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Labor Data: Friday's U.S. jobs report anchors the Crypto Week, with a modest hiring rise seen as supportive for risk assets without pressuring the Fed toward rate hikes. Earnings Slate: Circle, Galaxy, Block and multiple miners report results, offering fresh insight into operator performance during a fragile market environment.
Crypto
Ethereum price fell 2% to around $1,847 on Aug. 3 after another rejection near key moving averages left the $1,800 support zone exposed. ETH slides after failing to reclaim $1,900 According to data from crypto.
Just a few days after Aviva Investors made bold moves to tokenize its U.S. Dollar Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger, the firm behind the blockchain, Ripple, has moved to expand its infrastructure to improve institutional access.
American Bitcoin posted a $57.2 million Q2 loss as mining revenue reached $67 million and its Bitcoin reserve grew 14% to 8,002 BTC.
The rise of AI in crypto security highlights a growing arms race, challenging traditional defenses and reshaping economic incentives. A CEO spent $10,000 on AI tokens hunting Bitcoin vulnerabilities, and it says everything about crypto's new threat landscape.
According to mempool data, an independent miner successfully packaged block 960,804 early Monday. The block reward of 3.157 BTC is valued at approximately $199,300.
Bitcoin's market stress is fading, though the broader recovery remains unconfirmed.
Over 251 billion SHIB have been transferred to centralized trading platforms in the past 24 hours, indicating a significant increase in Shiba Inu's exchange inflows. Although exchange inflows are frequently seen as an indication that holders are getting ready to sell, the larger on-chain picture indicates that the market is giving conflicting signals rather than indicating complete capitulation.
ABTC's ongoing losses and reliance on external infrastructure highlight sustainability concerns and potential vulnerability to external factors. American Bitcoin reports $57M Q2 loss as mining revenue hits $67M.
Prediction market traders are increasingly betting that XRP will finish August below $1.20, aligning with the asset's recent price consolidation just above the $1 mark.
Rising GPU costs in South Korea could reshape crypto mining viability, influencing global supply chains and tech market dynamics. Nvidia RTX 50 GPU price hikes in South Korea could ripple into crypto mining economics.
Stevenson presents the milestone as evidence that automated software is beginning to use blockchain rails for low-value transactions.
Hyperliquid strengthens its derivatives leadership as rising trading activity boosts protocol revenue and long-term value capture.
Bitget notified users Sunday that it will stop offering services to residents of Japan. New account registrations from Japan stopped the same day. For existing accounts, the timeline is specific: anyone flagged as a Japan resident who hasn't completed Level 2 identity verification (proof of address, KYC2) by November 1 gets auto-classified as one. According to Bitget's Japanese-language announcement of the notice, Japan-classified accounts move into a close-only mode from that date: no new positions, no additions to open ones, and no access to spot, futures, P2P, Convert, Earn, card services, copy trading, or bots, though limited deposits and withdrawals stay open.
Ripple made a strategic investment in Zilo and Licuido as it looks to enable the use of tokenized funds as collateral from the point of issuance.
Ethereum (ETH) spot ETFs recorded their strongest month since October 2025. Yet the ending week of July raises concerns about whether institutional appetite is already fading.
Nevertheless, the drop in crypto prices seems restrained given the magnitude of losses in the wallet hack and the erosion of confidence in cold storage.
Binance will delist Across Protocol (ACX), Hashflow (HFT), PIVX, Vulcan Forged (PYR), Vanar (VANRY), and Viction (VIC) on August 17, 2026, at 03:00 UTC, ending spot trading and closing related product lines across the exchange. All six tokens carried Binance's Monitoring Tag before today's announcement, though the length of that warning varied widely, from roughly three and a half weeks to more than fifteen weeks, depending on the token.
Mike Belshe, the CEO of BitGo, has publicly challenged Anthropic to hack a wallet containing 100 Bitcoin (BTC), worth roughly $6.3 million.
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has spent a prolonged stretch around $60,000, which prominent market commentator Scott Melker says may be part of a bottoming process. Technical, Market Structure Signals In a podcast on July 31,Melker argued that several technical and market-structure signals resemble conditions seen near previous Bitcoin cycle lows.
