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Zcash (ZEC) hit its highest level in eight years on Saturday after Grayscale filed the fifth amendment to its registration request with the SEC.
The amendment advances Grayscale’s proposed Zcash ETF, but it still does not represent an SEC approval. If authorized, the fund would be the first U.S. ETF to track Zcash directly.
Complete details on fees and name
The fourth amendment, filed on Tuesday, left blank both the sponsor fee and the name. The change filed on Friday sets the annual fee at 2.5% of the Trust’s NAV Fee Basis Amount, accruing daily.

Gold surpassed $4,600 per ounce on Friday, reaching its highest level in three months and putting the metal on track for a weekly advance of nearly 5%.
A weaker dollar and new concerns about debt lead investors to seek protection.
Gold more 3-month highs… closing in on $4600 pic.twitter.com/8W3m3RhEVr
— Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 (@MikeZaccardi) August 21, 2026
What is driving the rise in gold?
Spot gold traded between $4,580 and $4,600 on Friday, while futures contracts neared $4,650, according to TradingView data. The gain reflects two converging factors:

Two Solana memecoins rose today (21) after a viral post on X drew a flood of new tokens into the replies. Jimothy The Raccoon (JIMOTHY) advanced 41% in 24 hours.
Bullshit Coin (BULLSHIT), a Solana token based on self-deprecating jokes about the memecoin universe, gained 21% over the same period. None of these moves were driven by a project announcement.
How did an X post drive two Solana memecoins?
Nate Esparza, senior technical product manager for ads at SpaceXAI, said on Friday morning that the crypto community on X is “… insane”.

Bitcoin and XRP are heading toward their strongest weekly closes of 2024, driven by a historic short squeeze and a wave of favorable political signals from Washington.
On-chain data adds a new perspective and suggests that this rally may be more than just a temporary move.
Bitcoin and XRP rise as on-chain data points to a rare bottom signal
The MVRV index compares Bitcoin’s current market value with its realized value, which is the average price at which the coins were last moved. Vertical spikes in this indicator have historically preceded major cycle bottoms.

MANTRA (MANTRA) fell to a historical low of $0.0041 after the project froze its blockchain and said that an attacker was exploiting a vulnerability in an external dependency.
The negative record was logged while the rest of the market advanced, extending a rally that intensified on Wednesday.
Why did MANTRA interrupt its blockchain?
The MANTRA Chain, a layer 1 blockchain developed for tokenizing real-world assets, was paused today. The initial announcement detailed that all endpoints and transactions were blocked.

Spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded net inflows of US$ 606.29 million on August 20, marking the fourth consecutive day with entries. The amount represents the highest daily volume recorded since May 1.
Ethereum (ETH) spot ETFs totaled US$ 221 million on the same day, also maintaining a four-day streak of inflows. Demand for both assets occurred while Bitcoin was trading at US$ 75,524, continuing the uptrend that drove the entire market throughout the week.

Two Binance employees were detained by authorities in the United Arab Emirates in recent weeks during police investigations into possible financial crimes on the platform, according to a report by The New York Times published on August 20, 2026.
Both have already been released. The arrests highlight the legal pressure on the world’s largest crypto exchange in the country that hosts its main regulatory body.
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Anthropic expects its initial public offering to match or exceed the size of the record set by SpaceX, according to people familiar with the matter, as preparations for the Claude developer’s market debut accelerate.
An artificial intelligence (AI) company can carry out the public offering registration as early as the end of August. Chief financial officer Krishna Rao declined to comment on the valuation during recent meetings with investors, according to sources.
Anthropic IPO targets a US$75 billion benchmark

C6 Bank closed the first half of 2026 with net income of R$ 1.3 billion. The figure represents 20% growth compared with the same period of 2025. The results were released on Tuesday (18).
Net revenue reached R$ 6.3 billion, a record for the bank over six months. The increase was 48% year over year. Total assets reached R$ 171 billion in June.
Performance came with a much higher risk cost. Expenses with provisions for doubtful debtors, known by the acronym PDD, rose from R$ 996 million to R$ 2.4 billion over the same period.

President Donald Trump made eight crypto endorsements since taking office. All of them operate below their pre-endorsement price, with an average drop of 60%. On Wednesday, he made the ninth by citing Hyperliquid (HYPE) at the White House.
The token jumped 14% in two hours. Whether HYPE can escape the pattern set by the cryptos endorsed by Trump depends on something absent from the earlier choices: in fact, there is a regulator working on the promise.
What did Trump really promise Hyperliquid?
Trump cited Hyperliquid yesterday (19) when he met executives from Coinbase, Ripple, Nasdaq and other companies at the White House.

Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETH) listed in the U.S. recorded inflows of US$189.15 million on August 19, the highest daily inflow since October 28, 2025.
The move took place during a broad market rally that boosted several major crypto ETFs.
Ethereum ETF demand returns after a weak first half
The result represents a shift to a product line that faced difficulties at the beginning of 2026. According to SoSoValue, Ethereum funds recorded outflows of US$540.88 million in May and US$528.99 million in June.

On October 10 of last year, a Friday headline about tariffs hit the highly leveraged crypto market hard, and about US$19 billion in positions were liquidated within 24 hours, most of them long, predominantly from retail investors.
Bitcoin fell by more than US$120,000 to around US$105,000. Solana lost 40% before finding new buyers, and more than 1.6 million accounts were wiped out or came close. Prices eventually stabilized. But people didn’t come back the same way.

The XRP price jump gained rare prominence on August 19, rising 10.40% and overtaking Bitcoin, which advanced 7.13%, driven by a sizable short squeeze that moved the entire market.
For those wondering why XRP is going up, the short squeeze was the trigger, but the token also showed its own strength. However, the financial volume that confirms the rise, the history of days like this, and the XRP chart itself indicate, together, a cautious path.
How strong was the XRP price rally, really?

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said the artificial intelligence (AI) lab plans to go public in 2027. She added that the debut could happen earlier if the “deal continues to develop.”
Friar announced the schedule in a general meeting held on Wednesday, more than two months after OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
OpenAI IPO timeline now points to 2027

A Shiba Inu (SHIB) rose 6.76% on Thursday, but the memecoin lagged behind a broad market rally that pushed Ethereum up 17.8%.
The project’s official profile attributed the recovery move to the team itself, telling followers that sellers noticed the token’s approach and “chose cardio.” However, wider market flows point to a different scenario.
Why did Shiba Inu’s rally track the market, not the memes?
The Shib team provided no technical explanation for the performance. Instead, it suggested that those who sold chose to abandon their positions, without trying to defend them.

Bitcoin (BTC) surpassed US$70,000 yesterday for the first time since June 2. The liquidation of short positions totaled US$2.74 billion over the past 24 hours.
The rally began after policy signals from Washington. Forced short covering amplified the move, turning a macroeconomic catalyst into a cascade across derivatives markets. Now, a key question arises: will the rally continue?
What drove the jump in Bitcoin’s price?
Two main factors are behind this move. BeInCrypto reported that the Treasury will double its repurchases of long-term debt to at least US$4 billion each.

Data from the National Cryptocurrency Survey, conducted by Paradigma Education in partnership with Datafolha and sponsored by Coinbase, ABCripto, and Hashdex, shows progress in adoption and knowledge of digital assets in Brazil, as well as signs that the topic is starting to gain traction in the electoral debate.
According to the survey, 65.8% of voters consider it important to vote for candidates committed to protecting cryptocurrency users’ rights. At the same time, 17.2% of Brazilians have already invested in these assets. Equivalent to nearly 29 million people. And 66.4% say they know cryptocurrencies, up 10.1 percentage points compared to 2025.

Bitcoin (BTC) has just regained the $70 thousand level for the first time since June 2. The wait of 78 days ended after President Donald Trump said that a government “expressive” purchase of Bitcoin “has been discussed”.
The Fed's July meeting minutes were released without causing any negative impact. Trump's statements further boosted the bullish move this Thursday.
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Inside today's White House Crypto Meeting 🇺🇸
– Trump says the US considers buying "sizeable" amounts of $BTC & crypto

President Donald Trump says regulators are working to bring Hyperliquid to the United States in a fully legal and compliant manner. HYPE, the exchange’s native token, rose more than 6% in just a few hours.
Trump spoke at a meeting at the White House with executives from crypto and technology on Wednesday, August 19. He highlighted the leadership of the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Michael Selig, in this process.
Hyperliquid. pic.twitter.com/09VxBeRIlO
— Hyperliquid Policy Center (@HyperliquidPC) August 19, 2026

The most recent Federal Reserve minutes revealed a deepening of divergences over inflation and interest rates, bringing fresh uncertainty to Bitcoin investors.
Although the central bank did not directly cite crypto assets, the warning about persistent inflation risks and possible future rate hikes may affect liquidity conditions that historically have driven digital asset markets.
Fed minutes pressure Bitcoin as risks of high interest rates reemerge
The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on July 28 and 29, released, showed that most of the policymakers supported maintaining the federal funds rate between 3.50% and 3.75%. However, three members argued for a 25-basis-point increase, signaling that concerns about inflation are still far from being resolved.