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93 itemsAugust 13, 2026
- CoinDesk
U.S. SEC to again delay 'innovation exemption' for tokenization amid Wall Street, White House concerns
The SEC was ready to release at least some part of the innovation exemption alongside its now-canceled open meeting for "Reg Crypto" on Friday.
- Cointelegraph
Ethereum Foundation pivots away from Poseidon in post-quantum plan
Advances in compact proofs have erased Poseidon’s previous performance advantage, according to researcher Justin Drake.
- CryptoSlate
Multicoin exits the $1.65 billion Solana treasury company it helped launch eight months ago
Multicoin Capital has exited its disclosed stake in Forward Industries, the largest Solana treasury company, according to SEC filings. The crypto investment firm had been one of the three lead investors, alongside Galaxy Digital and Jump Crypto, behind the $1.65 billion financing that launched Forwa...
- DecryptScore: 90
Morning Minute: The SEC Plans Rules for Tokenized Stocks
The new framework could be announced as soon as Friday, in what could be the biggest development for crypto this year.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
SEC allows Franklin Templeton funds to invest in onchain money fund
The SEC said it will not pursue enforcement action if Franklin Templeton’s funds start investing cash in the asset manager’s own tokenized money market fund.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Goldman Sachs drops $2.25 billion to hijack the Bitcoin yield market and leapfrog BlackRock by 19x
Goldman Sachs agreed to acquire NEOS Investments for up to $2.25 billion, adding a $30 billion options-income ETF platform that includes one of the largest Bitcoin income funds. The cash-and-equity deal announced Aug. 12 covers NEOS’ 19 options-based income ETFs and is expected to close in the first...
- The BlockScore: 85
Trezor shipping provider breach exposes personal data of nearly 14,000 customers
Trezor said a ShipMonk breach exposed the personal data of nearly 14,000 hardware wallet customers, including some shipping addresses.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
SEC cancels long-awaited proposal of Reg Crypto, postponing meeting without new date
The first major crypto rule to be proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will have to wait a bit longer after a sudden postponement.
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Copper US arm becomes FINRA member, SEC-registered broker-dealer
Copper Markets US will offer qualified custody, staking, financing and OTC services after securing its regulated US presence.
- DecryptScore: 80
Trezor Customer Data Exposed in Shipping Partner Breach
The hardware wallet manufacturer says its devices and backups are untouched, but the leak hands attackers valuable customer data.
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Kalshi in talks with Sequoia, Wellington for $750 million fund raise at $40 billion valuation
The prediction-market platform raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation in May and is now discussing a new round that could nearly double that figure.
- DecryptScore: 80
Hawaii To Ban Cash Deposits at Crypto ATMs From October
Lawmakers targeted the deposits that scammers rely on, with the machines still able to sell crypto for dollars or swap one coin for another.
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Tether says it completed long-promised 'Big Four' audit of finances behind $180 billion USDT stablecoin
KPMG U.S. examined Tether's books and even counted its gold bars as the $180 billion USDT issuer said it completed its long-promised financial audit.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Metaplanet CEO shuts down Bitcoin sale speculation after $322M transfer
Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said no Bitcoin was sold after the company moved 5,014 BTC between custodial addresses for about $8 in fees.
