The week ahead includes a dense run of crypto policy, exchange and project events. DeepSeek’s revised API pricing takes effect on Aug. 17 with peak and off-peak rates, while Coinbase is scheduled to carry out system maintenance, launch US500 perpetual-style index futures for U.S. users through Coinbase Derivatives, and end support for USDC deposits and withdrawals on Noble. Hashdex is also set to close and liquidate its Bitcoin ETF, and Binance will delist six tokens on the same day. Attention then shifts to regulation. South Korea will implement tighter rules for single-stock leveraged ETF and ETN products on Aug. 19, including stricter deviation-rate controls and an added simulated-trading requirement for first-time retail investors. Politico, citing three people familiar with the matter, reported that the White House may meet crypto and prediction-market executives on Aug. 19. On Aug. 20, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Innovation Advisory Committee will hold its first meeting, with crypto assets, artificial intelligence and prediction-market oversight on the agenda. The week also features several token unlocks, including LayerZero, KAITO, MBG and SOON, plus project updates from Solana, DGrid AI, SNS, Doodles, Step App and Manus. Binance will make additional network and compliance-related changes later in the week, including restrictions involving EXMO and other platforms.

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.

BlockBeats reported on August 12 that Upbit has issued an official notice regarding a temporary suspension of deposit and withdrawal services. Citing the Ontology network upgrade, the exchange will halt these services starting at 23:00 Korea Standard Time on August 20, 2026. The suspension covers digital assets operating on the Ontology network, specifically Ontology (ONT), Ontology Gas (ONG), and MovieBloc (MBL). While deposits and withdrawals are paused, trading for these assets will continue unaffected. Upbit stated that after the network upgrade is completed and stability is validated, it will notify users through a separate announcement when normal deposit and withdrawal operations resume.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is set to hold a public meeting on Aug. 14 to consider a proposed "Regulation Crypto" framework that would let some crypto projects raise capital without completing a full securities registration process. If advanced for public comment, it would become the SEC’s first formal, durable rulemaking effort aimed specifically at the crypto sector. The proposal would also outline a route for projects to exit SEC oversight once developers stop actively managing the network and the project becomes decentralized. SEC Chair Paul Atkins has previously said the exemption period could last as long as four years, though no fundraising cap was disclosed. On the litigation front, a federal judge in Connecticut ruled that Kalshi’s sports-event contracts are not swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, meaning the Commodity Futures Trading Commission did not obtain exclusive jurisdiction on that basis. The decision lands as Kalshi remains under pressure in New York, where the CFTC said it used “emergency powers” to require the prediction-market operator to continue operating after the company sought assistance following a lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James. Elsewhere, the market snapshot showed broad declines among major tokens over the past 24 hours, while project, funding, security and AI headlines spanned Bitwise layoffs, a reported COLDCARD Mk3 wallet flaw, Hyperliquid and Robinhood Chain user metrics, and a string of new financings across crypto, AI and financial infrastructure.

Gate said its stock derivatives section will debut 10 perpetual contracts on August 4 at 13:30 (UTC+8), with all contracts settled in USDT and offering 1x to 20x leverage. The first batch includes CAMBRICON, EOPTOLINK, IEIT, MONTAGE, FII, NAURA, AMEC, SUNGROW, CMOC and BLUEFOCUS, each listed with their corresponding China A-share tickers. The exchange also said it will open the 12th new-token airdrop event for its stock derivatives section from August 4 at 16:00 to August 13 at 16:00 (UTC+8). Under the campaign, new users can receive 5 USDT after completing their first futures trade, while participants who complete daily trading-volume check-ins for eligible contracts can collect as much as 35 USDT in total. Users trading the designated contracts will also be able to share a 30,000 USDT prize pool. According to the official announcement cited by ChainCatcher, the total prize pool for the event is 50,000 USDT, and the maximum reward available to a single participant is 240 USDT.

OpenAI has released the GitHub repository for Codex Security under the Apache-2.0 license, but the open-source code covers only the tooling layer used to trigger scans, manage findings and integrate with CI. The underlying service that reads code, reproduces vulnerabilities in isolated environments and generates patches still runs on OpenAI’s own servers, so access still requires an OpenAI login and Codex Security permissions. According to the documentation cited in the source article, Codex Security remains in research preview and is available to ChatGPT Pro, Business, Edu and Enterprise users, with some enterprise accounts also needing admin approval. The article walks through environment requirements, install commands, dry-run validation, model configuration, SARIF export and CI usage, then highlights five common pitfalls: max-cost not acting as a hard cap, output directories being blocked if placed inside a repository, API keys taking precedence over ChatGPT login in non-interactive contexts, Python 3.10 needing tomli, and MCP being limited to read-only metadata rather than live scans. It also covers local scan history in SQLite, false-positive handling, scan comparison, batch scanning across GitHub repositories, and the related TypeScript SDK APIs.

Binance's Word of the Day for March 2-8, 2026 uses the Binance Junior theme. The published list includes possible answers from 3-letter to 8-letter words, along with gameplay and reward details.

Voyager Digital grew quickly with crypto brokerage, yield products, and its VGX token, then filed for Chapter 11 in 2022 after market losses, the Terra collapse, and 3AC's default. Its bankruptcy, asset sales, and Binance.US deal remain central to its story.