Ethereum surged 19.4% on the day to trade near $2,290, breaking out of its sub-$1,900 consolidation and moving above its 50-, 100- and 200-day simple moving averages.

Ethereum gained about 8% on August 19, reclaiming $2,000 and trading near $2,064 at 15:30 UTC.

The US Treasury will at least double the maximum size of buyback operations for older long-dated bonds, expanding a programme designed to make that part of the government-debt market easier to trade.

Arthur Hayes is returning to a day-to-day crypto role with an unusual launch sequence: the first public milestone for Flop Labs is expected to be a FLOP token airdrop, not a live blockchain.

HYPE has rebounded into a tight daily-chart zone where the two moving averages and the rising channel’s upper boundary sit just above the price today.

Aave is considering ending the public bug bounty for its Aptos deployment. The request is separate from, but connected to, plans for the lending market.

Two days after VELVET, ETHFI, JTO, LINK and ICP topped the market, their prices tell very different stories.

XRP is testing $1 below a falling trend line, with futures activity far exceeding spot turnover. The next daily closes might show whether the level can become support.

Arbitrum’s August unlock is easy to misread. A release of 92.65 million tokens sounds like a new supply shock, but it is part of a monthly schedule that has been running since 2024.

Dogecoin is holding a narrow range near $0.07, its weakest price since November 2023. A rare on-chain reading points to undervaluation, but price has not confirmed a reversal.

Humanity’s H token has doubled in a week and moved above its 200-day SMA. The rally now faces a larger test near $0.175.

Chainlink rose another 6% on August 15 and traded near $9.52, continuing a recovery that began earlier in the week. The advance followed several sessions of hesitation around $9.