Monero Attacker Eyes Dogecoin

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Crypto News

• ⭐️ Qubic, Monero's $XMR recent 51% attacker, votes to target Dogecoin $DOGE next; Qubic's founder CfB noted "Preparation to mining Dogecoin requires months of development..." on X.

• ⭐️ Tether hires Bo Hines, former White House Crypto Council Executive Director, as Strategic Advisor for Digital Assets and US Strategy.

• Gemini to go public on Nasdaq under $GEMI ticker; S-1 filing shows a net loss of $282.5M in H1 2025.

• Japan FSA expected to approve JPYC's yen-denominated stablecoin as early as this fall; JPYC aims to issue 1T yen ($6.78B) worth of its stablecoin across three years.

• Digital Asset Investment Products saw $3.75B in inflows last week; Bitcoin $BTC ~$552M inflows, Ethereum $ETH ~$2.87B inflows, Solana $SOL ~$176.5M inflows, Ripple $XRP ~$125.9M inflows.

Alpha

• ⭐️ Monad launches Monad Cards; ~5,000 active crypto twitter accounts are eligible to claim; each can nominate 3 friends.

• Mitosis announces $MITO tokenomics; 10% of MITO supply allocated for Genesis Airdrop.

• Cap launches on Ethereum mainnet; earn Caps (points) for minting $cUSD; points program to last a maximum of 5 months, ending sooner if certain metrics are met.

• Jumper launches Jumper Perks, exclusive unlocks for leveling up your Jumper Pass, giving access to benefits and IRL perks.

• Relay teases "In 1 Week — A New Era, GRelay" on X; team confirmed it's not token-related.

• Boundless announces $ZKC tokenomics; ~6% of ZKC supply allocated for airdrop & community token sale.

• Pi Squared launches Pi Squared Portal; complete quests to earn points; to launch Pi² Reactor Game soon.

Airdrops

• ⭐️ Sapien to launch $SAPIEN TGE & airdrop on August 20th; Sapien points holders are eligible.

• Hyperlane launches $HYPER Expansion Rewards Q2 claim; Hyperlane users are eligible; claim open for two weeks.

• Binance launches $PLUME HODLer airdrop; BNB Simple Earn and/or On-Chain Yields products subscribers from July 24th to July 27th are eligible.

• OKX posts "NOTIFS ON, AIRDROP COMING SOON" on X; OKX wallet users to potentially be eligible for airdrop.

• ICYMI Airdrops, Checkers, & Points by Olimpio.

Finance News

• Strategy $MSTR buys an additional 430 Bitcoin $BTC for ~$51.4M at ~$119,666 per BTC; now holds 629,376 BTC worth ~$73B.

• Metaplanet $3350.T buys an additional 775 Bitcoin $BTC for ~$93M at ~$120,006 per BTC; now holds 18,888 BTC worth ~$2.2B.

• Bitdeer $BTDR reports Q2 2025 earnings; reports $155.6M in total revenue, $59.3M in mining revenue, 1,502 Bitcoin $BTC holdings.

• Bitmine $BMNR buys an additional 373,110 Ethereum $ETH; now holds 1,523,373 ETH worth ~$6.6B.

• SharpLink $SBET buys an additional 143,593 Ethereum $ETH; now holds 740,760 ETH worth ~$3.1B.

• Key Events This Week by The Kobeissi Letter.

Security and Exploits

• ⭐️ UK drops demand for Apple data back door; UK had served Apple a confidential TCN to build infrastructure allowing British agencies to decrypt users' iCloud backups globally.

• Ad Blockers to possibly be banned in Germany; a ruling by Germany’s Federal Supreme Court raised the possibility that ad blockers might unlawfully interfere with copyright-protected elements of websites.

• VPN Apps used by over 700M Android users revealed to contain shared keys & hidden backdoors; research shows the VPN's are secretly connected through shared ownership, server infrastructure, and cryptographic credentials,

Token Unlocks

• LayerZero $ZRO / ~$50M / AUG 20th
• Kaito $KAITO / ~$24M / AUG 20th
• Soon $SOON / ~$11M / AUG 23rd
Sourced from Tokenomist

Funding

• Block Earner raises $8M in Series A funding led by Titan Fund.

• O1 Exchange raises $4.2M in funding led by Coinbase Ventures & Alliance.

• Archax raises an undisclosed amount in funding from Stellar Development Foundation.

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