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NEAR Protocol is considering a sovereign wealth fund-style model that would use investment income, rather than inflation, to support long-term operations. The proposal calls for an initial fund of about 30 million NEAR tokens, valued at roughly $53 million. Co-founder Illia Polosukhin said investing protocol revenue and holding NEAR tokens would offset inflation more sustainably than burning tokens. NEAR was trading around $1.76, up about 3.5% over 24 hours, but down roughly 29% over the past year.

On August 9, 2026, Ripple said it has expanded its institutional tokenization strategy through strategic investments in transfer agency provider ZILO and FCA-regulated tokenization platform Licuido. The investments aim to strengthen infrastructure for tokenized capital markets on the XRP Ledger and support institutions in bringing assets on-chain for issuance and trading. ZILO focuses on digital-asset transfer agency services, while Licuido provides compliant tokenization solutions, together advancing tokenization across Ripple’s ecosystem.

Western Union has partnered with crypto firm Rain to launch Stablecard, a Solana-based stablecoin payment card built around USDPT. The product is live in 37 markets, and Western Union is targeting availability in more than 60 markets by the end of 2026. Users can receive Western Union transfers converted directly into USDPT and spend it anywhere Visa is accepted, with support for Apple Pay and Google Pay.

BNB Chain has overtaken Tron to become the largest network by stablecoin-holding addresses, at roughly 79–80M compared with Tron's 76M. The shift is primarily driven by USDT: USDT-holding addresses on BNB Chain rose 49% over the past six months to 70.6M, while Tron's 75.5M was essentially flat. Tron had led as the default rail for USDT transfers, and the change signals a notable shift in where stablecoin users are concentrated. The address counts include bridged tokens and do not map one-to-one to users, but the growth gap between the two networks remains clear.

BlackRock said it has added 12 tokenized share classes to its Institutional Cash Series, spanning six European money market funds with about $311 billion under management. The shares are issued as digital tokens minted on the Ethereum blockchain. They can be transferred 24/7 between approved wallets. JPMorgan’s Kinexys platform is involved in the collaboration.

Carbon, an on-chain prime broker, has opened public trading on more than 250 traditional finance derivatives markets spanning equities, indices, forex and commodities, alongside 150 24/7 real-world-asset markets. TradFi clears more than $1.5 trillion a day in CFDs, giving on-chain traders a direct route to that liquidity. Carbon has operated since 2023 and says it has processed $20B+ in cumulative trading volume across 36K+ traders.

Chainlink has joined Hong Kong’s Tokenized Securities Framework (TSF) alongside FORMS HK, Apex Group, CSpro and Cyberport, using CCIP and an automated compliance engine to support tokenized securities across their lifecycle. The framework is designed to enable compliant issuance, settlement and cross-chain movement of tokenized securities under existing rules. Separately, BitGo migrated more than $7.7 billion of WBTC to CCIP, pushing total value moved through CCIP above $16 billion, according to the summary provided.

Over the past three weeks, an institutional wallet labeled 0x2a7 has bought more than $13m worth of altcoins, with its biggest single-day buying spree occurring today. The wallet is linked to Amber Group and currently holds more than $15m in crypto. Today’s purchases included 38.889M $ENA worth $3.57m at an average price of $0.0919, 46.762K $AAVE worth $4.26m at an average price of $91.09, 118.406K $LINK worth $1m at $8.455, 4.107K $BNB worth $2.34m at an average price of $582.5, and 1.14K $ETH worth $2.18m at $1,912.

TRON DAO has released GreatVoyage v4.8.2, codenamed Pyrrho, as a mandatory full-node upgrade that operators must complete by 23:59 Singapore time on 2026年8月16日 to avoid block synchronization interruptions. The release upgrades the TRON Virtual Machine with compatibility for Ethereum Pectra and Osaka hardfork features, including the CLZ opcode and secp256r1 signature verification. It also adds support for modern authentication methods such as Apple Secure Enclave WebAuthn and Android Keystore, aimed at improving cross-chain interactions and ecosystem development.

ASTER hit an all-time high of $2.41 within a week of its September 2025 launch but has since fallen to $0.60, down about 75%. The project previously claimed $23B in daily trading volume, but it has been accused of wash trading and DeFiLlama has removed its volume data. Only 34% of the supply is circulating and the FDV is close to $4.7B. Concentrated token allocations have fueled concerns about persistent selling pressure.