The SEC just gave tokens a legal exit from being securities
SEC proposes Regulation Crypto Assets: a conditional safe harbor letting tokens exit securities status via Form TR.
Tether cleared its first-ever audit — $6.8B to spare
KPMG's first full audit of Tether found reserves exceeding liabilities by $6.814 billion as of Dec 31, 2025.
ETFs added $23B in assets. Only $2.6B was new money.
Spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs drew $2.6B for the week ended Aug 21; $23B AUM growth was mostly price gains.
Tokenized stocks hit $1.72B. Bybit made six loan collateral.
Bybit added six tokenized stocks — Nvidia, Tesla, Apple and more — as collateral for margin trading and crypto loans.
Tokenized stock volume set a record. QQQ itself fell 6.6%.
Tokenized stock volume hit a record in July 2026 as the underlying QQQ Trust fell 6.6%, CoinDesk Data reports.
One token made 82% of July's tokenized-stock volume record
Tokenized stock and ETF trading hit a record $11.3B in July 2026, with Binance's QQQB token alone generating $9.27B,
A European bank slashed Bitcoin ETF exposure by 94% in Q2
Intesa Sanpaolo's Q2 2026 13F: IBIT stake cut 94%, staked Ether ETF (ETHB) holdings tripled.
30 days can become 180 under the new CLARITY draft
How the CLARITY Act Senate draft changes enforcement tools as the 2026 voting window narrows.
53/100 says this is rotation, not altseason
Altcoin sector breakout analysis covering TOTAL2, Bitcoin dominance, Solana, AI, RWA, and DeFi rotation.
Japan's new #1 crypto exchange moves less than $50M a day
SBI's $289M Bitbank buyout creates Japan's largest crypto exchange with $6.8B AUC and 2.92M accounts.
$66M in DeFi TVL, 1B users incoming — GRAM's gap is the signal
Durov announces non-custodial Gram wallet for 1B Telegram users: zero fees, user-held private keys, GRAM network impact.
Morpho vaults power MetaMask's 4% yield — not mUSD itself
MetaMask Money Account on Monad: self-custodial mUSD earns up to 4% APY via Morpho vaults, with MetaMask Card spending.