Ripple mints 10 million RLUSD as supply hits 1.71B

Ripple minted 10 million Ripple USD tokens on the XRP Ledger on Aug. 17, completing another large issuance transaction as the stablecoins circulating supply reached approximately 1.711 billion.  SummaryRipple minted 10 million RLUSD on XRPL on Aug. 17, according to public ledger records.CoinGecko placed circulating supply near 1.711 billion, with market capitalization around $1.71 billion Monday morning.The transaction cost 0.000405 XRP and used two authorized signers for approval before settlement completion.Ripple Mint lets approved institutions issue, redeem, bridge and monitor RLUSD through interfaces and APIs.One mint does not independently prove new institutional demand, market deployment, or purchases of XRP.  Public data cited by XRPScan showed that Ripples issuer account transferred the tokens to a designated RLUSD destination account. The transaction cost 0.000405 XRP, used two authorized signers and recorded a maximum delivery amount of 10 million RLUSD.  Ripple did not identify the receiving customer or disclose the tokens intended use. The transaction confirms issuance, but it does not independently support claims that “institutional demand grows.”  You might also like:  Ripple mints $10M RLUSD as XRP whales add 380M  RLUSD mint does not confirm customer demand  A stablecoin mint creates tokens on a blockchain. It does not prove that the tokens immediately entered exchanges, payment channels or institutional

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Bitcoin nears $64,000 in Asia morning hours as HYPE jumps 8% on the week

SummaryBitcoin hovered around $63,600 in Asian trading, little changed on the day and lower on the week, as cryptocurrencies stayed stuck in a tight range despite a softer dollar and reduced expectations for Federal Reserve rate hikes.Hyperliquids HYPE token was the standout performer, gaining more than 3 percent on the day and nearly 9 percent over the week, while other major tokens such as ether, solana and XRP saw modest moves and mostly weekly declines.Analysts say fading optimism, weaker exchange-traded fund inflows and uncertainty ahead of this weeks Fed minutes and a White House crypto meeting are keeping crypto markets subdued despite a more supportive macro backdrop.  Bitcoin neared the $64,000 mark in Asian morning hours Monday, up half a percent on the day but down almost 3% over the week, as a softer dollar and fading rate-hike bets failed to lift crypto out of its recent range.  Hyperliquids HYPE was the standout, up over 3% to $59 and almost 9% on the week, the only major with a meaningful weekly gain. Ether rose over 1% to just under $1,900 but is down 1% over seven days.  Dogecoin added almost 1% to 7 cents, tron under half a percent to just over 33

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Duquesne buys into HYPE treasury firm with $23M position

Duquesne Family Office has disclosed a $23 million position in Hyperliquid Strategies Inc., giving Stanley Druckenmillers investment office indirect exposure to HYPE through the Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury company.  SummaryDuquesne Family Office disclosed a new $23 million stake in Hyperliquid Strategies.The Nasdaq listed company holds millions of HYPE tokens as part of its digital asset treasury strategy.Duquesnes former partner Kevin Warsh became Federal Reserve chairman in May 2026.Warsh disclosed more than $100 million in assets before his confirmation.  The SEC filing for the second quarter of 2026 showed Duquesne held shares of Hyperliquid Strategies, which trades under the ticker PURR, as of June 30, with the position appearing in the family offices portfolio for the first time.  The disclosure adds Duquesne to the institutional investors gaining exposure to Hyperliquid through publicly traded shares instead of purchasing the protocols HYPE token directly. Hyperliquid Strategies operates as a digital asset treasury company built around accumulating and managing HYPE.  Fintel data based on the filing also lists PURR as a new Duquesne position, accounting for roughly 0.44% of the investment managers reported portfolio.  Duquesne adds Hyperliquid Strategies to its portfolio  Hyperliquid Strategies has built one of the largest corporate HYPE holdings since establishing its digital asset treasury business.  As crypto.news

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Capital B buys 5 Bitcoin, holdings rise to 3,145 BTC

