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From Argentina to 80-Plus Countries in a Month
Global payroll firm @deel has extended its stablecoin wallet to more than 80 countries across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, roughly one month after the product first went live in Argentina. Deel serves 40,000 businesses and 1.5 million workers across 150 countries, and the rapid expansion underlines how quickly demand for dollar-denominated pay has spread beyond its initial test market.
Argentina was a natural starting point: the peso lost between 20 and 40 percent of its dollar value in a single year, and 85 percent of Deel's Argentine contractors requested USD payouts over pesos in 2025. The wallet gives those workers a way to hold earnings in DLUSD, a dollar-tracking balance that is always redeemable for USD value within the platform and is designed to track the US dollar 1:1.
How the Wallet Works
Under the hood, DLUSD is issued through Stripe-owned Bridge's Open Issuance platform, settled on @tempo (the payments Layer 1 incubated by Paradigm and Stripe), held in @privy_io embedded wallets, and pays optional Earn rewards generated through @Morpho. @SentoraHQ supports the vault infrastructure behind the Earn product.
Opting into Earn begins reward accrual immediately, balances stay withdrawable with no lock-up, and rates are variable and not guaranteed. Earn rewards are promotional incentives, not interest or investment returns. Eligibility requires contractors to have completed KYC verification on Deel. A Deel Card, a debit card linked to the DLUSD wallet balance, is also on the roadmap and is expected in Q3 2026.
The wallet is not aimed at employers who want to denominate the underlying payroll run in crypto. The employer-side flow continues to look like a standard Deel payroll. The wallet sits on the contractor side of the rail. Markets including EU countries and compliance-restricted jurisdictions are excluded from the rollout.
Sources
Stripe Newsroom: Deel chooses Stripe to create a stablecoin wallet
Deel Blog: Introducing the Deel Stablecoin Wallet
Fintech News Singapore: Deel Rolls Out Stablecoin Wallet as Contractors Seek Dollar-Backed Pay

A token built for a different era
@centrifuge has published governance proposal CP172, floating the idea of allowing eligible $CFG holders to convert their tokens into equity shares. The team was direct about its reasoning: the current token structure now limits the institutional partners it can work with and the capital it can attract. The proposal uses the contract address ethereum:0xcccccccccc33d538dbc2ee4feab0a7a1ff4e8a94 to identify eligible holders.
"The CFG token was designed for a different Centrifuge," the team said in the proposal, signalling how far the protocol has moved since the token was first introduced. The publication is framed as a request for comments, not a binding decision, with a 14-day community feedback window now open.
$CFG is the native utility and governance token of the Centrifuge protocol, powering its decentralised operations for real-world asset tokenisation. On March 20, 2025, governance proposal CP149 was passed, introducing a new V3 CFG token consolidated into a single, Ethereum-native ERC-20. CP172 represents a further step in that evolution, this time questioning whether the token model itself remains fit for purpose.
Institutional ambitions outgrowing token constraints
The timing reflects how significantly Centrifuge has repositioned itself. Centrifuge is a multichain real-world asset tokenisation protocol that lets institutions issue onchain pools backed by off-chain assets like US Treasuries, invoices, real estate, royalties, and credit portfolios. The protocol has become the infrastructure standard for institutional-grade private credit tokenisation, with TVL surging to between $1.3 and $1.45 billion as of December 2025, driven by actual deployed institutional capital.
Partners now include major asset managers. Centrifuge partnered with Janus Henderson for a second time to bring its flagship AAA CLO Strategy, JAAA, onchain. That institutional reach appears to be exactly what is straining the existing token framework, with regulated counterparties often facing restrictions on holding or interacting with protocol governance tokens.
Centrifuge's governance process begins on the community forum as a request for comments, with the purpose of gathering input before a proposal moves onchain. If community sentiment supports CP172, a formal onchain vote would follow. The outcome could mark one of the more significant structural pivots in the RWA sector, shifting a major protocol's community ownership model from token-based to equity-based for at least a portion of its holders.
Sources:
Centrifuge Docs: The CFG Token
Centrifuge Docs: Governance Process
CoinDesk: Centrifuge Debuts Asset Tokenization Service

