Goldman Grabs Two Billion Dollar Bitcoin ETF Position as Russia Limits Retail Crypto to Three Assets

August 13th, 2026: Goldman Sachs acquires NEOS Investments for two point two five billion dollars, instantly gaining a billion-dollar Bitcoin income ETF business while Russia restricts retail investors to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT with a fifty-eight thousand dollar annual cap per broker. Bitcoin holds near sixty-three thousand six hundred dollars despite in-line inflation data, as Solana narrowly avoids network freeze after infrastructure failure knocked twenty-nine percent of staked tokens offline. Fidelity files to enable Ethereum staking in its ETF, joining Grayscale in offering staking rewards to shareholders, while Zcash shielded transactions surpass three point two nine million showing strong privacy adoption.