BTC structure: BTC’s price continues to consolidate between $107.3K - $110.6K with firm resistance at $111K, while support lies at $107.4K. Daily timeframe confirms current lower highs/lows, pointing to a short-term bearish trend, with risk toward $104K on breakdown.
Whale Flows: Whale flows highlight rotation with one whale selling 2K BTC (~$215 million) and buying 49K ETH, while another shifted $1.1 billion worth of BTC and accumulated $2.5 billion worth of ETH.
Derivatives Stress: RSI fell to 33.6 (oversold), while 25-day skew spiked to 10.2%, signaling defensive hedging. Futures OI softened to $45.0 billion, while spot CVD improved modestly, showing waning sell pressure.
New token debut: WLFI launched near $0.30 (~$30B FDV), with Justin Sun holding ~$891 million and vowing no sales. Disruptive potential for near-term altcoin flows.
The industry's biggest lobbying group backs Custodia Bank's petition arguing the Federal Reserve has no discretion to deny master accounts to eligible state-chartered banks — a question Kraken's own path around the same wall already shows has more than one answer
The regulator dismantled Australia's largest cash-to-Bitcoin network using powers it already had; the AML/CTF bill now before Parliament would let it do the same to the whole sector without waiting for a company to fail first.
Jeong Sang-ho gets the same sentence as Do Kwon, but on a fraction of the alleged victim count — after a court threw out evidence tied to the case's largest fraud allegation
The Aug. 19 gathering lands a day before a CFTC advisory panel takes up the same state-versus-federal jurisdiction fight now playing out in courtrooms in at least a dozen states.
