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Odin.fun, wey be Bitcoin-based memecoin launchpad, suffer big AMM exploit on August 13, 2025. Bad guys put fake SATOSHI token plus BTC inside platform liquidity pools make prices fake high. Dem come drain 58.2 BTC (about $7M), drop reserves from 291 to 232.8 BTC inside two hours. PeckShield na first detect the breach, and co-founder Bob Bodily confirm the AMM weakness. Odin.fun don freeze suspect accounts, secure remaining money, and dey work with US and China authorities, OKX and Binance to find the hacker. The platform plan full security check within one week. Odin.fun go give users compensation, even though their treasury fit no cover all loss. This matter show risk wey shallow liquidity pools and AMM weaknesses get inside DeFi.

Chainlink don knack free from one four-year symmetrical triangle pattern. E first jump 8.7% go up to $20.90, e trigger Fibonacci extension targets for $31.87, $52.30 and $86.15 by early 2027. Momentum come sharp with 9% weekly breakout above the $24 descending trendline. The pattern measure move point to rally go $350, about 1,398% gain for 294 days. Volume analysis dey show say volume low when e dey pull back but e dey spike when e dey go up, meaning say dem dey accumulate. On-chain flows confirm say plenty net outflows during the buildup and inflows go down during the price rally. RSI stand near 65–70, almost reach overbought levels, while MACD don cross bullish with green bars wey dey get bigger. Seasonal strength from October to December fit align with this upswing. Traders suppose dey watch the key support for $21 and dey find volume-backed moves to confirm the breakout or warn say e fit reverse.

VivoPower don appoint Crypto.com Custody as im institutional partner to boost im XRP treasury strategy. Through Crypto.com Custody’s multi-jurisdictional solution, VivoPower go secure storage and liquidity for planned $100 million XRP purchase through BitGo. Also, Crypto.com broker-dealer platform go list VivoPower shares (VVPR), wey go give access to over 150 million users and expand retail plus institutional participation. The partnership still extend support to VivoPower's Caret digital mining unit. Based on dis, VivoPower plan to use Flare’s upcoming XRP restaking feature for more DeFi yield. The deal confirm Crypto.com Custody as leading institutional custodian and push VivoPower’s transformation to digital asset enterprise.

Traders dey eye new meme coins for 2025, wey Troller Cat (TCAT) dey lead, wey dey offer projected 312% ROI on listing, 69% staking APY plus deflationary tokenomics powered by monthly buybacks and burns. August presale entrants like SPX6900 (SPX) dey use viral momentum and active wallet growth before CEX listing, meanwhile Cat in a Dog’s World (MEW) dey flip dog-coin trends wit feline branding, transaction burns plus influencer-backed liquidity injections. Comedian (BAN) dey add humor utility through meme contests, comedy livestreams and NFT joke drops wey relate to festival partnerships, and SLERF (SLERF) dey attract wit irreverent branding, mystery burns and community giveaways. Other popular altcoin picks for 2025 include SNEK for Cardano cos low fees and DAO governance; GIGACHAD scarcity-driven NFT governance passes; ANDY gamified leaderboards; COQ meme farming and charity burns; BONE dual utility in ShibaSwap; DOGINME unpredictable airdrops and burns; and Ponke’s punk-inspired NFT perks. Traders suppose check crypto presale stages, tokenomics, project audits, and staking APY to fit navigate dis high-risk, high-reward space well.

