In December 2020, the SEC sued Ripple, alleging XRP was an unregistered security, prompting multiple exchanges to delist the token. A court ruled in 2023 that XRP itself is not a security, and the SEC fully dropped the case in 2025. In February 2026, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse was appointed to the CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee. On Aug. 19, 2026, Ripple met at the White House with President Trump as well as the SEC and CFTC chairs, and the committee held its first meeting the next day with Ripple holding a seat.

Solana highlighted a series of ecosystem updates, including MoneyGram’s launch of Ramps that lets builders reach 60M+ customers through ~500K retail locations via a single API. Bullish completed what it said were the first tokenized equity trades on a regulated exchange, settling tokenized $BLSH 24/7 in stablecoins on Solana. Solana’s RWA ecosystem reached an all-time high of $3.9B in total value, and the network set a single-day record by processing 171.9M non-vote transactions. Sunrise also launched $SILV backed 1:1 by audited physical silver reserves, while JupiterExchange introduced Lend v2 Smart Vaults and project0 and _gammafi rolled out ML Vaults aimed at optimizing yields in real time.

On March 10, 2026, Aave misconfigured its CAPO risk oracle, capping the onchain wstETH exchange rate about 2.85% below market and triggering roughly 10,938 wstETH liquidations. Liquidation volume totaled about $26–27 million, with liquidators capturing around 499–512 ETH in value. On February 15, 2026, Moonwell misconfigured a Chainlink OEV wrapper after a governance change, reporting cbETH at about $1.12 instead of roughly $2,200 and enabling the seizure of 1,096.317 cbETH. The incident left the protocol with about $1.78 million in bad debt.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted World Liberty Financial preliminary conditional approval to form a national trust bank centered on its roughly $4 billion USD1 stablecoin. The proposed World Liberty Trust Company would ultimately bring USD1 issuance and reserve custody under federal supervision if it meets the remaining conditions for final approval. Separately, World Liberty’s DeFi leverage tied to WLFI—backed by 5 billion WLFI tokens—has moved closer to liquidation thresholds, while more than $40 million of borrowed funds have been transferred to Coinbase Prime.

Cboe BZX Exchange has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeking approval to launch 3x leveraged Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) exchange-traded funds. The proposed products are designed to give investors leveraged cryptocurrency exposure that can amplify both gains and risks. The filing is currently under review, and the outcome remains uncertain.

Cboe has filed a proposed rule change with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeking approval to list the first 3x leveraged Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds in the United States. The funds aim for three times the daily return of their reference assets, which puts them outside Cboe BZX’s standard listing criteria and requires specific SEC approval. The filing would broaden leveraged crypto exchange-traded products beyond existing lower-multiple structures and also includes products tied to gold and silver futures.

World Liberty Financial has received conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to organize World Liberty Trust Company, N.A., a national trust bank. The proposed institution is intended to issue the USD1 stablecoin and provide federally supervised custody services. USD1’s on-chain circulation has surpassed $4 billion, according to CoinGecko-tracked data. The OCC decision is preliminary, and the bank is not yet operating as it must meet additional requirements before it can open.

Solana Company’s latest financial data show the firm posted a $30.3 million net loss despite participating in cryptocurrency staking to generate yield. The result highlights financial pressure at the operating level. The company did not provide further details on what drove the loss. It also did not disclose whether the loss involved the SOL token itself.