LayerZero Foundation has put forward a $110 million proposal to acquire the Stargate cross-chain bridge and all outstanding STG tokens, seeking to fold the asset into its own interoperability network

MicroStrategy Inc. disclosed in a regulatory filing on 11 August that it bought 155 bitcoin between 4 and 10 August for approximately $18 million

ALT5 Sigma Corporation said it has entered definitive agreements for a registered direct offering and a concurrent private placement

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Brown University has doubled its exposure to Bitcoin by purchasing additional shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (ticker IBIT), bringing the Ivy League institution’s total position to about $13 million

Blockchain-tracking service Whale Alert recorded a series of seven transactions from Circle Internet Financial’s USDC Treasury wallet on 8 August 2025 that created about 1

Chinese authorities have instructed domestic securities brokers and affiliated research bodies to stop publishing reports on or hosting promotional events for stablecoins, according to several market notices circulated on 8 August

Animoca Brands, Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), and HKT have established a joint venture named Anchorpoint Financial Limited to pursue a stablecoin issuer license under Hong Kong's new Stablecoins Ordinance, which took effect on August 1, 2025

Pumpfun, a Solana memecoin launchpad, has launched the Glass Full Foundation to boost liquidity and support growth within the Solana blockchain ecosystem

El Salvador’s state-run Bitcoin Office said on 8 August that the government is preparing to establish what it calls the world’s first Bitcoin bank, broadening the Central American nation’s push to integrate the cryptocurrency into its financial system