📊 The pace of #BTC withdrawals from exchanges exceeds the pace of deposits for the first time since the collapse of FTX in November.

👀 It is possible that the SEC will prepare alternative arguments to justify the continued rejection of #BTC-ETF spot applications - German investment bank Berenberg.
coindesk.com

🕵️‍♂️ Whale withdrew $4.95 million worth of tokens from Binance:

- 2,580,596 #ARB ($2.44 million);
- 1,171,454 #OP ($1.72 million);
- 484,719 #LDOs ($0.79 million).

🔛 #BNB Binance Mining Pool Launches Ordinals Inscription Service
binance.com

🔛 #IOST IOST has launched Olympus V3.10.1 mainnet.
twitter.com

🥳 #LINK Swift and Chainlink, in recent experiments, have successfully transferred tokenized value across multiple private and public blockchains.
coindesk.com

📊 friend .tech exceeded 50 thousand #ETH in total inflow. Over 21 days, 56.8 thousand unique sellers and 128.1 thousand unique buyers were recorded.

📈 #VELO Aerodrome raised >150M$ in just a day after launch, growing the DeFi Base Blockchain ecosystem by 80% in terms of value locked.

🇺🇸 USA. Price index (PCE) (July):
- m/m: 0.2% (prog 0.2%; pre 0.2%)
- y/y: 3.3% (prog 3.3%; pre 3%)
- Core (PCE) (y/y): 4.2% (prog 4.2%; pre 4.1%).

- Initial Jobless Claims: 228k (prog 235k; pre 230k)

📊 Top 15 Dapps by total donations received this summer

🎮🗣 Othersidemeta: We'll be releasing an open beta for Legends of the Mara (LoTM) next month, and we're also collaborating with Faraway on a major Unity expansion.
twitter.com

👀 The first cryptocurrency secondary market fund launched by Hashkey Capital will invest a significant portion of its assets in L2 cryptocurrencies.
Reuters.com

🇺🇸👀 #ACH Alchemy Pay: US money transfer license applied for twitter

🥳 All #METIS owners affected by the recent attacks on the PolyNetwork bridge and MetisDAO Twitter account that were victims of hacking will be entitled to a full refund.

💰👀 Roblox Kinjo completed a $6.5 million seed round. businessinsider.com

🙋‍♂ #ARB Offchain Labs launches Arbitrum Stylus to support smart contract development in multiple languages. twitter.com

🥳🤝 Coinbase partners with PayPal, to allow users in Germany and the UK to seamlessly buy and withdraw cryptocurrencies.

👀 #UNIBOT Unibot launches stablecoin exchange function twitter.com

🇺🇸 Chicago (PMI) (Aug): 48.7 (prev: 42.8)

🎮 Zynga (daughter of Rockstar Games), created a sister studio called Zynga Web3 (or ZW3) and announced the Sugartown gaming platform.