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Ouroboros Capital said markets are in a regime shift as Treasury buybacks try to cap long-end rates, fueling Bitcoin and gold rallies while AI stocks show weakness

The Interfold (FOLD) went live on mainnet, an open-source protocol coordinating Encrypted Execution Environments through a distributed ciphernode network.

CFTC to hold its inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee meeting covering crypto, AI, and prediction markets.

Ramp enabled x402 agent payments on Solana

CFTC Chair Michael Selig said crypto market structure rules are coming regardless of whether the Clarity Act passes

Binance launched Binance Agent OS and a Binance MCP Server, letting tools like Claude, Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, and VS Code tap Binance liquidity and execute spot, futures, and transfer actions without local API keys

A Tornado Cash user lost 1,010 ETH in a phishing attack after the protocol’s expired official domain was taken over by attackers

HTX said an internal review found no official accounts tied to address-poisoning reports and that some users may have acted independently after funds stayed frozen at Kraken

BitGo Korea became the first foreign crypto firm to win direct VASP registration from South Korea’s FIU, opting to build a local entity rather than acquire a licensed operator.

Coinbase added Hyperliquid perpetual futures to Base App

CFTC officially resolved enforcement actions against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang, hitting both with five-year trading bans and continued cooperation requirements.

Cronos Labs CEO Ryan Wyatt said the team will revisit CRO tokenomics in Q4, including buy-and-burn with app revenue and a community burn program.

CZ said the market is missing the bigger picture on Trump’s pledge to bring Hyperliquid to the US, arguing policy can’t apply to just one company

Crypto execs including Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong and Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse met Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to discuss the Clarity Act ahead of Trump’s speech

TRON is prepping its next TVM upgrade, with on-chain governance votes scheduled for August 25 to boost compatibility, security, and developer functionality.

Clearpool is teaming up with Ripple and Cicada Credit to build an institutional lending platform on the XRP Ledger

Franklin Templeton is set to bring tokenized assets into traditional ETFs and mutual funds after landing what it says is the first US regulatory clearance for the move

Kraken parent Payward is exploring becoming a full bank outside the US as it pushes into payments, lending, yield, and custody

Stripe told investors it’s been operating since January 1 under the view that the singularity has already begun.

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Trump said CFTC Chair Mike Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid into the US

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev pitched tokenized stocks for US investors, calling it the early innings of a tokenization supercycle that will eat the entire financial system

Cash App Pay is now live through MoonPay on Trust Wallet, letting eligible US users buy crypto with their Cash App balance

Solana ID Hub, API and Display Network to shut down by end of September 2026, with user data deleted by year-end

Rapid7 uncovered Operation ASTERIX, a crypto phishing campaign using AI tools, fake wallet apps and about 885,000 phone numbers to steal recovery phrases

Grayscale filed a fourth S-3/A amendment for its Zcash Trust, proposing a NYSE Arca listing under ticker ZCSH, and discloses a DCG subsidiary is in non-binding talks to acquire about 200k ZEC through the trust

Ethena and FalconX launched a $1B secured warehouse facility to deploy USDe-backing assets into overcollateralized institutional loans

Hyperliquid contributor Xulian requested feedback on the latest HIP-4 templates, now live onchain and via API, ahead of validator review and a possible mainnet vote

TRON is rolling out its GreatVoyage-v4.8.2 network upgrade focused on compatibility, security, and more consistent execution.

Ansem announced a partnership with clawpumptech to fund teams building in the Solana ecosystem.

Nexo became an authorized Credit Representative in Australia, rolling out regulated crypto-backed Credit Lines under the National Consumer Credit Protection Act alongside its Nexo Growth yield product and Wealth Club loyalty tiers

Injective became the first layer-1 blockchain registered as an SEC transfer agent

Maya Protocol was exploited for roughly $1.7M, with CertiK flagging about 48.87M CACAO and 98.82 LINK drained from shared liquidity

Nethermind, one of LayerZero’s largest third-party verifiers, moved its cross-chain operations to Chainlink CCIP

Base Batche 4 applications are now open, with $100K in investment for every accepted team.

