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A Gulf investment group tied to a $500 million World Liberty commitment has acquired a near-majority stake in a new crypto banking venture connected to the Trump family, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The fintech's euro-pegged token reaches a test group within its 75 million-user app as European regulators detail how a digital euro would protect user privacy Revolut has started rolling out EURR, its euro-denominated stablecoin, to users inside its banking app.

Crypto.com-linked network's validators paused the chain following an attack on its largest lending platform. The Cronos blockchain stopped processing transactions on August 30 after an apparent attack on Tectonic, its largest lending protocol. Validators moved to halt the chain in what several reports describe as an emergency measure.

Russia's largest bank says a new legal market limited to Bitcoin, Ether and USDT could handle tens of billions in trading within twelve months Sberbank has projected that Russia's first year of regulated cryptocurrency trading could reach $46 billion in volume.

A separate report traces a wider $96 million transfer pattern, reviving scrutiny of Binance's role in USD1 activity. A wallet secured through Fireblocks' custody infrastructure moved $30 million in USD1 to Binance, crypto.news reported.

The trading platform's blockchain generated $2.66 million in daily app revenue, edging out two established networks. Robinhood Chain generated $2.66 million in app revenue over a single 24-hour period, according to data cited by multiple outlets covering the crypto sector.

The exchange's blockchain network processed 5.5 million transactions in a single day, its busiest since launch. Robinhood Chain logged its highest single-day activity since launch on August 31, 2026. The network processed $874.8 million in decentralized exchange volume within 24 hours. It also handled 5.5 million transactions over the same period, according to Cryptopolitan.

Paolo Ardoino pushes back against the Bank for International Settlements as it raises concerns about stablecoin risks. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has publicly criticized the Bank for International Settlements over its push for tokenized bank deposits. The comments were reported separately by Bitcoin.com News and crypto.news on August 31, 2026.

Security firm Blockaid identified the drain of a lending reserve tied to wrapped FLOW tokens on the Flow EVM network. More Markets, a decentralized lending protocol operating on Flow EVM, suffered a $9.3 million exploit targeting one of its lending reserves.

The new platform lets users see how the same election question is priced differently across competing prediction venues. Predictions.io has introduced a free comparison tool built to track how prediction markets price the same election outcome differently. The platform pulls odds for identical questions from multiple venues and displays them side by side.

The best-supported overnight story is a custody firm buying a trading desk, not a new platform launch, and the publisher counts say so. The best-supported overnight story is a custody firm buying a trading desk, not a new platform launch, and the publisher counts say so.

Cryptopolitan and Cointelegraph agree on how The Sandbox's bridge was exploited and on its 1:1 compensation plan, but give different dollar values for the same ~14.74 million SAND withdrawn from the Ethereum vault. Cryptopolitan and Cointelegraph agree on how The Sandbox's bridge was exploited and on its 1:1 compensation plan, but give different dollar values…

South Korea's Upbit operator and the global payments network are exploring joint work in stablecoin settlement and artificial intelligence. Dunamu, the company behind South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, has entered a partnership with Visa. The collaboration focuses on stablecoin-based payments and artificial intelligence business lines, according to reports from The Block and crypto.news.

The new version of the lending protocol saw deposits jump sharply over the past week, according to on-chain data. Deposits locked in Aave V4 have reached $806 million, according to figures reported by CryptoBriefing and crypto.news.

The two banking regulators have tightened the standard used to justify supervisory action against banks. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have completed a joint rule that redefines what counts as an 'unsafe or unsound practice' in bank supervision.

The company behind XRP is reportedly building out services that could include stock and index trading for institutional clients. Ripple is reportedly preparing a new institutional trading business aimed at traditional finance clients. Two reports published on August 27 described the move differently but pointed to the same underlying shift.

The investment arm formerly known as Binance Labs backs a protocol aiming to bring fixed-income products on-chain. YZi Labs has announced its support for TermMax, a protocol building infrastructure for on-chain bond markets. The backing was reported across multiple crypto news outlets on August 27, 2026.

The prime brokerage arm of Ripple is rolling out a cross-asset Delta One business aimed at institutional clients. Ripple Prime has expanded its institutional services to include US equity derivatives through a new Delta One business, according to reports published on August 27, 2026.