Nubank, a major player in the global digital financial services industry, has taken a significant step towards integrating with Drex, the Brazilian digital currency previously known as Real Digital. The integration aligns Nubank's infrastructure with the Drex blockchain network, which operates on Hyperledger Besu technology, endorsed by the Brazilian Central Bank.

The founder of Jurat, a layer-1 blockchain, has defended the use of on-chain legal enforcement as a necessary trade-off for mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies. Recently, a US District Court used Jurat's on-chain enforcement tool to lock several individuals out of their crypto accounts for money laundering and ransomware activities.

On August 19th, Shibarium released its second day progress report, completing internal blockchain restart testing and expanding in various ways. The team plans to release after further testing. The Shibarium team stated that they have been in consultation with the Alchemy team to expand their operations and are expanding server capacity. They have also collaborated with several blockchain experts to create additional protocols to support and manage traffic.

The registration for the GameWave Genesis Hackathon is now open on the global geek sports platform DoraHacks.io. The hackathon is hosted by Oasys Games, Japan's largest game blockchain, aimed at inspiring developers to innovate games, tools, and applications based on Oasys Chain, and accelerating the development of the Web3 gaming industry.

On August 18th, Cardano blockchain founder Charles Hoskison announced that the CIP-1694 testnet, SanchoNet, has officially launched. SanchoNet aims to introduce the governance function of CIP-1694 to the Cardano community in a controlled testnet environment.

Polygon Labs, a blockchain company, and SK Telecom, a leading Korean mobile carrier, have partnered to develop a web3 ecosystem and identify promising startups for incubation. The collaboration aims to provide web3 experiences to more consumers. The agreement was signed at SK Telecom's Seoul headquarters, and TopPort, SK Telecom's NFT marketplace, will begin supporting the Polygon blockchain.

Chen Yingfeng, Vice Chairman of the Asian Financial Technology Association, stated in a Ming Pao special issue that Web3.0 is a natural tool for ESG, and the two complement each other with mutually beneficial effects.

Raj Dhamodharan, Executive Vice President of MasterCard, stated in an interview with The Block that the company plans to introduce central bank digital currency (CBDC) onto the blockchain. They are developing a method to allow users to obtain CBDC, package it, bring it onto the public chain, and use it to purchase NFTs.

Enterprise-level no-code blockchain infrastructure automation platform Zeeve has joined the Shardeum ecosystem. Shardeum is an EVM-based L1 blockchain that uses dynamic state sharding to increase TPS for each new node. The integration between Zeeve and Shardeum allows early adopters to participate in the network as validators and receive rewards on the SHM testnet.

On August 15th, according to blockchain data analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Voyager has transferred more than 30 types of tokens to Coinbase since August 12th, and has paid users in US dollars for token exchanges. They have withdrawn 82.37 million USDC from Coinbase and transferred 85 million USDC to Circle to exchange for US dollars.Currently, Voyager still has tokens worth about $11.47 million waiting to be sold, including VGX and BTC tokens worth over $1 million.