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Key Points When the waiter hands you the check, you probably round up a bit before you calculate the tip without thinking twice. Imagine stuffing that same pocket change into Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) every single day, then waking up a decade later to find seven figures of capital staring back at you. That's exactly what on-chain analysts observed last year when they discovered a handful of crypto wallets that had quietly turned small, regular buys into life-changing sums of money. The magic had nothing to do with luck, leverage, already being rich at the start, shady schemes, or buying meme coin lottery tickets. It was ironclad consistency plus an unusual but not Warren Buffett-esque amount of patience that carried the day. Let's see why...

- Prediction: Robinhood Stock Is Going to Plunge by 50% (or More) Over the Next 12 Months Key Points Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) experienced explosive growth at the height of the pandemic as its intuitive, gamified trading platform attracted hordes of young, first-time investors. But when the stock and cryptocurrency markets crashed in 2022, Robinhood saw a sharp decline in active users and revenue. Robinhood has since rebounded from that challenging period, and its stock is up by almost 500% during the past year alone. However, I have serious concerns about the sustainability of the company's comeback, which leads me to think its stock could plunge by 50% (or more) during the next 12 months. A repeat of 2022 might be...

- Better Stablecoin Buy: Tether vs. USDC Key Points Just two stablecoins -- Tether (CRYPTO: USDT) and USDC (CRYPTO: USDC) -- account for a whopping 90% of the value of the $250 billion stablecoin market. So, for the majority of investors, the question of which stablecoin to pick really comes down to Tether vs. USDC. Since stablecoins are pegged 1-to-1 to the U.S. dollar and are designed to always trade for $1, the choice will be based on factors other than price. Here are three factors to keep in mind. Market liquidity This is one area where Tether really shines. As the world's largest stablecoin, Tether has unparalleled liquidity. The easiest way to see that is in daily trading volume. According to the latest stablecoin research...

- Pendle Lets Crypto Traders Bet on Bitcoin, Ether Funding Rates With Boros Platform Pendle has opened up Boros, a new platform on Arbitrum that allows users to directly trade the funding rates of bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) perpetual markets. Boros lets users go long or short on funding rate exposure using “Yield Units” (YUs), which are structurally similar to Pendle’s existing Yield Tokens. Each YU represents the realized funding yield on 1 unit of notional, such as 1 ETH or 1 BTC, until expiry, offering a mechanism to speculate or hedge against changing funding conditions on Binance and other major derivatives venues. The platform launched with capped parameters of $10 million open interest per market and 1.2x leverage...

- DOGE Sheds 5% as Volume Quadruples, Testing Key Support Zones Meme coin DOGE extended its slide on Monday, falling through support levels and triggering fresh selling interest as broader market risk appetite collapsed. What to Know Dogecoin fell 5% over the 24-hour session from August 4 at 21:00 to August 5 at 20:00, declining from $0.21 to $0.20. The token traded within a $0.013 range, with lows of $0.198 and highs of $0.211. A key liquidation event occurred during the 14:00 hour on August 5, with volumes reaching 877.9 million — nearly 4x the 24-hour average of 268.85 million — triggering a breakdown below $0.205. DOGE ended the session at $0.1985 after failing to reclaim higher resistance zones, signaling continued...

Image generated by CariGold What to Know XRP fell 4.2% during the 24-hour session ending August 6 at 02:00, retreating from $3.06 to $2.93 in a volume-driven breakdown. The session’s high of $3.08 was hit at 10:00 before a sharp reversal set in. Price action accelerated at 14:00 when XRP fell from $3.04 to $2.97 on a 169.41 million volume surge — over 3x its 24-hour average of 52.73 million — establishing $3.04 as interim resistance and validating $2.93 as a local support floor. Final-hour price action confirmed bearish control. XRP slid 1% from $2.94 to $2.92 between 01:15 and 02:14, completing a high-volatility session that saw a $0.13 swing, or 4.2% intraday range. A late 02:11 volume burst of 1.6 million sealed the decline as the...

