Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted preliminary conditional approval on Thursday for World Liberty Trust Company, a national trust bank tied to World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump and his family. The approval clears a major step for the

According to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Thursday, World Liberty Trust Company, a Florida-based national trust bank backed by Trump and his family, received preliminary conditional approval to issue and manage USD1, a dollar-pegged stablecoin. The OCC's decision requires a

Bitcoin is trading near $63,000 as traders monitor whether the $62,200 liquidity zone will hold and allow price to reclaim the $63,400 resistance level. The cryptocurrency fell from above $65,000 and is now consolidating in a range where analysts Kaz and Michaël van de Poppe have identified key

Harvard University's endowment kept its BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust holdings unchanged in the second quarter, ending two consecutive quarters of selling even as Bitcoin and the ETF declined in value. Harvard Management Company reported 3,044,612 IBIT shares worth $101.4 million as of June 30, un

According to Galaxy Research, attackers stole over 1,755 Bitcoin (approximately $110 million at the time) from about 5,000 Coldcard hardware wallets as of August 3. Coldcard manufacturer Coinkite Inc. notified users of a security flaw in the device's key generation mechanism. Block Inc.'s

According to NCSC and The Hacker News, Apple patched a critical authentication vulnerability in macOS screen sharing on August 6 through emergency updates to macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, Sequoia 15.7.9, and Sonoma 14.8.9. CVE-2026-65400 (CVSS 9.8) allows attackers without valid credentials to access Macs

Grayscale projects that Ethereum's (ETH) annual supply growth could fall to approximately 0.4% and Solana's (SOL) to around 1.1% by 2031 if two pending tokenomics proposals are implemented as written, according to a research note released this week. Ethereum Improvement Proposal 8361 (EIP-8361),

According to Grayscale research released in August, Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) tokenomics overhauls could reduce both networks' annual supply growth to 0.4% and 1.1% respectively by 2031, falling below gold's roughly 1.8% yearly supply growth. Ethereum's EIP-8361 would gradually burn

According to Cointelegraph, DeFiLlama announced on August 16 that it delayed the official mobile application launch due to persistent phishing apps impersonating the platform on Apple App Store. The team spent months reporting malicious applications to Apple without success before the company

DefiLlama delayed the launch of its mobile app while spending months attempting to get Apple to remove phishing apps from its App Store that impersonated the analytics provider, according to the company's pseudonymous founder, 0xngmi. The founder stated in a Saturday X post that the team waited

According to GMGN, MarsCoin's market cap broke through $29 million, reaching a new all-time high, trading at $23.73 million with a 24-hour surge of 34,200%.

According to BlockBeats, SafePal confirmed on August 16 that its order-tracking plugin vulnerability exposed order information of approximately 39,798 customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026. Leaked data includes names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone

According to Foresight News, XMAQUINA's first xDEUS staking phase ended today. An on-chain snapshot will be taken tomorrow (Aug 17) at 21:00 Beijing time to record participants' governance weights and distribute 1 million DEUS from the first reward pool. The second phase will immediately follow, dis

According to Token Unlocks data, LayerZero (ZRO) will unlock 25.71 million tokens worth approximately $19.9 million on August 20, representing 4.40% of circulating supply. KAITO will unlock 32.6 million tokens worth $11.5 million on the same day, accounting for 7.63% of its circulating

According to Crypto.news, Cardano's governance company Intersect announced the Dijkstra upgrade roadmap split into two phases: the first phase launches in Q4 2026, introducing Linear Leios scaling, nested transactions, new serialization, and PlutusV4 changes; the second phase activates the Ouroboros Peras consensus protocol via separate hard fork targeting Q2 2027. Linear Leios introduces an endorsement block mechanism certified by stake pools to boost throughput while preserving the existing Pr

Roman Storm, founder of Tornado Cash, called out Google and OpenAI as enablers following his August 2025 conviction for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. Storm argued that the U.S. Department of Justice applied flawed logic in his case, pointing to North Korean IT

According to Roman Storm's social media posts, the Tornado Cash founder—convicted of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business in August 2025—has challenged the U.S. Department of Justice's legal reasoning by pointing to Google and OpenAI as enablers of North Korea's cyber oper

According to PPP prediction market tool monitoring Polymarket, Jack Lawden's odds of being cast as the next James Bond dropped to 22% overnight, down 12% in 24 hours. The market event resolves "yes" if the listed actor is officially announced before December 31, 2026 (11:59 PM EST) as the next Bond,

Ethereum developers are currently reviewing 66 proposals as part of scoping the Hegotá upgrade, the network's next major protocol enhancement. The review process aims to narrow down proposals for inclusion, with several focused on integrating privacy capabilities into the Ethereum protocol. FOCIL cu

According to Ethereum Foundation contributor Toni Wahrstätter, Ethereum developers are reviewing 66 proposals on Sunday to narrow them down for the Hegotá upgrade, the next major Ethereum upgrade scheduled for 2027. FOCIL, which seeks to improve censorship resistance through validator-enforced