Polymarket’s volume took a big hit down to 8.41 billion in August after July’s 12.89 billion pump faded hard post World Cup 😭.

Polymarket Slips While Kalshi Stays Stacked 💸

Kalshi barely noticed tho closing strong at 38.67 billion proving the slowdown hit uneven af fr. Data shows Polymarket total with US ran 13.95 billion in June then eased to 12.89 billion in July before dropping to 8.41 billion in August 📉. The main platform slid from 7.89 billion to 4.59 billion while the US side held from 5 billion to 3.82 billion. Kalshi went opposite climbing from 33 billion in June to 40.1 billion in July then easing just 4 percent to 38.67 billion in August 👀.

Investor Cash Still Flows In Spite of the Dip 🖤

Weekly volumes now sit around 4 billion per DeFiLlama tracking way below summer tournament peaks 🔥. The World Cup earlier sparked massive first time users but that high is history now. Still investors aren’t spooked with Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital leading a 1 billion round valuing Polymarket at 21 billion up 40 percent from earlier this year 🌙. Predictefy data puts Polymarket 30 day volume at 3.8 billion vs Kalshi’s 11.28 billion yet Polymarket holds over 3 million users 💀. Lawsuits keep popping up like the Baltimore case against both platforms plus Kalshi battling New York AG Letitia James while CFTC steps in to keep things running 🎀.

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Chainlink just went on a wild 95% pump from around $7 up to that $13.77 high in only two months but rn it feels like the hype might be fading a lil bit. 🖤

Three Red Flags Popping Up ⚠️

Ali Martinez spotted a fresh sell signal on the TD Sequential for LINK’s weekly chart after the big surge and that could mean some profit taking is coming. 💀 Large holders are pulling back too with those big over $1 million txs dropping from 59 down to just 10 on September 7th. 📉

At the same time exchange deposits hit 1.75 million LINK and total balances climbed from 269.25 million to about 271 million which adds to the cooldown vibe after all that strength. 🌑 The combo screams caution for the short term lmao.

Still the bigger picture stays solid once LINK closed above the $10.77 higher timeframe mark it keeps that bullish fire alive as long as it holds with targets at $50 and $100 still in sight. 🔗

Michaël van de Poppe thinks LINK won’t stall much and expects a push toward $14.50-15 next. 🚀

Industry Moves Adding Spice 💎

LINK got added to Charles Schwab’s crypto trading alongside Solana and Avalanche so eligible clients can grab it direct now. 🌸 Schwab started with just Bitcoin and Ethereum back in May and this expands things.

Wyoming is also using Chainlink for real time on chain reserve checks on their Frontier Stable Token after shifting it to CCIP in August. 🕷️ It mixes independent checks with auto monitoring for better visibility.

Check the tweet here: https://x.com/alicharts/status/2096967635678203907

And this one too: https://x.com/CryptoPatel/status/2096969236459426264

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DBS and Citi just wrapped up a US dollar cross-border payment straight from Singapore to New York on September 5 using tokenized deposits on SWIFT’s shared ledger 🖤. It cleared everything in minutes over the weekend when a regular transfer can drag up to two business days fr.
The banks leaned on tokenized deposits like commercial-bank money living on a blockchain with SWIFT’s ledger stepping in as the matchmaker to net obligations before final settlement on existing rails 🌙.
“In a global digital economy that never sleeps businesses need to move money more quickly and efficiently across borders to stay competitive” said Rachel Chew Group Chief Operating Officer and Co-Head of Digital Assets Global Transaction Services at DBS.

DBS Leveling Up Tokenized Rails 💀

DBS Southeast Asia’s biggest bank dropped DBS Token Services back in 2024 and remains the only Asian bank in the 12-member core design crew for SWIFT’s ledger ✨. It also runs DBS Treasury Tokens on a permissioned blockchain for corporate treasury and liquidity vibes plus teamed with Ripple and Franklin Templeton to launch tokenized repo markets on the XRP Ledger with Franklin’s sgBENJI and Ripple’s RLUSD now listed on DBS Digital Exchange 🕸️.
Asia’s outbound cross-border payments are set to hit 24 trillion by 2033 up from 13.5 trillion in 2025 so half of finance leaders are already testing blockchain tools for liquidity and fx plays rn 🦇.

Banks Stacking Up on Swift Ledger 🔥

This DBS-Citi move follows the first live tokenized deposit transfer on the network run by HSBC and Standard Chartered on August 19 💎.
“With our new ledger capability we’re extending the trust and stability of established finance into the frontiers of digital money” said Thierry Chilosi Chief Business Officer at Swift. Seventeen banks from six continents like ANZ BNP Paribas MUFG UBS and Wells Fargo are piloting live transactions on the ledger that Swift announced in September 2025 after Consensys prototyped it.
Bank of America’s Mark Monaco noted clients aren’t exactly beating down the door for tokenized deposits tho interest keeps growing. A rival US network called The Bridge is being built by The Clearing House with JPMorgan Bank of America Citigroup and Wells Fargo for the first half of 2027 open to all US banks.

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Bitcoin tried pushing past 80k again yesterday morning only to get rejected hard, sending it south by over 2k in a fresh correction. Some bigger alts like HYPE ZEC XMR and LINK have taken heavy daily hits while BNB slid right back up to the 750 mark.

BTC Down to $78K 💀

The main coin spent last weekend just chilling sideways between 77k and 79k after that Friday rejection at 81.5k. It tried breaking out on Monday but got slammed down first to 77.2k then all the way to 76.4k as the week went on. Bulls finally woke up on Thursday and stopped the drop before launching a massive pump that sent it flying several grand to a fresh three-month high near 82.5k. The usual rejection hit again though after a stronger than expected US jobs report on Friday so BTC dipped to 81.3k then the bears dragged it under 78.8k once that news dropped. It rebounded over the weekend and pushed past 80.4k on Monday morning only for those same bears to yank it south by another 2k. Now it sits at 78.2k with a 1.57 trillion market cap and dominance down to 58.8 percent.

XRP Below $1.40 🖤

Ethereum slipped back under 2.5k after failing that level over the weekend while XRP fell below key support and is now fighting at 1.39. SOL held above 100 even with a 1.7 percent daily drop though and BNB reclaimed 750 after a tiny bump. Bigger losses hit ZEC XMR LINK and HYPE which had been pumping lately but gave back some gains. TAO dropped 6 percent daily while DOT spiked over 8 percent. PONS finally cooled off after its wild run and is down more than 10 percent daily but AERO and PIEVERSE jumped 16 percent and 14 percent respectively. Total crypto market cap dipped about 1 percent to 2.67 trillion.

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