Crypto News. August 14, 2026
Sharplink is staking $200M of ETH through Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum
Ethereum Foundation is abandoning the Poseidon hash function after 8 years, pivoting to SHA and BLAKE after binary-field SNARK breakthroughs matched its performance
Tether completed its largest inaugural audit in history, with KPMG US issuing an unqualified opinion on its 2025 financials
Bullish executed the first tokenized equity trades on a regulated exchange, tokenizing its own BLSH stock on Solana with near-instant, 24/7 stablecoin-settled trading
Binance bStocks overtook xStocks as the second-largest tokenized stock issuer at $610.6M, behind Ondo’s roughly $927M
Metaplanet issued $1.25M in Bitbonds via private placement, offering 4-4.3% annual interest to fund more BTC purchases
Bitwise launched a Bitcoin covered-call strategy for Lombard Finance
EtherFi Cash moved its credit backend to a dedicated Aave V4 instance on Optimism
EtherFi launched the next generation of its crypto neobank with tokenized stock and metals trading, an Aave market for borrowing at ~4%, 30+ new fiat on/off-ramps, new payment methods, and programmatic ETHFI buybacks
OranjeBTC launched DIGY11, a B3-listed ETF bringing STRC and Digital Credit to Brazil with monthly BRL distributions and daily liquidity
Trezor disclosed a shipping provider breach exposing full names, emails, phones and addresses for about 11,742 customers, though wallet keys and systems weren’t compromised
Standard Chartered clients in Dubai’s DIFC can now mint and redeem USDC through their existing bank accounts
A USENIX Security 26 study identified over 65,000 high-risk crypto addresses linked to $574.8M in losses across Ethereum and BNB Chain
A Bitcoin Red Team researcher said two weeks of scanning with Kimi K3 uncovered numerous critical vulnerabilities across Bitcoin open-source projects
Riot Platforms sold 4,300 BTC to fund operations and data center expansion, now holding 11,380 BTC
Coinbase-owned Deribit secured a broker-dealer license from Dubai’s VARA, letting spot orders route to Coinbase Exchange for deeper liquidity
UK FCA and HTX are in settlement talks over alleged illegal crypto promotions, with London’s High Court pausing proceedings until late August
Hyperliquid opened its low-latency data nodes to infrastructure providers at under $1,000/month, down from requiring a 10,000 HYPE stake
South Korea is tightening transfer rules to offshore exchanges after Bybit, MEXC and HTX apps were pulled from Google Play
Neutrl paused minting, redemptions, and all other protocol functions after an issue affecting protocol reserves, acting on legal counsel’s advice while impact is assessed
