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Cointelegraph reports that Bastion won conditional OCC approval for a national trust bank charter. The planned services span stablecoin custody, wallets, payments and issuance.
US spot bitcoin ETFs finished the week positive after $433 million in Friday net inflows, led by Fidelity’s FBTC. Ether funds broke a four-week inflow streak.
The CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate, shifting attention to SEC and CFTC action. Two reports examine the bill and what may follow, but the supplied record gives few specifics.
Visa is reportedly preparing to close a Crossmint memecoin rewards loophole, but the claim rests on one secondhand report and remains unconfirmed.
A crypto derivatives market is building around Anthropic’s unconfirmed public-debut prospects, with reported open interest nearing $80 million despite a speculative valuation premise.
CoinDesk reports that Robinhood Chain fees fell 97% while transaction counts stayed near record highs, highlighting a gap between chain usage and fee capture.
Bitcoin rose 24.6% across five August days as active leverage fell, according to a report cited by Decrypt, with shorts accounting for 89% of liquidated dollars.
A reported Senate CLARITY Act draft included a $15,000 crypto-related divestment rule for senior officials, but the requirement died with the stalled bill.
Kalshi has filed a proposal for US single-stock perpetual futures, Cointelegraph reports. The outcome is pending alongside similar efforts by Coinbase and Bitnomial.
CoinDesk reports a cyberattack on crypto technology provider Haruko that affected 15 clients and led to some fund losses. The extent of losses and the impact on each client remain undisclosed.
A three-year-old bug led to a $1.3 million drain after surviving a 2024 security review. Validators then halted transaction finalization for ten days, according to a single report.
HYPE reached a reported record of $90.92 as Hyperliquid opened manual borrowing against HYPE and Bitcoin collateral. The move came amid a broader crypto rally.
Zcash is targeting a November upgrade that would shorten blocks from 75 to 25 seconds. A separate call to end its dev fund after 2028 has put network funding under scrutiny.
A Wall Street Journal report says Christine Lagarde intervened against Binance’s Greek MiCA authorization. Binance called the report speculation and reaffirmed its commitment to European authorization.
Coinbase asked the CFTC to approve 24/5 perpetual futures tied to individual US stocks, including Apple, Tesla and Nvidia. Binance separately launched 24/7 FX perpetuals.
Bitcoin traded above $81,000 in a near-6% session move, while layer-2, DeFi and crypto-linked equities also rebounded despite the CLARITY setback.
The CFTC has reportedly sent a crypto asset pre-rule to the White House for review, shifting attention to what the agency can define under existing authority.
Leios merged a Blink Labs pull request removing Dingo from its Antithesis setup. The record shows a testing-environment change, not a performance result or delivery milestone.
Hydra merged a change that puts six Haskell packages under nix flake check, while its cluster and TUI remain outside that reproducible test path.
Hydra has added a size ceiling for side-loaded snapshots and a named rejection error, changing how operators and API consumers should handle recovery attempts.
Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade cleared a rehearsal for a planned capacity increase, and its dates were confirmed. A warning about fake builders leaves a possible stall unresolved.
CoinDesk reports memecoin trading quickly took hold on Circle’s Arc, while Aave V4’s Arc market held about $76 million in USDC with under $100,000 borrowed. Early supply has outpaced credit demand.
The FCA targeted three more London sites over unregistered peer-to-peer crypto trading. Its warning suggests closer scrutiny, while the supplied record gives no case outcomes.
Bitcoin treasury companies reportedly bought 5,900 BTC over three months while paper losses lingered. The slowdown raises a question about how much demand these firms can add next.
