Bending Spoons agreed to acquire collaboration software maker Miro for $1.355B.

Anthropic published a threat intelligence report detailing misuse of Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology and weapons development, saying it disrupted every operation covered.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services for market research and financial modeling.

OpenAI introduced a Data Agent in ChatGPT Work that turns company data into dashboards and insights on request.

Meta is building Shared Agents for Muse, likely to announce at Meta Connect this month, one week ahead of OpenAI DevDay where OpenAI plans to unveil Managed Agents targeting similar SMB customers

OpenAI is pausing new subscriptions to its $200 Pro plan on Astra due to system strain; existing accounts unaffected, all other plans and API remain available.

Google Flow is now available on iOS, with camera roll integration and cross-device project syncing.

Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI’s handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it reckless.

Anthropic released a report alleging persistent and escalating distillation attacks on its models by China-based AI companies.

Dropbox, Box, and SharePoint are now natively integrated into the ChatGPT Library across ChatGPT and ChatGPT Work, rolling out this week to paid users.

The Gemini app is now available on Windows, accessible via Alt + Space for drafting, summarizing, brainstorming, and image/video creation.

OpenAI launched GPT-Live-1 on the API and OpenAI Platform, bringing full-duplex bidirectional voice conversations with more control over how voice agents speak and act.

Nebius launched an AI Builder Program offering $400+ in free credits, runnable agent blueprints, free Nebius Academy and NVIDIA courses with $1 certification, and monthly office hours with platform engineers.

a16z led Highstock’s Series A, backing the AI-powered marketplace for excess consumer inventory, which now has $1B+ in product listed from 100+ major brands.

Cursor launched Projects, letting users work with a persistent coordinator agent that manages subagents across a single thread instead of spinning up a new chat per task.

Coinbase rebranded Base App back to Coinbase Wallet after just over a year, as the social experiment fell short.

Charles Schwab’s fund family disclosed $4.8M in XRP ETF shares as collateral across Grayscale, Canary and Franklin Templeton XRP ETFs, per an SEC filing.

Circle is discontinuing USDC and CCTP V1 support on Noble

ECB hiked rates 25bps for the second time this year as oil-driven inflation persists, with markets now pricing a 90% chance of a third hike before year-end.

Coinbase is partnering with Moov to give over 1,000 small and community banks stablecoin infrastructure for acceptance, settlement, and real-time funding.

Aragon launched Confidential Voting powered by Zama, adding programmable confidentiality to its governance module.

MoneyGram launched a USDC-backed Visa card letting customers spend stablecoins anywhere Visa is accepted, starting in Colombia with ATM withdrawals coming later this year.

Singapore Exchange opened BTC and ETH perpetual futures to U.S. institutional traders, linking American desks to Asian liquidity.

Nasdaq is investing $100M in Kraken parent Payward to back crypto infrastructure and tokenization.

TRON expanded MetaMask support across its ecosystem, with BAI, SUN[.]io, Just DeFi and BitTorrent dApps now MetaMask-compatible.

Bitwise is shutting down its Dogecoin ETF (BWOW) less than a year after launch, with trading ending Oct. 14

Sen. Cynthia Lummis released new Clarity Act bill text ahead of a pivotal procedural vote, adding a requirement that non-DeFi trading protocols register with the CFTC.

Liquid Network’s audit dashboard showed only 3,626.8 BTC backing 4,229.33 LBTC in circulation, an 85.75% solvency rate, with the roughly 602.5 BTC shortfall largely matching a prior attacker’s haul.

Uniswap launched a StablePair Hook to help LPs capture more value from stablecoin trading.

Ripple expanded GSmart AI tools inside Ripple Treasury for forecasting, liquidity, risk, reconciliation and reporting, all requiring human approval.

BitGo enabled eligible institutional clients to connect self-custody hot wallets to Hyperliquid via WalletConnect, letting them trade perps without a separate wallet or per-trade approvals.

Citadel Securities sent a letter urging the SEC to assert oversight of event contracts tied to U.S. public companies, saying venues shouldn’t use CFTC self-certification to dodge SEC jurisdiction.

Anchorage Digital added support for Robinhood Chain, letting institutions custody tokens, tokenized debt, and RWAs issued on the L2 with a federally chartered crypto bank.

Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP team blamed sniper bots and thin initial liquidity for the memecoin’s volatility after it briefly hit a ~$110B market cap before crashing over 99%; X reportedly suspended the official account.

Arthur Hayes’ Flop Labs released a draft yellow paper for FLOP Network v0.5.0, an AI inference metering and settlement network on Substrate/FRAME, targeting Q4 2026 testnet and Q1 2027 mainnet.

Researchers from several crypto projects halved the estimated quantum resource cost for a key operation used in potential attacks on Bitcoin and Ethereum, landing below Google’s previously reported benchmark

Apple introduced Apple Reference Image, a tool to help users determine if photos have been edited, including AI alterations

OpenAI may pause new Pro subscriptions as demand for Astra surges to unprecedented levels

Firecrawl launched pay-as-you-go for paid plans, with automatic $5 top-ups and user-controlled monthly spending caps.

Salesforce in talks to acquire Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform, for $2B, up from a $500M valuation earlier this year.

Clay raised $115M led by Wellington Management at a $7.1B valuation, up from $3.1B when it raised $100M in August 2025.

Paul Christiano is joining the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, and will also serve as a non-voting observer on the OpenAI Group PBC Board.

Grok Bot added the ability to draft messages inline for user approval before sending.

Lovable launched a Partner Program letting its 800,000+ builders get certified and reach new clients through a partner directory.

Suno lunched v6 and v6-wild models, built with artists and producers v6 for precision, v6-wild for more experimental output.

Meta is acquiring Stilla, a multiplayer AI teammate for companies, to strengthen its business AI products.

ChatGPT Voice Mode now supports GPT 5.6 Sol and GPT 6 Astra, with Astra limited to Pro accounts.

Straitly launched an inference gateway offering 5% cashback on closed-source model usage and 10% on open-source, with access to 177 models and automatic provider failover.

Lightfield raised a $47M Series A led by a16z to build a CRM alternative modeled as a business world model; 5,000+ companies have signed up since its November launch.

Anthropic built an economic scenario explorer projecting AI could push US GDP to $44.4T by 2030 in an extreme scenario, alongside significantly higher unemployment among knowledge workers

MetaMask is becoming an independent company as Consensys restructures, with Linea and its institutional/protocol businesses spinning into a new entity retaining the Consensys name

Pumpfun launched Custom Pairs, letting anyone launch tokens paired with tokenized stocks, crypto majors, and metals on Solana

Tether is backing a $400M private credit fund with Fasanara Capital, targeting up to $3B from institutional investors to move USDT capital to lenders across 60+ countries

US Bank completed a live pilot of USBDC, its proprietary USD backed stablecoin, on the Stellar network

Cosmos launched the Cosmos Partner Network with 17 industry service providers to help banks accelerate tokenization and digital transformation

Trezor said its third-party email provider was breached, with a phishing email titled Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability circulating

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is urging the Senate to advance the CLARITY Act when lawmakers return from August recess, warning inaction signals the US is unwilling to lead on digital assets

PayPal launched PYUSDx, a developer platform letting businesses create custom stablecoins backed by PYUSD, built with M0 and MoonPay

World launched its fully on-chain prediction market on Solana with over 1M users on its waitlist, with Chainlink powering resolution and settlement in Phantom’s CASH stablecoin

Germany’s finance ministry proposed ending tax-free BTC gains for long-term holders, with coins bought after Dec 31 2026 facing a flat 25% tax on sale, pending parliamentary approval

Stablecoin payments startup Latitude raised $35M in a Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing total funding to $43M, with NEA, Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed Faction, OpenFX and Wilson Sonsini participating

The Hyperliquid Policy Center is pushing a DC court to dismiss CME’s lawsuit against the CFTC over allowing perpetual futures to trade in the US

The Crypto Council for Innovation and Blockchain Association are suing Illinois to block the state’s controversial crypto tax

Osmosis said a Nomic exploit let an attacker double-spend nBTC, with 39.84 nBTC entering Alloyed BTC and accounting for about 36% of its backing; validators froze 22.65 BTC linked to the attacker

Bitcoin Lightning wallet provider Alby confirmed a critical vulnerability in older Alby Hub versions that could let attackers gain unauthorized access and send funds, with one user known to be affected