Cardano (ADA) don burst almost 20% last week, with 12% jump for the last 24 hours, all because of the Midnight airdrop wey start on August 5, 2025. The airdrop go share 24 billion NIGHT tokens for different chains, and ADA holders fit collect half of the supply. This ginger madam Cardano price talk as traders dey expect say demand go scatter. Prediction market don put 85% chance say Cardano ETF go get green light for 2025—up from 69% last week—this one fit unlock big oga money and make ADA shine wella. On-chain data dey show say big fish (whales) don stock up near 200 million ADA, carry big holders to over 10% of total supply. Technically, ADA don catch back $0.81 level as support and dey trade pass its 10-, 20-, 50-, and 200-day EMAs after breakout from descending triangle, which confirm say bullish vibes dey strong. DeepSeek analysts talk say ADA fit reach $3 for coming months because ETF approval chances plus strong on-chain movement. Meanwhile, Bitcoin Hyper (HYPER), presale Layer 2 solution wey join Solana Virtual Machine plus decentralized canonical bridge for Bitcoin, don gather over $9 million. HYPER give Solana-like speed, low fees, plus programmability to Bitcoin, put am for chance to dash 2400% gains. Traders suppose dey watch how Cardano ETF approval dey go, claims for Midnight airdrop, plus ADA key technical levels for short-term moves. For long-term, institutional money and whale accumulation fit hold growth steady. Make you also dey monitor Bitcoin Hyper presale momentum as high-risk, high-reward altcoin chance. For better trading gameplan, make sure you dey update Cardano price forecast as ETF and airdrop tins develop.

dWallet Labs don today show REFHE, new full homomorphic encryption (FHE) wey dey imitate how real CPU dey work, e fit do mixed arithmetic and logic operations on top encrypted 64-bit data. REFHE comot the old wahala wey dey between arithmetic speed and logic work, e get ciphertext wey small 100 times, multiplication wey fast 20 times and addition wey fast 1,000 times compared to that old TFHE wey don dey for like 10 years. This one mean say REFHE be the first real encrypted engine wey fit run real software well well. Dem go take the new threshold FHE research put REFHE inside Ika Network 2PC-MPC protocol for Sui, to reduce messages and make sign fast, better throughput and security for zero-trust signing. Their CEO Omer Sadika talk say REFHE fit make encrypted work go head to head with modern software style, e go open new privacy app wey dey decentralized custody, multi-chain DeFi plus safe digital asset management.

Bitcoin don break out from im bull flag, e shock pass $122,000 before e come pull back to test support around $118,000–$119,000 and fill the CME gap for $117,000 level. Bitcoin technical indicators dey show say RSI trendline don break and daily candle be bearish, wey fit mean say false breakout fit happen, but the ascending trendline plus the rising 50-day SMA dey provide correct support. For the two-week chart, the bullish engulfing pattern and RSI wey dey near that descending trendline dey show say strong upside potential dey, even though Stochastic RSI for daily and shorter charts still get space to reset. Traders suppose dey watch the $117,000 gap-fill level, $119,000 support, RSI 50.00, and Stochastic thresholds to sabi wetin the next move go be.

Stablecoin regulation dey still scattered for Europe Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA), US GENIUS Act plus Hong Kong stablecoin framework. This kain regulation wahala dey make stablecoin people dem to set parallel legal bodies, audit and governance system, wey dey make compliance costs high. Each system get different issuer license, reserve plus KYC procedures. MiCA allow non-bank issuer under European Banking Authority, but GENIUS Act restrict issuance only to banks and federal bodies. Hong Kong own rules dey require tight HKMA license and wallet level KYC. All dis operational wahala dey give bigger and loaded issuer advantage plus e fit make small projects waka or dem go merge. As stablecoin dey grow cross-border and join payment and capital market, e dey increase pressure make regulation join together. Market people plus crypto traders dey wait make global bodies like Financial Stability Board (FSB), Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and G20 show common reserve, disclosure and anti-money laundering (AML) rule. But regulators fit still use stablecoin rules as economic diplomacy, wey fit extend dis fragmentation for medium term.

