Summary: The House Ways and Means Committee will mark up the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act on Wednesday, proposing exemptions for small transaction fees and new rules for stablecoins.
Summary: Balancer Labs CEO Marcus Hardt proposed an orderly wind-down of the decentralized exchange, citing insufficient revenue following a $128 million exploit and failed post-restructuring growth.
Summary: Kraken introduced onchain yield vaults for tokenized stocks like SPYx, QQQx, and NVDAx, enabling clients to earn returns by lending assets through decentralized finance protocols.
Summary: Strive acquired 469 Bitcoin for approximately $36.6 million, bringing its total holdings to 25,000 BTC as the company’s market capitalization surpassed Metaplanet.
Summary: Nasdaq-listed Strive acquired 469 bitcoins at an average price of approximately $77,954, bringing its total holdings to 25,000 BTC worth nearly $2 billion.
Summary: New firm Orange Juice plans to acquire profitable US businesses and direct excess cash flow into Bitcoin, offering a decorrelated alternative to capital-market-driven corporate treasuries.
Summary: US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $462.7 million in net outflows last week, reversing prior inflows, while Ether ETFs attracted nearly $197 million.
Summary: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated that companies should not have veto power over tokenized stock products that do not alter shareholder rights or official ledgers.
Summary: Anchorage Digital partnered with Frgmnt to enable institutional custody, minting, and staking of fUSD and sfUSD tokens without separate arrangements.
Summary: US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $449 million in net outflows over three days, with Thursday’s $282.6 million drop marking the largest daily decline since July.
Summary: Bitwise will close its Dogecoin ETF, BWOW, in October due to low assets and product optimization, ending trading on NYSE Arca by Oct. 14.
Summary: Coinbase is rebranding its Base App back to Coinbase Wallet on September 8, shifting focus from social features to multichain trading across networks like Solana and Hyperliquid.
Summary: Liquid Network resumed block production without transactions following a $320 million Bitcoin withdrawal, while peg operations remain suspended during recovery.
Summary: Coinbase and Moov have partnered to deliver regulated stablecoin payment and settlement infrastructure to over 1,000 US community banks and credit unions.
Summary: Bitcoin Magazine details how quantum computing’s probability-based algorithms could theoretically break elliptic curve cryptography, posing an existential risk to Bitcoin's security model.
Summary: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed EIP-8288, a draft standard aiming to reduce the gas cost of quantum-safe private transactions by over 99% through recursive STARK proofs.
Summary: Ethereum software company Consensys plans to separate its consumer business, MetaMask, from its institutional infrastructure operations by the end of 2026.
Summary: Brent crude surpassed $100 following geopolitical escalations, prompting prediction market traders on Myriad and Polymarket to heavily favor higher oil price outcomes.
Summary: VerifiedX has initiated a $15 million financing round, led by Cantor Fitzgerald as investment banker, to deploy institutional Bitcoin infrastructure including custody and lending.
Summary: Consensys Software Inc. will separate its consumer and institutional businesses by the end of 2026, with the existing entity rebranding as MetaMask.