• 27.08 — Chainalysis counted at least $457B of potentially taxable onchain activity for 2025
• 28.08 — the ECB's Isabel Schnabel at Jackson Hole: central bank reserves should become programmable money
• 29.08 — the UK tax authority published its first standalone crypto breakdown: 17,600 filings for 2024/25
• 30.08 — the Cronos network halted blocks after an incident in the Tectonic protocol
It turned into a week about rules and bookkeeping: an exchange moves equities onto its own network, tax offices learn to count, a central bank tries programmable money on for size. The price did not budge — bitcoin closed the seven days exactly where it opened them.
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