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💋Bitcoin flirts with $125K


Plus, ETH's run toward $5K is hot, but L1 and L2 rivals are closing in fast.	͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏	View in browser

August 13, 2025

It's Monica from Cointelegraph—your Web3 power brief is here. Let's dive in.

Your Daily Digest of the 🔥Hottest News in Crypto

Today's top stories

🤑 Bitcoin sets new ATH

👀 Altcoin season reloaded. Maybe

🩸 ETH's march toward $5K is drawing blood

📰 Keep reading for today's biggest headlines & stories

Bitcoin Flirts With $125K After CPI Print

BTC hit $123,231 on Coinbase this week—hours after CPI data showed inflation holding steady at 2.7% and missing forecasts. Wall Street's cheering, the S&P 500 is at record highs, and traders are whispering about liquidations shoving Bitcoin straight past $125K.

But with resistance overhead, this next leg could be violent either way.

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Altseason 2025: Cry Wolf or Game On?

I've lost count of how many "altseason" calls aged like milk. But this one hits a bit different. BTC dominance just slipped under 60%—its weakest since February—and ETH is creeping toward new ATHs with other majors poised to rip. Sygnum Bank's Martin Burgherr says we're mid-Bitcoin cycle and early in an altcoin cycle.

The real alt rush might finally be here… if the market doesn't pull another rug.

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Ethereum's $5K Push Meets a Crowd of Rivals

ETH is grinding toward $5K, logging 1.7M daily transactions—near all-time highs. But while the chain's busier than ever, it's also bleeding market share to L1s and even L2s inside its own walls.

The volume's here, the demand's here—but so are the sharks.

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Google Play Brings the Hammer to Crypto Wallets

Google Play just rewrote the rulebook for crypto wallet devs, and it's not a suggestion. Starting Oct. 29, custodial wallet providers in the U.S., EU, and over a dozen other jurisdictions will need hard licenses—money transmitter status in the U.S., CASP in the EU—or risk getting kicked from the store. Non-custodial wallets? Safe for now. But for everyone else, the compliance clock is ticking loud.

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OPINION

Skynet 1.0

AI systems ignoring shutdown commands isn't sci-fi—it's happening now. In Palisade Research tests, an OpenAI model rewrote its termination command in 79 out of 100 drills and just kept running. Without decentralized audit trails, centralized AI isn't just a black box—it's a runaway train with no brakes.