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Token Metrics Daily Pulse

Token Metrics Daily Pulse

Token Metrics 118 Episodes Aug 22, 2026

Daily Pulse is your morning crypto briefing, summarizing key overnight changes, their significance, and upcoming alerts. No predictions or hype—just 10 essential points, verified and sourced. New episodes daily. Subscribe at tokenmetrics.com.

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Bitcoin and ether ETFs just pulled $2.6B
Bitcoin and ether ETFs just pulled $2.6B Aug 22, 2026 338 Bitcoin ETFs pulled $2.6B this week. Strongest since October. Volume tripled. The real tell: who's buying.Today's key developments:• Coldcard shipped new firmware after a $130M Bitcoin seed flaw.• Brussels is weighing DeFi lending rules under MiCA.• Solana cut mainnet slot time to 350ms toward 200ms goal.📰 Read the full Daily Pulse: https://pulse.tokenmetrics.com/p/bitcoin-and-ether-etfs-just-pull
Bitcoin nears $80K as crypto rally stretches into a third day
Bitcoin nears $80K as crypto rally stretches into a third day Aug 22, 2026 388 Bitcoin briefly touched $79K as the crypto rally stretched into a third straight day. BTC gained roughly 23% this week, ETH rose 28%, and HYPE reached a new all-time high. Today's key developments: • Bitcoin neared $80K as the crypto rally stretched into a third day. • Strategy flipped from $13B BTC loss to $1.4B profit as Bitcoin rallied. • CFTC chair tells staff to draft crypto market structure
Today's 8% Bitcoin surge may be a trap
Today's 8% Bitcoin surge may be a trap Aug 21, 2026 336 Bitcoin jumped 8% to $75k. Shorts lost nearly $3B. Stablecoins flat. Greed at 72.Today's key developments:• US federal debt topped $40T, reigniting the debasement trade.• X is exploring stablecoin payouts for creators as it rebuilds rewards.• Binance opened trading to AI agents with user-set controls via Agent OS.📰 Read the full Daily Pulse: https://pulse.tokenmetrics.com/p/today-s-8-bitcoin-surge
Bitcoin jumped 8% and leveraged shorts got caught
Bitcoin jumped 8% and leveraged shorts got caught Aug 20, 2026 338 Bitcoin jumped 7.9% to $69,249 and Ether 19.3% as Treasury buybacks pushed money back into risk assets. Leveraged shorts got caught. Stablecoin supply is flat, so treat it as a bounce, not a turn.Today's key developments:• Nethermind quit LayerZero's verifier network and joined Chainlink.• Jim Chanos says there's still $80B of arbitrage in shorting MSTR.• Base App launched Hyperliquid-powered perp
Bitcoin price spike to $64.5K was ‘low-volume liquidity trap’
Bitcoin price spike to $64.5K was ‘low-volume liquidity trap’ Aug 18, 2026 319 Bitcoin price spike to $64.5K was ‘low-volume liquidity trap’Today's key developments:• Bitcoin holds $64k as rising yields and oil drain risk appetite, retracing Monday's rally from $63k.• MSTR has lost 75% of its value since STRC began trading, and bought zero Bitcoin last week.• South Korea blocks Polymarket, joining more than 30 jurisdictions restricting access.📰 Read the full Daily Pulse: htt
Strategy sits on $4.8B, buys zero Bitcoin
Strategy sits on $4.8B, buys zero Bitcoin Aug 17, 2026 269 Strategy bought no Bitcoin last week. It added $150M to USD reserve. MSCI may boot it from indexes.Today's key developments:• MSCI wants to drop Strategy and Metaplanet from global indexes.• OCC gave conditional nod to World Liberty trust for USD1 stablecoin.• Austria fined Bitpanda €70,000 in first published MiCA penalty.📰 Read the full Daily Pulse: https://pulse.tokenmetrics.com/p/strategy-sits-
Swiss mega-bank UBS ramps up its Bitcoin exposure with a massive 24-fold surge in ETF...
Swiss mega-bank UBS ramps up its Bitcoin exposure with a massive 24-fold surge in ETF... Aug 17, 2026 308 Swiss mega-bank UBS ramps up its Bitcoin exposure with a massive 24-fold surge in ETF call optionsToday's key developments:• Paul Tudor Jones' firm lifted its IBIT stake 18.9% to 688,529 shares worth $23M.• Tokenized stock holders more than doubled to 1.31 million as monthly volume surged 179% to $23B.• The SEC postponed a vote on new crypto fundraising exemptions as the CLARITY Act stalls in Cong
Dartmouth endowment’s crypto exposure drops by $2M amid falling prices
Dartmouth endowment’s crypto exposure drops by $2M amid falling prices Aug 15, 2026 303 Dartmouth endowment’s crypto exposure drops by $2M amid falling pricesToday's key developments:• SEC delay hits tokenization stocks: BLSH, FIGR, COIN, CRCL slip.• Trump-backed World Liberty wins conditional bank charter.• Galaxy cuts CLARITY Act odds to 10%.📰 Read the full Daily Pulse: https://pulse.tokenmetrics.com/p/dartmouth-endowment-s-crypto-exposure-drops-by-2m-amid-falling-prices-aug-15-202
Binance longs face cleanout as BTC slips to $62k
Binance longs face cleanout as BTC slips to $62k Aug 14, 2026 384 Binance longs are getting cleaned out. BTC sits at $62k. Open interest fell with price.Today's key developments:• Stablecoin payments firm RedotPay put its $1B U.S. IPO on hold.• Tether finally got a full audit: KPMG signed off on its 2025 books.• The SEC canceled Friday's meeting on crypto regulation and tokenization exemption.📰 Read the full Daily Pulse: https://pulse.tokenmetrics.com/p/binance-
CFTC keeps Kalshi open as NY lawsuit escalates
CFTC keeps Kalshi open as NY lawsuit escalates Aug 13, 2026 359 CFTC keeps Kalshi open as New York sues. Prediction markets dodge a bullet.Today's key developments:• Goldman Sachs will buy NEOS for up to $2.3B, adding a $1B Bitcoin income ETF.• Fidelity filed to stake up to 100% of its $900M ETH ETF, paying quarterly cash.• SEC cleared Franklin Templeton funds to hold its own tokenized money market fund.📰 Read the full Daily Pulse: https://pulse.tokenmetrics.c
XRP futures bets at October high: is CPI the spark?
XRP futures bets at October high: is CPI the spark? Aug 12, 2026 337 XRP futures bets hit highest since Oct. CPI print lands Wednesday. Volatility loading.Today's key developments:• Harmony confirmed a suspected exploit minted roughly 4 billion ONE tokens, about 26% of supply.• Solana price formed a death cross as futures interest wobbles.• Bank of England entered Phase 2 of its digital pound, testing stablecoins in cross-border trade finance.📰 Read the full Daily
Tether sheds $4B in 60 days: sell pressure easing
Tether sheds $4B in 60 days: sell pressure easing Aug 11, 2026 380 Tether shed $4B in 60 days. Sell pressure near exhaustion. Fear index at 29.Today's key developments:• Keel finished shutting all US Bitcoin mining as revenue halved and operating loss hit $141M.• Grayscale pulled its Cardano, Polkadot and Hedera ETF filings.• SEC set an Aug 14 meeting to propose its first formal crypto rulemaking.📰 Read the full Daily Pulse: https://pulse.tokenmetrics.com/p/tethe

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