Trader Yashasedu market-cap model dey project say Ethereum price fit reach $8,656 if Bitcoin price climb reach $150,000. The forecast dey use historical ETH/BTC ratios of 30–35% during past bull runs. Even if person use conservative 22% ratio, e still mean Ethereum price near $5,370. Right now, Ethereum price don surge 8% for 24 hours to $4,630 as Bitcoin price dey near $120,000. Spot Ether ETFs record one record $1 billion inflow, plus total value locked for Ethereum don pass $90 billion, show say institutional demand dey rise. Market veterans Tom Lee and Arthur Hayes predict say Bitcoin fit reach $250,000 by late 2025, which still support the upside case. Technical indicators still dey bullish too: Fear & Greed Index dey 73, Ether get green days for 67% of the past month, plus volatility dey moderate at 8.3%. Traders suppose watch Bitcoin price, ETF inflows, plus TVL growth as the main drivers for the next cycle.

Pantera Capital don commit $300 million to crypto treasury companies across US, UK and Israel. These digital asset treasuries dey use yield strategies like staking rewards, DeFi lending, stock issuance wey set above net asset value plus convertible bonds to make token holdings per share grow, even if market just dey flat. Di fund first investment na for BitMine Immersion Technologies wey get about 1.2 million ETH (around $5.3 billion) and dey target to control 5% of Ethereum total supply. Since dem start their ETH buying program for June, BitMine shares (BMNR) don grow pass 1,100%, way higher pass Ether gain wey be 90%. Pantera plan to expand BitMine’s at-the-market equity program reach $24.5 billion. Pantera portfolio cover BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, TON, SUI and ENA, showing how institutions dey find crypto treasury services more. Even though Pantera talk say these companies fit trade at premium by generating yield above capital cost, people like Vitalik Buterin and Standard Chartered analysts warn say too much leverage and market downturn fit scatter stability.

OKX don run beta on top OKB tokenomics with one-time token burn of 65.26 million OKB from old repurchases plus reserves, lock total supply for 21 million and remove mint and burn functions from smart contract. The exchange also dey enable automatic on-chain burn for all OKB wey dem send go blackhole address. After the announcement, OKB price climb over 160% within 10 minutes, dey trade pass $130. As part of the upgrade, OKX go stop Ethereum L1 version of OKB, so holders go need swap their tokens go X Layer. Dem go shut down OKTChain in August 2025, to automatically convert OKT to OKB. The X Layer upgrade bring in zkEVM chain wey fit handle 5,000 TPS, gas fee near zero, better DeFi and RWA support, more improved bridges, ecosystem funds and liquidity incentives.

Abraxas Capital dey wrestle wit $244.8M loss for crypto short for di main digital assets. Di company aggressive position include 113,819 ETH shorts worth $483M, wey don give unrealized loss of $188.7M. Shorts for BTC, SOL, HYPE, and SUI add another $56M loss. Dis crypto short loss show di risk wey dey if you bet against strong market trend for volatile market. Traders fit face more market wahala if big liquidation happen. Dis situation na warning to make risk management strong and rethink short-selling plans. To monitor market feeling and make sure say trading with leverage clear na key for market to stand gidigba.

For July 2025, corporate Ethereum reserves climb 128%, reach record 2.7 million ETH (≈$11.6 billion) as 24 new companies add ETH to their treasuries. Big holders like Bitmine Immersion Tech (1.2M ETH), The Ether Machine (598,800 ETH) and SharpLink Gaming (345,400 ETH) dey hold about 7.98% of total ETH supply. Corporate ETH stockpiles equal about 46.5% of assets in ETH spot ETFs, wey get 5.8M ETH after 39.5% gain. Strong staking yields, deflationary tokenomics after Merge, plus clearer US regulation — wey treat Ethereum as commodity — don boost demand. Spot ETH ETFs post $1 billion net inflows on August 11 and get 19 consecutive days of inflows. Global crypto market cap rise 13.3% in July, push Ethereum market share to 11.8% as BTC dominance reduce to 60%.

