On Tuesday, Aug. 11, onchain trackers caught a Genesis ethereum (ETH) wallet moving 2,680 ETH worth $5.03 million after sitting untouched for 11 years. The ancient stash was worth just $830 back then, meaning the long-forgotten pile delivered a staggering 605,924% gain.

Harmony Protocol’s native token, ONE, fell more than 30% to an all-time low after an attacker exploited the network to mint over 4 billion unauthorized tokens.

Strategy CEO Phong Le says the bitcoin treasury company will resume accumulating bitcoin later this year, even after selling four times since May. Le noted Strategy has still bought about 175,000 BTC in 2026 against roughly 7,000 sold, a 25-to-1 buy-to-sell ratio.

Metaplanet and Hut8 pulled a combined 1,966 BTC (worth roughly $125 million) off exchanges within a three-hour window on August 12.

Bitwise Asset Management has cut its workforce by 14%, trimming headcount to about 155 from 180, as a prolonged crypto price slump has continued to squeeze many digital-asset firms.

Glassnode says bitcoin sellers are showing signs of exhaustion, though the onchain analytics firm stopped short of confirming a historical market bottom is in.

XRP wallets holding at least 1 million tokens grew by 32 over the past three months, even as the token’s market capitalization fell 29% in the same window, per Santiment.

Sharplink reported a $394.3 million second-quarter loss as falling ether prices triggered more than $397 million in unrealized losses and impairments. Still, staking generated $11.2 million in revenue as the company continued building one of the largest corporate ETH treasuries.

U.S. regulators have moved to block imports of foreign-made humanoid robots, targeting devices produced abroad, especially in China, on national security and cybersecurity grounds. The FCC-backed restriction, announced in late July, also sweeps in robots assembled with more than 35% foreign components, extending earlier curbs tied to drones and firms such as Huawei and China Telecom.

Switzerland has turned financial regulation into a competitive machine, pairing the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, better known as FINMA, with specialized regulatory pathways that have helped make the country one of the world’s premier destinations for finance, fintech, cryptocurrency, and blockchain businesses.

Federal regulators have targeted Goliath Ventures over an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme involving more than $400 million. The CFTC cites 1,600 customers, while the SEC alleges at least $425 million was raised from over 1,300 investors.

Australia’s financial crime regulator has forced 96 Cryptolink crypto ATMs offline for three months after identifying renewed compliance failures. The suspension follows earlier enforcement over transaction reporting and anti-money laundering controls.

As far as digital asset regulation is concerned, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not waiting around for Congress. The agency has scheduled an open meeting for Friday, Aug. 14, to weigh a proposal that could make it easier for crypto companies to raise money without enduring full securities registration.

A federal judge denied Kalshi’s request for a preliminary injunction against Connecticut regulators, holding that its sports-event contracts are not swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, so the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction never attached. Coinbase Financial Markets lost a companion motion on the same reasoning despite never having received a cease-and-desist.

Mysten Labs co-founder and chief cryptographer Kostas Chalkias says he has quietly leased a factory to mass-produce quantum-resistant hardware wallet cards for Sui, aiming to keep users safe from a threat that just cost bitcoin holders roughly $130 million.