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.

ChainCatcher’s Aug. 3 market roundup pulled together a wide set of developments across crypto and broader markets. The most urgent item was a fresh warning tied to Coldcard wallets after Galaxy identified a third wave of attacks, with estimated losses now above $88 million. Galaxy Research head Alex Thorn said funds from one victim were routed through THORChain into ETH and then deposited to offshore betting platform Duel.com, which he said declined to freeze the assets after being notified. The roundup also highlighted a portfolio reshuffle by Roundhill’s memory-chip ETF. The fund added CXMT, or ChangXin Memory Technologies, at a 2.52% weight, while cutting Samsung Electronics by about 3 million shares from Monday to Wednesday, a sale valued at roughly $432 million. Separately, Michael Saylor posted another Bitcoin Tracker message, a signal that has often preceded Strategy’s next-day disclosure of changes in its BTC holdings. Other items in the report included South Korea’s plan to give regulators emergency intervention powers during severe market swings, Goldman Sachs’ view that the Federal Reserve will hold rates steady through 2026, renewed fundraising by Chinese venture capital firms seeking about $35 billion across at least 60 new U.S. dollar funds, and the launch of Trump Media’s $100,000-a-month Truth API service.

Robinhood reported the strongest quarter in its history, posting $1.31 billion in net revenue, $573 million in net income, diluted EPS of $0.62, and total platform assets of $369 billion. One of the standout figures came from its prediction market business, where event contracts generated $156 million in revenue, topping both crypto and equities for the first time. CEO Vlad Tenev also highlighted Robinhood Chain, saying its DEXs have processed more than $12 billion in volume, the network reached 100 million transactions at record speed, and TVL stands around $325 million. Outside the company, crypto markets were largely flat after the FOMC, with BTC at $64.8K, while SEC Chair Paul Atkins said the agency is prepared to draft crypto market rules on its own if the CLARITY Act does not move forward. The broader update also covered ETF flows, Coinbase ahead of earnings, MoonPay’s PayBox launch, Binance US’s plan to seek DCM status, and activity across meme coins, DeFi protocols, and NFTs.

Anthropic said an unreleased version of its flagship model, Claude Mythos Preview, discovered two previously unknown attacks on cryptographic algorithms, including one targeting HAWK, a post-quantum digital signature system that had advanced to the third round of the U.S. NIST competition. According to the report, the attack cuts the cost of stealing HAWK’s smallest key from 2^64 operations to 2^38, or about 67 million times less work. Anthropic said fixing the issue would roughly double key sizes, weakening one of HAWK’s main selling points: compact keys and fast signing. The report also stressed that HAWK has never been deployed and that Bitcoin still uses ECDSA, so no live crypto system was broken by the finding. Even so, the development matters because a broad push toward quantum-resistant crypto infrastructure assumes that the replacement schemes are themselves secure. The newsletter also covered a range of market and policy developments, including gains in BTC and ETH ahead of the FOMC, public backing for the CLARITY Act from BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs, and SoFi, fresh ETF flow data, Zcash’s Ironwood activation, and a burst of meme coin trading activity led by PIPEDOG on Robinhood chain.

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.

A wide set of crypto, equity and AI developments shaped the July 27 news cycle. BitMart said it will wind down its exchange in phases, with new registrations, deposits and fresh orders already set to stop and all trading services ending on Aug. 26, 2026, while withdrawals remain open. Around the same time, Odos and Dango each published shutdown timetables, including read-only periods, trading cutoffs and fund withdrawal arrangements. Elsewhere, ChangXin Technology is set to list today at RMB 8.66 per share, with single-lot profit estimates ranging from roughly RMB 12,000 to RMB 20,200 based on different IPO gain benchmarks cited by Chinese media. Robinhood is also in talks with Crypto.com over a prediction-market partnership, according to The Wall Street Journal, and Binance Research said Gen Z is now the largest user group for its equity-linked products, contributing $80 billion in cumulative trading volume. The broader digest also covered Nvidia’s open-weight AI letter, OpenAI and Anthropic’s reported lobbying on open-source models, expected record earnings at SK hynix, Storj Labs’ Chapter 11 filing, a suspected security incident on WEMIX 3.0, and Fidelity’s call for the U.S. Senate to pass the CLARITY Act.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) climbed about 36% on Sunday to $0.0000057, adding roughly $1 billion in market value and bringing its total market capitalization to about $3.4 billion, according to BlockBeats. The token’s 24-hour trading volume approached $380 million, with activity rising to the highest level seen in months. No clear fundamental catalyst was identified behind the move. Shibarium did not release any related announcement, and other dog-themed tokens lagged well behind SHIB during the same period. DOGE rose about 6%, while smaller peers posted gains of up to around 10%, pointing to flows concentrated in SHIB rather than a broad rally across the meme coin sector. Trading data showed a notable concentration of buying from South Korea. On Upbit, the SHIB/KRW pair recorded about $62 million in turnover, making it the largest single market globally and accounting for more than 10% of worldwide volume. The pair also traded at a slight premium to dollar-denominated venues such as Binance. Liquidations followed the move higher, with about 2,300 traders cleared out across SHIB and 1000SHIB positions for roughly $6 million, most of it from shorts.

ChainCatcher reported that Dogecoin (DOGE) rose only about 6% over the same period, while gains among other dog-themed tokens were mostly around 10%, suggesting that capital was concentrated in SHIB. In derivatives, roughly 2,300 traders’ SHIB positions and 1,000 SHIB positions were liquidated during the latest upswing, with total liquidations reaching about $6 million. Short positions accounted for about $5 million of that amount. The report added that short covering was viewed more as a result of the price rise than the main force behind the move. The figures point to stronger flows into SHIB relative to other meme tokens tracked in the same period.