​​📈Market Overview

Bitcoin held above $79,600 on Tuesday as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a seventh straight day of inflows.

Bitcoin: $79,687 +3.07%
Ethereum: $2,480 +0.99%

Market Cap: $2.79T
BTC Dominance: 57.3%
Fear & Greed Index: 74 (Greed)
Altcoin Index: 39/100

👉 Latest News

• BitMine Now Controls 4.8% of Ethereum Supply After Adding 32,447 ETH
• Ondo Crypto Hits $1B TVL as Tokenized Stocks Push Wall Street Onchain
• X Trade Buttons Coming Soon as Bier Counters Crypto Shadowban Rumors

👉 Small Cap Gainers

Jimothy The Raccoon +84.2%
TAC +75.9%
Catecoin +75.7%
Delysium +48.3%
WEN +41.3%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Entropy $14M Funding round led by Ribbit Capital
- Strategy $2.00B Post-IPO round backed by unknown
- Hertzflow Angel round backed by Ryan Li

​​💳 Crypto Card Cashback Is Scaling With Spending

Reward programs are one of the key competitive features of crypto card issuers. It is hard to imagine a crypto card without cashback or other rewards being among the most widely used today.

In July, tracked crypto card issuers paid $3.2M in rewards to their users. EtherFi accounted for approximately $2.31M, or 72% of the total.

👉 Read The Full Story: https://cryptorank.io/insights/research/crypto-cards-are-turning-stablecoins-into-everyday-payments

​​📈 Bitcoin ETF Inflows Just Hit a 2026 High

Monthly net inflows into Bitcoin ETFs reached $2.72B in August, making it the strongest month of 2026 so far.

Last week alone, Bitcoin ETF inflows reached $1.92B, nearly matching April’s previous full-month 2026 peak of $1.97B.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/price/bitcoin

​​📊Top Chains by 30D TVL Growth

Robinhood Chain leads with +84%, its TVL topping $540M, powered mostly by Morpho, its largest protocol, fueled by stablecoin inflows led by Ethena's USDe.

👉https://cryptorank.io/blockchains

​​🏛️ Average ETH Acquisition Prices of Corporate Holders

ETH has regained strong positive momentum, returning to nearly $2,500. However, many corporate holders remain underwater.

Here’s how the current price compares with the average acquisition prices of some of the largest corporate holders:

• BitMine: $3,517
• BTCS: $3,040
• Galaxy Digital: $2,960
• Bit Digital: $2,842
• Coinbase: $2,308

👉 https://cryptorank.io/funds

​​📈 Market Overview

Bitcoin eased to around $79,000 on Wednesday as traders took profits after a 23% weekly rally.

Bitcoin: $78,923 -2.10%
Ethereum: $2,463 -1.61%

Market Cap: $2.75T
BTC Dominance: 57.6%
Fear & Greed Index: 65 (Greed)
Altcoin Index: 38/100

👉 Latest News

• Cosmos Labs Urges EVM Chains to Halt After KiiChain’s $148 Million Exploit
• Phantom’s plan to drop Sui exposes the hidden power wallet interfaces hold over user funds
• Ondo Expands Perps Collateral as Tokenized Stocks Gain a Second Use

👉 Small Cap Gainers

manlet +11,630%
Hivemapper +192%
Bitlayer +159%
Measurable Data Token +124.1%
Bubblemaps +46.2%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Entropy $14M Funding round led by Ribbit Capital
- Strategy $2.00B Post-IPO round backed by unknown
- Hertzflow Angel round backed by Ryan Li

​​💼 Strategic Funding Hits a 2026 High

Crypto startups raised $1B in strategic funding rounds in August, which is the highest monthly total across all of 2026.

Meanwhile, only 11 rounds were announced this month, setting the lowest monthly count of the year. This suggests that capital is becoming concentrated in fewer, larger deals.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/funding-analytics

​​💳 Crypto Cards Are Expanding Beyond Simple Payments

Crypto cards are increasingly resembling on-chain credit lines.

EtherFi introduces a borrow-to-spend model: instead of selling ETH or another asset, users can post it as collateral, borrow stablecoins against it, and use those funds for card payments.

This approach allows users to keep their exposure to the asset while unlocking liquidity for everyday spending.

👉 Read The Full Story: https://cryptorank.io/insights/research/crypto-cards-are-turning-stablecoins-into-everyday-payments

​​📈 Prediction Markets Are Growing Beyond Sports

Non-sports prediction market volume across Kalshi and Polymarket increased by 144% in August.

Most of the growth came from Kalshi, which continues to dominate non-sports activity.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/prediction-markets

​​📈 Market Overview

Bitcoin traded near $78,800 on Thursday as profit-taking, long liquidations and options expiry pressure weighed on the rally near the $80,000 resistance.

Bitcoin: $78,839 -0.11%
Ethereum: $2,492 +1.17%

Market Cap: $2.75T
BTC Dominance: 57.7%
Fear & Greed Index: 71 (Greed)
Altcoin Index: 37/100

👉 Latest News

• Hyperliquid and TradeXYZ Urge CFTC to Open Door to 24/7 U.S. Oil Trading
• Cosmos EVM Hacker Minted $50 Million — and Walked Away With Just $60,000
• Staking Ethereum could soon look entirely different under a new deposit proposal

👉 Small Cap Gainers

PolySwarm +162%
Bitlayer +111.3%
TAC +81.7%
Artificial Inu +68.1%
Aura +50.2%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- City protocol (prev. cooking city) $4M Pre-Series A round backed by Dragonfly
- Hivemind digital group $17M Strategic round led by M&G Investments
- Oro $3M Strategic round led by MH Ventures

​​Every Chain Has a Signature Narrative. Here Is What Fills The Top 50 🔍

Chains compete on narratives, but the tokens with the most value on them tell the real story. We sorted the top-50 tokens by market cap on seven major chains into categories, and each one has a signature of its own.

