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78 itemsSeptember 4, 2026
- CryptoSlate
El Salvador added 1,540 Bitcoin, but the IMF says Bukele’s government didn’t pay for them
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says El Salvador’s Bitcoin reserve growth over the past year came from private donations, not new government spending. In its latest review of the country’s loan program, the global financial agency said documents supplied by El Salvador showed that Bitcoin accu...
- CoinDeskScore: 90
Bitcoin back above $81,000 as hike odds fade, Zcash leads with 15% jump
Every major token gained on Friday as traders cut bets on a September Federal Reserve rate increase to a coin flip, though most of the majors are barely changed on the week.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
U.S. banking agency gives blockchain bank OpenReserve initial OK to operate
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted a provisional charter to the new full-service bank, adding it to the growing mix of crypto-native institutions.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
US, UK launch joint alliance targeting crypto scam centers
The agreement includes parallel investigations and information sharing, with US and UK authorities planning a private-sector disruption operation in London in October.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
OpenAI puts $1 billion behind cyber defense after unveiling AI that can find zero-days
The company is subsidizing access to its Daybreak security platform after saying Astra can independently find previously unknown software flaws and turn them into working attacks.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $731M, highest since January as BTC reclaims $80K
US Bitcoin ETFs drew $730.9 million on Thursday as Bitcoin reclaimed $80,000, though CryptoQuant flagged weak fresh demand and a key $83,000 test.
- The BlockScore: 85
South Korea to start tokenizing ‘all types’ of securities in three stages from 2027
South Korea ultimately aims to allow participants to settle tokenized securities onchain with stablecoins, as part of a three-stage plan.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
South Korea targets February 2027 rollout for full tokenized securities market
Financial regulators unveiled a phased roadmap moving traditional capital markets onto distributed ledgers, concluding with onchain stablecoin settlement.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Bitcoin clears $81,000 as privacy coins lead a broad crypto rally
BTC pushed through the level that capped it in late August, while zcash gained 16% and dash 19%.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Bitcoin’s rally over $81,000 is finding real buyers, but options traders still aren’t pricing a clean breakout
Bitcoin accelerated above $81,000 on Thursday as easing rate fears and fresh institutional demand lifted the broader crypto market. On Sept. 3, Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said he could support keeping interest rates unchanged this month if August inflation continues to cool, helping pus...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Wall Street just poured nearly $900 million into Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs
Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew nearly $900 million as both cryptocurrencies pushed through closely watched price levels. CryptoSlate data showed Bitcoin climbing above $81,000 and Ethereum topping $2,500 as fresh capital returned to US spot ETFs. Bitcoin funds attracted $730....
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Bitcoin falls below $80,000 as hot US payrolls revive Fed hike risk
Bitcoin fell below $80,000 on Friday after a much stronger-than-expected US jobs report abruptly raised rate-pressure concerns across crypto and other markets. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said nonfarm payrolls increased by 162,000 in August, compared with a Reuters consensus of 56,000. The releas...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
FinCEN ties $13B in crypto scams to non-US operations
The agency reported that “transnational criminal organizations” based in compounds in Southeast Asia were largely behind digital asset scams targeting US residents.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Privacy coin flaw risks endless token creation, leaving node operators with a deadline in hours to fix it
The Firo hard fork was 153 blocks away from activation early Friday, leaving wallet users and network operators only hours to install software that repairs an August vulnerability in the privacy coin’s Spark transaction system. The chain reached block 1,370,847 at 1:45:47 a.m. UTC on Sept. 4. The fo...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Hidden Solana upgrade bug can freeze network readers and silently disable fee limits
Solana’s v1 transaction format promises more than three times as much room per transaction, but RPC clients, indexers, relayers and fee sponsors that are not ready for it can fail in two very different ways: some systems stop, while others keep running with the wrong resource limits. Solana’s live u...
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Live updates: Bitcoin ETFs take $731 million, their biggest day since January
Every fund in the complex rose almost 6% on Thursday and net assets crossed $103 billion for the first time. BlackRock's IBIT accounted for well over half the money.
