BRICS countries are discussing whether their fast-payment networks and central bank digital currencies can be linked across borders, with lower transaction costs as the immediate goal.
Bitcoin is still holding the support cluster that has kept its late-June recovery alive, but buyers have yet to clear the $65,000 resistance overhead convincingly.
XRP has returned to the area that marked its 2026 low. The token slipped to roughly $1 on August 10, marginally below the June 26 bottom near $1.01 and its weakest level since mid-November 2024. An initial recovery toward $1.02 faded quickly, with XRP back near $1.0038 on August 11.
Washington's next crypto-policy move will come from the SEC, with Congress following in September.
Bitcoin has spent more than two months largely between $58,000 and $67,000, trading around $64,000 at the time of writing. The price has been relatively quiet, but the distribution of coins between large and small holders has started to shift.
Ethereum's latest roadmap comparison shows more than a reshuffling of upgrades. Some of the assumptions that shaped the network's development only three years ago are now being reconsidered.
Chainlink has traded in a narrow range since late July, leaving LINK squeezed between two technical clusters on the daily chart.
Michael Saylor's Strategy has sold another 1,690 Bitcoin, extending a recent break from the company's long-standing pattern of almost exclusively accumulating BTC.
A small group of altcoins has separated from the broader crypto market, with Jito, Worldcoin and Pump.fun all posting double-digit gains over the past 24 hours.
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is working with banks and other market participants on standards for tokenized gold as London looks to modernize a bullion market facing growing competition from Asia.
Grayscale is pulling back from three proposed altcoin ETFs as old 19b-4 deadlines give way to a different SEC listing framework.
Crypto markets enter the week of August 10 with inflation and energy prices capable of changing the outlook for U.S. monetary policy within days.


