🗞 24-Hour News Roundup

🔥 $XRP soars past $3, with 94% of its circulating supply now in profit.

⚡️ BlackRock’s Larry Fink named interim co-chair of the World Economic Forum.

🔥 Metaplanet boosts $BTC holdings with $93M purchase, now owning 18,888 $BTC worth $2.18B.

🇺🇸 Fed Chair Powell to address economic outlook on Aug. 22 at 10:00 A.M. ET.

🚨 Ethereum short positions hit record highs.

🚨 ZachXBT reports WhiteRock engineer, rumored dead, is still active.

🇭🇰 CMB International launches regulated #crypto trading in Hong Kong.

🔥 Strategy acquires 430 $BTC for $51.4M.

🇳🇱 Amdax to launch AMBTS, a #Bitcoin wealth firm aiming for 1% of $BTC long-term.

🔥 Volkswagen Singapore partners with FOMO Pay to accept #crypto payments.

🚨 Kalshi markets favor #Gemini (59%) over #ChatGPT (17%) and #Grok (15%) as top #AI by 2025.

⚡️ Faraday Future launches C10 #Crypto Treasury, targeting $1B in top #crypto assets for #AI + #Web3 strategy.

🚨 $ETH on centralized exchanges drops to a 9-year low.

🚨 Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. to sell stock at lower levels to fund $BTC purchases, per Bloomberg.

🚨 Chamath files for $250M SPAC, “American Exceptionalism Acquisition Corp. A,” targeting energy, AI, #DeFi, and defense.

🇺🇸 Figure #Technology files for IPO, led by Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and Bank of America.

🇺🇸 US Treasury seeks public input on GENIUS Act to detect illicit digital asset activity.