BTCS don expand dia NFT company treasury by how dem buy multiple Pudgy Penguins NFTs. Dis Nasdaq-listed miner don already get like $300 million Ethereum, and dis strategic move dey diversify im digital assets into blue-chip NFTs. Pudgy Penguins wey dem launch for 2021 with 8,888 unique avatars plus PENGU token dey serve now as operational assets for BTCS balance sheet. Dis addition to BTCS NFT company treasury show say enterprise blockchain dey grow. GameSquare Holdings recently spend $5.15 million on CryptoPunk #5577, while World Liberty Financial plan NFT allocations from dia $1.5 billion fund. As NFTs dey turn from collectables to revenue-generating, community-driven assets, traders need watch for more ETH network activity and institutional demand. Dis shift fit drive short-term price change plus long-term market growth.

DeFi TVL hit record $270 billion for July, up 30% month-on-month, as tokenized stock wallets waka from 1.6k reach over 90k, plus market-cap surge of 220%. Meanwhile, NFT DApps trading volume shine with 96% jump to $530 million, and average prices double to $105. Daily active wallets reach 22 million, 3.85 million dey interact with NFT platforms—small pass DeFi. Ethereum-based Blur hold 80% of NFT volume, OpenSea lead with 27,000 traders, and Layer-2 platform Zora gain ground via its ZORA token. Big brands like Nike, Louis Vuitton, Rolex and Coca-Cola China launch NFT pilots. Despite this comeback, 2024 NFT volume and sales still down 19% and 18% year-on-year, H1 2025 sales total $2.82 billion, down 4.6% from H2 2024, and far below 2021 peaks.

For April, di ODIN•FUN exploit make attackers blow up di SATOSHI token price through one liquidity pool exploit, dem comot away 58.2 BTC (roughly $7 million) from the AMM. Di ODIN•FUN exploit use pump-and-dump on di SATOSHI token to empty di platform reserves. After di wahala, ODIN•FUN pause AMM trading, dem involve one big security company to do full smart contract audit. Di team also inform law enforcement and big exchanges like Binance to track and recover di stolen money. Dis liquidity pool exploit show how DeFi security risk dey grow. Traders suppose check their risk with high-risk AMM pools and wait for audit result before dem start to trade again.

Pantera Capital forecast for November 2022 predict say Bitcoin (BTC) go reach $117,482 by August 11, 2025. Coin Metrics data through CNBC confirm say BTC close above $119,000 dat date wit price near $120,000 — up 660% from di low of $16,000. Dis result show say Bitcoin halving cycle fit predict well and e show say di returns dey reduce after each halving. Institutional adoption don rise: US spot Bitcoin ETFs hold 1.49 million BTC (7.1% of di supply) and public plus private companies hold 1.36 million BTC. Some insiders like Jason Williams and Pierre Rochard talk say since 95% of Bitcoin don already mine, halving effect for circulating supply don dey small now as demand dey shift to retail investors, new ETP products and corporate reserves.

New York Southern District Federal Court don extend di deadline for Roman Storm retrial, e fit mean say any new trial about Tornado Cash money laundering and US sanctions violation fit delay till December 18, 2025. Judge Katherine Failla exclude di time wey pass di standard 70-day window make Storm get extra time prepare for im retrial. Storm bin convict for August 2023 for running money transmitting business without license wey relate to Tornado Cash, but di jury no fit decide for conspiracy to commit money laundering and violate US sanctions charges. Im still dey free on bail while e dey wait sentence and any retrial motion. Di co-founders Alexey Pertsev wey convict for money laundering for Netherlands and dey appeal, plus Roman Semenov wey still dey missing, dey face parallel legal cases.

