Blockchain & Digital Assets

August 24, 2026 @ 12:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale Investments has taken another significant step toward offering the first US spot exchange-traded fund focused on Zcash, the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency. On August 21, 2026, the firm submitted Amendment No. 5 to its Form S-3 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),… Read More

August 23, 2026 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Laser Digital Japan Co., Ltd. has finalized its registration as a Crypto Asset Exchange Service Provider under the Payment Services Act. The Tokyo-based firm, the local arm of Nomura’s digital assets subsidiary Laser Digital, announced the milestone on August 21, 2026. This marks the first… Read More

August 23, 2026 @ 9:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin owners are getting ready to claim an equivalent amount of a new cryptocurrency known as eCash, or ECX, as a planned hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain moves into its initial phase. The project, developed by LayerTwo Labs under the leadership of longtime Bitcoin… Read More

August 23, 2026 @ 8:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale Investments has examined conditions that may interest long-term investors evaluating whether to increase their Bitcoin holdings. The firm’s head of research, Zach Pandl, outlined several elements that appear to be coming together, while emphasizing that future price movements remain uncertain and that market timing… Read More

August 23, 2026 @ 8:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Thredd to underpin Cashi’s Hong Kong stablecoin card debut Thredd contributes issuer processing infrastructure for Cashi, whose app lets users send and hold digital assets. The card can facilitate daily spending. In Hong Kong, users get virtual Visa cards and Google Pay support. Apple Pay… Read More

August 23, 2026 @ 5:49 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Why AI will select AI “The sheer number of AI agents is already unmanageable at enterprise scale. Gartner predicted that the average Fortune 500 company will go from less than 15 AI agents in 2025 to more than 150,000 in 2028, while only 13% of… Read More

August 23, 2026 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Reports indicate that Binance, which decisively remains the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has continued to allow new customers from European Union countries to open and verify accounts well after the July 1, 2026, deadline under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. The… Read More

August 23, 2026 @ 1:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s financial regulator has taken a major step toward modernizing oversight of digital asset markets by rolling out an artificial intelligence system designed to detect and analyze unfair trading practices in real time. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) announced on August 20, 2026, that… Read More

August 23, 2026 @ 12:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoonPay has introduced support for Cash App Pay, enabling eligible customers in the United States to fund purchases of digital assets directly from their Cash App account balances. The company positions itself as the sole platform currently providing this payment option specifically for buying cryptocurrencies… Read More

August 23, 2026 @ 12:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MANTRA Chain, the Layer 1 blockchain dedicated to real-world asset tokenization, has fully paused its network operations and locked all transfers after identifying an incident. The project’s official channels confirmed the stoppage on August 21, 2026, describing it initially as a precautionary step while the… Read More

August 22, 2026 @ 5:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates briefly held two employees of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance in recent weeks as part of police investigations into possible financial wrongdoing linked to activity on the platform. The workers were intercepted while passing through airports in the Emirates and… Read More

August 22, 2026 @ 5:49 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has proposed new accounting guidance aimed at clarifying when certain digital assets, including stablecoins, can be treated as cash equivalents under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. The proposed Accounting Standards Update would provide illustrative examples to promote more consistent… Read More

August 22, 2026 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) experienced a sharp reversal on August 22, 2026, after climbing close to the $80,000 mark. The leading cryptocurrency had advanced strongly over the preceding days, gaining nearly 30 percent across a five-day stretch and briefly reaching approximately $79,500. That peak left technical indicators… Read More

August 22, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investor Stanley Druckenmiller has signaled a notable shift toward digital assets through recent disclosures from his Duquesne Family Office. Regulatory filings for the second quarter of 2026 reveal new stakes totaling approximately $87.8 million in two crypto-related companies: Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR) and Hyperliquid… Read More

August 22, 2026 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BounceBit, a Bitcoin restaking and yield platform, has announced the permanent closure of its independent Layer 1 blockchain. The decision follows a security incident in which an attacker exploited a protocol-level authorization vulnerability, transferring roughly 286.5 million BB tokens—valued at around $3 million at the… Read More

August 21, 2026 @ 6:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced new proposed rules for issuers to raise capital under new exemptions for crypto assets. Regulation Crypto Asset (Reg CA) is widely modeled after two existing securities exemptions, Reg CF and Reg A. Reg A and… Read More

August 21, 2026 @ 4:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto billionaire and Tron (TRX) founder Justin Sun recently secured a limited procedural success in his ongoing legal dispute with World Liberty Financial. A federal judge in California ruled that Sun’s personal claims against the Trump-linked crypto project will remain in open federal court rather than… Read More

August 21, 2026 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin ($BTC) continues its march higher after an extended period of price doldrums. Right now, Bitcoin is trading around $76,000, after topping $78,000 earlier today. Just last week, Bitcoin was trading in the low sixties. So what has changed? The bulls are back in charge,… Read More

August 21, 2026 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has completed the issuance of $200 million in three-year floating-rate digitally native notes, becoming the Global Systemically Important Bank and a UK-based issuer that has now placed such instruments on Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure. The notes, created natively on distributed… Read More

August 21, 2026 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has teamed up with Clearpool and Cicada Partners to introduce real-world institutional lending capabilities on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The collaboration aims to create on-chain credit markets that fund actual business needs rather than relying on typical decentralized finance yield strategies. The partners highlight… Read More