Capital B purchased another five Bitcoin for €280,000, lifting its strategic Bitcoin treasury to 3,145 BTC as the Euronext Growth Paris-listed company continued using equity issuance to fund its accumulation strategy.  SummaryCapital B bought five Bitcoin for €280,000, lifting its strategic treasury holdings to 3,145 BTC.Capital Bs Bitcoin reserve cost €284.2 million but carried a reported €170.9 million net value.The company reported 2.14% year-to-date BTC Yield, a treasury metric rather than traditional investment yield.Blockstream Capital Partners converted 14.2 million OCA B-01 instruments into 28.7 million ordinary shares Monday.Capital B issued 647,110 new shares through its TOBAM program, raising approximately €301,460 in capital.  The Aug. 17 release shows the latest Bitcoin was acquired at an average €55,882 each. Capital B now reports a total acquisition cost of €284.2 million, or €90,352 per BTC.  Capital B raises Bitcoin treasury to 3,145 BTC  The purchase followed €301,460.25 of capital increases completed through Capital Bs ATM-type agreement with French asset manager TOBAM. The company issued 647,110 ordinary shares at an average rounded price of €0.47 between July 27 and Aug. 7.  https://twitter.com/_ALCPB/status/2089231724941107385?s=20  That issuance price represented a 3.52% premium to Capital Bs Aug. 14 closing price. Euronext shows the stock closed Friday at €0.454, down 2.72% for the session.  You might

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Greenlanes $70m BERA treasury falls to just $16.4m in Q2

Greenlane Holdings BERA-focused digital asset treasury has fallen to $16.4 million in fair value at the end of the second quarter, leaving the portfolio about 76.6% below its $70 million cost basis.  According to Greenlane‘s latest regulatory filing, the Nasdaq-listed company held about 81.3 million BERA and BERA-equivalent tokens as of June 30, up from roughly 77.7 million at the end of the first quarter despite a continued decline in the token’s market price.  The difference between the portfolios acquisition cost and quarter-end fair value stood at about $53.8 million. Greenlane recorded a $19.1 million noncash fair-value loss on its digital assets during the three months through June, which contributed to a net loss of $24.8 million for the period.  At the same time, the company continued putting its holdings to work across the Berachain ecosystem. Its digital asset operations generated about $309,000 in staking and yield revenue during the quarter, providing income in BERA and other assets while the value of the underlying treasury declined.  Greenlanes exposure has increased since the start of the year. The company reported 77.7 million BERA and equivalent tokens at the end of March, meaning its holdings grew by about 3.6 million tokens during the second quarter.  Greenlanes BERA

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Zoomex Launches Stock Perpetuals Competition Round 2: Elevating Cross-Asset Derivatives for Global Traders

Zoomex, a global cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, today officially announced the commencement of its highly anticipated Stock Perpetuals Competition Round 2. Engineered to seamlessly bridge the gap between Traditional Finance (TradFi) and Web3 crypto derivatives, the event showcases Zoomexs robust derivatives infrastructure while offering global traders 24/7 access to high-demand U.S. equity perpetual contracts backed by a dynamic escalating prize pool and interactive reward tiers.  As global market volatility intensifies, retail and institutional traders increasingly seek frictionless risk-hedging mechanisms outside conventional trading hours. Zoomex addresses this demand through its proprietary derivatives engine, enabling users to trade perpetual contracts on top U.S. equities – including Nvidia (NVDA), Apple (AAPL), and Tesla (TSLA)—using USDT as margin. The platform eliminates traditional brokerage onboarding friction, offering leverage up to 25x and bi-directional (long/short) trading capabilities without market-close interruptions.  Executive Insight: Redefining Cross-Asset Trading  Addressing the strategic vision behind the competition, the Chief Brand Officer of Zoomexstated:  “At Zoomex, derivatives trading is not merely a feature—it is our core identity and structural foundation. Traditional stock markets remain constrained by strict opening hours, lengthy clearing cycles, and cross-border fiat capital controls. By integrating U.S. equities into our high-performance crypto derivatives matching engine, we deliver uninterrupted 24/7 execution, deep liquidity, and institutional-grade

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Ethereum Hegotá plan gets 4 priorities from Ethlabs