Bitcoin dominance don drop below di key 60% market share mark for di first time since January, e low reach about 59.2% as Ethereum rally dey go. Analysts for Bull Theory and Dan Gambardello talk say weekly chart weak and e break below long-term support, dem dey predict say e fit drop reach 45% inside six months—fit trigger big “mega altseason” as traders dey shift capital go altcoins. Social trading sentiment for altcoins strong, but altseason indexes no too dey join: CoinMarketCap still dey 37/100, Blockchain Center don rise reach 53. Bitcoin price steady for near $119,350, but Ethereum dey lead gains—up over 8% reach $4,670, near im 2021 high. Other big altcoins dey rally too: SOL +12% reach $200, ADA +9% reach $0.86, LINK +13% reach $24.50, and LTC +11% reach $133. Traders go dey watch these technical indicators and price moves well to see if dis drop for Bitcoin dominance mean say na long-term shift go altcoins or na short correction.

Caldera don launch ERA Force One, one community platform wey get levels for $ERA token holders wey dey follow U.S. Air Force ranks from Airman Basic reach General. How dem rank members na by how much $ERA token dem get plus wetin dem stake, and higher levels dey give better benefits like access to private Telegram groups and direct talk to Caldera team. The platform dey calculate holdings automatically when person register for eraforce.one. Dem get plans for future governance and more rewards. This launch follow after $ERA token dem list for big exchanges like Binance, Bybit, Coinbase, Upbit, Bitget and Bithumb. ERA Force One wan make staking incentives dey gidigba with long term community involvement, plus e go make Caldera’s blockchain system strong and help $ERA token grow for liquidity and adoption.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood strong talk say Bitcoin go pass $1 million by 2030, as institution dem dey adopt am quick quick. She talk say Bitcoin dey grow as digital gold plus na main way institution dem dey waka enter digital assets. As more institution dem dey see Bitcoin as reliable store of value, demand plus money wey dey flow from both institution and small small investors go increase. Analyst dem dey compare this change to how commodities dem been dey adopt for past, wey fit help keep price steady for long time even if Bitcoin dey volatile. Traders make dem dey watch how institution dem dey engage and ETF money flow to know wetin market go do next.

Ethereum derivatives open interest jump waka $1.9B come reach $24.5B for just one day, then e clear $30B as ETH price waka pass $4,400. Dis rapid rise for open interest mean sey leverage and speculative positions for Ethereum derivatives market dey rise. High leverage don cause big liquidations, including $119M for ETH positions inside 12 hours and $140M inside 24 hours, which add up to $284M total crypto futures liquidations. Glassnode on-chain metrics show sey realized ETH profit-taking don bounce back to $553M every day. Traders suppose dey watch Ethereum derivatives open interest and liquidation data well-well. High open interest and leverage mean say volatility go high and risk of sudden price drop dey, while long-term trend depend on steady demand for ETH derivatives.

Circle don report strong performance for Q2 2025. USDC buff up 90% year-on-year to $61.3 billion by June 30 and reach $65.2 billion by August 10. Revenue and reserve money grow 53% to $658 million, while adjusted EBITDA climb 52% to $126 million. Net loss increase to $482 million, because of $591 million non-cash IPO expense. The launch of Circle Payments Network don onboard over 100 institutions, make cross-border payments better. Circle also bring out Arc, layer-1 blockchain wey dey use USDC as im native gas token. Partnerships with Binance, OKX, FIS and Fiserv make Circle market position strong. Active USDC wallets with more than $10 increase by 68% to 5.7 million. On-chain USDC transaction volume rise to $5.9 trillion, 5.4 times more than last year. As second biggest stablecoin, USDC enjoy US GENIUS Act, wey mandate backing with cash or short-term government securities, boost institutional confidence. For the future, Circle dey plan to expand market share and push real-world use of Arc and the Payments Network.

Crypto sentiment tracker Santiment dey report say retail traders dey sell Ethereum as e dey near im all-time high of $4,878 because plenty FUD dey for social media. Big whales dey collect ETH, dem dey soak up the supply wey retail traders dey sell and dis dey help the rally. On-chain data from Glassnode show say short-term holders dey sell more active pass long-term investors, wey fit mean say some pullback fit happen. Ethereum don jomp 53% inside the last 30 days and e climb 7.95% inside the last 24 hours to about $4,622. Even though forecasts dey mixed—targets dey from short-term top to $10,000—the continuous whale buying as retail confidence low dey support bullish trend. Traders suppose dey watch whale activity, retail sentiment, and on-chain metrics to find good entry points.

