Today's rally is as broad as it gets. Out of the entire top 100, only three coins in red: Bitway (-41.5%), JUST (-2.4%), Beldex (-1.1%).

Everything else is green. Hyperliquid leads at +22.8%, with PEPE (+21.7%) and LIT (+20.2%) right behind, and ETH, XRP and a dozen more posting double-digit gains.

South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit accepted BitGo Korea's VASP registration, the first time a foreign crypto firm has earned the status directly through a locally built subsidiary rather than by buying an existing licensed operator.

The registration, accepted on August 18, lets BitGo Korea provide virtual asset transfers, custody and management, with a focus on institutional custody and enterprise services. Since Korea's VASP regime took effect under the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information, most foreign players have entered by acquiring a licensed local operator; BitGo instead stood up a new entity and cleared the rules itself.

BitGo, one of the oldest and largest institutional crypto custodians, counts Hana Financial Group and SK Telecom among BitGo Korea's major shareholders, a roughly two-year push that has now cleared the regulator.

The direct route gives BitGo a clean, compliant base in one of Asia's largest crypto markets, and a template other global firms may follow into Korea.

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Binance is removing ICON (ICX), Secret (SCRT) and Storj (STORJ) from spot trading, with all pairs closing on September 3 at 03:00 UTC and withdrawals open until September 17. The three tokens were hit hard on the news.

Binance says the move follows its periodic review of listed assets, which weighs trading volume and liquidity, the team's commitment and development activity, network stability and security, and how projects respond to due-diligence requests. Assets that no longer clear the bar get cut to protect users.

Spot pairs and trading bots for the three tokens stop at the deadline. Holders should move balances to self-custody or another venue before September 17, after which access to these assets on Binance ends. A Binance delisting usually drains an asset's deepest liquidity, so exits get harder once the pairs close.

For ICX, SCRT and STORJ, losing the largest exchange's order books is a heavy blow to liquidity and visibility, the kind of exit that often marks a long tail for older, low-volume projects.

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Coinbase's Base App has switched on perpetual futures powered by Hyperliquid, opening more than 290 markets across crypto, tokenized stocks and commodities with leverage of up to 50x.

Orders are placed inside Base App's own interface, but Hyperliquid handles matching, execution and settlement on its onchain order book. Perps are roughly 75% of all crypto trading volume, and Coinbase Head of Engineering Chintan Turakhia called them "the single most requested feature from our power users." Coinbase has not disclosed fees, contract specs or the full market list.

The launch is also another step in Base App's pivot away from social features: co-founder Jesse Pollak said the team made "the right bet on builders, but obviously the wrong bet on social." Coinbase has been Hyperliquid's official USDC treasury deployer since May.

Access is closed to users in the US, UK and Canada, where leveraged crypto derivatives are restricted, so the biggest retail market stays out for now.

It lands a day after Trump said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States "in a fully compliant fashion," which would open that door.

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Ethereum engineering firm Nethermind has ended its verifier role in LayerZero’s DVN network and moved its cross-chain operations to Chainlink, joining as a node operator and strategic technology provider.

Nethermind said the decision followed an extensive review, but did not publish the findings or the technical factors behind it. It joins a growing group of firms that have shifted cross-chain work from LayerZero to Chainlink since April's Kelp DAO bridge exploit, which drained 116,500 rsETH worth about $292 million from a LayerZero-powered bridge.

For Chainlink, it is another endorsement of its CCIP cross-chain stack. For LayerZero, it is a steady drain of infrastructure partners the network will be keen to stem.

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Speaking at a White House event with crypto and tech leaders, President Trump said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States "in a fully compliant fashion." HYPE jumped about 17% in 24 hours on the remarks.

"I understand Mike is also working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States in a fully compliant fashion," Trump said, naming the perpetuals exchange alongside executives from Coinbase, Ripple, Robinhood, Kraken, Nasdaq and ICE, with SEC Chair Paul Atkins also in the room.

Selig has framed the goal as creating "a path to bring these onchain markets into the United States" under some form of regulation. The comments are not an approval: Trump gave no detail on what an onshore Hyperliquid would look like or which registrations it would need. Traditional venues such as CME and ICE have pushed for platforms like Hyperliquid to register with the CFTC.

For crypto's largest onchain perps venue, a compliant US on-ramp would be a watershed, turning a mostly offshore market into a regulated one, if the CFTC path actually materializes.

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In the past 24 hours, 171,626 traders were liquidated. The largest liquidation happened on Hyperliquid - BTC/USDT valued at $48.8M.

Data source: coinglass.com

Meridian (formerly Ethereal) has launched its testnet on Robinhood Chain as a day-one launch partner, introducing its upcoming perpetual futures product, mPerps.

Meridian’s mPerps are designed to bring 24/7 trading and capital-efficient perpetuals to traditional assets whose underlying markets may close, using external market prices and a mutualized insurance model to manage risk.

The platform’s first mPerp markets are expected to go live in the coming weeks, with the design using frozen external marks during market closures while internal order books continue trading.

Alongside the upcoming launch, Meridian has opened Meridian Liquidity Provider (MLP) pre-deposits in partnership with Neutral Trade, Accountable, and Kappa Lab.

Depositors providing USDe can earn USDe rewards, 30x ENA rewards, and 20% of Meridian Points distributed to perps users. Deposits are currently capped at $1 million.

Users can also access the Meridian testnet and request test tokens from the available faucets to start trading.

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TikTok is exploring a feature that would allow users to send money directly through DMs, expanding the platform’s push into financial services.

The in-development feature would use TikTok Pay, which is currently available in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand for TikTok Shop purchases. Code found in TikTok’s US iPhone app suggests recipients could “tap to accept” payments, while senders would receive transaction status updates via push notifications or their inbox.

Users may also be able to attach messages to payments, similar to Venmo.

TikTok said the feature is not currently being tested in any market, meaning it remains in early development and may not ultimately launch.

The move would allow TikTok to keep more transactions within its ecosystem, alongside TikTok Shop purchases and virtual gifts, while potentially capturing additional spending and user engagement.

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Telegram has applied for the .gram top-level domain, potentially giving its 1B+ users personal web addresses such as yourname.gram if approved by ICANN.

Under the proposed system, Telegram users could turn their existing usernames into interactive websites hosted directly by Telegram, with pages potentially generated through a single AI prompt.

The application was submitted during ICANN’s 2026 application round, which closed on August 12 with more than 1,600 primary applications. ICANN is expected to publish the list of cleared domain strings by mid-October, followed by evaluation and potential contention resolution.

If approved, .gram could extend Telegram’s ecosystem beyond messaging and payments into decentralized identity and web publishing, giving users a personal web presence tied to their Telegram username.

A working .gram domain is unlikely before 2027, as ICANN has not yet approved the application.

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