Crypto Fortress 1

This is massive: CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost reports that 3.56 million $BTC is now considered lost.

Marking an all-time high equivalent to 17.7% of the circulating supply.

#BTC Price Analysis# #Macro Insights#
#BTC #Bitcoin #Altcoin Season#

Trump is set to meet the CEOs of Coinbase, Ripple, and Kraken at the White House on August 19;
Right as the bill that was supposed to hand crypto its regulatory clarity is quietly losing altitude.

The CLARITY Act cleared the House back in 2025 and has been grinding through Senate committees since.

Majority Leader John Thune has now filed cloture on H.R. 3633, leaving roughly 14 legislative working days before the October recess to find 60 votes.

Prediction markets currently price 2026 passage at only about 20%, as talks stall over ethics provisions restricting officials' crypto holdings and banking-industry pushback against stablecoin yield features.

Adding to the uncertainty, the SEC quietly postponed its August 14 "Regulation Crypto" rulemaking session; removing another expected catalyst from the calendar entirely.

The market is already pricing in the stall. $BTC is stuck at $63,000, well off its 2026 highs, while $XRP is defending the psychologically important $1 level amid thin weekend volume and continued spot ETF outflows.

Monday's meeting won't pass a law. But it will signal whether the industry's biggest names walk out reassured; or recalibrating for a longer wait. #BTC Price Analysis#
#Bitcoin Price Prediction: What is Bitcoins next move?#

#Bitcoin activity is drying up across the board.

Spot, futures, options, ETFs and DAT equities are all down 21-47% MoM, while price barely moved.

The market isn't selling, it's simply waiting for a reason to care.

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$LINK: technical breakdown & growth catalysts

Chainlink is rapidly emerging as one of the most compelling setups in the current market. It continues to set the benchmark for cross-chain connectivity, compliance, and real-world data integration.

On the 4-hour WhiteBIT chart, $LINK cleanly broke out of a prolonged consolidation phase, pushing towards $9.53 after testing local highs above $9.70-$9.80.

The Bollinger Bands clearly capture this transition from a volatility squeeze into a strong trend expansion, with the price hugging the upper band while the 20 SMA at $9.34 now serves as solid dynamic support.

The RSI sits at a healthy 64.05, cooling off nicely from its previous overbought spike near 80 to leave plenty of runway for the next leg up.

Crucially, the breakout above the $8.80-$9.00 range was backed by a noticeable surge in volume, confirming genuine institutional and retail backing.

Expanding institutional collaborations with heavyweights like Amundi, Visa, and Canton reinforce Chainlink's dominance in real-world asset tokenization. Meanwhile, the development of the Chainlink Runtime Environment and its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) positions the network as the essential settlement highway for autonomous Al agents moving assets across disparate blockchains.

As long as LINK holds above the critical $9.34-$9.50 support zone, the immediate market structure remains firmly bullish, paving the way for a retest of $9.80 and a swift push toward the $10.00+ psychological barrier.

DYOR!

#LINK #Macro Insights#

Strategy Adds $150M to Cash Reserve, Buys Back $132M of STRC

Strategy strengthened its liquidity position this week without selling any $BTC. The company added $150M to its USD Reserve, bringing total cash reserves to $4.8B, while repurchasing $132M of STRC preferred stock. According to Michael Saylor, the move extended Strategy's USD Duration to 2.8 years, up another 41 days, while tightening STRC's $BTC Credit to 114 bps.

As of August 16, Strategy still holds 840,447 $BTC. The important part is the capital structure. A larger USD reserve gives Strategy more capacity to service dividends and interest without relying on $BTC sales, while repurchasing STRC reduces preferred exposure at the same time.

In other words, Strategy isn't adding Bitcoin right now; it's building a stronger liquidity buffer around the Bitcoin it already owns. For $MSTR, that may be increasingly important if $BTC remains below Strategy's average acquisition cost.
#BTC Price Analysis# #Bitcoin Price Prediction: What is Bitcoins next move?#

The pain of every $BTC and crypto investor

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El Salvador Keeps Stacking Bitcoin!

El Salvador now holds 7,743 $BTC, worth roughly $490M, and continues to add Bitcoin almost every day. The interesting part is not just the size of the stack, it's the consistency. Despite every market cycle, the country has not sold a single Bitcoin since the program began.

Conviction shows when the market gets noisy!

#ElSalvador #CryptoNews

Gold Is 22% Below Its ATH. Central Banks Are Buying More - $BTC Next?

