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Price is now testing the main volume zone around $59.18. If we get a clean hold above this level, I expect the move to continue above $63, where I’ll be looking to close my long.

After that, I’m interested in building a medium-term short if BTC and the broader market start correcting. I’ll split the entries into two zones: $63–65 and $67–69.

For now, I’m sticking to the original medium-term setup and letting price come to my levels.

Not financial advice. This is just my personal trading view.

I came across this comparison and honestly it made me stop for a second.

Back in 2021 everything felt like it was going up forever. People were talking about the next big coin and acting like every dip was just another buying opportunity. Fast forward to 2026 and some of those same coins are nowhere near their old highs.

The funny part is that the mindset around crypto hasn't changed that much. Every cycle feels like “this time is different” until the market reminds everyone how quickly things can change.

For people who were around in 2021, what do you think you understand about crypto now that you completely missed back then?

Hackers exploited a macOS Screen Sharing vulnerability to remotely access exposed Macs without the correct password and install Monero mining software.

The issue was especially serious because changing or removing the password wasn’t enough to stop the attack. Apple patched the vulnerability on August 6 in macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, Sequoia 15.7.9 and Sonoma 14.8.9.

Researchers found tens of thousands of potentially vulnerable devices exposed online, while CISA raised the vulnerability’s severity score from 7.1 to 9.8 out of 10.

Monero is a common choice for cryptojacking because XMR can be mined using regular CPUs, making compromised computers useful even without dedicated mining hardware.

On the lower timeframe, Bitcoin is still moving pretty much in line with the trading plan. The idea was to see some upside at the beginning of the month together with the stock market, and so far that scenario is slowly playing out.

On the 6H chart, I’m still expecting another push higher. The trigger could come with the US labor market data on Friday, or we may have to wait until the market opens next week.

My main scenario is a move toward the $67K–$68K area. That’s where I’ll be watching closely for sellers to step back in. If we get a strong rejection there, I expect Bitcoin to turn lower again and continue the broader mid-term bearish move.

For this week, I’m holding a small long position and looking to take profit around $67,275. Stop is at $61,275.

So for now, I’m trading the short-term move higher, but I’m not treating it as the start of a new bullish trend. I still see it as an upside move before another potential leg down.

A major data breach in France exposed personal information belonging to 678,000 taxpayers, including home addresses, income details and property data.

This looks especially concerning as wrench attacks against crypto holders continue to rise. With this kind of information, criminals could potentially estimate someone’s wealth and identify richer targets.

The leak does not contain any information about crypto ownership, so the database itself cannot directly identify crypto investors.

Still, having addresses, income and property information in one place creates a serious privacy and physical security issue.

Donald Trump is expected to meet with crypto executives and prediction market leaders at the White House on Wednesday.

CFTC Chair Michael Selig is also expected to attend, alongside representatives from Coinbase, Ripple, Chainlink, a16z, Paradigm, Kalshi and The Digital Chamber. SEC Chair Paul Atkins is expected to join as well.

The meeting comes just before the first session of the CFTC’s new Innovation Advisory Committee, which will focus on crypto regulation, AI and prediction markets.

The committee includes 35 industry figures, including Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan, Kalshi co-founder Tarek Mansour and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, as well as representatives from Cboe, CME, DTCC and Nasdaq.

This is happening while the CLARITY Act remains stuck in the Senate. The next procedural step is expected on September 15, after senators return from recess. Moving the bill forward will require 60 votes.

Prediction markets will also be a major part of the discussion. Selig has argued that event contracts should fall exclusively under CFTC jurisdiction, while several states continue to push back against Kalshi and Polymarket over sports-related markets.

Trump has previously backed the idea that prediction markets should be regulated at the federal level by the CFTC.

Dartmouth College’s $9B investment fund still holds around $12.4M across three crypto funds: Bitwise’s Solana staking ETF, Grayscale’s Ethereum staking fund and BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF.

The interesting part is that Dartmouth didn’t sell a single share during the quarter.

The portfolio simply dropped around 15%, from $14.6M to $12.4M, following the broader crypto market decline.

Dartmouth started building its crypto exposure in 2025 and became one of the first major US universities to publicly disclose such investments.

Meanwhile, Harvard took a different route, fully exiting its roughly $87M position in BlackRock’s Ethereum fund by the end of Q1.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has received preliminary conditional approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to become a national trust bank.

If the remaining conditions are completed, WLFI will receive a federal national trust bank charter in the US.

WTI reacted from the $87–95 resistance zone and then broke the bullish structure by printing a new low.

For now, the setup still favors continuation inside the descending channel.

I’m holding a new short position with targets at $67 and $62.

Binance bStocks has already overtaken Kraken’s xStocks less than two months after launch.

As of August 12, tokenized stock assets stood at roughly $927M for Ondo Finance, $610.6M for Binance bStocks and $601.2M for xStocks.

The bigger story is the whole market: tokenized stocks went from around $80M to $2.7B in just one year.

This sector is growing insanely fast, and competition between crypto platforms is only getting started.

Mantle is building more than just an L2. The ecosystem includes mETH, FBTC, the institutional MI4 fund, UR banking products and MantleX.

One of its biggest advantages is its treasury, estimated at roughly $2.4–4B and largely held in ETH and stablecoins. This gives the ecosystem plenty of resources to fund development and attract liquidity.

Institutional infrastructure is also expanding. MI4, launched with Securitize, is a tokenized crypto index with around $400M in assets, with the Mantle treasury acting as an anchor investor.

DeFi activity has been growing as well. Network TVL has crossed $1B, stablecoin liquidity is around $980M, while Aave on Mantle quickly approached the $1B mark.

On the technical side, MNT has returned close to its original Bybit listing levels.

If the broader market and BTC go through another correction, I wouldn’t be surprised to see MNT break its previous $0.31 low. Anything below that level starts to look much more interesting to me. For now, there’s no reason to rush.

Personally, I’m not planning to buy MNT on spot. If a medium-term uptrend starts forming, I’ll be looking for a swing long on futures instead.

A federal court in New York has temporarily paused the CFTC’s civil case against U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke while a parallel criminal case moves forward.

Prosecutors allege Van Dyke used classified, nonpublic information about the U.S. operation to capture Nicolás Maduro to trade related contracts on Polymarket. The CFTC says he bought more than 436,000 “Yes” shares and made over $404,000 in profit.

Van Dyke has pleaded not guilty and is challenging the case. His defense is also questioning whether prediction-market contracts can legally be treated as derivatives under the current framework.

The case could become an important test for prediction markets in the U.S., especially when government officials or military personnel trade on events they may know about before the public.

What started as a $400K Polymarket win could now help define where the legal line for insider trading on prediction markets actually sits.