Crypto News. August 13, 2026
CFTC invoked emergency authority to keep Kalshi operating after New York’s AG sought to halt its event contracts nationwide and sought over $36B in damages.
Harmony was exploited via an empty block bug, with the attacker minting 4B ONE tokens (26% of supply) and moving 2.8B to exchanges before the team froze funds and moved to explore a rollback.
Kalshi’s live order book is now available to DoubleZero Edge subscribers across its most-traded sports and crypto perpetual markets.
Solana came within reach of a full network halt after a routing failure at infra provider Teraswitch pushed 28.83% of staked SOL delinquent; traffic was restored in 33 minutes, with 90 validators losing a combined 333 SOL in rewards.
Boltz suspended service August 3rd after repeated AI-assisted attacks; all founders have stepped down and a new team of veteran Bitcoiners is taking over to fix vulnerabilities and relaunch swaps.
Fidelity ($7T AUM) will enable staking and quarterly cash payouts for its spot Ethereum ETF.
Uniswap Labs renounced creator fees from internal Pools.trade test tokens, routing all past and future fees into an automated buy-and-burn contract
Hyperliquid is seeking a compliant path to offer perpetual contracts to US users.
OCC said crypto companies should be able to apply for US bank charters, opening a path to the national banking system.
Zcash Labs launched as an independent org focused on Zcash integrations for businesses/institutions, infrastructure, and funding adoption projects
Hyperliquid plans to add a HIP-1 scaleWei function enabling proportional token distribution and redenomination
Coinbase launched a new matching engine on Deribit capable of over 100k orders/second with sub-millisecond latency
Strategy CEO Phong Le said the company will resume BTC purchases later this year
Strategy launched a public BTC Credit model showing credit spreads, undercollateralization risk, and BTC floor prices across its $53.5B in reserves and $21.95B in debt/preferred stock.
SEC cleared Franklin Templeton’s onchain money market fund FOBXX for use in registered funds.
Trump is considering indexing capital gains to inflation, which would cut taxable crypto gains for long-term BTC and ETH holders.
Goldman Sachs will gain three bitcoin and ether income ETFs via its up-to-$2.25B acquisition of Neos Investments, expected to close Q1 2027.
ASIC took down Yepbit’s websites and warned users after investors reported being unable to withdraw funds; Yepbit falsely claimed ASIC had frozen investor funds, which ASIC denies.
Metaplanet moved 3,881 BTC ($247M) to various wallets Tuesday; it held 43,000 BTC at an average cost of $95,982 as of end of Q2.
Bitwise cut 14% of staff amid the bear market, trimming headcount from ~180 to ~155.
Blockworks launched a new Uniswap dashboard.