+62% that's how much central-bank gold buying jumped YoY in Q2, reaching 289 tonnes. We just talked about the Bank of Korea taking a $250M gold ETF position after 13 years. Now the broader picture makes that move look much less isolated.

In Q2:

- Poland → +51t
- China -> +33t, its biggest quarter since 2023
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan →+ 16t
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan →+15t

And there may be more coming: a record 45% of surveyed central banks say they expect to increase their own gold reserves over the next 12 months.

Gold gets much less attention now than when it was printing ATH after ATH. But central banks haven't lost interest maybe something is starting to build again on the traditional-assets side...
#Altcoin Season# #BTC Price Analysis#
#Gold

Capital B bought another 5 $BTC for €280,000, bringing its strategic #Bitcoin holdings to 3,145 #BTC.

The company funded the purchase through new shares, continuing its Bitcoin accumulation strategy.

Capital B says its BTC Yield is 2.14% YTD, meaning its Bitcoin per fully diluted share has increased.

The interesting part: Capital B keeps buying while Strategy has been selling BTC to fund dividends and share buybacks.

For now, the key question is whether Capital B can keep increasing BTC per share as it
raises more capital.

#Macro Insights#

Goldman Sachs пробивается глубже на рынок крипто-ETF

Goldman Sachs договорился о приобретении NEOS Investments за $2,25 млрд — сделка, которая даст банку контроль над тремя крипто-ETF, ориентированными на опционные стратегии по $BTC и Ethereum. Средства:

NEOS Bitcoin High Income ETF (BTCI) — $1 млрд+ в AUM
Boosted Bitcoin High Income ETF (XBCI)
Ethereum High Income ETF (NEHI)

Сейчас NEOS управляет 19 ETF с примерно $30 млрд активов. После приобретения Goldman Sachs ожидает, что совокупные активы его ETF превысят $130 млрд, что сделает компанию 8-м крупнейшим провайдером ETF в мире.

Самое интересное, что это не традиционные спотовые крипто-ETF. Они используют опционные стратегии для генерации дохода, включая covered calls (покрытые коллы).

Ранее Goldman Sachs уже подавал заявку на собственный Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, но Эрик Балчунас из Bloomberg считает, что приобретение NEOS фактически дает банку более быстрый путь к тому же рынку.

#BTC Price Analysis# #Bitcoin Price Prediction: Что будет следующим шагом Биткоина?#

$ETH
Vitalik says #Ethereum aims for massive scalability while preserving decentralization, security, and censorship resistance.

SpaceXAI — это официально: приобретение Cursor на $60B меняет правила игры

SpaceX только что завершила свою рекордную сделку по покупке Anysphere на $60 миллиардов полностью акциями — команда, стоящая за Al-кодинг агентом Cursor!

Cursor официально становится ключевым дочерним подразделением под зонтичным брендом SpaceXAI. Главный катализатор? Прямой доступ к суперкомпьютеру xAl Colossus и крупнейшему в мире парку GPU для обучения моделей нового поколения вроде Grok 4.6 и запуска Grok Bot.

Уолл-стрит это замечает — Morgan Stanley прогнозирует, что такой программный разворот может принести до $13B выручки к 2027 году, а долгосрочные целевые уровни цены акций — до $600.

Как и $BTC превратился из техэксперимента в глобальную финансовую инфраструктуру, технологические титаны понимают: сырые вычислительные мощности и AI-агенты — это главные «твёрдые активы» этой декады.

#Анализ цены #BTC#
#Прогноз цены Bitcoin: что будет следующим шагом биткоина?#

Как сообщается, Белый дом планирует встречу с представителями криптоиндустрии $BTC на следующей неделе

Как сообщает Politico со ссылкой на три источника, знакомых с планами, Белый дом готовится к встрече с руководителями криптоиндустрии и лидерами рынка прогнозов на следующей неделе.

К встрече также могут присоединиться руководители традиционных финансовых компаний, однако присутствие Дональда Трампа пока не подтверждено.

Время примечательно: встреча может состояться всего за один день до первой сессии нового Консультативного комитета CFTC по инновациям, которая запланирована на 20 августа.

В комитет входят руководители компаний из крипто, финансов, гейминга и рынка прогнозов.

#BTC Price Analysis# #Bitcoin Price Prediction: What is Bitcoins next move?#

Harvard ПРИОСТАНОВИЛА продажу своего $BTC ETF во
2 квартале, удерживая 3,04 млн акций BlackRock IBIT на сумму $101,4 млн после сокращения позиции в течение двух кварталов подряд.

Раскрытые запасы золота Harvard составили $171,2 млн, при этом она не имела экспозиции в $ETH ETF.

