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RWA platform MSX announced it will begin pre-IPO subscriptions for shares in companies including Neuralink and Anduril at 10:00 a.m. UTC on Aug. 31. The offering will be open to holders of MSX, the platform’s native token, with allocations tiered based on each user’s MSX holdings. MSX has also formally opened redemption requests for Anthropic and Polymarket, its second batch of pre-IPO projects, and said subscription returns for the second pre-IPO round reached 33.3%.

Major exchanges have seen $164 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $1,383 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $76,000. BTC is trading at $76,000 on the Binance USDT market.

Upbit’s trading volume over the past 24 hours surged 223.8% to $1.67 billion, The Block reported, citing CoinGecko data. The broader cryptocurrency market is regaining momentum as Bitcoin posts a sharp short-term rally. According to CoinMarketCap, BTC was trading at $75,823.86, up 8.55% over the past 24 hours and 20.37% over the past seven days.

Solana’s network fee revenue totaled about $50 million in the second quarter, down 44% from the previous quarter, Unfolded reported. That was also 94% below the roughly $900 million peak recorded between the fourth quarter of 2024 and the first quarter of 2025, as memecoin trading cooled, Jito (JTO) MEV tips declined, and base and priority fees fell.

Solana is moving ahead with a plan to cut its block production interval to 200 milliseconds from 400 milliseconds through a four-phase upgrade, BeInCrypto reported. The first phase is set to be activated starting with epoch 1020, while all four changes have already been incorporated into Agave, the validator software developed by Solana network client Anza, and will be enabled sequentially. Once all changes are fully applied, Solana will produce a new block about every 0.2 seconds.

South Korean exchanges Upbit and Bithumb announced on their official websites that they have extended the delisting watchlist review period for Zilliqa (ZIL). As a result, notices on whether to extend or lift the watchlist designation, or to end trading support for ZIL, have been pushed back to the third week of September (Sept. 14–18).

U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott said the core of the CLARITY Act is restoring U.S. leadership in the global economy. According to the committee’s official X account, Scott said the U.S. must lead innovation to remain the world’s most important force for good, and added that the country should attract the best entrepreneurs, thinkers and risk-takers so innovation happens in the U.S. rather than overseas.

AI agents are likely to emerge as independent economic actors that can carry out financial transactions using a range of payment methods including cash, cards and cryptocurrencies, Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley said, according to The Block. McCauley added that the crypto custody and banking firm is building an agentic banking platform with a "KYA" system, short for "Know Your Agent," to support that transaction environment.

An analysis suggests Bitcoin may be more likely to turn higher after an on-chain signal that previously appeared at the end of bottoming phases in past downcycles emerged again. Crypto analyst Crypto Dan said Bitcoin’s current MVRV, or Market Value to Realized Value, an on-chain indicator showing broader unrealized gains and losses across the market, has been rising sharply. Crypto Dan added the signal was observed for the first time in the current downcycle amid Bitcoin’s recent surge, and said the same pattern appeared at the point when the bottoming phase ended in every past downcycle.

World Liberty Financial CEO Zach Witkoff disputed Tron founder Justin Sun’s claim that Sun had secured a partial victory in his legal dispute with WLFI. In a post on X, Witkoff said the court had made no ruling today. Witkoff said the court agreed with WLFI’s position that several claims brought by companies owned by Sun are subject to arbitration, and added that Sun’s lawyers also acknowledged those claims do not belong in court. Witkoff said Sun is portraying the fact that his own claims are not subject to arbitration as a "major victory," but WLFI had never argued those claims should be sent to arbitration. Instead, WLFI asked the court to dismiss all of those claims, and the court has not yet ruled on that request, Witkoff said. Witkoff also said Sun is deliberately evading service in a defamation suit filed by World Liberty in Florida.

The following are the 24-hour long/short ratios for BTC perpetual futures on the world’s three largest crypto futures exchanges by open interest: Overall: 52.07% long, 47.93% short - Binance: 53.17% long, 46.83% short - OKX: 52.98% long, 47.02% short - Bybit: 54.16% long, 45.84% short

U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs saw about $219.5 million in net inflows on Aug. 20, marking a sixth straight trading day of net inflows, according to Farside Investors. - BlackRock ETHA: +$173.3 million - Fidelity FETH: +$5.8 million - BlackRock Staking ETHB: +$35.9 million - Bitwise ETHW: +$2.8 million - VanEck ETHV: +$1.7 million

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded about $606.3 million in net inflows on Aug. 20, extending their run of net inflows to four straight trading sessions, according to Farside Investors. The total also topped yesterday’s inflow, which was the largest in three months. - BlackRock IBIT: +$503.0 million - Fidelity FBTC: +$64.7 million - Bitwise BITB: +$26.4 million - Ark Invest ARKB: +$12.2 million - Invesco BTCO: +$3.6 million - VanEck HODL: -$3.6 million

BCH has risen by 4.15% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BCH is trading at $240.64.

