
Crypto Weekly 8/16/26
Trump's World Liberty Financial Gets Preliminary Approval to Become a National Bank, Tether Gets Its First Clean Audit From KPMG, and a Solana Routing Bug Nearly Knocks Out Finality
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Trump's World Liberty Financial Gets Preliminary Approval to Become a National Bank, Tether Gets Its First Clean Audit From KPMG, and a Solana Routing Bug Nearly Knocks Out Finality

The Senate Sets a September 15 Vote on the Clarity Act, Bitcoin Falls Below $63K as Coinbase and Strategy Disappoint, and Wells Fargo Moves Into Tokenized Deposits

The CLARITY Act Misses Its August Deadline Over an Ethics Standoff, Strategy Swings to an $8.2 Billion Loss, and a Coldcard Vulnerability Drains $70 Million in Bitcoin

The Senate's Clarity Act Nears a Final Vote With an Ethics Clause, Telegram Brings Non-Custodial Wallets to a Billion Users, and BitMEX Shuts Down After 11 Years

Big Banks Test Tokenized Stocks on the DTCC's Blockchain, Visa Launches Stablecoins for 200 Million Merchants, and Airbnb's CEO Gets His X Account Hijacked to Shill Tokenization

Bitcoin ETFs Snap Their 8-Week Outflow Streak, Trump's $TRUMP Memecoin Leaves Nearly 1 Million People $3.8 Billion Poorer, and Swift Tests a 24/7 Blockchain Pilot With 17 Global Banks

SpaceX Reveals $1.4 Billion in Bitcoin Ahead of Its IPO, Crypto Champion Hester Peirce Is Leaving the SEC, and Harvard Dumps Its Entire Ethereum Position After One Quarter

The CLARITY Act Clears the Senate Banking Committee, Kevin Warsh Is Confirmed as Fed Chair, and Bitcoin Dips Below $79K on Inflation Fears

A Deal on Stablecoin Yield Clears the Path for the CLARITY Act, Tether Stockpiles $20 Billion in Gold, and Crypto Is the Most Muted Topic on X

The US Freezes $344M in Tether Linked to Iran, Justin Sun Sues Trump's World Liberty Financial for Fraud, and Litecoin Rewrites Three Hours of Its Own Blockchain History