@krakenfx parent company @Payward has joined @AnthropicAI's Project Glasswing, an invite-only cybersecurity initiative that gives vetted organisations access to Claude Mythos 5, a restricted AI model built specifically to find and fix software vulnerabilities. The move marks one of the first crypto-native firms to enter the program.
What is Project Glasswing?
Project Glasswing launched on April 7, 2026, as Anthropic's structured approach to putting advanced AI in the hands of cybersecurity professionals. The initiative brings together major organisations including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks. Anthropic has committed up to $100 million in usage credits and $4 million in donations to open-source security organisations to support the work.
Claude Mythos 5 is a restricted variant of Anthropic's frontier model, with certain safeguards lifted for vetted partners in cybersecurity and life sciences. It is not available through standard channels. Access requires an invitation through Project Glasswing, a signed NDA, and approval from Anthropic in consultation with the US government. Anthropic and its partners have used Claude Mythos Preview to find more than ten thousand high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across the most systemically important software in the world.
What Payward Plans to Do
Access for Payward followed a US government decision allowing the model to reach critical-infrastructure operators. The firm said it will begin scanning all its environments for flaws in the coming weeks. Co-CEO Arjun Sethi framed the move in direct terms: "Defense has to compound as fast as offense."
Payward's security team plans to use the AI model not just for internal code review but also to report discovered vulnerabilities back to the maintainers of the software they depend on. The project places particular emphasis on open-source software, which forms the foundation of most modern systems, including critical infrastructure, yet whose maintainers have historically lacked access to sophisticated security resources.
Anthropic executives have indicated that without coordinated action, such tools could eventually reach actors who might deploy them for malicious purposes rather than defensive security work. For a major crypto exchange handling user funds at scale, the stakes of that arms race are especially high.
Sources:
Anthropic: Project Glasswing
Crypto Briefing: Payward joins Anthropic's Project Glasswing
CSO Online: Anthropic grants Project Glasswing access to 150 more companies

Token Venice ($VVV) naik sekitar 7% menjadi $12,64 pada 17 Agustus, mengungguli CoinMarketCap dalam daftar penguat harian (daily gainers) di antara token-token utama, dengan volume perdagangan melonjak lebih dari 140%. Pemicunya adalah pengungkapan dari rekan pendiri @ErikVoorhees bahwa platform AI yang berfokus pada privasi, @AskVenice, telah melampaui pendapatan tahunan yang diproyeksikan sebesar $100 juta, sebuah tonggak yang menegaskan seberapa cepat proyek tersebut berkembang sejak diluncurkan.
Dari Unicorn menjadi $100 Juta ARR
Venice AI mengalami kurva pertumbuhan yang tajam pada 2026. Perusahaan mengumpulkan dana sebesar $65 juta dalam putaran Seri A yang menilai perusahaan itu di $1 miliar, dengan putaran dipimpin oleh firma ventura kripto Dragonfly, serta melibatkan partisipasi dari Coinbase Ventures dan North Island Ventures. Pada saat penggalangan dana tersebut pada Juli 2026, Venice sudah menghasilkan keuntungan, dengan pendapatan tahunan yang diproyeksikan (annualized run-rate) lebih dari $70 juta, kata CEO Erik Voorhees kepada TechCrunch. Angka $100 juta yang disebut Voorhees minggu ini menandai langkah lebih lanjut dari level tersebut.

