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Hyperliquid is increasing its engagement with US policymakers as it seeks a compliant route for American participation in onchain perpetual futures markets. The initiative comes after the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission began establishing a regulatory path for perpetual contracts, including its May 29, 2026 decision permitting a designated contract market to list a contract referencing the spot price of Bitcoin

Fidelity has filed an amended registration statement that would add Ethereum staking and quarterly cash distributions to the Fidelity Ethereum Fund, or FETH. The proposal covers a fund with approximately $898 million in net assets; it does not mean Fidelity has committed to staking $898 million of ETH

The eToro TradeZero acquisition is a proposed cash-and-stock transaction valued at up to $231 million. Announced on August 11, 2026, the agreement would give eToro control of a brokerage focused on active traders in the United States, Canada and international markets. The purchase consideration consists of cash and up to 2.5 million newly issued eToro Class A common shares, subject to customary adjustments.

The Twenty One Capital Q2 loss reached $413.5 million in the three months ended June 30, 2026, with approximately $401.5 million—or more than 97% of the total—stemming from a decline in the fair value of the company’s digital assets. The result reflects Twenty One Capital’s concentrated exposure to Bitcoin rather than an equivalent operating cash outflow or realized loss from selling its holdings

BlackRock Global Head of Digital Assets Robert Mitchnick said Bitcoin’s market sentiment had improved in a “clear but subtle” way as the asset began showing signs of separating from equities. His observation focused on relative performance: earlier in 2026, artificial-intelligence stocks rose while Bitcoin remained weak, but the direction reversed when AI-related equities declined and Bitcoin showed greater resilience in July.

Vitalik Buterin’s latest comparison of Ethereum’s 2023 roadmap with the current L1 Strawmap shows a meaningful change in protocol priorities. The network’s original goals have not been abandoned, but quantum resistance has moved forward, while native privacy, post-quantum scaling, native rollups and more formally verifiable specifications have gained prominence. Some earlier directions, including Verifiable Delay Functions and parts of the previous EVM roadmap, now receive less emphasis.

Pump.fun vs Fomo has become a test of whether competition among consumer-facing crypto applications can move onchain finance beyond its existing audience. Alliance co-founder Imran Khan argued on August 9, 2026, that the energy between the two platforms could help take onchain finance mainstream and expand the market by at least one order of magnitude. That statement represents an industry view, not a confirmed growth forecast.

The BIP-110 Bitcoin fork began at block 961,632 after nodes enforcing the proposal started rejecting blocks that did not signal support through version bit 4. This rule divergence produced a minority branch separate from the dominant Bitcoin chain, but the enforcing branch generated only blocks 961,632 and 961,633 before effectively stalling.

Wintermute USA has registered as a broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and become a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, creating a regulated foundation for the crypto-native trading firm to enter U.S. securities markets. The entity can use its own capital to trade stocks and options, provide liquidity to securities exchanges and over-the-counter counterparties, and participate in regulated activities involving digital asset securities and exchange-traded products.

Tether announced on August 6, 2026, that Hadron by Tether will support a strategic collaboration with First Advanced Data for Artificial Intelligence LLC, known as First Data, and BKN301 to develop institutional-grade tokenized real estate in Saudi Arabia.