Spot ETFs continued a second day of outflows on Tuesday: Bitcoin ETFs −$104 million, Ethereum ETFs −$141 million (all nine ETH funds reported no inflows).
Price action: BTC holding $112,000, ETH ~$4,100, SOL < $210; total crypto market cap ~$3.86 trillion, 24-hour volume down 24 percent.
Macro: M2 jumped to $22.2 trillion with US SEC approving generic ETF listing standards and the CFTC floating tokenized stablecoins for derivatives. This could serve as structural tailwinds for spot product growth.
Leverage reset: futures OI fell to $42.8 billion from $44.8 billion, lowering forced-liquidation risk; but long-term holders have realized 3.4 million BTC, a historically large distribution.
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
