Iran says it will continue to restrict shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump says high oil prices are the price of curbing Iran's nuclear program

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that the apparent demand for Bitcoin has improved but remains at -32000 BTC, compared to -272000 BTC in early June. The apparent demand calculation method is to subtract the unused supply that has been over a year from the newly mined BTC quantity.

According to Castle Labs' report, as of August 12th, Hyperliquid's cumulative revenue reached $1.24 billion, with native perpetual contracts contributing $1.13 billion, accounting for 90.7%, HIP-3 perpetual contracts contributing $23.7 million, spot trading contributing $45.9 million, spot auctions contributing $20.7 million, and HyperEVM Gas contributing $13.5 million.

Binance founder CZ stated in a post that as of August 2026, over 20.7 million bitcoins have been mined, with only about 4.4% of the supply remaining to be mined. 10-20% of existing bitcoins are lost, stuck, or unrecoverable, making them a deflationary asset.

The Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded a combined inflow of $1.1 billion last week, ending the net outflow trend since 2026. BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF IBIT accounts for approximately 80% of the inflow of Bitcoin ETFs. Last week, BTC ETF trading volume reached its second lowest level since October 2024.

Binance FIL/USDT perpetual trading volume surged 5 times within 10 minutes, with a transaction volume of 36.29 million US dollars in the past 24 hours, an increase of 1.97% A surge in trading volume generally indicates an increase in market trading activity or large-scale fund buying and selling operations, which may be caused by certain important market changes or news announcements. According to AiCoin data, the comprehensive ranking of Binance contracts ranks first in the world