08-27 | Daily news

BTC traded at $80,078.1, up 2.29% over 24 hours, while ETH was at $2,538.00, up 3.81%. The latest U.S. 10-year Treasury yield was 4.662% and spot gold traded at $4,598.28. In their latest sessions, the S&P 500 fell 0.02% and the Nasdaq 100 gained 0.05%, while WTI and Brent most recently traded at $81.67 and $87.25.

1. BTC returns above $80,000

BTC traded at $80,078.1 on Aug. 27, up 2.29% over 24 hours, after moving between $77,602.5 and $80,335.0 on turnover of about $1.006 billion. Total crypto market capitalization still fell 0.57% over the same period, while BTC dominance stood at roughly 59.20%.

Assets to watch: BTC

2. ENA gains 11.22% over 24 hours

ENA traded at $0.15582 on Aug. 27, up 11.22% over 24 hours on turnover of about $22.62 million. Onchain monitoring recorded pension-usdt.eth opening a 300,000 ENA long with 2x leverage, worth about $43,800, after its ETH short was liquidated. This is one account's position change, not a marketwide flow.

Assets to watch: ENA

3. SOL gains 9.11% as an onchain account buys 95,928 SOL

SOL traded at $104.703 on Aug. 27, up 9.11% over 24 hours on turnover of about $335 million. Onchain monitoring recorded an account that had not traded SOL for two years buying 95,928 SOL worth about $9.74 million. The account completed two SOL swing trades during the previous three years.

Assets to watch: SOL

4. U.S. spot BTC and ETH ETFs post an eighth day of inflows

U.S. spot BTC and ETH ETFs recorded net inflows of $232 million and $192 million, respectively, for the Aug. 26 trading day, extending both streaks to eight days. The largest single-fund inflows in the two categories were $201 million and $116 million.

Assets to watch: BTC ETH

5. Strategy shares top $128 for the first time in 10 weeks

Strategy shares moved above $128 on Aug. 27 for the first time in 10 weeks, while the unrealized gain on its Bitcoin holdings reached $4 billion. Unrealized gain is the difference between current valuation and holding cost, not a settled return.

Assets to watch: MSTR BTC

6. Suspected institutional addresses buy 282,090 HYPE

Onchain monitoring on Aug. 27 recorded suspected institutional addresses spending 24 million USDC to buy 282,090 HYPE over the preceding day at an average price near $81.5. HYPE later traded at $83.222, up 1.72% over 24 hours on turnover of about $70.48 million. The address attribution has not been officially confirmed.

Assets to watch: HYPE

7. OpenAI's second venture fund raises $400 million

A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing showed on Aug. 27 that OpenAI is launching a second venture fund and has raised $400 million, all from its own balance sheet. Its first venture fund, launched in 2021, raised $175 million and included capital from outside investors.

Assets to watch: OPENAI

8. Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Google launched the Gemini 3.5 Transcribe speech-to-text model on Aug. 27, with support for 85 languages and audio involving up to three speakers. Compared with Chirp 3, transcription is about 70% faster and the real-time error rate is 5.5%. The model is already available through a Gboard feature on Pixel 11.

Assets to watch: GOOGL

9. Spot gold trades below $4,600

Spot gold moved below $4,600 on Aug. 27 and traded at $4,598.28, up 0.07% on the day. Moving below a round-number level means the intraday price briefly crossed it and does not describe the final daily close.

Assets to watch: XAU

10. 1inch receives 1,055 vulnerability reports in the first half

1inch and HackenProof published a half-year bug-bounty report covering 1,055 submissions across six programs, with 32 reports receiving awards. The Aqua shared-liquidity layer received the largest number at 472. All issues covered by the report have been fixed.