Crypto Industry News & Market Trends

HOOD Price Prediction: Tokenized Stock at a Crossroads — $120 or $100 Before September？

Darius Baruo　　Aug 24, 2026 10:39　　Trading at $107.38 on Binance with momentum stalling just below the Bollinger upper band, HOODs tokenized stock faces a binary near-term setup: break $111.49 strong resistance and chase the Wall S…　　Market Context: Why HOOD is Moving Now　　Robinhood just printed one of the cleanest quarters in its history and the stock initially got punished for it — that tells you everything about the current sentiment environment. Q2 2026 revenue came in at $1.31 billion, up 32.3% year over year, with EPS of $0.62 smashing the $0.44 consensus by nearly 41%. Net income surged 48% to $573 million. Net deposits hit a record $22 billion, and the company now operates 13 distinct business linesgenerating over $100 million in annualized revenue each. This isn‘t a meme broker anymore — it’s a diversified fintech platform scaling at Rule of 80+ efficiency.　　What‘s driving the narrative right now is HOOD’s dual identity: a traditional fintech company being repriced by Wall Street and a tokenized Real World Asset (RWA) traded 24/7 on Binance. That second angle is critical. Robinhood Chain — CEO Vlad Tenev‘s DeFi infrastructure play — has already processed over 150 million transactions and recorded over $12 billion in decentralized exchange

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Zcash price hits 8-year high before retreating below $820

Zcash price surged more than 70% over the past week to an eight-year high near $885 before retreating below $820, as Grayscales ETF conversion plan and an NU7 governance vote drew traders toward ZEC.　　SummaryZEC reached its highest price since 2018 after breaking above the major $750 resistance level.Grayscales amended filing seeks to convert its Zcash Trust into an NYSE Arca-listed spot ETF.NU7 voting eligibility was determined by the shielded ZEC held during an August 24 network snapshot.Technical charts show support near $812 and $750, while $875 remains the immediate resistance.　　Zcash price pulls back after reaching $885　　According to data from crypto.news, Zcash (ZEC) price traded near $820 at the time of writing after reaching approximately $885 earlier in the session, according to exchange data. The privacy coin gained more than 70% during the past seven days and reached its highest level since 2018.　　The rally accelerated after ZEC cleared $562.50, which marked the upper boundary of its previous trading range on the daily chart. Buyers then pushed through successive levels at $625, $687.50, and $750.　　ZEC moved as much as 77% above its August consolidation area near $500 before sellers emerged around $875. Its daily candle subsequently fell about 4%, with the price

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Six-Figure Bitcoin Price in Sight as BTC Call Options Go Berserk

Bitcoin derivatives markets are running hot while bitcoins price tagged an intraday high of $79,989 Monday, with traders stacking billions into futures and options while paying increasingly steep premiums to chase even higher prices.　　Key TakeawaysBitcoins price per unit hit $79,989 as exchange open interest raced toward $58 billion.Deribit calls command 59.37% of BTC options open interest as bulls pile in.Binance and Deribit max pain sits near $70,000 for the Aug. 28 expiry.　　Bitcoin Open Interest Accelerates With the Rally　　The leverage is showing up plainly in futures open interest, which tracks contracts still active rather than closed or settled. Coinglass bitcoin futures data tallied on Monday shows exchange bitcoin open interest racing toward $58 billion as bitcoins price stalked $80,000, a sharp rebound from roughly $49 billion only days earlier.　　Binance commands the largest slice among the top derivatives exchange platforms, with 144,050 BTC, or about $11.51 billion, in open interest. CME follows at 125,950 BTC worth $10.07 billion. MEXC holds $5.60 billion, Gate has $4.75 billion, and Bybit carries $4.64 billion.　　Bitcoin futures open interest via Coinglass.　　This is not one exchange distorting the tape. Binance open interest jumped 5.05% over 24 hours, CME rose 3.62%, MEXC gained 4.77%, and Bitget climbed 4.62%. BingX

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Hyperliquid Hits Record High as $1.2 Billion Token Unlock Looms