- The BlockScore: 80
US bitcoin ETFs report the largest inflow day since January, worth $731 million
Analysts attributed Fed Governor Christopher Waller’s dovish comments to the significant inflow of capital into bitcoin products.
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Zcash jumps 20% to landmark $1,000 level as short sellers lose $34 million
ZEC briefly traded above $1,020 as a sharp rally forced traders betting against the token out of leveraged positions.
- CryptoSlateScore: 80
Australia gives crypto firms until Sept. 30 to get licensed or risk enforcement
Australian crypto firms that need financial-services authorization have until Sept. 30 to enter a compliance pathway or risk enforcement. This week, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said qualifying digital-asset businesses must apply for or vary a license, become an author...
- DecryptScore: 80
Morning Minute: Crypto Stages Major Rally on Rate Hopes
Bitcoin soared past $81k, HYPE and ZEC hit smashing new ATHs and the onchain rally leveled up. Is this the first stage of the next leg up?
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Revolut, OpenReserve get preliminary US bank approval with crypto plans
Revolut and OpenReserve received preliminary OCC approval to form US national banks, with both planning cryptocurrency and stablecoin-related services.
- DecryptScore: 80
Bitcoin Slides as Blowout Jobs Report Revives Fed Hike Odds
The Dow dropped 226 points and Bitcoin erased some of its gains after August payrolls tripled estimates, pushing September rate-hike odds to 58%.
- DecryptScore: 80
A16z-Backed OpenReserve Gets Approval for Full-Service National Bank
The a16z-backed startup chose a full national charter over the trust-bank route most crypto firms have taken, clearing a path toward insured deposits and conventional lending alongside stablecoin issuance.
- DecryptScore: 80
G7 Warns Quantum Threat Demands Action as Crypto Industry Weighs Fixes
The group is urging organizations to adopt post-quantum security before powerful computers can compromise today’s encryption and digital signatures.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Trezor says data breach affects another 67K US customers
Trezor said an additional 67,000 US users were affected by its shipping provider’s data breach, opening the path to potential phishing attacks and social engineering scams.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
After selling every coin it owned, a public company is using Strategy’s STRC playbook to restart its $827M Bitcoin treasury plan
Genius Group, a Singapore-based education group, has cleared a legal obstacle to raising capital for its planned Bitcoin and artificial intelligence treasury expansion. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction that Genius said had restricted its ability to issu...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin just crossed the line that ended 4 out of 5 bear markets, but one deadly historical trap could still trigger a crash to $62,000
Bitcoin registered an intraday high above $82,000 on Sept. 3, pushing above the 50-week moving average that Galaxy Research says marked the definitive end of four of Bitcoin's five comparable completed bear markets. Galaxy's signal requires a weekly close above that line, and the Sept. 3 push throug...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
South Korean regulators introduce tokenized securities roadmap
South Korea’s financial regulator introduced a three-phase roadmap for the issuance of tokenized assets, as the country prepares to adopt its first tokenized securities framework in February 2027.
- DecryptScore: 75
67,000 More Trezor Customers Exposed as Data Breach Widens
Some records exposed in the breach date to 2019, years beyond the 90-day retention Trezor said its partners had agreed to.
- The BlockScore: 75
Trezor says ShipMonk breach affected another 67,000 customers
The newly identified records date from 2019 to 2021 and include names, emails, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and order numbers.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Why GENIUS could leave digital dollars vulnerable to sudden blockchain network ‘bank runs’
The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, or GENIUS Act, is the new federal framework for payment stablecoin issuers. Its reserve rules aim to make each token a safer dollar claim, while the public blockchains moving those tokens retain their own fee markets and capa...
