August 11, 2026|Web3 Crypto Highlights
1. The U.S. SEC plans to initiate rulemaking for its first crypto asset issuance
2. BTCPay sets three BTC bounties for stolen funds from a critical vulnerability
3. Coinsbuy suffers a coordinated cross-chain attack, losing about $8 million
4. Ethereum’s new roadmap lists privacy and post-quantum resilience as core priorities
5. Riot signs a nine-billion-and-one-hundred-million USD AI data center lease
6. Broadridge’s on-chain share buyback platform processed $800 billion in July
7. Strategy re-sells 1,690 BTC and expands its USD reserves
8. The UK FCA plans to include tokenized gold in its formal regulatory framework
9. Grayscale withdraws its spot ETF plans for ADA, DOT, and HBAR
10. The Bitcoin BIP-110 forked chain is more than 300 blocks behind the main chain
11. Trump Media’s crypto asset losses reach $361 million
12. BitMine slows its Ethereum accumulation and shifts to stock buybacks
13. U.S. miner Keel shuts down its Bitcoin business and fully pivots to AI
14. Robinhood launches an AI app in the UK with integrated crypto trading
15. Jupiter launches Lend V2 and integrates liquidity from trading routing
16. Solstice launches an STRC structured yield product on Solana
17. Solana on-chain stablecoin supply rises to $16.7 billion
18. Hyperliquid’s real-world asset perpetual contracts’ open interest hits a new high
19. CME leverage funds shift from structured short positions to net long Bitcoin
20. The number of large Bitcoin addresses rises to a nearly six-month high