The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved Nasdaq Texas rules that formally define “digital commodity” for exchange-traded fund issuance. The rules are directly aligned with joint SEC and CFTC guidance released in March 2026. The framework covers a range of digital assets including Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP, Chainlink, Hedera, Algorand, Cardano and Avalanche, marking a key step toward large-scale, diversified digital-asset ETFs.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the CLARITY Act by a 294–134 vote, with 78 Democrats supporting the bill, as lawmakers seek to provide regulatory certainty for digital assets. In March 2026, the SEC and CFTC explicitly cited XRP, XLM and HBAR as examples of “digital commodities.” Stellar processed $11.4B in stablecoin transfers in Q2 and has more than $3B in tokenized real-world assets, while Franklin Templeton has over $650M of its BENJI fund represented on the network. Hedera, through Archax, has tokenized more than 100 assets worth over $300M, and Canary’s HBAR ETF reported holding and staking 663.2M HBAR.

Liquid Network was hit by a hack in which nearly all of its Bitcoin was stolen, but the attackers returned most of the funds after a vulnerability patch was issued. The network has paused new transactions while fixes are implemented. The incident highlights security risks around Bitcoin sidechains, with limited realized asset losses but renewed concerns about the technology’s reliability. There is still no confirmed timeline for the network to fully resume normal operations.

BNB Network Company (BNC) was previously VAPE, a company focused on climate-controlled agriculture and e-cigarettes. In 2025, it executed a full pivot with a roughly $500 million PIPE led by YZi Labs, repositioning itself as the world’s largest publicly listed BNB treasury and rebranding as BNB Network Company ($BNC). CZ backed the deal to create a compliant, transparent and auditable public-market route for traditional investors to access BNB, akin to Strategy’s role for bitcoin. After months of governance disputes, the sides have now reached a cooperation agreement that strengthens the board, resets governance and refocuses the company on long-term support for BNB and its ecosystem while aligning shareholder interests.

Solana has implemented an adjustment to reduce the issuance of SOL tokens. The change has directly lowered on-chain staking yields, which are now around 2.25%. By slowing the pace of new token issuance, the network aims to curb inflation. The shift affects Solana’s economic model and token supply by reducing the return from staking rewards.

A total of 4,000 bitcoin (BTC) was unexpectedly pegged out of the Liquid sidechain bridge, with the transfer carrying an OP_RETURN note claiming the operator was a “whitehat” and requesting on-chain contact. The messaging and behavior were compared to the Ronin Network incident in which validator keys were compromised and about $625M was stolen. They were also likened to the “let’s talk” approach used by the Euler attacker to negotiate a return after the fact. The destination of the funds and the operator’s true intent remain unclear.

Robinhood chose to roll out its global crypto services on Ethereum via Arbitrum rather than Solana. The decision highlights that institutions prioritize ecosystem maturity and security, not just low costs. Solana recently saw a validator-offline incident affecting 29% of staked SOL that was not recorded on its status page, while its H1 2025 revenue was 95% tied to priority fees and Jito tips and its H1 2026 network revenue fell 87% year over year. By contrast, Arbitrum surpassed 10M daily transactions within two weeks of mainnet and launched with tokenized U.S. equities, Uniswap and Chainlink, underscoring the scaling capacity of Ethereum’s L2s.

GoMining has suffered a security incident in which a hack emptied more than 600 wallets, with total losses of about $2.8 million in crypto assets. The attackers then swapped the stolen funds into ETH and consolidated the holdings. The incident directly threatens the safety of funds held by GOMINING token holders and highlights serious weaknesses in the project’s wallet security. The token’s price could face negative pressure, while the large-scale conversion into ETH may add additional selling pressure to the Ethereum market.