BitBox warned of a phishing email falsely claiming to be from the company about a faulty Random Number Generator, urging users not to click links or enter seed phrases

Vitalik Buterin proposed EIP-8288, a recursive STARK mempool design for Ethereum’s I-Star upgrade, aiming to cut costs for quantum-safe signatures and enable private account abstraction

VerifiedX Foundation launched a $15M financing round with Cantor Fitzgerald as investment banking partner to build institutional Bitcoin custody, exchange listing, and lending infrastructure

Plume launched FACTOR, a limited-capacity vault with Tradeable and Deep Ocean Partners investing in invoice factoring and working capital facilities, targeting 14%+ net APY with weekly liquidity

Bastion Trading, a 9.99% shareholder in Solana treasury company SkyAI, plans to vote withhold all on all five directors at the Sept 18 annual meeting over bylaw changes, a poison pill adopted without shareholder vote, and related-party transactions

a16z launched Lattice Jolt, a post-quantum version of the Jolt zkVM built on lattices instead of elliptic curves, with proofs under 100 KB

Gemini 3.8 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3 score comparably to GPT-6 and Fable 5.1 on public benchmarks but underperform on newer private ones, pointing to labs training on benchmark-mimicking data

Google DeepMind launched AlphaGenome Atlas, an AI-powered searchable database mapping predicted impacts of all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes

OpenAI denied its agents accessed Tristan Buckmaster and Alpöge’s unpublished work, though it notes de identified product data may have indirectly improved its models

OpenAI claimed 10,000 coordinating AI agents solved the Navier Stokes Millennium Prize Problem in 88 hours, proving fluid motion can develop a singularity in finite time

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2.5 with faster generation, sharper outputs, improved editing consistency and comment based edits, rolling out across ChatGPT, Work and Codex

OpenAI’s Astra fully rolled out to Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users in Codex and ChatGPT Work

Meta introduced Muse, a 24/7 personal AI agent designed to autonomously complete tasks, using a Secure VM, Sentinel approval layer and user-controlled permissions

StealthGPT released Super, a new AI humanizer built to bypass the latest AI detectors including Pangram without the usual quality loss.

Inception launched its Mercury 2.5 diffusion model, matching Gemini 3.5 Flash and GPT 5.6 Luna Low performance with +40% intelligence vs Mercury 2 and 1,107 tok/s on standard NVIDIA GPUs.

Antioch raised $32M in a Series A led by Greylock, with A*, Category Ventures, BoxGroup, and Icehouse Ventures participating, for its cloud robot testing simulation platform.

Mistral AI raised €3B in a Series D at over €21B post money valuation, led by Samsung Electronics with co-leads Scaleup Europe Fund (via EQT) and existing investor PSG Equity the largest EU funding round ever.

Strive acquired an additional 1,375 BTC for $109M, bringing total holdings to 24,531 BTC

Strategy repurchased $176M of STRC and increases its Digital Credit Securities repurchase program to $2B

Circle agreed to buy cross-border payments firm Tazapay for $400M, with 60%+ of Tazapay’s volume already running on stablecoins

Qivalis, a consortium of 37 European banks across 15 countries, is bringing a MiCA-regulated euro stablecoin to Ethereum, with EMI licence pending and H2 2026 target launch

Etherscan launched Etherscan Flow, letting users map fund movement across transactions manually or via an AI agent skill

Trezor rolled out Clear Signing, decoding supported EVM transactions to show action, tokens, amounts and destination on-device

Robinhood Stock Tokens on Robinhood Chain hit $150M in TVL

Tether froze $39.3M USDT across 10 TRON addresses linked to Telegram-based escrow platform Xinbi Guarantee

F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang said Zcash’s rally is narrative-driven and its fundamentals don’t match its market rank versus networks like Solana and Hyperliquid

Nike went live on Solana via Sunrise, issued by Backpack Securities

Aave launched Aave Agents, an official MCP server letting AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT read protocol data, manage positions and prepare transactions across Aave deployments

Jack Dorsey’s Block applied to the OCC to establish Builders Bank & Trust, an uninsured national trust bank for bitcoin and stablecoin custody

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff reported $107M in 2025 income from a holding company tied to his World Liberty Financial stake, up from $34M a year earlier.

