As part of the integration, the KiiChain App will support deposits, swaps, and yield vaults for TRON-based digital assets, including USDT (TRC20), giving users seamless access to real-time, always-on foreign exchange operations. By leveraging TRON’s high-throughput, low-cost stablecoin settlement infrastructure, KiiChain enables faster payments, treasury management, and FX execution for users, enterprises, and institutional partners.
The integration also expands the KiiChain App, a hybrid on-chain FX and liquidity venue, by connecting TRON’s stablecoin ecosystem to 24/7 foreign exchange and real-world asset (RWA) liquidity. Together, KiiChain and TRON provide the infrastructure to support real-time cross-border payments, treasury operations, and liquidity access across global markets.
“Foreign exchange remains one of the largest and most important financial markets in the world, yet it still operates with significant friction across borders and banking hours,” said Alex Cavallero, Co-Founder & COO of KiiChain. “At KiiChain, we’re rebuilding FX infrastructure to operate 24/7 through on-chain settlement. By integrating TRON’s ecosystem and stablecoin infrastructure, we’re expanding our ability to deliver faster, more efficient, and globally accessible payment rails for enterprises and users alike.”
“With more than $500 million in on-chain FX transaction volume already flowing through KiiChain on TRON, this integration reflects the growing demand for blockchain-powered financial infrastructure,” said Sam Elfarra, Community Spokesperson at TRON DAO. “By combining TRON’s leading stablecoin ecosystem with KiiChain’s FX platform, we’re advancing faster, more efficient, and always-on global payments at scale.”
The integration gives KiiChain’s more than 200 enterprise clients and 360,000 registered users access to TRON’s stablecoin ecosystem, which supports more than $90 billion in circulating USDT on TRON. KiiChain and TRON are advancing interoperable financial infrastructure that combines 24/7 FX settlement, stablecoin payments, and multi-chain liquidity to make cross-border payments faster, more efficient, and more accessible for institutions and businesses worldwide.
About KiiChain
KiiChain is the on-chain FX orchestration layer powering global payments, trading, and financial operations through a hybrid liquidity and execution model. By combining on-chain settlement with centralized pricing, KiiChain enables instant FX swaps, fiat on/off ramps, and stablecoin payments across multiple currencies and regions.
Designed for users, businesses, and developers, KiiChain provides both an intuitive user interface and a suite of APIs that support compliant, scalable, and always-on financial operations.
Website: https://kiichain.io/
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About TRON DAO
TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.
Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. Until recently, TRON hosted the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $94 billion. As of August 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 400 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $28 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”
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]]>The pace of account growth accelerated significantly after TRON reached its first 100 million accounts, a milestone that took four years from the launch of its genesis block on June 25, 2018. The network reached 200 million accounts approximately 17 months later, on December 7, 2023. From there, TRON doubled its total number of accounts in less than three years, surpassing 300 million on April 12, 2025, before crossing 400 million on August 23, 2026.
TRON’s expanding user base is reflected in the scale and volume of activity taking place on the network. With more than 15.2 billion transactions processed and total transfer volume surpassing $29 trillion, TRON has emerged as critical infrastructure for the movement of digital assets at global scale. Its combination of high throughput, low transaction costs, and deep liquidity has made the network a leading settlement layer for stablecoin payments, cross-border transfers, and an expanding range of on-chain financial activity.
“Reaching 400 million accounts is a meaningful milestone for the TRON ecosystem and a reflection of the growing demand for accessible blockchain infrastructure,” said Justin Sun, founder of TRON. “From payments and stablecoins to decentralized applications and tokenized assets, TRON continues to provide the infrastructure that enables users around the world to participate in the digital economy. As adoption grows, we remain focused on building a network that is efficient, accessible, and capable of supporting the next generation of blockchain use cases.”
The milestone comes as TRON continues to expand its presence across the digital asset ecosystem, with growing applications in institutional asset tokenization. Recent developments include the launch of the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index, which recognized the TRON blockchain among the top protocols in the benchmark, based on protocol utility, onchain liquidity, and network activity. Collaborations with Anchorage Digital, Securitize, and Bitnomial have also expanded institutional access to the TRON ecosystem.