The market for tokenized gold is expanding steadily, with the two dominant issuers, @tethergold and @PaxosGold, pushing their combined on-chain value toward $4.5 billion. According to data from rwa.xyz, total tokenized commodity value across tracked networks reached $4.92 billion, a gain of 7.7% over 30 days, with gold representing roughly $4.8 billion of the underlying exposure.
Tether Gold Leads, Paxos Closes the Gap
@tethergold sits at the top of the issuer rankings with $2.6 billion in tokenized value, up 8.9% over the past month. @PaxosGold follows at $1.9 billion. The pair have long dominated the space. Tether Gold (XAUT) and Paxos Gold (PAXG) accounted for nearly 89.1% of the tokenized commodity market's growth over the past year, according to CoinGecko data. The two products are structurally similar: each XAUT and PAXG token is backed by one fine troy ounce of physical gold stored in LBMA-certified vaults. Where they differ is on the regulatory side. PAXG is aligned with compliance-focused investors, issued by Paxos Trust Company and overseen by the New York State Department of Financial Services, with monthly third-party audits and fully allocated gold reserves held in LBMA-approved vaults. XAUT, by contrast, operates with greater flexibility but without the same level of formal regulatory oversight.
The momentum behind both products reflects a broader shift in investor behavior. Tokenized precious metals saw strong demand, particularly for gold, and much of this growth occurred in January and February 2026 as geopolitical tensions led investors to seek safe-haven assets. Growth in this category reflects both price appreciation of the underlying commodity and net new capital inflows from investors seeking gold exposure through blockchain rails rather than traditional ETF or physical ownership structures.
Ethereum Dominates by Network, XRP Ledger Second
On a network basis, Ethereum hosts $4.7 billion in tokenized commodity value across all tracked assets, making it by far the largest settlement layer for on-chain gold. The XRP Ledger ranks second with $2.5 billion. Ethereum wallet data show a spike in addresses created specifically to hold tokenized assets throughout late 2025 and early 2026, a sign that new participants are entering the market with RWA exposure as their primary objective.
The broader tokenized real-world asset market provides further context for gold's rise. Tokenized commodities rose from $1.4 billion to $5.5 billion, driven mostly by gold-backed tokens XAUT and PAXG, while spot trading on tokenized gold reached $90.7 billion in Q1 2026, surpassing the $84.6 billion traded for the entire year of 2025. That volume figure underscores how quickly institutional and retail appetite for on-chain gold has accelerated.
Sources:
CoinGecko RWA Report 2026
Crypto Times: Tokenized Gold Trading Hits Record $90.7B in 2026
Chainalysis: Tokenized RWAs and On-Chain Commodities

Edward Zimbardi, a Georgia man accused of masterminding one of the largest recent crypto fraud cases in the United States, appeared in federal court on August 17 after being deported from Fiji to face criminal charges.
The Charges
Zimbardi faces a federal indictment carrying 12 counts of wire fraud, 12 counts of money laundering, and one count of money laundering conspiracy, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg and FBI Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Seres. Prosecutors allege that between 2022 and 2023, his scheme, known as The Crypto Program, drew more than $165 million from thousands of investors lured in by promises of guaranteed 25% monthly returns.
According to prosecutors, Zimbardi gambled over $34 million on foreign currency bets, used new investor deposits to pay earlier participants, and spent at least $10 million on personal expenses. OCCRP reported that California regulators separately alleged investor funds were told to be used solely for online advertising, while most were actually paid out to other investors or sent to a forex broker in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The case had drawn regulatory scrutiny well before the federal indictment. Georgia's secretary of state issued an emergency order against Zimbardi, banning him from investment advising and securities selling, and levying fines of up to $1.5 million against him and associated companies. California's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation had also issued a Desist and Refrain order against CryptoProgram in June 2023.
Capture and Extradition
Zimbardi, 59, had been evading authorities for some time. He was briefly arrested in the Netherlands in March 2024 before being released, and he subsequently relocated to Fiji in 2025. His removal from the Pacific island nation was carried out last week as part of a joint operation between the FBI and Fiji's Ministry of Immigration, after local authorities became aware of the pending federal charges, according to OCCRP.
The FBI is now asking former Crypto Program investors to submit victim information through a dedicated portal on the bureau's website. Authorities say contact will follow regarding further proceedings, including potential restitution.
Sources:
WSB Radio: Man accused of organizing $165 million Ponzi scheme arrested
OCCRP: Fiji Hands Over a Man Suspected of Ponzi-style Crypto Investment Schemes to US
WSB-TV: International crypto Ponzi scheme operated out of metro Atlanta

