days, while about 4.75 million SHIB was burned over the past 24 hours.

Goldman Sachs said weakening U.S. retail sales and employment data, along with easing inflation, make a Federal Reserve rate hike in September highly unlikely, a view that could support Bitcoin and other risk assets. Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs’ chief economist, said inflation is more likely to improve further than to worsen again over the rest of the year. The analysis said easing concerns over additional rate hikes could improve market liquidity conditions, which may act as a positive for risk assets including Bitcoin. BTC was trading at around $63,500 and has fluctuated between $62,000 and $66,000 since early July.

A whale address moved 289,760 LINK, worth about $2.74 million, from Binance to its own Gnosis Safe multisig wallet a few hours ago after withdrawing the tokens from the exchange over the past month, according to on-chain analyst The Data Nerd. The Data Nerd inferred the whale is likely positioning for a long-term hold, citing the transfer of the assets to a self-custodied multisig wallet rather than keeping them on an exchange. Based on LINK’s price range over the past month, the whale’s average purchase price was estimated at about $8.5 to $9.

Bitcoin short-term holders are sitting on average unrealized losses of about 6%, but there are still no signs of large-scale capitulation, according to CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. Adler said short-term holders' average cost basis stands at about $67,300, while BTC is currently trading around $63,200. STH MVRV is about 0.94 and has remained below the break-even level of one for 98 straight days, indicating losses have persisted for more than three months, Adler said. Adler added STH SOPR, which tracks realized profit and loss from actual selling, is around 0.996, suggesting short-term holders are selling at slight losses, but the scale of those losses does not yet point to panic selling. Adler also said downside pressure could intensify if BTC breaks below the $59,300 support level.

Weekly trading volume in stock-linked perpetual futures on centralized exchanges reached $141.84 billion as of Aug. 16, up about 79-fold from $1.8 billion at the start of 2026, according to the Wu Blockchain Data Center. Trading was concentrated in stock-linked assets including SNDK, SK Hynix (SKHYNIX) and SPCX. Over the same period, weekly open interest also rose to $8.29 billion from $89 million, marking an increase of about 93-fold from the start of the year.

The spot CVD chart analyzes the BTC/USDT spot pair order book, with the upper section showing a volume heatmap and the lower section showing cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The volume heatmap tracks trading volume by price range. The background becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move, and brighter zones may act as support or resistance. - The CVD indicator shows buy and sell orders by capital size. As buy orders increase, the line in the corresponding color rises. The yellow line represents orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line represents large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

On-chain analyst EmberCN said on X that signs have emerged suggesting a specific market maker that has recently been highly active manipulated prices in at least four tokens, including SIREN, AKE, XPIN and BTR, with all of them rising more than 10-fold. EmberCN added that in AKE’s case, the price was first pushed down by around 60% in early July before being driven about 52 times higher within a month, from $0.00019 to $0.01. EmberCN also said one of the addresses used in AKE trading was the same address previously used in the alleged SIREN price manipulation and was also used today to transfer XPIN to Binance Alpha.

Binance announced it will delist several margin trading pairs at 6:00 a.m. UTC on Aug. 21. The affected pairs are AUCTION/USDC, BEAMX/USDC, CETUS/USDC, HUMA/USDC, LAYER/USDC, NXPC/USDC, UMA/USDC and VELODROME/USDC in cross margin, along with HUMA/USDC, LAYER/USDC and NXPC/USDC in isolated margin.

BitMart founder Sheldon Xia said he plans to report employees to police after they publicly raised allegations over unpaid wages and user withdrawal issues during the exchange’s shutdown process, according to The Block. Xia called the allegations raised by employees "fabricated rumors" and said he also plans to request data forensics materials from X to verify the facts. BitMart had earlier faced controversy over delayed user withdrawals and unpaid staff wages after suspending operations. Xia had also denied recent allegations that he had disappeared or misused assets, saying the core team was conducting asset checks and system maintenance.

A whale address, 0xf292, is sitting on losses of more than $11 million while maintaining a short position of 2.9 million CXMT worth about $26.13 million, according to on-chain analyst The Data Nerd. The unrealized loss stands at about $7.26 million, while cumulative funding fees paid to keep the position open have reached $3.82 million. The Data Nerd added that the $3.82 million was not a loss caused by adverse price moves, but simply the cost of maintaining the short position. When funding fees are this high, losses can continue to build even if the price does not move, The Data Nerd said.

