BitGo said it has completed the acquisition of NYDIG’s institutional trading business in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $42.5 million, adding derivatives, structured products, and capital markets capabilities. Roughly 30 NYDIG employees and related institutional client relationships will move to BitGo. Binance, meanwhile, said it will list a NIULAI USDT perpetual contract at 19:30 on Aug. 30 Beijing time with leverage of up to 10x. The PANews daily roundup also covered a security report from Cosmos Labs on an EVM module vulnerability that affected six networks, comments from Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino pushing back on criticism from the Bank for International Settlements, and market views from CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost, Arthur Hayes, JackYi, and Jiang Zhuoer. Other items included Ajna v2’s reported exploit, Polygon’s urgent client upgrade notice after the Austin and Kyoto hard forks, SK Telecom’s plan to spin off its AI data center arm, and trading data from South Korea’s top crypto exchanges.

WuBlockchain’s latest roundup pulls together a dense mix of crypto, macro and enforcement developments. The daily highlights include European Central Bank executive board member Isabel Schnabel calling for central bank money to be brought onto blockchain infrastructure, with the ECB set to launch the Pontes project next month and complete the Appia long-term architecture blueprint in 2028. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission also said former White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez was penalized for trading on non-public speech information, with more than $170,000 in disgorgement and penalties plus a three-year trading ban. The digest also covers a warning from New York state that AI is being used to amplify investment scams, citing FTC data showing 144,041 U.S. consumers reported investment fraud losses exceeding $8 billion in 2025. In markets, Solana meme token Trump Digital Gold plunged more than 95% in one minute, while GoPlus Security said the developer’s funding could be traced to KuCoin and that related operator wallets were funded through Binance. The weekly Top 10 spans Arthur Hayes’ view that a new Bitcoin bull cycle has begun, BlackRock’s framing of Bitcoin as a fiscal-risk hedge, Treasury buyback discussions, Coinbase’s AiFi product stack, Solana emission proposals, Uniswap’s AMM thesis, Trump-linked crypto losses, Iran-related sanctions, and a record $44.9 billion in on-chain RWA market value excluding stablecoins.

GoPlus Security has issued an alert about a token operation traced back to major exchanges. The developer behind the GOLD token received initial funds that can be traced to KuCoin, while 15 wallets linked to market manipulation trace back to Binance. The same group also deployed Trump Digital Platinum (PLATINUM). The token contract can arbitrarily transfer a holder's entire balance, GoPlus said, urging users not to buy it.

Precious metals extended an advance for a second straight session on Aug. 6, with capital rotating around safe-haven demand, according to WEEX TradFi market data. Gold, silver and platinum all moved higher over the latest 24-hour window: GOLD (PAXG) gained more than 4.88%, SILVER (XAG) rose more than 4.71%, and PLATINUM (XPT) climbed more than 2.30%. The synchronized move put all three metals on an uptrend at the same time. WEEX Labs said the rally is mainly driven by repair trading after a recent pullback. Market participants are weighing geopolitical risks as well as moves in the U.S. dollar and Treasury yields, which has brought renewed focus to gold's safe-haven and portfolio diversification attributes. WEEX TradFi's trading carnival is now live, with zero-slippage execution, first-order compensation, and a 200 USDT reward for new users. The data was flagged by ChainCatcher on Aug. 6, citing WEEX TradFi's market snapshot.

ARK Invest analyst Lorenzo said Hyperliquid has reached a new point in its market mix, with real-world asset trading on HIP-3 exceeding crypto-native volume for the first time in a single week. According to the figures cited in the post, RWA accounted for 54% of total platform volume, and 61% of that RWA activity came from single-stock products. The article argues this shift points to a broader change in Hyperliquid’s positioning, from a crypto perpetuals venue to a round-the-clock multi-asset derivatives platform spanning equities, indices, commodities and FX. The write-up also stresses that the RWA products in question are synthetic perpetual contracts rather than tokenized securities. Traders get price exposure, typically margined in USDC, but do not receive actual stock ownership, voting rights or legal claims on the underlying assets. It distinguishes that model from true securities tokenization and notes the two paths carry different infrastructure, legal and operational requirements. At the same time, the piece flags a math issue in the original comparison between Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 RWA volume and the rest of the DEX perpetuals market, and says the claim cannot be directly derived from the numbers presented. It further examines what the trend could mean for HYPE, USDC and Circle, while outlining the current HIP-3 market map, where activity is concentrated in stocks, commodities and indices, with much of the volume attributed to the trade[XYZ] deployment.

Bitcoin ticks up 0.3% to $90,687, market cap $1.81T. Ethereum, XRP, DOGE edge lower. Islamic Coin leads altcoin rally with 461% surge; NUMI, PLLD also gain.

BitMEX Research has proposed a Canary Fund as an alternative to preemptive Bitcoin freezes, arguing that vulnerable coins should only be locked after a real quantum attack is proven on-chain.

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