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KPMG issued a clean, unqualified opinion on Tether’s 2025 financial statements, while Tether said its reserves exceeded liabilities by $6.8 billion.
Leios contributors added a public protocol-status page with release stages, offering a clearer view of progress while explicitly framing the information as provisional.
A Leios design PR documents proposed committee selection and SPO key handling, but it remains design work rather than implemented consensus behavior.
Musashi has begun its Water phase with a documented SPO rewards program, though monthly qualification criteria have not yet been defined.
July CPI eased to 3.4% as expected, while Bitcoin showed little immediate reaction and slipped toward roughly $63,500.
Bitwise cut 14% of its staff, a sign that the crypto downturn may now be reaching ETF issuers despite the firm’s stated expectation of growth.
XRP fell to about $0.99 amid rising bearish leverage, while a separate XRP bridge drain exposed software that treated fake deposits as real.
US crypto banking access appears unsettled: the OCC signals conditional charter progress while Zerohash faces a reported trust-bank rebuff and Custodia’s master-account case continues.
A malformed default route at one hosting provider reportedly pushed Solana near a finality failure threshold before recovery, highlighting concentration risk in validator infrastructure.
Fidelity has filed to let FETH stake up to all of its Ether and distribute part of the resulting rewards as quarterly cash, subject to SEC approval.
Goldman Sachs has agreed to buy NEOS for $2.25 billion, adding Bitcoin- and Ether-income ETFs to its asset-management business and expanding its presence in a specialised crypto-ETF segment.
ADA reportedly fell 4.7% below $0.19 as Grayscale withdrew its ADA ETF registration, bringing institutional-access expectations back into focus.
Grayscale reportedly withdrew Cardano, Hedera and Polkadot Trust ETF registrations, pausing a potential institutional-access route while leaving the reason and future plans unclear.
UK lawmakers have asked bank CEOs to explain crypto account refusals, highlighting banking access as a major barrier before the new FCA regime.
eToro plans to buy TradeZero for up to $231 million as its second-quarter crypto revenue fell about 30% year over year, shifting attention toward U.S. equities.
Ravencoin faces a possible multi-day chain reorganization, creating unusual uncertainty over whether recent RVN transactions will remain final.
The CFTC ordered Kalshi to keep operating amid a New York lawsuit, sharpening a federal-versus-state dispute over event-contract oversight.
The SEC and CFTC allege Goliath Ventures defrauded roughly 1,600 customers through crypto liquidity-pool return promises; the operator has pleaded guilty.
Harmony says an unauthorized mint of roughly 4 billion ONE preceded a sharp token decline; rollback and exchange-freeze decisions are the next receipts to watch.
The SEC has scheduled a Friday open meeting on a possible token safe harbor or registration exemption as the CLARITY market-structure bill is pushed to September.
The Bank of Russia has cleared regulated retail trading of Bitcoin, Ether and USDT after new legislation, while XRP and other assets remain outside the approved group.
A Committee schema update merged in the governance-actions repository on 2026-08-10, then was reverted six minutes later, leaving a watch item for tooling builders.
Intersect merged a staged governance action covering minPoolCost and Plutus memory limits, but its values, submission status, and voting path remain undisclosed.
Coinsbuy says it covered affected client funds after a reported two-chain breach, while an on-chain investigator estimated roughly $7.9 million was drained.