Austria’s Financial Market Authority fined crypto platform Bitpanda €70,000 ($82,000) for violating the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, marking Austria’s first publicly disclosed final sanction for a MiCA breach. According to the FMA, Bitpanda violated a rule requiring crypto white papers to be submitted to authorities at least 20 business days before publication and distributed related marketing materials before the white papers were published. The regulator also said some marketing materials omitted required language stating they had not been reviewed or approved by authorities and clarifying the operator’s responsibility, as well as contact details including a phone number and email address. The sanction was finalized through a fast-track procedure.

Trader DonAlt, who had predicted XRP’s 700% rise in 2024-2025, set a long-term target of $10,000 for Ethereum but said he plans to take profit at $3,000 on his actual position. DonAlt said he entered an ETH long at around $1,900 on Aug. 13 and plans to buy more if the price falls to the $1,700 support zone. DonAlt sees $4,000 as the formal target and $10,000 as a longer-term possible target, while planning to lock in gains at $3,000 this time after missing a selling opportunity during XRP’s past rally by waiting for higher targets.

Ethereum is exploring a hybrid model that combines the advantages of different blockchain state management approaches to improve scalability, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said. Buterin said the goal is to combine the strengths of the UTXO model, dynamic state management, and approaches between the two so Ethereum can preserve decentralization and censorship resistance while handling most network activity at scale. He also praised the Bitcoin community for advancing state data optimization technologies such as Utreexo, which reduces the data nodes must store so full nodes can run with fewer resources.

Binance CEO Richard Teng said on X that the crypto industry is evolving beyond simple trading, with users gaining access to a wider range of markets through crypto. Teng said stablecoins are being used as financial infrastructure and that cases of people using crypto directly in everyday life are gradually increasing. He added that the most important value of innovation lies in helping people access new opportunities in practical and secure ways.

BitMart’s official X account posted public criticism of founders Sheldon Xia and Nancy Li after the exchange announced a shutdown in late July and then faced trading halts and withdrawal delays. The post called for an explanation and a repayment plan related to withdrawal restrictions, alleged user fund losses, and unpaid employee wages. BitMart has remained embroiled in controversy since announcing the suspension of operations. The founders denied allegations of fund misappropriation and said they were reviewing assets, but dissatisfaction among users and employees has continued to intensify. The post also included photos of the two founders’ passports.

If BTC rises above $64,135, about $295.33 million in short positions across major centralized exchanges could be liquidated, according to CoinGlass data. If BTC falls below $62,485, about $232.54 million in long positions could be liquidated.

An anonymous whale address beginning with 0x0140 deposited 32,400 ETH worth $61.48 million into Ethereum’s beacon chain deposit contract, Whale Alert reported.

Dutch prosecutors plan to use proceeds from the sale of bankrupt local crypto exchange Knaken’s holdings, sold for 2.2 million euros ($2.55 million), to repay creditors. According to U.Today, signs emerged that about 7 million euros ($8.12 million) in customer funds vanished after Knaken halted services for failing to meet the European Union’s new regulatory requirements. The exchange had attracted around 30,000 customers through efforts including soccer club sponsorships.

EmberCN said some addresses suspected of leading SIREN price manipulation in June also appear to have manipulated XPIN. Two addresses beginning with 0x6449 and 0x58B0 deposited 1.324 billion XPIN, worth $1.71 million, into Binance Alpha, after which XPIN fell 29% to $0.0012 from $0.0017, according to EmberCN.

Bybit announced it will delist the CAMP, WHITEWHALE, CUDIS, PIRATE, TAI and SVL spot trading pairs at 8:00 a.m. UTC on Aug. 25.

Reuters reported Binance provided Russian law enforcement authorities with cryptocurrency transaction records and personal data tied to a donor who supported Ukraine’s military, and the materials were used as evidence for terrorism allegations. Russian national Yuri Belenkiy is under arrest and investigation in Russia on accusations of sending more than $700 to a fundraiser supporting Ukraine’s military. At the request of Russian authorities, Binance sent Belenkiy’s identity information, a copy of his passport and a file containing his transaction history, according to Reuters. Reuters added Binance announced a full withdrawal from the Russian market in September 2023, but the exchange still responded to information requests from local authorities after the formal exit. The case is fueling controversy over a possible violation of EU data protection rules, Reuters said.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Baghaei said the so-called 60-day deadline had become completely meaningless after the United States violated a memorandum of understanding signed by Tehran and Washington on June 18, local time. Baghaei said the MOU contained no clause mentioning any 60-day deadline and stressed that Iran does not formulate policy under pressure, ultimatums, or time limits. Baghaei added that the MOU had originally set a 60-day negotiation period on two agenda items, sanctions relief and the nuclear issue, with the option to extend the period if no agreement was reached. But the United States, Baghaei said, violated the agreement "seriously and extensively" within weeks of signing it, preventing the negotiations from getting underway at all. He added that the 60-day deadline had therefore become completely meaningless.