🔔 What Is zkTLS? Web Proofs Explained

➡️ Blockchains are excellent at verifying what happens on-chain and nearly blind to everything else. zkTLS, a family of protocols also called web proofs, lets anyone prove facts from an ordinary HTTPS session, a bank balance, a driver rating, a loyalty tier, without revealing the underlying data or asking the website for permission. Here is how it works, who is building it, and where the trust assumptions hide.

🌐 Crypto has a data problem that predates every bull market narrative. Smart contracts can verify a token transfer with mathematical certainty, but they cannot see a payroll deposit, a university diploma, an Uber rating, or a frequent flyer tier. All of that information lives behind the login walls of Web2 platforms, reachable only through official APIs that are limited, revocable, and priced at whatever the platform decides. Oracles solved a narrow slice of this, mostly public price feeds, and were never designed to carry personal data.

🔖 zkTLS is the attempt to solve the rest of it. The idea is simple to state and hard to engineer: take the secure connection your browser already makes to any website, and turn what you see in that session into a cryptographic proof that anyone can verify, without exposing your password, your session, or the raw data itself. If it works at scale, every piece of information behind every login on the internet becomes portable, provable, and usable on-chain.

🚨 XRP News: Ripple Co-Founder Chris Larsen Invests in New Crypto Perpetuals Exchange

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❗️ The SecondFi recovery: 16 million stolen ADA and crypto’s restitution experiment

📊 An exploit drained roughly 16 million ADA, about $2.4 million, from 374 Cardano wallets in late June. What happened next is the interesting part: EMURGO, one of Cardano’s founding entities, announced a recovery path to return the assets within two weeks, while an independent forensic team including Mt. Gox veterans published competing findings. Crypto has spent fifteen years insisting stolen funds are gone forever. Cardano is running a live experiment in whether that has to be true, and every chain is watching the precedent.

➡️ Between June 21 and 23, an exploit connected to a protocol called SecondFi drained approximately 16 million ADA, worth about $2.4 million, from 374 addresses on Cardano. As crypto thefts go, it barely registers: the industry loses that much most weeks, and 2026’s running total makes $2.4 million a rounding error. The theft is not the story.

📣 The story is the response. Within days, EMURGO, the commercial arm among Cardano’s founding entities, announced it had identified a recovery path for affected users and would begin returning assets within roughly two weeks, one week to build the recovery mechanism and one to test it. Simultaneously, an independent forensic team, Tibane Labs, whose personnel include investigators from the Mt. Gox case, crypto’s original catastrophic theft, published a competing analysis of what actually happened, disputing elements of the official account.

🚨 Paul Grewal Bids Farewell to Coinbase After Landmark SEC Win & CLARITY Act Push

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🔔 Japan logistics giant plans JPYC payments for 2,300 partners

➡️ Japanese logistics group AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings plans to introduce the yen-backed JPYC stablecoin for payments to about 2,300 partner carriers and independent drivers, according to a Nikkei report cited by Crypto Briefing. The move is “expected to become Japan’s first large-scale corporate use of JPYC.”The company also plans to invest ¥1 billion in JPYC and form a business partnership with the stablecoin issuer. The rollout would move JPYC beyond retail tests and crypto services into routine business payments across a large logistics network.

⚠️ The reported ¥1 billion investment also ties the logistics group directly to JPYC’s growth. The companies have not yet disclosed a detailed rollout schedule or explained how each partner will receive, hold or convert the tokens. Those operating details will determine how widely drivers and carriers use JPYC instead of immediately redeeming it for yen.

📣 JPYC began issuing its regulated yen-backed stablecoin on October 27, 2025. The token maintains a one-to-one link with the yen and uses bank deposits and Japanese government bonds as reserve assets. It operates on public blockchain networks and can be issued or redeemed through JPYC EX.

❗️ Evernorth updates SEC filing for $1B XRP treasury

⚠️ Ripple-backed Evernorth Holdings has amended its SEC registration statement after finalizing employment terms for three senior executives as it works toward a Nasdaq listing and a planned $1 billion public XRP treasury.Each executive is eligible for an annual bonus equal to 50% of their base salary. The compensation packages also include restricted stock units and employee benefits, according to the amended Form S-4.

