KuCoin Pay rolled out a Gift Card letting businesses send USDT and USDC in bulk via API for rewards, payroll, and loyalty. What it means for stablecoin payments.

Nasdaq-listed SharpLink Gaming staked another 39,319 ETH, per Lookonchain, deepening a corporate bet on Ethereum as ETH trades near $2,424 on August 21, 2026.

Bitcoin trades near $77,600 as of August 21, 2026, up 21% since a Treasury buyback announcement revived the dollar-debasement trade. Glassnode data breaks it down.

US prosecutors added defendants to an Iran-linked hacking case, tying six to HBO's 2017 breach and a Bitcoin ransom demand that climbed to about $6 million.

Japan approved Laser Digital Japan for a crypto license, its first new grant in four years, clearing the Nomura-backed firm to supply liquidity to domestic providers.

Trump says CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring the $200B on-chain venue Hyperliquid onshore, forcing regulators to define a legal on-chain exchange.

Bitdeer AI has contracted roughly half its new Malaysia data center under a 5-year, ~$400M offtake deal and is targeting 350MW of AI cloud capacity by Q1 2028.

MANTRA Chain stopped block production and froze every transaction on August 21, 2026 after an unidentified incident, leaving OM holders locked out mid-rally.

The SEC cleared Franklin Templeton's ETFs and mutual funds to invest in its blockchain-based money market fund, a US first that folds tokenized assets into mainstream portfolios.

CFTC Commissioner Mike Selig says the agency will use existing authority to regulate crypto asset markets if the CLARITY Act stalls. Here is what that means.