Tarikan awal dibangun di atas rel Stellar
@Zebec_HQ mengatakan produk penggajian perusahaannya di @StellarOrg telah mendaftarkan sembilan akun bisnis dalam dua bulan sejak peluncuran, menghasilkan proyeksi pendapatan tahunan (annualized run-rate) sekitar $4 juta dalam gaji USDC. Angka-angka tersebut memberikan gambaran awal tentang permintaan nyata untuk infrastruktur penggajian berbasis on-chain pada saat adopsi stablecoin dalam pembayaran korporat semakin dipercepat.
Dasbor perusahaan Zebec dirancang untuk manajer HR yang mengawasi tim besar yang tersebar, memungkinkan pemberi kerja menyalurkan gaji dan pembayaran kontraktor dalam stablecoin langsung ke dompet digital para pekerja. Penerapan Stellar, yang diumumkan pada Maret 2026, menandai ekspansi pertama Zebec di luar blockchain Solana, tempat infrastruktur penggajian streaming aslinya dibangun.

Stellar RWA Value Hits All-Time High
Real-world asset (RWA) value on the Stellar (@StellarOrg) network reached $3.22 billion, according to rwa.xyz tracking data, marking the highest level ever recorded on the platform. The figure represents an 8.4% gain over the prior 30 days, continuing a run that has seen the network hit three separate billion-dollar milestones in a single calendar year. Stellar crossed $1 billion in January, $2 billion in April, and $3 billion in June 2026.
@Spiko_finance leads all platforms on the network at $1.5 billion in tokenized assets. The Paris-based regulated investment platform has built a multi-currency RWA stack that includes EU Treasury Bills, EUR short-duration bonds, USD equivalents, U.S. T-Bills, and UK T-Bills. It is followed by Franklin Templeton (@FTDA_US), @Ondo, and Realiz. Franklin Templeton's BENJI token, which represents shares of its OnChain US Government Money Fund, has grown to become one of the largest single positions on the network.
Stellar's purpose-built compliance features and low cost structure give it structural advantages for the specific use case of regulated asset settlement. The DTCC, the institution overseeing more than $114 trillion across U.S. capital markets, has also selected Stellar as one of the first public blockchains for tokenization.
Stablecoin Growth Outpaces RWA Metrics
While RWA figures hit a new record, stablecoin activity on Stellar is expanding even faster. Stablecoin market cap rose 57.6% to $503.5 million over the same 30-day window, and monthly transfer volume climbed 21.7% to $6.6 billion. MoneyGram also launched MGUSD on Stellar, bringing a regulated digital dollar to a cash network serving more than 60 million customers.
RWA transfer activity cooled compared to the prior month, even as the number of holders approached 19,000, pointing to a broadening holder base even as short-term transaction volumes moderated. Stellar's overall RWA growth rate is running roughly four times faster than the broader RWA tokenization market.
Sources:
Stellar Development Foundation: Q2 2026 Network Report
Crypto Briefing: Stellar Network RWA Market Cap Surpasses $3B
Sentora Research: Stellar, The Blockchain Wall Street Was Quietly Waiting For

Jumlah pemegang dan volume transfer melonjak seiring
Aktivitas aset dunia nyata di @BNBCHAIN melonjak tajam. Jumlah pemegang RWA di jaringan mencapai 524.752, naik dari sekitar 400.000 hanya tiga hari sebelumnya, menurut data dari rwa.xyz. Dalam 30 hari terakhir, jumlah pemegang telah lebih dari tiga kali lipat, naik hampir 219%.
Transfer volume mencerminkan momentum yang sama. Jaringan mencatat $24,78 miliar dalam transfer RWA selama bulan lalu, naik hampir 1.179%. Saat ini jaringan menampung 1.284 aset tokenisasi dengan nilai gabungan $5,76 miliar, mencakup saham tokenisasi melalui bStocks, listing dari Ondo Finance, serta Tether Gold.