🔖 Jonas would receive an initial equity award valued at approximately $4.5 million. Shah and Nakamura would each receive an award worth about $2.8 million. The awards fall under Evernorth’s 2026 Omnibus Incentive Plan. They remain subject to shareholder approval and authorization from the compensation committee of the company’s board, meaning the disclosed amounts have not yet become unconditional payouts.

📣 The agreements complete the company’s disclosed compensation arrangements for its main leadership team. Evernorth had previously finalized employment terms for CEO Asheesh Birla and chief financial officer Matt Frymier. Frymier’s agreement included a base salary, annual bonus eligibility and an equity award valued at about $5.6 million. Evernorth also disclosed $750,000 restricted stock unit awards for executives, subject to board committee and shareholder approval.

🚨 Breaking: Senator Lummis Confirms CLARITY Act Senate Floor Vote Next Week Ahead August Recess

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⚠️ Bitcoin price stalls below $65K despite ETF inflows

➡️ Bitcoin held near $64,206 on Aug. 7, according to cryptonews market data, slipping 0.5% over 24 hours and 0.6% over seven days. The price action comes as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs extend a four-session inflow streak, while the Senate delays the CLARITY Act vote until September and traders wait for fresh U.S. employment data. Those factors leave Bitcoin supported by institutional demand but without a breakout from its range.

❗️ Farside’s recorded $137.6 million in net inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs on Aug. 6. That followed $170.1 million on Aug. 3, $211.5 million on Aug. 4 and $244.4 million on Aug. 5, bringing the four-day total to about $763.6 million.

📣 BlackRock’s IBIT led Thursday’s flows with $128.3 million, while Fidelity’s FBTC added $11.2 million. VanEck’s HODL recorded $32.8 million in outflows. The positive aggregate flow has provided a steady source of spot demand even though Bitcoin has not cleared nearby resistance.

🚨 Breaking: Trump Declares “We Don’t Want To See China Take Over Crypto” Amid CLARITY Act Delay

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🔔 Binance bStocks tops $610M, overtakes xStocks within two months

➡️ Binance bStocks has overtaken xStocks to become the second-largest tokenized stock issuer by value, less than two months after the product entered the market. As of Tuesday, the gap between the two closest competitors had narrowed. BStocks held $610.6 million, compared with $601.2 million for xStocks, while Ondo remained the largest issuer in the Token Terminal ranking.

⭐️ The change has come during a sharp expansion in tokenized equities, with the total value tracked by Token Terminal climbing from roughly $80 million a year ago to about $2.7 billion. Launched in June, bStocks has gained more than $600 million in value in a matter of weeks, putting Binance ahead of an issuer that had been one of the largest names in tokenized equities before the exchange entered the market.

🔖 Binance introduced the product as part of its push to combine access to traditional equities with blockchain settlement. The tokens give eligible investors exposure to U.S. stocks through onchain assets rather than requiring them to directly hold the underlying shares. Those early figures preceded the rise in bStocks’ issuer value above $600 million recorded by Token Terminal in August.

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🔔 Japan registers Nomura’s Laser Digital as first new crypto entrant in four years

🌐 Nomura-backed Laser Digital has become Japan’s first newly registered crypto asset exchange service provider in about four years, securing approval as the country prepares to move digital assets under a financial-instruments framework. The company has not disclosed when the institutional offering will launch or the full range of services it intends to provide. The registration, however, gives Laser Digital a regulated route into a market where institutional demand has been rising, according to research conducted by Nomura and the digital-asset firm.

➡️ A 2026 survey by Nomura and Laser Digital found that 79% of respondents planned to invest in crypto assets within the next three years. Laser Digital said the findings support its decision to build services designed for professional investors in Japan. The approval follows months of regulatory work by the Nomura subsidiary, which had been preparing to establish a regulated trading operation for institutional clients.

