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Four MUFG-affiliated companies are partnering with Canton Network to pilot putting Japanese government bond repo transactions on-chain, aiming for 24/7 settlement.
Four MUFG-affiliated companies plan to put repurchase transactions of Japanese government bonds on-chain through Canton Network, as part of a new concept-proof pilot project.
According to a statement released on Thursday, four firms including MUFG, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking, and MUFG Bank will work with Digital Asset Holdings and Progmat to implement the project. The companies said the goal is to improve operational efficiency through automating the entire transaction lifecycle, enabling same-day settlement in real time 24/7, while also improving capital-raising and capital-usage efficiency.

CFTC meeting of the Innovation Advisory Committee on August 20 to discuss the management of crypto assets, AI, and prediction markets, in the context that the CLARITY Act has not yet been passed by the Senate.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced it will hold a committee meeting to advise the agency on key policy issues, including the possibility of reviewing how crypto assets should be regulated in the context of Congress not having taken legislative action. In a notice released Thursday, the CFTC said it will hold a meeting of the Innovation Advisory Committee on August 20 to discuss regulatory issues related to crypto assets, artificial intelligence, and prediction markets.

DigitalX, the operator of Korbit, which was acquired by Mirae Asset in July, is preparing to raise around 50 billion won through a new capital increase round.
DigitalX, the operator of the South Korean crypto asset exchange Korbit, and a newly acquired subsidiary of Mirae Asset Group, is reported to have decided to raise around 50 billion won (KRW), equivalent to 35.3 million USD, through a capital increase round.

A South Korean court convicted CEO Delio Jeong Sang-ho of fraud, causing damage of approximately 49.2 million USD, and acquitted him of an indictment alleging fraud involving 175.6 million USD.
The Nam Seoul District Court, presided over by Judge Jang Chan, is said to have sentenced Jeong Sang-ho, CEO of Delio, to 15 years in prison on charges related to fraud involving crypto assets.
According to local news agency Newsis, the court found the defendant guilty of most of the allegations of deceiving customers, causing damage of about 70 billion won (approximately 49.2 million USD) using crypto assets. The court also found that the defendant was largely guilty of allegations of embezzlement and using forged documents to register as a supplier of virtual asset services.

The FCA accuses HTX of promoting illegal crypto assets in the UK, in violation of Section 21 of the Financial Services Act. The two sides are negotiating a settlement until the end of August.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the HTX exchange are negotiating to reach a settlement agreement in a case involving the illegal promotion of crypto assets to consumers in the UK. According to court records cited by Reuters, the High Court of London has stayed the legal proceedings until the end of August to give the two sides time to agree on the terms. The two sides began exchanging emails in March, launching three months of negotiations, and on June 25 they granted a further two-month extension.

President Trump signed a memorandum allowing vetted U.S. companies to carry out cyberattack campaigns targeting transnational criminal organizations.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to mobilize vetted U.S. companies to take part in cyberattack campaigns targeting foreign criminal networks. The President’s National Security Memorandum, dated August 12, establishes a program under the National Coordination Center of the Department of Homeland Security’s special operations forces.

KPMG confirmed that Tether’s 2025 financial statements, the entity that issues USDT, received an unqualified audit opinion after years of being questioned about reserves.
Tether said KPMG, one of the four largest audit firms in the world, issued an unqualified audit opinion on Tether International’s 2025 financial statements— the company behind USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin. An unqualified audit opinion is an audit-industry term used to indicate the best possible audit result, marking a milestone after many years of questions surrounding the reserve assets backing its stablecoin.

Anthropic began embedding an invisible watermark into every piece of Claude text starting August 2, 2026, while programmers have found ways to disable this mechanism.
Anthropic has begun embedding an undetectable watermark image—unrecognizable to the naked eye—into all text produced by its latest Claude models. The change takes effect for models released in the European Union starting August 2, 2026, and the company says it will be applied worldwide.

Co-founder of 6th Man Ventures Mike Dudas believes Solana’s high-performance infrastructure could bring hundreds of millions of users access to crypto assets.
Solana could become the platform for the next wave of growth in the crypto assets industry as applications move into the mainstream phase, according to Mike Dudas, co-founder of venture capital firm 6th Man Ventures, in a recent episode of the Fomo Hour podcast program by Decrypt. He said Solana could bring hundreds of millions of users to crypto assets, with most of them even not realizing they are using a blockchain.

