On Aug. 22, HYPE broke above 77 USDT and set another record, while HOOD climbed 11.69% to $106.22. BTC, ETH and SOL all rose in the CEX top-volume list, and coins such as GALA, STX, ENS and BCH posted strong 24-hour gains on OKX. GMGN’s top meme list was led by UP, WWW and Hachi. The update also noted $3 billion in stablecoins minted by Circle and Tether over the past two days, a record $2.739 billion in short liquidations on Aug. 19, and fresh comments from Vitalik Buterin, Brian Armstrong, Tom Lee and CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju.

BlockBeats reported on August 22, citing HTX market data, that old-guard meme coins were broadly higher. PENGU gained more than 25% over 24 hours, TURBO more than 19%, BONK and WIF more than 36% each, NEIRO more than 19%, PEPE more than 32%, SHIB more than 24%, FLOKI more than 28%, and DOGE more than 20%.

Pump.fun lost a large slice of the token-launch market in early July as a wave of launchpads on Robinhood Chain, led by NOXA and later Pons, pulled its weekly share down to 26.7%. Four weeks later, that share had climbed back above 50%, with pump.fun posting a 90-day high of $9.21 million in weekly fees for the week ended Aug. 11. The broader launchpad market expanded even faster than pump.fun lost ground, with total fees across 125 launchpads rising 77% to $75.39 million in the 30 days through Aug. 11, according to The Defiant’s calculations using DefiLlama data. Much of that growth came from Robinhood Chain, whose launchpad fees nearly matched Solana over the same 30-day window before cooling on a weekly basis. Pons became the largest new challenger, generating $19.80 million in 30-day fees across two versions, while Uniswap Labs entered the chain with pools.trade and a zero launchpad-fee model. Even so, the surge in launchpad activity has not translated into a broad recovery in memecoin prices: CoinGecko data cited by The Defiant shows the sector remains 83% below its December 2024 peak.

ChainFeeds’ Aug. 8 research roundup brings together five separate discussions shaping the digital-asset policy and infrastructure debate. One piece, citing a16z, argues that the proposed CLARITY Act is needed to draw a workable line between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, replacing years of case-by-case enforcement with a clearer market structure for digital assets. Another, from Tiger Research, says Asia’s prediction market problem is less about demand and more about legal classification, with current gambling and financial-product regimes both failing to provide a usable framework. The roundup also highlights Joseph Chalom’s case against EIP-8363, which he says could weaken DeFi, erode ETH’s yield advantage, and raise the cost of onchain capital. A separate report from TechFlow examines the pull of AI on crypto’s technical talent, pointing to declining GitHub activity across major ecosystems and to cases where AI tools rapidly identified code vulnerabilities. The final piece from Odaily reviews Robinhood’s listing of CashCat and the growth of Robinhood Chain, including tokenized stock access in more than 120 countries and regions, new-address inflows, and activity linked to Uniswap’s Pools.trade launch.

Robinhood has listed CashCat, a native meme token from the Robinhood Chain ecosystem, in a move that the original report frames as more than a routine token addition. CashCat, based on a crying cat meme and tied to Robinhood’s own early mascot history, briefly pushed past a $200 million market capitalization and posted gains of more than 80% over 24 hours, according to the article. The listing is described as a sign that Robinhood is beginning to open its main platform to projects born inside its own chain ecosystem. The report argues that CashCat stands out from earlier meme coin listings on Robinhood because of its symbolic role in the company’s identity, its meme-native branding, and its position as the first breakout meme token on Robinhood Chain. It also links the move to comments made by CEO Vlad Tenev on the company’s second-quarter earnings call, where he said Robinhood Chain was built for real-world assets while also making clear that he likes memes. The article also points to fast early growth on Robinhood Chain, including billions of dollars in DEX volume, record transaction counts, rising TVL and stablecoin supply, and a user base that appears to include a large share of first-time or incremental crypto participants. It further highlights Uniswap’s launch of Pools.trade on the chain as another sign that competition and token issuance activity are accelerating inside the ecosystem.

FLOKI price feeds show zero values across trackers while Binance volume stays active near $2.36M. Neutral RSI and weakening MACD precede the blackout. Systems await data restoration, with a likely violent move toward $0.000240 or a crash to $0.000120.

Capital rotation marked the final week of July as Pump.fun, Ethena, and Story Protocol surged while Conflux, Sonic, and Curve DAO declined. Bitcoin stayed range-bound between $118K and $120K with total market cap resilient at $3.89T.

CryptoComLearn highlights 7 memecoins under $1 with strong potential for 20× gains in the next bull run. The list includes DOGE, SHIB, PEPE, FLOKI, BONK, BABYDOGE, and MOG, selected based on community strength, exchange listings, and historical volatility. Risks remain significant.