News hub  /  Cryptocurrency  /  Issue 33  ·  10 Aug 2026 — 16 Aug 2026

The Cryptocurrency week,distilled.

A source-linked briefing covering the key events, funding, product launches and market signals shaping cryptocurrency this week.

32 distinct cryptocurrency events were reported this week by 8 publishers. The sections below group them by what kind of event they were.

Inside this briefing
32Articles analysed
24Events listed
12Figures listed
8Publishers cited

What changed in cryptocurrency regulation and policy this week?

Government decisions, new rules and policy shifts reported this week.

7 events
Regulation and policy
01

Banking lobbyists, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., have successfully stalled the U.S. Senate's Digital Asset Market Clarity Act by arguing that stablecoin yield offerings threaten traditional bank deposits and lending.

Read at coindesk.com ↗
Regulation and policy
02

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted preliminary conditional approval for a federal bank charter to World Liberty Trust Co. on Friday, August 14, 2026.

Read at coindesk.com ↗
Regulation and policy
03

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cancelled an open meeting scheduled for August 14, 2026, where it intended to propose 'Regulation Crypto'.

Read at unchainedcrypto.com ↗
Regulation and policy
04

Cboe Global Markets has filed a request with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list the first 3x leveraged bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States.

Read at theblock.co ↗
Regulation and policy
05

Binance announced it will cease processing transactions from 16 cryptocurrency exchanges, including HTX and five previously restricted platforms.

Read at theblock.co ↗
Regulation and policy
06

Index provider MSCI has launched a consultation to potentially exclude 'non-operating companies' from its Global Investable Market Indexes.

Read at coindesk.com ↗
Regulation and policyreported 15 Aug
07

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted preliminary conditional approval to World Liberty Trust Company, a Florida-based national trust bank linked to the Trump family's World Liberty Financial.

Read at decrypt.co ↗

What funding rounds and acquisitions happened in cryptocurrency this week?

The week’s notable investments, financing rounds, acquisitions and strategic deals.

1 event
Funding and M&A
08

World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, has delayed the planned sale of a token linked to a resort in the Maldives.

Read at coindesk.com ↗

What products launched in cryptocurrency this week?

Notable product launches, releases and platform updates from the week.

2 events
Product launches
09

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has initiated a proof-of-concept trial to move Japanese Government Bond (JGB) repo transactions onto the Canton Network blockchain.

Read at finextra.com ↗
Product launches
10

Chime Financial is exploring the integration of stablecoin wallet services into its consumer application.

Read at paymentsjournal.com ↗

What financial results were reported in cryptocurrency this week?

Earnings, guidance and other financial results reported this week.

5 of 8 events
Financial resultsdue 17 Aug 2026
11

Chinese robotics company Unitree is preparing for an IPO on the Shanghai STAR Market, priced at $22.37 per share with a $9 billion valuation.

Read at coindesk.com ↗
Financial results
12

StablecoinX, an Ethena treasury company, saw its share price increase by 12% on August 14, 2026.

Read at theblock.co ↗
Financial results
13

Miami-based digital asset treasury company SharpLink announced on August 14, 2026, that it will stake $200 million worth of Ethereum through the Lido liquid-staking protocol.

Read at decrypt.co ↗
Financial resultsreported 14 Aug
14

Tether International, S.A. de C.V. announced on August 14, 2026, that KPMG U.S. has issued an unqualified audit opinion on its 2025 financial statements.

Read at unchainedcrypto.com ↗
Financial resultsreported 15 Aug
15

Crypto startups raised $11.2 billion in the first half of 2026, with all funding directed toward regulated, permissioned businesses.

Read at coindesk.com ↗

5 of 8 financial results events are listed; the rest were ranked lower by importance and multi-source corroboration and are not shown.

What incidents and outages hit cryptocurrency this week?

Incidents, outages and safety events reported this week.

3 events
Incidents and safety
16

A data breach at the French tax authority, DGFiP, exposed records of 678,437 individuals and businesses.

Read at decrypt.co ↗
Incidents and safety
17

A tax breach in France has exposed the personal data of nearly 678,000 individuals.

Read at theblock.co ↗
Incidents and safetyreported 14 Aug
18

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor reported a data breach at its third-party fulfillment partner ShipMonk, which exposed the personal information of 13,689 customers.

Read at unchainedcrypto.com ↗

What partnerships were announced in cryptocurrency this week?

Partnerships, integrations and joint projects announced this week.

2 events
Partnerships
19

Bitwise is considering tokenizing its Solana staking ETF through a partnership with Superstate.

Read at theblock.co ↗
Partnershipsdue 01 Jan 2027
20

Bank Leumi, Israel's largest bank, plans to launch cryptocurrency trading for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana by early 2027.

