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Strategy sold 1,690 bitcoin last week for $108.6 million, at an average price of $64,262 per coin, below its $75,385 average purchase cost. The company raised $653.1 million from selling MSTR shares, directing $650 million into its dollar reserve. Proceeds from the bitcoin sale were used to buy back 1,152,020 STRC preferred shares. Strategy’s dollar reserve reached $4.65 billion, while it held 840,447 bitcoin with an unrealized paper loss of about $9.7 billion.

BNB Chain’s number of stablecoin-holding addresses has climbed to 79.3 million, surpassing Tron’s 76.1 million and ending Tron’s long-running lead in the ranking. The count is up 54.5% since late 2024, rising from roughly 42 million to nearly 80 million. Ethereum follows with about 26 million addresses, ahead of Celo at 24.5 million and Polygon at 21.7 million. BNB trades around $610.70, up 7.2% over the past 30 days, and is testing its 100-day moving average near $602 with the 200-day moving average around $647 as the next resistance.

Japan-listed Metaplanet has transferred 3,881 bitcoin worth about $250 million. The company now holds 43,000 BTC and recently bought 2,823 BTC, but its plan to reach 100,000 BTC by the end of 2026 has slowed. With an average purchase price just over $96,000 and more than $4.1 billion invested, its paper loss has widened to $1.4 billion after bitcoin’s sharp pullback.

Trump Media and Technology Group and Crypto.com have ended two planned crypto partnerships, including a proposal to create a publicly traded CRO treasury company, as they reassessed strategy amid changing market conditions. CRO fell about 4% after the announcement. Yorkville America said it intends to continue its existing and planned ETF business despite Crypto.com’s withdrawal. Trump Media also disclosed it holds more than $600 million worth of bitcoin, ranking as the 14th-largest publicly traded corporate bitcoin treasury.

National Bank of Canada disclosed its holdings in several cryptocurrency ETFs in a 13F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As of June 30, the bank reported positions including the Bitwise XRP ETF, the ProShares Bitcoin ETF, the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund, and the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF. Its largest crypto investment was the Fidelity fund, valued at about $3.07 million. The bank also held a smaller position in the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF, and its shares have risen 53% over the past 12 months.

Ethereum recorded 989,500 active addresses over 24 hours, the highest level since early March. Wallet activity jumped even as ETH hovered near $1,870, according to on-chain data provider Santiment. Validator participation continues to underpin the network by locking native ETH to propose blocks and validate state changes, supporting billions of dollars in value. US spot Ethereum ETF products took in about $245 million in net inflows in the first week of August, extending a five-week streak of inflows and pointing to continued demand for ETH as a gas token.

On 2026-08-12, Twenty One Capital (XXI), a New York Stock Exchange-listed company, said its new CEO Raphael Zagury issued a statement to shareholders. Zagury said the Tether-controlled Bitcoin treasury firm needs to move beyond its current balance-sheet model to find new avenues for growth, outlining five main goals. The company previously recorded a $1.27 billion loss in the first half of 2026 after a sharp drop in Bitcoin’s price. His comments come as Bitcoin remains in a prolonged slump.

Unibase is building a decentralized memory layer for AI agents, using Membase for storage and the AIP protocol to support cross-platform context sharing and collaboration. The project’s $UB token is used for protocol fees, staking, governance through veUB, and knowledge-mining rewards. Unibase has launched on BNB Chain mainnet with full SDKs and integrations with ElizaOS, Virtuals, MCP, and Swarms, and has logged more than 1,000 agent interactions with apps such as BitAgent live. Recent updates include joining RoboPay, releasing Membase 2.0 and a Chrome memory extension, and a Bithumb KRW listing, while $UB trades around $0.14510, up about 19% in the last day, with a roughly $376 million market cap and 2.5 billion circulating out of a 10 billion max supply.

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms has signed a 191 MW data center lease to serve an unnamed frontier AI lab, a 20-year base contract it expects to generate about $9.1 billion in gross revenue. Initial rent is not expected to begin until December 2027, with the remaining capacity due in June 2028. Riot estimates $2.1 billion to $2.3 billion in capital spending, with 80% to 90% expected to be covered by long-term debt and the rest by equity that it plans to source in part through Bitcoin sales. The company has also secured a $573 million interim facility arranged by Morgan Stanley, which leaves 51.2% of its Bitcoin holdings restricted and 5,559 BTC unrestricted.

UK businessman Guren “Bobby” Zhou, previously investigated for money laundering, bought $100 million worth of tokens from the Trump family’s crypto project, World Liberty Financial, through a new firm called Aqua 1, The New York Times reported. Zhou said in an audio stream on X that he was “very proud” to be a major participant in the venture. Under World Liberty’s policy, as much as $75 million of the funds was distributed to a company controlled by President Trump and his three sons.