Watch Out: Lots of Economic Developments and Altcoin Events This Week—Here’s the Day-by-Day, Hour-by-Hour Schedule
The cryptocurrency market has lost value over the past seven days following a decrease in the likelihood that the Clarity Act, considered bullish, will pass the Senate this year, and also aft
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August 16, 2026
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The cryptocurrency market has lost value over the past seven days following a decrease in the likelihood that the Clarity Act, considered bullish, will pass the Senate this year, and also after the SEC postponed its planned cryptocurrency hearing scheduled for last Friday.
Bitcoin’s price has fallen by approximately 3% in the last seven days, while the index measuring the performance of the top 20 cryptocurrencies is set to close the week down 2.3%.
However, the new week brings numerous economic developments and altcoin events. Here is the cryptocurrency calendar we have specially prepared for you at Bitcoinsistemi.com.
(All times are given in UTC+3 Turkish time)
Monday, August 17
DGrid AI, a decentralized AI inference network, is opening airdrop applications.
Coinbase is ending support for USDC deposits and withdrawals on the Noble network.
Coinbase Futures is launching US500 perpetual futures contracts for US users.
Hashdex is shutting down its Hashdex Bitcoin ETF.
Binance is delisting ACX, HFT, PIVX, PYR, VANRY, and VIC.
Solana is suspending the registration of domain names with the .sol extension.
Tuesday, August 18
Bithumb is delisting the GRACY and SPURS tokens.
Wednesday, August 19
The White House may meet with top executives from the cryptocurrency and prediction markets sectors.
21:00 – The Fed will release the minutes of its latest interest rate decision meeting.
Thursday, August 20
15:30 – US Initial Jobless Claims (Expected: 210k, Previous: 209k)
Friday, August 21
South Korea is expanding its oversight of cryptocurrency operators to include major shareholders.
The Step application, part of the “Move-to-Earn” project, is discontinuing its service.
An Ethereum address-poisoning attack drained $12,000 in USDC from a victim who sent funds to a lookalike wallet address, according to a report flagged by on-chain security monitor ScamSniffer
Founders Fund has led a $5 million purchase of governance tokens in Anvil, an Ethereum-based decentralized finance protocol that lets digital assets secure financial commitments, as the proje
Coinbase has announced a way to trade on crypto's two most recognizable mood swings, turning the viral phrases "It's so over" and "we're so back" into actual prediction-market contracts on it