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World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture that has earned President Trump’s family more than $1.4 billion, is drawing revenue from a platform that resells access to Chinese AI models the Pentagon has designated as military-linked companies. Key facts: WorldClaw, a Hong Kong-based AI marketplace, offers 90 models. Forty-three come from Chinese developers, including Alibaba and Baidu, both newly added to the Pentagon’s list of Chinese military companies.

The Royal Government of Bhutan sent 300 BTC, worth about $19.28 million, to a newly created wallet on August 18, on-chain data shows. The receiving address carries no exchange label yet, the same signature Arkham Intelligence has tied to $162.6 million of Bhutan’s untagged 2026 outflows. In May, Druk Holding and Investments’ chief executive told reporters he was unaware of the government selling any bitcoin.

Arthur Hayes says he is leading Flop Labs, a startup selling FLOP, a token meant to let AI agents pay for computing power, with an airdrop planned for the fourth quarter of 2026 and the underlying blockchain not launching until the first quarter of 2027. The only public documentation is a landing page and three sign-up forms; there is no whitepaper, tokenomics schedule, named chain or audit.

Multiple users on Reddit and X reported CoinMarketCap failing to load in India starting August 13, 2026. Switching to a VPN restores access immediately, and CoinGecko loads normally on the same connections, pointing to something specific to CoinMarketCap on Indian networks rather than a general outage or a single person’s setup. CoinMarketCap and India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) were contacted for comment and had not responded as of publication.

Citi says it expects to go live with bitcoin custody for institutional clients later this year, built into a new platform called Custody+. The commitment replaces a hedged October 2025 comment from a Citi executive that a custody product was still “next few quarters” away. JPMorgan told reporters in October 2025 that custody was “not on the table,” a gap Citi’s new deadline now widens.

Swiss hardware wallet maker BitBox shipped a firmware update on August 17, 2026, patching three security flaws in its BitBox02 device, and on the same day raised the risk rating of an unrelated flaw it had already fixed a month earlier to “Severe.” The fixes close gaps that could have let an attacker manipulate an unconfigured device or redirect a Bitcoin payment under specific conditions.

Blockchain.com has been admitted to Nigeria’s SEC-run Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP), the company said Aug. 18, 2026. ARIP status is a conditional, revocable Approval-in-Principle, not a full operating licence, and carries specific SEC compliance requirements. Yellow Card Financial Limited and Pisi Payments Solution Limited were admitted in the same batch.

Kraken opened trading in more than 7,000 US-listed stocks to customers across the European Economic Area on Tuesday, letting them buy and hold real shares through the same account as its crypto and tokenized-stock products.

Circle’s euro stablecoin, EURC, passed €400 million in circulation on August 17, with supply more than doubling over the past year, the company said. Circle’s own audited reserve reports give a firmer reference point. An attestation covering December 31, 2024, put EURC circulation at €80,705,696 that day. From there to today, the token has grown nearly fivefold. EURC has surpassed €400M in circulation.

Blockchain Association filed a comment letter with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 17 supporting the agency’s plan to rescind two Regulation NMS rules, and part of its case rests on a paper from Douro Labs, a firm founded by former Jump Crypto specialists whose parent company already trades tokenized stocks. 1/ Today, we submitted a comment letter to the @SECGov supporting its proposal to rescind outdated provisions of Regulation NMS – Rules 611 and 610(e).