The week of Aug. 17-23 is packed with events that could draw close attention from crypto traders, policymakers, and market infrastructure operators. On Aug. 19, President Donald Trump is expected to attend a White House gathering of crypto and prediction-market executives, with CEOs from Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket, and Kalshi also set to join, according to CoinDesk. The event is expected to warm up the first formal meeting of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s newly formed Innovation Advisory Committee. A day later, the Federal Reserve will release minutes from its July policy meeting, where the Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-3 to keep the federal funds rate at 3.5% to 3.75%. Markets will be looking for clues on how many officials saw a case for a rate hike and what evidence could shift the broader committee. Elsewhere, South Korea will roll out tighter rules for single-stock leveraged products and expand review standards for crypto operator registration. The same week also includes a series of exchange and network updates, including Binance delistings and precision changes, Coinbase product launches and support changes, Upbit service suspensions, a planned bitcoin eCash hard fork, and Manus data migration steps tied to its return as an independent company.

A busy news cycle from Aug. 6 to Aug. 7 brought a mix of crypto regulation, market structure, corporate disclosures, and AI-linked developments. Dow Protocol said claims that OKX Ventures had invested in the project were false and said a list of investors would be released this week without OKX Ventures on it. The U.S. Senate, meanwhile, decided to delay a vote on the Clarity Act until September, extending uncertainty around a major federal crypto bill. Outside Washington, Thailand confirmed a five-year capital gains tax exemption on crypto trades executed through Thai SEC-licensed venues from Jan. 1, 2025 through Dec. 31, 2029. MetaMask introduced a self-custodial AI wallet that lets agents execute on-chain transactions within user-defined limits, and Wintermute registered a broker-dealer subsidiary with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA. The update set also included Binance Alpha’s AGT and AIA blind box airdrop, Cipher Digital’s sale of 1,619 BTC at a realized loss, a Chainalysis report on more than $30 million in violent robbery losses targeting crypto holders in the first half of 2026, Bernstein’s renewed $140 target on Circle, and several funding, hardware, and security stories tied to the broader AI sector.

Step App has announced its official closure after four years of operation. All services will stop on Aug. 21, according to PANews. Users are asked to unstake all locked tokens and sort out their exchange positions before the shutdown date. Step App says the platform accumulated more than 1 million downloads and tracked billions of steps, contributing to the Move-to-Earn (M2E) sector and acting as a bridge between Web2 and Web3.

Move-to-earn rewards walking, running, and other physical activity with tokens. The model sits within GameFi and relies on apps, wearables, and token incentives to turn movement into digital value.

SK Hynix made its Nasdaq debut on July 10 Beijing time, with its shares rising more than 18% intraday and its market capitalization closing at $1.22 trillion, or roughly RMB 8.3 trillion. The company raised $26.5 billion through an American depositary receipt offering, setting what the source described as the largest U.S. IPO ever by a foreign company and placing it behind only SpaceX, which went public last month, in the global all-time IPO rankings. The listing caps a long turnaround story. Founded in 1983 as Hyundai Electronics, the business expanded through its acquisition of LG Semiconductor in 1999 but later fell into distress as memory prices collapsed and debt mounted. Its memory operations were spun off in 2001 into Hynix Semiconductor, which remained under creditor control until SK Group acquired it in 2011. The company was renamed SK Hynix in 2012. Its long bet on high bandwidth memory, or HBM, became central to that recovery. After years of investment, SK Hynix became a key supplier of HBM3 for Nvidia’s H100 chips following the AI surge that accelerated after ChatGPT emerged in 2022. The report says the company now holds 58% of the global HBM market. It also points to strong profit margins, a sharp share-price gain, and rising investor attention toward Chinese memory makers such as CXMT, which is scheduled to open its share subscription on July 16.

An in-depth analysis of TeleSwap Token (TST), the native token of the Sprint M2E fitness app. Current circulation is 400M out of a 1B max supply. ATH reached $0.12, now trading lower. We examine tokenomics, market impact, and storage options.

This article analyzes TeleSwap Token (TST), the native token of the Sprint fitness app, exploring its tokenomics, price performance, and the outlook of the Move-to-Earn sector. TST has a circulating supply of 400M and a max supply of 1B, with an all-time high of $0.12.

Based on Web 3.0 fitness app Sprint, the TeleSwap Token (TST) has a circulating supply of 400 million and a max supply of 1 billion. Its all-time high is $0.12. This article analyzes its ecosystem, market performance, and the Move-to-Earn sector outlook.