Fake World Assets (@token_works), protokol NFT gacha berbasis Ethereum yang sempat menempati peringkat sebagai konsumen gas terbesar di jaringan pada akhir Juli, kini berkembang ke wilayah baru dengan fitur launchpad bernama FWAir, yang dirancang untuk menghadirkan koleksi NFT yang benar-benar baru ke platform.
TokenWorks akan memungkinkan para kreator meluncurkan koleksi NFT baru langsung ke kumpulan teracak Fake World Assets melalui FWAir, memperluas protokol tim beranggotakan dua orang dari perdagangan NFT yang sudah ada menjadi penerbitan NFT baru. Dalam model ini, kreator menetapkan harga per NFT, dan para pendukung memback setiap NFT tersebut dengan jumlah $ETH itu. Koleksi yang mencapai target pendanaan akan diluncurkan langsung ke kumpulan FWA, sementara para pendukung akan menerima pengembalian dana jika target terlewat.

@solana telah mengokohkan posisinya sebagai tempat dominan untuk perdagangan spot on-chain, mencatat volume DEX sebesar $45,6 miliar selama 30 hari terakhir, lebih tinggi daripada blockchain lainnya mana pun, menurut data DefiLlama.
BNB Chain Menduduki Peringkat Kedua, Ethereum Turun ke Peringkat Ketiga
@BNBCHAIN berada di peringkat kedua dengan volume DEX bulanan sebesar $38 miliar, posisi yang terus didaki secara stabil setelah melampaui Base pada volume bulanan di bulan Juni dan Ethereum pada bulan Juli. Ethereum berada di peringkat ketiga dengan $24,2 miliar, sementara Base berada di peringkat keempat dengan $17,9 miliar. Secara gabungan, dua rantai teratas saja menyumbang lebih dari $83 miliar dalam aktivitas perdagangan spot bulanan.

@NEARProtocol AI telah merilis versi 1.2 dari @IronClawAI, platform agen aman open-source-nya, memperluas runtime dengan dukungan multi-pengguna, konektivitas alat yang lebih luas, serta pertahanan yang lebih ketat terhadap prompt injection.
Konektivitas Alat Terbuka melalui MCP
Tambahan utama di versi 1.2 adalah dukungan untuk alat apa pun yang siap MCP, mulai dari CRM hingga API internal. Integrasi IronClaw dengan Model Context Protocol (MCP) memungkinkan pengguna terhubung ke server MCP untuk kapabilitas tambahan, dengan arsitektur plugin yang memungkinkan alat dan channel WASM baru untuk ditambahkan tanpa perlu memulai ulang agen. Fleksibilitas ini memungkinkan tim menghubungkan agen ke perangkat kerja perusahaan yang sudah ada tanpa harus membangun ulang tumpukan mereka.

