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The Financial Times reports Beijing has softened restrictions on advanced Nvidia hardware for two of its largest tech firms. China has reportedly eased restrictions on Nvidia's H200 chips for ByteDance and Tencent, according to a report from the Financial Times cited by CryptoBriefing.

The exchange's 2026 security report credits new defenses with intercepting threats following last year's $1.46 billion breach Bybit has disclosed that security measures put in place following a major hack have prevented approximately $700 million in potential losses.

The exchange's latest disclosure shows bitcoin reserves rising 2.55% while ether and USDT balances decline. Binance has published an updated Proof of Reserves report showing that bitcoin held on behalf of users climbed to 657,000 BTC. The increase represents a 2.55% rise, according to figures cited by Coinpedia and The Cryptonomist.

The former BitMEX chief is putting his name behind a new venture focused on the AI agent economy. Arthur Hayes, the former BitMEX chief executive turned crypto commentator and investor, has emerged as the public face of a new venture called Flop Labs.

The integration gives millions of Bitcoin.com wallet users access to a stablecoin regulated by the UAE's central bank. Bitcoin.com has added USDU to its wallet platform, giving its user base direct access to a stablecoin registered with the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates.

Tenev says tokenizing real-world assets is the most practical route to modernizing US finance as Robinhood rolls out its own blockchain network Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has forecast what he calls a global tokenization supercycle, according to CryptoBriefing.

The state-backed stablecoin drops its prior cross-chain protocol in favor of Chainlink following an audit of its infrastructure. Wyoming has completed a migration of its state-issued Frontier Stable Token to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, known as CCIP. The change was reported by CryptoBriefing and crypto.news on August 18 and 19, 2026, respectively.

The cross-chain protocol paused operations following reports of a breach worth an estimated $1.7 million. MAYAChain, a decentralized cross-chain liquidity network, halted operations on August 19 after suffering an exploit estimated at $1.7 million. The move was reported by Cointelegraph and crypto.news within roughly an hour of each other.

The asset manager attributes the crash to excess leverage, not a failure of Bitcoin's investment case. Bitcoin has lost half its value from recent peak levels, a decline severe enough to test the conviction of even its largest institutional backers.

Read together, this week's filings show regulators writing crypto rules on their own paper, not waiting for a bill that is stuck in the Senate. Read together, this week's filings show regulators writing crypto rules on their own paper, not waiting for a bill that is stuck in the Senate.

The crypto market structure bill is stuck in what the executive calls 'August recess purgatory,' with midterm elections looming. The Solana Policy Institute's chief executive has offered a blunt assessment of the Clarity Act's prospects. He said the bill is sitting in what he called August recess purgatory.

The prediction market platform is asking regulators to greenlight perpetual contracts tied to the US500 index and copper prices. Kalshi has submitted a filing to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission seeking approval to list perpetual futures contracts.

Crypto derivative markets flagged a valuation four times Unitree's $9B IPO price, but the actual stock opening outran even that forecast. Unitree, a robotics company known for humanoid machines, priced its initial public offering at roughly $9 billion.

The joint petition seeks a formal regulatory framework covering derivatives tied to private company valuations before they go public. The Hyperliquid Policy Center and trade[XYZ] have petitioned the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to create a formal framework for pre-IPO perpetual contracts.

The US accounting standard-setter has outlined conditions under which certain stablecoins could be classified as cash equivalents on corporate balance sheets. The Financial Accounting Standards Board, the body that sets US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, has proposed new guidance addressing how stablecoins should be classified on corporate financial statements.

A semiconductor-led selloff weighed on major Asian indices, with Samsung and SK Hynix among the hardest hit names. Asian equities dropped in trading as a semiconductor-focused selloff spread across the region. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, two of South Korea's largest chipmakers, were among the companies most affected, according to CryptoBriefing.

A steep selloff in chip shares and rising borrowing costs pressured Japan's benchmark index, according to a report from CryptoBriefing. Japan's Nikkei 225 index dropped 2.5% in a session marked by heavy selling in chip-related shares, according to a report from CryptoBriefing.

CryptoBriefing and Coinfomania both report $18.3M in SPYx deposits across DeFi, but they disagree sharply on how much of that sits on Morpho and which venue leads. CryptoBriefing and Coinfomania both report $18.3M in SPYx deposits across DeFi, but they disagree sharply on how much of that sits on Morpho and which venue leads.