UK Gives Bank of England New Stablecoin Innovation Mandate
The U.K. government plans to give the Bank of England a new secondary objective to support innovation in payments, including...
Month: August 2026
NZ’s ACT Party Proposes Waiving Capital Gains Tax on Crypto
ACT, a party with the fourth-largest representation in the New Zealand Parliament, is campaigning to modernize digital finance rules, proposing...
Abu Dhabi royal backs 49% stake in Trump-linked crypto bank venture: WSJ
Sheikh Tahnoon’s group reportedly backs a 49% stake in the holding company behind World Liberty’s conditionally approved US trust bank.An...
Custody: Four Questions to Settle Before You Fund an Account
Almost everyone evaluates a trading platform in the same order. Fees first, then available markets, then leverage, then the interface....
Polymarket Pulls NFL Contracts, Certifies Bitcoin Bets The Same Day
Polymarket’s US-serving platform withdrew both of its NFL player participation filings on Aug. 26, one day after certifying them with...
Trump Media Drops ‘Truth Predict’ Buildout, Chooses Crypto.com Instead
Trump Media has abandoned plans to build a prediction market directly into Truth Social, opting instead to market Crypto.com’s existing...
$13T Asset Manager Charles Schwab Adds 3 Altcoins to Its Crypto Push
There’s been a great deal of institutional interest in crypto assets over the last two years, and on Thursday, the...
Moonwell Locks Base Borrowing After $8.7M MAMO Attack
Attackers extracted roughly $8.7 million from Moonwell after artificially inflating the price oracle of the low-liquidity MAMO token, then using...
Virtu, Tradeweb complete onchain repo using Marshall Islands digital bond
The transaction used the Marshall Islands-issued USDM1 bond as collateral and completed the full repo cycle on the Canton Network...
Trump cost investors $4.7B through crypto ‘schemes’: Public Citizen
While investors in World Liberty Financial‘s USD1 stablecoin “haven’t suffered major losses,” many lost billions of dollars in other Trump...
Mirae Asset lays out crypto, stablecoin, tokenization plans for Digital X
The South Korean financial group plans to build a $109 billion digital asset business spanning crypto, stablecoins and tokenized assets,...
Grayscale says Zcash can challenge Bitcoin’s network effects as privacy demand grows
ZEC has climbed roughly 19-fold in a year, yet Grayscale says its sub-1% share of Bitcoin’s market cap leaves room...
Ethereum Holders Pull 1.4M ETH Off Exchanges as Price Nears $2,550
TLDR: ETH exchange balances fell nearly 18% between June 3 and August 27, per new Santiment data. Bitcoin exchange balances...
Bessent’s Bond Buyback Gamble Could Pour Fuel on Bitcoin’s Price
Bitcoin’s price reclaimed $80,000 per unit on Thursday after breaking past a key $79,000 resistance level, driving its market capitalization...
Giant Hole in Global Crypto-Tax Net; China’s Taxable Crypto Only 1/5th of the US
Only 14% of total global taxable onchain crypto asset activity falls into the new global tax net, which becomes active...
