Crypto for Thursday, August 13, 2026

• Ethereum Foundation pivots away from Poseidon in post-quantum plan
• Multicoin exits the $1.65 billion Solana treasury company it helped launch eight months ago
• U.S. SEC to again delay 'innovation exemption' for tokenization amid Wall Street, White House concerns
• 'Bitcoin Is Burning': Red Team Turns to Chinese AI to Find Flaws
• SEC cancels long-awaited proposal of Reg Crypto, postponing meeting without new date
• Coinbase and 14 other x402 facilitators failed security tests built for the coming AI-agent economy
• Non-Custodial Bitcoin Bridge Boltz Shuts Down After AI-Assisted Attacks
• Anthropic's AI Agents Started a Virtual War. The Chat Logs Are Unhinged
• Solana Can Be the 'Everything Chain' as Crypto Apps Go Mainstream: 6th Man Ventures Co-Founder
• City of Baltimore goes after prediction markets for sports betting
• Tether completes first full financial audit, receives clean KPMG opinion
• DATA Foundation (ex-Story Protocol) keeps insider tokens locked past deadline with no new unlock date
• Anthropic Is Quietly Watermarking Every Claude AI Output. Builders Are Already Trying to Break It
• Solana Overtakes Bitcoin and Ether in GSR’s Latest Crypto Portfolio Shake-Up
• Gaming firm GameSquare boasts a $26M Ethereum fortune, but quiet debt fine print leaves just $2.1M in real cash
• Delio CEO sentenced to 15 years in prison on crypto fraud in South Korea
• Google and OpenAI Debut Super Fast AI Models—Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Out, But GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast Is Invite-Only
• Tether Claims 'Largest Inaugural Financial Audit' as KPMG Signs Off on 2025 Statements
• Tether Clears First Full Audit as KPMG Issues Unqualified Opinion on 2025 Statements
• Solana treasury company shutters its SOL accelerator as a $27 million quarterly reversal forces deep cuts
• Tether says it completed long-promised 'Big Four' audit of finances behind $180 billion USDT stablecoin
• White House Lets Private Firms Hack Cybercriminals—At Their Own Legal Risk
• Bitcoin Mining Stocks Rise as Industry Chases AI Infrastructure
• CFTC to join SEC in exploring crypto regulations without CLARITY bill
• Crypto Group Warns Fed Could Use Banking Access to Squeeze Digital Asset Firms
• Forecasts for $1 million bitcoin price likely look too ambitious, key ratio suggests
• Crypto group backs Custodia in Supreme Court battle over Fed access
• BitGo made $4.3 billion in revenue last quarter, but direct costs swallowed 99.8% of it
• Robinhood Chain nears $1B TVL as Uniswap drives liquidity: Standard Chartered
• Bitcoin Companies Want Help From AI Labs to Guard Against Hackers
• Trezor warns 14,000 customers after fulfilment partner suffers data breach
• The Ideal Moment to Buy Ethereum (ETH) Is Now: Here’s Why
• Trezor Provider ShipMonk Breach Exposed Order Data for 13,689 Hardware Wallet Customers
• Metaplanet Denies Selling $320M in Bitcoin as Firm Launches BitBonds
• FG Nexus dumped all its Ethereum at a $45 million loss to buy mobile home parks—after earning just $144,000 in staking rewards
• Hawaii To Ban Cash Deposits at Crypto ATMs From October
• Public Bitcoin miners cut hashrate 13.4% as AI infrastructure revenue grows
• Monero (XMR) Rises 13% Weekly as Analysts Expect Further Upside
• Bullish shares jump 10% as Q2 adjusted EBITDA more than triples
• Trezor reports data from 14K users exposed through shipping provider
• Bitcoin keeps traders guessing near $64K as stocks gain on cool US PPI data
• Crypto for Advisors: The crypto advice gap
• Metaplanet burned through 83% of a $500 million credit line to build 43,000 BTC, and now it wants investors to fund the next leg
• B2C2 taps Schroders veteran to chase Asia’s growing crypto wealth
• FCA, HTX in Settlement Talks Over Illegal UK Crypto Promotions: Report
• Ripple Price Analysis: XRP Structure Remains Weak as $1 Support Comes Under Pressure Again
• Kalshi in talks with Sequoia, Wellington for $750 million fund raise at $40 billion valuation
• Ethereum DeFi Platform Ether.fi Adds Tokenized Stocks and Portfolio-Backed Loans
• Ethereum Price Prediction: What Are ETH’s Chances of Breaking Above $2K Soon?