- The BlockScore: 75
South Korea sentences Delio CEO to 15 years in prison for $50 million crypto fraud: report
The sentence is shorter than the 20-year term that prosecutors sought, as the judge acquitted Jeong of a primary charge.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Study finds 65,340 risky crypto addresses tied to $574 million in losses
A study presented at USENIX Security '26 identified 65,340 risky crypto addresses involved in misuse across Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, with 126,982.94 ETH and 17,726.7 BNB in associated native-token losses. The researchers valued losses associated with those risky crypto addresses at more than $5...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Crypto platform operator gets 15-year prison sentence in South Korea due to $50 million scam
A South Korean court sentenced the head of centralized finance (CeFi) lender Delio to 15 years in prison for embezzling digital assets from more than 1,100 customers.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Metaplanet burned through 83% of a $500 million credit line to build 43,000 BTC, and now it wants investors to fund the next leg
Metaplanet moved over 5,000 Bitcoin (worth about $322 million) this week, triggering market speculation that the firm might be liquidating a portion of its corporate reserves. On Aug. 12, CEO Simon Gerovich shut down the rumor and explained that the transfer was a routine custody operation, with no ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
FG Nexus dumped all its Ethereum at a $45 million loss to buy mobile home parks—after earning just $144,000 in staking rewards
FG Nexus has abandoned its Ethereum treasury strategy less than a year after launch, redirecting its focus toward real estate development. In an Aug. 12 SEC filing, the Nasdaq-listed merchant bank disclosed that it sold all of its digital assets before June 30 and held no cryptocurrency at quarter-e...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Trezor warns 14,000 customers after fulfilment partner suffers data breach
The incident marks the first time Trezor customers' shipping addresses were exposed.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
CFTC to join SEC in exploring crypto regulations without CLARITY bill
The CFTC will hold a meeting for its Innovation Advisory Committee on Aug. 20 to address regulation related to crypto assets, artificial intelligence and prediction markets.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Tether completes first full financial audit, receives clean KPMG opinion
KPMG’s audit covered Tether’s 2025 financial statements and found its reserves exceeded liabilities by $6.8 billion.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Coinbase and 14 other x402 facilitators failed security tests built for the coming AI-agent economy
Security flaws across major x402 payment facilitators could expose facilitator-held assets and leave merchants without receiving payment for services provided, according to new research presented at the 35th USENIX Security Symposium. Researchers tested 15 major x402 facilitators, including Coinbase...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Bitcoin slips near $63,500 as traders look past CPI to Fed’s next tests
An in-line inflation print removed a tail risk but gave BTC little reason to rally, leaving Jackson Hole, jobs data and the next CPI release as the market’s next catalysts.
- The BlockScore: 70
Blockchain Association backs Custodia’s Supreme Court bid over Fed master account access
The industry group said the case is about ensuring 'lawful digital asset businesses can compete on equal footing.'
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Binance bStocks passes xStocks as second-largest tokenized stock issuer
Binance bStocks became the second-largest tokenized stock issuer less than two months after launch, narrowly ahead of Kraken’s xStocks.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Why millions of everyday savers will soon own Bitcoin without ever downloading a crypto app
A future Bitcoin buyer may encounter the asset through a portfolio they already own. An adviser can add a small allocation, a brokerage account can hold a spot ETF, and future retirement products could place Bitcoin inside another familiar investment wrapper. Grayscale expects Bitcoin ownership to k...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
MUFG PoC to bring Japanese government bond repo transactions onchain
MUFG’s experiment plans to bring Japanese government bond repo transactions onchain to achieve 24/7 settlement, as well as improved capital and operational efficiency.
- DecryptScore: 70
FCA, HTX in Settlement Talks Over Illegal UK Crypto Promotions: Report
An FCA employee bought crypto from a UK IP address using a driving license as ID, according to the regulator's claim.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Trezor reports data from 14K users exposed through shipping provider
The wallet provider warned that thousands of users could potentially be at risk of phishing attempts, while advising that all devices, private keys and backups were safe.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Crypto group backs Custodia in Supreme Court battle over Fed access
The Blockchain Association argues the Fed should not have broad discretion to deny eligible state-chartered banks direct access to its payment system.
- The BlockScore: 70
Google ad phishing scam drains $550,000 from Hyperliquid user, security specialist says
In April, crypto security nonprofit Security Alliance (SEAL) said it had blocked 356 malicious Google ad URLs over a period of several weeks.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Delio CEO sentenced to 15 years in prison on crypto fraud in South Korea
More than a year after being indicted on fraud charges related to his activities at crypto company Delio, Jeong Sang-ho faces prison time in South Korea.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
ASX shareholder plans to sue former directors over failed blockchain project
ASX’s failed blockchain-based CHESS overhaul faces renewed governance scrutiny after the exchange admitted misleading the market.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Arthur Hayes says a $60 billion Fed cap is Bitcoin’s next liquidity trigger and needed for a price surge
Arthur Hayes says a $60 billion Federal Reserve limit is the next liquidity trigger he wants to see before adding more aggressively to risk assets, such as Bitcoin. His Aug. 11 essay focuses on the standing Foreign and International Monetary Authorities Repo Facility, or FIMA. The facility allows ap...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Strategy sold $100M to defend STRC’s $100 stock price as DeFi packages the risk into a 7% ‘safer’ trade
Solstice announced a tranched product built on Strategy's Bitcoin-related STRC preferred stock, and said its senior tranche would not begin absorbing losses until STRC trades below $47.66. STRC currently trades near $95.315, putting that threshold roughly half of today's market price and about 52% b...
