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Sui demonstrated programmable transaction block, or PTB, technology for AI agents at its Basecamp event, Crypto Briefing reported. PTB executes up to 1,024 Move function calls in a single transaction and reverts the entire transaction if part of the process fails. The structure allows AI agents to handle authentication, data queries, financial logic execution and payments in one step. Sui said transaction finality takes about 400 milliseconds and controlled AI agent tests reached as high as 6.08 million TPS.

South Korean financial authorities are maintaining their policy direction of limiting major shareholders’ stakes in crypto exchanges to disperse ownership as part of legislation for a basic digital asset law, while considering transition measures that would allow existing major shareholders to sell stakes legally without causing market disruption, Newsis reported. Authorities are also reviewing ways to ease the process so major shareholders’ property rights are not excessively infringed, including allowing individual shareholders to hold 15% to 20% and consortium structures to hold more than 30% in consideration of practical management control, according to the report.

VanEck Head of Digital Assets Research Matthew Sigel is maintaining his forecast that BTC will reach $100,000 next year and could rise to $500,000 by 2029 if a cycle similar to past ones unfolds, Cointelegraph reported.

Amid delays to legislation on a basic digital asset law, Kim Sang-hoon, chair of the People Power Party’s special committee on stock and digital asset value-up, stressed the need for a two-track strategy for won-denominated stablecoins, with issuance led by banks in the early stage to secure stability and later expanded to non-bank players such as fintech firms for distribution and innovation in technology and products, Edaily reported. In an interview with Edaily at the National Assembly Members’ Office Building in Yeouido on Aug. 20, Kim said he accepts a bank-centered issuance plan based on a "50%+1" rule, while arguing a two-track approach is needed to pursue both innovation and stability.

Justin Sun, the founder of Tron (TRX), won a partial victory in his legal dispute with World Liberty Financial (WLFI), Crypto Briefing reported. A U.S. federal court in California declined World Liberty Financial’s request to send all of Sun’s personal claims to private arbitration and decided those claims will continue to be heard in open court. Claims involving companies owned by Sun, however, will be separated between court proceedings and arbitration through consultations between the two sides. Sun claims the project froze his WLFI tokens through smart contract functions after he invested $45 million in World Liberty Financial, and is alleging fraud and other wrongdoing. World Liberty Financial has denied the allegations and has separately filed a defamation suit against Sun.

CME Group CEO Terry Duffy publicly clashed with CFTC Chairman Michael Selig over the agency’s approach to regulating prediction markets, BeInCrypto reported. At a meeting of the CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee, Duffy said around 2,500 products had been filed through self-certification since 2025, but the CFTC had not objected to a single one. Duffy argued some products could violate rules barring contracts that are easily susceptible to market manipulation. Selig pushed back, calling Duffy’s example fake news and saying the case Duffy cited did not involve products traded in the United States. One of the examples raised by Duffy was said to have occurred on Kalshi, a U.S. prediction market overseen by the CFTC.

Donald Trump Jr. said the first USD1-based RWA perpetual futures market has launched, calling it an important day for World Liberty Financial (WLFI). He added that gold, crude oil and global equities can be traded against USD1, and that 250 million WLFI and 12.5 million USD1 will be deployed to support liquidity and growth. He also emphasized, "Digital dollar dominance is here. And we plan to win."

Hackers impersonated a CoinDesk executive, hosted a fake cryptocurrency conference and then targeted cybersecurity researchers, according to Crypto Briefing. The hackers posed as a CoinDesk vice president on Aug. 9, local time, and invited multiple cybersecurity researchers to join a fake online crypto conference. The document included custom Google Apps Script malware designed to identify devices and deploy platform-specific malware. The incident came to light after some of the researchers reported it, and no related damage has been reported.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the CLARITY Act would prevent another FTX collapse, according to the Watcher.Guru X account.

The three major U.S. stock indices closed lower today. - S&P 500: -0.86% - Nasdaq: -1.00% - Dow Jones: -1.31%

Payward co-CEO Dave Ripley said in an interview with The Block that Kraken’s parent company is exploring ways to expand payments, lending, yield and asset custody services outside the U.S. as it looks to evolve into a full bank. Ripley added that the company is building a wealth management business and shifting its infrastructure into a suite of services that banks, brokerages and fintech companies can integrate into their apps.

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said in an interview that at a Commodity Futures Trading Commission meeting, Adams pointed to pressure from U.S. regulators that pushed founders overseas, where competitors were able to build their businesses faster.

