2026/8/16

Today's Newsletter

📰 News
• The SEC canceled Friday's Regulation Crypto meeting
• Trump family's World Liberty Financial gets preliminary OCC nod for a bank charter
• Norway's sovereign wealth fund hit a record 11,549 BTC in indirect Bitcoin exposure (~$725M) in H1 2026, up 21.2%
• JPMorgan Ended Its Banking Relationship With Polymarket Last Year Over Regulatory Concerns
• Tether completes largest first-ever financial audit
• @yzilabs opens applications for EASY Residency Season 5, a 10-week Thailand accelerator for AI and crypto startups
• @Binance blocks transactions with 16 platforms including HTX and EXMO from August 23
• US government urges Apple to stop buying memory chips from China

👍 Good Reads
• @cchungccc - Chung Research Note #10 - Taste is liquidity in TCG
• @Flowslikeosmo - THE LIST: 72 Crypto Research, Analytics, Trading, and Onchain Investigation Tools Worth Using
• @EricNewcomer - Prediction Markets Are a Bad Bet

🔔 New Protocols
• @vimenprotocol
• @realProdigyCorp

💰 Crypto Fundraising
• @blox_malaysia (Payments) - 1m Seed

💵 Airdrops
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🖥 Videos & Podcasts
• @theallinpod - Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
• @_choppingblock - threadguy on Crypto's Social Trading War

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