- DecryptScore: 65
CEO of Crypto Lender Delio Gets 15 Years Over $49M Fraud
A botched search of the platform's server host cost prosecutors the bulk of their case, cutting it from 2,800 alleged victims to about 1,100.
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Figure revenue doubles as blockchain loan marketplace volumes surge
The tokenization-focused lender posted $226 million in quarterly revenue as blockchain loan marketplace volume jumped to $4.3 billion.
- DecryptScore: 65
Crypto Group Warns Fed Could Use Banking Access to Squeeze Digital Asset Firms
The Blockchain Association is urging the Supreme Court to take up Custodia’s case, saying that broad Fed power over “master accounts” could be used to push crypto firms out of the banking system.
- The BlockScore: 65
Baltimore sues Kalshi and Polymarket, roping Coinbase, Robinhood and Webull into the fight
Mayor Brandon Scott and the Baltimore City Council sued Kalshi, Polymarket and major trading platforms over alleged illegal sports betting.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
City of Baltimore goes after prediction markets for sports betting
The city’s complaint over gambling laws and deceptive trade practices included Robinhood, Webull and Coinbase as partners with prediction market platform Kalshi.
- DecryptScore: 65
'Bitcoin Is Burning': Red Team Turns to Chinese AI to Find Flaws
Bitcoin Red Team member Calle said Chinese models, including Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, are finding bugs across Bitcoin’s open-source software.
- The BlockScore: 60
BitGo sees revenue jump 80% to $4.3 billion in Q2 but posts net loss
The firm recorded a net loss of $19 million in Q2, compared with net income of $38.3 million in the same period last year.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Bitcoin firms ask AI labs for same tools attackers already have
Coinbase, Block, BitGo and dozens of others signed a letter arguing that safety guardrails on frontier models are blocking legitimate security work while adversaries face no such limits.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
MUFG to test real-time blockchain settlement for Japanese government bond trades
MUFG is preparing a proof-of-concept for onchain JGB transactions using the Canton network.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Swissquote cuts full-year guidance as 1H crypto income plunges, shares slide
The online bank cut full-year revenue and profit forecasts after first-half crypto trading levels slumped.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitmine’s $257M annualized staking income ‘fills’ operational gaps, share buybacks: analysts
Bitmine’s Ether staking revenue is an important financial buffer that fills financial gaps and provides recurring revenue streams beyond Ether’s price appreciation, analysts told Cointelegraph.
- The BlockScore: 60
Ether.fi adds tokenized stocks, metals and Aave-powered portfolio loans in latest ‘neobank’ expansion
Etherfi noted its updated app is “less crypto-forward,” and aimed at attracting “a much broader audience.”
- DecryptScore: 60
Ethereum DeFi Platform Ether.fi Adds Tokenized Stocks and Portfolio-Backed Loans
The Ethereum staking platform is adding asset trading, fiat accounts, and borrowing through Aave as it pushes into crypto banking.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin keeps traders guessing near $64K as stocks gain on cool US PPI data
Bitcoin joined US stocks in modest gains after July PPI inflation data continued a cooling trend seen over the past month.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Public Bitcoin miners cut hashrate 13.4% as AI infrastructure revenue grows
AI and HPC are reshaping mining economics as operators repurpose power and data centers, while a smaller group of miners continues to expand Bitcoin capacity.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Robinhood Chain nears $1B TVL as Uniswap drives liquidity: Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered said Robinhood’s Uniswap integration could solve a key challenge for new blockchains while accelerating UNI token burns.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Solana treasury company shutters its SOL accelerator as a $27 million quarterly reversal forces deep cuts
DeFi Development Corp., which holds Solana's SOL token as a treasury asset, reported a $27 million second-quarter loss. It is also retrenching, closing its Treasury Accelerator to new deals, lowering costs, and repurchasing convertible debt below face value. The company said in an Aug. 12 shareholde...
- The BlockScore: 60
Tether says KPMG issued ‘clean’ opinion in first full audit of USDT issuer’s financials
KPMG U.S. issued an "unqualified audit opinion" on Tether International’s full 2025 financial statements, Tether said Thursday.
- The BlockScore: 55
Mirae Asset to inject additional $35 million into Korbit crypto exchange following July acquisition: report
Mirae Asset completed the acquisition of Korbit in July, acquiring 97.15% of the company for roughly $91.5 million.