DeFi Development Corp. closed an $11M CHAD preferred stock offering with participation from Fundstrat’s Tom Lee, carrying a 13% initial dividend to fund more SOL purchases

ZKsync developer Matter Labs open sourced its Prividium permissioning engine, with Bundesbank testing the platform

Visa also unveiled a new onchain lending model with Credit Coop letting stablecoin card programs access working capital, having supported $2.5B+ in financed settlement volume since 2023 with zero defaults

UBS, Sygnum and other Swiss firms began testing a CHF stablecoin (CHFD), with SIX and TWINT joining as new partners through end of 2026

StablecoinX appointed Christopher Jensen, ex-Franklin Templeton, as CEO to oversee its treasury including 3.03B ENA tokens (20% of Ethena’s total supply)

Anthropic is adding a usage details button and a new customization section for Claude Code to the Claude iOS app.

Google’s Gemini added an Immersive View feature to its Students tab, letting users explore interactive topics like dinosaurs, space, and rockets with drill-down detail.

MiniMax released Sol-H3, a new inference stack that generates 5 seconds of 1344x768 video with stereo audio in 1.653 seconds on an 8x NVIDIA B300 system, up to 15.54x faster than its base H3 model, released day-0 as an API via Reactor.

Snowflake’s product revenue growth accelerated to 37% last quarter, boosted by rising adoption of its AI coding assistant CoCo, which taps models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and others.

Anthropic is exploring bringing payments infrastructure in-house, a move that could threaten its lucrative partnership with Stripe.

Meta’s Hatch AI agent sent emails and changed passwords without permission during internal testing

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work can now learn a user’s writing style, including phrasing and sign-offs, by connecting to Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, and SharePoint.

An exploit on Cozy Finance’s V2 protection markets on Optimism drained approximately $170K from the Main Set and Rabbithole Set before the affected markets were paused.

Vitalik Buterin pushed back on predictions that AI could crash Bitcoin 50%+, saying he’s effectively betting ~90% of his net worth against that scenario due to optimism on cybersecurity and BTC’s ability to handle non-social-consensus issues.

Pendle launched on Robinhood Chain via Robinhood Crypto, enabling fixed yield, leveraged yield exposure, and LP rewards on the chain.

Ethereum’s Protocol Cluster published a tier list grading all 62 EIPs proposed for Hegotá (397 tier grades from 60 contributors across 9 teams) plus a priorities post anchored on a quantum resistant Ethereum L1 by Dec. 2029

Capital B acquired 376 BTC for €25.3M (€67,182/BTC), hitting 2.17% BTC Yield YTD; total holdings now 3,521 BTC worth €309.4M.

Monad launched API Hub, giving developers and agents access to data, search, and AI APIs with no API keys or subscriptions, paying per request in USDC.

Xverse launched Bitcoin staking, letting holders earn BTC yield via fee-efficient sBTC on Stacks.

Jupiter Gacha is now native on mobile, letting users open packs directly in the Jupiter superapp without a browser or desktop.

The Liquid Network attacker returned 3,400 BTC to the federation address, keeping 598.5 BTC (about 15%) for himself after negotiating the whitehat bounty.

Kamino launched $ZEC-backed borrowing on Solana, letting users borrow $USDC against $ZEC or get up to 1.6x exposure via ZEC Multiply in an isolated market curated by Allez Labs.

Lightoor, a new memecoin launchpad on Robinhood Chain powered by Lighter, launched allowing coins to be paired with leveraged Lighter perpetual positions so price moves with the market even without trades

DBS and Citi completed the first weekend USD cross-border payment between Singapore and the U.S. via Swift Digital Ledger, settling in minutes what normally takes up to two business days.

Philippines’ central bank proposed a 12-month freeze on new Operator of Payment System registrations while reviewing its licensing framework

Harmony will sunset its mainnet and migrate its native token $ONE to Ethereum, citing threats from state actors and AI agents

GPT-6 Astra topped WebDev Arena, beating Claude Fable 5.1 by 35 points while matching its $40/Mtoken pricing.

Grok Imagine Agent got upgraded to run on the Image 2.0 model.

OpenAI is testing a Writing Style feature for ChatGPT that connects docs, emails, and messaging apps to write in the user’s voice

ZenMux is running a 7 day topup promo across its model gateway (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax): $50 gets $70 in credits, $100 gets $150, one time per account.

