The Senate pushed the CLARITY Act vote past its summer recess, leaving crypto's market-structure bill stalled for weeks and giving opponents like Elizabeth Warren more room to organize.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/senate-delays-clarity-act-vote-summer-recess-august-2026/

PowerCompute pledged 307 BTC against $18M in debt with no margin calls until September 2. Here is how the structure works and where the liquidation line sits.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/powercompute-18-million-bitcoin-loan-zero-margin-september-2026/

Uphold's new Exa Credit Card lets US users borrow against XRP collateral via Exactly Protocol and pick a payment plan. Live in select states. Here is what changes for cardholders.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uphold-exa-credit-card-xrp-collateral-us-august-2026/

Bitcoin's upside implied volatility fell to a record 23%, per Glassnode. Traders have stopped pricing in a rally with BTC stuck near $64,400 in August 2026.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-implied-volatility-record-low-23-percent-august-2026/

Attackers behind the Coldcard firmware exploit sent 64 BTC and 200 ETH into Wasabi and Tornado Cash this week, laundering about $4.55M of a $100M haul.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coldcard-hackers-launder-64-btc-200-eth-mixers-august-2026/

The Ethereum Foundation's Trillion Dollar Security initiative funded WEBCAT, a tool that lets browsers check a site's code matches what developers published.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ethereum-foundation-webcat-browser-code-verification-august-2026/

S&P Global Ratings assigned BlackRock's tokenized money market fund BRSRV its highest AAAm principal stability rating, a first for an on-chain fund at this tier.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/blackrock-brsrv-tokenized-fund-sp-global-aaam-rating-august-2026/

Robinhood Chain's total value locked reached $774 million as ecosystem token CASHCAT gained 120% in a week, pushing the new layer-2 up the multi-chain rankings.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/robinhood-chain-774m-tvl-cashcat-surges-120-august-2026/

BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes bought 10.9M ENA worth $985K, pushing his total Ethena purchases to 22.64M tokens. Here is what the accumulation signals.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/arthur-hayes-985k-ena-purchase-ethena-conviction-august-2026/

Attackers used social-engineering phone calls to target Point72, Two Sigma, and Citadel, exposing the human layer that no firewall protects. What crypto holders should learn.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/wall-street-social-engineering-hack-point72-two-sigma-citadel-august-2026/