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Arthur Hayes to lead Flop Labs FLOP launch

Metaplanet will contribute 2,100 BTC (~$132.1M) plus $2.5M cash to Nasdaq-listed Super League Enterprise for a ~95.7% stake, renaming it Superplanet as its US Bitcoin treasury platform, expected to close Q4 2026.

SEC proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, a new framework with two Securities Act registration exemptions

Cypherpunk Technologies launched Zcash mining ops via Cypherpunk Mining, deploying ~4.2 GSol/s (~18% of ZEC network hashrate), funded by a $33.33M raise from Winklevoss Capital

Falcon Finance opened a regulated RWA tokenization pipeline in El Salvador, starting with a tokenized GPU forward financing instrument backed by NEAR AI and vGPU

Hyperliquid Policy Center and trade[XYZ] petitioned the SEC to create a regulatory framework for pre-IPO perpetuals (IPOPs), including retail access and clarity on whether they’re security futures or swaps.

Citi announced Custody+, launching digital asset custody later this year starting with Bitcoin,

HTX is investigating reports of small poisoning transfers appearing to originate from HTX addresses, saying its internal review found no related transfers or testing activity on its end.

South Korea’s media regulator voted to block Polymarket over gambling concerns tied to its winner-take-all event markets.

Compound Foundation named a new leadership team (Aaron Schnarch as Executive Director, Christopher Donovan COO, Steven Liu CPO, Leo Eikelman CTO) alongside a $52M DAO-approved program to push institutional DeFi.

Jupiter launched Portfolio v2, letting users borrow, lend, withdraw, repay, swap, and claim DeFi positions directly from the portfolio dashboard.

AQUA patched a high-priority theoretical vulnerability in an experimental Bitcoin/Tether poker chip sweep feature, flagged by the Bitcoin Red Team and independent researchers; core wallet and seed entropy were unaffected.

Visa is searching for a new stablecoin settlement partner after Mastercard acquired BVNK

Rain’s Agentic Payments Alliance officially launched with 26 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle, Solana, and Remitly

Wyoming’s Stable Token Commission fully migrated its FRNT token from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP

Ava Labs named COO Charley Cooper as president, moving John Wu to senior advisor, and made interim CFO Lydia Chiu permanent.

Krak, Kraken’s payments app, launched its multi-asset debit card in the US, built with Stripe, offering up to 2% cashback and support for 600+ assets.

Ripple closed an upsized $275M private placement of senior unsecured notes through Ripple Prime.

Securitize launched the Neuberger Securitize High Income Tokenized Fund (HINC), Neuberger Berman’s first tokenized fund as subadvisor, live on Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana, and Sui.

Ethereum’s Protocol Architecture team proposed FOCIL and Frame Transactions as headline features for the Hegotá upgrade following Glamsterdam, targeting a 500-600M block gas limit.

Ethereum’s new Platåberget testnet undergoes the Glamsterdam upgrade Aug. 20, testing proposer-builder separation and gas repricing ahead of Sepolia and Hoodi.

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Harmony will roll back its chain to just before the August 11 exploit to remove 4B forged ONE tokens.

Morpho launched Quoter Bot for Morpho Midnight, an open-source bot that quotes both sides of the market around a reference rate.

Austria’s FMA fined Bitpanda €70,000, for late white paper filing and non-compliant marketing.

Treasury and Congress finalized the GENIUS Act stablecoin framework, with Treasury now moving to implement rules and inviting stakeholder input.

Strategy added $150M to its USD Reserve and repurchased $132M of STRC; BTC holdings unchanged at 840,447 BTC, USD Reserve at $4.8B

Binance gave Russian authorities transaction and personal data on a client whose crypto donations to Ukraine’s military were used in terrorism-financing charges,

Jane Street disclosed owning over $990M in Bitcoin ETFs in a new SEC filing.

cirBTC went live on Ethereum for Circle Mint LLC customers, with underlying BTC custodied by Circle National Trust.