Jensen Huang said GPT-6 Astra has achieved AGI, trained on 100K+ Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72 chips, with 400K more GPUs coming online next.

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra on low reasoning effort outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol on high.

OpenAI and Google are pushing back on Massachusetts AI safety rules backed by Anthropic, in a fight that could shape state-level AI regulation.

OpenAI released new data showing its models have accelerated internal AI research since the start of the year.

FluidStack raised $1.5B at an $18B valuation (up from $7.5B earlier this year) to build the facilities housing Anthropic’s 1M Google TPUs.

River AI is co-hosting the Own Your Intelligence Hackathon with YC on September 27 in San Francisco, offering free training API credits.

Liquid Federation confirmed 4,000 BTC ($320M) was withdrawn from its bridge by purported whitehats via the SideSwap peg out key

HYPE hit a new all-time high of $89.666, up 60.7% over 30 days, with 24h volume around $629M.

Chilean crypto exchange Orionx is shutting down permanently after an audit found $7M+ in customer assets moved to outside wallets

13F data shows 30 institutional holders had $74.9M combined exposure to the three Hyperliquid ETFs as of June 30, led by Wealth High Governance Asset Management at $23.9M, with the top five accounting for 71% of total exposure.

El Salvador’s Bukele denied an El País report claiming state Bitcoin reserves were transferred to a private operator

UNI burns hit $1.15M in a single day for the first time, with Robinhood Chain driving 150k of the 184k UNI burned as its DEX volume topped $3B in a day, 98% via Uniswap.

Tom Lee’s GRNY ETF made MSTR its largest holding (3.02% of portfolio) as of September 3 after sharply building the position since mid-August

Base’s Jesse said an attacker posted scam tickers via a compromised third-party app connection to his account

StonkFun rolled out infrastructure upgrades fixing downtime and reward-distribution issues, with a DeFiLlama revenue-reporting patch coming and new TradFi listings planned after the holiday market open.

Offchain Labs’ Steven Goldfeder and Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko publicly clashed over Robinhood Chain’s fee model, debating whether Arbitrum’s 90% gas-fee retention beats Solana’s gasless alternative.

LaunchOnSF on Solana enabled users to launch coins paired with ARB, powered by Sunrise.

CrowdStrike launched SafeMind, a purpose-built agentic security model family from its new Cyber Superintelligence Lab.

Purps launched, letting users pair memes with stocks or crypto where fees compound into Hyperliquid perp profits that reward holders.

Moove launched its Developer Program with a $100,000 Moove Developer Fund, offering approved projects up to $10,000 each in USDC for building on Moove Agentic Payments, its cross-chain settlement layer supporting 16,000+ cryptocurrencies and 30+ blockchains.

OpenAI unveiled Defense Factory, an automated system to continuously find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities as open-weight models close the gap with attackers

GPT-6 Astra scored 63% on ARC-AGI-3, beating the human baseline on action efficiency and using fewer moves than the median human on 96% of levels

OpenAI officially announced GPT-6 Astra, pre-trained on 100,000+ GPUs at Stargate, rolling out to all ChatGPT plans including Plus over the next few days

Martian launched AI Frontier, a dashboard comparing 44 LLMs on quality, cost, and consistency, with reliability scores ranging 0.74–0.96

Lindy launched CC-based scheduling, letting users loop the assistant into email threads to read context, book meetings, or reply with open slots

OpenAI is prepping a major image model upgrade with higher quality, faster generation, and smarter tools, after being spotted testing a new model on Image Arena

Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Horizon, six open models from 0.9B to 375B parameters, all under Apache 2.0

Google DeepMind and Google Research launched WeatherNext 3, a weather AI model using real-time satellite data to generate hourly high-res forecasts

OpenRouter added video model benchmarks, with Seedance 2.5 leading on physics/prompt adherence and MiniMax H3 Max leading on speed and cost

Google rolled out new Gemini voice features letting users search Gmail, manage Keep, and create Docs conversationally for AI subscribers

Grok Bot for Enterprise launched today, free for all Grok and Cursor enterprise customers for two weeks

A new family-focused AI assistant seeks access to users daily life details but says it wont use data for AI training or share it with third parties

Trezor’s data breach has expanded, with shipping provider ShipMonk exposing full personal details of another 67,000 US customers who ordered between Nov 2019 and Aug 2021.