Ripple will participate as an investor in an institutional credit fund that plans to lend RLUSD to fintech and payments companies on the XRP Ledger, CoinDesk reported. Lending platform Clearpool and credit manager Cicada Partners are also involved. Ripple’s dollar stablecoin RLUSD will be used for lending and repayments, while XRP will be used only for transaction fees and the minimum balance required to maintain accounts. The structure is designed to bring institutional lending activity onto XRPL while increasing demand for RLUSD. The service is not yet live on mainnet. The XLS-66 lending protocol and XLS-65 single-asset vault feature supporting the service are currently undergoing a vote for adoption on XRPL, according to CoinDesk. The fund’s size and Ripple’s investment amount were not disclosed.

Bhutan government addresses transferred 490.87 BTC worth $32.74 million to a new wallet over the past 24 hours, according to Onchain Lens.

The spot CVD chart is an order-book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper section shows the Volume Heatmap, while the lower section shows cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The Volume Heatmap tracks trading volume at each price level, and the background color becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or makes a sharp move. Brighter zones may act as support or resistance. - The CVD indicator in the lower section reflects buy and sell orders by order size, with each colored line rising as buy orders increase. The yellow line represents orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line represents large orders between $1 million and $10 million, among other categories.

Jack Yi, founder of LD Capital, said on X that BTC had broken decisively above its 120-day and 200-day moving averages on the daily chart and had also moved above its 20-week moving average on the weekly chart, leading Yi to conclude the bear market trend has officially ended. Yi added that the uptrend was likely to continue for the next two weeks before a pullback at some point, although the correction would likely be less than 50% of the previous advance. Yi also said the drop from $126,000 to $57,000, a decline of 56%, marked the absolute bottom, making a return to the $50,000 range unlikely, and advised traders to close leveraged long positions.

Institutional and whale investors sold 871,000 HYPE worth $64.82 million through FalconX over the past six hours, according to Lookonchain.

According to CoinGlass, the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index has remained in negative territory for 95 straight days from May 19 through today. As of 4:00 a.m. UTC on Aug. 21, the latest reading stood at -0.0334%. The previous longest negative streak was 40 days, from Jan. 16 to Feb. 24 this year. The Coinbase Premium Index measures the Bitcoin price gap between Coinbase and global exchanges, and a prolonged negative reading suggests BTC buying demand in the U.S. market has been relatively weaker than in global markets. At the same time, the negative premium has narrowed sharply in recent readings, leading to interpretations that the BTC price gap between the U.S. and global markets has closed significantly.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed additional charges against eight members of the Iran-based Mabna Institute, raising the total number indicted to 17, and said five of them were involved in the earlier hack of HBO that included a demand for about $6 million in BTC. According to the DOJ, Behzad Mesri had already been separately indicted on allegations that Mesri hacked HBO’s systems, stole internal data and then demanded roughly $6 million worth of Bitcoin. The DOJ said five of the newly charged defendants directly took part in that hack alongside Mesri. It added that the Mabna Institute is accused of carrying out hacking operations against U.S. and overseas universities, companies and government agencies on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, and others.

Crypto analyst Murphy said Bitcoin’s recent sharp rally was supported by a strong holder structure. Murphy said more than 2 million BTC was heavily accumulated in the $62,000-$64,000 range, leaving investors with similar cost bases and limiting selling pressure even when prices fell. During BTC’s three-day surge from $64,000 to $75,000, holdings around $63,000 barely moved, while selling pressure in the $68,000-$74,000 range also remained limited. Murphy added that some holdings have since shifted to selling after the rally, which could lead to sideways trading or a pullback.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it has delayed the NEXO listing for KRW trading to 6:00 a.m. UTC today. The original schedule was 4:00 a.m. UTC today.

CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer urged viewers to buy BTC less than a month after saying he planned to sell all of his Bitcoin holdings over quantum computing risks, BeInCrypto reported. On the Aug. 20 program, Cramer told a viewer asking about Bitmine (BMNR), a corporate accumulator of Ethereum (ETH), to buy BTC directly rather than investing indirectly in crypto through related stocks. Earlier, after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said quantum computers could eventually undermine Bitcoin’s cryptographic system, Cramer said he would sell BTC. It remains unclear whether he actually sold or how much he held at the time. BTC has risen from about $63,700 when Cramer announced his plan to sell to around $74,300 now.