Two Binance employees were detained during a United Arab Emirates police investigation, though both were later cleared of wrongdoing, The New York Times reported, citing sources. The employees were detained as part of a police probe into possible financial crimes that may have occurred at Binance, though the specific case under investigation was not disclosed. One employee, a midlevel manager, was stopped at the airport while passing through Sharjah in August and was taken to a police station, where the employee was held overnight. Another employee, an executive at a Dubai-based subsidiary, was questioned at a police station in July. Binance said the two were not suspects in the investigation and were released without charges.

Hardware wallet maker Coldcard has released new firmware to address a seed-generation attack issue. The update includes version 5.6.1 for the Mk4 and Mk5, and version 1.5.1Q for the Q series. In late July, Coldcard was hit by a hacking attack targeting a flaw in random-number generation. Estimated losses were 1,778 BTC, or $112 million.

The tokenized stock market has grown from hundreds of millions of dollars to about $2.8 billion in a year, according to Crypto Briefing. Data showed the market is now worth about $2.8 billion across 3,374 assets. The market expanded from the hundreds of millions of dollars at the start of 2025 to $1 billion in March 2026, then reached $2.8 billion within a few months. Data also showed Ethereum, Solana and BNB Chain account for about 94% of the tokenized stock market’s capitalization, with shares of 49%, 23% and 22%, respectively.

U.S. President Donald Trump was optimistic about passage of the CLARITY Act during a private White House meeting with cryptocurrency and finance industry executives, The Block reported. Chainlink founder Sergey Nazarov said the discussion covered remaining issues requiring senators’ agreement and plans to resume efforts after the recess. The meeting also included discussion of Trump’s strategic Bitcoin holdings, though no specific details on next steps were addressed.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reviewing possible rules to allow leverage and margin trading on crypto exchanges, according to the Watcher.Guru X account.

An a16z-linked address beginning with 0xb5E4 transferred 89,470 HYPE worth $6.6 million to crypto market maker Wintermute, Onchain Lens reported. The transfer is estimated to have been intended for a sale.

Franklin Templeton is preparing to introduce tokenized assets into its existing investment funds, Bloomberg reported. According to documents disclosed by the U.S. SEC, Franklin Templeton plans to use money market fund tokens as fund assets and collateral for ETFs and mutual funds. This means investors that had previously invested in traditional funds may later be able to include those assets in their portfolios without separately seeking out asset tokens to invest in.

Atomiq, a Bitcoin swap infrastructure provider in the Starknet (STRK) ecosystem, temporarily halted swaps on Aug. 20 after an AI-based security attack, according to Crypto Briefing. No user funds were lost as a result of the disruption, and Starknet plans to restore bridging functions within days by applying a new integration solution.

An expanded U.S. Treasury bond buyback program could help Bitcoin reach its cycle target of $180,000 sooner, according to CoinDesk. In an interview with CoinDesk, Mark Connors, chief investment officer at Risk Dimensions and a macroeconomic analyst, said if the Treasury’s measures ease pressure from long-term Treasury yields, BTC could gain a foundation for a rise to between $180,000 and $360,000. Connors added progress on the CLARITY Act around Sept. 15 will be a key short-term variable.

Coinbase said now appears to be a good time to ask X, formerly Twitter, once again to restore the Bitcoin emoji. X had previously removed the orange Bitcoin hashtag emoji.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will begin the first meeting of its innovation advisory committee on cryptocurrency, AI and prediction market issues at 5:00 p.m. UTC today. Eleanor Terrett, host of Crypto In America, added that many people who attended a White House-hosted tech industry event yesterday are expected to take part, including figures from the crypto sector, traditional finance, academia and the prediction market industry.

Privacy-focused blockchain ecosystem Beldex has raised $8 million in a funding round led by Sigma Capital, according to Decrypt. Participants in the round included NTC, NexGen, Digital Consensus Fund and EAK Ventures. Beldex said it is expanding beyond its existing privacy ecosystem into infrastructure for developers to build confidential applications, and plans to use the funds for developer tools, confidential applications, protocol security, AI infrastructure and ecosystem expansion.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said on Fox Business that Bitcoin is highly likely to reach $300,000 to $400,000 in the next few years, citing 2030 as an example. Armstrong also said BTC may be on the verge of its next bull market and that the current bear market is nearing an end, with a full-fledged rally likely after a vote on the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15.