Friday filings stretched from leveraged bitcoin products to index rules that name Strategy. Cboe BZX asked the SEC to list 3x bitcoin and ether ETFs that hold CME futures, not coins. MSCI opened an August consultation that, on May 2026 data, would have deleted Strategy and Metaplanet from ACWI IMI. Ireland published its first national AML strategy, with the EU travel rule for crypto transfers still moving through Irish law. Bank Leumi said it will offer bitcoin, ether, and solana inside its app in early 2027.
As of the 00:26 UTC market snapshot on August 15, 2026, bitcoin traded around $62,955 (-0.7% over 24 hours), ether around $1,880.46 (-0.3%), and solana around $75.30 (-1.1%). Global crypto market cap sat near $2.25 trillion, with bitcoin share about 56.1%. XRP printed about $0.998. The range is still the story. Primary documents are below. For more tape context, see our market snapshot guide and the spot ETF glossary.
Cboe asks the SEC to list 3x bitcoin and ether futures ETFs
The SEC published Release 34-106137 on August 14, 2026, noticing Cboe BZX file SR-CboeBZX-2026-065 to list 3x Gold, Silver, Bitcoin, Ether, Crude Oil, and Natural Gas ETFs as series of VS Trust. Each fund seeks three times the daily performance of its reference commodity, measured with first- and second-month futures, and the 3x Bitcoin and 3x Ether products would hold CME futures plus cash collateral rather than the coins themselves. Volatility Shares LLC would sponsor the funds as CFTC commodity pools, not 1940 Act investment companies, and shares cannot trade until an S-1 is effective. Leveraged products sit outside BZX generic listing standards, which is why this 19b-4 is required.
MSCI consultation would delete Strategy and Metaplanet from ACWI IMI
MSCI opened an August 2026 consultation on making non-operating companies ineligible for its Global Investable Market Indexes. Issuers would first face a core screen that wants operating assets above 50% of total assets, then an exclusion screen that flags four of five financial ratios. Applied to MSCI ACWI IMI as of May 2026, the proposal would delete Strategy (USA Large, about $24 billion FIF market cap), Yellow Cake, and Metaplanet, while SharpLink would sit on a new public watchlist. Feedback runs through the end of September 2026, with results expected by October 16 and any change slated for the November 2026 Index Review.
Ireland AML strategy folds CASPs into the travel-rule pipeline
Ireland published its National AML/CFT/CPF Strategy, a 32-page paper that treats crypto-asset service providers as obliged entities alongside banks and payment firms. The Department of Finance section says the EU Transfer of Funds Regulation extends AML rules to crypto-asset transfers and implements the FATF Travel Rule, so originator and beneficiary information must travel with those transfers. The strategy says transposition legislation is well advanced. It also flags crypto-assets in the terrorist-financing chapter as a fundraising channel that still needs vigilance, even though the overall TF threat is assessed as low.
Bank Leumi partners with Galaxy for bitcoin, ether, and solana trading
Bank Leumi and Galaxy Digital said on August 14 that Leumi will become the first bank in Israel to offer digital asset trading to customers. Leumi and PEPPER users would buy, hold, and sell bitcoin, ether, and solana inside a dedicated section of the Leumi Trade app, with service expected in early 2027. GalaxyOne Institutional would handle trading, and Galaxy custody infrastructure (formerly GK8) would support the bank stack. Maya Ravia, Leumi head of strategy, framed it as regulated access inside the bank, not a standalone exchange pitch.
Bit Digital Q2: cloud revenue jumps as ETH staking fees fade
Bit Digital's August 13 Ex-99.1 put second-quarter revenue at $32.1 million, up 15% from the prior quarter, with cloud services at $23.8 million. ETH staking revenue fell to $0.9 million from $2.3 million. The company said it funded WhiteFiber's NC-1 data center campus with a treasury-backed financing and did not sell ETH or issue equity at either company for that build. NC-1 is not in the second-quarter results and is expected to start contributing in the third quarter.
StablecoinX reports a 3.0 billion ENA treasury and claims 20% of supply
StablecoinX (Nasdaq: USDE) reported an ENA treasury of about 3.0 billion tokens at June 30, 2026, after closing its TLGY business combination on June 25. CEO Edward Chen said the company is a 20% holder of total ENA supply. Total assets were $232.6 million, with $212.9 million in digital intangible assets carried at cost less impairment. The same release put USDe supply at $3.9 billion by July 31, 2026, while infrastructure services revenue was only $62,372 in the last two weeks of June.
Bitwise explores tokenized shares of its Solana staking ETF with Superstate
Bitwise said on August 13 it is partnering with Superstate to let shareholders of certain Bitwise funds elect tokenized share records. The first candidate is the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL). Tokenization would change only how ownership is recorded: investors would still buy the same shares, with the same rights, through the same channels, then choose DTC book-entry or a blockchain record kept through Superstate's transfer agency. Bitwise said tokenized shares would not be freely transferable outside that system, and there is no assurance whether or when the option launches.
Ethresear.ch floats Native Ethereum Delegation, not an EIP yet
A new Ethresear.ch post dated August 13, 2026, sketches Native Ethereum Delegation, informally the Flanders Protocol. The idea is that a holder delegates into a common native pool, and the protocol routes that stake using validators NED-eligible base balances rather than the user's commercial staking provider. The authors argue today's provider choice funnels consensus weight to the same firms that win the customer, and they add a Delegation Concentration Envelope so delegated weight cannot quietly amplify a hidden coalition past Ethereum's one-third threshold. The post is explicit: this is idea-stage research, not an EIP.