Image generated by CariGold Asia Morning Briefing: Architect Bets Credit Will Outshine Crypto Equities as It Builds a Web3 Moody’s Good Morning, Asia. Here's what's making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours and an overview of market moves and analysis. The maturing digital assets market that has sophisticated market making, capital markets, and decentralized finance, is still lacking one key market infrastructure to compete with traditional finance: an institutional-grade credit agency. Architect aims to change this by launching crypto's first institutional-grade credit ratings service, similar to traditional finance's Moody's – because most TradFi ratings agencies...

Image generated by CariGold Ripple’s Partnership With BDACS Pays Off as XRP Support Goes Live at Korean Crypto Custodian XRP is now live on BDACS, a regulated crypto custodian for South Korean institutions, marking the first concrete outcome of Ripple’s custody partnership announced in February. BDACS talked about the launch in a post made Aug. 5 on their platform. The firm said it will offer custody support for XRP, which it described as one of the most popular digital assets in South Korea. This update follows a partnership announced Feb. 26 with Ripple, the U.S.-based blockchain company that developed the XRP Ledger and its native token. When the partnership was announced in February, BDACS said the deal aligned with South...

Image generated by CariGold SEC has a shocking update for crypto industry Certain liquid staking activities associated with protocol staking do not constitute the sale of securities, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance said in a statement on Aug. 5. Parties involved in the minting, offering, and redeeming of liquid staking activities are not required to register with the federal regulator under the securities laws, it added. In crypto, staking is the process of locking up your crypto assets like Ethereum to help secure a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain network in exchange for rewards. What's peculiar to liquid staking is that the assets you stake don't get locked up, remain liquid, and can...

Image generated by CariGold SEC: $66bn liquid staking market doesn’t involve sale of securities Liquid staking tokens are not securities like stocks and bonds, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday. The statement from the US’ top financial regulator was the latest in a slew of guidance meant to clarify the legal status of various cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based activity. In recent months, the SEC has issued similar guidance for memecoins and other staking services. Liquid staking is the second-largest business in decentralised finance. More than $66 billion dollars worth of crypto is spread across hundreds of liquid staking protocols. Lido has long been the dominant liquid staking protocol. As of Tuesday, it...

Image generated by CariGold Fluid passes Uniswap in daily volume on Ethereum Uniswap may still be one of DeFi’s top dogs, but a rising rival is closing the gap. Fluid, a DeFi protocol with lending and a decentralized exchange, is closing in on Uniswap after notching record trading days over the past week. Fluid briefly passed Uniswap in daily trading volume on Ethereum, handling almost $1.5 billion in volume on Sunday — a record high for the two-year-old protocol. This comes slightly above Uniswap’s $1.3 billion in volume that day. Measured by trading volume, Uniswap has been the top decentralized exchange on Ethereum since its launch in 2018, being passed only once briefly by dYdX in January 2024. While Fluid has gained traction...

Image generated by CariGold Where Will Polkadot Be in 5 Years? Key Points Five years can be a lifetime in the tech sector. That's only more true in the unpredictable world of cryptocurrencies. There will always be surprises. I can't tell you exactly how Polkadot (CRYPTO: DOT) will work out over the next five years. The cryptocurrency's backing group does have long-term plans, but you just never know. However, I can point you in the right general direction. Here's what I expect from Polkadot in the next few years. I'm more interested in the project itself than in coin prices, so let's start there. What are Polkadot and Web3 waiting for? As the official cryptocurrency of the Web3 Foundation, Polkadot's future rests on the progress...

Image generated by CariGold For a blockchain ecosystem that’s been around since 2017, Cosmos is no stranger to reinvention. But according to Interchain Labs’ co-CEO Maghnus Mareneck, its next chapter isn’t just about riding crypto’s cycles anymore — it’s about staking a claim at the center of them. “Cosmos is a very old project,” Mareneck tells Coinage in a new interview. “It was created… in 2017. Really, the ICO was sort of in that first bucket of assets… and it had a completely different vision from everything else in crypto.” Where Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana have long championed a “mono-ecosystem thesis,” Cosmos instead embraced a modular vision for Web3 infrastructure — an “internet of blockchains” that allows any project to...

