Term Labs Loses $8.5 Million in DeFi Governance Exploit
Term Labs lost roughly $8.5 million on Sunday after an attacker exploited a governance vulnerability in its Term vaults, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield, ...
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Crypto Sanctions Take Effect Against 14 EU-Banned Platforms
Crypto sanctions from the European Union took effect on August 23, cutting off EU businesses from 14 crypto platforms based in Georgia, Panama, the United ...
Tokenized Stocks: Backpack Adds Moderna on Solana
Backpack Securities listed a tokenized version of Moderna stock on Solana on August 20, one day after Moderna and Merck reported that their mRNA cancer ...
Crypto Card Spending Crosses $1 Billion in a Month
Stablecoin-funded crypto card spending has crossed $1 billion in a single month, as more users pay for everyday purchases like groceries, rides, and food delivery ...
Phantom Ends Sui Access, Sept. 24 Deadline to Migrate
Phantom will end support for the Sui blockchain on September 24, 2026, cutting off wallet access to a network it added just 20 months earlier. ...
BounceBit to Shut Down Its Chain After $3M Exploit
BounceBit will permanently retire its standalone Layer 1 blockchain and reissue its BB token as a BEP-20 asset on BNB Chain, after an attacker exploited ...
Zcash Hits 8-Year High as Grayscale’s ETF Filing Advances
Decentralized, privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) surged to its highest level since 2018 over the weekend, briefly touching $855, as Grayscale filed its fifth amended registration ...
USDG Stablecoin Support Added to Bitpace Platform
USDG stablecoin support went live on Bitpace on August 20, 2026, giving the crypto payment gateway’s merchant clients a regulated dollar-backed option for settling international ...
Protocol Camp Cohort 9 Closes, ShardLab-Indonesia Deal Grows
ShardLab, the blockchain innovation arm of Hashed, said on August 20, 2026 that it will close Protocol Camp Cohort 9 with a Final Demo at ...
VASP Registration Rules Tighten in South Korea
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission began enforcing stricter VASP (Virtual Asset Service Provider) registration standards on August 20, 2026, adding major-shareholder review, a 200 percent ...
USDU Stablecoin Goes Live in Bitcoin.com’s Wallet
USDU stablecoin is now live inside Bitcoin.com's self-custodial wallet, letting users hold, send and receive the UAE-regulated dollar token without giving up control of their keys. Issued by Universal and backed 1:1 by audited USD reserves, USDU is the first Foreign Payment Token registered with the Central Bank of the UAE.
Injective SEC Registration Makes It a Transfer Agent
Injective SEC transfer agent registration is now effective for Injective Institutional Services, an affiliate of the Injective blockchain. The status lets the entity maintain official ownership records for securities, a regulated function most tokenization platforms still handle through separate offchain databases.
Tokenized Deposits Go Live Between HSBC, Standard Chartered
Tokenized deposits moved between two banks live for the first time on August 19, 2026, when HSBC and Standard Chartered completed a cross-border transaction on Swift's blockchain-based ledger. Swift's ledger matched and netted the obligations before settlement ran through each bank's existing systems.
Trump Says CFTC Is Working to Bring Hyperliquid to the US
President Donald Trump said at a White House event on August 19, 2026 Wednesday that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is working to bring ...
SEC Proposes Crypto Offering Exemptions Up to $75 Million
A crypto exemption proposed by the SEC on August 18, 2026 would let issuers raise up to $75 million a year without registering the offering under the Securities Act of 1933. The proposal also adds a smaller $5 million exemption for early-stage projects and a conditional safe harbor from investment contract status.
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