Bitcoin recovered to $109,780 after Powell’s hawkish tone sent it briefly to $107,000. Ethereum and BNB remained range-bound, while Solana dipped 3% to $186. Total crypto market cap remains stable at $3.7 trillion despite weak U.S. ETF flows.
Bitcoin ETFs saw $488 million in outflows; Ethereum ETFs lost $184 million. Solana ETFs bucked the trend, posting $37.33 million in inflows, its third straight day of gains.
President Trump’s meeting with President Xi yielded trade, energy, and fentanyl agreements.
U.S. GDP data delayed to December due to government shutdown; Coinbase adds $299 million in BTC holdings.
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.
