
This 14th episode of DAD: Digital Asset Digest captures the post-GENIUS Act aftershock with Bitcoin blasting through $124,500, Ethereum sprinting toward $5K, and the total crypto market cap charging at the $4 trillion milestone.
Our hosts break down the week of August 5–14, where institutional inflows hit $6.2B (up from last week’s $5.6B), daily BTC volume topped $160B, and ETH delivered an 18.2% rally to $3,600. Solana climbed to $185 on 95% ETF approval odds, while compliant stablecoins surged in volume as GENIUS Act implementation accelerated.
We also zoom out to the $300B market cap jump in seven days, the brewing 2026 European banking wave led by Germany’s Sparkassen, and the expanding ETF pipeline for SOL, XRP, and LTC. Closing out, our alpha picks target BTC at $130K, ETH above $4K, and infrastructure plays in regulated stablecoins which are all powered by the strongest institutional momentum crypto has ever seen.
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