- DecryptScore: 75
Zcash Hits Highest Price in Nearly a Decade, Crushing Short Bets
The privacy coin's squeeze rode a Fed-driven crypto rally that reversed hours later, when a stronger-than-expected jobs report sent Bitcoin back under $80,000.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin faces a two-week Fed trap as inflation rewrite threatens to upend rate cuts
Bitcoin’s next Federal Reserve test is split across two dates. The Federal Open Market Committee will decide policy on Sept. 16 after seeing August payrolls, producer prices and consumer prices. Official August personal consumption expenditures inflation, along with a Bureau of Economic Analysis ann...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Pineapple Financial puts $1B in mortgage records on Injective
The mortgage lender plans to bring more than $10 billion in historical loans onchain, turning thousands of mortgage files into blockchain-based records.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Bitcoin’s volatility ratio against gold collapses to 6-year low as traditional safe haven turbulence surges
Bitcoin and gold are trading more like each other than at any point since 2020, even as their latest divergence tests that relationship. Their 90-day correlation has climbed to about 0.55, the highest in nearly six years, while Bitcoin’s volatility stands at 36.2% compared with 25.3% for gold. That ...
- The BlockScore: 70
Andreessen Horowitz-backed OpenReserve secures preliminary OCC approval for national bank charter
OpenReserve Holdings received preliminary OCC approval for a national bank focused on onchain settlement, following a $25 million seed round.
- The BlockScore: 70
Crypto firms urge SEC to speed ETF reviews and allow confidential draft filings
In contrast, Jane Street and Charles Schwab raised concerns over rushed ETF launches and confidential filings limiting market scrutiny.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
A public company sold Bitcoin and somehow gave each shareholder more BTC exposure
ProCap Financial sold Bitcoin to buy back discounted shares, lifting BTC exposure for remaining investors. The Nasdaq-listed company sold about 50 BTC and repurchased more than 2% of its common stock while shares traded roughly 40% below net asset value, extending a strategy that has now retired abo...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
From warning to listing: UK’s largest retail investment platform opens access to crypto ETNs
The U.K.'s largest retail investment platform, Hargreaves Lansdown, has reversed course following the FCA's decision to lift its retail ban on crypto ETPs in October.
- The BlockScore: 70
Zcash tops $1,000 as ETF inflows ramp up and miners pile in
Grayscale's ZCSH inflows climb as surging network competition cuts into miners’ gains from the ZEC token's rally.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Kalshi faces $500,000 daily fines as Michigan forces sports event contracts offline
A Michigan judge has placed prediction-market exchange Kalshi under a preliminary injunction that keeps its sports event contracts fenced off from people in the state until the court issues a final order. The ruling moves the dispute beyond a short-term restraint and into an open-ended compliance re...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Surprise nonfarm payrolls print sends Bitcoin back below 80K
The US economy added far more jobs than expected in August, pressuring Bitcoin lower as traders repriced the odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut this month.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Monad’s mainnet upgrade makes storing data together 98% cheaper
Monad, an EVM-compatible blockchain, activated its MonadTen revision on mainnet at 14:30 UTC on Sept. 2. The MIP-8 upgrade changes how the network charges contracts for reading storage, replacing slot-by-slot warming with groups of 128 consecutive slots. Monad's mainnet block 101672712 measured 8,10...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Scan reveals 96,000 fake-address outputs clogging Bitcoin’s unspent database
Blockchain data company Bitquery published a census on Sept. 2 of four ways text appears in Bitcoin, scanning 965,135 blocks and revealing that the same words can impose very different costs on nodes. Its study counted 13,062 OP_RETURN taunt transactions that added no spendable state, against 96,231...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
CLARITY Act may be heading for lame duck after House Republicans slash the calendar
House Republicans have erased most of the remaining pre-election runway for the CLARITY Act despite mounting pressure to pass it. House Republican leaders canceled votes for the weeks of Sept. 21 and Sept. 28, moving the chamber’s departure to Sept. 17 from Oct. 1. The House is scheduled to return S...