In briefA scheduled unlock will release 14,175,778 Hyperliquid tokens on August 29, worth about $1.2 billion at current prices.The release equals 1.4% of total supply and 2.7% of HYPEs market capitalization.Nearly 47% of the unlocked tokens go to insiders — the largest single share of this release.　　Hyperliquid, the layer-1 blockchain and perpetual futures exchange, is on a tear—and investors in the projects native token HYPE are reaping the benefits.　　Hyperliquid, which trades as HYPE, touched an all-time high of $83.27 on Sunday before slipping to around $77.50, data from CoinGecko shows. The tokens market cap sits near $19.5 billion. That run-up, though, is about to collide with a supply release the tracking site Tokenomics.com lists as the largest of Hyperliquids monthly unlocks.　　Myriad: Ethereum next price move？ Click to make your prediction.　　Every month since the November 2024 launch, Hyperliquid has freed a slice of its 1 billion-token supply on a fixed calendar. The August 29 event is the fourth in a row to send tokens to three recipient groups: community, foundation, and insiders. Insiders (the early investors) take the largest single share of this release—46.6%, against 46.3% for the community (grants, rewards, airdrops, etc.) and 7% for the Hyper Foundation.　　Token unlocks dont

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Bitcoin Loses $80,000 as Critics Swarm Treasury's $950 Billion Buyback Plan

Bitcoin (BTC) touched $80,000 on Monday, then handed the level straight back. Critics are lining up against the US Treasury plan that sparked the move.　　The token traded near $78,835 at press time. The bond market had already run this exact play last week, and it did not hold.　　Bitcoin Price Performance. Source: BeInCrypto　　Sponsored　　Sponsored　　What Pushed Bitcoin to $80,000　　The Treasury General Account (TGA) is the governments checking account at the Federal Reserve. Tax receipts fill it. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has let it swell, with reports pegging the account near $950 billion.　　U.S. Treasury Considers Using $950B TGA to Support Larger Long-Term Bond Buybacks　　According to CNBC, citing two senior Treasury officials, the U.S. Treasury is considering using funds from its roughly $950 billion Treasury General Account to help finance larger buybacks of…　　Treasurys own daily cash statement showed $935.1 billion on August 20, the latest official reading. Two senior Treasury officials told CNBC that money could fund bond buybacks.　　Treasury doubled those buybacks on August 19. Long-end operations rose from $2 billion to at least $4 billion each. The first lands on September 9, per the departments own announcement.　　Traders liked the plumbing. Spending TGA cash does not grow the Fed‘s balance sheet. It just moves money

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ERC-8391 proposes asset status checks for tokenized stocks

Ethereum developer Eric Conner has proposed a common status interface for tokenized assets, as onchain stocks trade continuously while the New York Stock Exchange opens for only 32.5 hours each week.　　SummaryERC-8392 would let contracts check market sessions, trading halts, valuation status and redemption availability.The interface separates expected stale prices during closures from delayed or failed valuation updates.Conner initially called the proposal ERC-8391, but the published discussion and draft use ERC-8392.The proposal supplies status information without deciding whether an asset is safe to trade or use as collateral.　　ERC-8392 separates market closures from feed failures　　EthHub founder Eric Conner introduced the proposal in an Aug. 24 X post, describing it as an asset status interface for tokenized stocks and real-world assets.　　Conner referred to the proposal as ERC-8391 in the post. However, the subsequent Ethereum Magicians discussion and associated draft identify it as ERC-8392, titled “Asset Status Interface for Tokenized Assets.”　　The proposal addresses a mismatch between continuous blockchain activity and the limited operating hours of traditional markets. Tokenized stocks can move between wallets or trade through smart contracts at any hour, while their reference shares may not be trading on an exchange.　　You might also like:　　Ethereum devs warn Glamsterdam upgrade could break wallets and gas

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Zilliqa points to hardware wallet flaw discarding entropy to expose crypto keys, enabling 683M ZIL theft

A recent Zilliqa Ledger bug exposed at least 6,772 accounts, according to the post-mortem, and enabled the theft of 683,130,969.66 ZIL across 66 successful attack-window transactions. The disclosure turned an earlier unquantified security flaw into a measured loss and exposure record while, as of the same date, legacy transactions remained paused and holders faced an undated migration to Zilliqa EVM.　　Related Asset Zilliqa #327 ZIL · $0.0028 24-hour change: down 1.04% Price history is not available. 24H Down 1.04% 7D Up 24.81% 30D Up 11.79%　　The figures measure different parts of the incident. Zilliqa separates 51 drained accounts from the 6,772 accounts whose private keys were shown to be exposed. The post-mortem leaves the number of affected people unquantified.　　The exposed-account total is a floor. The 683.13 million ZIL total is exact for the compromised accounts currently known, according to the post-mortem, and it could rise if investigators prove that additional compromised accounts produced theft transactions.　　Related Company Ledger Crypto hardware wallets　　Why four signatures matter　　Zilliqa said the application generated 40 random bytes but copied the wrong 32 bytes into its signing buffer, retaining eight bytes of zero padding and discarding eight bytes of entropy. That forced the high 64 bits of every affected nonce