Ethereum research group Ethlabs has urged core developers to prioritize censorship resistance, faster blocks, native account abstraction and continued Layer 1 scaling for Hegotá, Ethereums planned upgrade after Glamsterdam.  SummaryFOCIL remains Hegotás only scheduled feature, while Frame Transactions have advanced to considered-for-inclusion status officially.Ethlabs ranks Quick Slots as top priority, proposing Hegotá begin reducing Ethereums twelve-second slot time.Frame Transactions could enable passkeys, sponsored fees, token-denominated gas payments, batching and post-quantum account upgrades.Ethlabs backs EIP-8131 and EIP-8279 to constrain payload growth and support higher gas limits safely.Execution client teams must submit Hegotá rankings by September 10 as developers narrow proposals further.  The nonprofit published its Hegotá paper on Aug. 16 as developers moved deeper into the forks scoping process.  Ethlabs describes itself as an independent nonprofit R&D lab focused on Ethereum and ETH. Several team members also co-author proposals the organization supports, a relationship Ethlabs disclosed when publishing its rankings.  You might also like:  Ethereum Hegotá narrows 2027 upgrade proposals  The document remains a recommendation rather than an Ethereum governance decision. The official Hegotá meta currently lists EIP-7805, or FOCIL, as the only feature scheduled for inclusion. EIP-8141 Frame Transactions is considered for inclusion, while dozens of others remain proposals.  We published a (very!) detailed snapshot of our

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Bitcoin harder to use than gold, Ross Gerber says

Bitcoin is facing renewed criticism from investment adviser Ross Gerber, who questioned the cryptocurrencys practical utility on Aug. 16 and argued that physical gold remains easier to use in many places.  Gerber wrote in an X post that it was “probably easier to use gold than bitcoin in most places still.” He also questioned what lasting products the crypto industry had built despite years of claims about Bitcoin‘s monetary use cases. The comments represent Gerber’s opinion and do not establish that gold is objectively more useful than Bitcoin.  Bitcoin criticism marks a shift for Gerber  Gerbers stance is notable because his firm has previously embraced digital assets. Gerber Kawasaki says it partnered with Gemini in April 2021 to provide digital asset exposure to clients, while Gerber himself spent years speaking positively about Bitcoin.  Probably easier to use gold than bitcoin in most places still despite the endless promises of its use cases… what have these people built of value, stable coins? Really? So what‘s the point of having a monetary system that can’t really be used… Im just asking some questions…  — Ross Gerber (@GerberKawasaki) August 16, 2026  His tone has become increasingly skeptical in 2026. Gerber recently wrote that Michael Saylor “kinda makes me over

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Tokenized stock holders more than double as monthly volume surges

The number of tokenized stock holders has more than doubled over the past month to 1.31 million, according to RWA.xyz data.  Monthly transfer volume surged nearly 180% over the same period to $23.13 billion, while monthly active addresses increased 34.62% to nearly 572,000. The total distributed value of tokenized stocks also rose 5.9% to $2.38 billion.  At the time of writing, Ondo leads the market with about $872 million in distributed value, followed by Kraken‘s xStocks at $557.8 million and Binance’s bStocks at $521.8 million. BStocks launched in June and is already within roughly $36 million of xStocks in distributed value.  According to RWA.xyz, the largest individual tokenized assets by distributed value include Securitize at $145.2 million, Strategy PP Variable xStock at $135.6 million and Ondos tokenized Circle shares at $99.7 million.Source: RWA.xyz  Related: Hyperliquid RWA contracts grow to 32% of trading activity in Q2  Tokenized stocks push into private markets  The recent growth in tokenized equities follows a wave of crypto platforms pushing into private-market and pre-IPO products earlier this year, particularly around SpaceX ahead of its June 12 public-market debut.  In the months leading up to the listing, Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit, Bitget and Blockchain.com rolled out products tied to SpaceX, ranging from tokenized pre-IPO

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Greenlanes $70M BERA treasury ends Q2 valued at $16M

Greenlane Holdings BERA-focused crypto treasury ended the second quarter valued at $16.4 million, less than a quarter of its $70 million cost basis, according to a regulatory filing.  On Friday, the company said it held 81.3 million BERA and BERA-equivalent tokens as of June 30. The $53.8 million gap between their cost and fair value left the portfolio 76.6% below cost.  Greenlane reported a $19.1 million noncash fair-value loss on digital assets during the quarter, contributing to a net loss of $24.8 million. Meanwhile, its digital asset segment generated $309,000 in staking and yield revenue over the same period.  Greenlane Holdings is a Nasdaq-listed former cannabis accessories company that shifted to a digital asset treasury strategy centered on Berachains BERA token.  The company adopted BERA as its primary treasury reserve asset in October 2025, after completing a $110.7 million private placement. It increased its holdings from 77.7 million BERA and equivalent tokens at the end of March despite the declining valuation.  BERA has fallen 75.9% year to date and was trading at about $0.146 at the time of writing, according to CoinGecko. The token briefly traded above $1.20 earlier this year before declining steadily toward $0.15.

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