August's Most Chaotic Altcoins
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- 🦊 MetaMask Confirms Stablecoin Plans. The wallet’s mUSD stablecoin will debut on Ethereum and Linea later this year.
- 👻 Aave Expands Beyond EVM With Aptos Launch. The DeFi giant’s first non-EVM deployment supports USDC, USDT, APT, and sUSDe on Aptos.
- 🤑 Kanye-Linked Memecoin YZY Money Takes Crypto Twitter by Storm. The Ye-linked Solana memecoin spiked, then crashed below $1.
| Prices as of 3pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $3.83T | ↘ 0.9% | ↘ 4.3% |
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BTC $112,646 | ↘ 0.9% | ↘ 4.7% |
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ETH $4,267 | ↘ 0.7% | ↘ 6.1% |
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Crypto markets thrive on chaos, and this month has been no exception! July’s high-fliers became August’s rejects as new narratives flipped the script and traders rotated into fresher manias.
Whether you’re hunting the next moonshot or dodging the next rug, these five tokens that have defined August will be worth paying attention to in the month ahead. Today, we’re diving into the biggest winners, the hardest losers, and the wild catalysts behind this month’s most explosive altcoin stories. 👇
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Eric Peters, CIO of Coinbase Asset Management, joins Ryan to chart how crypto matured to today’s institutional market with deep liquidity, ETF rails, and stablecoin clarity.
They unpack why Wall Street is leaning in, why the next wave is digitally native issuance of treasuries, bonds, and equities on Ethereum, and how macro tailwinds (fiscal dominance, Fed-Treasury convergence, AI-driven productivity) intersect with crypto’s reflexivity.
Risks and realities aren’t ignored—over-financialized “treasury companies,” security lapses, and policy whiplash—plus a 12–18 month roadmap of real on-chain use cases as pensions and sovereigns start arriving.
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