Senators Thom Tillis and Ruben Gallego crafted a bipartisan ethics compromise to move the CLARITY Act past the 60-vote Senate threshold before the August recess.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/senate-bipartisan-60-votes-clarity-act-august-2026/

US senators are urging the SEC to investigate the Trump meme coin after a 98% drop erased billions and pushed it out of the top 100 altcoins.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/senators-sec-probe-trump-meme-coin-98-percent-collapse-august-2026/

Dinari partnered with Circle to offer tokenized US stock trading to American investors, settling 724 companies onchain in USDC. Details and context here.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/dinari-tokenized-us-stocks-circle-usdc-august-2026/

Western Union, the 175-year-old remittance giant, has launched a Solana-based Stablecard spendable at 175 million Visa merchants. Here is what it means for crypto spending.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/western-union-solana-stablecard-visa-merchants-august-2026/

Italy's largest bank Intesa Sanpaolo slashed its IBIT position by 94% and tripled its staked Ethereum ETF holdings, a sharp rotation from BTC to yield-bearing ETH.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/intesa-sanpaolo-cuts-bitcoin-etf-triples-staked-ethereum-august-2026/

Mastercard completed its $1.8 billion BVNK acquisition on August 4, 2026, buying the stablecoin infrastructure that lets banks and fintechs settle in USDC and USDT.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/mastercard-bvnk-acquisition-stablecoin-august-2026/

Grant Cardone says Cardone Capital is bundling 350 BTC (about $22.3M) into a newly awarded Fort Lauderdale multifamily deal: 350 Class A units plus 350 coins in one purchase.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/grant-cardone-capital-350-btc-purchase-august-2026/

Tyler Williams, the Treasury's top digital asset adviser to Scott Bessent, has left the department during active CLARITY Act talks, per Punchbowl News.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/treasury-digital-asset-adviser-tyler-williams-exits-august-2026/

Apple removed Telegram from its App Store worldwide, cutting off the main channel crypto projects, traders, and TON users rely on. Here's what it means.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/telegram-removed-apple-app-store-august-2026/

An FBI agent is accused of taking about $1 million in crypto from a suspect's accounts, later confessing the theft was 'eating him up inside,' per court filings.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fbi-agent-accused-stealing-crypto-suspect-accounts-august-2026/