Bitcoin mining difficulty reached a new all-time high above 134 trillion, underscoring network strength despite price consolidation.
BTC key levels: support at $109,000, resistance at $113,500–$114,000. ETH levels: support at $4,250–$4,300, resistance near $4,500.
Ethereum spot market share flipped Bitcoin for the first time in five years, now commanding over 50% of activity.
Ethereum ETFs suffered a record $788 million weekly outflow, while Bitcoin ETFs absorbed $246 million in net inflows.
Russia launched its largest airstrike since the start of the war, driving safe-haven demand into Treasuries and gold, while sanction threats risk pushing energy prices higher.
The shift follows a 2025 edition that drew more than 11,000 attendees from 90 countries, and adds closed-door tokenization roundtables to a festival previously built around a single unified stage.
The exchange is enforcing Brussels' sanctions list to the letter, down to the exact spelling of each entity's name — the same pattern it followed with Iran-linked platforms two weeks earlier
After weeks of selling BTC to fund preferred dividends, Strategy raised $334 million through MSTR share sales and made no bitcoin purchases or sales at all — a pause inside a $5 billion monetization program the company approved just weeks earlier
Anchorpoint's HKDAP entered phase-one Beta Access on August 12 with HashKey and OSL as distributors — a controlled first step for the token Blockhead called a parallel, tightly controlled track rather than an open market