Grayscale believes AI will create three new sources of demand for public blockchains: programmable finance, digital identity, and decentralized AI.
Grayscale’s research arm has just released a report stating that the increasingly widespread adoption of artificial intelligence could become one of the main drivers of demand for public blockchain networks—especially in financial transactions, verifiable data storage, and the development of decentralized AI networks. According to Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale and the report’s author, this demand will focus on three key use cases.

Pound Sterling Lab Cross-border trade finance test number, combining stablecoin with a digital pound simulation.
The Digital Pound lab belonging to the Bank of England (BoE) is testing whether a stablecoin and a digital pound could work together in a cross-border payment process, as part of a trial focused on trade finance.

HashKey becomes a distribution unit for HKDAP, paving the way for Hong Kong dollar stablecoin access for organizations.
Anchorpoint Financial, the licensed stablecoin issuer in Hong Kong, has added HashKey Exchange as an authorized distribution unit for HKDAP. The Hong Kong dollar-pegged stablecoin could thereby expand access to assets backed by fiat currency as the regulated stablecoin market in Hong Kong gradually takes shape.

SEC issues a no-action letter, paving the way for Franklin Templeton funds to hold BENJI with AUM of about USD 726 million.
The Investment Management Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just issued a no-action letter to Franklin Templeton, thereby paving the way for the company's registered traditional funds to invest in the OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, Franklin Templeton's blockchain-based money market fund.

The Blockchain Association has submitted a third-party brief to support the motion filed by Custodia Bank with the U.S. Supreme Court, in which the bank challenges the Fed’s decision to deny it access to a master account.
The Blockchain Association has just submitted a third-party brief to support the motion filed by Custodia Bank with the U.S. Supreme Court, in which the bank challenges the decision of the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) to deny it access to a master account.

A vulnerability that went undetected through multiple rounds of audits allowed the attacker to create uncollateralized XRP balances and withdraw real XRP from the bridge’s reserve funds.
An attacker withdrew nearly 200,000 XRP, worth about $202,000, from an XRP Ledger bridge on August 9 by exploiting a vulnerability in the system’s deposit transaction detection software.
According to an X post by Tx, the operator of a bridge connecting Tx Chain to the XRP Ledger said a software bug caused the bridge to incorrectly record certain transactions that did not, in fact, transfer any XRP as deposits. It then issued bridged XRP on Tx Chain based on these transactions. The attacker later used the uncollateralized XRP amounts created to obtain real XRP through the bridge’s normal processing.

Goldman Sachs in the Vietnamese market now has a maximum of 2.25 billion USD to buy NEOS, taking over immediately a BTCI fund worth about 1 billion USD.
Goldman Sachs has just chosen a buyback route to enter the market for funds that generate income from tokenized assets, after reaching an agreement worth up to 2.25 billion USD to acquire NEOS Investments, the company specializing in exchange-traded fund (ETF) products behind one of the Bitcoin products that uses a covered call strategy with one of the largest option-selling margins in the market today.

The research team decoded 315,320 inference blocks and recovered 62 API keys and 33 passwords that are still valid.
A security research group has just disclosed findings showing that all large AI model inference providers — including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google — share the same architectural flaw in how the models encode internal inference strings.
By exploiting this weakness, the research team successfully decoded 315,320 blocks of inference collected from session logs publicly available on the Internet, thereby recovering 367 pieces of data belonging to an identity information group and 182 authentication details, including 62 API keys and 33 passwords that are still valid.

VARA Dubai has licensed broker-dealer services for Flowdesk and ARP Digital, bringing the total number of virtual asset licenses to more than 50.
The Dubai Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) has just continued expanding the network of licensed market participants by issuing new broker-dealer licenses to two international crypto asset companies, Flowdesk and ARP Digital.
A license allowing both enterprises to provide services to eligible investors and institutional investors in this emirate within the current regulatory framework, thereby further strengthening Dubai’s position as one of the world’s leading hubs for the digital assets industry.