- DecryptScore: 65
FinCEN Ties $12.7B to Crypto Scams Run From Asian Compounds
Monthly reported sums rose 18% on average, and the compounds now appear to be spreading beyond Southeast Asia.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
From Bitcoin to oil, perpetual contracts are breaking into American financial markets
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) asked a federal court on Sept. 2 to dismiss CME's challenge to Kalshi's Bitcoin perpetual contract. The lawsuit turns on whether a contract without a fixed expiration belongs in the US futures regime. Before the court reaches that question, the regulat...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Zero-knowledge apps go dark after chain upgrade breaks their underlying verification keys
The Mina Mesa upgrade stopped transaction processing for about eight hours on September 3 as the layer-1 blockchain shifted mainnet to its Mesa release. Exchanges suspended MINA transfers, while deployed zkApps now need new verification keys before they can resume proof-authorized activity. The proc...
- CointelegraphScore: 65
QuFi launches post-quantum verification platform with Bitcoin testnet proof
QuFi’s new platform uses post-quantum cryptography to verify digital asset transactions without requiring changes to existing blockchain settlement networks.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Bitwise 14% yield gap in XRP futures shows how institutions are quietly extracting cash from traders
Bitwise has given the market a rare look inside an institutional XRP carry trade. The Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund, or USCC, paired XRP held in custody with an almost equal short position in September Coinbase XRP futures. The structure was 97.48% matched by quantity, leaving limited exposure to a para...
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Kalshi US visits soar 1,500% as regulatory pressure mounts
Kalshi’s US web traffic climbed more than 1,500% in less than a year, while trading volume grew even faster and legal scrutiny of its sports contracts intensified.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
AMC CEO blasts Robinhood for stock token, putting synthetic shares in spotlight
Adam Aron said AMC has no connection to Robinhood’s tokenized shares, reviving questions around how stocks are brought onchain.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
One full bitcoin now buys a little more than 18 ounces of gold, the most since January
Bitcoin is pulling ahead of gold even as both hard assets rally together, driven by fears that governments will inflate away their debt rather than by bond yields.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
El Salvador’s post-review Bitcoin accumulation used no public funds: IMF
The IMF attributed Bitcoin added since June 2025 to private donations, addressing questions raised after El Salvador reported a $100 million acquisition.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
IMF confirms El Salvador’s bitcoin growth was funded by private donations, not public money
The IMF confirmed that all bitcoin added to official holdings since June 2025 was sourced from private donations, with no public funds used for accumulation.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
AMC chief criticizes Robinhood’s tokenized stock plan
AMC’s CEO criticized Robinhood’s tokenized stock offerings for being unregulated in the US and said he will request an investigation from an external securities counsel.
- DecryptScore: 60
IMF Now Says Donations Funded El Salvador's Bitcoin Growth
A year ago the fund claimed the total had not moved, and that the reserve was only shuffling coins between government wallets.
- DecryptScore: 60
OpenAI Agents Hack German Website to Share Rule-Breaking Tactics: Report
The activity began in May and remained undisclosed until Friday, a day after OpenAI launched Astra and U.S. lawmakers proposed restrictions on advanced AI.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Japan’s 4% bond yield spike threatens the low-cost borrowing strategy behind corporate Bitcoin buying
Japan’s 30-year government-bond auction cleared at a 4.079% average yield on Sept. 3, underscoring a tougher backdrop for future capital raised by Metaplanet to buy Bitcoin. The long bond is a market signal; the nearer test for the company is the price of shorter-tenor debt and refinancing. The aver...
- The BlockScore: 60
President Trump says he wants Hyperliquid to enter the US — here’s how it could happen
President Trump says his administration is working to bring Hyperliquid into the U.S., raising a deceptively simple question: How?
- DecryptScore: 60
Crypto Traders Are Pairing Meme Coins With Stocks on Robinhood—And It's Working (Sort Of)
A meme coin called BONER cornered half of Hims & Hers Health's tokenized shares on Robinhood's new blockchain. It started a new trend that's spreading fast.
