Ethereum staking has climbed to a new all-time high, with 42.40M ETH now staked, representing 34.77% of the total supply. Both the amount staked and its share of supply have set fresh records. More than one third of ETH is being used to help secure the network and earn yield, and the share continues to rise.

21Shares XRP ETF filed an 8-K with the U.S. SEC disclosing changes to its NAV calculation effective Aug 27, 2026. The fund will move from the CME CF XRPDollar Reference Rate to the FTSE XRP Index for its NAV methodology. It will also shift sponsor fee payments from weekly to quarterly, with fees denominated in $XRP. The update is described as a technical operational adjustment to the ETF.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has published a new regulatory filing related to the 21Shares XRP spot ETF linked to the XRP token. The filing marks another procedural step in the compliance process for an XRP-related product. It also signals that efforts to build institutional infrastructure for XRP on Wall Street are continuing.

Evernorth has filed its seventh amended S-4 with the U.S. SEC, correcting a signature-page omission involving Ripple Labs as it advances its merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II. The deal is intended to take Evernorth public as an XRP-focused company, with “XRPN” planned as its Nasdaq ticker. The amendment marks another step toward giving investors a traditional-market route to gain exposure to the XRP ecosystem.

A critical vulnerability has been found in the Ethereum app on Ledger hardware wallets that could let a malicious application change ETH transaction details during signing without the altered information appearing on the device screen. The issue affects users managing ETH and Ethereum-related assets on Ledger and could result in transfers being approved without their knowledge. Ledger said the flaw is fixed in Ethereum app v1.22.2 and urged users to update the app, Ledger Live and device firmware, and to avoid signing transactions until all updates are completed.

BNB Chain has completed the Pasteur hard fork, closing critical validator exploit vectors and boosting testnet throughput 88% to 2,324 TPS. The upgrade shifts block execution off the validator’s critical path. This optimizes block capacity without sacrificing 450ms block times.

The U.S. regulatory environment has shifted in a way supporters say is favorable to XRP, with the SEC–Ripple enforcement dispute resolved and the SEC now citing XRP as an example of a digital commodity. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has advocated moving crypto products, custody and tokenized securities onshore to the United States. Ripple National Trust Bank has received preliminary conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Institutional holdings cited include Bitwise with 194.9M XRP and Franklin Templeton with 159.7M XRP, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said regulated stablecoins could grow from roughly $300B to a market ten times larger by the end of the decade.

The Sandbox has released findings on a recent SAND bridge security incident. It said an attacker exploited a configuration function in the SAND token contract on Base and BNB Chain, where the contract also served as the LayerZero bridge integration, and set themselves as the sole verifier for incoming bridge messages. The attacker then stole about 14.74 million SAND from the Ethereum vault backing the bridge, roughly 0.5% of the fixed 3 billion maximum supply, while the team said it quickly contained the exploit and completed on-chain forensics.