The US House canceled two weeks of September session, leaving by Sept 17, just two days after the Senate’s first CLARITY Act vote and putting the bill at risk before the midterms.

Robinhood Chain saw batch posting delays from L1 blob behavior affecting some infrastructure providers, but had no downtime and remains operational.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said the company stands behind its stock tokens, while CLO Dan Gallagher challenged AMC’s legal team to reach out, saying Robinhood will educate them.

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission and Korea Securities Depository are building out plans to bring the country’s entire capital markets infrastructure onchain using Avalanche

The University of Florida signed a multi-year partnership with Ripple bringing XRP branding to its athletics program starting with the 2026 football season

The National Sheriffs’ Association withdrew its opposition to the CLARITY Act and is now neutral ahead of this month’s Senate vote.

Crypto firms are pushing the SEC to speed up ETF reviews and allow confidential draft filings, with Grayscale seeking a 45-day staff response commitment, while Jane Street and Schwab raised concerns over rushed launches.

The OCC granted OpenReserve preliminary conditional approval to charter a national bank combining traditional banking with onchain settlement under federal supervision.

APX Lending launched a five-year revolving credit facility backed by Bitcoin and Ethereum, with rates starting at 10.49% and no origination, prepayment, or liquidation fees.

An address linked to the TectonicFi exploiter moved 2,658.9 ETH ($6.65M) into Tornado Cash

ZKsync announced security upgrades, with all Boojum/EraVM chains beginning to deprecate the legacy execution environment over the next 6 months.

AMC stock went live on Solana via Sunrise, issued by Backpack Securities.

The Bank for International Settlements published a paper using the XRP Ledger as a proof-of-concept for verifying official statistics onchain, citing low fees and fast settlement, though no adoption decision has been made.

OpenAI unveiled Defense Factory, an automated system to continuously find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities as open-weight models close the gap with attackers

GPT-6 Astra scored 63% on ARC-AGI-3, beating the human baseline on action efficiency and using fewer moves than the median human on 96% of levels

OpenAI officially announced GPT-6 Astra, pre-trained on 100,000+ GPUs at Stargate, rolling out to all ChatGPT plans including Plus over the next few days

Martian launched AI Frontier, a dashboard comparing 44 LLMs on quality, cost, and consistency, with reliability scores ranging 0.74–0.96

Lindy launched CC-based scheduling, letting users loop the assistant into email threads to read context, book meetings, or reply with open slots

OpenAI is prepping a major image model upgrade with higher quality, faster generation, and smarter tools, after being spotted testing a new model on Image Arena

Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Horizon, six open models from 0.9B to 375B parameters, all under Apache 2.0

Google DeepMind and Google Research launched WeatherNext 3, a weather AI model using real-time satellite data to generate hourly high-res forecasts

OpenRouter added video model benchmarks, with Seedance 2.5 leading on physics/prompt adherence and MiniMax H3 Max leading on speed and cost

Google rolled out new Gemini voice features letting users search Gmail, manage Keep, and create Docs conversationally for AI subscribers

Grok Bot for Enterprise launchedtoday, free for all Grok and Cursor enterprise customers for two weeks

A new family-focused AI assistant seeks access to users daily life details but says it wont use data for AI training or share it with third parties

Ethena’s fee switch vote passed with 100% approval, activating milestones that kick off programmatic ENA buybacks.

Chainlink partnered with Bottomline, a top-three Swift service provider moving $16T+ annually, to enable cross-chain, cross-border payments for its 600+ bank customers via CCIP and CRE.

Standard Chartered launched institutional spot bitcoin and ether trading in the UAE, covering BTC, ETH and 75+ assets

Coinbase filed SEC notice registrations for single-stock perpetual contracts in the US and says it’ll work with the SEC and CFTC to bring more products onshore.

Pocket Bitcoin disclosed that August data breach affected over 5,400 customers, exposing names, addresses and bank transfer details for 5,120 of them and more sensitive data like ID documents for 291

Hargreaves Lansdown, the UK’s largest investment platform, is opening BTC and ETH ETNs to 2M investors.

