Ethena price extended its weekly gain to about 65% on Aug. 21, reaching $0.142 after a $1 billion lending deal with FalconX and bullish calls from Arthur Hayes fueled demand for ENA. Summary Ethena price gained about 65% in seven days and reached an intraday high near $0.145. A $1 billion FalconX facility will fund
Nomura-backed Laser Digital has become Japan’s first newly registered crypto asset exchange service provider in about four years, securing approval as the country prepares to move digital assets under a financial-instruments framework. Summary Laser Digital has become Japan’s first newly registered crypto asset exchange service provider in about four years. The Nomura-backed firm will initially
Closed versus Open Source code has divided the Bitcoin and broader crypto industry for well over a decade. Bitcoin advocates have long argued that the financial infrastructure of the world should be built in public. Transparency and auditability, they say, are non-negotiable when real money is at stake. Yet the app and legacy layers of
Binance has continued opening and verifying new European customer accounts more than seven weeks after the European Union’s July 1 MiCA licensing deadline, despite remaining absent from the bloc’s register of authorized crypto providers. Summary Binance is still opening and verifying some new EU accounts more than seven weeks after the July 1 MiCA deadline.
Nexo launches regulated crypto-backed Credit Lines for eligible Australians. Users can borrow AUD or stablecoins without selling crypto collateral. Nexo adds Growth and Booster products to its Australian platform. Nexo has expanded its Australian operations after securing lending authorization, allowing eligible clients to borrow against digital assets without selling their holdings. The move gives Australian
Tron founder Justin Sun secured a partial procedural victory in his lawsuit against World Liberty Financial on Aug. 20, according to his account of a California federal court hearing. Summary Justin Sun said his individual claims against World Liberty will remain before a federal court. World Liberty moved to compel arbitration and stay the California
XRP trades near $1.00, roughly flat over the past 24 hours. That muted XRP price action matters because it comes days after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new framework called Regulation Crypto Assets, which would give token issuers a written route to raise money legally and, eventually, exit securities treatment entirely.
The Royal Government of Bhutan has moved 490.87 Bitcoin worth about $32.74 million to fresh wallets over the past 24 hours, extending a series of large BTC transfers from state-linked addresses in 2026. Summary Bhutan transferred 490.87 BTC worth about $32.74 million to fresh wallets over the past day. The largest transaction involved 485 BTC
Clearpool and Cicada Partners are building an institutional lending product using RLUSD, though the XRP Ledger features underpinning it are still awaiting activation. Source link
MANTRA Chain halted its network on Aug. 21 while investigating an unidentified incident, freezing transactions and preventing assets from moving across the RWA focused Layer 1 blockchain. Summary MANTRA Chain halted validators, public endpoints, bridges and managed relays while investigating an unidentified incident. The halt prevents transactions from processing, leaving assets currently unable to move
