Blockchain & Digital Assets

August 19, 2026 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

China’s central bank has taken another significant step in advancing its state-backed digital currency by incorporating additional commercial lenders into the operational framework for the electronic yuan, commonly referred to as the e-CNY. On August 17, 2026, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) announced the… Read More

August 19, 2026 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trading Technologies International (TT), a provider of capital markets technology solutions, has partnered with Crypto.com to broaden institutional access to regulated prediction markets and cryptocurrency derivatives. The collaboration will integrate connectivity to OG.com—Crypto.com’s CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse—directly into the TT platform.The link to OG.com’s prediction… Read More

August 19, 2026 @ 12:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

UHY Hacker Young Group, a UK accounting network, reports that in the past 12 months, HMRC has sent 81,000 warning letters to crypto investors, warning them they may have underpaid their taxes or not paid them at all. Last year, UHY said 65,000 crypto investors,… Read More

August 19, 2026 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

The Wyoming Stable Token Commission, the issuer of the Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), has reported that the State of Wyoming has migrated from LayerZero to take advantage of Chainlink’s cross-chain interoperability. The Commission noted that approximately $15 billion in assets have moved from LayerZero to… Read More

August 19, 2026 @ 9:16 am By JD Alois  |  

It is a big week in Washington, D.C., for the crypto and prediction market industries. First, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced new rules, Regulation Crypto Assets, to provide a regulated path to issue and trade certain crypto assets. The move was somewhat surprising, as… Read More

August 19, 2026 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has announced his return to a hands-on leadership role, taking the helm as CEO of Flop Labs. The new venture centers on developing Flop Network and its native token, FLOP, positioned as essential infrastructure for what Hayes describes as the coming… Read More

August 19, 2026 @ 12:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s regional banking landscape is taking a step forward in digital finance. Jeonbuk Bank has entered a partnership with Ripple to implement Ripple Payments for international remittances, positioning the lender as the first regional bank in the country to adopt the platform for this… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 11:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s two largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Upbit and Bithumb, experienced substantial drops in overall revenue during the first half of 2026. These results highlight the ongoing pressure from a prolonged downturn in Bitcoin and the wider digital asset market, which has sharply reduced trading activity… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR), chaired by Tom Lee, has expanded its Ethereum holdings to approximately 4.8% of the network’s circulating supply after another weekly purchase. The company reported acquiring an additional 9,926 ETH during the week ending around mid-August 2026. This brought its total… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Harmony Protocol, a layer-1 blockchain known for its sharded architecture, has announced plans to reverse its network to a state preceding a significant security breach. The decision follows the discovery of an unauthorized minting event that created trillions of forged ONE tokens, the project’s native… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 8:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The head of the cryptocurrency platform BitMart has rejected recent public calls for independent verification of the exchange’s financial position. This comes as multiple clients say their funds remain inaccessible and some workers report unpaid wages from the previous month. Sheldon Lee, the founder, issued… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 5:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) delivered a bit of a surprise today by proposing new rules for crypto offerings. Regulation Crypto Assets would clarify how securities laws apply to certain digital asset offerings, preempt state authority, and support secondary trading. The Commission had scheduled… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 5:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized finance protocol Compound has secured formal approval for a substantial two-year development allocation aimed at accelerating its shift toward institutional participants. The Compound decentralized autonomous organization endorsed a $52 million program—the largest funding commitment in the protocol’s history—to develop infrastructure that supports on-chain credit… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance reportedly provided personal and transaction details belonging to one of its clients to Russian law enforcement agencies. The information later formed part of the evidence in a terrorism-financing case linked to donations supporting Ukrainian causes. This occurred well after the exchange publicly declared it… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), the firm long associated with large-scale Bitcoin accumulation under Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, is placing greater emphasis on building liquidity and supporting its preferred stock offerings rather than prioritizing buybacks of its common shares. During the company’s Q2 2026 investor Q&A session on… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 12:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has recently pushed back against ongoing criticism from parts of the crypto community after the company completed its first full independent financial audit. In comments made shortly after the results were disclosed, Ardoino said persistent skepticism from detractors does not concern… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 12:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

New agentic AI services from TransFi, OSL Group and Ionic highlight this week’s fintech product release and partnership announcements. TransFi launches JARVIS, an AI-powered compliance intelligence platform JARVIS consolidates customer and transaction data from across its internal systems and third-party providers into a single, risk-based… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The tokenized equities sector continues to expand as one of the more active areas within real-world assets, with platforms such as Ondo Finance, Binance’s bStocks, and xStocks accounting for the majority of current trading and investment activity. Recent data show the category’s share of the… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 9:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum’s development community is now actively defining the contents of its next major network upgrade, Hegotá, which is scheduled for delivery in 2027. According to Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter, developers currently have 66 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) under consideration. Over the coming series of… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The full implementation of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework has strengthened the ability of national regulators to restrict access by non-EU crypto trading platforms. Under the rules that reached complete application across the bloc, any entity offering crypto-asset services to customers based in… Read More