⛏📈 #BTC BTC mining difficulty decreased by 4.19% to 86.87 T. #mining

📊 The best token sales for the first half of the year in terms of return on investment.

📊 #BTC #ETF Some 13F reports for Q2:
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley bought spot BTC-ETFs worth >$600 million. reuters.com
Marathon Digital purchased 4,144 BTC for $249 million, and the total number of BTC on their balance sheet currently exceeds 25,000. mara.com
Bank of America owns $2.8 million in IBIT (+31%) and $1.5 million in FBTC (+21%).
Hedge fund Millennium reduced its positions in spot BTC ETFs, with FBTC holdings down 14% and IBIT holdings down 48%. x
DeFi Technologies owns ~$21.2 million worth of BTC, SOL and CORE. prnewswire.com

🥳📱 #USDC Circle plans to introduce tap-and-go payment functionality on iPhone. cointelegraph.com

📊 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, the total net outflow of spot BTC-ETFs was ~$81.36 million.
https://t.iss.one/cryptoarsenal/27601

Total ETH-ETF net inflow was ~$10.77 million. #CryptoETF

🇦🇺‍☠️ An Australian regulator claims that 58% of cryptocurrency ads on Facebook are scams. cointelegraph.com

🇺🇸 #RWA Fidelity's head of digital asset management says their division is also exploring tokenization, allowing for the launch of new products. theblock.com

🇺🇸🍿 Kamala Harris will outline economic policy proposals for her presidential campaign this Friday, August 16th. thehill

🕵️‍♂️ According to Bubblemaps research, scammer Sahil Arora made ~$30 million by launching celebrity tokens in 2024. He has issued tokens for many celebrities, in particular: Mayweather, Caitlyn Jenner, Iggy Azalea, Jason Derulo, Amber Rose, Lil Pump and others.
He typically owned 25-40% of the tokens and sold them immediately after celebrity paid tweets, using fans as exit liquidity.

However, ZachXBT thinks, that the Bubblemaps data is incorrect and claims that Sahil earned only $2-3 million this year.

🕵️‍♂️ #ETH Over the past 24 hours, Wintermute has once again deposited a total of 16,901 ETH ($44.79 million) into Binance.

🇺🇸📈 #BTC #ETF The top 10 institutional holders of #IBIT hold $1.7 billion worth of IBIT. This is 16% more than in Q1.

🇮🇳 #BNB Binance registered as a reporting entity under the Indian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND).

🇮🇷⛏ Iran will pay $24 to those who report illegal miners. #mining cointelegraph.com

🇺🇸📈 #RWA Tokenized US Treasuries are expected to exceed $3 billion in market capitalization by the end of 2024. cointelegraph.com

🇺🇸 This year, the US government transferred 15,940 #BTC ($966.4 million) to Coinbase Prime in three transactions.
Within three days after the first two transfers, the price of BTC fell by about 5%.

🥳🚀 #QKC another +18% since mentions. The token continues to be among the top purchases and withdrawals from CEX.

🕵️‍♂️ In the last 20 minutes, 2 wallets were withdrawn from Binance 771 #WBTC (~ $44.79 million).
0x774 may belong to Amber.
0xbE6 has withdrawn 1606 WBTC (~$94.62 million) in the last 3 days.

📊👀 Deribit: Tomorrow ~$1.88B Crypto Options Expire:
– Face value of #BTC options: $1.4 billion
- put/call ratio: 0.83
- max. pain point: $60,000;
– Face value of #ETH options: $480 million;
- put/call ratio: 0.83
- max. pain point: $2650.

🍿👀 #MKR CEO BitGo confirmed independence #wBTC by Justin Sun.
MakerDAO accepted offer reduce its stake in wBTC, but will not liquidate existing positions. coindesk.com

🕵️‍♂️ Sini Capital withdrew 2.9 thousand #ETH ($7.8 million) from Renzo Protocol and transferred them to Binance.