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According to CryptoBriefing, the Bitcoin wallet Xverse has launched a joint Bitcoin staking service, allowing users to pair sBTC with STX tokens to participate in the Stacks PoX-5 locking period. During the staking period, Bitcoin remains on the Bitcoin mainnet and is controlled by the users, without the need for cross-chain or wrapping. This feature requires an upgrade to the Xverse v2.9 version wallet.Registration will close on September 9 or when the quota is used up. Staking rewards are expected to be distributed starting September 10 (Bitcoin block 966350, corresponding to Stacks' 143rd period). Institutions such as UTXO (a subsidiary of Nakamoto Inc.), HashKey Cloud, and 21shares have joined as anchor participants. Previously, Xverse managed approximately 152 million STX in non-custodial staking.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the suspected largest HYPE holding institution of a16z continued to buy HYPE today. This institution previously spent 66.4 million USDC to purchase 816,000 HYPE at an average price of 81.3 dollars a week ago; 8 hours ago, it transferred 13.05 million USDC to Hyperliquid and purchased HYPE through a TWAP method.Currently, this institution has bought and staked 5.201 million HYPE, worth approximately 445 million dollars, with an average purchase price of about 67.2 dollars, and the current floating profit is approximately 95.18 million dollars.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, at the end of July, a whale or institution that redeemed 2.886 million HYPE from staking has completed liquidation, transferring the last 969,000 HYPE ($79.18 million) to Coinbase Prime and FalconX 20 minutes ago.They accumulated and staked it at around $19.8 at the beginning of last year, and liquidated it at around $64.9 in the past month, making a profit of $132 million (+228%).

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale execution wallet has accumulated the purchase of 155,980 HYPE, worth approximately 12.91 million USD, at an average price of about 82.77 USD, without selling any HYPE.The accumulated HYPE has been transferred to another wallet and staked, while the execution wallet still has about 4.34 million USD in USDC available and continues to buy.

The cryptocurrency retirement investment platform BitcoinIRA has announced the launch of Freedom Accounts, which are individual taxable cryptocurrency investment accounts now available to eligible clients. These accounts can be managed alongside Crypto IRAs on the same platform and dashboard for both retirement and non-retirement cryptocurrency investments.These accounts are not subject to IRA contribution limits, required minimum distributions, or age withdrawal restrictions. Clients can fund them with cash or transfer supported cryptocurrencies in-kind from external platforms like Coinbase, Kraken, and Robinhood without having to sell first. BitcoinIRA does not charge fees for eligible in-kind transfers (network or sending platform fees may apply). Accounts can buy and sell over 100 cryptocurrencies 24/7, offer staking rewards on eligible assets (not guaranteed), and support automatic rebalancing of Crypto Bundles or custom portfolios.Custody is provided by Nevada-licensed trust company Digital Trust and BitGo multi-signature wallets. Freedom Accounts complement rather than replace Crypto IRAs, and eligible BitcoinIRA accounts automatically include this feature. BitcoinIRA was founded in 2016 and has processed billions of dollars in transactions for over 200,000 Americans. Co-founder Chris Kline stated that clients' financial lives extend beyond IRAs, and Freedom Accounts are the next step in expanding the platform, allowing clients to manage retirement and non-retirement cryptocurrency investments more flexibly in one place.

According to market news, the new address "0x9807...19c9D" withdrew approximately 44.19 million ENA from Coinbase about 4 hours ago, worth approximately 6.82 million dollars, and staked all the tokens to the Ethereum-based stablecoin protocol Ethena contract about 3 hours ago.

