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Crypto Market Faces Crucial Week: Key Dates To Watch

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The coming days compress a series of macro and crypto-native catalysts into a tight window, setting up a volatile backdrop for digital assets.

Macro Keeps Grip On Crypto Market

On Wednesday, August 20, at 2:00 p.m. ET (20:00 CEST), the Federal Reserve releases the minutes of its July 29–30 meeting—effectively a fuller “transcript” of the policy debate that markets use to parse tone and conviction. Those minutes arrive exactly three weeks after the decision, per the Fed’s schedule, and should illuminate the extent of divisions that surfaced when the Fed held the target range at 4.25%–4.50% with a 9–2 vote. Two governors—Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller—dissented in favor of an immediate cut, the first dual Board-member dissent since 1993, underscoring how unusual July’s split was. The timing and mechanics are official; the July hold and the rare double dissent are documented in contemporaneous coverage.

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For risk assets, the minutes matter because they transform a terse statement and cautious press conference into something closer to a running narrative: if the text shows broad concern over weakening growth and labor, traders will infer a dovish lean; if the committee emphasized persistence of inflation and tariff spillovers, they’ll see a hawkish tilt. Market lore tends to hold—dovish minutes often coincide with lower yields and a softer dollar, while hawkish minutes have the opposite effect—but the reaction will hinge on how clearly the minutes reveal the balance of risks that produced July’s “hold.”

Two days later, on Friday, August 22, attention shifts to the Kansas City Fed’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, the so-called Super Bowl of central banking. Chair Jerome Powell is slated to deliver remarks at 10:00 a.m. ET (16:00 CEST), with this year’s theme—“Labor Markets in Transition: Demographics, Productivity, and Macroeconomic Policy”—placing the jobs-inflation trade-off squarely in focus. Jackson Hole speeches have repeatedly reset policy expectations; investors will listen for whether Powell leans into slowing growth risks or stresses inflation stickiness as guidance into September.

Crypto Events To Watch This Week

Beyond macro, three discrete on-chain storylines will compete for mindshare. In Brasília, Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies will hold its first public hearing on Wednesday, August 20, to examine Bill 4501/2024—legislation that would authorize allocating up to 5% of the nation’s international reserves into Bitcoin. The proposal’s ceiling implies a notional allocation in the low-tens of billions of dollars, given Brazil’s roughly $300 billion in reserves earlier this year.

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In DeFi, AaveDAO is poised to receive a significant token grant from World Liberty Financial (WLFI). Aave governance materials describe an arrangement under which Aave would receive approximately 7% of the total supply of WLFI tokens, alongside a share of protocol fees, in exchange for integrating and supporting a WLFI-branded Aave v3 market. Pre-market quotations for WLFI have implied a very large fully diluted valuation; one mid-July analysis tallied a ~$16 billion FDV, which—if used as a notional yardstick—would peg a 7% slice at roughly $1.1 billion.

Finally, Solana begins community voting on “Alpenglow” (SIMD-0326), a sweeping consensus redesign that aims to slash block finality from today’s ~12.8 seconds to roughly 100–150 milliseconds. The governance timeline is explicit: discussion through epoch 838, stake weights captured in epoch 839, and voting during epochs 840–842, with “voting tokens available to claim” and voting “complet[ing] at the end of epoch 842.” Passage requires at least two-thirds “Yes” of Yes+No with a one-third quorum; abstentions count toward quorum.

At press time, the total crypto market cap fell to $3.84 trillion.

Total crypto market cap
Total crypto market cap rejected at the 1.414 Fib, 1-week chart | Source: TOTAL on TradingView.com
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Jake Simmons has been a Bitcoin enthusiast since 2016. Ever since he heard about Bitcoin, he has been studying the topic every day and trying to share his knowledge with others. His goal is to contribute to Bitcoin's financial revolution, which will replace the fiat money system. Besides BTC and crypto, Jake studied Business Informatics at a university. After graduation in 2017, he has been working in the blockchain and crypto sector. You can follow Jake on Twitter at @realJakeSimmons.

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