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“Biggest week ever for them, thanks to Ether ETFs stepping up big,” Balchunas exclaimed in a post on Friday, as if announcing the winner of a particularly thrilling game of bridge.

Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and a prominent figure in the cryptocurrency industry, has announced substantial purchases of various digital assets. On August 15, 2025, Mr. Hayes acquired additional amounts of HYPE, LDO, and ENA. Over the past five days, he has put money into 1,750 ETH for 7.43 million, 58,631 HYPE for 2.62 million, 3.1 million ENA at a cost of 2.48 million, 1.29 million LDO for 1.83 million, 184,610 PENDLE at a cost of 1.02 million, and 420,000 ETHFI for 516,600. These sales indicate that he is more confident in the cryptocurrency market. 📈🚀

Mark this: such registration is merely a ritual-an early, procedural act-and bears no promise that the SEC, that venerable gatekeeper of all things financial, has given the nod. Still, markets, ever eager to chase after spectacle, reacted swiftly; Trump’s digital darling rebounded from roughly $9.35 to a sprightly $9.55, a gain of over 10% in a week, as if the token had discovered the fountain of youth.

The warrants, like dark clouds, descended upon federal courts in Virginia, California, and Texas, where a foreign national, now a pariah in the digital realm, faces the wrath of an ongoing criminal case. 🧨 The man, whose name echoes like a cursed spell, allegedly unleashed Zeppelin ransomware, turning innocent souls into captives of his digital tyranny. 🕵️♂️

Meet Devin Johnson, a precocious 20-year-old who, along with his partner in alleged mischief, thought it wise to immortalize their six-figure escapade on social media. Because, naturally, the best way to commemorate a crime is to turn it into content-how very modern of them! 📸

Pumpius waxes poetic about how Ripple, far from being the scrappy underdog fighting against Big Brother, was actually Big Brother’s favorite child all along. This isn’t your typical garage startup selling dreams of decentralization; oh no, Ripple was crafting tools for bankers and bureaucrats right out of the gate. Near-zero fees? Instant settlement? Compliance baked into its DNA faster than you can say “ISO 20022”? These aren’t traits of a rebel alliance-they’re hallmarks of a system destined to replace SWIFT, the global payments dinosaur. 🦖

The Nasdaq-listed wanderers (DFDV) announced a 5.5% convertible senior note-a document crisp as fallen leaves-due 2030, whispered from one trembling suit to another, each qualified institutional buyer longing for a taste of Rule 144A’s forbidden fruit. And, as fate would have it, the offering grew larger, as all things do in tales already too long. 📉📈

The Virtual protocol [VIRTUAL] has endured what officials might call “an unfortunate but necessary adjustment”-in reality, it’s been bludgeoned: 12% off the top, liquidity sprinting for the borders, and a community looking as hopeful as train station pigeons. At this moment, it sits among the sickliest of altcoins, down a resounding 28%, a statistic fit for investigation (and an irrepressible sigh).

It looks like Scott’s been a bit busy in the news today, after confirming that the reserves, which came to life thanks to President Trump’s March Executive Order, might be getting a boost through strategic acquisitions. Hold your horses, though – originally, the plan was for these reserves to be packed with only Bitcoin from seized assets. 😲

Most polite people withdraw money from a bank with a modest cough and a queue ticket. Ether whales prefer the theatrical style: seventeen-and-a-bit thousand ETH yanked out of Kraken faster than you can say “liquidity crisis cappuccino”.
Two brand-new wallets, still with that fresh-parchment smell, siphoned off 71,025 ETH in three days. One of them, 0x2A92, has the air of a dragon building its hoard-53,434 ETH clutched so far, and a mere 30,069 ETH bought during the dip “because it was on sale, obviously”.