Bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds brought in about $854 million to $865 million last week, according to Decrypt’s Morning Minute newsletter, marking their strongest weekly inflow since May and the first notably large return of capital after an eight-week stretch of outflows through June and early July. Ethereum ETFs also had a solid week, with $244 million in net inflows, which the newsletter said was roughly equivalent to $1.25 billion in Bitcoin ETF buying on a market-cap-adjusted basis. The report linked the move to a softer macro backdrop. U.S. earnings were broadly positive last week, while the July jobs report came in well below expectations, showing a loss of 23,000 jobs versus forecasts for an 80,000 gain. Unemployment still edged down to 4.1%. After that data, the odds of a September rate hike dropped from 67% to 42%. Elsewhere, major crypto assets were mostly flat over the weekend but still 3% to 4% above last week’s levels, with BTC at $65,000 and ETH at $1,916. The newsletter also tracked gains in select altcoins, token and protocol activity, Robinhood Chain assets, and a mixed NFT market, while noting fresh developments around the Clarity Act, NYSE tokenization infrastructure, MARA’s Bitcoin sales and borrowing, and Grayscale’s withdrawn ETF filings.

ChainCatcher reports that Pools.trade, the token launch platform introduced by Uniswap Labs, officially went live on Robinhood Chain on August 5. On the first day after its launch, the platform recorded 10,506 tokens created, a figure that surpassed the 7,210 tokens created by Pons during the same period. The platform does not charge a launch fee at all. Instead, tokens launched on Pools.trade directly open a Uniswap v4 liquidity pool, with LP fees set at a rate of 0.25 percent. These fees are automatically compounded into liquidity that cannot be withdrawn, meaning the reinvested funds stay locked in the pool. Pons, a competing launchpad that was built on Uniswap earlier, uses a 1 percent pool fee. Uniswap said that the introduction of its own launchpad will not change its support for other launchpads already building on the protocol. The PONS token has lost approximately 49 percent of its value over the past week.

Uniswap has moved beyond trade execution and into token issuance on Robinhood Chain, launching pools.trade at 00:00 on Aug. 6 with token creation and trading enabled from day one. The platform supports two launch modes — crowdfunding and instant launches — and uses auto-compounding liquidity, permanently locked liquidity and anti-sniping protections. It charges no extra launchpad fee, keeping only the standard 0.25% Uniswap v4 LP fee, with creators able to take 0.05% as revenue. The rollout quickly altered activity on the chain. Dune data cited in the report shows Uniswap v4 volume on Robinhood Chain reached about $73.6 million on launch day, ahead of Ethereum mainnet’s roughly $47.2 million. Later on Aug. 6, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said cumulative volume on pools.trade had already exceeded $150 million, including trades completed through an earlier smart-contract version before the public UI went live. At publication time, two tokens in the pools.trade ecosystem had crossed a $1 million market cap, while on-chain revenue and token launch counts also shifted sharply in Uniswap’s favor. The launch has also triggered a debate over fees. Supporters say the 0.25% structure lowers costs for traders compared with the roughly 1% often seen on rival platforms. Critics argue that the design leaves creators with much less revenue and could squeeze third-party launchpads such as Flap and Pons. Adams responded on X that higher launchpad fees act like hidden extraction, while auto-reinvested lower fees can support deeper long-term liquidity.

According to data from on-chain tracker GMGN, several tokens on the Robinhood Chain are experiencing active trading as of August 7, with notable double-digit gains over the past 24 hours. CashCat, which briefly pushed its market cap above $200 million on the previous evening, has since retreated to around $100 million, while its 24-hour trading volume still exceeds $100 million. STONKBROKER has surged to an all-time high market cap of over $59 million, marking a 43% increase in the last day. WEN climbed more than 25%, with its market cap now at $4.3 million. PONS rose over 18%, reaching a valuation of $20 million. INDEX advanced over 28%, bringing its market cap to $8.6 million. BlockBeats has cautioned investors that meme coins generally have no real-world use cases and are subject to extreme price volatility, advising careful consideration before trading.

