Exchanges, companies, capital formation, security incidents and business strategy.
The issuer switched bitcoin, ether and five altcoin funds to FTSE Russell indices at Thursday’s market open. The change affects daily valuation infrastructure, not the assets, fees, custodians or exchange listings behind the products.
HM Treasury plans to make payments innovation a secondary Bank of England objective while preserving financial stability as the central bank’s priority. The proposal could shape how the Bank finalizes and applies its systemic stablecoin regime, but it is not yet law.
Japan’s financial authorities reportedly planned to study near-real-time securities settlement using blockchain, extending experiments involving central-bank money and Japanese government bonds. The initiative remained preliminary, with no approved system or implementation timetable.
Grayscale converted its nine-year-old Zcash trust into ZCSH, giving brokerage accounts access to spot ZEC exposure while retaining important distinctions from a 1940 Act-registered ETF.
A determination effective August 24, 2026 applied Executive Order 13902 to Iran’s digital-asset sector, widening the grounds on which the United States could sanction foreign operators and service providers.
Two on-chain proposal executions removed 2,841.7435 WETH and 1,679,639.29 USDC, an estimated $8.46 million at the contemporaneous ETH price used in the reconstruction.
Laser Digital Japan became the country’s first newly registered crypto-asset exchange provider in about four years, creating a regulated route toward domestic liquidity and institutional trading services.
Michael Selig directed staff to explore a federal registration framework for crypto exchanges and compliant paths for onchain protocols, while emphasizing that legislation remained the preferred outcome.
The regulator sought no additional monetary relief from the cooperating executives, while court orders preserved trading restrictions and continuing cooperation duties.
The proposal sought comment on pathways between capital formation, decentralization and a mature network.
The proposal defined issuance, U.S. market access and due-diligence expectations for domestic platforms and foreign payment-stablecoin issuers, but remained subject to public comment.
A single BNB Chain transaction used flash liquidity and Fox Market’s LP-bond accounting to extract at least 112,976 USDT, according to a later reproducible trace.
The commission did not hold its scheduled meeting on a tailored crypto-asset offering regime, leaving the proposed rulemaking unopened and its substance undisclosed on August 14.
The network said its patch had blocked further unauthorized ONE creation, but the disputed supply, exchange freezes and potential rewriting of chain history remained unresolved.
A conditional no-action position opened a path for Franklin Templeton funds to hold shares of an affiliated onchain government money-market fund while replacing physical-custody procedures with recordkeeping, reconciliation and oversight controls.
The regulators filed separate civil complaints against Goliath Ventures and Christopher Delgado, alleging that hundreds of millions of dollars raised for crypto liquidity pools were never invested as represented.
The 191-megawatt Rockdale agreement gave Riot a contracted use for mining-era power infrastructure, but its revenue and profit estimates remained long-range forecasts.
Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, preserving a path for the digital-asset market-structure bill while leaving its substantive disputes and 60-vote hurdle unresolved.
The parties abandoned a proposed public company designed to accumulate CRO, ending its prospective token contributions, financing facilities and validator strategy before closing.
First Data was assigned the issuer and primary-market roles, while BKN301 would connect Tether’s tokenization platform to banking, payments and compliance infrastructure. No asset, issuance value, blockchain, regulator or launch date was disclosed.