On Sept. 6, two major multinational banking and financial services corporations, DBS and Citi, announced the firms completed a USD payment between Singapore and the U.S. over the weekend, leveraging tokenized deposits via the Swift Digital Ledger. Citi and DBS Put Swift’s 24/7 Digital Ledger to the Test During Weekend Hours The blockchain technology used, […]

Bitcoin’s short-term whale cohort amassed a record $9.07 billion in unrealized profit before the figure eased as BTC slipped. A new analysis suggests the paper gains could increase selling pressure and test the rally’s underlying price floor. Bitcoin Whale Paper Gains Reach a Record Short-term holder whale unrealized profit and loss reached $9.07 billion on […]

Former U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is launching a 1 billion-token meme coin called LAPTOP on Wednesday, turning one of the biggest controversies surrounding his family into a cryptocurrency project aimed partly at Donald Trump’s own crypto following. Biden Takes the Laptop Story Onto Base The token is scheduled to launch Sept. 9 […]

U.S. crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) attracted about $1.24 billion in net inflows during the week of Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, led overwhelmingly by bitcoin funds. Bitcoin ETFs alone drew $986.85 million, while ether, XRP, solana and HYPE products also finished the week in positive territory. Bitcoin ETF Inflows Hit $987M in Third Straight Winning […]

Bitcoin price fell back below $79,000 on Monday after a brief spike to $80,537, down 1% over 24 hours to trade near $78,785. Long Liquidations Outpace Shorts Bitcoin price slipped under $79,000 on Monday, just hours after briefly reclaiming the $80,000 level for the first time since Friday’s sharp sell-off. Before the decline, bitcoin traded […]

Self-described white-hat hackers who drained nearly all of Liquid Network’s bitcoin reserves have returned 3,400 BTC worth about $268 million, while keeping roughly 598.5 BTC valued at $47 million. The return marks a significant turn in an incident that began Sunday, Sept. 6, when roughly 4,000 BTC, then worth about $320 million, left the Liquid […]

XRP derivatives exposure is returning after a sharp late-August contraction, but aggressive selling continues across perpetual and spot markets. A new analysis suggests bearish taker-side positioning remains active even as the token’s price shows resilience. XRP Open Interest Rebounds From Late-August Contraction XRP’s seven-day open-interest change moved from negative 27% on Aug. 29 to positive […]

A Hyperliquid trader with 26 consecutive wins is $5.3 million underwater on an $18.95 million ZEC short, with liquidation at $1,317, roughly 10% above where zcash trades currently. $1,317 Is the Number on the Screen A Hyperbot dashboard revealed the trader’s potentially unfortunate story in one row: Short 15,784.87 ZEC, cross margin at 5x, entry […]

Hyperliquid’s HYPE token has surged to a record $89.67 as fresh exchange-traded fund (ETF) buying and institutional holdings reinforce demand. Bitwise’s BHYP has now accumulated $166.3 million since launch, while known institutional holders across HYPE ETFs include UBS, Bank of Montreal, and Jane Street. HYPE Gains 176% in Six Months as ETF Assets Reach $481M […]

On most exchanges, XRP appears as a secondary listing—a sidebar, not a main stage. That choice reflects a philosophy: XRP is an asset among assets. On Bitrue, XRP isn’t a listing. It’s infrastructure. That single structural difference—XRP as a base pair rather than an afterthought—has compounded over eight years into something unusual: an exchange that […]

Bitcoin’s price was trading between $79,300 and $79,500 on Sept. 7 after a significant rejection from $80,537 left its short-term price action caught between fading momentum and a still-constructive daily trend. The market remains inside a $79,013-$80,537 intraday range, putting those boundaries firmly in the cards as the levels that could determine what comes next. […]

Open interest in altcoin perpetual futures moved above bitcoin’s this weekend for the first time since December 2024, a shift that preceded sharp mid-cap corrections the last time it happened. What Metric Flipped Actually? Aggregate open interest, the dollar value of futures contracts still open, in altcoin perpetuals surpassed the same figure for bitcoin yesterday. […]

As the major Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network has been paused due to a $320 million hack, the absolute majority of the key players in the network haven’t issued any statements, while L-BTC is now backed by only 4.7% of the required bitcoin, as Blockstream says it’s “safe to return the funds.” In the most recent […]

Eight days before the Senate’s Sept. 15 cloture vote, former federal prosecutor Mariotti says the message from lawmakers and staff in Washington is that the CLARITY Act is dead. What Mariotti Heard Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, spent the week in Washington and subsequently posted his thoughts on his sojourn, claiming that members of Congress […]

ZEC has pushed past $1,200, and its largest short seller on Hyperliquid, Garrett Jin, is sitting on a $25.7 million paper loss on a position opened at $444. The Position, Line by Line Onchain analyst EmberCN posted the tally as ZEC printed above $1,200, noting: 32,760 ZEC short, average entry $444, opened in early July […]

Zcash surged past $1,200 to an intraday peak of $1,249, its highest level since Q4 2016, marking a weekly gain of over 45%. Market Cap Reaches $20B as Derivatives Liquidations Spike Zcash (ZEC) breached $1,200 Sunday, outperforming the rest of the cryptocurrency market after posting double-digit gains. Market data showed that the privacy coin surged […]

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says he is taking “the opposite side” of a forecast that artificial intelligence will cut bitcoin’s price in half within two years, and he has roughly 90% of his net worth riding on it. The Wager on the Table Liron Shapira, an angel investor who hosts the Doom Debates podcast and […]

Carlos Érick Vázquez González, a Mexican national who worked with the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, has pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering in connection with drug trafficking in the U.S. and Mexico. Vázquez González used cryptocurrency for these crimes. Mexican Drug Kingpin Admits Participation in $4 Million Crypto Money Laundering Scheme A large intermediary […]

FBI agents combined blockchain analytics, human intelligence, and court orders to trace and seize more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency intended for Hamas. The operation followed funds through shared wallets, cross-chain bridges, exchanges, and stablecoin accounts. Shared Gas Wallets Expose a Wider Network Federal investigators built the seizure cases by connecting blockchain transactions with donation addresses […]

Robinhood Chain’s fee model has become the focus of a broader debate over how blockchains finance growth. BNB Chain executive Nina Rong argued that sustainable revenue and commercial structures now outweigh further transaction-cost reductions. Robinhood Fee Debate Moves Beyond Transaction Costs A debate over Robinhood Chain’s network economics expanded on Sept. 6 into a wider […]

The layer two (L2) sidechain known as the Liquid Network paused on Sunday following a so-called white hacker exploiting a bug in Blockstream’s Elements software, according to the X account Sideswap (Blockstream’s atomic-swap marketplace). 4,000 BTC Exit Liquid as Blockstream Scrambles to Contain Exploit On Sunday afternoon, the onchain sleuth Ergo BTC discovered that Blockstream’s […]

The crypto economy gained 2% over the first week of September, peaking at $2.82 trillion before a pullback brought aggregate capitalization back under $2.8 trillion. Zcash (ZEC) led the market with a nearly 40% jump, breaching $1,200 for the first time since 2016 and taking 9th place in the market cap rankings. A Volatile Week […]

This week’s stories spanned retail trading, portfolio diversification, regulation, privacy, and sanctions. Fomo broke into the top five U.S. finance apps, while Grayscale argued that record stock concentration strengthens the case for crypto. Prediction markets turned bearish on the CLARITY Act, a claimed leak of 153 million drivers’ licenses reignited criticism of KYC, and the […]