Crypto markets delivered a mixed week, with some tokens posting sharp gains while others struggled under selling pressure. Meanwhile, adoption continued to expand across stablecoins, tokenized assets, and blockchain infrastructure, with new developments from the US, India, and beyond.
Top gainers and losers of the week
- Stacks (STX) – broke out with massive upside momentum, surging by 65.63% over the last seven days to reach a price of $0.271;
- OFFICIAL TRUMP (TRUMP) – enjoyed a strong rally throughout the week, climbing 48.66% to lock in at $2.73;
- SPX6900 (SPX) – pushed higher with steady gains, rising 27.73% across the seven-day stretch to end at $0.5611.
- Aptos (APT) – faced significant downward pressure, falling 13.38% over the course of the week to settle at $0.5573;
- Flare (FLR) – encountered a steady pullback, shedding 12.10% of its value to close the week at $0.006456;
- Filecoin (FIL) – drifted lower under market selling, dropping 10.39% across the seven-day period to finish at $0.6993.
Most Americans call crypto in retirement plans too risky
Most Americans do not want cryptocurrency inside their workplace retirement plans, according to a national survey published in the Retirement Insecurity 2026 report, conducted by Greenwald Research between October and November 2025.
Fifty-three percent of respondents oppose employers offering cryptocurrency as an investment option in 401(k)-style plans. Seventy-seven percent consider it risky for retirement accounts, with 46% describing it as very risky.
The findings land at a moment when the broader retirement picture is already under strain. Eighty percent of Americans say the country faces a retirement crisis, up from 67% in 2020. Nearly half of respondents reported less than $100,000 in total retirement savings, and 18% had saved nothing at all.
Those numbers give the crypto skepticism some context. Participants already feel squeezed by inflation, cited by 73% as a concern, and market volatility, flagged by 62%. An asset class known for sharp drawdowns sits uncomfortably alongside those worries.
The survey covered 1,203 adults aged 25 and older. It did not ask whether respondents held crypto outside retirement accounts, which means the opposition speaks specifically to crypto inside tax-advantaged workplace plans rather than to crypto ownership broadly.
USD1 stablecoin launches natively on Canton Network
World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin is now natively available on Canton Network, a privacy-enabled public blockchain built for regulated financial markets, the company announced.
Canton processes more than $9 trillion in tokenized assets each month, with over $350 billion in on-chain US Treasurys moving across the network daily. Institutions running collateral, repo, and treasury workflows on Canton have faced a persistent problem: the asset leg of a transaction settled on-chain while the dollar leg ran on slower, conventional rails. USD1 is designed to close that gap by settling atomically alongside the asset under Canton's existing privacy and compliance controls.
"Tokenization has moved faster than the money behind it," said Zak Folkman, Co-Founder and COO of World Liberty Financial. "Canton and native USD1 together allow real-world assets to access a dollar that settles alongside them with speed and privacy."
USD1 has surpassed $4 billion in circulation since its March 2025 launch. BitGo Bank and Trust, a federally regulated trust authorized by the OCC, issues the stablecoin and manages its reserve of short-term US Treasurys, government money market funds, and cash equivalents.
Solana hits record 4.2B transactions before SOL rally
Solana processed a record 4.2 billion transactions in July, up 13.5% from June and roughly 91% higher than December, according to onchain data presented by The Kobeissi Letter. The milestone preceded SOL's move above $100 for the first time since February.
BREAKING: Total onchain transaction count on Solana hit a record 4.2 billion in July, up +13.5% month-over-month.
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) August 25, 2026
This marks an increase of 2 billion transactions compared to December 2025, or +91%.
The surge in activity comes as Solana, $SOL, rallied +40% in 8 days to its… pic.twitter.com/79JuX0mAUu
The network's activity growth runs alongside a broader expansion in tokenized real-world assets. RWA.xyz data cited by The Kobeissi Letter showed the total value of distributed RWAs across tracked blockchain networks has climbed above $38 billion. On Solana specifically, tokenized real-world asset value reached nearly $4 billion, up roughly 11.8% over the past month.
SOL gained roughly 44% over eight days, according to CoinMarketCap data. The US Treasury Department's announcement that it would double certain long-dated bond buyback operations to at least $4 billion per round pushed yields lower and lifted risk appetite across crypto markets, accelerating the move. The transaction record, however, was already in place before that macro catalyst arrived, which means the network's usage growth was not a product of the price rally.
India to test tokenized corporate bonds with digital rupee
India's state-owned power financier REC is set to issue tokenized corporate bonds as part of a pilot developed with the Reserve Bank of India and the Securities and Exchange Board of India, Reuters reported on August 24, citing three people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Participants will need two digital accounts to take part: a wholesale CBDC wallet supplied by a bank and a separate securities wallet built on DEMAT 2.0, a distributed ledger infrastructure under development by India's depositories. The wholesale digital rupee will handle the cash leg, allowing money and securities to transfer simultaneously across connected digital infrastructure. The bonds will carry a three-month lock-in period, after which exchanges are expected to build a secondary market for the tokenized instruments by December.
The offering is expected to be announced at a Mumbai fintech event next month, with access restricted to a select group of investors at the pilot stage.
"The offering would be made available to only a select group of investors at the pilot stage," one person familiar with the plans told Reuters.
The RBI, SEBI, and REC did not respond to HODLFM's requests for comment.
Gunel Ismayilova
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