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Coinbase will power Webull Canada's CIRO-approved crypto platform via its Crypto-as-a-Service infrastructure, providing custody, trading and liquidity. The August 31 deal extends their successful U.S. partnership and highlights brokerages outsourcing infrastructure to scale quickly in Canada's regulated market.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said recent PCE and CPI prints, though better than expected, show no meaningful improvement in inflation trends. Calling for a quieter Fed with less forward guidance, he warned markets not to look to the central bank for direction, with major implications for crypto.

Stellar's stablecoin transfer volume reached an all-time high in Q2, signaling real utility at scale. Powered by USDC, MoneyGram, and Franklin Templeton anchors, the network is emerging as a compliance-first settlement rail amid the $160B+ stablecoin market expansion and growing institutional adoption.

Charles Schwab will add Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink trading to Schwab Crypto, expanding beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum. The $13 trillion brokerage's move brings regulated altcoin access to 36 million accounts, signaling accelerating institutional adoption and intensifying competition with crypto-native exchanges.

Chainalysis estimates $457 billion in taxable onchain activity in 2025, with $112.6 billion in the U.S. Just 14% falls under CARF, leaving 86% from DEXs, P2P and self-custody outside intermediary-based tax reporting frameworks for regulators globally.

Anthropic reportedly pitching $30 trillion addressable market for Claude, topping $28.5 trillion estimate linked to $SPCX. Not a revenue forecast, the figure frames AI's disruptive reach. For crypto, it intensifies competition for capital and compute while boosting demand for verifiable on-chain AI infrastructure.

LayerZero will launch ATLAS, an institutional exchange on its Zero blockchain, this fall with spot and perpetual futures, followed by prediction contracts and options. The move targets institutional derivatives demand as decentralized perps exceed $400 billion monthly per Token Terminal

Kraken temporarily locked users after nearly 12,000 micro-transfers from an Arkham-flagged HTX-linked wallet triggered compliance reviews. HTX denied involvement. The dust attack exposes flaws in taint-based monitoring and raises cross-exchange regulatory concerns for global exchanges.