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On July’s final day-cue dramatic music-Bitcoin in South Korea finally synced up with global prices after weeks of playing hard to get. But alas, this “happy ending” lasted about as long as your New Year’s resolutions. By early August, the country flipped to a premium (imagine charging extra for popcorn at the movies), only to slide back into discount territory faster than you can say “cryptocurrency chaos.”
From the depths of a high-time frame support at $9.49, Chainlink (LINK) has embarked on a most audacious and bullish uptrend, much to the delight of its admirers. The reclaim of both the value area low and the point of control (POC) laid the groundwork for this current romp, propelling LINK into a spirited upward dance. Now, it trades above the value area high, but the path to glory is not without its challenges, as it faces a formidable resistance at $24.88. Conquering this barrier could pave the way for a grander adventure into uncharted territories.
The program, which unfurled its petals on August 13, 2025, operates with the subtlety of a chess grandmaster. No opt-ins, no approvals-merely the passive elegance of holding one’s Aave positions, like a dandy holding a monocle. How très chic, no? 🕶️
Leaders: UNI (+6.5%) and SOL (+6.4%) are currently leading the charge, like two particularly enthusiastic dwarves in a cryptocurrency miners’ guild.
Laggards: BCH (-1.9%) and XLM (+0.2%) are lagging behind, which is less exciting than watching a witch try to ride a goose. 🧙♀️ Goose: “Not today.”
The broader fashion, observed from a safe, snobbish distance, is to stitch together stablecoin blockchains like so many novelty quilts: Plasma raised $373 million while still damp from conception, Stable orbits Tether like a devoted spaniel, and now Tempo enters stage left humming a jaunty “me too”.
Zak Cole, a name respected in the Ethereum community, fell prey to a cunning piece of software from Cursor AI. This digital serpent slithered its way into his system, granting attackers access to his hot wallet for three days before making off with its contents. The culprit? An innocuous-looking plugin named “contractshark.solidity-lang.” It wore the mask of legitimacy well: professional iconography, persuasive descriptions, and over 54,000 downloads. But beneath this polished exterior lay betrayal-a silent thief that read his .env file and spirited away his private key to an attacker’s server.
Shiba Inu, that canine emblem perched atop the temple of memes, has leapt-a most canine leap-over 8% in the span of a single rotation of our weary planet, now prancing at the curious threshold of $0.00001394 (CoinGecko’s digital abacus confirms). Market cap? A voluptuous $8.2 billion-one could buy several respectable European principalities, or at least a modest yacht decorated with emojis.
For a platform that juggles over $4.57 billion in daily spot volume with the nonchalance of a society matron sipping her gin, such internal transfers are as commonplace as a Waugh protagonist’s disdain for the lower orders. Yet, the sheer audacity of this particular maneuver-19 million XRP, no less-managed to raise eyebrows even among the most jaded of observers. XRP, that perennial darling of Upbit’s trading floor, accounts for a staggering 12% of the exchange’s activity, a statistic as impressive as it is irrelevant.
Under the banner of CMB International, a prominent asset manager in Asia, has transformed their HK-Singapore Mutual Recognition Fund into a digital token named CMBMINT. This conversion was achieved in partnership with DigiFT and OnChain in Hong Kong and Singapore.
According to CoinMarketCap, DOGE’s trading volume hit $3.5 billion. That’s right, BILLION. Apparently, people are treating their life savings like they’re betting on which pigeon will poop first at the park. And guess what? The price went up too-9.4% to $0.2456. Congratulations, everyone who bought in thinking “this is my genius moment.” 🎉