Jane Street Group reported holding more than 1.2 million shares of @Bitwise's spot XRP ETF as of June 30, 2026, up from just 20,605 shares three months earlier. The position was valued at roughly $14 million, representing a nearly 60-fold increase in a single quarter.
The jump appeared in the trading firm's second-quarter Form 13F filed with the SEC. The filing shows three separate entries for the Bitwise XRP ETF: the largest consisting of 1,205,000 shares held outright, a second as a call option covering 15,100 shares, and a third with 67 shares.
Broad Exposure Across XRP ETF Issuers
The firm also reported exposure to XRP-related funds from Franklin Templeton, Grayscale, Canary Capital, and 21Shares. The scale of Jane Street's holdings this quarter makes it one of the largest and most diversified institutional participants in the emerging spot XRP ETF market, with its cross-product disclosure representing one of the most extensive institutional XRP ETF filings to date.
As of May 2026, seven XRP ETFs are available in the United States: Bitwise (XRP), Canary Capital (XRPC), Franklin Templeton (XRPZ), Grayscale (GXRP), REX-Osprey (XRPR), 21Shares (TOXR), and Bitwise 10 Index (BITW). Together they hold over $1.2 billion in assets and have locked more than 840 million XRP tokens.
Market-Making Context
The filing highlights Jane Street's position in the XRP ETF market, but its role as a major market maker that actively trades ETFs and options means the holding should not necessarily be viewed as a simple long-term directional bet on $XRP. As one of the largest ETF liquidity providers globally, @JaneStreetGroup routinely holds inventory across the products it facilitates, and 13F disclosures reflect end-of-quarter snapshots rather than strategic investment intent.
Activity around spot XRP ETFs has intensified throughout 2026 as more institutional players file regular 13F disclosures, with Jane Street's wide-ranging positions across all major issuers reinforcing its role in building liquidity for the broader XRP ETF ecosystem.
Sources:
CryptoNews: Jane Street Reports Major Position Across XRP ETF
CoinTurk: Jane Street Discloses $14 Million in Bitwise XRP ETF
XRP ETF Tracker: Live AUM, Holdings and Flows

Aktivitas derivatif melonjak seiring pemulihan harga pada Agustus
Open interest pada futures @chainlink mencapai sekitar $277 juta pada hari Minggu, level tertinggi dalam setidaknya enam bulan, menurut data Santiment. Metrik ini mengukur modal yang ditahan dalam posisi derivatif aktif dan telah meningkat tajam seiring dengan pemulihan $LINK hingga bulan Agustus.
Token tersebut diperdagangkan di dekat $9,54 pada saat pembacaan, naik dari titik terendah sekitar $7 pada akhir Juni. Pemulihan itu terus berlanjut hingga pekan ini. Chainlink menguat lebih dari 7% dalam satu periode 24 jam, diperdagangkan mendekati $9,48, dengan kisaran harian $8,76 hingga $9,72. LINK telah naik 12,3% selama tujuh hari terakhir dan memiliki kapitalisasi pasar sekitar $6,97 miliar.

@OndoFinance telah merilis rangkaian terbaru metrik ekosistem, yang menggambarkan pertumbuhan cepat di seluruh portofolio produk aset dunia nyata yang ditokenisasi. Angka utama: platform ekuitas yang ditokenisasi, Ondo Stocks, telah mencapai volume perdagangan kumulatif sebesar $27 miliar di seluruh ekosistem selama 10 bulan, dengan nilai total terkunci sebesar $1,01 miliar.
Ondo Stocks Tembus $1 Miliar dalam TVL
Ondo Stocks kini memiliki nilai total terkunci (total value locked) sebesar $1,01 miliar, kurang dari setahun setelah platform diluncurkan pada September 2025. Platform ini mencakup lebih dari 440 saham AS dan ETF di Ethereum, BNB Chain, serta Solana. Basis pemegang ekosistemnya juga tumbuh pesat. Pemegang melewati angka 200.000, naik 20% dalam 30 hari terakhir; pertumbuhan pemegang dan kecepatan transfer sama-sama mengalami percepatan, yang menunjukkan peserta baru masuk ke pasar.