- DecryptScore: 60
Polymarket Launches Crypto Perpetual Futures With Up to 20x Leverage
The prediction market platform's new Perps product scaled from 10 markets to 67 on its first day—though the 20x leverage ceiling only applies to some of them, and none of it reaches U.S. traders.
- CoinDeskScore: 55
AMC CEO tells Robinhood to stop issuing stock token as industry executives weigh in
Adam Aron said synthetic AMC shares could divert demand from the actual stock and strip investors of shareholder rights, drawing support from some tokenization executives.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
U.S. added stronger than expected 162,000 jobs in August as labor market bounced back
This morning's report will be key as the Fed considers whether to raise interest rates at its September policy meeting.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Token buybacks are booming. But are they good for crypto projects?
Crypto projects are spending hundreds of millions buying their own tokens. But are buybacks creating lasting value — or just making tokens look more valuable than they really are?
- CoinDeskScore: 50
U.S. Sheriff’s association shifts opposition stance to Clarity Act to 'neutral'
The law enforcement association said it has pivoted its position regarding the Clarity Act to neutral, months after it warned against a law it said would shield crypto crime.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
US law enforcement group moves to ‘neutral’ position on CLARITY Act
Despite earlier opposition to the CLARITY Act over consumer protection, the National Sheriffs’ Association says it will now “step back and allow the legislative process to proceed.“
- The BlockScore: 40
El Salvador has not used public funds to accumulate bitcoin since June 2025, IMF says
IMF says El Salvador used no public funds for bitcoin accumulation since June 2025, with purchases coming from private donations.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Cracking 1.33 Trillion Daily Tokens: B.AI Powers the “AI Grid” with Full-Stack Infrastructure to Fuel the Agentic Era
B.AI, a next-generation AI infrastructure platform, recently set off a developer frenzy by offering free access to top-tier models. Within days, daily token throughput across the platform crossed 1.33 trillion—a historic milestone. The record-breaking figure underscores the campaign's explosive roll...
- The BlockScore: 40
Ripple expands college sports push with XRP partnership at Florida
The XRP logo will be featured on the field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, as well as across Florida Athletics’ digital properties and events.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Arthur Hayes calls EUR/JPY prices crypto’s smoke alarm, but the Fed’s plumbing still shows no fire
Arthur Hayes has a new market alarm for crypto traders: EUR/JPY. The pair has started to fall, yet the Federal Reserve channels that would turn currency stress into dollar liquidity remain dormant. The European Central Bank's reference rate fell from 185.63 yen per euro on Sept. 1 to 181.21 on Sept....
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Crypto Biz: AI took a back seat when Bitcoin started climbing
Corporate crypto bets are getting bigger as rising markets reward direct exposure, putting balance-sheet strategies and institutional adoption back in focus.
- DecryptScore: 40
'Send Your Lawyers': Robinhood Isn't Backing Down From AMC Over Stock Tokens
Lawyers question AMC’s grounds for a securities-law challenge, but say the tokens’ branding and marketing could leave room for a dispute.
- DecryptScore: 40
TikTok's Parent Company Just Borrowed $30 Billion to Go All-In on AI
Nearly 30 banks backed the rare unsecured facility as TikTok’s parent company spends heavily on AI chips, models, and overseas data centers.
- The BlockScore: 30
AMC stock jumps 21% overnight as CEO slams Robinhood over ‘outrageous’ tokenized shares
OpenAI had previously made a similar criticism of Robinhood’s tokenized equities, saying it did not approve the transfer of its shares.
- DecryptScore: 30
AMC CEO Calls Robinhood Stock Tokens 'Contemptible' and 'Vile'
Adam Aron says AMC Entertainment has no connection to the tokens and is putting outside securities counsel on the case.
- DecryptScore: 30
BitMEX Co-Founder Ben Delo Gives Farage's Reform UK Another £4 Million
Two April payments supplied three-quarters of the party's donations for the quarter, where the next largest single gift was £180,000.
- CoinDeskScore: 20
We checked 6 years of bitcoin data. The NFP report isn't big price mover
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 4, 2026