Global central banks bought 286.5 tonnes of gold in the second quarter, up 62% from a year earlier. Poland’s central bank added 51 tonnes, taking its total reserves to about 632 tonnes. Buying continued even as gold retreated from a January peak of $5,597 to around $4,379 in August. A survey found 45% of central banks plan to increase gold holdings within a year.

Jindal Poly Films reported a consolidated net profit of ₹107.2 crore for Q1FY27 ended June 30, 2026, reversing a net loss of ₹106.2 crore a year earlier. Consolidated revenue from operations fell 35.7% year on year to ₹695.8 crore. Earnings per share rose to ₹24.48 from ₹8.34, up 193.2%. The company also reappointed Sanjeev Aggarwal as an independent director.

Solana highlighted a series of ecosystem updates, including MoneyGram’s launch of Ramps that lets builders reach 60M+ customers through ~500K retail locations via a single API. Bullish completed what it said were the first tokenized equity trades on a regulated exchange, settling tokenized $BLSH 24/7 in stablecoins on Solana. Solana’s RWA ecosystem reached an all-time high of $3.9B in total value, and the network set a single-day record by processing 171.9M non-vote transactions. Sunrise also launched $SILV backed 1:1 by audited physical silver reserves, while JupiterExchange introduced Lend v2 Smart Vaults and project0 and _gammafi rolled out ML Vaults aimed at optimizing yields in real time.

StablecoinX Inc. disclosed in an SEC Form 8-K filed on June 25, 2026 that it holds about 3.03 billion ENA tokens following a closing. The company said the stake equals about 39.4% of the roughly 7.69 billion ENA in circulating supply and about 20% of the roughly 15 billion ENA in existence. CoinGecko data put the position at roughly $252.2 million and list it as 20.193% of ENA’s total supply. The filing did not describe the nature of the closing or identify the counterparty, drawing market attention to the stablecoin firm’s ENA holdings.

Bitcoin is consolidating around $62,941, with futures positioning split in a way that could amplify moves if price breaks out of its range. CoinGlass data show $47.9 billion in Bitcoin futures open interest, $38.49 billion in 24-hour futures volume and $2.234 billion in spot volume. Futures activity has surged as spot Bitcoin ETF flows and leveraged positioning shift across venues. Traders are watching whether a break above or below key boundaries could trigger large-scale liquidations and increase volatility in either direction.

Bitcoin exchange reserves have rebounded sharply, rising above the 200-day simple moving average and snapping a two-year decline. The shift suggests more BTC is becoming available for trading, reversing a previously tightening supply backdrop. As more bitcoin moves onto exchanges, it may indicate stronger willingness among holders to distribute, increasing potential selling pressure.

On March 10, 2026, Aave misconfigured its CAPO risk oracle, capping the onchain wstETH exchange rate about 2.85% below market and triggering roughly 10,938 wstETH liquidations. Liquidation volume totaled about $26–27 million, with liquidators capturing around 499–512 ETH in value. On February 15, 2026, Moonwell misconfigured a Chainlink OEV wrapper after a governance change, reporting cbETH at about $1.12 instead of roughly $2,200 and enabling the seizure of 1,096.317 cbETH. The incident left the protocol with about $1.78 million in bad debt.

Between Aug. 10 and Aug. 14, BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded $91.4 million in combined net outflows. The iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) accounted for $78.9 million of the withdrawals, while ETHA and ETHB together posted $12.5 million in net outflows. On a daily basis, IBIT saw outflows of $53.6 million on Aug. 10, $14.3 million on Aug. 12, $5.7 million on Aug. 13, and $55.5 million on Aug. 14, pointing to consecutive institutional selling.