SPCX оставался крупнейшей публичной позицией Harvard — $2,21 млрд — и составлял 52% от ее раскрытого портфеля..
#BTC Анализ цены#

What If the CLARITY Act Never Passes?

The CLARITY Act is supposed to answer one of $BTC crypto's biggest US questions: wh regulates what (the SEC or CFTC) and what rules crypto companies have to follow.

We've spent a lot of this year stressing over every headline around those names.. and maybe it's time to relax a little?

🇺🇸 Chris Perkins, Head of Franklin Crypto at Franklin Templeton, says crypto would be "just fine" even if the bill never becomes law. He argues that regulatory clarity is already being built through the agencies themselves:

• the SEC and CFTC are developing clearer rules under Paul Atkins and Michael Selig
• their joint work shows progress doesn't have to wait for Congress

So in his view, $BTC and the rest of crypto can keep getting a clearer US rulebook even without this much-discussed bill.

I'd still like to see CLARITY pass, though. Europe already has MICA creating one common framework for crypto, and it would be good to get another strong signal from the US too.

But if CLARITY stalls, it probably isn't the disaster many expected
#CLARITYAct #BTC Price Analysis# #BTC Price Analysis#

Strategy holds $53B in $BTC

The bigger question isn't whether they sell it's whether an index rule could force the market to react.

If passive funds are required to rebalance, a technical rule could create real selling pressure, regardless of long-term conviction.

Bitcoin's liquidity will be tested. Watch the flows.
#BTC Price Analysis# #Altcoin Season#

On this day in 2017, bitcoin made history by breaking above $4,400 for the first time.

fast forward to 2025, and $btc pushed past $124k.

from $4.4k to $124k — what a journey.

#btc

+8,000% Profit Unlocked? Ancient BTC Moves $7M+ After A Decade of Silence

The market is keeping everyone on their toes this week. $BTC is down about 2% over the last seven days, currently floating around $63,030. Between broader macro noise and the delayed U.S. CLARITY Act, traders are playing it safe.

But behind the scenes, something much more interesting is happening.

According to Galaxy Research, four ancient wallets- inactive for over 12 years - just transferred a total of 114.39 BTC in less than 48 hours. We're talking about wallets created back in early 2014 when BTC was trading around a modest $814.

That's a massive +8,000% gain sitting on those balances.

Here is how it went down:

• On August 11, three 2014-era wallets moved 87.43 BTC across three separate transactions.
• Just a day prior, a fourth wallet from the same era transferred 26.96 BTC.
• The funds ended up in fresh, modern P2SH-script wallets.

Moving coins doesn't automatically mean a market dump is incoming. In fact, OG holders often move funds simply to upgrade security protocols, shift to modern cold storage, or rebalance custody setups. However, given how sensitive the market is right now especially with memories of Mt. Gox payouts keeping supply fears alive any sudden wake-up call from early whales gets immediate attention..

If these ancient coins eventually hit exchanges, we could see short-term sell pressure. But until then, it's a strong reminder: patience in crypto pays off big time.

#BTC Price Analysis#
#Bitcoin Price Prediction: What is Bitcoins next move?#

СРОЧНО: 🇨🇭 Центральный банк Швейцарии
только что объявил, что владеет криптоактивами на сумму $64,000,000, имеющими отношение к $BTC, через #MSTR.

Европа просыпается от BTC, и это еще один сигнал о том, что институциональный интерес распространяется за пределы привычных рынков.

Теория игр развивается по всему миру.
Центральные банки, учреждения и крупные инвесторы все чаще находят способы получить доступ к Биткоину.

Главный вопрос сейчас: кто сделает первый шаг и кому не достанется преимущество?

JPMorgan Doubles Bitcoin ETF Exposure and Adds Ethereum, XRP Back

Even as spot $BTC ETFs see unstable daily flows, JPMorgan is quietly increasing its crypto exposure. The bank's Q2 filing shows $355.7M in BlackRock IBIT holdings, up sharply from roughly $162M in Q1, while Ethereum ETF exposure jumped 338%

Meanwhile, JPMorgan returned to XRP through Bitwise and Grayscale ETFs, while also adding a new position in the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF. Its Ethereum position reached about $14.3M, still more than 20x smaller than its Bitcoin exposure.

The filing shows a clear hierarchy: Bitcoin remains the main institutional bet, Ethereum is growing fast, and $XRP is slowly returning to the mix. With the next 13F due in November, the key question is whether JPMorgan keeps adding crypto exposure in Q3 or starts cutting back.

#BTC Price Analysis#
#XRP #Macro Insights#