TRON remains focused on building reliable, efficient infrastructure that supports the continued growth of its user base and the expanding role of blockchain technology in the global digital economy.
About TRON DAO
TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.
Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its Mainnet launch in May 2018. TRON currently hosts the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $94 billion. As of August 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 400 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $28 billion in total value locked (TVL), according to TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”
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]]>Latest data shows that XRP spot ETF recorded net inflows of approximately $39.78 million last week, marking the best weekly performance since May. Notably, the single-day net inflow on August 21 reached $18.38 million, the highest level since May 14. This renewed capital flow indicates that institutional investor demand for XRP exposure is recovering.
As ETF inflows continue and XRP prices rebound, concerns about potential price drops have led more investors to consider a practical question: beyond simply waiting for price appreciation, are there more diversified ways to capture long-term returns from digital assets?
Against this backdrop, an increasing number of investors are turning to the EX DeFi cloud mining platform, seeking to explore additional revenue streams through cloud mining and yield aggregation mechanisms without having to sell their digital assets.
XRP ETF Inflows Finally See a Significant Rebound
Previously, XRP ETF inflows had been relatively sluggish; there were no inflows on seven of the first eleven trading days in August. However, capital began returning to the XRP spot ETF market on August 18, with a net inflow of $5.81 million recorded that day.
Inflows subsequently accelerated. On August 20, XRP spot ETFs saw a single-day net inflow of approximately $13.24 million, rising further to $18.38 million on August 21, bringing the total weekly net inflow to $39.78 million. With the continued entry of new capital, the cumulative net inflow for XRP spot ETFs since their launch has risen to approximately $1.56 billion.
This shift has largely coincided with the rebound in XRP’s price. After holding support near the $1.00 mark, XRP surged rapidly—rising by approximately 70% in just a few days to peak at $1.70—before pulling back to around $1.50 due to profit-taking. This trend highlights the return of ETF capital as a key factor in the recent XRP market.
What signals do the continued inflows into XRP ETFs send?
Recent capital flow data indicates a significant improvement in demand for XRP ETFs.
Last week, nearly $40 million in new capital flowed into spot XRP ETFs, marking the strongest weekly performance since May. Concurrently, XRP’s price, spot trading volume, and market participation have all rebounded, signaling renewed market interest in the asset.
For long-term investors, sustained ETF inflows signify that XRP is attracting a more diversified capital base. Should institutional demand for allocation continue to rise alongside further improvements in the regulatory environment, market interest in XRP could increase even further.
However, given the substantial short-term gains and the formation of a clear resistance zone between $1.65 and $1.70, the asset’s ability to break through this level remains a key point to watch.
EX DeFi Cloud Mining Platform: An Optimal Choice for Investors
Amidst XRP’s rapid price rebound and the resurgence of ETF inflows, some investors are reconsidering how to utilize their digital assets for the long term.
EX DeFi has launched a sustainable energy-based cloud mining service, offering users a way to participate without the need to purchase specialized mining hardware. Users can select computing power contracts tailored to their needs, while the platform handles management, daily operations, and earnings settlements.
Compared to traditional mining, cloud mining reduces the burden on users regarding hardware procurement, electricity consumption, equipment maintenance, and day-to-day operations. For users who hold XRP long-term and wish to explore additional avenues for generating returns from digital assets, this model offers a compelling alternative for participating in the digital asset ecosystem.
About EX DeFi
Headquartered in the UK, EX DeFi operates in compliance with European regulatory frameworks—such as MiCA and MiFID II—and is committed to continuously enhancing platform transparency, operational standards, and user protection mechanisms.
The platform employs a multi-layered security architecture, featuring:
Annual financial and security compliance audits by PwC;
Digital asset custody insurance from Lloyd’s of London;
Cloudflare enterprise-grade network protection and McAfee® security systems;
Multi-layer encryption, AI-driven risk management, and 2FA authentication.
