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Binance’s BTC holdings in its SAFU fund, which was launched as a user protection fund, are currently showing a 21.5% return, on-chain analyst ai_9684 xtpa said. The Binance SAFU fund bought 15,000 BTC in February, and based on the fact that it deployed $1 billion at the time, the implied average purchase price comes to $66,666. With BTC now at $81,000, the gain stands at 21.5%.

CryptoQuant Head of Research Julio Moreno said Bitcoin’s final resistance, or “final boss,” stands at the 365-day moving average on the daily chart at $83,000. BTC was trading at $80,868, up 2.38% from yesterday.

Binance.US has added Apple Pay and Google Pay as payment methods for cryptocurrency purchases, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said. Binance.US added, "이제 암호화폐 구매는 모닝커피를 사는 것만큼 쉬워졌다".

The Blockchain Association, a U.S. crypto lobbying group, has submitted a comment letter supporting federal rulemaking under the GENIUS stablecoin law, according to The Block. The letter was sent to the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and argued that overlapping regulation should be avoided, including by limiting KYC requirements to direct transactions between issuers and customers. The GENIUS law requires businesses seeking to issue payment stablecoins in the United States to obtain federal or state authorization in principle, and also restricts the circulation in the U.S. of stablecoins issued by overseas issuers that do not meet certain requirements. The law has already been enacted, and relevant agencies including the Treasury Department are now drawing up implementing rules needed to apply it in the market. The U.S. Treasury Department had previously released a draft of those rules and begun gathering public feedback.

Bitcoin is shifting from an early peer-to-peer electronic currency into global digital capital infrastructure, Strategy founder Michael Saylor said in a post on X titled 'The Bitcoin Reformation.' Saylor said BTC is being widely adopted by individuals, funds, listed companies, banks, custodians, exchanges, and governments. While self-custody was previously seen as the only way to hold Bitcoin, Saylor said investors can now gain exposure through spot ETFs, bonds, preferred stock, and derivatives. Looking ahead, Saylor said BTC is more likely to coexist with fiat currencies as issuerless global liquid capital than replace them as everyday payment tools, while becoming integrated with banking, securities, and credit to form a financial system. Saylor added the next phase of the BTC ecosystem will be the expansion of digital capital markets, with a reform trend centered on integration with institutional finance set to accelerate.

Fundstrat and Bitmine are betting Ethereum will become the dominant blockchain infrastructure for tokenization and artificial intelligence within 10 years, Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said on the crypto podcast Bankless. He said, "We are betting everything in tokenization and AI will happen on Ethereum," and added Bitmine’s legacy would help support Ethereum’s future. Lee also said the case for Ethereum overtaking Bitcoin was plausible and that returns for Bitmine shareholders could reach unprecedented levels regardless of how high ETH rises.

BTC has risen by 1.52% in the past five minutes on the Binance USDT market. Currently, BTC is trading at $81,042.37.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $81,000. BTC is trading at $81,042.37 on the Binance USDT market.

Major exchanges have seen $190 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $591 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

BTC rose above $80,000, trading at $80,731.01 on Binance’s USDT trading pair, according to CoinNess market monitoring. It was the first time Bitcoin had reclaimed the $80,000 level since May 15, ending a 102-day stretch below that threshold.

Coinbase’s Bitcoin premium index turned positive at +0.0032% on Aug. 24 for the first time in 98 days, according to CoinGlass, pointing to signs of recovering BTC buying demand in the U.S. market. The index, which measures the Bitcoin price gap between Coinbase and global exchanges, had posted a negative premium for 97 straight days starting May 19, setting a record for the longest such streak. A sustained negative reading indicates BTC buying demand in the U.S. market is relatively weaker than in global markets. As of Aug. 25, however, the Coinbase BTC premium had slipped back to -0.0141%, returning to negative territory.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun sold another 6,609 ETH about 10 hours ago, worth $16.63 million, EmberCN reported. Following the recent price rise, cumulative sales reached 23,378 ETH at an average selling price of about $2,355.

An anonymous whale address starting with 0x0d9b withdrew 46,800 HYPE worth $3.65 million from Coinbase Prime two hours ago, Onchain Lens reported. The address also withdrew 33,810 HYPE last week and now holds a total of 80,600 HYPE worth $5.53 million.

The Trump administration on Aug. 24 announced a new Iran sanctions package that includes penalties for third parties doing business with Iran in digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping. At a press conference the same day, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the administration was launching "Operation Economic Outcast" to block every option available to the Iranian regime. A central part of the package is the imposition of secondary sanctions on third parties that have traded with Iran in those sectors. The U.S. also newly designated more than 60 entities, individuals and vessels worldwide for helping the Iranian regime obtain nuclear and missile technology, conduct cyber operations and generate oil revenue.

