NYSE President Lynn Martin says the exchange is developing native onchain settlement for tokenized securities, a structural shift for how US markets clear trades.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/nyse-onchain-settlement-tokenized-securities-august-2026/

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says passing the CLARITY Act is a national security matter, reframing US crypto rules as a contest over dollar stablecoins.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/esper-clarity-act-national-security-priority-august-2026/

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial received $100M from Guren 'Bobby' Zhou, a businessman under money-laundering investigation, per a New York Times report.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/world-liberty-financial-100m-money-laundering-suspect-august-2026/

The CLARITY Act has stalled again in the Senate, and the resistance is coming from community bankers worried about deposits, not the usual crypto skeptics.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/community-bankers-block-clarity-act-crypto-lobby-august-2026/

Grayscale withdrew S-1 registrations for its Cardano, Hedera and Polkadot spot ETFs on August 7, 2026, filing all three Form RW requests within minutes.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/grayscale-withdraws-cardano-hedera-polkadot-etf-registrations-august-2026/

Hardware wallet sales in Russia jumped 107% as users move to self-custody ahead of a new crypto law, per Cointelegraph. Regulation is pushing coins off exchanges.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/russia-cold-wallet-sales-107-percent-putin-crypto-law-august-2026/

BlackRock, Circle, and Franklin Templeton hold $7.23B in tokenized funds, but only $49.7M (0.69%) has reached DeFi. Q2 2026's record 99 hacks help explain why.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/wall-street-7b-tokenized-funds-defi-under-1-percent-august-2026/

Empery offloaded 1,635 BTC for $102.2M in just over a month, cutting its unrestricted Bitcoin to 325 coins and testing the limits of the never-sell treasury model.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/empery-sells-1635-btc-never-sell-model-cracks-august-2026/

More than 100 crypto projects have shut down in 2026 in a dot-com-style washout. Here is what the failures mean for anyone holding funds on a platform.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/crypto-dotcom-shakeout-100-projects-fold-2026/

BTCPay Server cut off remote Lightning access after attackers exploited a vulnerability to drain funds from LND nodes. Here is what merchants need to check now.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/btcpay-restricts-remote-lightning-lnd-vulnerability-august-2026/