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The Sandbox has raised its damage estimate for the SAND bridge exploit after completing an onchain forensic investigation. The attacker drained 14,742,341.84 SAND from the Ethereum vault backing the bridge, around 0.5 percent of the fixed 3 billion max supply. The root cause was a configuration function on the SAND contract that let the attacker register as sole verifier of bridge messages. Bridging to and from Base and BNB Chain remains disabled.

Nine Chronicles has released v200470, rebuilding Adventure Boss around a new material called Distorted Essence. Monsters across all worlds are 20 percent weaker for a limited period, and 25 new collections have been added. The update also brings a Nine Chronicles Universe connection status display, a new Transcendent grade skin, and shop changes. NCG Vouchers return in September.

BNB Smart Chain has activated the Pasteur hardfork on mainnet, lifting throughput from 1,237 to 2,324 transactions per second in testing. The upgrade bundles three BEPs covering block capacity, cross chain bridge verification, and validator key rotation. Block time stays at 450 milliseconds and the gas limit remains 100 million per block. Players and most developers need to do nothing.

PlayToEarn is 8 years old and marking it with 8 days of rewards running from August 24 to August 31, 2026. PlayToEarn Plus is free for everyone during the campaign, ads and game listing packages carry 18 percent off with code EARN8, and an anniversary airdrop puts 50,000 P2E Points on the table. All deals close on August 31 at 23:59 UTC.

Cambria has taken its extraction dungeons into hardcore territory with a release built around survival based rewards. Necromancy joins the game as a new mechanic, and clearing a run can now win Cut Gems worth 1,000 keys each. New Side Rooms expand what players find between floors. Dungeons players have risked 5 million USD in keys across more than 242,000 runs.

Shard Legends: Clan Wars has locked in August 25, 2026 for its SLCW Token Generation Event and trading launch on a top 10 centralised exchange. The exchange name stays sealed until a co announcement on August 24 under NDA terms, with a second listing date following on August 26. Eleven days of content expansions run into the event, covering PvP, personal islands, and a titles system. SLCW carries a maximum supply of 200 million tokens.

A leaker known as Cyberleek claims Grand Theft Auto VI will include an in game currency that can be exchanged for real life money. The claim arrived alongside a wave of gameplay footage and map images released in August 2026, and a Solana memecoin launched by the same source. The token traded roughly 11.8 million USD in a single day before settling near a 1.73 million USD market cap. Rockstar has not confirmed the material and has issued takedown notices against posts carrying the footage.

Anchorpoint, the joint venture between Standard Chartered, Animoca Brands and HKT, has launched HKDAP, the first regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoin. The token opened to institutional users on August 12, 2026 through authorised distributors, with retail access targeted for the fourth quarter. HKDAP is backed one to one by high quality liquid HKD reserves under Hong Kong's Stablecoins Ordinance. Animoca's involvement puts a major web3 gaming investor at the centre of the country's regulated money infrastructure.

Meta Racing review: how the Solana card-racing game works, what it costs to start, and the simple math behind earning real, USDT-pegged rewards.

GAMEE has launched Gold Fest Season 2 with a starting prize pool of 1 million USD in nGRND Gold Protocol tokens, doubling the total from Season 1. The season introduces Gold Fest: The Game, a standalone digging and progression title built for TON Blockchain. Players dig deeper, complete achievements, and invite friends to grow their share of the pool. Season 1 drew nearly 550,000 players from 201 countries across 13.6 million games.