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Montevideo, Uruguay, August 20th, 2026, Chainwire Aligned allows fintechs and institutions to build financial products on Ethereum, with one-click solutions for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services. Today, Aligned, a full-stack Ethereum infrastructure project, has launched $ALIGN*, the native token of its ecosystem, with listings on major exchanges. Aligned is working to turn Ethereum into the world’s financial backend, and its ecosystem is the single integration fintechs, institutions, and enterprises use to build financial products on Ethereum. Less than one percent of the world’s assets are onchain, and most of what has moved sits on Ethereum as stablecoins, tokenized treasuries,…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 21st, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has listed the MRNAON/USDT trading pair on Spot, giving users a new opportunity to access U.S. stock markets as part of its expanding lineup of Ondo tokenized stock offerings. Moderna, Inc., a U.S.-based biotechnology company known for its mRNA vaccine platform, has seen its shares rally sharply in recent trading. On August 19, 2026, Moderna and Merck announced that their investigational personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, used in combination with Keytruda, met the primary endpoint of a late-stage melanoma trial, with the combination regimen meeting the main…

The token touched $0.004126 minutes before the network stopped producing blocks, while MANTRA later said an attacker exploited a vulnerability in software used by the chain.

Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $606 million on Aug. 20 and ether funds $221 million, both bigger than the prior day, confirming the institutional bid behind bitcoin’s run.

At Thursday’s inaugural IAC meeting, prediction market and derivatives executives broadly backed federal oversight and stronger consumer safeguards while clashing over self-certification, manipulation risks and which event contracts should be allowedThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission is preparing another round of prediction market rules covering consumer protections, product governance and market design, Chairman Michael Selig said Thursday, as some of the biggest names in derivatives and prediction markets debated how far the rapidly expanding contracts should be allowed to go.“I expect the Commission will soon propose a series of amendments to Parts 38 and 40 of the CFTC’s regulations to modernize…

Ethereum surged 18% intraday as spot trading volume jumped sharply across major global exchanges, putting ETH back at the center of the market’s risk-on move. Market data showed ETH trading near the $2,500 level during the rally, with spot volume reportedly rising about 400% compared with the prior 24-hour average. That is a major move, but it needs a careful read. A sudden volume spike can reflect strong demand, but it can also include forced positioning, short covering, momentum chasing, exchange rebalancing, and fast-moving liquidity. The next question is whether ETH can hold the move once the first wave of…

All of us once believed that artificial intelligence will eventually take over the world with robots and intelligent technology. You can see how AI has been changing our lives in the examples of virtual assistants, smart manufacturing lines and wealth management apps. If you want to become an AI agent manager, then you have picked one of the most promising career paths in AI. The future of AI will revolve around agents and the ability to orchestrate AI agents will make you an invaluable asset for companies. The 2026 State of AI Agents report by Claude reveals that 80% of…

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said memory has become the strategic infrastructure of the artificial intelligence era, a shift he argues has permanently reset the economics of a cyclical industry. He made the comments on Thursday at a semiconductor fabrication site near the company’s headquarters in Boise, Idaho. The firm is building two fabs as part of a planned $250 billion investment in US manufacturing and research. Why Mehrotra Calls Memory Infrastructure Memory has long moved in cycles. Strong demand pulls in new capacity. Excess supply then pushes prices back down. Mehrotra argues that AI has created a more durable source…

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said tokenization could help countries raise money and attract foreign investment, while acknowledging that putting assets on multiple blockchains could fragment liquidity. His comments come as the tokenization market continues to expand, with the total value of distributed assets now at $38.40 billion. CZ Pushes For Global Tokenization Zhao framed tokenization as a funding tool for states. In a Thursday post, he named foreign direct investment (FDI) as one benefit, asking which country or company would not want to sell tokenized stocks globally. “Tokenization is one of the best ways for countries to ‘raise money,’…

Eightco repurchased 14 million shares of common stock in the past two weeks under its previously announced $125 million share repurchase program Eightco treasury composition as of August 19, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, nearly 302 million WLD holdings, and $132M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $389 million Eightco recently participated in World Foundation’s $52.5M funding round, led by Pantera with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Selini Capital, Susquehanna Crypto, and additional investors Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., Aug. 20,…