• Swissquote cuts full-year guidance as 1H crypto income plunges, shares slide
• Crypto platform operator gets 15-year prison sentence in South Korea due to $50 million scam
• Goldman Sachs drops $2.25 billion to hijack the Bitcoin yield market and leapfrog BlackRock by 19x
• Figure revenue doubles as blockchain loan marketplace volumes surge
• Bitmine’s $257M annualized staking income ‘fills’ operational gaps, share buybacks: analysts
• Trezor Customer Data Exposed in Shipping Partner Breach
• XRP Holders Can Now Trade Options Using Flare’s FXRP as Collateral
• MUFG PoC to bring Japanese government bond repo transactions onchain
• Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI Predicts Bitcoin Price by The End of 2026
• Bitcoin Price Prediction: Can $63K Hold as Whales Keep Selling?
• Why millions of everyday savers will soon own Bitcoin without ever downloading a crypto app
• Bullish shares surge 14% as subscription revenue offsets digital asset slowdown
• Bitcoin (BTC) Is Coiling for an Explosive Move: Bullish Breakout or Sharp Drop?
• Morning Minute: The SEC Plans Rules for Tokenized Stocks
• SEC allows Franklin Templeton funds to invest in onchain money fund
• Bitcoin News: Metaplanet CEO Shuts Down BTC Sale Fears
• Twitch Turns On Amazon AI Training by Default: 'Nobody Would Opt In'
• Strategy, Metaplanet unrealized bitcoin losses highlight risk of concentrating on just one token
• Study finds 65,340 risky crypto addresses tied to $574 million in losses
• Ripple Clarity Act: SEC Vote Could Set Crypto Rulemaking in Motion on August 14
• Bitcoin holds steady near $64,000 as monero, hyperliquid outperform
• XRP Closed at a 21-Month Low, but the Bigger Ripple Story Is Elsewhere
• ‘DeFi doesn’t exist anymore,’ just onchain finance: Andre Cronje
• Shutdown Odds Sink, but December Still Hangs Over Bitcoin
• CEO of Crypto Lender Delio Gets 15 Years Over $49M Fraud
• MUFG to test real-time blockchain settlement for Japanese government bond trades
• Zcash is borrowing crypto’s new institutional playbook as privacy goes mainstream
• OKB Rockets 7% Daily, BTC Price Settles Below $64K: Market Watch
• Binance bStocks pass xStocks as second-largest tokenized stock issuer
• Crypto Whale Loses $26M After Apparent Private Key Compromise
• Brazil’s largest bitcoin treasury firm plans ETF with 95% allocation to Strategy's STRC
• Bitcoin speculators keep BTC price ‘pinned’ below $68.7K: Glassnode
• Live updates: U.S. inflation is stickier than July’s mild CPI reading suggests
• Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet unveils BitBonds with $1.3 million private debt sale
• How a wall of 1.79 million Bitcoin is quietly choking every attempt to break above $65,000
• Securitize falls 16% after earnings miss, tokenization revenue drops
• XRP Price Prediction: Ripple Not Out of the Woods as it Hovers Near $1
• Strategy sold $100M to defend STRC’s $100 stock price as DeFi packages the risk into a 7% ‘safer’ trade
• BitGo posts $19M Q2 loss despite 80% revenue surge to $4.3B
• XRP Faces Its Strongest Selling Pressure Since May: What’s Next for Ripple’s Price?
• Copper US arm becomes FINRA member, SEC-registered broker-dealer
• Arthur Hayes says a $60 billion Fed cap is Bitcoin’s next liquidity trigger and needed for a price surge
• Important Pi Network News and PI Token Price Update: August 13
• Metaplanet denies selling bitcoin worth $320 million
• Trump Sued Over $100K Truth Social Feed as Trump Media Eyes Prediction Market Data Deals
• Bitcoin firms ask AI labs for same tools attackers already have
• Crypto valuations could double as protocols link revenue to tokens: Bitwise CIO
• Metaplanet CEO shuts down Bitcoin sale speculation after $322M transfer
• Speculation on dogecoin is back to October 2025 levels. The price is down 70%
• $51M for Homes, Cars, and a Yacht: Regulators Target Goliath, CEO Delgado
• Bitcoin slips near $63,500 as traders look past CPI to Fed’s next tests
• ASX shareholder plans to sue former directors over failed blockchain project
• Attention Binance Users: Some Services Will Be Temporarily Stopped This Week