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Zcash has suddenly become one of the crypto market’s strongest performers. ZEC climbed more than 70% over the past week and briefly reached $888 on August 25, its highest level in roughly eight years, before pulling back toward the mid-$800 range. The rally has arrived just as the Zcash NU7 vote opens, putting renewed attention on proposals involving ZEC issuance, faster block times and the scope of the network’s next upgrade.

USDT has crossed the $180 billion market-cap threshold, but the bigger story may be where that supply is being used. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says developing economies are increasingly relying on USDT for domestic and cross-border commerce, particularly where access to U.S. dollars is constrained or local currencies are unstable. Recent data from Venezuela offers a striking example of how large that activity has become.

BitGo has secured an important foothold in one of Asia’s largest cryptocurrency markets after BitGo Korea received Virtual Asset Service Provider registration from South Korea’s Korea Financial Intelligence Unit. The BitGo Korea VASP registration allows the company’s local entity to provide virtual-asset custody and transfer services to institutional and enterprise clients under South Korea’s regulated framework

The Bitcoin rally accelerated again as BTC climbed to $73,546.77 while Ether traded at $2,336.17, extending a broad rebound across the cryptocurrency market. The move came as several catalysts converged: the U.S. Treasury announced larger liquidity-support buybacks for longer-dated government bonds, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a new framework for crypto-asset offerings, spot Bitcoin ETF demand strengthened, and leveraged short positions were forced out as prices moved higher

Franklin Templeton is taking tokenization beyond the idea of simply putting traditional funds on a blockchain. The asset manager is exploring how Franklin Templeton tokenized assets could be used inside conventional mutual funds and ETFs for purposes such as cash management and securities-lending collateral. The development follows an August 12, 2026 no-action letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management concerning the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is working toward a November milestone for final GENIUS Act rules, according to Comptroller Jonathan Gould. The timetable is significant for the stablecoin industry because implementation details will determine how a statutory framework translates into licensing, reserve management, redemption, compliance and supervisory requirements for payment stablecoin issuers.

The latest Fed meeting minutes have forced crypto investors to reassess a rate narrative that had increasingly focused on the possibility of future easing. Minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's July 28–29, 2026 meeting, released on August 19, showed a more complicated policy debate. The Federal Reserve kept the federal funds target range at 3.50%–3.75%, but several participants supported a 25-basis-point increase and many indicated that additional policy tightening could become appropriate if inflation failed to move lower

Grayscale Investments has advanced its effort to move the Grayscale Zcash Trust toward an exchange-listed structure, filing Amendment No. 4 to its Form S-3 registration statement on August 18, 2026. The filing states that the trust intends to list its shares on NYSE Arca under the ticker ZCSH. That language is important: the proposed listing should not be described as already approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The MemeCore ZeroStack deal puts a new twist on the crypto-treasury model by combining a meme-focused blockchain asset with equity in a Nasdaq-listed company. ZeroStack announced on August 19, 2026 that Puple AI Inc. and Blockcat Pte. Ltd. had entered into a definitive transaction involving 925,925,926 M tokens valued at $1.08 each, giving the contributed digital assets an announced value of approximately US$1.0 billion. In return, the counterparties are to receive 3,500,000 shares of ZeroStack common stock and pre-funded warrants covering up to 36,198,293 additional shares, using US$25.19 per share as the transaction valuation

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has proposed guidance explaining when certain stablecoins may qualify as cash equivalents under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. The proposal reported on August 19 does not automatically classify every dollar-pegged token as cash. Instead, it would add illustrative examples to Topic 230, Statement of Cash Flows, showing how the existing definition of a cash equivalent may apply to digital assets with specific economic and legal characteristics