The revenue from fees priced in SOL on Solana reached a seven-day average of nearly 9,200 SOL on August 27, an increase of over 80% compared to three months ago; the non-voting transaction volume also set a new seven-day high of 191 million transactions, compared to only 88 million transactions a year ago. Jito validator tips averaged 2,073 SOL daily over the past week, a 26% increase week-on-week, directly reflecting the increase in on-chain activity.Meanwhile, the SGP-0002 "Dual Deflation" proposal passed last Friday with just over 67% support (the threshold was 66.67%), with a voting participation rate of 60.7%, covering 1,326 validators, setting a historical high for governance participation on the Solana chain. This proposal will double the annual deflation rate from 15% to 30%, expected to reduce the planned issuance by approximately 18.9 million SOL over six years.This means that the new SOL supply entering the market each year will decrease, and the rewards for validators completing the same amount of work will also decline. Staking rewards will drop from about 5.25% to 2.25% in the third year, which will squeeze validators that rely on inflation revenue rather than transaction fees, and many validators may face losses within three years. However, this impact will mainly affect small independent operators, and ordinary users are not expected to experience significant changes in the speed and costs of using the Solana network.

Bitcoin mining company BitMine Immersion Technologies stated in its latest staking disclosure that as of August 30, it has staked 5,067,309 ETH, valued at approximately $12.7 billion based on a price of $2,511. The company's disclosed staking balance remained unchanged from August 9 to 30, while it added 53,501 ETH in the latest week, bringing its total holdings to 5,901,112 ETH.BitMine indicated that its Ethereum vault accounts for about 4.9% of the total Ethereum supply of 120.7 million coins, and the company had previously set a target to acquire 5% of the total Ethereum supply. The company has set the annualized yield for its staking operations over the past seven days at 2.63%, stating that the annualized staking income corresponding to the current holdings is approximately $335 million; if the entire ETH balance is staked through its self-built network and staking partners at the same yield, the annualized staking rewards could reach $390 million.BitMine officially launched its self-built "Made in America Validator Network" (MAVAN) in April this year. In its April disclosure, the company mentioned that some staked ETH had already been deployed on MAVAN, but did not specify the exact amount. BitMine's staking holdings were 4,879,157 ETH at the beginning of July, surpassed 5 million on August 9, and have remained stable in the subsequent four weekly disclosures. The company's chairman, Tom Lee, has stated that BitMine's staked ETH amount exceeds that of any other entity.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain institution has successively transferred 52,739 ETH (approximately 129 million USD) to six CEXs including Binance and OKX from yesterday until now. Currently, there are still 101,561 ETH (approximately 249 million USD) in the address.The ETH originated from withdrawals from Coinbase at an average price of about 1,700 USD between 2021 and 2022, was deposited into Ethereum staking in 2023, and was redeemed from staking last January. In the past two days, it has been aggregated into two wallets and then successively transferred to multiple CEXs.

According to PR Newswire, Ethereum treasury company BitMine increased its holdings by 53,501 Ethereum last week, marking 65 consecutive weeks of weekly increases. As of August 30, 2026, its total Ethereum holdings reached 5,901,112 coins, accounting for approximately 4.9% of the total Ethereum supply.Currently, the total value of the cryptocurrencies, cash, and other investment assets held by BitMine is approximately $15.6 billion, which includes $541 million in cash and securities, 211 Bitcoin, $180 million in equity assets from Beast Industries, and a $81 million investment in Eightco Holdings (ORBS).In addition, the amount of Ethereum it has staked remains at 5,067,309 coins (86% of total holdings), valued at approximately $12.7 billion, with a current annualized staking yield of about $335 million.

According to Crowdfund Insider, the Ethena Foundation has announced a series of adjustments to reduce the selling pressure caused by early investors unlocking their tokens. The foundation has repurchased some of the remaining locked ENA from large seed round investors through over-the-counter transactions and has agreed with major investors to end the remaining vesting arrangements early.Starting from October 5, there will be no investor tokens under lock-up, while team tokens will maintain the original lock-up and vesting terms.

According to GMGN market data, the meme coin COPPERINU on the Robinhood chain briefly surpassed a market capitalization of $18 million, setting a new record, with a 24-hour increase of over 1,000 times.It is understood that COPPERINU was deployed by the developers of Pons Vault, who sent 40% of the tokens to the crypto KOL Him's wallet. Him stated that he accepted the token because it was deployed by the developers of Pons Vault and intends to incorporate mechanisms such as staking, claiming, and burning around the token, while using the obtained tokens for community airdrops.