BUZZ HPC Lands Largest AI Contract Yet
@HIVEDigitalTech has signed a five-year, $350 million GPU cloud services agreement through its wholly owned subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing, the company announced on August 17. The deal, struck with an undisclosed investment-grade enterprise customer, adds roughly $70 million in annualized recurring revenue and lifts BUZZ HPC's total annualized revenue run rate to approximately $180 million, according to the official press release.
The agreement calls for BUZZ HPC to deploy a dedicated AI infrastructure cluster of 2,016 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs housed in GB300 NVL72 rack-scale systems, interconnected with NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking and VAST Data's high-performance storage platform. The system is designed in accordance with NVIDIA's reference architecture to support large-scale AI training, inference, and enterprise workloads.
British Columbia Site and Path to $200 Million Target
The cluster will be deployed at the Bell AI Fabric facility in Merritt, British Columbia, a site powered entirely by renewable hydroelectric energy and equipped with closed-loop liquid cooling. Deployment is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2026, at which point HIVE projects its daily HPC and AI revenue will reach approximately $500,000. Capital expenditure for the buildout totals around $185 million, funded through a $35 million upfront customer deposit, proceeds from HIVE's June 2026 zero-percent convertible bond, and equipment financing. HIVE will retain ownership of the NVIDIA infrastructure on completion.
The new contract follows a $220 million sovereign AI cloud deal signed in June at the same Merritt facility, which involved NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems deployed for Bell and Cohere. Together, the two agreements bring BUZZ HPC within striking distance of HIVE's stated $200 million annualized GPU cloud revenue target for year-end.
HIVE's pivot mirrors a broader shift across the Bitcoin mining sector. Peers including IREN, Hut 8, and TeraWulf have each struck multi-billion-dollar AI and cloud compute agreements in recent months, repurposing their power and data center assets for long-term AI infrastructure revenue. HIVE shares rose more than 8% following the announcement.
Sources:
HIVE Digital Technologies Official Press Release
The Block: Bitcoin miner HIVE inks five-year $350 million AI cloud contract
Investing News Network: HIVE BUZZ HPC $350 Million AI Cloud Agreement

Data dari dasbor @dfinity pada 17 Agustus menunjukkan lonjakan tajam pada Cycle Burn Rate Internet Computer, naik hingga sekitar 0,30 TCYCLES per detik. Ini dibandingkan dengan baseline terbaru sebesar 0,03 hingga 0,05 TCYCLES per detik, yang berarti peningkatan 6 hingga 10 kali dari tingkat operasi normal.
Pemicunya adalah uji beban yang disengaja yang dijalankan oleh Toko App, aplikasi NFT yang dibangun di jaringan Internet Computer ( $ICP ), yang dirancang untuk menguji kemampuan manajemen armada protokol. Pengujian diperkirakan berlangsung sepanjang sebagian besar hari.

HashKey and OneInfinity Target Real-World HKDAP Use Cases
@HashKeyGroup has announced a partnership with OneInfinity, the digital asset arm of Hong Kong insurer OneDegree, to develop practical applications for HKDAP, the city's regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoin. Under the agreement, HashKey Exchange will provide compliant conversion between HKDAP and fiat currencies for eligible users.
The two firms plan to explore cross-border business payments and are studying whether HKDAP can be used for insurance premium settlement in Hong Kong. HashKey's MENA unit is also in scope, with plans to support exchange between HKDAP and both the US dollar and UAE dirham.
HKDAP, which stands for "HKD At Par," pegs each token one-to-one to the Hong Kong dollar. Anchorpoint Financial, one of the first two licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong, issued the token, and its first minting and redemption cycle marked the first circulation of a regulated HKD stablecoin under Hong Kong's Stablecoins Ordinance on a live public blockchain.
A Growing Ecosystem Around Hong Kong's Regulated Stablecoin
The HashKey-OneInfinity tie-up adds to a broadening network of institutions moving to integrate HKDAP into financial workflows. Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint launched beta access for HKDAP following its Hong Kong issuer licence secured earlier this year, with HashKey Exchange and OSL Group joining as authorised distributors, enabling institutional and professional investors to mint and redeem HKDAP tokens.
Three companies own the Anchorpoint venture: Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), telecom operator HKT, and Animoca Brands, with Standard Chartered holding the largest stake. For now, only institutions, corporates, and professional investors can convert between fiat and HKDAP. Anchorpoint plans to expand HKDAP to retail users by late 2026, targeting broader financial applications.
HKDAP enters a market that dollar tokens dominate almost entirely, with USD-pegged stablecoins accounting for roughly 99% of global stablecoin value. Its case rests on local settlement, regulated cross-border payments, and niche institutional use, exactly the areas the HashKey-OneInfinity partnership is targeting. The MENA corridor adds a notable dimension, positioning HKDAP as a potential bridge between Hong Kong, the Middle East, and the broader dollar economy.
Sources:
CoinDesk: Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint launches Hong Kong dollar stablecoin
PR Newswire: Anchorpoint and HashKey Exchange Partner on HKDAP Beta Access
TechTimes: Hong Kong Dollar Stablecoin HKDAP Goes Live on Ethereum

