Crypto markets on Aug. 31 were led by a cluster of stories around Robinhood Chain activity, tokenized stock trading, and U.S. crypto legislation. Robinhood Chain posted $945 million in single-day DEX volume on Aug. 29, setting a new all-time high and moving above its previous peak from mid-July. Token Terminal said the seven most actively traded tokenized stocks all sit on either BNB Chain or Robinhood Chain, generating a combined $4.3 billion in DEX volume over the past 30 days. Pons, a token launch platform active on Robinhood Chain, said it has paid $20.93 million to token creators over the past 47 days, while Dune data showed 23,080 tokens were deployed on Robinhood Chain on Aug. 29, with Pons V2 accounting for 15,957 of them, or about 69.1%. The broader news flow also included a planned Sept. 15 procedural vote in the U.S. Senate on the CLARITY Act, new governance and infrastructure updates from Hyperliquid, Solana and Deribit, multiple security incidents across Cosmos-linked and other networks, and a series of market comments from figures including Tom Lee, Ki Young Ju, Ansem and Bonk Guy. In spot trading, UNI was the only gainer among the listed top-10 CEX turnover tokens, up 11.2%, while ZORA led the OKX 24-hour gainers with a 33.52% rise.

The coming week brings a packed schedule for crypto markets and macro watchers, with token unlocks, exchange actions, protocol upgrades and key US economic releases all on the calendar. Humanity Protocol is set to unlock about 266 million H tokens on Aug. 25 Beijing time, while Huma Finance will unlock roughly 459 million HUMA on Aug. 26. Coinbase is scheduled to halt trading in 10 perpetual contracts, including MEME-PERP and SAND-PERP, and the European Union’s expanded crypto restrictions on Belarus under MiCA will begin to apply on Aug. 25. Macro events are also clustered midweek. The US will release July core PCE, personal spending, second-quarter real GDP revision and durable goods orders on Aug. 26. Nvidia’s earnings are due at 04:00 Beijing time on Aug. 27, with its guidance described in the source material as a key test for the AI capital spending cycle. On Aug. 28, Federal Reserve Chair Warsh is set to make his first appearance at the Jackson Hole global central bank symposium. The week also includes BNB Chain’s Pasteur hard fork, a TRON compatibility upgrade proposal vote, a Zcash holder vote on the scope of NU7, and several additional token unlocks across SOSO, XPL, FF, CARDS and KMNO.

The week of Aug. 24 to Aug. 30 features a dense slate of events for crypto traders and market watchers, spanning regulation, protocol upgrades, exchange changes, court proceedings, and macro catalysts. On Aug. 25, the European Union’s expanded crypto restrictions on Belarus are set to take effect for all Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, or MiCA, service providers, while BNB Chain plans to activate its Pasteur hard fork and Conflux Network moves forward with a v3.1.0 upgrade. Binance also said it will suspend deposits and withdrawals on the Conflux Network on Aug. 25, 2026 to support that hard fork. Aug. 26 is led by Hyperliquid’s AQAv2 revenue accrual launch, which the project says could channel as much as $200 million into HYPE buybacks and burns over time. The same day, BitMart is scheduled to shut down all trading services, BitMEX will begin applying risk limits ahead of its Sept. 23 closure, and Coinbase will halt perpetual futures trading for 10 tokens including MEME, SAND, BLUR, AXS, and ZRO. On Aug. 27, attention shifts to macro and public markets as the Jackson Hole central bank symposium opens, the Bank of Korea releases its rate decision, and Nvidia reports fiscal 2027 second-quarter earnings. That date also brings a first-instance ruling in Bithumb’s mistaken Bitcoin distribution case and the shutdown of EulerFinanceBot’s TAC Telegram mini app. Later in the week, DeFi Kingdoms’ DFK Chain is set to stop running on Aug. 28.

