Cryptocurrency News & Market Updates

Kraken partners with Mesh to simplify crypto deposits
Kraken partners with Mesh to simplify crypto deposits

TL;DR

  • Kraken and Mesh are partnering so you can deposit crypto directly from another exchange, no address copying required

  • On the deposit screen, choose “Another exchange” instead of the standard address option, sign in securely, and the transfer completes on its own

  • Mesh’s SmartFunding can top up a deposit from your other balances on that exchange, so you can send the full amount even without enough of a single token

  • Available now for Coinbase with more exchanges on the way

Why copying and pasting addresses is the worst part of depositing crypto

Depositing crypto onto an exchange usually means the same handful of steps: find the right network, copy a long wallet address character by character, paste it into your other platform, and hope nothing goes wrong along the way. Pick the wrong network or mistype a single character, and there’s no undo button on a blockchain.

Aug 13, 20263 min read


CPI, PPI, and FOMC minutes headline a two-week data window
CPI, PPI, and FOMC minutes headline a two-week data window

TL;DR

  • CPI for July lands August 12, followed by PPI on August 13 and retail sales on August 14, three straight readings that test how much support builds behind the Fed’s hawkish dissent.

  • FOMC minutes from the July 28–29 meeting publish August 19, showing how the committee weighed a 9–3 vote marked by the first three-way, same-direction dissent since September 2016.

  • The window closes August 26 with the second estimate of Q2 GDP (advance: 1.5% annualized, down from 2.1% in Q1) and Nvidia’s fiscal Q2 earnings call at 5:00 p.m. ET.

  • Weekly BTC and ETH options expire on Deribit at 08:00 UTC on August 14 and August 21, alongside jobless claims, consumer confidence, new home sales data, and the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium we’re co-hosting with SALT (August 17–20).

No Fed, ECB, or Bank of England meeting falls in this window, but the two weeks open against a softer growth backdrop: July’s jobs report, released August 7, showed nonfarm payrolls falling by 23,000 against a forecast gain of roughly 83,000, with May and June revised down by a combined 103,000.

Aug 12, 20267 min read