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Zcash Hits Eight-Year High as Futures Bets Nearly Double

In briefZcash reached its highest price since 2018 after gaining more than 50% in four days.Open interest in ZEC perpetual futures rose from $963 million to $1.8 billion in five days.Crowded futures markets can intensify both short squeezes and selloffs.　　Zcash briefly reached $888—its highest price level since 2018—before pulling back to around $843, up nearly 7% over 24 hours and roughly 48% since August 20.　　The privacy coin, which trades as ZEC, remains well short of a record all-time high of $3,191.93, set in October 2016 during the coins earliest days of trading when liquidity was thin. The coin dropped as low as $16 just two years ago and has been on a remarkable run since, appreciating by over 1,800% in the last year alone.　　Myriad: Bitcoin next price move？ Click to make your prediction.　　ZEC perpetual futures open interest nearly doubled from $962.5 million on August 19 to $1.8 billion Monday, while 24-hour volume reached $5.3 billion, according to crypto derivatives data platform Loris Tools. The average eight-hour funding rate was 0.0106%, meaning traders paid a premium to hold long positions.　　ZEC futures let traders bet on Zcashs price without owning the coin, often with leverage. Open interest tracks outstanding contracts, while positive

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Bitcoin Price Drives Toward $80K as Economist Warns of 'Massive QE'

Bitcoin rebounded to an August high of $79,989 after briefly dipping below $77,000, recovering from a weekend market slump. 　　Key TakeawaysBitcoin nearly touched $80,000 before settling around $79,200 after brief market volatility.Market liquidations topped $396 million as Coinglass reported short positions taking the biggest hit.Bitfinex analysts noted that bitcoin needs strong spot demand to pass $80,000 and reach $86,500.　　Market Recovery and Bitcoin Price Swings　　Bitcoin nearly tapped $80,000 on Monday as the cryptocurrency market appeared to recover from a weekend slump, which saw several high-cap altcoins back off from multi-month highs. Market data shows that after briefly dipping below $77,000 two hours before midnight, bitcoin rebounded and largely trended just below $77,500 until around 7:30 a.m. EST.　　Shortly afterwards, bitcoin‘s price echoed last week’s bull run by spiking to just under $79,200 before a quick sell-off pulled it back to $78,200. A secondary surge pushed prices higher, reclaiming $79,000 and reaching a new August peak bitcoin price of $79,989. However, a second wave of profit-taking quickly dragged the cryptocurrency back to $79,200.　　Despite this, the bitcoin price action during the 24-hour period, left it with daily gains of approximately 3% and pushed its market capitalization to $1.59 trillion. The latest gains also brought

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AI Over Dogecoin: CleanCore Liquidates 463 Million DOGE to Build More Data Centers

CleanCore Solutions, Inc. (ZONE) has completely wound down its Dogecoin treasury strategy and launched a large-scale follow-on offering to finance its AI infrastructure.　　The business U-turn is taking place against the backdrop of a prolonged collapse in the issuers own stock and includes the complete sale of its legacy ozone-based cleaning products manufacturing segment.　　As part of the strategic shift, CleanCore fully liquidated its crypto portfolio on July 20, selling 463 million DOGE tokens for $33.4 million. Notably, Dogecoin itself effectively ignored the sell-off.　　The cryptocurrency held its key support levels and continues to trade steadily at around $0.0917, moving within its own independent trend and separately from the plunging stock of the former Dogecoin treasury company.　　Currencies s limits for micro-issuers but failed to stop the stocks decline.　　CleanCore stock (ZONE) vs. Dogecoin (DOGE) performance chart from 2024 to August 2026. Source: TradingView　　The proceeds from the asset liquidation and follow-on offering are being directed toward the accelerated construction of new data centers. The company currently has two key projects: a 200-megawatt data center in West Texas, with financing expected to close by the first quarter of 2027, and a highly reliable 40-megawatt Tier 3 data center in Minnesota.　　As part of the Minnesota project, the

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