Altcoins Analytics 17th August 2026
This week's edition of our Crypto Altcoins Analytics.
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US Regulator Approves Trump-Backed World Liberty as a Stablecoin Issuer
The OCC conditionally approved a national trust bank charter for World Liberty Financial, letting it issue USD1 directly and hold the dollar reserves itself rather than relying on BitGo. USD1 has…
US Equities Closed at Record Highs While Bitcoin Fell Below $63,000
The S&P 500 closed at a record, up 0.65%, and the Nasdaq-100 rose 1.15% after July producer prices slowed to 4.7% YoY from 5.5% and came in flat on the month against a 0.2% forecast. BTC did not…
Crypto Risk Appetite Report 13th August 2026
This week's edition of our Market Sentiment Report.
US Inflation Held at 3.4%, Easing Bets on a September Rate Hike
Headline CPI rose 3.4% YoY and 0.1% on the month, with core at 2.5%, matching the slowest annual pace since March 2021. Fed funds futures moved from roughly even odds on a September hike to a 64%…
An Attacker Minted 4 Billion Tokens on the Harmony Blockchain
An attacker minted roughly 4 billion ONE, Harmony's native token, reportedly through empty blocks, and about 97% has already reached exchanges or deposit wallets. ONE fell 34% over 24 hours to…
Bitcoin Miner Riot Leases Part of Its Texas Mine to an AI Lab
Riot Platforms signed a 20-year lease for 191MW at its Rockdale, Texas campus with an unnamed frontier AI lab, worth an expected $9.1B of contracted revenue through 2048, with two extensions that…
Altcoins Analytics 10th August 2026
This week's edition of our Crypto Altcoins Analytics.
The US Economy Lost Jobs in July for the First Time This Year
July payrolls fell 23,000 against expectations of an 80,000 gain, and the prior two months were revised down by a combined 103,000. Unemployment slipped to 4.1% only because 264,000 people left the…
DeFi Analytics 7th August 2026
This week's edition of our Crypto DeFi Analytics.
The Senate Delays the CLARITY Act Vote Until September
The Senate postponed the CLARITY Act until lawmakers return from the August recess, pushing the procedural vote into September. Polymarket traders now put the odds of it being signed into law by the…
Crypto Risk Appetite Report 6th August 2026
This week's edition of our Market Sentiment Report.
Gold Climbs to $4,279, Moving in Tandem with Bitcoin and Ether
Gold traded at $4,279 an ounce, up 0.75% on the day and 4.3% over five days, moving in step with crypto rather than against it. BTC was at $64,873, up 2.9% over the same window, while ETH climbed…
Programmable Wallets Let AI Agents Pay for APIs in Stablecoins
Cloudflare began rolling out programmable wallets that let AI agents pay for APIs, data and content in stablecoins through Coinbase's x402, with owners setting per-agent allowances and approved…
BlackRock Brings Money Market Funds Onchain for Stablecoin Reserves
July ISM manufacturing rose to 55.6 from 53.3, above the 54.0 consensus and the strongest since May 2022, with the employment sub-index expanding for the first time in 33 months. The Dow closed at a…
Altcoins Analytics 3rd August 2026
This week's edition of our Crypto Altcoins Analytics.
Brent Falls 7% as Trump Calls Off the Strike on Iran
Brent fell as much as 7.3% to $81.55 in early Asian trade after Trump cancelled a planned strike on Iran and set talks for Monday, unwinding part of a 24% July rally. OPEC+ separately added 188,000…
DeFi Analytics 31st July 2026
This week's edition of our Crypto DeFi Analytics.
A Microsoft Beat Reignites AI Optimism as the KOSPI Leaps 18%
US equities rebounded sharply as Microsoft surged more than 16% on strong earnings, lifting the Nasdaq-100 3.36% and reviving the AI trade, while South Korea's KOSPI leapt 18%. Central banks held as…
Crypto Risk Appetite Report 30th July 2026
This week's edition of our Market Sentiment Report.