🔮 ZenDaily - 13th Aug 2026 🔮
Polygon Joins Bank Of England’s Digital Pound Lab, Binance’s bStocks Has Reportedly Surpassed xStocks, VanEck Launches Trading Card Game to Teach Investing, And More.
🗞 NFT NEWSFLASH
The current Bitcoin price is $63.37, ETH is $1.87K, and BNB is $608.13.: https://tinyurl.com/4w5m5cfe
Bank of England Tests Stablecoins and Digital Pound for Cross-Border Payments. The Bank of England is testing how stablecoins and a simulated digital pound could be used for cross-border trade finance, including stablecoin payments to exporters and digital settlement by importers.: https://tinyurl.com/yux2754u
Polygon Joins Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab. Polygon has been selected for Phase 2 of the Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab, alongside NOBO and Dun & Bradstreet, to explore potential use cases for a digital pound and cross-border stablecoin settlement.: https://tinyurl.com/mtzrhj8t
Binance’s bStocks Has Reportedly Surpassed xStocks to become the second-largest tokenized stock issuer, reaching around $610.6M in value, while Ondo remains the market leader at roughly $927M, according to Token Terminal data.: https://tinyurl.com/muatauxc
Solana Narrowly Avoids Transaction Finalization Halt. A Teraswitch routing failure pushed 28.83% of staked SOL offline, nearing Solana’s 33.34% finalization threshold. Around 90 validators were affected for roughly 33 minutes, highlighting infrastructure concentration risks.: https://tinyurl.com/34u7d8ve
NEAR Has Introduced Confidential USDC Earn Vaults, featuring strategies curated by Gauntlet and additional vaults from 628 Labs via Taler Finance. Users can continue to swap, send, or spend their USDC while it earns yield, without first withdrawing from the vault.: https://tinyurl.com/mtzrhj8t
VanEck Launches Trading Card Game to Teach Investing, a limited-edition trading card game designed to teach younger audiences financial concepts including diversification, risk management, market timing, and portfolio construction through gameplay. The physical release is limited to 12,000 sets, with 8,000 available to the public.: https://tinyurl.com/5n6r6h6u
💸 NOTABLE MEME-COIN MARKET MOVES
BasedHype is up 26% at $0.006583
MOOLAH is up 14% at $0.0242
SIREN is up 13% at $0.04766
LUCIC is up 13% at $0.09929
NEET is up 12% at $0.02112
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💸 NOTABLE ETHEREUM MARKET MOVES
V1 Cryptopunks is up 17% at 2.40 ETH
Identity MD is up 13% at 0.29 ETH
MAYC is up 2% at 1.13 ETH
Milady is up 2% at 1.08 ETH
Normies is down 2% at 0.30 ETH
💰 NOTABLE NFT SALES
Bored Ape Yacht Club #6034 - 42.30 ETH
CryptoPunk #6438 - 38 ETH
CryptoPunk #6562 - 33.19 ETH
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