🔖 Those plans have now moved into the registration stage, although the company’s first services will focus on liquidity for locally registered crypto businesses. Institutional trading opportunities are expected to follow, subject to the company’s final service structure and launch schedule. Laser Digital was established by Nomura in 2022 as the investment bank expanded into digital assets. The business has since developed operations across asset management, trading and venture investment, while its Japanese subsidiary has been working toward establishing a regulated local presence.

🚨 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs Returns as Largest XRP ETF Holder

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🔔 Ethereum price holds $2,500 as bulls target $3,000 next

➡️ Ethereum price held above $2,500 on Aug. 27 after strong US spot ETF inflows, improving global liquidity conditions, and a historic short squeeze supported its weekly breakout. According to data from cryptonews, Ethereum price traded near $2,507 at the time of writing, up about 7.8% from its Aug. 21 opening price of $2,326. The token briefly reached a weekly high near $2,566 before settling into a narrow range around the psychological $2,500 level.

🔖 The move followed a sharp breakout from the $1,875–$1,950 range that had contained ETH for much of August. Buyers pushed the price above its February-to-May resistance area and have so far prevented a deeper return to the former range. Ethereum’s daily chart shows the price trading almost exactly at the $2,500 Murrey Math resistance. Chaikin Money Flow stood at 0.24, remaining well above zero and showing that buying pressure continued to outweigh selling pressure.

🌐 Holding above $2,500 would turn the former resistance into support and strengthen the case for another leg higher. A rejection, however, could leave the breakout vulnerable because ETH has moved more than 30% from its pre-rally consolidation zone without a major correction.

📌 Bitfinex Securities lists 5 tokenized Bitcoin treasury products

🔖 Bitfinex Securities has listed five tokenized products tied to four publicly traded Bitcoin treasury companies and Strategy’s STRC preferred stock. Bitfinex Securities said in a Sept. 1 announcement shared with cryptonews that the five products are the first tokenized Bitcoin treasury securities admitted to secondary trading on a regulated tokenized securities exchange.

📣 The notes cover Strategy, Metaplanet, H100 and Capital B common stock, while a fifth product tracks the economic rights attached to Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, known as STRC. Issued through separate compartments of ORO (II), a Luxembourg umbrella securitization fund managed by SICOS Securities, each note is backed by shares held with regulated financial institutions. Investors receive exposure to the financial performance of the relevant stock rather than direct ownership of shares in the underlying company.

⭐️ All five products were approved by El Salvador’s Comisión Nacional de Activos Digitales, or CNAD, according to the announcement. The securities were issued on Liquid Network, a Bitcoin sidechain designed to support asset issuance, settlement, and compliance controls. Eligible investors can trade the notes against U.S. dollars, Tether’s USDT stablecoin, and Bitcoin. Bitfinex Securities said each product carries separate eligibility rules and minimum investment requirements.

🚨 National Sheriffs’ Association Drops Opposition to CLARITY Act

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🔔 Sweden orders six crypto firms to pay $56M in additional taxes

📌 Sweden’s tax authority has ordered six crypto companies operating in Boden to pay nearly 540 million Swedish kronor (approx. $56 million) in additional taxes after finding that the firms used business structures to obtain tax benefits they were not entitled to. Patrik Lillqvist, head of intelligence at Skatteverket, said the arrangements were designed to secure tax advantages that would not have been available if the businesses had been classified as crypto miners.

⚠️ “The companies that we have inspected often have a special arrangement to conceal that they are engaged in mining,” Lillqvist said, according to a translation of his remarks. “The purpose is to obtain tax advantages that the companies are not entitled to.” The latest assessments form part of the agency’s review of the crypto industry between 2024 and 2026. Nine companies have received tax adjustments totaling more than half a billion Swedish kronor during that period, with six of them operating in Boden.

🌐 The latest Skatteverket cases concern how companies described the nature of their businesses for tax purposes. According to the agency, some firms presented operations in a way that hid their role in creating new units of cryptocurrencies through mining. SVT’s earlier investigation into Sweden’s crypto industry found in 2024 that companies had deprived the state of around 1 billion Swedish kronor in taxes, with most of the cases concentrated in Boden. The new assessments show that disputes involving the sector continued through 2026.