Aethir launched ACCELERATE, a program to bring physical GPU compute online in AI data centers across the US and Europe, moving the decentralized network down the stack.

ACCELERATE has secured 10 sites totaling up to 20MW of capacity, projected to generate up to $700M in contracts by the end of 2026 and over $2B once all 10 sites are fully built out. The facilities are engineered for NVIDIA B300 and GB300 clusters and designed to go from site selection to live capacity in months, not years.

Aethir already orchestrates GPU compute across more than 90 countries; ACCELERATE now takes it into owned build-out, working with neocloud partner Axe Compute. For ATH holders, Aethir also teased updated tokenomics with a burn mechanism and a variable platform fee.

"We've already secured the sites. Now we're filling them. Enterprise AI demand has outrun supply, and the industry's ability to build is the bottleneck," said co-founder Mark Rydon.

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Entropy unveiled the first liquid way to trade Anthropic, listing pre-IPO perps on Hyperliquid after raising $14M led by Ribbit Capital plus a $40M HYPE stake.

The markets use liquidity-weighted oracles and custom funding mechanics to keep frontier assets, from pre-IPO companies to compute and global indices, trading 24/7 with deep liquidity in a single venue. Anthropic and SNDK perps are the first live markets, priced with real-time RedStone data.

The team comes from Citadel Securities, Optiver, Polymarket and Millennium, pitching a world where every asset trades around the clock in one place. The launch also reignites price discovery around Anthropic's valuation after an earlier market closure.

You can trade the new markets on Entropy.

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Cosmos Labs confirmed an active security incident in its Cosmos EVM module and advised connected chains to have validators halt while its engineers work through a fix.

The weakness sits in the ICS20 precompile: state changes made during nested EVM calls were not carried back into the outer transaction, letting an attacker spend the same balance more than once. It drained the Saga network of about $7 million back in January, and a permanent fix shipped publicly as part of v0.6.0.

Not every chain upgraded in time. This month the same class of bug hit TAC, which lost about $7.5 million and halted its chain, alongside KiiChain and MANTRA, all running the shared Cosmos EVM module. MANTRA said user balances were left intact after it resumed blocks on a patched build.

That makes it one of the year's most repeated infrastructure exploits: a single upstream vulnerability, disclosed and patched months ago, still cascading across every chain that had not yet pulled the update.

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Base has launched Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks natively on the network, giving eligible non-US users access to 1:1-backed fractional shares through self-custody wallets.

The tokenized stocks use the new B20 standard, extending ERC-20 to make equities transferable and composable across DeFi. Users can trade them 24/7, provide liquidity on Aerodrome, and use assets such as Apple and NVIDIA as collateral in protocols like Aave.

The shares are reportedly held 1:1 by Alpaca, a regulated broker and custodian operating through a bankruptcy-remote structure supervised by Abu Dhabi Global Market.

More Coinbase tokenized stocks are expected to launch in the coming weeks, with additional RWAs planned for Base.

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TAC, an EVM network connected to TON, said it was exploited for about $7.5 million through a vulnerability in the Cosmos EVM module, and validators halted the chain to contain the damage.

According to TAC, the attacker withdrew roughly 3 billion TAC from an escrow account with no increase in total token supply, effectively conjuring balances out of thin air before the network was stopped. The team says it is working with validators on a restart, but the conditions for resuming block production have not been finalized.

The bug is not unique to TAC. The same Cosmos EVM module flaw, tied to incorrect state handling during nested EVM execution, also hit MANTRA Chain days earlier and cost the Saga network around $7 million back in January, making it one of the year's most repeated infrastructure exploits.

TAC has had a rough security year: in May its TON bridge was drained of about $2.8 million in a separate incident later settled as a white-hat case, adding pressure on the young network as it goes dark again.

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Kinetiq, the largest liquid-staking protocol on Hyperliquid, has launched Elysium, an OP Stack-based Layer 2 built to improve performance, throughput and composability for HYPE traders and developers.

Elysium uses HYPE as its native gas token and directly targets HyperEVM's throughput limitations, which have capped how much activity the base layer can absorb. By moving execution onto a dedicated L2 while keeping HYPE at the center, Kinetiq is positioning Elysium to widen the DeFi surface of the Hyperliquid ecosystem.

Kinetiq is not a newcomer here: its kHYPE liquid-staking token controls more than 82% of the Hyperliquid staking market and hit a peak total value locked near $2.6 billion, giving the new chain an immediate base of users and liquidity to build on.

The launch continues a wave of infrastructure being built on and around Hyperliquid, as teams race to turn its fast-growing trading base into a full onchain economy.

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ETF demand picked up sharply, while corporate treasury activity remained steady. Large companies focused on capital management, and newer players continued adding crypto to their balance sheets.

Corporate Treasuries

- Strategy raised cash while keeping its Bitcoin holdings unchanged.

- Strive, Zhibao, and BitMine continued growing their crypto treasuries, with BitMine adding more ETH.

ETF Flows

- Bitcoin ETFs: +$1.92B net inflows across five straight positive trading days.

- Ethereum ETFs: +$692M net inflows, bringing combined BTC and ETH ETF inflows to ~$2.6B, the strongest week of 2026.

Six projects went live this week: waitlists, airdrops, points, a pre-IPO DEX. We verified each and mapped the exact steps to get in.

— Rialo: points program ($20M Pantera)

— GTE: waitlist (MegaETH)

— Flop Labs: Arthur Hayes airdrop

— Sight: memecoin prediction app

— Entropy: invite-only pre-IPO DEX

— Meridian: live RWA perps

Full step-by-step breakdown for each 👇

https://cryptodiffer.com/feed/other/just-launched-6-activities-worth-your-time

Michael Saylor's Strategy sold about $2 billion of its own MSTR shares last week, 18,261,118 shares between Aug 17 and 23, yet made no bitcoin purchases, a notable pause for the largest corporate holder of the asset.

The proceeds were split three ways: $136.4 million went to buy back STRC preferred stock, $300 million lifted the company's USD reserve to $5.1 billion, and the remaining $1.59 billion seeded a brand-new "USD Cash" liquidity account. Strategy describes USD Cash as a separately designated dollar pool it can later deploy for general treasury purposes, including buying bitcoin, paying preferred dividends and interest, or repurchasing its stock and notes.

Its bitcoin position is unchanged at 840,447 BTC, worth about $65.8 billion and bought for roughly $63.4 billion at an average $75,385, leaving around $2.4 billion in unrealized gains. The stack now equals close to 4% of bitcoin's 21 million supply cap.

The pause stands out because Strategy spent much of 2025 and 2026 buying nearly every dip. MSTR trades at a 74% discount to its 2025 peak with enterprise mNAV near 1.0, so building a cash buffer instead of adding coins reads as a more defensive posture. Shares ticked up 1.3% pre-market on the filing.

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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted World Liberty Financial preliminary conditional approval to charter a national trust bank that would issue and redeem its USD1 stablecoin and hold the reserves backing it.

Once open, World Liberty Trust Company would run under federal supervision, custody digital assets for institutional clients, and manage the reserve behind USD1, a dollar-backed stablecoin that now has more than $4B in circulation. The firm is closely tied to the Trump family: an affiliate of the president and family members hold a reported 38% stake. The charter also lands amid a wider opening of the bank pipeline, with the OCC approving more new charters in the first 19 months of this term than in the prior five years combined.

The approval is preliminary. Before it can begin operations, the company must hold at least $20M in capital, hire a qualified internal audit manager, notify the OCC of any material changes to its business plan, and clear the remaining pre-opening conditions.

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