Justin Sun promises $1 million in funds to DAO for freeing Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was arrested in France.
Bitcoin hovers around $64,000 on Monday, holding up Friday’s gains after Fed Chairman Powell’s speech paved the way for an interest-rate cut in the US.
Artificial Intelligence tokens FET, TAO, RNDR, AGIX and OCEAN see price gains in the last 24 hours.
Ethereum sustains above key support at $2,700 even as Spot Ether ETFs had net outflows of $44.54 million last week.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP updates
Bitcoin trades at $63,737 at the time of writing on Monday, holding up the 6% gains it saw on Friday after Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell said the time has come for US interest-rate cuts, supporting a rally in risk assets. More broadly, the largest crypto asset by market capitalization has historically registered a positive performance in Q4 most times, according to data from Coinglass.
Ethereum Spot ETFs registered a net outflow of $44.54 million in the week of August 19 to 23, per data from Sosovalue. Even as institutional capital left Ether Spot ETFs, the altcoin sustained above key support at $2,700, trading around $2,735 at the time of writing.
XRP hovers around key psychological support at $0.60. The native token of XRPLedger trades at $0.5948 at the time of writing.
Chart of the day
Dog-themed meme coin FLOKI (FLOKI) rose by a sharp 31% last week and is rallying further on Monday. The coin, which trades at $0.0001532, could extend gains by 7.86% on its way to a key resistance level at $0.0001642. Before that, FLOKI also faces resistance in the Fair Value Gap (FVG) extending between $0.0001592 and $0.0001610, as seen in the FLOKI/USDT daily chart below.
The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator shows green histogram bars above the neutral line, implying FLOKI price trend has an underlying positive momentum. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is slightly above the 60.00 level, providing further credence to the bullish thesis.
FLOKI/USDT daily chart
In case of a downward correction, FLOKI could find support in the Fair Value Gap between $0.0001444 and $0.0001465.
Market updates
Justin Sun, the founder of the TRON network, announced $1 million proposing a DAO for Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who is currently under arrest in France. Sun called the crypto community to form the DAO in an official tweet on X.
NVIDIA (NVDA) Q2 earnings report is scheduled to be released on Wednesday. In the run-up to the release, Artificial Intelligence (AI) crypto tokens extended gains in the last 24 hours. Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET), Bittensor (TAO) and Render (RENDER) registered gains from 1.3% to 8.3%, according to CoinGecko data.
SingularityNET (AGIX) and Ocean Protocol (OCEAN) added 8.4% and 7.8% to their value in the same 24 hour timeframe.
Industry updates
Ethereum and blockchain technology are incorporated in high school courses in Argentina through a partnership with the ETH Kipu Foundation, according to press release released by the foundation. Starting August 27, students in Buenos Aires can participate in blockchain projects and internships, it said.
A CoinShares report shows that digital asset investment products saw inflows totaling $533 million last week, the largest level in five weeks.
Floki announced on its official X account that its trading bot crossed $11.6 million trading volume and hit an all-time high with 10,600 users.
