Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Solana Ecosystem Roundup: August 2026
Solana’s August 2026 roundup: record transactions, $4B in RWAs, growing stablecoin payments, tokenized stocks, DeFi innovation, ETFs, and governance.
Crypto
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Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #421
This week’s newsletter describes an idea for pools to pay miners using silent payments in the coinbase transaction and summarizes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting older versions of Core Lightning. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals…
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Chainalysis Supports HyperEVM with Automatic Token Support
Chainalysis is excited to announce support for HyperEVM, the Ethereum-compatible smart contract environment on the Hyperliquid Layer 1. It enables… The post Chainalysis Supports HyperEVM with Automatic Token Support appeared first on Chainalysis.
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
FBI Seizes $560K in Crypto From Hamas Fundraising Network
Summary The U.S. Justice Department has seized $560,000 in cryptocurrency from Hamas-linked fundraising campaigns and shut down elements of the… The post FBI Seizes $560K in Crypto From Hamas Fundraising Network appeared first on Chainalysis.
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
The Token Supercycle: Everything of Value is Becoming Programmable
More than $4.7 trillion in stablecoins moved across Solana in the past year as tokenized markets expand access to ownership and finance.
Coin Center
Congress wants answers on agency surveillance of Americans’ bank accounts(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
On August 10, 2026, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representatives Warren Davidson (R-OH), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wrote a letter to the Acting Comptroller General for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Orice W. Brown, requesting “a comprehensive review of federal…
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Investing in Félix
A16z crypto is proud to lead Félix's Series C.
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Webinar Recap: Cross-Border Payments in Latin America
Jorge Borges, Head of Latin America at Fireblocks, and Antonio Neto of the Solana Foundation discussed how firms across LATAM are putting stablecoin payments into production.
Huntress
The Crypto Wallet That Never Opened: Tampered Exodus Installer Hides a Modular RAT
Exodus crypto wallet analysis by Huntress uncovered tampered installers hiding a modular RAT focused on stealing credentials, not coins.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #420 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Níckolas Goline, Optout, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, and Moonsettler to discuss Newsletter #420.
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
How Argentina uses stablecoins, in 5 charts
Stablecoins solved an urgent problem in Argentina. Then people kept using them.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #420
This week’s newsletter relays advance notice of a planned Core Lightning security release, summarizes a discussion about opt-in replay protection for potential future forks, notes that the Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI) project will enter maintenance mode, and describes a request for comments on…
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Coinbase Canada’s Eric Richmond thinks “all-encompassing” crypto regulation could lighten the load(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
New CEO plans to push for clearer rules as he brings more financial products to Canadians. The post Coinbase Canada’s Eric Richmond thinks “all-encompassing” crypto regulation could lighten the load first appeared on BetaKit.
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
What Blockchain Data Tell Us About $457+ Billion in Potentially Taxable Crypto Activity
Summary On-chain potentially taxable crypto activity around the world reached more than $457 billion in 2025, with the United States… The post What Blockchain Data Tell Us About $457+ Billion in Potentially Taxable Crypto Activity appeared first on Chainalysis.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #419 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier, Salvatore Ingala, and spacebear to discuss Newsletter #419.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Q2 Call Reports: How Are Evolve & Varo Faring?
Florida AG Sues Sweepstakes-Casino Payment Processors, Voters Distrust Crypto’s Political Influence
Coin Center
Comment of Coin Center to FinCEN and the Agencies on Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer Customer Identification Program(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
A direct download of this comment is available here. To whom it may concern: Coin Center is an independent nonprofit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Our mission is to build a better understanding of…
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #419
This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of a fixed reorg vulnerability in LND’s channel closes and describes a draft BIP for the rawtr() output script descriptor. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software and notable changes to popular…
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Raising machine-checked security benchmarks to advance hash-based SNARKs through agentic collaboration
better.codes, an open autoresearch challenge built by the Ethereum Foundation Formal Verification team in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity, is now live. better.codes takes a self-contained problem from the Proximity Prize research, formalized in Lean, and puts its soundness bound on a public…
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Interview: Agentic Finance, Partnering with Visa Direct & More with zerohash's Edward Woodford
Analyzing recent developments in stablecoins, tokenization, stablecoin spend cards, and more
Stripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng
Why global workers are driving demand for stablecoin payouts
Platforms like DoorDash, Meta, and Deel already enable stablecoin payouts for global workers. We surveyed 2,300 workers in 20 countries to see what's driving stablecoin demand, where the opportunity is highest, and how other platforms can adapt.
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement
SEC Proposes New Regulation Crypto Assets
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it proposed new rules, titled “Regulation Crypto Assets,” that would create a clear and fit-for-purpose framework for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets. This proposal follows…
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Allocation Update - Q2 2026
Q2 2026 carried forward our focus on advancing Ethereum’s resilience and capabilities, supporting key work in zero-knowledge proofs, client diversity, formal verification, and open-source tooling. See the list below of the projects and ecosystem efforts supported this quarter as builders build and…
AI Now Institute / CSET Georgetown
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies
CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by Reuters. The article examines how President Trump’s crypto-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with WorldClaw, an AI platform offering models from Chinese companies that the U.S. government has flagged for national…
Rapid7
Operation ASTERIX: Anatomy of a Crypto Fraud Pipeline
Operation ASTERIX overview Rapid7 researchers identified an exposed web directory on infrastructure used to support a cryptocurrency fraud operation. The server contained raw phone-number datasets, account-validation tools, enriched lead records, phishing panels, voice-dialing scripts, fake wallet…
LATAM: Contxto / Startupi / LAVCA
Qash and Banco R4 Launch the First Stablecoin Infrastructure for a Regulated Bank in Latin America(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
When banks close a door, someone else usually finds a way to open a window. That seems to be happening in northern South America: Qash, a fintech company, and Banco R4, a Venezuelan bank, have just announced that they are now operating a correspondent banking infrastructure built on stablecoins—or…
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
5 charts: How crypto cards are driving stablecoin spend
Stablecoins are increasingly being spent by card swipe. Crypto payment cards have gone from a novelty to more than $750 million in monthly spend. These cards let people pay with crypto anywhere traditional card networks are accepted. Behind the scenes, the crypto — stablecoins, overwhelmingly…
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Were Invented (ft. Co-Inventor and Turing Award Winner Shafi Goldwasser)
Turing Award winner Shafi Goldwasser tells the origin story of zero-knowledge proofs, from mental poker and interactive proofs to SNARKs, blockchain scaling, privacy, and verifiable AI.
Huntress
Mac Malware Drains Crypto Wallets Via Fake CAPTCHA Scam
A ClickFix scam tricked a Mac user into running a Terminal command that installed Go-based malware able to steal Keychain passwords and drain crypto wallets.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Fintech Recap: ALT5 Sigma, Increase & Fed Master Accounts
Listen now | Alex Johnson and I unpack the latest in banking, fintech & crypto