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According to Cointelegraph, digital asset infrastructure provider Taurus has integrated its tokenization and custody platform with Swift's blockchain-based ledger. Taurus stated in the announcement that its clients can make payments on this ledger using bank-issued tokenized deposits through the existing digital asset infrastructure.The first batch of client integrations is expected to go live in a few days, with the first distributed ledger transactions completed through the Taurus platform anticipated to occur within weeks. Swift announced in July this year that the ledger is available for preliminary use, with 17 banks from six continents preparing to pilot real-time transactions using tokenized deposits.Previously, Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC completed the first real-time cross-border transaction through this ledger, connecting their respective independent tokenized deposit systems. Swift's ledger acts as a coordinating layer, supporting 24/7 cross-border payments for tokenized deposits on participating banks' balance sheets and coordinating inter-institutional transfers through existing mechanisms (including real-time gross settlement systems) before final settlement.

According to Cryptonomist, Animoca Brands and the RWA platform NUVA supported by Nuva Labs announced the adoption of Chainlink as its exclusive data infrastructure to provide tamper-proof valuation data for tokenized housing-related assets. The related asset base is approximately $19 billion, with the underlying sourced from Figure Technologies' Provenance Blockchain.The report states that NUVA will launch on Ethereum in May 2026, positioning itself as a cross-chain vault market, providing institutional-grade real estate credit exposure to retail users. Its products include nvYLDS (yield-bearing vault tokens linked to short-term U.S. Treasury yields) and nvPRIME (tokenized private credit vaults tracking the performance of real estate-backed credit such as Home Equity Lines of Credit - HELOC). Chainlink will initially provide pricing support for nvPRIME, used for collateral valuation, lending parameter setting, and liquidation threshold calculations.

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites.

Japan will issue 10-year and 30-year government bonds on September 1 and 3, respectively, and the market is closely watching their auction performance. Nomura Holdings strategist Andrew Ticehurst stated that if auction demand is weak, it could push up the yields of Japanese and U.S. government bonds, increasing market risk.

Neko Health is collaborating with the brain-machine interface company Neuralink, and Neko will assist in screening candidates for Neuralink's next round of trials.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale previously bought 198,300 LINK from Cumberland, worth 2.3 million dollars, and has now transferred it to Coinbase, possibly for sale.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), Grayscale's GLNK ETF received 132,950 LINK from Coinbase Prime 6 hours ago, worth approximately $1.53 million.Currently, the ETF holds a total of 10.66 million LINK, with assets under management (AUM) of approximately $124.16 million.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Coinkite has released a new firmware update for Coldcard to fix the security issue with the mnemonic phrases.The previously vulnerable mnemonic phrases are still not safe and should be replaced.

Elon Musk stated that Starlink currently has 11,000 satellites in orbit.

SpaceX has confirmed the deployment of 29 Starlink satellites.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale transferred 772,470 LINK (approximately $8.91 million) to Galaxy Digital and Cumberland for sale. Among them, 602,000 LINK ($6.94 million) were transferred to Galaxy Digital, and 170,470 LINK ($1.97 million) were transferred to Cumberland.

Leading RWA trading platform MSX announced that the platform will open subscriptions for the MSX Pre-IPO Phase 3 project on August 31, 2026, at 18:00 (UTC+8). This phase will exclusively feature two globally high-profile AI unicorns—Neuralink, the brain-computer interface leader under Elon Musk, and Anduril Industries, a top AI defense technology unicorn in the United States.Previously, the MSX Pre-IPO Phase 2 project Polymarket has opened for redemption, with subscriptions yielding high returns. The introduction of Neuralink and Anduril in this third phase further expands the range of cutting-edge technology assets in the platform's Pre-IPO projects. Users participating in this subscription must hold $MSX, and the subscription amount will be allocated based on the user's effective holdings. Specific allocation tiers and participation rules will be subject to the information published by the MSX official platform.

Ukraine is seeking to use drones equipped with the Starlink system to strike missile launch silos within 200 kilometers inside Russia due to a shortage of air defense interceptors. This move requires approval from Elon Musk, whose position is uncertain.Communication has faced challenges since the dismissal of former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Military experts say Ukraine is struggling to obtain enough interceptors to maintain its air defense strategy.

