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Binance To Remove Seven Spot Trading Pairs Including SUI And LTC Markets
Binance has announced that it will remove seven spot trading pairs on August 21 at 03:00 UTC, including SUI/BNB and LTC/BNB. The affected pairs are SUI/BNB, LTC/BNB, ILV/USDC, HIVE/USDC, F/USDC, NMR/USDC, and STEEM/USDC. The move is part of Binance’s usual market optimization process. The important detail is that Binance is removing specific trading pairs. It is not delisting SUI, LTC, or the other underlying assets entirely from the platform. Traders may still be able to use other available pairs, depending on Binance’s market support.
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Bitcoin Hits $75,000, Outperforming ETH and SOL
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Inverse Cramer Strikes Again as Jim Tells Caller to Buy the Bitcoin He Sold
Jim Cramer said he sold his entire Bitcoin (BTC) position over quantum computing fears less than a month ago, then turned around and told a caller on the latest episode of Mad Money to buy the same asset. The reversal has traders once again invoking “Inverse Cramer,” the running theory that fading the CNBC host’s calls beats following them. Cramer’s exit traces back to a July 31 Mad Money interview with IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna, who warned that quantum computers could eventually crack the cryptography protecting Bitcoin.
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Asian Stocks Slide on Bond Stress: Will Safe Havens BTC and Gold Keep Rallying?
Most Asian share indices are headed for weekly losses as bond market stress persists. However, Bitcoin (BTC) and gold both rallied as investors reached for safe havens instead. The moves reflect a broader flight from risk. Rising Treasury yields have hit stocks in Asia and the US this week. Traders are turning to assets seen as stores of value. Japan’s Nikkei dropped 0.8% to open Friday’s trading. That extended its weekly loss to 4.4% before clawing a little back. South Korea and Taiwan edged higher Friday.
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CZ Wants Countries to Tokenize Assets, But There’s A Catch
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said tokenization could help countries raise money and attract foreign investment, while acknowledging that putting assets on multiple blockchains could fragment liquidity. His comments come as the tokenization market continues to expand, with the total value of distributed assets now at $38.40 billion. CZ Pushes For Global Tokenization Zhao framed tokenization as a funding tool for states. In a Thursday post, he named foreign direct investment (FDI) as one benefit, asking which country or company would not want to sell tokenized stocks globally.
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BTCS used Ethereum to repay Aave debt and ended Q2 with just $317,000 in cash
Nasdaq-listed Ethereum infrastructure company BTCS swapped ETH into USDT to pay down Aave loans in the second quarter and ended June 30 with $317,113 in cash and stablecoins. It also held about $88.1 million in other current digital-asset categories, making the issue less a lack of assets than how much of the balance sheet was exposed to crypto markets and DeFi. Comparing BTCS's first-quarter filing with its second-quarter filing shows about $8.27 million of the second-quarter ETH-to-USDT swaps for principal and $381,103 for accrued interest.
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South Korean lawmakers seek expanded FIU powers over unregistered crypto firms
The proposal would let the FIU investigate suspected violations and refer unregistered crypto operators directly to law enforcement. A group of South Korean lawmakers has introduced a bill to amend an existing financial law and expand the Financial Intelligence Unit’s (FIU) authority to investigate unregistered crypto businesses. On Thursday, People Power Party lawmaker Eom Tae-young and nine other lawmakers filed the bill, which aims to add a new provision to the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information.
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Solana ETF Inflows Top $1.16B As SOL Trades Near $86
Cumulative inflows into US spot Solana ETFs have topped $1.16 billion, giving SOL another institutional demand signal as the token traded near $86. The figure is cumulative since launch, not a single-day or weekly inflow number. That distinction matters because ETF flow headlines can easily be misread. Still, the milestone is meaningful. Spot ETF inflows show that regulated Solana exposure is attracting capital, and the $1.16 billion figure puts another marker on Solana’s institutional adoption timeline. - US spot Solana ETF cumulative inflows have topped $1.16 billion.
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MANTRA token sinks 18% to record low amid blockchain halt
MANTRA’s 24-hour price chart. Source: CoinGecko MANTRA’s status page classified the incident as a full outage affecting public endpoints, validators, bridge migration operations and MANTRA-managed Inter-Blockchain Communication relays. The team said it would not restart the network until it was confident it was safe. The network’s public RPC listed block 17,449,398, produced at 11:13 pm UTC on Thursday, as its latest block. MANTRA posted its initial incident notice at 11:44 pm, while CoinGecko showed the token reaching its low around 11:10 pm.
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Capital.com plans UAE spot crypto services after affiliate wins licence
UAE clients will be able to buy and hold crypto through Capital.com’s app, expanding beyond price exposure through contracts for difference. Trading platform and contracts for difference (CFD) broker Capital.com plans to offer spot crypto services to clients in the United Arab Emirates after its affiliate, Capital Vault, secured a virtual-asset license from the country’s Capital Market Authority (CMA). According to an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, the license allows Capital Vault to deal in virtual assets as an agent or matching principal and provide custody on behalf of clients.
On the markets — Kalshi traders have been actively repricing this story in the last day.