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Today’s highlights
- Crypto exchange BitMart weighs partial restart and creditor payouts weeks after announcing shutdown — 2026-08-22
- The exchange has hired White & Case as restructuring counsel, with a detailed roadmap expected by Sept. 9.
- Web3 gaming network Sandbox stops Base and BNB chain bridging after exploit — 2026-08-22
- The Sandbox disabled bridging on affected networks to isolate tokens and warned users not to trade SAND on Base and BNB, citing an impact of under 0.01% of supply.
- Tokenized stocks risk repeating Wall Street’s 1960s ‘paper crisis,’ Fairmint CEO says — 2026-08-22
- Fairmint CEO Joris Delanoue warns tokenized stocks risk recreating Wall Street’s 1960s paper crisis through fragmented systems and standards.
- Kalshi off-limits in multiple states as prediction markets, CFTC team up for battle — 2026-08-22
- Washington state is cut off for Kalshi customers while the company combats the development in court and its federal regulator keeps pursuing new rules.
- MiCA is coming for DeFi vaults, but regulation will be difficult — 2026-08-22
- Brussels is reviewing whether crypto lending should fall under MiCA, but DeFi lending vaults are making it harder to determine who, exactly, should be regulated.
- Bitcoin and Ether bears get decimated amid ‘squeeze-led’ rally and Musk’s X wants to pay creators in stablecoins: Crypto’s week in 5 stories — 2026-08-22
- Bitcoin and crypto staged their strongest rally in months as Treasury intervention, regulatory moves and a historic short squeeze collided, while banks and technology companies pushed deeper into stablecoins.
- Zcash jumps 48% to over $800 as Grayscale spot ETF push adds to ‘next bitcoin’ buzz — 2026-08-22
- ZEC traded above its January 2018 peak as futures volume hit billions of dollars and a Grayscale filing showed fresh progress toward converting its Zcash Trust into a spot ETF.
- How a Treasury buyback tweak helped bitcoin surge 25% to nearly $80,000 in days — 2026-08-22
- Treasury buybacks are not QE, analysts said, but the move helped pull long-term yields off 19-year highs and triggered a record short squeeze in a market already leaning too bearish.