EX DeFi currently supports a wide range of mainstream digital assets—including XRP, BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, DOGE, LTC, and SOL—offering users flexible service options.
Affiliate Program
Users can earn referral rewards by inviting friends to join the platform, with potential rewards reaching up to $50,000.
Participate in cloud mining in just 4 steps:
1. Register an account
Sign up on the EX DeFi platform using your email address; new users receive a $17 trial bonus.
2. Deposit digital assets
Deposit XRP or other supported digital assets into your account (minimum deposit: $100).
3. Select a mining package
Choose a cloud mining plan that suits your budget and preferred contract duration.
4. Start earning returns
Once the contract is activated, the system automatically allocates computing power and settles earnings. Users can choose to withdraw their earnings or continue participating based on their needs.
Popular High-Yield Contract Plans
BTC (Beginner Trial Contract): Investment $100, Duration: 2 days, Daily Return: $4, Total Profit: $100 + $8
DOGE (Goldshell Mini-Doge Pro): Investment $500, Duration: 6 days, Daily Return: $6.5, Total Profit: $500 + $39
BTC (Canaan-Avalon-A1466): Investment $1,000, Duration: 10 days, Daily Return: $13.4, Total Profit: $1,000 + $134
LTC (Bitmain Antminer L7): Investment $5,000, Duration: 20 days, Daily Return: $73.5, Total Profit: $5,000 + $1,470
Click here to visit the official EX DeFi website and view contract details.
Summary
Cumulative net inflows into XRP spot ETFs have surpassed $1.56 billion. Notably, last week saw net inflows of $39.78 million—the best weekly performance since May—indicating renewed institutional interest in XRP.
As the price of XRP rebounds rapidly from around $1.00 to approximately $1.50, investors are looking beyond mere price appreciation and exploring diversified yield-generating models for digital assets, such as cloud mining. For investors bullish on XRP in the long term, generating stable passive income via the EX DeFi cloud mining platform represents a compelling opportunity worth serious consideration.
For more details, please visit: https://exdefi.com/
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]]>Developed by DSA in collaboration with Professor Charles C.Y. Wang, Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Giveback Backpack, the four-session program introduced high school students to real-world questions at the intersection of technology, markets, governance, and public policy.
The program concluded on Saturday, August 22, with a case study class on Axie Infinity and Sky Mavis co-founder Jeff Zirlin. Students examined the company’s business model and evolution while considering broader questions surrounding digital ownership, community-driven economies, leadership, and the challenges confronting businesses operating at the frontier of Web3.
Professor Wang, a leading scholar in accounting, digital assets, and capital markets, brought the case method into the high school classroom, giving students an opportunity to examine complex decisions through discussion, analysis, and debate. Rather than delivering traditional lectures, he challenged students to take positions, defend their reasoning, question one another’s assumptions, and work through the ambiguity inherent in real business decisions.
The four-session program explored digital assets, capital markets, trust, leadership, and the future of business in a Web3 world. Students examined cases involving Alibaba, Coinbase, and Wells Fargo, gaining exposure to different questions surrounding technology, finance, governance, leadership, and emerging business models.
Over the course of the program, students progressed from analyzing individual companies to considering broader questions about how technology can reshape markets, institutions, and business models. The case-based format gave students the opportunity to approach these questions not simply as observers, but as active participants in the discussion.
“Students learn best when they have the chance to apply ideas to the real world,” said Adrian Wall, Managing Director of DSA. “This program gave students the opportunity to move beyond learning about digital assets in the abstract. That is the lasting value of this program: equipping the next generation to engage critically and confidently with technologies that will increasingly influence business, public policy, and society.”
With the completion of the four-session program, DSA introduced students to a practical framework for thinking about some of the defining business and technology questions of the digital economy. The initiative is part of DSA’s broader educational mission to equip young people with the critical-thinking skills needed to understand emerging technologies and engage thoughtfully with the opportunities and challenges they present.