On Robinhood Chain, more than half of the top-50 tokens by market cap are memecoins, with a concentration no other chain comes close to. The category it was actually built for, tokenized assets, sits at just 12%.

Leading category by chain:

• Robinhood — Meme
• HyperEVM — Tokenized Assets
• BNB Chain — DeFi
• Solana — Stablecoins
• Base — DeFi
• Polygon — DeFi
• Ethereum — Blockchain

Ethereum looks different: its top tokens are largely other chains and L2s that settle on it, fitting for the base layer everyone builds on.

👉 Read the full story: https://cryptorank.io/insights/analytics/every-chain-has-a-signature-what-fills-the-top-50

​​⚡️Stocks now drive 67% of all HIP-3 volume on Hyperliquid

HIP-3, Hyperliquid's builder-deployed perp markets, has already done $73B in volume in August, with stocks alone accounting for $49B of it.

Over the course of 2026, stocks overtook commodities as the dominant category on HIP-3.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/exchanges/hyperliquid-futures

​​💰 Where Crypto VC Capital Went This Summer

Crypto VC funding this summer was led by Exchanges with $700M raised, followed by Payments at $537M and Blockchain projects at $468M.

The funding data points to a more selective VC market, with capital concentrating in sectors where revenue models and monetization are easier to evaluate.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/funding-analytics

​​📈Market Overview

Bitcoin traded just below $80,000 on Friday, as traders positioned ahead of Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s first Jackson Hole keynote.

Bitcoin: $79,702 +1.10%
Ethereum: $2,497 +0.20%

Market Cap: $2.77T
BTC Dominance: 57.8%
Fear & Greed Index: 73 (Greed)
Altcoin Index: 33/100

👉 Latest News

• Revolut Launches First Euro Stablecoin EURR
• Bitcoin ETFs Extend Inflow Streak to 9 Days With $242M Added
• Audited Protocols Account for 88% of Crypto Hack Losses Since 2025, Report Shows

👉 Small Cap Gainers

UNIPOLY +56.2%
Artificial Inu +46.5%
龙虾 (Lobster) +44.7%
Hemi +44.6%
WEN +41.1%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- City protocol (prev. cooking city) $4M Pre-Series A round backed by Dragonfly
- Zerodrift $500K Incubation round backed by YZi Labs (Prev. Binance Labs)
- Xstable $500K Incubation round backed by YZi Labs (Prev. Binance Labs)

​​💳 Crypto Cards Are Turning Stablecoins Into Everyday Payments

Crypto cards are no longer a niche product for converting exchange balances into fiat at checkout.

By August 2026, cumulative stablecoin card top-up volume had reached $13.8B, up from nearly $10B over the past 12 months.

👉Read The Full Story: https://cryptorank.io/insights/research/crypto-cards-are-turning-stablecoins-into-everyday-payments

​​Perp DEX Volume Rebounds in August

Over the past 30 days, the combined trading volume of the Top 8 Perp DEXs reached $423B, up 9.1% compared with the previous 30-day period.

Hyperliquid led growth at +21%, followed by:

Aster +19%
Variational +16%
Lighter +8.0%
Extended +5.6%

Hyperliquid retained its leading position with a 58% market share, while the three largest platforms accounted for 79% of total monthly Perp DEXs volume.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/exchanges/dex/derivatives

​​💸 Low-Cost Airdrops Watchlist

Our researchers identified 5 projects with low-cost activities that could potentially qualify for future airdrops. Below are the full activity guides:👇

• Beldex — $36M raised
• NeoSoul — $11M
• BitRobot — $8M
• Bullshot — $7.65M
• ORO — $3M

Complete available activities and track your progress while these projects are still in the early stages.

👉 CryptoRank.io/drophunting

​​🔥 Most Visited Tokens on CryptoRank This Week

Top movers:

• BTR +514.3%
• DGAI +374.1%
• DEBIT +28.3%

CYBERLEEK and XST took the biggest hits this week, down −91% and −89.4%.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/listings

​​📈 Market Overview

Bitcoin fell below $77,000 on Monday after renewed U.S.-Iran fighting ended nearly a month of relative calm and brought geopolitical risk back to markets.

Bitcoin: $78,217 +0.07%
Ethereum: $2,442 -0.60%

Market Cap: $2.72T
BTC Dominance: 57.7%
Fear & Greed Index: 62 (Greed)
Altcoin Index: 28/100

👉 Latest News

• TRON Now Holds Half of USDT
• Sberbank Plans to Accept Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT as Loan Collateral
• Bitcoin Dumps Below $77K as US-Iran Strikes Resume

👉 Small Cap Gainers

Zora +59.6%
up +52.5%
Basecat +52%
Hookr.fun +51.6%
FLock +43.4%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Chomp $3.6M Funding round led by BlueYard Capital
- Fintax Seed round led by YZi Labs (Prev. Binance Labs)
- Nydig M&A round backed by BitGo

​​📈 DeFi Lending Hits $26B as On-Chain Credit Demand Recovers

Active loans across leading DeFi lending protocols rose from $20.1B in June to $26.1B in August 2026, an increase of nearly 30% over the summer.

Aave remains the dominant player with $12.5B in active loans and roughly 48% market share, followed by Morpho at $5.1B and Spark at $2.1B.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/tags/lending-borrowing