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RWA deposits across lending platforms and decentralized exchanges reached $7.4 billion in the second quarter of 2026, more than tripling from $2.3 billion a year earlier, according to a report published Aug. 6 by CoinShares. Over the same period, total DeFi deposits fell about 15% as investors withdrew funds and crypto prices weakened. The data marks a shift from token issuance toward active financial use. CoinShares said the onchain market value of tokenized funds, stocks and commodities had already passed $40 billion. The $7.4 billion figure covers assets deployed in lending and trading venues, rather than the sector’s entire issued…

Warren Buffett’s grip on Wall Street looks less secure in 2026 because Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A, NYSE: BRK.B) is badly trailing the market. The company’s Class B stock is down 1.8% this year, while the S&P 500 has gained 10.7%. Once dividends are counted, the index is up 11.4%. That puts Berkshire behind by 12.4 percentage points on price and 13.1 points on total return. The disparity looked even worse on June 1. Berkshire was trailing the benchmark by 17.5 percentage points, the largest underperformance of the year. The recovery of June almost closed a third of the gap. However,…

Solana is about to get a lot more powerful. The network is raising its mainnet block compute limit from 60 million to 100 million compute units — a 66% jump in raw processing capacity — with the change set to activate at the start of Epoch 1009 within 24 hours. For a blockchain already positioned as one of the fastest in the industry, this isn’t a minor tweak. It’s a structural expansion that could reshape how developers and users interact with the network. Key takeaways Solana’s block compute limit increases from 60 million to 100 million compute units — a…

John Deaton has run for US Senate against Elizabeth Warren. He’s also, by his own account, more likely to be recognized for something else entirely. Deaton says his path into the $XRP world began the way it does for a lot of people, with Bitcoin first, then a slow slide down the rabbit hole into other coins. He ended up holding Bitcoin, Ethereum, and $XRP, drawn in part by how quickly $XRP transactions settled. “It showed up in three seconds,” he said, describing his own reaction the first time he sent it. The story that pulled him deeper into advocacy…

Bitcoin miner IREN registered nearly 12 million shares issued in its acquisition of Mirantis for potential resale, creating a block worth about $476 million that could add selling pressure to its stock. The company agreed in May to acquire Mirantis in a transaction valued at approximately $625 million at signing, largely through a fixed number of 13.7 million IREN shares. However, the deal closed Aug. 3 with IREN issuing 12.6 million shares alongside about $40 million in cash, restricted stock units and other consideration. One day later, IREN filed a prospectus covering 11.9 million of those shares held by former…

Blockchain tracking service Whale Alert reported a significant transaction on Tuesday: 4,000 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $262 million, was transferred from an unidentified wallet to a wallet associated with the payment giant PayPal. The transfer is one of the largest single movements of Bitcoin to a known payment platform this year, drawing attention from analysts and market observers. Details of the Transaction According to Whale Alert’s public data, the transaction occurred in a single block and involved a wallet with no known public affiliation. The receiving address has been linked to PayPal’s cryptocurrency infrastructure, which the company launched in 2020…

The UNIfication proposal passed with 99.9% support, activated the fee switch, and burned 100 million $UNI tokens. Eight months later, protocol revenue has reached $23 million and Ark Invest estimates annualized burns at $90 million. The question is no longer whether governance tokens can accrue value. It is whether every other DeFi protocol must now follow or watch its token become worthless. The governance token problem has haunted DeFi since the summer of 2020. Protocols distributed tokens that conferred voting rights but no economic claim on the revenue those protocols generated. The result was predictable: governance tokens traded on speculation,…

SK Hynix’s record-breaking Wall Street debut was followed by a sharp reality check on Monday, as its Seoul-listed shares fell more than 10% at one stage. The pullback came after the chipmaker’s new American depositary receipts surged 12.8% in their first Nasdaq session on Friday. Importantly, the decline was in the Korean stock, not the SKHY receipts, which had yet to begin Monday’s regular US trading. Analysts largely attributed the reversal to profit-taking, broader market weakness and cooling expectations for near-term HBM4 shipments. SK Hynix stock: From record high to reality check SK Hynix priced 177.9 million depositary shares at…

Shib (@Shibtoken) turns six on August 1, 2026, and its record reads like nothing else in crypto: a token launched with about $3,000 in liquidity that reached a peak market cap north of $37 billion, absorbed the largest token burn in history, lost its anonymous founder, built its own Layer-2 chain, survived a bridge hack, and still trades roughly 95% below its 2021 high. Days before the anniversary, the team posted a photo of its half-built website from August 2020 with a simple message: six years later, the experiment continues. How Did $SHIB Start? $SHIB launched on August 1, 2020,…

Jackson Miake has become Vanuatu’s Commissioner of Stablecoins. His LinkedIn profile lists the role as a contract position with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management beginning in July 2026. Before the appointment, Miake’s most recent position was Governance Risk and Compliance Specialist at Exness, where he worked from January to July 2026. Vanuatu Passes Stablecoin Legislation Vanuatu’s Parliament passed the Stablecoins Bill in 2025. The legislation provides for a Stablecoin Supervisory Commission, or SSC, alongside licensing for issuers, reserve requirements, disclosure obligations and regulatory supervision. Jackson Miake, Vanuatu’s Commissioner of Stablecoins. Source: LinkedIn Under the legislation, the SSC is…