About Digital Sovereignty Alliance
The Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA) is a nonprofit social welfare organization committed to advocating for public policies that support ethical innovation in decentralized technologies, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Web3, and artificial intelligence. DSA conducts research, organizes educational events, and promotes policies that prioritize public welfare and digital sovereignty.
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Maghan Lusk
]]>Binance has announced that its flagship event, Binance Blockchain Week 2026, is coming back to Asia, with all roads leading to Bankgok, Thailand.
The organizers say that the event will be held between November 28 and 29 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center.
Last year, the event was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between December 4 and 5 and saw the debates between CZ and Bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff go viral.
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng, Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, and Michael Saylor of Strategy were among the speakers at the event, with Saylor making a case for Bitcoin in his speech.
There were also conversations that touched on institutional adoption, the place of regulation and AI and crypto, which have been a recurring theme in 2026.
Binance Blockchain Week has been held across various cities across Europe and Asia, with Istanbul, Paris, and Singapore hosting the event in the past.
According to Binance, the event is the pinnacle of more than 1,500 events the company has run worldwide. The organizers are expecting thousands of builders, institutional investors, fintech leaders, and policymakers over the two days.
The speakers confirmed so far include Teng, his co-CEO, Yi He, along with Eowyn Chen, Binance interim chief marketing officer.
Other speakers on the roster are SB Seker, head of APAC, Binance; Catherine Chen, head of Binance VIP and Institutional; and Thomas Gregory, the company’s vice president of payments and fiat. Early bird tickets are on sale for $19.
Thailand put some laws in place to distinguish digital assets and put some restrictions in place; however, it is getting more receptive to digital assets based on recent developments. In February, the country’s cabinet approved a Finance Ministry proposal to expand the assets permitted under the Derivatives Act to include digital assets.
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that change would strengthen recognition of crypto as an investment class.
Some analysts believe that the reform could eventually allow futures, options, and other structured contracts tied to digital assets. Separate ETF rules tied to that framework are expected to take effect in the third quarter of the year.
Blockchain analytics platform Elliptic described Thailand’s 2026 to 2028 strategic plan as placing digital assets at the center of its capital market strategy. This is eight years after the country’s original licensing decree created a supervised environment for exchanges and custodians.
The Finance Ministry has also waived capital gains tax on digital assets traded through licensed platforms until the end of 2029.
In the announcement, SB Seker said, “The most interesting thing happening in Asia isn’t just the scale of adoption, it’s that we’re seeing workable models for how crypto operates under clear regulation.”
Seker added, “Different jurisdictions are moving at different speeds, testing different approaches, and BBW Bangkok 2026 provides a venue to examine what supports consumer protection, market integrity, and infrastructure that works at scale.”
The event’s agenda points to Bitcoin’s institutional footprint, stablecoins as payment rails, tokenized stocks, AI integration, and cross-border payments, among others, themes that track products Binance has already shipped this year. This also includes gold and silver options that were recently launched in July through its Abu Dhabi-regulated Nest Exchange.
Exchanges reportedly processed $1.32 trillion in perpetual futures tied to traditional assets in the first five months of 2026, up from $104.21 billion for all of 2025, and Binance holds the largest share of that volume at 35.9%, according to CoinGecko data.
“This event will showcase how Binance is evolving from a trading platform into a financial superapp connecting both worlds,” Teng said.
Yi He added that the company’s next wave of adoption, which it calls Road to 3 Billion, depends on products that deliver utility in daily life, whether in cross-border payments, tokenized securities or digital portfolios.
She added, “At BBW Bangkok 2026, we’ll examine the trends driving adoption and explore what the industry needs to do to make digital assets more accessible, trusted, and relevant to a broader audience—while delivering the sophistication institutional players demand.”
]]>TRON has established itself as one of the most widely used networks for USDT settlement, with USDT-TRC20 accepted for deposits and withdrawals across a broad range of major exchanges and payment services. That breadth of acceptance has made it a common choice for exchange-to-exchange transfers and for dollar-denominated payments in emerging markets, supporting the reliable movement of stablecoins at scale. By integrating TRON natively, Bitcoin.com Wallet users can transact with counterparties who ask for a TRC20 address without leaving the wallet or installing anything new.