CNBC host Jim Cramer said on air that he is selling his Bitcoin after asking IBM CEO Arvind Krishna whether quantum computers could eventually break the cryptography protecting crypto holdings. Krishna said that in three to four years he would become "rather paranoid," prompting Cramer to say he would sell his coins and add that Ethereum might be "even worse." Bitcoin still rose about 1.6% on the day of the remark, and traders on Crypto Twitter quickly revived the long-running "inverse Cramer" joke. Decrypt’s Morning Minute also ran through a wide set of market updates. Major crypto assets were slightly higher while U.S. stocks pushed to fresh all-time highs, with BTC up 0.5% to $64.1K and ETH flat at $1,868. Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $211 million on Tuesday and $380 million across the first two sessions of the week, while ETH ETFs added $53 million. Elsewhere, Justin Drake and five other researchers proposed EIP-8361, a tapered issuance burn mechanism aimed at reducing Ethereum inflation as staking rises. The newsletter also highlighted Cloudflare Wallets for AI agent payments, Circle’s $701 million in Q2 revenue, Wells Fargo’s tokenized deposit plans, BitGo’s WBTC move to Chainlink, Robinhood Chain meme coin gains led by CASHCAT, and a softer NFT market.

July 31 brought a dense mix of crypto, equity-market, and policy headlines. On the corporate side, Coinbase reported $1.22 billion in second-quarter revenue, down 14% from the prior quarter and below the $1.29 billion expected by the market, while Strategy posted an $8.2 billion quarterly loss tied mainly to unrealized losses on its Bitcoin holdings and said it held 843,775 BTC at the latest disclosure. In one of the day’s most closely watched cross-market stories, people familiar with the matter said Citadel had acquired most of the equity portfolio of Situational Awareness, the $24 billion hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, after losses tied to AI-related trades. Elsewhere, Aave said it would retire 50 low-adoption reserves and wind down deployments on six chains, Uniswap launched a beta product for token launches, and ENS DAO proposed creating a full-time operating foundation. On the policy front, U.S. senators submitted a new compromise proposal tied to ethics provisions in the Clarity Act, while South Korea said it had completed a draft digital asset framework bill and is also considering rules that could cover AI agent payments and suspicious-account payment freezes.

Competition among token launch platforms on Robinhood Chain has shifted sharply over the second half of July, with Pons moving into the top spot on both token creation and trading activity. Dune data cited by Odaily shows that Pons issued more than 15,000 tokens in a single day on July 15, taking the No. 1 position among launch platforms on the chain and holding it ever since. Three days later, on July 18, daily trading volume for tokens launched on Pons reached $40.7 million, surpassing NOXA’s $37.4 million for the first time. The platform’s cumulative trading volume has now exceeded $1.5 billion. The product’s design appears to be a major reason for the shift. Pons, operated by Pons Labs and not by Robinhood itself, lets users create a token and deploy a Uniswap V3 pool in the same on-chain transaction. That removes the bonding-curve phase and avoids any later migration to an external DEX. New tokens have a fixed supply of 1 billion, creation costs 0.0005 ETH, and trades carry a 1% fee. Odaily also points to the rapid rise of the platform token PONS. GMGN data shows its market cap was under $5 million on July 16 before climbing above $67 million at its peak, then pulling back to around $40 million. Pons said on July 28 that 22% of PONS total supply had already been burned.

A packed 24-hour news cycle brought fresh signals from crypto markets, policymakers, security researchers and public companies. CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler said Bitcoin’s rebound is still facing four pressures: compressed volatility, weak U.S. spot demand, thin buy-side liquidity and continued loss realization by investors. In Washington, Aave founder Stani said the CLARITY Act has entered the "last mile," arguing that even in imperfect form it could become the first U.S. law to directly address DeFi and give institutions, fintechs and banks a clearer legal path into on-chain finance. In Europe, attention is shifting from winning a MiCA license to paying the ongoing cost of compliance. Market participants cited in the report said that dynamic could push the sector toward consolidation, including mergers, joint ventures and bank partnerships, with the U.K. likely to follow a similarly strict path through its own framework. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, meanwhile, said acquisitions of smaller centralized exchanges remain possible, but post-deal security incidents are hard to attribute, making due diligence and risk controls much harder. Other major developments included updated figures on public-company Bitcoin holdings, Lido’s response to a stETH reward calculation issue, Cascade’s statement that funds tied to the CLS incident had been recovered, and new reports on wallet-targeting malware campaigns and U.S. crypto seizure actions.