WuBlockchain’s weekly roundup pulled together 10 of the crypto stories that mattered most this week, led by a fresh signal from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins that the agency is prepared to write its own crypto market structure rules if Congress does not pass the CLARITY Act. Atkins said legislation would offer a more durable framework, while the SEC has already placed rules for crypto issuance, custody, and trading on its 2026 agenda. The list also highlighted Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s launch of spot Ethereum and Solana ETPs, both listed on NYSE Arca with 0.14% fees and staking plans, as well as BNY’s move to put fund transaction processing and shareholder records on blockchain rails while keeping its traditional transfer agency system. Corporate treasury strategy remained a major theme, with Strategy reporting a second-quarter net loss of $8.22 billion tied to bitcoin fair-value changes and saying future fundraising will no longer be used exclusively to buy BTC. Other items in the roundup included Robinhood’s latest earnings call, a new OSC survey showing 25% of Canadians now hold crypto, MiCA compliance among top stablecoins, digital asset treasury firms pivoting toward AI data centers, weak July bitcoin spot activity, and Binance Research’s finding that the first half of 2026 was defined by broad on-chain contraction rather than sector rotation.

Midnight Foundation added MoneyGram, Pairpoint by Vodafone and eToro as founding federated node operators, bringing the total to seven ahead of its planned mainnet launch later this year.

AlphaTON Capital Corp. signed a $43 million AI hardware and financing agreement with Vertical Data Inc. to scale confidential compute infrastructure using Nvidia B300 GPU clusters.

AlphaTON is investing $46 million in Cocoon AI infrastructure, adding 576 NVIDIA B300 chips and using non-recourse financing as its TON treasury strategy moves beyond token accumulation toward asset-backed exposure.

Avalanche attempts a corrective bounce under $15 while Toncoin explores AI integrations. APEMARS presale stage 5 delivers a projected 15,055% ROI, drawing early-stage investors.

Charles Hoskinson announced the mainnet launch of Midnight, a privacy partner chain using ZK hybrid ledger and dual-token system, along with a £250M tokenization deal with Monument Bank. ADA hits $0.24, a two-year low.

Alpha Compute Corp. disclosed $79.2M in total assets and $23M projected annual revenue as of June 4, 2026, alongside the 60% acquisition of GAMEE, bringing 120 million users into its sovereign AI infrastructure.

Solana Foundation President Lily Liu said blockchain gaming is “not coming back,” comparing it to Meta’s failed metaverse push. While Solana still hosts 88 live games, the sector’s valuation and activity have fallen sharply since the 2021 boom, raising fresh debate over the future of Web3 gaming.