Crypto for Saturday, August 22, 2026

• Grayscale’s Zcash ETF filing proposes a 2.5% fee and a potential 34% DCG stake
• Franklin Templeton Wins SEC Staff Relief for Its $721M Onchain Fund
• Everyday crypto users face monthly tax bills on total asset value if covered brokers fail to collect under new Illinois rules
• Reaching instant 27ms validation on Bitcoin will take 17 GPU years of compute power
• CZ Reveals Why He Didn’t Use UAE Citizenship to Avoid US Charges
• A $1 billion meme coin purchase puts a huge 167% share dilution down to a single vote for ZeroStack
• Inside transfer wipes out $1M executive debt as crypto firm offloads payments business without independent valuation
• Coldcard Firmware 5.6.1 Forces User Entropy Into Every New Seed After $100M Exploit
• Microsoft Fixes 'Perfect 10' Exploit That Could Have Let Hackers Run Code Remotely
• Ripple Price Analysis: Major Breakout Confirmed – How High Can XRP Go?
• CLARITY gets a September Senate floor date as CFTC signals a limited regulatory fallback
• Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC’s 25% Rally Faces Its First Serious Threat
• Solana’s first governance vote nears with a live 60% quorum display error
• AI Has Made Bitcoin Software a Target—This Group Is Fighting Back
• Crypto exchange BitMart weighs partial restart and creditor payouts weeks after announcing shutdown
• How a former crypto user’s archived Binance data ended up in a foreign terrorism prosecution
• Ripple CEO Speaks Out After White House and CFTC Meetings: Here’s What He Said
• Web3 gaming network Sandbox stops Base and BNB chain bridging after exploit
• Tokenized stocks risk repeating Wall Street’s 1960s ‘paper crisis,’ Fairmint CEO says
• Ray Dalio Predicts US Debt Crisis and Backs Bitcoin, Gold Over Bonds
• SEC proposes a path for crypto projects to raise $75 million and later end the token’s securities contract
• A Third of the Post-ChatGPT Web Is AI-Written, Pew Finds
• MiCA is coming for DeFi vaults, but regulation will be difficult
• Kalshi off-limits in multiple states as prediction markets, CFTC team up for battle
• Just 1% of wallets control $133M in midterm odds on Polymarket, creating a dangerous illusion of mass public consensus
• Bitcoin Shows First Warning Signs After $15K Surge in 2 Days
• Bitcoin and Ether bears get decimated amid 'squeeze-led' rally and Musk's X wants to pay creators in stablecoins: Crypto week in 5 stories
• Bitcoin crash forced Riot to pledge 1,825 BTC, but this huge rally may now free up 1,500 BTC
• Bitcoin’s Rally to $80K Sends Investor Greed to Highest Level Since the October 2025 Crash
• Important Pi Network Update Set for September 15: Here’s What Changes
• Bitcoin hits $80,000’s doorstep just as the ETF bid disappears for the weekend
• Treasury just put a deadline on offshore stablecoins’ access to US customers
• Bitcoin Just Flipped a Months-Long S&P 500 Trend: Here’s What Changed
• Adam Back’s Bitcoin treasury deal died, but its $15M obligation did not
• Bitcoin and Gold Are Surging Together: The ‘Debasement Trade’ Is Back
• Zcash jumps 48% to over $800 as Grayscale spot ETF push adds to ‘next bitcoin’ buzz
• XRP Explodes 65% and Flips BNB as Altcoins Steal the Show: Weekend Watch
• How a Treasury buyback tweak helped bitcoin surge 25% to nearly $80,000 in days
• Dario Amodei Claude AI Predicts Solana Could Be Heading for a Bigger Comeback Than Expected
• Illuvium says six months of cuts bought it another year as MMO becomes its main remaining bet
• We Asked 3 AIs if BTC’s Bull Run Has Started After the 25% Surge to $80K: The Answers Encouraged Us
• Ethereum researchers are racing to close a zkEVM security gap before December