Blockstream Rejects Ransom Demand After Liquid Bitcoin Exploit
Liquid said on Sept. 8 that 3,400 BTC had been returned and about 598.5 BTC remained outstanding; transactions later resumed with peg-outs disabled.
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Uniswap Launches Dynamic Fees for Two Stable-Pair Pools
The two Ethereum launch pools pair USDC with USDT and USDG; corrective trades outside the price band face a fee that falls each block.
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Valinor Launches Tokenized BDC Fund On Superstate
The Valinor BDC Exposure Fund buys the listed equity of business development companies, charges 1.25% on top of the fees those BDCs already charge, and accepts daily redemptions capped at 7.5% of net asset value a day. None of its 499,157 shares have been tokenized.
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Brent Tops $106 And Hike Odds Reach 64% As Crypto Sells Off
One hundred and three of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens were lower on the day after August producer prices came in at 0.4% and the 30-year Treasury yield passed every close of the past five years. Bitcoin held $77,000. Ether.fi rose 14.2% on a buyback vote that closed a week ago.
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MoneyGram's Stablecoin Visa Card Goes Live In Colombia
The virtual card spends the dollar balance inside the MoneyGram app and works anywhere Visa is accepted. MoneyGram promised the card a year ago and has not said which stablecoin now backs it.
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Latitude Raises $35 Million For Local Stablecoin Off-Ramps
Oak HC/FT led the round with NEA, Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed Faction and OpenFX participating, taking total funding to $43 million. Latitude's own site breaks its "45 U.S. markets" into 39 money transmission licences, one state registration and five no-action letters.
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U.S. Bank Issues Its Own Stablecoin On Stellar
The bank said Wednesday it moved value between its North American and European entities with USBDC, a dollar-backed token it issued on Stellar. The pilot tested minting, redemption, freezing and clawback. XLM trades at $0.18, down 3.1% on the day.
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Tether And Fasanara Seed A $400 Million Private Credit Fund
The evergreen fund opens with $400 million from the two sponsors and targets up to $3 billion from outside institutions. Fasanara manages the investments while Tether originates USDT-linked deals and runs settlement. USDT supply stands at $183.4 billion.
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Nasdaq Invests $100 Million in Kraken Parent Payward
Nasdaq Ventures agreed to put $100 million into Kraken's parent company, at a $21 billion valuation according to Bloomberg, and Payward will adopt Nasdaq's surveillance technology across its trading venues.
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Pump.fun Lets Creators Launch Coins Priced In Tokenized Stocks
Pump.fun opened token launches to quote assets beyond SOL and USDC on Wednesday afternoon, putting the count at 93 pairs including tokenized Nvidia, Tesla and the S&P 500. Half the revenue from the new pairs goes to the PUMP buyback-and-burn contract. The deepest of the new quote assets holds $3.07
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Zora Co-Founder Dee Goens Replaces Jacob Horne as CEO
Goens said Zora is now under 10 people after a headcount reduction this year and named ZORA buybacks among his first priorities. Fees from the protocol’s Base deployment are down 99% from a year ago.
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Tenev Says Robinhood Stock Tokens Should Not Automatically Require Issuer Consent
The Robinhood CEO acknowledged that token holders lack voting rights, reflecting a structure that provides economic exposure through Jersey-issued debt securities rather than share ownership.
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Report Links $2.08M in LAPTOP Sales to Wintermute-Tagged Wallet
Lookonchain traced a 2.5 million-token team allocation to the address; separately, one trader reported nearly empty launch pools and a 98% early drop.
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Block Seeks OCC Charter for Uninsured Bitcoin and Stablecoin Custody Bank
Builders Bank would operate under direct federal supervision without taking deposits or making loans, but the application still requires OCC approval.
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Circle to Acquire Tazapay in $400 Million All-Stock Payments Deal
The Singapore-based target would add more than 60 banking and fintech partners and local payout rails across over 100 markets to Circle’s network.
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Bitcoin Gives Back Its Overnight Gain As Brent Tops $100
Bitcoin reached $79,701.36 overnight and had round-tripped the move by midday in New York, leaving it flat over 24 hours. Ninety-three of the 123 largest non-stablecoin tokens are lower. Zcash holds a 56.3% weekly gain after DCG exchanged 85,705 ZEC for about $100 million of Grayscale's ETF, a swap
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Arbitrum Watchdog Seeks Permanent Bans For Three Grant Recipients
The committee behind Arbitrum's grant-misuse bounty program wants Good Entry, Limitless and APX Finance barred from all future DAO programs. None has replied to the forum thread, and three Snapshot votes could open as early as Sept. 10.
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Hunter Biden's LAPTOP Falls 99% In Three Hours To TRUMP's Valuation
The token opened on Base at 12:00 UTC Wednesday, closed its first five minutes at $247.55 and traded at $1.90 three hours later. Both tokens carry a one billion supply, so both now sit near a $2 billion fully diluted valuation, and LAPTOP's market capitalization is the larger of the two.
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Consensys Software Inc. Splits In Two, Rebrands As MetaMask
The company behind the MetaMask wallet will keep the wallet and rename itself MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO. Linea, Besu and the institutional infrastructure business move into a newly formed company that carries the Consensys name. Completion is expected by the end of 2026.
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Polkadot Leads A Rotation Into Old Layer-1s As Hike Odds Widen
Polkadot rose 16.7% on the day and 42.5% on the week, with Cosmos Hub, Decred and Ethereum Classic all up more than 8%, while bitcoin ended the first U.S. session since Labor Day down 0.83% at $78,539. Polymarket traders raised the odds of a quarter-point Federal Reserve increase next week to
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