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Crypto's New Macro Boss: A Hawkish Fed Ends the Summer Rally
August's crypto rally ran into two walls at once: a Federal Reserve under new chair Kevin Warsh hinting at a rate hike rather than a cut, and fresh geopolitical risk around the Strait of Hormuz. Prices gave back most of the month's gains — but institutional inflows kept coming, and that split is the story.
A Stablecoin on the Shirt: What Circle's Chelsea Deal Says About Crypto in 2026
USDC by Circle will be Chelsea FC's front-of-shirt sponsor from this season — the first time a crypto-finance brand has taken the principal shirt slot at a Premier League club. It marks a shift in how crypto markets itself: away from exchange tokens and hype, toward payments infrastructure pitched to a mainstream audience.
On a Red Day for Crypto, the Green Corner Was Tokenized Real-World Assets
Bitcoin and most of the market fell on Friday, but two niches held up: prediction markets and tokenized private credit. The second one points to the year's quietest big story — traditional assets like Treasuries and credit funds are steadily migrating onto public blockchains, and institutions are leading the move.
Crypto Moves Into the Brokerage Account: Schwab Widens Its Coin List
Charles Schwab plans to add Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to its crypto platform, becoming the second big US brokerage to look beyond Bitcoin and Ether. It is a quieter but arguably more consequential trend than the daily price swings: crypto is being absorbed into the accounts ordinary investors already hold.
Regulators Stop Waiting for Congress: The Global Race to Write Crypto's Rulebook
With the US Senate's landmark CLARITY Act stalled until at least mid-September, the SEC has broken ranks and proposed its own crypto framework. It is part of a wider shift in 2026: financial regulators from Washington to London are no longer waiting for legislators to define what digital assets are.
Bitcoin Cools From $81K Peak as Traders Take Profits — Crypto Market Cap Slips to $2.73 Trillion
DeFi bucks the trend with a 1.8% gain even as BTC and ETH pull back, while Japan and a coalition of U.S. banks unveil new blockchain settlement plans.
DeFi's Rough Week: Six Hacks Drain $15 Million as 2026 Losses Top $1.26 Billion — South Korea Suspends Sandbox Trading
Six separate exploits across Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain drained roughly $15 million from DeFi protocols in a single week, pushing 2026's total losses past $1.26 billion. South Korea's top exchanges suspended Sandbox trading in response, while the U.S. SEC's new crypto rules proposal remains open for comment.
Bitcoin Rallies Toward $80,000 as Crypto Market Cap Tops $2.7 Trillion
Bitcoin surged past $79,000 and Ethereum topped $2,500 on August 24, 2026, as fading Fed rate-hike expectations fuel crypto's biggest rally since 2017. Here's what's driving the $2.7 trillion market higher — and what to watch at this week's Jackson Hole symposium.
