Raw News Items
22 itemsSeptember 5, 2026
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Bitcoin dips below $80,000 as a hot August jobs report shifts Fed policy expectations
Bitcoin's push above $80,000 lost an important policy cushion on Sept. 4, when the August jobs report came in far stronger than the recent hiring trend. The result made it harder for the Fed to justify holding rates steady on labor-market weakness alone. Bitcoin registered an intraday low of $78,660...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $3.8B in strongest three-week stretch of 2026
US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew nearly $1 billion in the latest week as Friday inflows stayed positive despite Bitcoin briefly falling below $79,000.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Zcash breaks $1,000 as its spot ETF crosses $400 million in assets
Zcash broke above $1,000 on Sept. 4, pushing the asset value of Grayscale’s recently listed ZCSH ETF past $400 million less than two weeks after its debut. ZEC registered an intraday high of $1,050.70, up roughly 20% over 24 hours and nearly 100% over the past month. The move lifted ZCSH’s assets to...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Users exposed by Trezor breach grows sixfold after supposedly deleted shipping logs are found
Hardware wallet maker Trezor says a breach at logistics provider ShipMonk exposed contact and order data for another approximately 67,000 U.S. customers after years-old records remained in the vendor's systems despite written deletion assurances. The Sept. 4 update expands an incident Trezor initial...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
A major outage and corporate backlash hit Robinhood Chain at the peak of its growth
Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth ran into two problems at once on Sept. 4 as the network briefly stopped producing blocks while AMC challenged its fast-growing Stock Token business. On Sept. 4, the Ethereum layer-2 network halted block production for at least 14 minutes, stalling transactions before a...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Southeast Asia’s crypto funding rebounds to $680 million as investors focus on mature firms
Blockchain investment in Southeast Asia in 2026 has been led by crypto financial services, though funding remains heavily concentrated in Singapore and a handful of companies.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Fed stablecoin research exposes how the same dollar could count twice in M1 or M2
A Federal Reserve staff note published Sept. 4 sketches a route for regulated payment stablecoins to enter M1 or the broader M2 money supply. Its accounting framework requires adjustments before gross circulation could enter either measure. Payment stablecoins are excluded from the US monetary aggre...
- DecryptScore: 75
Ancient Bitcoin Wallet That Turned $120 Into $3 Million Wakes Up
At least four more decade-old wallets moved a combined $15.7 million between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4, with one batch of coins sent to Coinbase in a likely sign of a sale.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Poland upholds crypto bill veto as Zondacrypto scandal widens
Polish lawmakers failed to overturn a presidential veto of crypto legislation as the Zondacrypto investigation expands and its Estonian operator enters bankruptcy.
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Dollar-backed stablecoins can push local currencies lower, Bank of Korea study finds
Buying pressure in Binance-paired currencies correlates with local currency depreciation as market makers balance positions.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
XRP Ledger has fewer active accounts than last year, but bigger trades and more value
Daily order-book traders fell about 40% from a year ago while volume rose 79%, as the value held on XRPL climbed above $4 billion.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Solana’s plan to cut account deposits by 90% could weaken a reason to hold SOL
Eligible Solana token-account owners can reclaim excess SOL previously needed to keep their token accounts open after the network's first rent reduction went live Sept. 3. For businesses funding new accounts, the same change lowers the upfront capital required to create them. The full plan would cha...
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
DAOs are forcing crypto protocols to choose between code and emergency brakes
Compound is a crypto lending protocol governed by holders who delegate their COMP tokens, a setup known as a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO. It works like an online republic, with token holders debating proposals, voting, and letting software carry out the result. In July 2024, that r...
- The BlockScore: 60
UBS, Jane Street among firms with combined $75 million in Hyperliquid ETF holdings: Bloomberg
Brazil's Wealth High Governance Asset Management held about $24 million worth of 21Shares' HYPE fund as of the end of June, the top HYPE ETF holder.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Robinhood rejects AMC CEO’s demand to halt AMC tokenized ‘meme stock’ which offers no shareholder rights
Social media crypto drama is heating up again. The latest spat is between Robinhood and the once ‘Prince of Meme Stocks' AMC. Robinhood's top legal officer rejected AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron's demand to stop trading an AMC-linked Stock Token, and Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said the company...
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
How the “buy, borrow, die” tax trade is quietly loading DeFi pools with hidden credit risk
Imagine someone who bought ETH for $1,000, watched it climb to $4,000, and now wants to cash out $1,000. Selling one-quarter of the ETH would provide the cash, but it would also realize a $750 gain under US tax treatment of digital assets held for investment. However, DeFi offers another way. The ow...
- The BlockScore: 40
LeBron James teases Polymarket partnership in new social media video
The announcement comes after James' free agency decision generated $273 million in prediction market volume across platforms.
- DecryptScore: 40
Update Your Browser: Google Patches Chrome Flaw Hackers Were Already Using
The update fixes a high-severity flaw in Chrome’s V8 engine, but Google has not revealed who is using it or whom they targeted.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
British investor thought he lost $2,000 in bitcoin in 2012. He just recovered $4.5 million
CEL Solicitors says it has identified a wallet holding more than 5,500 BTC linked to former Intersango users.
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
Wall Street is turning AI’s massive electricity appetite into a $61 billion bond market
Every interaction with AI uses electricity in a data center. Servers calculate the answer, cooling equipment carries away the heat, and network connections send the result back to the user. Multiply that process across millions of requests and the electric bill becomes one of the facility's highest ...
- DecryptScore: 20
AI Just Solved a 350-Year-Old Math Problem By Writing the Longest Proof Ever
Anthropic says Claude spent 11 days turning Fermat's Last Theorem into 13 million lines of code a computer can check itself, no human trust required
- CoinDeskScore: 20
Why crypto experts say buying and holding bitcoin easily beats trying to time the market
A historical analysis of bitcoin price performance from 2010 through 2026 demonstrates that the vast majority of the asset's annual returns occur during a tiny fraction of the calendar year.