“Our users do not think in terms of chains. They think about who they need to pay and what that person asked them for. A very large number of those requests say USDT on TRON, and until now we could not answer them. That is the gap this closes,” said Bitcoin.com CEO Corbin Fraser.
With this launch, Bitcoin.com Wallet users can:
“With more than $90 billion in USDT circulating on TRON and $23 billion in daily transfer volume, TRON is already a leading network for stablecoin payments,” said Justin Sun, Founder of TRON. “Users want to hold and spend stablecoins on TRON directly from the wallets they use every day. Bitcoin.com Wallet’s integration meets that demand, bringing TRON’s settlement infrastructure into a familiar wallet and making stablecoin payments faster, simpler, and more accessible.”
Bitcoin.com Wallet users can now access TRX and USDT-TRC20 natively, without bridging assets, managing a separate wallet, or leaving the mobile application. TRON’s functionality is now built into a wallet people already use for their everyday crypto activity. The TRON integration is available now on iOS, Android, and web.
About Bitcoin.com
Bitcoin.com is on a mission to increase the freedom and prosperity of people everywhere by providing easy access to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and other leading cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin.com Wallet is a non-custodial, multi-chain wallet used by millions of people worldwide to hold, send, swap, and buy digital assets.
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About TRON DAO
TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.
Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. Until recently, TRON hosted the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $91 billion. As of August 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 399 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $28 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”
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]]>ZUG, SWITZERLAND, Aug. 17, 2026 — SODAX, the cross-network execution and liquidity infrastructure that succeeded the ICON Network, saw its token SODA begin trading worldwide on Kraken today across the Sonic and Arbitrum blockchain networks, following the exchange’s completed conversion of ICX balances to SODA at a 1:1 rate. Kraken will support SODA trading against USD and EUR.
Kraken paused ICX trading and funding on Aug. 7 and completed the migration between Aug. 10 and 14, matching the schedule the exchange set out in July. SODA has also traded on other venues, including Coinone and Bound Exchange, since earlier this year.
“Every completed listing is a vote of confidence in where SODAX is headed, not only where it started,” said Min Kim, founder of SODAX. “Kraken gives SODA a permanent global home, and a level of access that matters to holders old and new.”
SODAX is an execution system that lets money move, lend, trade and settle across blockchain networks without requiring users or builders to manage bridges or wrapped assets. That cross-network model now spans 20 networks, including Ethereum, Solana, Sui and Bitcoin, with applications across them integrating SODAX infrastructure to ship features and extend their own reach in the market.
The design separates execution from custody. Independent solvers compete to fill user intents, meaning the specific outcomes a user wants, such as a trade or a loan, while SODAX coordinates routing and settlement. At the center of this execution system and the fees it generates is its governance token, SODA.
SODA’s total supply is capped at 1.5 billion tokens, has no token emissions and cannot be increased. A share of every fee generated by routing transactions through the SODAX system is directed to several fee-generated growth objectives: 20% contributes to a programmatic buy-back and burn that permanently removes SODA from circulating supply and drives the token’s deflationary nature, 20% is directed to SODA Staking rewards and the remaining 60% is directed to the SODAX DAO and its liquidity inventory.
This design sits within SODAX’s broader strategy as infrastructure for modern money. Wallets, DEXs, lending protocols and yield platforms integrate the SODAX SDK to ship cross-network features across 20 blockchain networks. As additional partners and routes are served by the infrastructure, this drives increased volume and fees directed toward the growth flywheel.
In addition to serving execution for partner products across its 20 integrated blockchain networks, the SODA token also exists natively on each of these networks, with trade routed through the execution system’s shared unified cross-network liquidity. Of these, Sonic and Arbitrum are supported by Kraken at launch, giving more options for trade to the market.
“As new blockchain networks keep emerging, fragmentation only accelerates, and there are not enough systems built to service all of them,” said Kim. “SODAX is built to meet that as it happens. Trading access on Kraken and maintaining our compliance with regulatory standards are part of the same story to create a rigorous execution system that is built to last.”
