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Top Stories

BTC $77,953 (-0.5%) | ETH $2,453 (-0.2%) | SOL $102 (-1.2%)

• Robinhood chain memes continue their massive run with PONS and AI hitting new ATHs — Robinhood fully rolls out agentic trading for crypto — Tweets cryptic message with animated cat: “something new is growing”

• Brent crude surges above $92 after two oil tankers are struck in the Strait of Hormuz — Nasdaq 100 futures fall over 1%

• Hyperliquid Labs in advanced talks to bring perps to U.S. traders via Kraken parent Payward

• Japan’s 30-year yield rips above 4.18%, the highest level in history

• Strategy buys another 4,603 BTC for $369.7M

• SOL prints its first green monthly candle since September 2025

• Odds of a Fed rate hike this month surge to over 66% on prediction markets

• Bitcoin whales add 60K BTC in August while smaller wallets sell 47K BTC

• Russian crypto regulation officially goes into effect

• OpenSea launches Solana NFTs

• London Stock Exchange partners with Kraken to list tokenized equities on its 24-hour venue in 2027

• Crypto hacks rise 67% to 50 incidents in August with $136.3M in losses