Crypto News. August 13, 2026

CoinDesk@CoinDesk

NEW: The CFTC has invoked emergency authority to keep @Kalshi operating after New York's Attorney General sought to halt its event contracts nationwide and demanded more than $36 billion in damages.

Harmony 💙@harmonyprotocol

We are working with our team and appropriate exchanges to stop and freeze the funds. We are working on a patch and rollback options. Will update when we have new information.

Juiceberg @the_juice_berg

Harmony exploited as on-chain data reveals unauthorized 4B ONE mint (26% of supply) via empty blocks, with 2.8B quickly funneled to exchanges as price crashed while totalSupply endpoint hides the inflation $ONE

DoubleZero@doublezero

Prediction markets just got Wall Street-grade trading infrastructure. @Kalshi’s live order book is now streaming on @doublezero Edge, a multi-venue, real-time market-data platform. Institutional-grade market data is now open to anyone, anywhere.

Marinade 🛡️@MarinadeFinance

1/ Solana got 86% of the way to a halt this morning and it barely registered anywhere. 28.83% of staked SOL went delinquent. Finality stops at 33.34%. We added up the rewards lost across all 90 affected validators. 333 SOL.

Boltz - Non-Custodial Bitcoin Bridge@Boltzhq

UPDATE ON THE FUTURE OF BOLTZ 📢 Over the past couple of months, AI-assisted attackers have been targeting Boltz with increasing frequency, intensity and sophistication. Several of these attacks succeeded, but because Boltz is non-custodial, user funds were never at risk. The

Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru

JUST IN: $7 trillion asset manager Fidelity to enable staking and quarterly cash payouts for its spot Ethereum ETF.

CoinDesk@CoinDesk

JUST IN: The OCC says crypto companies should be able to apply for U.S. bank charters, opening a potential path for digital asset firms to access the national banking system.

Zcash Labs@ZcashLabs

Today, we present Zcash Labs. An independent organization focused on solving technical integration challenges for businesses and institutions interested in Zcash. We are also funding and supporting teams and infrastructure that help solve real world adoption on zcash. Our

Crypto Picsou@CryptoPicsou

Hyperliquid just shared a new HIP-1 function built from builder feedback: scaleWei 👀 This makes the most sense for TradFi spot. Imagine a tokenized stock trading on Hyperliquid: • Stock split → every balance is scaled and open orders are adjusted • Cash-like dividend → a

Coinbase Markets 🛡️@CoinbaseMarkets

A faster engine for a bigger derivatives market. Coinbase is rolling out a next-generation matching engine. What this means for you: → Faster execution → Deeper liquidity → More capacity when markets get busy

BSCN@BSCNews

Strategy Plans To Buy Bitcoin Again After Recent Sales Strategy (@MicroStrategy) CEO Phong Le (@phongle) says the company plans to resume accumulating Bitcoin later this year. Strategy has bought about 175,000 bitcoin:native this year while selling roughly 7,000 BTC. Le said

Cointelegraph@Cointelegraph

🇺🇸 JUST IN: The SEC has cleared Franklin Templeton’s onchain money market fund, FOBXX, for use in registered funds.

CoinDesk@CoinDesk

INSIGHT: President Trump considers a proposal to index capital gains to inflation, which would automatically reduce taxable crypto gains for long-term $BTC and $ETH holders since the IRS treats digital assets as property.

CoinDesk@CoinDesk

BTC: Goldman Sachs is buying its way into the bitcoin income ETF race. The bank is acquiring NEOS Investments for up to $2.25B, picking up the $1.1B BTCI fund and going head-to-head with BlackRock's BITA.

The Block@TheBlockCo

THE BLOCK: ASIC takes down Yepbit websites and warns users against the digital asset platform after investors report being unable to withdraw funds. The Australian regulator says Yepbit falsely claimed that ASIC had frozen investor funds. ASIC denies the claim.

Simon Gerovich@gerovich

We transferred 5,014 BTC between Metaplanet custodial addresses over the past 24 hours. This was a routine custody operation. No bitcoin was sold, and our holdings remain 43,000 BTC. All of our addresses are published, which is why the transfers were observable in real time.

Bloomberg@business

Crypto firm Bitwise has let go about 14% of its workforce during a prolonged slump in digital-asset prices

bloomberg.com

Bitwise Cuts 14% of Jobs With Crypto Industry Under Pressure

Blockworks@Blockworks

NEW: Now tracking @Uniswap, the largest spot DEX in crypto, with over $4B in fees distributed to liquidity providers. Uniswap's brand-new dashboard covers its financials, volume, liquidity, integrations, and security record.