Digital asset infrastructure firm Fireblocks (@FireblocksHQ) has appointed Elad Roisman as its chief regulatory and policy officer, effective immediately, bringing one of the most recognisable names in US securities regulation into a senior executive role at a major crypto company.
A Deep Regulatory Pedigree
Roisman is no stranger to Washington. He was appointed by President Donald Trump to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, sworn in on September 11, 2018, and was later designated Acting Chairman of the Commission, effective December 24, 2020. As a Commissioner and Acting Chairman, Roisman played an instrumental role in shaping the agency's rulemaking, enforcement and international work. According to the original announcement, during his SEC tenure he voted on more than 100 rulemakings and over 1,000 enforcement actions.
Before moving to Fireblocks, Roisman was a partner at elite law firm Cravath, Swaine and Moore. There he served as Co-Head of the Digital Assets Practice and was also a member of the Corporate Governance and Board Advisory Practice and the Financial Institutions Group. His work at Cravath covered a broad range of complex regulatory and strategic initiatives, advising public and private companies on disclosure, compliance, and general corporate law, as well as applying his deep knowledge of market structure regulation to advise fintech companies, investors, exchanges, and other financial institutions.
Roisman also testified before the US House Financial Services Committee in June 2025. The hearing examined the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, which sets forth a proposed digital asset market structure framework. That appearance further underscored his standing as a subject-matter expert at the intersection of policy and crypto.
What the Role Means for Fireblocks
Roisman will lead regulatory strategy from Washington, D.C., serving as the firm's primary liaison to regulators on both sides of the Atlantic as stablecoin legislation and broader market structure rules continue to take shape. The hire reflects a broader trend of crypto companies building out senior government-affairs functions as the regulatory environment in the US and Europe moves from ambiguity toward concrete frameworks.
For Fireblocks, which provides custody, transfer and settlement infrastructure to financial institutions and crypto-native firms, having a former SEC Acting Chairman in-house represents a significant addition at a moment when regulatory relationships are becoming a competitive differentiator.
Sources:
SEC.gov: Elad L. Roisman biography
Cravath, Swaine and Moore: Elad Roisman profile
Cravath: Roisman testimony on Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025

NAVI Prime menargetkan isolasi modal dalam pinjaman DeFi
@Navi_protocol telah meluncurkan NAVI Prime, protokol pinjaman modular yang dibangun di atas @SuiNetwork, yang dirancang untuk apa yang tim sebut sebagai isolasi modal berkeyakinan tinggi. Peluncuran ini menandai pergeseran yang disengaja dari model kumpulan likuiditas terpadu yang selama ini mendefinisikan sebagian besar ekosistem pinjaman DeFi.
Daripada mengumpulkan semua aset ke dalam satu pasar bersama, NAVI Prime menciptakan pasar pinjaman individual, masing-masing dengan aturan jaminan dan parameter risiko sendiri. Gagasan utamanya sederhana: dengan memisahkan pasar, kerugian atau volatilitas di satu kumpulan tidak dapat menular ke kumpulan lainnya. Dengan demikian, aset berkualitas dapat mencapai efisiensi modal yang lebih tinggi tanpa terseret oleh profil risiko dari jaminan berperingkat lebih rendah yang berada di kumpulan yang sama.