Alongside the listing, SODAX has also published its MiCA-compliant crypto-asset whitepaper for SODA, notified to the Central Bank of Ireland as its competent authority and recognized across the European Economic Area (EEA).
Paired with the Kraken listing, this step allows SODA to be traded worldwide at launch, meeting the exchange’s standard of token compliance. The industry has continued to experience shock and consolidation around this new regulatory baseline in Europe. This filing (ID 3532007) supports SODA being offered and admitted to trading on regulated venues across the EU, and reaffirms SODAX’s approach to meeting the shifting regulatory expectations of the industry and operating transparently within Europe’s crypto regulatory framework.
About SODAX
SODAX is a cross-network execution and liquidity system spanning 20 networks, encompassing a range of EVM and non-EVM networks, including Bitcoin. Wallets, DEXs and lending protocols integrate the SODAX SDK to ship cross-network features faster and extend their reach to every network SODAX touches. SODAX is infrastructure for modern money.
About Kraken
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world’s longest-standing and most secure cryptocurrency platforms. Trusted by over 13 million users globally, Kraken offers a vertically integrated infrastructure stack spanning spot trading, derivatives, staking, and payments across more than 600 digital assets and six national currencies.
Regulatory notice: This release has not been reviewed or approved by the Central Bank of Ireland or any other competent authority. It should be read together with SODA’s MiCA crypto-asset whitepaper, notified under ESMA registration ID 3532007 and published at icon.foundation/projects/publications. Information about SODA tokenomics, staking mechanics, and programmatic burn activity is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or legal advice. Reward rates are variable and based on protocol fee volume; past performance is not indicative of future results.
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]]>Ether.fi, one of the leading crypto neobanks, announced its Summer release, the next generation of its fintech product. The expansion will bring tools for savings, earning, trading, borrowing, and seamless spending, aiming to replace traditional banking services.
The Summer release will use the capabilities of decentralized systems, going beyond the possibilities of traditional finance and not just replicating its services.
The latest Ether.fi release will tap the latest trends in on-chain trading, to include tokenized stocks, metals, and the most active crypto assets. The user-facing app will integrate Aave, allowing users to lend their assets and borrow against their portfolio as collateral.
‘With ether.fi, we’re bridging the gap between decentralized finance and everyday financial needs,’ said Mike Silagadze, CEO of Ether.fi.
‘Our goal is to replace the traditional bank for most users and give them tools and benefits that were previously available only to institutions and high-net-worth individuals. That is the power of DeFi and self-custody,’ he said.’
Ether.fi users will also gain new fiat rails, allowing them to send assets globally and use their own named accounts. The app will also integrate over 30 new fiat currencies and additional payment methods, including Cash App, Apple Pay, and others.
The recent neobank expansion aims to reach a much broader audience, the company announced. The neobank features are simplified, not requiring specialized crypto knowledge.
Ether.fi also announced its app would go beyond gambling use cases and high-risk trading, instead offering a more balanced exposure to assets, all with on-chain security.
The new release arrives at a time when other on-chain services are pivoting toward fintech, while using the existing platforms to offer a globally accessible market for any type of asset. Ether.fi was one of the leading Web3 lending protocols, which currently works with card issuers and partners to spread its consumer-facing fintech products.
As of August 2026, the platform still carries $3.5B in value locked and may boost its collateral value by including tokenized metals, equities, and other assets.
The latest feature update will set a new standard, moving Ether.fi toward its goal of being a full crypto neobank.
Users will experience a seamless fintech app, which will still give them access to the existing crypto liquidity ecosystem. The app will integrate xStocks, one of the most liquid and widely adopted forms of tokenized equities in the crypto space.
The app will have all the benefits of self-custody, lower fees, and a rewards program for DeFi users. The services will be integrated – a user can borrow against the value of their portfolio at a 4% rate, then use the Cash card to send funds, spend, or buy other assets.