Binance plans to apply for an FCA crypto license to return to the UK market

Saylor said MSTR investors should hold at least 4 years, ideally 7-10, and said buybacks aren’t a current priority.

Hyperliquid Policy Center and Douro Labs submitted a comment letter urging the SEC to repeal the Reg NMS trade-through rule (Rule 611), calling it poorly suited to onchain markets.

Tether is expanding into AI applications for developing markets covering health, finance and sports

Chainalysis sued the US government over DHS/ICE awarding an exclusive procurement contract directly to rival TRM Labs, bypassing normal competition

Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov criticized Pump.fun as scam-heavy and called Phantom’s hardware wallet experience worse than MetaMask’s

Payward, parent of Kraken, joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and is using Claude Mythos 5 to scan its environments for vulnerabilities.

Robinhood rolled out agentic crypto trading for eligible users, letting them connect agents via Robinhood’s MCP server to trade crypto alongside equities and options.

BitMart users and staff are publicly demanding CEO Sheldon answer by August 19 over alleged withdrawal restrictions, unpaid salaries and missing funds

EtherFi added on/off-ramp support for 30+ new currencies and payment methods

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Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum scaling proposals could draw lessons from Bitcoin’s Utreexo to support different state models while preserving decentralization and censorship resistance.

EU regulators warned of migration scams after more than 1,700 unlicensed crypto platforms halted EU services under MiCA, potentially affecting up to 10 million users.

CZ said he will donate the remaining BNB and 币安人生 tokens in his Trust Wallet testing address to Giggle Academy before permanently abandoning the address.

Cardano outlined a two-phase Dijkstra upgrade, with Leios targeted for Q4 2026 and Peras for Q2 2027.

Israel’s largest regulated crypto broker Bits of Gold is investigating a potential data leak affecting roughly 200,000 customers.

Binance restricted transactions involving HTX and other platforms for users in the UK and EU, prompting Justin Sun to clarify that HTX does not operate in either region

DeFiLlama founder said a fake app remained on Apple’s App Store for months before evidence of seed-phrase theft led Apple to remove it.

Cosmos wallet Cosmostation announced it will discontinue wallet services, beginning with feature shutdowns on September 1.

ABFinance, a US-compliant crypto trading platform founded by former Bybit co-CEO Helen Liu, suspended operations.

Apple patched a screen-sharing flaw exploited by hackers to remotely control exposed Macs and mine Monero, but unpatched machines remain vulnerable.

Stripe acquired AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7 billion.

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Yango Food and Peso integrated in Bolivia, letting users pay for orders at 2,000+ restaurants with USD₮.

Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank, will let customers buy, hold and sell Bitcoin directly through its banking app, launching early 2027.

Kraken now lets users deposit crypto directly from other exchanges without copying wallet addresses, powered by Mesh; Coinbase is supported at launch.

Binance will stop processing transactions involving 11 crypto platforms, including HTX and EXMO, starting Aug. 23.

Norway’s $1.4T sovereign wealth fund disclosed an $81.9M stake in BitMNR, giving it indirect exposure to 5.8M ETH.

RedotPay has delayed its planned US IPO from this year to 2027 or later amid regulatory hurdles and a nearly $473M lawsuit from Binance-linked entities over card users.

Plume signed an MOU with Shinhan Asset Management to run a proof of concept for a KRW-denominated tokenized fund backed by ultra-short-term bonds.

JPMorgan ended its banking relationship with Polymarket in October 2025 over regulatory concerns

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino dismissed critics following the company’s first KPMG audit, saying Tether will conduct full audits annually alongside quarterly attestations.

Cboe BZX Exchange filed with the SEC to list 3x daily leveraged bitcoin and ether ETFs, plus a suite of similarly leveraged commodity funds.

MSCI’s new proposal on non-operating company screens would remove Strategy (MSTR) and Metaplanet from its global indexes, while Sharplink (SBET) would be placed on a watchlist.

Bitwise partnered with Superstate to explore tokenizing its Solana Staking ETF (BSOL).

