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The U.S. SEC is set to discuss rules to create a public offering framework for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets at an open meeting at 10:00 a.m. today, according to Crypto In America host Eleanor Terrett.

An anonymous whale wallet appears to have sold 1,275 BTC, according to Onchain Lens. The wallet deposited 500 BTC to FalconX and 274 BTC to Cumberland’s OTC desk earlier today, then transferred another 500 BTC to a new wallet, with those funds likely to be moved to Galaxy Digital.

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Keel Infrastructure exits BTC mining, sells $75M worth of Bitcoin Keel Infrastructure, formerly Bitfarms, said in its second-quarter earnings release that it has fully halted its Bitcoin mining business and will convert its existing mining facilities into AI data centers. The company said it sold 1,085 BTC between April 1 and Aug. 7, raising $75 million, and currently holds 1,861 BTC.

An anonymous whale address withdrew another 9,000 ETH, worth about $16.87 million, from Gemini today, Onchain Lens reported. Over the past month, the address accumulated about 121,000 ETH worth $227 million, moved the holdings to a self-custody wallet, and staked a significant portion of them.

BlackRock’s head of digital assets Robbie Mitchnick said investor sentiment toward Bitcoin has improved noticeably over the past month, according to The Block. Mitchnick said BTC began decoupling from stocks earlier this year and showed relative strength when AI-related shares saw a sharp correction in July. He said the decoupling supports the case for BTC as a portfolio diversification tool and a potential hedge against extreme downside risk, adding that spot Bitcoin ETF investors generally appear to have a long-term holding bias.

Spot CVD refers to an order-book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper panel shows a volume heatmap, while the lower panel represents 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. Brighter areas may act as support or resistance. - The lower CVD indicator reflects buy and sell orders by capital size, with each colored line rising as buy orders increase in that segment. The yellow line represents orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line represents large orders between $1 million and $10 million, among other categories.

CoinMarketCap’s in-house Crypto Fear and Greed Index fell two points from yesterday to 37, keeping the market in the fear zone. The index indicates more extreme fear as it moves closer to zero and stronger optimism as it approaches 100. CoinMarketCap calculates the gauge based on price movements among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, market volatility, derivatives-market indicators such as the put/call ratio, the stablecoin supply ratio, and CoinMarketCap’s own search data.

A newly created anonymous address bought 133,920 HYPE worth $7.3 million on Coinbase Prime and then withdrew the tokens, Onchain Lens reported.

Strategy is holding $4.75 billion in cash to meet preferred stock investors’ liquidity needs, CoinDesk reported. Phong Le, Strategy’s CEO, said on the recent Public Key podcast that the company had initially expected investors to place a higher value on BTC because of its liquidity and long-term appreciation potential, but institutions and investors deploying short-term capital put greater emphasis on cash. Le said the current cash position is enough to cover about 2.7 years of dividend payments. Le added that Strategy aims to evolve beyond a company that simply holds BTC into a BTC-based financial platform, with the goal of becoming the JPMorgan of digital finance.

Spot gold rises above $4.4K an ounce for first time since June 5 Spot gold rose above $4,400 an ounce for the first time since June 5, gaining 0.2% intraday.

A U.S. court has ordered the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s civil case against U.S. Army soldier Gannon Kenneth VanDyke to be paused until the outcome of his criminal trial, after allegations he made more than $400,000 on Polymarket using nonpublic information. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the stay in the CFTC suit involving VanDyke, a U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant. VanDyke is accused of using nonpublic information obtained while participating in an operation to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January to bet on event contracts tied to Maduro’s removal. VanDyke has denied all allegations and has asked for the criminal charges to be dismissed. The criminal trial is expected to begin as early as late this year or early next year.

Open-source cryptocurrency payment processor BTCPay Server is offering a recovery bounty of up to 3 BTC to help recover funds lost in a vulnerability exploit, Unfolded reported. BTCPay Server had earlier warned that a hacking attack exploiting the vulnerability was under way and urged users to update immediately to v2.4.2 or shut down their servers.

Trump Media & Technology Group’s Bitcoin holdings fell by 65 BTC in the second quarter to 9,477.16 BTC as of the end of June, with a fair value of $567 million, CoinDesk reported. Of that total, 4,260.73 BTC was pledged as collateral for convertible notes and 2,077.34 BTC was posted as collateral for a BTC options strategy. The company recorded $361 million in related losses in the first half amid a decline in cryptocurrency prices.