According to HyperliquidNews monitoring, Unitxyz is currently using Coinbase Prime funds to purchase $15 million worth of hyperliquid through a TWAP strategy. Once completed, its total staked amount will reach 1 million tokens.Since the 500,000 hyperliquid used for HIP-3 staking cannot be reused for HIP-4, a total of 1 million hyperliquid tokens need to be staked to initiate both HIP-3 and HIP-4, valued at approximately $80 million.

According to OnchainLens monitoring, a certain whale unstaked 907,200 HYPE tokens, worth approximately 7.59 million USD, after staking for 4 months, and transferred them to the Bybit platform.

According to Crypto Briefing, the U.S. Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has added 21Shares' Polkadot Staking ETF to its listing, with the code TDOT, marking the official entry of this product into the U.S. ETF ecosystem. Meanwhile, 21Shares has renamed the fund from its original name "21Shares Polkadot ETF" to "21Shares Polkadot Staking ETF," with this change taking effect on August 27, 2026.This name change is not just a superficial adjustment; the term "Staking" clearly communicates the product mechanism to institutional investors: the fund holds DOT tokens, stakes 40% to 95% of its holdings through network validators, and distributes earnings to shareholders on a quarterly basis. The current staking yield is 2.04%, with a management fee of 0.3%, and custody is jointly handled by Anchorage Digital, BitGo, and Coinbase. The ETF was listed on Nasdaq on March 6, 2026, with initial seed funding of approximately $11 million, and as of the end of August, the assets under management are approximately $7.5 to $7.9 million.

The 21Shares report shows that Solana is advancing two governance proposals, SIMD-550 and SIMD-553, which may significantly change the SOL holding economic model in the next two years.SIMD-550 proposes to increase Solana's annual inflation reduction rate from 15% to 30%, allowing it to reach a terminal inflation rate of 1.5% more quickly, with nominal staking yields expected to drop to about 2.25% within three years.SIMD-553 was approved and merged on July 20, and will introduce a destruction fee for compute unit requests, increasing the daily SOL burn amount from about 600-800 to about 7500-9000.The report believes that although the decline in staking income will directly affect the earnings of validators and stakers, a lower issuance combined with a higher burn rate may improve the long-term supply and demand structure of SOL, and could drive some capital towards the decentralized finance ecosystem on the Solana chain.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum researchers have proposed rebuilding the validator deposit contract to support a new cryptographic system and ultimately stop accepting deposits protected by the existing BLS signatures. This proposal targets the deposit contract, aiming to add a switch that prevents the network from accepting the currently relied-upon signature format.Currently, the contract only accepts BLS keys because their exact size is hardcoded, while the new draft allows for different key sizes, with each deposit tagged by the cryptographic system used, where BLS receives a tag of zero, reserving space for future schemes.If the proposal is approved, it will initially operate with BLS deposits, while other schemes can be registered simultaneously. Future decisions may permanently disable new BLS deposits, at which point validators who have staked using BLS keys will not disappear, but new validators will not be able to join using this method. Ethereum will ultimately need to change separately to inform validators how to check new signatures. This is part of the migration for validators, while another part is already in progress—EIP-8141 framework transaction proposals will allow regular Ethereum accounts to change the cryptographic method for approving transactions without changing their address.The urgency stems from research released in March by Google's Quantum AI research department, which outlined five quantum attack paths against Ethereum, putting over $100 billion in assets at potential risk. The Ethereum Foundation is advancing core protocol changes with a target around 2029. Currently, the amount of ETH staked in Ethereum is approximately 42.4 million, valued at about $10.4 billion.

Bitwise CEO posted on the X platform that approximately $45 million flowed into the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF BSOL in the first two days of this week, with its assets under management approaching $1 billion, and stated that Solana should not be underestimated.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, 14.65 million EIGEN, worth 3.09 million dollars, that Polychain redeemed from staking 3 months ago, was transferred to Coinbase Prime 6 hours ago.Out of the 131.8 million EIGEN redeemed by Polychain at the end of May, 46.86 million EIGEN was re-staked 1 month ago, 14.65 million EIGEN was transferred to Coinbase Prime today, and the remaining 70.29 million EIGEN is still stored in the address.