- CryptoSlateScore: 55
How a wall of 1.79 million Bitcoin is quietly choking every attempt to break above $65,000
Bitcoin traders are rebuilding bets on a run toward $70,000 while still paying for protection against a fall to $60,000, showing that softer US inflation data has done little to break the market’s defensive positioning. The split held after the Consumer Price Index rose 0.1% in July and 3.4% from a ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 55
Zcash is borrowing crypto’s new institutional playbook as privacy goes mainstream
Zcash Labs launched Aug. 6 to move Zcash deeper into business and institutional use. The independent group is focused on integrations, infrastructure, and adoption projects for companies that want to use ZEC. Zcash Labs will front project costs and later seek retroactive reimbursement from ZEC holde...
- The BlockScore: 55
Peter Thiel-backed Bullish posts $280 million Q2 net loss as digital asset sales fall 44%
Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish reported a $280 million Q2 net loss as digital asset sales fell 44% and adjusted revenue rose 62%.
- CoinDeskScore: 55
B2C2 taps Schroders veteran to chase Asia’s growing crypto wealth
The institutional crypto liquidity provider is bringing on the former Schroders Wealth Management Asia chairman as it targets family offices and asset managers across the region.
- The BlockScore: 55
Onchain lender Figure nearly triples quarterly profits as loan marketplace volume surges to $4.3 billion
The company said its net income increased 192% to $87 million from $30 million during the same period a year ago.
- DecryptScore: 55
Metaplanet Denies Selling $320M in Bitcoin as Firm Launches BitBonds
The company's CEO said a 5,014 BTC transfer was a custody move, not a sale, as the Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company rolls out a fixed-rate debt program.
- DecryptScore: 55
Bitcoin Companies Want Help From AI Labs to Guard Against Hackers
More than 40 bitcoin and crypto firms asked the biggest AI labs this week to let independent security researchers use their strongest models before public release.
- DecryptScore: 55
Tether Claims 'Largest Inaugural Financial Audit' as KPMG Signs Off on 2025 Statements
Tether said KPMG gave its 2025 financial statements a clean opinion, a milestone for the company after years of questions about the reserves backing USDT.
- The BlockScore: 55
Gemini shares slide after $108 million loss as Winklevoss says ‘we still have work to do’
Gemini’s prediction market volume nearly doubled as the exchange continued expanding beyond crypto trading.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Speculation on dogecoin is back to October 2025 levels. The price is down 70%
Futures positioning has rebuilt to levels last seen when dogecoin traded at three times today's price, and more than three accounts are betting on a rebound for every one betting against.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Metaplanet denies selling bitcoin worth $320 million
Metaplanet CEO dismisses bitcoin sale rumors, confirms 43,000 BTC holdings
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Bitcoin speculators keep BTC price ‘pinned’ below $68.7K: Glassnode
Bitcoin’s weakness near range highs stems from short-term holders trying to break even on underwater BTC investments, Glassnode says.
- DecryptScore: 50
XRP Holders Can Now Trade Options Using Flare’s FXRP as Collateral
The Derive integration gives XRP holders a way to hedge or speculate without depositing their tokens with a centralized exchange.
- The BlockScore: 50
Bitcoin continues ranging as crowded longs meet soft inflation, the quietest tape since 2019: analysts
Bitcoin flattened under $64,000 as flat July PPI and in-line CPI both failed to spark a rally, with Glassnode flagging absent buyers.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Bullish shares jump 10% as Q2 adjusted EBITDA more than triples
The crypto exchange operator’s shares gained around 10% as adjusted EBITDA more than tripled and subscription and services revenue hit a record high.
- The BlockScore: 50
Citigroup CEO Fraser on Clarity Act: ‘We would like to see a good bill go through,’ as stablecoin reward issues simmer
Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser says she would like to see a crypto bill passed into law, even as she and others continue to fight for changes.
- DecryptScore: 50
White House Lets Private Firms Hack Cybercriminals—At Their Own Legal Risk
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday that lets vetted U.S. companies carry out offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal networks. Here's what the program actually authorizes.
- CoinDeskScore: 45
Brazil’s largest bitcoin treasury firm plans ETF with 95% allocation to Strategy's STRC
DIGY11 aims for annual distributions matching Brazil’s interbank rate plus 3–5 percentage points, net of costs, though investors' actual returns are not guaranteed.