Bitcoin is showing technical signals on its weekly chart that point to a bullish inflection point, Real Vision crypto market analyst Jamie Coutts said on X. Coutts said a bullish divergence had emerged in the weekly relative strength index, or RSI, and a trend-reversal indicator had shifted from neutral, marked by a yellow zone, to bullish, marked by a green zone. In the six previous instances when this signal appeared, five were followed by a continued uptrend without a correction or retest, Coutts said. Coutts added, however, that global liquidity conditions remain unfavorable despite dollar weakness, and said the U.S. Treasury’s mentioned bond buybacks and whether the Federal Reserve provides policy support would need to follow.

A whale address that had held the largest long position on Hyperliquid, the world’s largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange, locked in $45.3 million in gains after partially unwinding the position overnight, according to on-chain analyst EmberCN. EmberCN said the whale’s total long exposure had fallen to $143 million from $537 million. Overnight, the address fully closed a 120,000 ETH position, realizing $32.77 million in profit, and took profit on 1,200 BTC from a 3,000 BTC long position, adding another $12.53 million in gains. The whale now holds only a 1,800 BTC long position, with unrealized profit standing at $21.08 million. EmberCN added the whale had endured unrealized losses of as much as $120 million over the past four months before beginning to unwind the trade at a substantial profit.

A hacker who stole about $8.5 million in crypto from DeFi protocol Term Labs over the weekend by exploiting a governance vulnerability has deposited 300 ETH, worth about $741,000, into crypto mixing protocol Tornado Cash, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield. The deposits were made in three separate 100 ETH transactions, a move that likely formed part of an effort to make the stolen funds harder to trace.

BlackRock has been a net buyer of $2.17 billion worth of BTC since the July 1 low, with more than half of that total, $1.33 billion, bought last week, Arkham said. Arkham said it was the largest weekly buying volume since BTC hit a record high on Oct. 6, 2025.

Cumulative inflows into U.S. Solana staking ETFs have surpassed $1 billion, with the total at about $1.06 billion, according to Crypto Briefing. Of that, Bitwise’s BSOL accounted for about $861 million in cumulative net inflows, or 81% of the total. BSOL is staking its SOL holdings through a solution based on Solana infrastructure firm Helius, the report said. BSOL currently holds more than 8.46 million SOL and posted a record $108 million in trading volume yesterday.

Bitcoin is likely to enter a full parabolic rally soon, making this the right moment to hold the asset, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes said during an appearance on the Altcoin Daily YouTube channel. Reproducing his verbatim English remarks, Hayes said Bitcoin would quickly reach "hundreds of thousands of dollars" and added that anyone worried about the Federal Reserve’s bond-yield control should own Bitcoin now. Hayes also said the current situation looks like it is heading toward the 2008 financial crisis.

An anonymous whale address beginning with 0x091D deposited 2 million LIT worth $6.94 million into OKX and Bybit in four transactions two hours ago, Onchain Lens reported. The tokens were deposited through market maker Cumberland and were presumed to be intended for sale. Upbit listed LIT on its South Korean won trading pair at 4:00 a.m. UTC yesterday.

A U.S. federal court has allowed part of an investor class action against Coinbase (COIN) and senior executives to proceed, according to NewsBTC. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Aug. 20 allowed claims to be heard over allegations that Coinbase misled investors by downplaying and concealing potential bankruptcy risks and the possibility of a U.S. SEC investigation. The ruling does not mean Coinbase committed wrongdoing, but it is expected to restart the previously filed class action process. Investors filed the class action against Coinbase in August 2022, alleging the company concealed risks to customer assets in the event of bankruptcy and downplayed SEC regulatory and litigation risks.

Cosmos Labs has advised validators of Cosmos EVM chains to halt network operations following a recent security incident. Details on the specific vulnerability, the affected chains, and the scale of losses were not disclosed. MANTRA and TAC Chain had earlier announced Cosmos EVM-related disruptions and chain shutdowns.

Solana briefly rose back above $100 for the first time since February and was recently trading at 99.79 USDT, up 0.83% on Binance.

CoinMarketCap’s in-house crypto fear and greed index stood at 81, shifting from greed to extreme greed for the first time since Dec. 17, 2024, or after 616 days. The index indicates extreme fear as it approaches zero and extreme optimism as it moves closer to 100. CoinMarketCap calculates the metric based on price movements in the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, market volatility, derivatives-market indicators such as the put/call ratio, the stablecoin supply ratio (SSR), and CoinMarketCap’s own search data.