In addition to trading, borrowing, and lending, users will benefit from programmatic ETHFI buybacks. ETHFI traded around $0.38 as of August 13, with the potential for a price boost due to buybacks. A wider user base may also increase the platform’s fees. Ether.fi produces over $219M in annualized fees, with over $50M in revenue. All new product revenues will set aside a share for ETHFI buybacks.
Additional benefits will include a 3% cash back on purchases with the Cash card, zero top-up fees on the card, and zero forex swap fees at higher membership tiers. The Summer update functionalities will be available to all new and existing users immediately. Some features, including trading on tokenized assets, may not be available in the USA and other regions.
]]>Messari
Messari’s State of TRON Q2 2026 provides a comprehensive review of network activity and development during the second quarter, including fee trends, transaction and address growth, and progress across protocol governance and infrastructure, including the network’s post-quantum initiative.
Key Insights from Messari:
Read the full report from Messari here.
Nansen
Nansen’s TRON Quarterly Report: Q2 2026 examines TRON’s expanding institutional and cross-chain footprint, ongoing security milestones, and continued growth in developer and community engagement across the second quarter of 2026.
Key Insights from Nansen:
Read the full report from Nansen here.
TRON’s second-quarter developments point to continued growth across the network, with protocol upgrades, progress on post-quantum security, and broader institutional access across markets and asset classes. Record transaction activity, rising developer participation, and expanding institutional adoption further underscore TRON’s role as infrastructure for global stablecoin settlement and digital asset activity.
About TRON DAO
TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.
Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. Until recently, TRON hosted the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $90 billion. As of August 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 398 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $27 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”
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]]>When we founded Scorechain in Luxembourg in 2015, “blockchain analytics” was not yet a category. We spent the first few years explaining to banks and regulators why the transparency of a public ledger was an opportunity rather than a threat. A decade later, I am watching the same misunderstanding attach itself to artificial intelligence (AI), and it is costing the industry time it does not have.
Two stories dominate the conversation. The first says AI will soon replace compliance teams altogether. The second says AI is too unpredictable to let anywhere near regulated financial activity. I do not believe either one, and I say that as someone whose company has risk-assessed more than 2,800 virtual asset service providers (VASPs) since 2015, and has spent the past two years adding AI where it genuinely helps, as a separate layer rather than something baked into the compliance tools our clients depend on.
Start with the problem that every compliance officer I speak to raises within the first five minutes: noise. A sanctions screening system tuned the way a nervous bank tunes it can throw off false positives on the order of 95%. Transaction monitoring is not far behind. So a trained analyst, someone who understands typologies and can read a fund flow, spends the bulk of the working day clearing alerts that were never risks: dismissing name matches on a common surname, reading five adverse media hits that turn out to describe a different person entirely. Each of those adverse media checks takes an analyst 10 to 20 minutes. That is the actual texture of compliance work today, and it is why good people burn out of the profession.
This is where automation earns its place, and it is a narrower place than the hype suggests. I am not neutral about it. Scorechain AI exists to hand an analyst a single report: a wallet’s risk score, the entity types it has interacted with, and the named services and counterparties it has been exposed to. That is work that used to mean hours of manual tracing across a ledger. But notice what the report does and does not do. It does not decide anything. It compresses the evidence so that the compliance officer, the person who has to sign off on that decision and defend it to a regulator later, can read it in minutes and then make the call. That is the whole game. Good automation does not shrink the compliance function; it moves it off the treadmill of triage and back toward judgment.
The distinction matters, because the alternative is dangerous. In a regulated setting, a model cannot answer to a supervisor. The Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD6) and the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) both require an institution to explain and stand behind its decisions. “The algorithm flagged it” is not a defence at an inspection, and “the algorithm cleared it” is worse. So the only responsible design is AI as a support layer sitting on top of trustworthy data, with a named compliance officer retaining the decision and the accountability that comes with it. Human oversight is not a training-wheel we remove once the model matures. It is the architecture.