Robinhood Ventures Fund II (RVII) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Phantom integrated Google Pay, letting users fund their wallets directly with cash.

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Ethereum Foundation is abandoning the Poseidon hash function after 8 years, pivoting to SHA and BLAKE after binary-field SNARK breakthroughs matched its performance

Tether completed its largest inaugural audit in history, with KPMG US issuing an unqualified opinion on its 2025 financials

Bullish executed the first tokenized equity trades on a regulated exchange, tokenizing its own BLSH stock on Solana with near-instant, 24/7 stablecoin-settled trading

Binance bStocks overtook xStocks as the second-largest tokenized stock issuer at $610.6M, behind Ondo’s roughly $927M

Metaplanet issued $1.25M in Bitbonds via private placement, offering 4-4.3% annual interest to fund more BTC purchases

Bitwise launched a Bitcoin covered-call strategy for Lombard Finance

EtherFi Cash moved its credit backend to a dedicated Aave V4 instance on Optimism

EtherFi launched the next generation of its crypto neobank with tokenized stock and metals trading, an Aave market for borrowing at ~4%, 30+ new fiat on/off-ramps, new payment methods, and programmatic ETHFI buybacks

OranjeBTC launched DIGY11, a B3-listed ETF bringing STRC and Digital Credit to Brazil with monthly BRL distributions and daily liquidity

Trezor disclosed a shipping provider breach exposing full names, emails, phones and addresses for about 11,742 customers, though wallet keys and systems weren’t compromised

Standard Chartered clients in Dubai’s DIFC can now mint and redeem USDC through their existing bank accounts

A USENIX Security 26 study identified over 65,000 high-risk crypto addresses linked to $574.8M in losses across Ethereum and BNB Chain

A Bitcoin Red Team researcher said two weeks of scanning with Kimi K3 uncovered numerous critical vulnerabilities across Bitcoin open-source projects

Riot Platforms sold 4,300 BTC to fund operations and data center expansion, now holding 11,380 BTC

Coinbase-owned Deribit secured a broker-dealer license from Dubai’s VARA, letting spot orders route to Coinbase Exchange for deeper liquidity

UK FCA and HTX are in settlement talks over alleged illegal crypto promotions, with London’s High Court pausing proceedings until late August

Hyperliquid opened its low-latency data nodes to infrastructure providers at under $1,000/month, down from requiring a 10,000 HYPE stake

South Korea is tightening transfer rules to offshore exchanges after Bybit, MEXC and HTX apps were pulled from Google Play

Neutrl paused minting, redemptions, and all other protocol functions after an issue affecting protocol reserves, acting on legal counsel’s advice while impact is assessed

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Harmony was exploited via an empty block bug, with the attacker minting 4B ONE tokens (26% of supply) and moving 2.8B to exchanges before the team froze funds and moved to explore a rollback.

Kalshi’s live order book is now available to DoubleZero Edge subscribers across its most-traded sports and crypto perpetual markets.

Solana came within reach of a full network halt after a routing failure at infra provider Teraswitch pushed 28.83% of staked SOL delinquent; traffic was restored in 33 minutes, with 90 validators losing a combined 333 SOL in rewards.

Boltz suspended service August 3rd after repeated AI-assisted attacks; all founders have stepped down and a new team of veteran Bitcoiners is taking over to fix vulnerabilities and relaunch swaps.

Fidelity ($7T AUM) will enable staking and quarterly cash payouts for its spot Ethereum ETF.

Uniswap Labs renounced creator fees from internal Pools.trade test tokens, routing all past and future fees into an automated buy-and-burn contract

Hyperliquid is seeking a compliant path to offer perpetual contracts to US users.

OCC said crypto companies should be able to apply for US bank charters, opening a path to the national banking system.