A dense stream of updates hit crypto and AI markets between Aug. 12 and Aug. 13, spanning venture funding, protocol incidents, regulatory moves, exchange actions and large on-chain transfers. PANews’ roundup included Lovable’s $400 million Series C at a $13.3 billion valuation, Wintermute’s plan to spend about $1 billion over five years on high-frequency trading and AI data center infrastructure, and Tencent’s second-quarter results showing higher capital expenditure tied to AI spending. In digital assets, Harmony said it had traced fraudulently minted tokens across 409 wallets and was considering a rollback, while Solana briefly came close to a network-freeze threshold after a data center routing issue knocked nearly 29% of staked SOL offline. Anchorpoint also began the first phase of distributing its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin HKDAP, and Coinbase said it will suspend 10 perpetual contracts on Aug. 26. Whale activity remained active as well, including an Ethereum ICO participant moving 2,000 ETH to Coinbase, a wallet sending 2,300 BTC to Wintermute-linked deposit addresses since June 25, and a leveraged ETH trader closing out positions for a reported $4.3 million profit. The period also brought new product releases from Grok and DeepSeek, a major SEC no-action letter tied to Franklin Templeton’s BENJI fund, and fresh scrutiny of prediction markets from U.S. regulators and New York City lawmakers.

Coinbase has announced that it will suspend trading on a total of ten perpetual contracts on August 26. The suspension is planned for around 21:00 UTC. According to the official announcement, the affected markets are Memecoin (MEME-PERP), The Sandbox (SAND-PERP), Moonbirds (BIRB-PERP), Blur (BLUR-PERP), Katana (KAT-PERP), SPX6900 (SPX-PERP), ZORA (ZORA-PERP), Axie Infinity (AXS-PERP), Gensyn (AI-PERP), and LayerZero (ZRO-PERP). When the suspension takes effect, any remaining open positions will be automatically settled. The final settlement price will be calculated based on the average index price over the 60 minutes immediately before the trading halt. In addition, the funding rate for the last funding cycle will be set to zero. This last point means the final cycle of funding will incur a rate of zero, rather than a positive or negative charge. For traders still holding these contracts at that time, the automatic settlement is unavoidable and the price used will be based on the last hour of index values. These details give a clear picture of how the process will work.

Token Unlocks data shows a series of sizable token unlocks scheduled for the week, covering SIGN, XPL, FF, CARDS, AERO, LAVA, ZORA, KMNO, ZETA, GPS, EIGEN, GUN, and ENA. Among them, EIGEN has the largest unlock by value at about $7.63 million, followed by FF at roughly $6.15 million and KMNO at about $4.14 million. By circulating-supply share, LAVA stands out at 40.91%, while SIGN is set to unlock 15.71% and GUN 11.26%. The unlock calendar begins on July 28 with SIGN and XPL, continues through July 29 with five projects including FF and LAVA, and runs into August 2 with ENA. The figures were cited by TechFlowPost on July 27, based on data from Token Unlocks.

ITLX said it will remove ZAMA, ZORA and 1000000MOG on May 9, 2026 at 08:00 UTC, ending both trading support and related wallet services for the three tokens.

PANews’ weekly roundup pulled together a wide mix of crypto-adjacent stories, with AI sitting at the center of the discussion. Several featured pieces focused on the valuation race between Anthropic and OpenAI, growing arguments over whether AI’s real return on investment justifies current enthusiasm, and how AI is changing jobs, capital flows and industrial strategy. The selection also highlighted a long essay from Circle’s CEO arguing that blockchain and AI could reshape the structure of the firm itself, with stablecoins serving as the monetary layer for machine-speed activity. Beyond AI, the roundup tracked macro and market narratives, including scrutiny of traditional banking channels in money laundering cases, fresh commentary on the relationship between US policy and equity markets, and comparisons between the current tech cycle and the 2000 internet bubble. In crypto, attention centered on Base, Robinhood Chain, Hyperliquid and Trade.XYZ. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was cited as publicly acknowledging that Base’s content-token strategy had failed, while ZORA’s market cap was said to have fallen 95%. PANews also pointed to a CXMT perpetual contract on Hyperliquid as a new DeFi route for overseas investors seeking exposure to China’s memory-chip story before listing.