Image generated by CariGold Galaxy Digital, a global crypto-focused financial services firm, reported financial results for the second quarter of 2025 on Aug. 5. The company generated a revenue of $8.66 million in Q2, down 2.5% year-over-year. Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) stood at $211 million, owing to a rise in virtual assets and other investments on its balance sheet. Galaxy also increased its Bitcoin holdings to 17,102 coins, worth $1.94 billion, adding 4,272 BTC during Q2. It also held $325 million in Ethereum, $180 million in SOL, and $45.8 million in XRP, among other crypto assets, with crypto assets worth $3.56 billion in carrying value. However, Galaxy's earnings per...

Image generated by CariGold Figment CEO on Ethereum, Regulation, Banking Industry Figment Co-Founder and CEO Lorien Gabel discusses the increase in ether as cryptocurrency buying gains momentum, regulatory shifts in Washington, and the banking industry's openness to cryptocurrency. He shared his insights with Sonali Basak on "Bloomberg Crypto." This article has been published in bloomberg.com via Yahoo News. https://finance.yahoo.com/video/figment-ceo-ethereum-regulation-banking-200820389.html

Image generated by CariGold Succinct, the First Decentralized Prover Network, Launches on Mainnet Succinct announced the mainnet deployment of the Succinct Prover Network, a decentralized infrastructure enabling anyone to request and verify zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs from a global network of provers. The launch also activates the PROVE token, which provides the economic foundation for paying provers and securing the network, enabling a universal payments rail for all ZK-enabled infrastructure. The network already supports over 35 leading protocols, processes proofs from 1,700 unique programs, and has secured over $4 billion in value. More than five million proofs have been fulfilled to date for protocols such as Polygon, Mantle...

Image generated by CariGold NodeOps as an Infrastructure Intelligence Layer NodeOps addresses this operational gap by introducing a full-stack validator intelligence layer. It consolidates telemetry, alerting logic, delegation analytics, and automated failover workflows into a single control plane, built for multi-chain infrastructure. Operators onboard through lightweight agents or containerized modules that stream real-time metrics into a unified dashboard. This includes uptime patterns, RPC latency, signing failures, peer count drift, and block proposal data. Rather than surface static charts, NodeOps analyzes these inputs for anomalies. When deviations occur, such as height lag on Cosmos or RPC congestion on Ethereum, the...

Image generated by CariGold Why Coinbase (COIN) Stock Is Trading Lower Today What Happened? Shares of blockchain infrastructure company Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) fell 5.4% in the afternoon session after the company announced a plan to offer $2 billion in convertible senior notes. The private offering consisted of two $1 billion tranches, due in 2029 and 2032, directed at qualified institutional buyers. Investors reacted to the potential for future dilution. Dilution happens when a company issues new shares, which can decrease the ownership percentage of existing stockholders. The news extended weakness from the company's recent quarterly results, which showed a slowdown in trading activity. What Is The Market Telling Us Coinbase’s...

Image generated by CariGold These 13 French Coins Are Worth Thousands, Including One up to $456K If you travel to France these days, you’ll be dealing in European currency rather than French currency. That’s been the case since 2000 when the country adopted the euro as its official currency. While the franc remains the official currency of 25 states or autonomous territories, the switch to the euro essentially ended a centuries-long era of French coins and notes. If you’re lucky enough to come across the right coin, you could become nearly half-a-million dollars richer. French Coinage History As CoinValueLookup noted, French coinage has a long and tumultuous history. For example, France’s King Jean II Le Bon passed a law that...

Image generated by CariGold U.S. state with strong auto industry quietly adds Bitcoin to its state pension funds On Aug. 5, Michigan's state pension fund reported owning $10.7 million worth of 300,000 ARK 21Shares Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (Nasdaq: ARKB) shares as of June 30. As per the latest 13F-HR filing with the SEC, it marks an extraordinary jump from the 100,000 shares the State of Michigan Retirement System reported owning as of March 31. ARKB is a spot Bitcoin ETF that tracks the spot price of BTC and provides regulated crypto exposure to investors. While Cathie Wood's ARK Invest is the sub-adviser of the fund, 21Shares is its sponsor. ARKB was trading at $37.47 at the time of writing, down 1.73% a day. However, its value...