Late Tuesday for US trade, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talk say make Fed cut rate by 50 basis points for September. Dis talk make altcoin dem rally sharply for crypto market. Investors don mostly expect say na 25bp move go happen. But di chance say Fed go cut 50bp make risk assets dey increase. Ethereum lead di gains, jump almost 9% pass $4,600—di highest for almost five years. Cardano, Solana and Litecoin gain about 8%, XRP rise 3.5%. Bitcoin keep around $120,000 as traders move money enter high-beta coins. Di rally follow July US CPI data wey match estimates. But na di speculation of Fed rate cut spark speculative demand. Softer dollar and new bets on accommodative Fed make altcoin trading volume shi shi. As expectations for Fed rate cut reach peak, di altcoin rally show how rate policy dey make crypto market waka up and down. Traders suppose dey watch rate cues wey dey change for market moves wey fit happen soon.

XRP dey trade near $3.30, e dey test long-term resistance wey dey $3.31 after e comot from $3.00 support zone. Volume don increase for where resistance dey, e be like wetin happen for late 2017 accumulation phase but now e slow small. Key moving averages like 20-day EMA wey dey $3.07 and 50-day EMA at $2.81 still dey provide support. If price close pass $3.31 for one day, e fit trigger targets for $3.50 and $3.70. If e no fit break resistance, e fit pull back go EMA levels or $3.16 support. Traders suppose dey watch XRP resistance, support levels, and volume trends to confirm breakout plus see better place to enter.

After Bitcoin reach im highest point close to $122,250, e correct small and now e dey steady under $120,000. E hold support around $118,600 on the hourly chart, where one bullish trend line junction with 100-hour SMA. Immediate resistance dey at $120,250 and $120,850, if e clear pass $120,500 sharply, e fit target $122,250, $124,000 and even $125,000. But if e no fit clear $120,500, Bitcoin price fit drop go $118,600, $117,800 or even lower reach the important $113,500 floor. Hourly technical indicators show say MACD dey lose im bullish strength and RSI dey trade below 50. Traders suppose watch the key levels at $120,000 and $118,600 for signs of the next direction move.

Bithumb don start di TOWNS/KRW spot trade since August 8 for 06:00 UTC, e dey give direct KRW access to di Towns Protocol token. Di new listing for one of South Korea big exchanges open deposit and withdrawal, make fiat on-ramps easy, and e go sure boost liquidity. When KRW liquidity full, e fit make spread small and make price discovery better. Past exchange listings sef dey make short-term price movement, so TOWNS na token wey you suppose watch. Traders suppose sabi Towns Protocol fundamentals well, dey watch TOWNS volatility, and use risk management plan like stop-loss orders. If dem dey follow official update from Bithumb and Towns Protocol, e go help market people put trading strategies well for dis important listing.

Thumzup Media Corporation, wey dey registered for Nasdaq as social media marketing company, don close $50 million public offer wey price be $10 per share, make dem fit fund dia crypto investments and mining infrastructure. Dis money go help dem buy Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) direct and support how dem go take buy and install crypto mining hardware. Dis move na strategic diversification to enter digital assets and crypto mining, to bring steady money from verified transactions and also catch long-term market growth. Some part of the money go use bolster dia working capital and general corporate needs. Dis crypto investment show say big institution dey interested for digital assets and e mean say demand for mining equipment dey rise. Traders make dem watch how e fit affect Bitcoin and Ethereum price, market wahala, energy cost, and how laws dey change. Thumzup style fit set way for other mid-cap company wey wan enter the high-growth digital market.