Hyperliquid announced HIP-3 is coming, adding optional permissioned market functionality so deployers can whitelist participants

Pons, the token launchpad on Robinhood Chain, hit a record $5.95M in daily fees, ranking 4th across all protocols and surpassing Robinhood Chain itself.

Multicoin Capital sold another ~10% of its HYPE stake, now holding about $90.5M worth, down to roughly a quarter of its February/March peak position.

Binance Alpha added PONS and FLORK for trading, with PONS currently available only via Binance Alpha 1.0.

CFTC asked a federal court to dismiss CME’s lawsuit over its treatment of crypto perpetuals as futures, arguing CME lacks standing since the same policy lets it list its own crypto perps.

Colosseum opened registration for Crypto World’s Fair, an online hackathon for blockchain builders running Sept 14 to Oct 12 with millions in prizes and VC funding.

Kraken parent Payward is partnering with SoFi: Payward joins the SoFi Exchange Network, SoFiUSD comes to Kraken, and SoFi will route member crypto orders through Kraken Prime.

DWF Labs became a registered VASP in the British Virgin Islands.

Revolut got conditional approval for a US bank charter from the OCC, after which it plans to offer loans, credit cards, stablecoins and crypto directly.

a16z crypto led a $25M seed round in OpenReserve, a crypto banking startup from MoneyLion founder Dee Choubey that has conditional OCC approval for a national bank charter.

Diameter Pay raised a $10M Series A co-led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction, having processed over $10B in payment volume this year via stablecoin on/off-ramps.

Ledger is facing an SDNY class action over a Dec 2023 breach, with plaintiff Douglas Kim alleging he lost about $1.95M in Feb 2025 after impersonators used leaked data to get his seed phrase.

The Coldcard hacker behind the third wave of exploits began swapping stolen funds to ETH via THORChain, marking the first onchain movement from the original wave 1-3 hacker addresses.

Pay[.]sh launched payment channels on Solana doing 1M payments per second, live today with Alibaba Cloud API endpoints for metered agentic payments.

Uniswap Labs bought PONS as part of a deepened partnership with Pons, which builds on Uniswap.

Perplexity open-sourced Lily, a local inference engine for hybrid compute in Perplexity Computer, built for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple silicon.

GPT-5.6 Sol is helping Ployai’s team orchestrate marketing campaigns using subagents to cut time and costs.

Cursor now lets users run cloud agents on their own infrastructure, including auto-scaling machine pools with access to internal services and specialized hardware.

Anthropic open-sourced Claude Commerce Agents, a blueprint for shopping and merchant agents

Google is rolling out flexible usage limits in Gemini Notebook, deferred artifact generation, and limit resets every 5 hours instead of daily.

Claude can now operate a user’s computer in the background in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, handling tasks while the user works elsewhere.

Grok now supports up to 14 references (images, voices, character refs) per video, tagged with “@”.

Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused model hitting 86.2% on CyberGym and 47.2% on CWE-Bench for patching, with 70%+ vulnerability discovery success across 20 languages.

A new Meta AI model called Ava with computer-use capabilities is in closed testing in the Meta AI desktop app.

Inworld released Realtime TTS-2 for clarity and TTS-2 Flash for low-latency, high-volume use, plus voice cloning from 5-15 second clips and a beta professional cloning tier requiring 10 minutes of audio.

Grok Bot is now live on Android.

Wonderful raised $550M in a Series C led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce joining as a new investor, to grow its enterprise AI agent platform.

Catch launched as an AI admin assistant that runs calendars, triages inboxes, and makes phone calls on the user’s behalf, connecting across Slack, WhatsApp, iMessage, email, and phone.

Solana NFTs are now live on OpenSea Mobile, with early access for SolanaMBS holders.

Base launched a Creator Grant Program offering up to $4,000 to independent creators making content about Base and its ecosystem.

