“Providing custody services for those high-quality assets backing stablecoins is the first option we are looking at,” declared Biswarup Chatterjee, Citigroup’s global head of partnerships and innovation, with the air of a man whose company may just be ready to make an offer no one can refuse. Or perhaps one that everyone will laugh at. Time will tell.
Ethereum’s developers, those wise old owls of the blockchain, have long warned that no single provider should hold more than 33% of the stake. Too much power, they say, could lead to consensus issues-a digital dictatorship, if you will. And so, the community rallied, like farmers chasing off a greedy landlord, ensuring Lido didn’t cross that line. 🚫👑 “We kept the big dog from eating the whole pie,” said Darren Langley, Rocket Pool’s general manager, with a wink and a nod.
Oh, how these two great forces-blockchain and AI-do entwine themselves like lovers beneath the moonlit sky. On Wednesday, August 13, Sapien announced this grand scheme: tokens for humans who teach machines! The SAPIEN token, set to debut on August 20, promises riches untold-or at least some cryptocurrency. 💰
It wobbled a ten percent dance over the past day-up briefly to $0.26, then sharply reversing with all the grace of a drunken ballerina-before plunging again, stirred by data from the ages of chaos, revealing a 0.9% rise in wholesale inflation. Such a figure, unseen in over three years, cast gloom across the land, dampening hopes that the Fed’s printing press would take a mysterious nap.
So, Bitcoin’s chilling at $120k like it’s a luxury spa, using it as a launchpad for its latest ATH shenanigans. $123k? Sure, why not? 🤑 But hold the champagne-an intraday dip of 1.47% says, “Not so fast, buddy.” Market cap? Down $50 billion. Ouch. That’s like losing a small country’s GDP. 🌍💸
Meet Proto Rig, the modular marvel that’s about to save miners a ton of cash and reduce e-waste. Instead of chucking the whole rig when it gets old, you can just swap out the hashboards as tech evolves. It’s like replacing a single sock instead of your entire wardrobe. 💁♀️
Seems Ethereum’s network has been buzzin’ like a hive full of caffeinated bees. According to those number-crunchin’ wizards at CryptoQuant, daily transactions hit a whopping 1.875 million-that’s more action than a Saturday night in Dodge City. 🤠 This ain’t just noise; it’s a stampede of users and demand, pushin’ ETH closer to its glory days. From $3,150 in late July to $4,563 in August, it’s been a wild ride, and now it’s sittin’ at $4,737-just a hop, skip, and a jump from its old peak of $4,867. 🏇
Old Lubin himself-beard flecked with code and caviar-leans into the microphone and growls: “They’re not in the race, comrade, they ARE the race!” His laughter echoes off server racks the size of apartment blocks. SharpLink’s coffers swell, not from luck at cards, but from staking, restaking, and some mystical sorcery known only to those who’ve danced with the Yield Genie. While lesser companies sip tea and pray for bull runs, SharpLink is out on the steppe, lassoing ETH like wild horses. Each galloping coin is yoked to ploughs that till the digital fields of DeFi.
Now, let’s zoom out a bit-midterm, folks. Where is DOGE going? Nobody knows! Its price is far from key levels. Volumes are falling, which means neither the bulls nor the bears have the energy to do anything useful. A stale battle, if you will. In short, a consolidation range between $0.21 and $0.24 seems the most likely scenario. What a thrilling ride. And right now, DOGE is sitting at a modest $0.2240. Yep, that’s it.
But hey, don’t give up just yet. Dogecoin is still the life of the party, isn’t it?
With Bitcoin’s recent meteoric rise to a new stratospheric high, Satoshi’s fortune now gleams at a staggering $132.6 billion. Gates, that paragon of productivity and philanthropy, trails behind with a mere $119 billion. A $13.6 billion lead, one might say, is but a pittance for a man who has spent the last decade sipping tea and watching the world burn. Or perhaps he’s sipping something stronger. 🍵
