President Donald Trump used a White House meeting with crypto and financial-market leaders to press Congress for digital-asset market-structure legislation, saying the United States must pass a “fair version” of the Clarity Act to remain ahead of China and other countries.

FASB’s proposal could let some stablecoins count as cash equivalents, but corporate holders may lack direct issuer redemption rights.

A $626 investment can now begin in Toyota Wallet, the app better known for payments, car financing and mobility services. Toyota Finance has opened applications for a roughly $6.26 million, one-year security-token bond that uses BOOSTRY’s ibet for Fin blockchain network.

China’s central bank has added eight lenders to its digital-yuan network, raising the number of authorised e-CNY operators to 30. The number matters, but the mix of banks matters more.

Kraken has brought more than 7,000 US-listed stocks to eligible customers in the European Economic Area. The launch puts conventional equities in the same account as crypto and tokenized stocks, giving users a choice that previously required separate platforms.

Ethereum developers have closed the submission window for non-headlining EIPs for Hegotá, the planned upgrade after Glamsterdam.

The main U.S. economic event for crypto investors for August 17-21 week is not a new interest-rate decision. It is the publication of the discussion behind an old one.

Israel's largest bank wants to bring crypto trading into the same app its customers already use to invest in traditional markets.

Bitwise is exploring a tokenized version of its Solana staking ETF, but the first version would look very different from the freely transferable assets normally associated with public blockchains.

The biggest crypto applications are now collecting fees at a scale that is difficult to dismiss as experimental. But a protocol making money and its token capturing that value are two different things.

The Bank of England is testing a trade-finance model where private stablecoins and central bank money handle different parts of the same transaction. For SMEs, faster payment is only useful if verification and financing can move just as quickly.

Crypto.com now packages roughly 1,500 U.S. stocks and ETFs into blockchain-based products, pairing $1 entry points with extended trading hours and a very different legal structure from ordinary shares.