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Gold blew past expectations Wednesday. Prices jumped 2.
The revenue crossover is real, but Anthropic rent starts only as new capacity is delivered from late 2027.
In this episode of Unchained Premium, Shrey Rastogi, co-founder and CEO of the tokenization protocol Kaio, joined Laura to talk about the fund Kaio just launched with Mubadala Capital, the alternatives arm of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund.
The top ten daily Uniswap (UNI) withdrawals on Binance averaged over 7,200 tokens this month. The price of UNI pulled back to $3.96 after hitting a 90-day high above $4.70 on August 1, 2026. The UNIfication governance proposal expanded the token burn mechanism to version 4 (v4) pools and the Robinhood Chain.
Bitcoin's 157-day futures drought and 200-week SMA echo rare conditions near the 2022 market bottom.
Axelar has securely connected both the XRP Ledger and its EVM Sidechain to the Axelar App.
Clustered short liquidations above $200 threatened a short squeeze, and a lack of demand could lead to a TAO price slump.
The Bitcoin (BTC) 30-day mean hash rate has fallen 19% since November 2025, sliding from 1,108 EH/s to 898 EH/s. Glassnode data shows the nine-month decline is the longest in the network's history.
Fabric Foundation announced on August 4, 2026, the integration of the PI token as a payment method within the RoboPay infrastructure. The Pi Core Team development group has not issued any official statement or verified the reported partnership.
Unibase has recorded its sharpest correction in days by dipping by 24% as the token slipped below its 20-day EMA. Weakening funding rates and downside liquidity clusters suggest sellers could remain in control.
Federal prosecutors said August 4 that Sedric Louis, John Davis and Martel Williams, all from St. Louis, were charged for allegedly helping plan an attempted Bitcoin robbery in Connecticut in August 2024.
The Grayscale XRP fund added 480,000 net shares in Q2 after a derived 3.94 million-share Q1 contraction, but net assets still fell.
The U.S. treating Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset may prompt other nations to follow, potentially altering global digital asset policies. United States holds largest national Bitcoin reserves at 328,372 BTC.
Most of the Bitcoin stolen through the COLDCARD wallet flaw remains unmoved, but on-chain investigators have detected a separate attacker beginning to route smaller amounts through a mixer.
Ondo Finance announced the integration of its precious metal tokens, GLDon (gold) and SLVon (silver), as collateral margin for perpetual futures positions on Ondo Perps. With this move, eligible traders outside the United States can back leveraged long or short positions in equities, indices, and commodities using real-world assets (RWA) instead of keeping idle capital.