Read at decrypt.co ↗

What else happened in cryptocurrency this week?

Developments from the week that fit none of the other sections.

4 of 7 events
Other developments
21

Perpetual futures now dominate crypto trading, yet centralized trading volume has reached a 31-month low as of August 2026.

Read at unchainedcrypto.com ↗
Other developmentsdue 19 Aug 2026
22

Donald Trump and CFTC Chair Christy Goldsmith Romero are expected to meet with cryptocurrency and prediction market executives at the White House on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.

Read at theblock.co ↗
Other developments
23

Chainalysis published a blog post on August 14, 2026, detailing their methodology for using machine learning in blockchain analytics.

Read at chainalysis.com ↗
Other developmentsdue 19 Aug 2026
24

President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend a meeting at the White House on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.

Read at bloomberg.com ↗

4 of 7 other developments events are listed; the rest were ranked lower by importance and multi-source corroboration and are not shown.

By the numbers

Which figures were reported in cryptocurrency this week?

The figures carried by the week’s reporting, each quoted exactly as its article stated it.

12 of 43 figures
FigureWhat the figure measuresSource
16

number of exchanges affected by transaction blocks

Binance announced it will cease processing transactions from 16 cryptocurrency exchanges, including HTX and five previously restricted platforms.

14 Aug

theblock.co ↗
$6.814B

excess reserves over liabilities

Tether International, S.A. de C.V. announced on August 14, 2026, that KPMG U.S. has issued an unqualified audit opinion on its 2025 financial statements.

13 Aug (reported 14 Aug)

unchainedcrypto.com ↗
$180B

USDT market capitalization

Tether International, S.A. de C.V. announced on August 14, 2026, that KPMG U.S. has issued an unqualified audit opinion on its 2025 financial statements.

13 Aug (reported 14 Aug)

unchainedcrypto.com ↗
678437

total records exposed

A data breach at the French tax authority, DGFiP, exposed records of 678,437 individuals and businesses.

14 Aug

decrypt.co ↗
392867

individuals affected

A data breach at the French tax authority, DGFiP, exposed records of 678,437 individuals and businesses.

14 Aug

decrypt.co ↗
285570

professionals affected

A data breach at the French tax authority, DGFiP, exposed records of 678,437 individuals and businesses.

14 Aug

decrypt.co ↗
$11.2B

total crypto funding in H1 2026

Crypto startups raised $11.2 billion in the first half of 2026, with all funding directed toward regulated, permissioned businesses.

01 Jan (reported 15 Aug)

coindesk.com ↗
377

total financing rounds

Crypto startups raised $11.2 billion in the first half of 2026, with all funding directed toward regulated, permissioned businesses.

01 Jan (reported 15 Aug)

coindesk.com ↗
$3.7B

funding for payments and stablecoins

Crypto startups raised $11.2 billion in the first half of 2026, with all funding directed toward regulated, permissioned businesses.

01 Jan (reported 15 Aug)

coindesk.com ↗
13689

total customers affected by the breach

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor reported a data breach at its third-party fulfillment partner ShipMonk, which exposed the personal information of 13,689 customers.

10 Aug (reported 14 Aug)

unchainedcrypto.com ↗
678000people

people exposed in tax breach

A tax breach in France has exposed the personal data of nearly 678,000 individuals.

14 Aug

theblock.co ↗
2:30 p.m. ET

meeting start time

Donald Trump and CFTC Chair Christy Goldsmith Romero are expected to meet with cryptocurrency and prediction market executives at the White House on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.

15 Aug — due 19 Aug 2026

theblock.co ↗

12 of 43 figures reported by the events above are listed; the rest were ranked lower by the importance of their event and are not shown.

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Methodology

How this page was built

Dailyn’s analysis engine processes everything its monitored sources published this week: it deduplicates overlapping coverage, clusters reporting into distinct dated events, extracts the companies, deals and figures involved, and ranks the results by significance, corroboration and recency.

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Articles ingested

Everything Dailyn’s monitored sources published across the seven-day window.

929

Screened as relevant

The engine filters out off-topic and low-quality reporting.

32

Matched to this sector

Articles the engine tagged with this industry inside the window.

32

Clustered into events

Overlapping coverage deduplicated into single, dated events.

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Listed in this briefing

What this issue prints: the highest-ranked events, within each section's limit.

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Briefing published

Events ranked by significance, corroboration and recency.

Every line on this page is a fact taken verbatim from a single dated article, with that article linked in the same row. Nothing on this page is written or inferred beyond the article set.

Duplicate reports of the same event are collapsed to one entry; the corroborating-source count says how many outlets carried it.

Dates are publication dates. Where an article states a different date for the event itself, that date is shown first and the publication date in brackets. A date the article gives for something still to come is shown as "due".

Every event stays linked to the reporting it was built from.

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