The federal banking regulator has granted preliminary approval for World Liberty Trust Company to operate as a national trust bank, a move that carries direct implications for stablecoin adoption in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Kenya.
Read full article →Bank Leumi and Galaxy Digital announced a partnership on August 14, 2026, that would make Leumi the first Israeli bank to offer direct trading of Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana to retail customers, subject to regulatory approval. The service is expected to launch in early 2027, pending formal approval from the Bank of Israel.
Nigeria's securities regulator has expanded its digital asset sandbox to 12 firms, admitting stablecoin infrastructure provider Yellow Card, global wallet operator Blockchain Africa, and payments startup Pisi Payment Solutions on August 14, 2026, as the country accelerates its push to bring a market that saw $92 billion in crypto inflows in the past year under formal oversight.
JPMorgan Chase terminated its deposit banking relationship with prediction market platform Polymarket in October 2025, citing regulatory concerns, according to a Financial Times investigation published August 14, 2026.
Binance announced on August 14 that it will block transactions involving 16 cryptocurrency exchanges and payment platforms globally, citing the European Union's 21st Russia sanctions package and a separate US Treasury action, with restrictions on the largest tranche taking effect August 23.
Shares of the Nasdaq-listed stablecoin infrastructure company surged as much as 12% on Friday after its Q2 2026 treasury report revealed the firm controls roughly one-fifth of all ENA governance tokens ever to exist. StablecoinX (Nasdaq: USDE) opened sharply higher on August 14 following the release of its second-quarter financial report, which confirmed the company holds approximately 3.0 billion ENA tokens, the governance and utility token for the Ethena DeFi protocol.
Las Vegas-based Hyperscale Data (NYSE American: GPUS), formerly known as Ault Alliance before a 2024 rebrand, liquidated approximately 685 Bitcoin for roughly $43 million this week, directing the bulk of the proceeds toward debt reduction and construction of a large-scale AI data center in Dowagiac, Michigan. The sale, announced August 14, 2026, is not an isolated move: it is the latest and largest step in a weeks-long, systematic drawdown of the company's Bitcoin treasury.