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State of play

TIME-SENSITIVEverified 14 August 2026

The marketBitcoin has eased to about $62,600, and six days after the BIP-110 split the main chain runs undisturbed, more than 800 blocks past the fork point.Digital dollarsTether's 2025 accounts passed a full KPMG audit with an unqualified opinion, the company says, and Circle now runs a national trust bank with USDC at $73.3bn.DeFiUniswap's burn has a second engine running and a third queued: v4 fees are live on seven chains and three more fee votes entered governance this week.
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