Bitcoin jumped to $69,669 (up 7.2% over 24 hours) on the site CoinGecko snapshot fetched at 00:26 UTC on August 20, 2026, with ether at $2,261.85 (up 17.7%) and solana at $85.55 (up 10.8%). Global crypto market cap sat near $2.47 trillion, and bitcoin dominance was about 56.7%.
The United States Treasury said it will at least double long-end liquidity-support buybacks from September 9. July 28-29 FOMC minutes, released August 19, showed a hold at 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 percent with three hike dissents. OCC Comptroller Jonathan Gould told a Wyoming audience a GENIUS Act final stablecoin rule is due by November.
Bitcoin history still needs the range, not one overnight print. Grayscale asked the SEC to list a Zcash product. Injective said an affiliate is now a registered transfer agent. GnosisDAO closed a vote to settle Gnosis Chain on Ethereum. Kalshi asked the CFTC to approve copper and large-cap perpetual futures. None of those is a live listing. Pair the filings with how to read a crypto market snapshot, the spot ETF glossary, and Ethereum history.
Treasury at least doubles long-end buyback sizes from September 9
The United States Treasury said on August 19, 2026 that liquidity-support buybacks in the 10-year to 20-year and 20-year to 30-year nominal coupon sectors will rise from a $2 billion maximum per operation to at least $4 billion. The larger operations start September 9, 2026 and run through the rest of the current refunding quarter, which ends November 4, 2026. Treasury framed the change as more support where it already sees strong, high-quality offers, and said an updated tentative buyback schedule will come later. This is a cash-market size change, not a crypto filing, and it does not by itself explain overnight bitcoin prices.
July FOMC minutes: nine members held rates, three wanted a hike
Minutes of the July 28-29, 2026 FOMC meeting, released at 2:00 pm EDT on August 19, show nine members voted to keep the federal funds target at 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 percent, while Beth Hammack, Neel Kashkari, and Lorie Logan dissented for a 1/4 point increase. Staff material available at the meeting put May PCE inflation at 4.1 percent and estimated June at 3.7 percent, with the unemployment rate at 4.2 percent in June. At the time of that meeting, market pricing fully implied a 25 basis point hike by September, while the Desk survey median expected no change in 2026 or 2027. The minutes describe July conditions rather than a new rate decision this week.
OCC Comptroller says a GENIUS Act final rule is due by November
OCC News Release 2026-69, dated August 19, 2026, excerpts Comptroller Jonathan Gould at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium in Jackson Hole. Gould said the agency has received 40 de novo bank-charter applications since President Trump took office, and that 23 of those business plans involve some form of digital-asset activity. On the GENIUS Act, he said the OCC was working on the rule before the bill was signed and will have a final rule out by November. That is a stated timetable, not a published final rule, and it does not make any named issuer a live permitted payment stablecoin issuer.
Grayscale Zcash S-3 amendment names a possible 200,000 ZEC DCG contribution
Grayscale Zcash Trust filed Amendment No 4 to Form S-3 with the SEC on August 18, 2026, seeking to list Shares on NYSE Arca under the symbol ZCSH. The sponsor, Grayscale Investments Sponsors LLC, is in discussions with DCG International Investments Ltd, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, for that entity to acquire Shares through an Authorized Participant in exchange for about 200,000 ZEC after the registration statement is effective. The filing says those talks are not binding, so the potential investor could buy more, fewer, or no Shares. At the August 20, 2026 00:26 UTC CoinGecko snapshot, ZEC was $563.85, and the filing does not make the listing effective.
Injective affiliate says its SEC transfer-agent registration is now effective
Injective wrote on August 19, 2026 that Injective Institutional Services is now registered with the SEC as a transfer agent and that the registration is effective. A transfer agent keeps the official record of who owns a security and processes ownership changes. Injective says the affiliate can operate inside that federal framework and pairs the role with Injective Mint, its issuance tool, while stating that the structure does not make every Mint asset a security or satisfy every regulatory requirement. Registration is not an SEC endorsement of the INJ token or of any named tokenized fund.
GnosisDAO passes GIP-153 to settle Gnosis Chain on Ethereum
The gnosis.eth Snapshot vote on GIP-153 closed at 12:55 UTC on August 19, 2026 with 123,158 voting power For, 115 Against, and 151 Abstain, above the 75,000 quorum, across 54 votes. The proposal asks GnosisDAO to align on moving Gnosis Chain from a standalone layer 1 into a ZK-proven Ethereum Economic Zone rollup instance that settles on Ethereum. The forum text targets genesis around December 2026 or January 2027, sunsets the current validator set, and says about 350,000 staked GNO (about 27% of circulating supply) would unlock. It is a direction vote with no funds requested, not a completed migration.
Kalshi files 40.3 copper and US large-cap perpetual futures with the CFTC
KalshiEX LLC submitted COPPERPERP to the CFTC on August 18, 2026 under Regulation 40.3(a) for voluntary review and approval. The contract is a cash-settled perpetual future on the spot price of copper in United States dollars per pound, using the Pyth Network XCU/USD feed, with a trading unit of 1,000 pounds and a $0.0005 per pound minimum tick. The same-day docket also lists US500PERP, a perpetual on the MerQube US Large Cap Index of 500 United States-listed and domiciled companies, also pending 45-day approval. Kalshi says it intends to list each contract shortly after Commission approval, which has not been granted.