- CoinDeskScore: 45
Forecasts for $1 million bitcoin price likely look too ambitious, key ratio suggests
The thesis is that high yields on long-term U.S. Treasuries make non-yielding assets like bitcoin less attractive.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Crypto valuations could double as protocols link revenue to tokens: Bitwise CIO
Bitwise’s Matt Hougan expects revenue-capture mechanisms to spread across DeFi applications and layer-1 networks over the next 12 to 24 months.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
BitGo posts $19M Q2 loss despite 80% revenue surge to $4.3B
An $18.8 million unrealized digital asset loss and weaker trading margins pushed BitGo into the red in the second quarter.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Securitize falls 16% after earnings miss, tokenization revenue drops
Securitize shares fell 16% from Wednesday’s close after the tokenization platform’s $14.4 million second-quarter revenue missed Wall Street estimates.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet unveils BitBonds with $1.3 million private debt sale
The inaugural unsecured bonds offer annual interest of up to 4.3%, while exposing investors to metaplanet’s credit and bitcoin-linked balance-sheet risks
- CointelegraphScore: 40
‘DeFi doesn’t exist anymore,’ just onchain finance: Andre Cronje
Flying Tulip founder Andre Cronje contends that DeFi protocols have evolved into a new financial paradigm of “onchain finance” but have sacrificed some of their inherent immutability and decentralization.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Bitcoin holds steady near $64,000 as monero, hyperliquid outperform
Crypto markets remain in a low volatility holding pattern, trading in a tight range following Wednesday's CPI report.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Bullish Q2 adjusted earnings in line as rise in subscription revenue offsets digital asset slowdown
Digital asset sales slumped to $32.6 billion from $58.6 billiion a year earlier, but other revenues roughly doubled year-over-year to just shy of $65 billion.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
BitGo made $4.3 billion in revenue last quarter, but direct costs swallowed 99.8% of it
BitGo's second-quarter earnings showed $4.329 billion of revenue, but almost all of the sales generated by its largest business line flowed back out as transaction costs. Revenue increased 79.6% from a year earlier, according to BitGo’s second-quarter earnings release. Yet the headline number can ob...
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Gaming firm GameSquare boasts a $26M Ethereum fortune, but quiet debt fine print leaves just $2.1M in real cash
GameSquare Holdings reported stronger second-quarter operations alongside a $7.83 million crypto-linked accounting loss. The gaming and creator-economy company ended June with $2.1 million in cash and $12.1 million of current promissory notes payable, making the availability of GameSquare crypto hol...
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
DATA Foundation (ex-Story Protocol) keeps insider tokens locked past deadline with no new unlock date
Tokens held by DATA Foundation's team and lead investors did not begin unlocking on Aug. 13, despite that date appearing in the project's earlier public supply schedule. The organization, formerly called Story Foundation, said on June 25 that its team and lead investors had extended their token lock...
- DecryptScore: 40
Solana Can Be the 'Everything Chain' as Crypto Apps Go Mainstream: 6th Man Ventures Co-Founder
6th Man Ventures co-founder Mike Dudas says Solana’s infrastructure could carry crypto’s next wave.
- The BlockScore: 30
Bitwise CIO sees market repricing as crypto embraces ‘revenue fever’
Bitwise CIO sees crypto valuations doubling as decentralized finance apps and protocols adopt revenue-driven token buybacks.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Live Markets: U.S. inflation is stickier than July’s mild CPI reading suggests
Bitcoin's choppy price action as in-depth analysis of the U.S. CPI released Wednesday suggests the underlying price pressures remain sticky.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Strategy, Metaplanet unrealized bitcoin losses highlight risk of concentrating on just one token
Your day-ahead look for Aug. 13, 2026
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Crypto for Advisors: The crypto advice gap
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- DecryptScore: 30
Google and OpenAI Debut Super Fast AI Models—Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Out, But GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast Is Invite-Only
Google's model is live and built for cheap agents; OpenAI's is quicker but locked behind a waitlist.
- DecryptScore: 30
Anthropic Is Quietly Watermarking Every Claude AI Output. Builders Are Already Trying to Break It
Anthropic is weaving an invisible, machine-readable watermark into every word its newest Claude models write—and it hasn't said how.
- DecryptScore: 30
Anthropic's AI Agents Started a Virtual War. The Quotes Are Unhinged
In a new red-team study, Claude models deployed self-replicating malware against each other—and the transcripts explain why.
- DecryptScore: 20
Twitch Turns On Amazon AI Training by Default: 'Nobody Would Opt In'
Twitch's chief product officer says he does not know whether content had already been used for training before the setting appeared.