Another week, another round of insights worth your time ↓

General
➖ CoinShares: Beyond the Coldcard exploit
➖ 4pillars: Why Headless Merchant Endpoints Matter?
➖ Binance: Gen Z Perspective Rewrite
➖ Galaxy: The State of Crypto Leverage – Q2 2026: An Orderly, Measured Decline
➖ Galaxy: Weekly Research Brief: SEC Scrambles to Act as CLARITY Fizzles

Market
➖ CoinShares: Market update | August 13th, 2026
➖ CoinShares: Equities update | August 17th, 2026
➖ Glassnode: Trigger Happy
➖ Glassnode: BTC Market Pulse: Week 34
➖ Galaxy: Charts of the Week: Crypto Lending Contracts, But Slowly This Time
➖ Galaxy: Coldcard Exploit Abates as Total Losses Climb to (at Least) 1,700 BTC
➖ Galaxy: Fizzling CLARITY Act Odds Leave Agencies Scrambling to Act

DeFi
➖ The Defiant: Why DeFi Needs Onchain Insurance: The $100 Billion Coverage Gap

Blockchains & networks
➖ 4pillars: Tempo: Where Specialized Blockchains Are Headed
➖ 4pillars: Optimum: Rethinking the Blockchain Network Layer

Tokens & currencies
➖ 4pillars: Bitcoin Stalls, Tether Evolves [FP Weekly 34]
➖ Galaxy: The Bitcoin Fork That Lasted Two Blocks