On August 21, Sergey Nazarov, co-founder and CEO of Chainlink, stated at the first meeting of the U.S. CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee that he appreciates the CFTC and SEC finally beginning to cooperate efficiently and constructively, rather than publicly conflicting as before. He believes this alone has significantly enhanced the reputation and trust of the U.S. financial markets and helps to form a unified regulatory vision, avoiding the past multiple conflicting rules that hinder innovation.Nazarov pointed out that regulatory fragmentation has incurred serious costs. Chainlink provides data, cross-chain infrastructure, and more for thousands of applications, supporting most of the DeFi ecosystem. Over the past seven years, he has witnessed hundreds of developers choose to leave the U.S. due to uncertainty, no longer building high-quality applications in the U.S. or serving American consumers, which is a huge loss for the U.S. financial system and consumers.He emphasized that the next trend is clear: tokenization of equity will release a large amount of on-chain value. The U.S. stock market currently accounts for about 60% of the global equity market value and flow. If the global financial system accelerates on-chain, the U.S. must advance on-chain at an equal or even faster pace to maintain this dominant position; otherwise, innovation and market advantages may be lost.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, SharpLink Gaming (@Sharplink) staked 39,300 ETH again 4 hours ago, worth 91 million USD.

According to The Block, Ethereum ecosystem core contributor Nethermind announced that after a "comprehensive review," it will exit the LayerZero decentralized validation network (DVN) business and migrate its cross-chain infrastructure to the Chainlink network. Nethermind stated that it has ceased operations of LayerZero's DVN and joined the Chainlink network as a node operator and strategic technology provider.In the future, Nethermind will provide engineering tools, infrastructure services, and integration support for blockchain application developers. It is reported that this shift occurred after the LayerZero ecosystem experienced a security incident. In April of this year, the rsETH cross-chain bridge of Kelp DAO was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately 116,500 rsETH, valued at about $292 million at the time. Following this incident, several companies have begun to shift their cross-chain operations from LayerZero to Chainlink. However, Nethermind did not explicitly state whether this migration is directly related to the Kelp DAO incident, nor did it disclose any specific technical issues with LayerZero or changes in commercial terms between the two parties.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, influenced by the news of the United States increasing the scale of long-term Treasury bond repurchases, both the U.S. stock market and the cryptocurrency market saw an increase before the market opened.He pointed out that a Bitcoin short whale, which had just experienced a liquidation, is once again approaching the liquidation threshold. The value of the Bitcoin short position it holds is approximately $93.24 million, with a liquidation price of $65,045, which is about $200 away from the current price.

The cross-chain liquidity protocol Maya Protocol was attacked on August 18, with the attacker exploiting six interconnected software vulnerabilities to create false account balances, stealing approximately 20.83 BTC (about $1.34 million) and other assets, resulting in a total direct loss of about $1.65 million. The incident led to the suspension of trading on the MAYAChain network, with its token CACAO plummeting nearly 89% from $0.115 to $0.013, before recovering to around $0.03.Technical reviews show that the attack began when MAYAChain mistakenly judged a transaction to be lost and triggered a compensation mechanism, but the mechanism miscalculated, adding about 49 million CACAO to a small liquidity pool, while the protocol's reserves only held about 168,000 CACAO. After the transfer failed, the system incorrectly saved the new balance, and the attacker subsequently deposited a very small amount into the liquidity pool, acquiring over 99% of the pool's share and immediately withdrawing 48.87 million CACAO, which was then exchanged for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other assets.The incident caused the total value of the Maya Protocol liquidity pool to decrease by about $10.9 million, of which approximately $6.4 million was due to the depreciation of CACAO, and about $2.9 million came from arbitrage trading. The team expressed hope that the attacker would return the funds in the form of a bug bounty; otherwise, they would seek to recover losses through investments in channels like Aztec Chain. Maya Protocol has not yet announced a specific time for resuming trading. This incident once again exposed the security risks within the complex logic of DeFi protocols.