And a model is only ever as good as what sits beneath it. This is the part outsiders miss. On its own, an AI reading a blockchain sees only anonymous strings of characters moving value to other anonymous strings. It cannot tell that the wallet three hops upstream is a sanctioned exchange, or that the counterparty receiving the funds is a mixer rather than a payroll provider. Supplying that missing context is the whole job of blockchain analytics: attaching identity and risk to raw on-chain activity, tracing indirect exposure across multiple hops rather than just checking the address in front of you, and scoring it against the more than a billion data points and over a million crypto entities we have labelled since 2015. Take a concrete case: a wallet looks clean at first glance, but tracing its flows shows that most of its balance arrived, two hops back, from an address tied to a ransomware operator. That is the finding a model would never reach on raw chain data alone, and the one a compliance officer has to act on. Feed a model that context and it can reason on solid ground. Feed it thin data and it produces confident nonsense, which in compliance is more dangerous than an honest gap, because it clears things it should not.
Here is what I find genuinely new. AI is no longer only a tool that compliance teams use; it is becoming a participant in the market they monitor. Autonomous agents that initiate payments under preset limits have moved from demo to deployment, pushed along by real infrastructure: Coinbase’s x402 standard for machine-to-machine payments, Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol, the PayPal and OpenAI checkout integration. Software is starting to transact with other software, settling in crypto assets, at a volume no treasury team could match by hand.
It raises a question the industry has not answered cleanly yet: how do you apply Know Your Transaction principles to a counterparty that is a piece of software? The direction, at least, is clear. When agents transact on their own, controls cannot live only at onboarding. They move to the transaction layer itself: real-time monitoring, velocity limits, provenance, and the ability to intervene while money is still in flight. The transparency we spent years defending to sceptics turns out to be the one thing that makes autonomous on-chain activity auditable at all.
This is the future we decided to build for rather than wait on. We recently launched Scorechain MCP, which exposes our risk scoring and entity intelligence through the Model Context Protocol, the emerging standard that lets AI agents call external tools directly. The intelligence lives in our platform, and the AI stays outside it, calling in for answers rather than being embedded in the compliance tool itself. The premise is simple: an agent should never transact blind. Before it moves funds or approves a counterparty, it can ask Scorechain in the same breath whether that address is a sanctioned entity, a mixer, a known scam, or a clean private wallet, and receive a risk score in return. This is not a hypothetical throughput. We already run more than 1.5 million AML checks a day, and a screening call returns in roughly 235 milliseconds, quick enough to sit inside a live transaction rather than slow it down. We put it where those agents and workflows actually live, as an app inside ChatGPT and Claude, and as an integration on automation platforms such as n8n and Zapier. A compliance check that sits inside the flow, at the moment the decision is made, is worth far more than one bolted on after the money has already moved. The most basic check of all, whether an address appears on a sanctions list, should not sit behind a paywall for anyone. That is why we offer it as a free sanctions screening API that any developer, agent, or workflow can call. Screening for sanctions exposure is not where a compliance provider should be extracting value; it is the floor the whole market should be standing on.
There is a second-order shift here that token issuers and asset managers are only starting to reckon with. When value moves into stablecoins and tokenised assets at machine speed, the risk that matters is no longer only the individual transaction but the asset itself: who holds it, how concentrated that ownership is, and how much of the supply sits with sanctioned or otherwise high-risk entities. That is a different question from transaction monitoring, and it is the one our Digital Asset Intelligence is built to answer, giving an issuer or an asset manager an asset-level view of holders and exposure before they mint, list, or allocate.
Europe is readier for this than it is given credit for. MiCA and AMLD6 already assume continuous monitoring and clear accountability rather than a one-time check at the door, and a regime that assumes activity must be explainable is exactly what you want when software starts moving money. So yes, AI is coming for crypto compliance. It will remove a great deal of tedious work, and I welcome that. What it will not remove is the need for judgment, accountability, and verifiable data. It raises the bar on all three. The teams that treat AI as a faster analyst, grounded in reliable on-chain intelligence and kept firmly under human control, are the ones who will still be standing when the machines start transacting. That is closer than most people think.
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