Zcash Labs launched as an independent org focused on Zcash integrations for businesses/institutions, infrastructure, and funding adoption projects

Hyperliquid plans to add a HIP-1 scaleWei function enabling proportional token distribution and redenomination

Coinbase launched a new matching engine on Deribit capable of over 100k orders/second with sub-millisecond latency

Strategy CEO Phong Le said the company will resume BTC purchases later this year

Strategy launched a public BTC Credit model showing credit spreads, undercollateralization risk, and BTC floor prices across its $53.5B in reserves and $21.95B in debt/preferred stock.

SEC cleared Franklin Templeton’s onchain money market fund FOBXX for use in registered funds.

Trump is considering indexing capital gains to inflation, which would cut taxable crypto gains for long-term BTC and ETH holders.

Goldman Sachs will gain three bitcoin and ether income ETFs via its up-to-$2.25B acquisition of Neos Investments, expected to close Q1 2027.

ASIC took down Yepbit’s websites and warned users after investors reported being unable to withdraw funds; Yepbit falsely claimed ASIC had frozen investor funds, which ASIC denies.

Metaplanet moved 3,881 BTC ($247M) to various wallets Tuesday; it held 43,000 BTC at an average cost of $95,982 as of end of Q2.

Bitwise cut 14% of staff amid the bear market, trimming headcount from ~180 to ~155.

Blockworks launched a new Uniswap dashboard.

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Ethena assets in Coinbase’s DeFi earn product hit a new ATH of $300M+

EthSystems and 0xUndefined partnered to drive Ethereum adoption among Korean institutions, focusing on privacy, tokenization and infrastructure

Coinbase named Abu Dhabi (ADGM) its international tokenization hub after securing an FSRA license to offer global securities onchain

Zama will launch a Learn & Earn campaign inside Revolut later this year, with ZAMA now live for Revolut’s 70M users

Lido Earn rolled out instant withdrawals, processing most EarnETH/EarnUSD redemptions in seconds via its new buffer

River Markets raised an $8.5M seed round led by Haun Ventures to build a prime broker for prediction markets

Erebor Bank is reportedly negotiating a $1.5B funding round at a $9.5B valuation

Aster launched AOS-2, extending its open listing framework to perpetual futures, requiring a 4-year lockup of 1M ASTER staked before an onchain vote for listing

Russia’s central bank proposed capping retail crypto purchases at 300,000 rubles (~$3,645/year) per broker, limited to BTC, ETH and USDT for non-qualified investors

KuCoin achieved ISO 22301:2019 certification for business continuity, adding to its existing ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II credentials

Ravencoin got hit with a consensus bug exploit that let invalid blocks through starting at block height 4,487,776, exchanges were told to pause RVN deposits/withdrawals since a reorg could unwind ~3 days of txs.

Blanket launched to help small businesses find relevant Kalshi markets for hedging and promotions.

Kalshi joined The Digital Chamber, the blockchain trade association, to advocate for prediction market regulation

Russia’s central bank named BTC, ETH and USDT the first cryptocurrencies eligible for regulated retail trading starting Sept 1

eToro agreed to acquire US brokerage TradeZero in a deal worth up to $231M

UK lawmakers sent a letter blasting banks for denying services to crypto companies, calling it one of the industry’s biggest barriers

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Saylor said 99.85% of Bitcoin hashpower stayed on the main chain post-BIP-110 fork, minority branch has mined just two blocks and is 80+ behind

Saylor said Strategy sold BTC at $59K–$60K to prove it wouldn’t crash the market.

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 soft fork officially failed, splitting off the main chain at block 961,632 with just 2.53% miner support before stalling seven blocks behind.

Brazil’s central bank will require crypto firms to hold transfers over $10,000 to self-custody wallets or foreign exchanges for 24 hours after funding, effective Jan 1, 2027

FOMO posted a $2.23M revenue week, an all-time high, founder says they’re not even revenue-maxing

Zodl 3.9.1 live on Android (Google Play, F-Droid, Github), fixes a migration edge case and a transaction history display bug

Senate scheduled to vote on the Clarity Act Tuesday, Sept 15

SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom came out against Ethereum EIP-8363, warning it could undermine the $35B DeFi collateral market tied to staking yields