Spot trading volume across major crypto exchanges rose 19% in August to $510.4 billion, its largest monthly increase of 2026, rebounding from July’s yearly low of $429 billion. Derivatives volume increased 15.9% to $3.51 trillion, leaving the futures-to-spot volume ratio at 6.87x, down from 7.06x in July. Binance led with $243.1 billion in spot volume and $1.67 trillion in futures, while Hyperliquid recorded $264.7 billion in futures. Robinhood’s crypto trading volume climbed 61% month over month to $17.5 billion, including $10.1 billion at Bitstamp and $7.4 billion on its app, but remained 38% below August 2025. Event-contract trading reached 4.7 billion contracts, 15 times the year-earlier level, while platform assets under management rose 26% annually to $384 billion. Robinhood Chain’s decentralized platforms recorded about $1.6 billion in daily volume by September 1, while tokenized-equity trading volume surged 33 times to $7.9 billion in August, according to Binance Research data cited by CoinMarketCap.