Robinhood Chain recorded more than $503 million in decentralized exchange trading volume over the past 24 hours, according to DefiLlama data cited by BlockBeats on Aug. 15. That placed the network fifth among all chains by DEX volume during the period. Only Solana, the Ethereum mainnet, BNB Chain, and Base posted higher 24-hour totals. The ranking reflects a snapshot of recent on-chain decentralized trading activity and positions Robinhood Chain just behind the four networks that led the market in the same time frame. No additional figures or breakdowns were provided in the source report.

DeFiLlama founder 0xngmi said on Aug. 15 that the team had spent months trying to get Apple to remove a fake app impersonating DeFiLlama from the App Store. According to his post on social media, the team repeatedly reported the app to Apple over trademark infringement and for posing as the official product, but those reports did not lead to a takedown. The situation changed after DeFiLlama funded a small wallet, downloaded the app, and saw the wallet drained, as expected. The team then reported that theft to Apple. 0xngmi said the app was removed within days after Apple received the report. He added that he wanted other crypto companies to know about the experience so they would not waste time in the same way.

DeFiLlama founder 0xngmi said the team has spent months reporting a fake DeFiLlama app to Apple’s App Store over trademark infringement and impersonation, but the listing has not been removed. He warned that apps of this kind can trick users into exposing private keys or losing funds, creating a direct security risk for DeFi users. 0xngmi urged users to access the service only through official channels and to avoid downloading apps from unverified sources. The update was cited by Techub News, with WuBlockchain named in the report.

DeFiLlama founder 0xngmi said on X that Apple’s App Store review and complaint process failed to remove a fake DeFiLlama application for months, even after his team repeatedly reported it for trademark infringement and for impersonating the official app. According to his account, those earlier complaints did not lead to effective action from Apple. The team then took the extra step of downloading and using the app themselves. After depositing a small amount of funds into it, they said the wallet assets were stolen, matching their expectation that the app was malicious. Once they had confirmed that behavior, they filed another report with Apple. 0xngmi said the fake app was then removed from the App Store within a few days. The post was framed as a direct criticism of Apple’s app review mechanism, with the founder arguing that repeated reports alone were not enough to get the impersonating app taken down before users were exposed to risk.

OpenEden’s token EDEN posted a sharp rally after South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, listed the asset on Aug. 10. The real move came on Aug. 14, when EDEN surged 92.04% in a single day and briefly reached $0.086. Even so, the token remains far below the $1.4 opening level seen when it debuted on Binance on Sept. 30, 2025, and still sits under one-tenth of that peak. The price action has put renewed attention on a long-running question around OpenEden’s model: why has growth in underlying real-world assets not translated into stronger token value? Founded in 2022 by former Gemini Asia Pacific executives Jeremy Ng and Eugene Ng, OpenEden built a compliant on-chain infrastructure focused on tokenized U.S. Treasuries and other fixed-income products. Its main offerings now include TBILL, USDO and HYBOND, with TBILL alone holding about $253 million in TVL. Revenue data helps explain the disconnect. According to DefiLlama, TBILL generates around $310,000 in annualized revenue, while OpenEden’s total revenue in the second quarter of 2026 came to $431,000. Of that, $292,000 came from underlying asset yield, while management fee revenue was only $39,600. Most of the economic value flows to holders of TBILL and USDO, not to the protocol itself. EDEN, for its part, is used for governance, staking and ecosystem incentives, with no direct claim on protocol revenue.

Bitcoin has yet to join the rebound seen in U.S. equities and gold, even as spot Bitcoin ETF flows in the United States have turned positive again and several long-term on-chain indicators have moved closer to historically depressed levels. Since peaking at about $126,000 in October last year, Bitcoin has remained in a prolonged correction and has spent the past 30 days trading sideways between $62,000 and $66,000, according to CoinGecko. Over the past 90 days, Glassnode said the S&P 500 rose about 5% while Bitcoin fell 20%, underscoring a sharp divergence in performance. The report, written by Nancy for PANews and republished by Blockcast, points to a mix of countervailing forces. On one side, Santiment Intelligence data showed 2.27 million new BTC wallets and 751,000 active wallets over the past week, while SoSoValue recorded five straight trading days of net inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, totaling $854 million, the strongest weekly result since April 17. On the other side, miner selling, liquidity needs at crypto DAT companies, and weak U.S. spot demand continue to weigh on price action. CryptoQuant said miner-linked OTC balances have dropped from about 500,000 BTC in November 2021 to 139,700 BTC, while Coinglass showed the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index has stayed negative for 80 consecutive days. PAData’s bottom-fishing dashboard shows only 4 of 12 core indicators in the hit zone, suggesting some bottoming signs are in place but a full cyclical low has not yet been confirmed.

WuBlockchain’s weekly roundup highlighted 10 crypto stories spanning regulation, market structure, mining economics, corporate treasury moves, ETF product design, and new exchange infrastructure. The headline item was another delay to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed tokenization “innovation exemption,” which reporter Eleanor Terrett said may remain on hold while stakeholders continue negotiating tokenization language in Section 10505 of the Clarity Act. The SEC still plans a later public meeting on Regulation Crypto Assets, covering new rules and exemptions for crypto asset financing transactions. Elsewhere, Russia’s central bank proposed allowing non-qualified investors to buy BTC, ETH, and USDT with an annual cap of 300,000 rubles per intermediary, while qualified investors would face no purchase cap. Strategy disclosed that it sold 1,690 BTC between Aug. 3 and Aug. 9 to fund STRC buybacks and also raised capital through MSTR share sales, while Fidelity moved to add ETH staking and quarterly cash distributions to its Fidelity Ethereum Fund. The roundup also covered Anthropic’s $9.1 billion cloud deal with Riot, UMX’s launch as a crypto-friendly securities platform incubated by Avenir Group, Wintermute’s $1 billion infrastructure plan, Andre Cronje’s critique of modern DeFi, and GSR’s view that a stronger crypto bull market likely needs both cooling AI capital flows and Federal Reserve rate cuts.

Neutrl’s NUSD stayed close to $0.998 even after the protocol paused minting, redemptions, and other functions for more than a day, but on-chain records cited by BlockTempo point to a different explanation than reserve strength. The report says Neutrl removed roughly $3.51 million from the NUSD/USDC pool on Curve at 7:12 p.m. Taipei time on Aug. 13, draining nearly all of the pool’s liquidity. Just 96 seconds later, an address identified as 0xDE72…1504 submitted an addToDenylist transaction to the NUSD contract, using that same Curve pool address as the parameter. Once the pool was denylisted, transfers in and out were blocked, which for an AMM pool meant deposits, withdrawals, and swaps stopped working at the same time. As of publication, the pool reportedly held only about 14,876 NUSD and 12,151 USDC, or roughly $27,000 combined. DefiLlama data cited in the piece showed NUSD at about $0.9983 with circulating supply around $53.3 million. BlockTempo said Neutrl had not explained either the liquidity removal or the denylist action by press time.