XRP almost cleared $1.70 after rising 60% in a week. The daily chart shows the token reaching $1.69 before slipping back toward $1.55, where a May swing high now comes into play.

Solana surged past $94 and briefly traded above $100 on Friday, but derivatives activity, not an equally strong wave of spot buying, is now shaping this breakout.

Bitcoin punched toward $78,500 and Ether cleared $2,500 as the market's recovery dug deeper into high-beta altcoins, extending a risk-on rotation catalyzed by the U.S. Treasury’s latest liquidity maneuvers.

Solana has pushed above all three major daily simple moving averages, pressing into the $90 zone where its next major chart battle awaits.

XRP gained roughly 16% over 24 hours and 24% on the week, ripping the token out of the $1 basement and slamming it directly into its first major technical wall. Trading around $1.25 after peaking at $1.26 during the session, the asset has punched back above a crucial floor, but the hard work starts right here.

Crypto derivatives positions worth $2.99 billion were forcibly closed over 24 hours, affecting 170,001 traders.

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.