🔥 Market Recap (Aug 20) - BTC Drops to $113K, Fear & Greed at 45; Institutions Buy ETH Dip, While Funds Exit BTC & ETH ETFs.
📊 Market Snapshot
• $BTC: dropped to $113K
• $ETH: around $4,100
• Altcoins: sharply adjusted
• BTCDOM: 59.86%
• Total Crypto Market Cap: $3.83T
• Fear & Greed Index: 45 – Neutral
• Altcoin Season Index: 46/100
🕯 ETF Flows (Aug 19)
• BTC: -$523.3M (Fidelity, Bitwise, Ark, Grayscale massively sold)
• ETH: -$422.2M (Blackrock, Fidelity, Bitwise, Invesco, Grayscale massively sold)
• SOL: no record
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• Celsius will begin its third distribution worth $220.6M to creditors, bringing total recovery so far to ~64.9% of claims.
• Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital is preparing to tokenize $300M in assets on Avalanche, advancing its on-chain investment strategy.
• Bullish secured $1.15B in IPO proceeds settled in stablecoins, marking the first-ever use of stablecoins in a U.S. initial public offering.
• Public companies and funds now collectively hold over 2% of Ethereum’s circulating supply, underscoring growing institutional adoption.
• Robinhood has officially listed $SUI for U.S. trading, expanding accessibility to the Layer-1 token.
• FBI reported $5.8B in crypto fraud losses in 2024, but experts estimate the true figure is likely more than double due to underreporting.
• PumpFun dominates Solana’s memecoin sector, capturing 91.8% of launchpad activity across token creation, bonding, and active wallets.
• An early Ethereum ICO participant moved 334.7 ETH (~$1.48M) after holding since 2014, when the tokens were purchased for just $104 in total.
• A solo Bitcoin miner successfully mined a block, earning 3.17 BTC (~$371K) in rewards.
• Ethereum balances on centralized exchanges have fallen to their lowest level in 9 years, signaling a long-term supply squeeze.
• Dune’s LATAM report shows crypto exchange volume surged 9× from 2021–2024 to $27B, driven by Ethereum, Tron, Solana, and Polygon. In July 2025, stablecoins (USDT + USDC) made up over 90% of the total, while BRL- and MXN-pegged tokens saw explosive growth.
• Base reached a new all-time high in TVL and stablecoin market cap (via Coinbase Institutional).
• MetaMask expanded beyond Ethereum with new TRON integration, broadening multi-chain wallet support.
• Aave surpassed $6B in USDC deposits, reinforcing its position as a top DeFi lending protocol.
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🎁 Airdrops List (19/8 - 20/8)
• Binance Alpha: DecentralGPT (DGC)
• Binance Alpha: AriaAI (ARIA)
• Binance Alpha: Sapien (SAPIEN)
• Almanak
• Sign Orange
• NEAR Mobile
• WAYE
• Ethernity
• PEOPLEonBASE
• Binance x Plume
• o1(.)exchange
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