Crypto News. August 7, 2026
Robinhood listed CashCat
Maple selected Ethena’s USDtb as a core holding in its USD liquidity buffer alongside syrupUSDC and syrupUSDT
MetaMask’s Agent Wallet went live, letting AI agents execute onchain actions within user-defined rules
Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman’s mother is suing in Delaware to seize company control and remove CEO Ian De Bode, alleging he took the role without board approval
Optimism Foundation projects ~343M OP entering circulation over the next year, pushing circulating supply to 2.504B OP (58.3% of total supply).
Circle renewed its USDC partnership with Coinbase on existing terms and ruled out quarterly dividends, per CFO Jeremy Fox-Geen.
Uniswap Labs launched Pools[.]trade, a token launchpad for Robinhood Chain
Wintermute plans to trade commodities, crypto ETFs, and tokenized stocks pending regulatory approval,
Aztec is bringing private x402 agentic payments via Galactica, with fully private sender, recipient, and amount.
Base app will become less Base-centric under Cobie’s leadership as it expands into a multi-chain trading platform, per Jesse Pollak.
Hong Kong Monetary Authority said there’s no fixed timeline for its second batch of stablecoin licenses, despite rumors of an early October rollout
Japanese stablecoin firm JPYC raised additional funding on top of its Series B, bringing total to 6 billion yen ($38M)
Bitwise’s HYPE ETF redeposited and staked 10,948 HYPE (~$615K).
Plume joined the DTCC’s Digital Assets Solutions Industry Working Group alongside Charles Schwab, Nasdaq, and Alpaca
Grayscale’s Smart Contract Fund rebalanced, with BNB now the top holding at 30.6%, ahead of ETH at 29.47% and SOL at 29.15%.
Coinbase launched 24/5 US stock trading for UK users, offering nearly 4,000 stocks with zero-commission and fractional trading.
Hyperliquid’s Q2 report showed HIP-3 RWA perpetual contracts’ trading share rose from 1.8% to 32.2%, with quarterly volume hitting $213B and Q2 revenue around $169M ($141M used for buybacks, pushing cumulative revenue past $1B).
Circle launches an agent service discovery layer, letting agents find and pay for services with USDC and x402
