🇭🇰 The Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission approved an update to the Hashkey Pro virtual asset license, which can provide transactions to retail investors.

📊 CEO CQ: It's unlikely that whales are dumping #BTC at the moment due to the lack of liquidity at the outlet of retailers. The market will be boring until there is a significant influx of fiat/stablecoins.

📊 There are many large whale transactions for altcoins, many of which are the largest in 2023 #AAVE #APE #COMP #IMX #LDO #MDT

🙋‍♂️ #FDUSD Binance adds BTC/FDUSD and ETH/FDUSD trading pairs and updates the #BTC trading program with zero fees.
binance.com

👀 247,692,666 #FRAX ($247.4M) and 97,806,017 #USDC ($97.9M) transferred from Frax to Curve.

📊 #BTC ~48% of all Bitcoin Lightning Network nodes are hosted by large centralized cloud service providers Amazon Web Service (AWS) and Google Cloud.

🥳 Upbit staking service adds support for Solana (#SOL).
upbit.com

📊 #BTC There are currently 15,870 BTC addresses that hold at least 100 BTC. Together, these whales own 11.5 million BTC, which is more than half of the total existing supply (59.2%) . Over the past 12 weeks, their combined share has grown by 27,755 BTC.

🇩🇪 Germany. Trade balance (June): €18.7 billion (prog €15 billion; pre €14.4 billion).

📊 #MSTR MicroStrategy stock performance since the company adopted its #BTC strategy (08/10/20).

🔛 #AI Enterprise blockchain platform SettleMint is launching an AI assistant to help Web3 developers write smart contracts.
techcrunch.com

⚖️👀 Galaxy Digital listing on Nasdaq faces risk of delay due to Luna (#LUNC) related lawsuits.
forbes.com

📉 #SUI After hitting a historical peak of 65.84 million transaction blocks on July 27, the daily transaction volume on the Sui blockchain has dropped significantly.

On August 2, the number of transactions dropped to ~1.479 million, which is only 2.2% of the peak level. This can be explained by the end of the first MystenLabs Bullshark event on July 28th.

🙋‍♂️ #RON Ronin introduced new features for developers including Ronin VRF.
blog.roninchain.com

👀 #FTT FTX is trying to get the Dubai unit out of bankruptcy proceedings.

🇩🇪 Germany. Composite (PMI) (July): 48.5 (prog 48.3; pre 50.6)

- Services (PMI) (July): 52.3 (prog 52; pre 54.1)

📝 #SPELL Abracadabra Community carry out voting for a revised "cauldrons CRV rate adjustment" proposal to address the current high risk from #CRV. Voting ends August 5th.

👀 DEX-trader spent 955 #ETH (1.8M#) to buy 12,530 #UNIBOT at an average price of $143 from July 22nd to 31st. And today for 336 #ETH (617 thousand $) I bought 7.37 million #BITCOIN at an average price of $0.084.

🇬🇧 Britain. Composite (PMI) (July): 50.8 (prog 50.7; pre 52.8)

- Services (PMI) (July): 51.5 (prog 51.5; pre 53.7)

🔄 #SUI The main Sui network has been updated to V1.6.3.