Crypto wallet service provider Exodus posted a net loss of $18.6 million in the second quarter, compared with net income of $37.7 million a year earlier, The Block reported. Revenue rose 2% year over year to $26.2 million during the same period. The results included two months of contributions from payment infrastructure firms Monavate and Baanx, which Exodus acquired. EXOD shares fell about 6% in regular trading.

Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen said the stablecoin market is expected to grow from about $300 billion to $3 trillion-$5 trillion, while investors are underestimating Circle’s growth potential, according to a CoinDesk interview. Rasmussen said Circle is well positioned based on its existing market share and stands to benefit as U.S. stablecoin regulation takes clearer shape. He added that payments infrastructure will become Circle’s second business, with the company building infrastructure to facilitate payments in a stablecoin-based financial system. In five years, Circle is likely to be not only a major player in stablecoins but also in payments, Rasmussen said. He also discussed OpenUSD, or OUSD, from OpenStandard, which includes more than 140 payments and crypto companies such as Visa and BlackRock, and said it does not pose a major threat to Circle. Projects like OpenUSD show growing interest from established players, he said, adding that Circle can still expand even as new competitors enter the market. Rasmussen said Circle’s strength lies in its ability to keep advancing its business as the regulated stablecoin market develops.

The three major U.S. stock indices closed lower today. - S&P 500: -0.06% - Nasdaq: -0.32% - Dow Jones: -0.11%

President Donald Trump said he has spoken with Federal Reserve Chair nominee Warsh only once since the nomination, denying a Wall Street Journal report that the two had been in frequent contact.

Nasdaq-listed TAOWave (TWAV), formerly Oblong, sold 3,959.23 TAO worth $1.172 million in the first half to cover operating costs, CryptoSlate reported, citing a recent filing with the U.S. SEC. As of June 30, the company held 23,335.18 TAO worth about $4.7 million and had staked its entire holdings through BitGo and Kraken, according to the filing. The filing also said TAOWave may sell additional TAO from time to time as needed for corporate operations. TAO was trading at $199.97, down 3.35%, according to CoinMarketCap.

Crypto analyst Sykodelic said the cryptocurrency market is likely to see a major volatility spike before the fourth quarter. In a post on X, Sykodelic said the market currently has little volatility and remains range-bound, adding that a prolonged, dull sideways trend can ultimately give way to massive volatility. Sykodelic also said many traders are waiting for what they see as a fourth-quarter bottom, but the market is likely to move before then and could do so soon.

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said several interest-rate hikes may be needed, while adding Hammack does not intend to prejudge how many increases would be required or where the terminal rate would end up.

Sui unveiled Tessera, a B2B payments and settlement network designed to keep transaction amounts private, according to its official X account. In explaining the prototype, Sui said institutions are reluctant to settle trades on infrastructure where competitors can see prices and volumes. Sui added most blockchains disclose transaction amounts transparently, which has been a major reason blockchain has not been used for real-world business-to-business payments. Built on Seal MPC and confidential transfers, Tessera is intended to address privacy issues in intercompany transactions while allowing counterparties, regulators and other authorized parties to view transaction information as needed.

Bitfinex said the amount of staked Ethereum has reached a record 41.7 million ETH, equal to about one-third of the token’s total supply. Bitfinex said, "the amount staked is rising, but Ethereum's price has fallen from around $3,400 in January to $1,900." The exchange explained that as the staked amount increases, staking rewards also keep rising, driving growth in circulating supply. As a result, the total amount of staked Ethereum is also structured to keep increasing.

SkyAI, formerly Sharp Technology, sold 135,399 SOL for $12.47 million in the first half of this year, CryptoSlate reported. In a filing with the U.S. SEC, SkyAI disclosed the first-half SOL sales and said it could continue raising funds through additional token sales until it can generate sufficient cash from operations. As of the end of the second quarter, the company was still holding SOL and had about $84.34 million in unrealized losses for the first half. SkyAI currently holds 1,494,026 liquid SOL and 509,650 locked-up SOL, according to the report. With SOL trading at around $75.63, the value of SkyAI's holdings stands at about $151 million.

CryptoQuant head of research Julio Moreno said hackers behind the Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallet breach are keeping about 83% of the stolen BTC concentrated across five wallets. Moreno added the five addresses hold a combined 1,127 BTC, indicating most of the stolen Bitcoin remains stored in a small number of addresses.