1. Etherscan launches its tenth anniversary celebration and Etherscan points program.
2. Ethereum Foundation associated addresses sold a total of 2794.87 ETH in the past two hours, worth $12.78 million.
3. BitMine, the leading ETH reserve player, continues to buy, disclosing plans to issue up to $20 billion in common stock. Its daily trading volume reaches $9.273 billion, ranking 7th in U.S. stocks.
4. Circle stablecoin Layer1 ARC will launch a public testnet in the fall, EVM compatible, with USDC as the native Gas token. Additionally, payment giant Stripe partners with Paradigm to announce the Tempo chain, targeting the payment sector L1.
5. The current open interest in leading altcoin contracts has reached an all-time high, indicating an increase in market leverage and caution regarding the risk of a bull market correction.
6. According to market data, Bitcoin's market share (BTC.D) has dropped by 3.98% in the past week, currently reported at 59.32%. During the same period, the total cryptocurrency market cap increased by 9.08%, the total market cap excluding Bitcoin (TOTAL 2) rose by 16.18%, and the total market cap excluding Bitcoin and Ethereum (TOTAL 3) increased by 10.52%.
7. Google Trends data: Current search volume for 'altcoin' reaches a five-year high.
8. During the 162nd meeting of Ethereum consensus layer core developers, the launch date for the Ethereum Fusaka mainnet is tentatively set for November 5.
9. GMX announces that it has completed the compensation plan for users affected by the V1 vulnerability, with approximately $44 million to be distributed to affected Arbitrum GLP liquidity providers. Users can apply for compensation through the GMX dApp and receive GLV tokens.
10. Bitget Wallet announces that the community token MOEW will be upgraded to an AI-driven brand mascot. In future developments, MOEW will focus on promoting cross-modal interaction, cross-platform chatbots, long-term memory, and self-driven community activities. Additionally, Bitget Wallet will conduct a series of activities around MOEW within the app.
11. AugurInfinity: The market expects the U.S. to slightly lower interest rates by over 100 basis points in the next 12 months, which will bring the total easing since September 2024 to over 200 basis points. However, this is still relatively mild compared to historical easing cycles.
12. OKB continues to be the only Gas and native token for X Layer. OKX will destroy 65,256,712.097 OKB from historical buybacks and reserves in one go, after which it will upgrade the OKB smart contract to remove the issuance and manual destruction features, fixing the total issuance at 21 million. OKX will strategically upgrade X Layer to focus on DeFi, payments, and RWA scenarios, building it as a leading public chain. X Layer is built on Polygon CDK and completed the 'PP upgrade' on August 5, 2025, enhancing network throughput to 5000 TPS, reducing Gas costs to nearly zero, and significantly improving security and compatibility with the Ethereum mainnet. Meanwhile, OKTChain will be phased out, with OKT regularly exchanged for an equivalent amount of OKB based on the average closing price from July 13 to August 12, 2025, and on-chain OKT exchanges supported until January 1, 2026.
