Crypto accounts for more than half of America’s newest bank-charter applications, but the heavyweights driving this wave aren't opening neighborhood branches or taking checking deposits. Instead, they are locking down institutional custody and back-end settlement roles.

BitMart’s shutdown notice framed closure as a strategic response to difficult conditions. Four weeks later, its restructuring update places creditor distributions beside a possible return to business.

MANTRA Chain slammed the brakes on its mainnet after detecting an exploit linked to an upstream software dependency, bringing all network transactions, public endpoints, and bridge operations to a sudden halt.

The XRP Ledger is considering a lending standard that would allow pooled assets to fund fixed-term loans directly on the network.

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.