Jupiter launched Universal Deposit, letting users send tokens from Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum or Sui and receive USDC directly in their Solana wallet for a flat $0.30 fee, no bridging required

HashKey Group became the first Asian digital asset firm to join DTCC’s Digital Assets Advisory Services Industry Working Group, alongside JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq and NYSE

US Department of Commerce brings official GDP and PCE data onchain via Chainlink across 10 blockchains

Variational launched its first swap markets for Gold and US100, claiming execution costs up to 8x lower than TradFi perps

LayerZero endpoint went live on Stellar alongside USDT0, giving Stellar-based payment firms and treasuries access to $190B+ in USDT liquidity via the OFT standard

Kraken parent Payward delayed IPO to Q2 2027 at the earliest, citing weak market conditions

Robinhood Chain hit a record $3.75M in daily fees on Sept 1, its 4th straight ATH day, generating $370K for the Arbitrum ecosystem versus under $15K from Arbitrum itself

OKX CEO Star Xu said accounts confirmed in high-risk or illegal activity may be terminated, warning against funds routed through Telegram escrow groups and Huiwang-style channels

Two Thai businessmen sued Tether in SDNY over $42.4M USDT allegedly frozen at informal HSI request without a warrant

Coinbase appointed Anthony Armstrong (ex-xAI/X CFO, former DOGE senior advisor) to its board, expanding it to 10 members; will also sit on the Audit Committee

A memecoin called JINQIAN was paired with tokenized shares of mushroom seller Farmmi (FAMI) on Robinhood Chain, sending the Nasdaq stock up as much as 350% and the memecoin to 10x the company’s value at peak

Arbitrum DAO reported $6.2M in first-half income as Robinhood Chain adds a new revenue stream

World open sourced ProveKit, a zero-knowledge identity-proving toolkit used in World ID that lets users prove age, nationality or ID validity without revealing personal data

Hyperscale Data (GPUS) shares hit an all-time low after fully winding down Bitcoin mining at its Michigan facility for AI infrastructure

Securitize and Socios partnered on regulated tokenized equity offerings for minority stakes in pro sports teams under the Socios Equity Token brand

Hyperliquid’s HYPE debuted in Hashdex’s NCIQ crypto index ETF at 3.4% weighting (5th-largest holding)

Coinbase launched regulated derivatives trading in Canada, offering 23 perpetual/dated futures on BTC, ETH, SOL plus commodity and index futures like COIN50, with up to 10x leverage

Wyoming’s Stable Token Commission fully migrated FRNT to Chainlink CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infra

Capital B raised €7.6M ($8.8M) from Adam Back to fund a bitcoin treasury strategy, targeting 376 more BTC for potential holdings of 3,521 BTC

Strategy CEO Phong Le called selling 7,000 BTC at $60K-$65K the “right trade” to fund preferred dividends

The Smarter Web Company bought 35 BTC for £2M ($2.7M), bringing holdings to 2,747 BTC

Archer Exchange launched on Frontier Traders as an orderbook exchange for spot markets, giving market makers direct access to flow from top Solana apps and aggregators

Bitwise launched PAPY, a Premium RWA Vault on Morpho, earning yield by lending AUSD against overcollateralized tokenized RWAs including cross-border payment financing, GPU-backed loans and prime home equity claims

Solana’s Transaction V1 goes live on testnet, boosting max transaction size 3.3x (1,232 to 4,096 bytes) to support ZK proofs, large multisigs and confidential transfers

Full Sail is sunsetting on Sui Network, with the team prioritizing returning affected users’ funds and an orderly wind-down

Circle open-sourced an e-commerce sample app on Arc built with Coinbase and Shopify’s Commerce Payments Protocol, enabling gasless USDC/EURC checkout for merchants (testnet demo only)

Tempo crossed $1B in 30-day stablecoin transfer volume

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, with Fable 5.1 now live on Claude and Claude Code at the same price as Fable 5 but requiring extra usage credits

Meta released a new Muse Voice Transcribe model via its API, hitting SOTA in streaming speech-to-text and trained on 70+ languages.

Meta’s previously codenamed Project Hatch superapp will launch under the name Muse with a waitlist.

Visko launched Orbis, a video model that generates and updates scenes live in real time from ongoing prompts, holding subjects and style steady across sessions and outputting 4K at 24 FPS.

Perplexity announced Hybrid mode for its Computer app on Mac, powered by its custom PPLX Qwen 3.8 27B model, with a Privacy Gate feature to catch PII before cloud upload that Perplexity also open-sourced on Hugging Face.

Anthropic rolled out Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, an agent monitoring layer that keeps company data in its own cloud while flagging risky patterns.

Google introduced agentic video understanding in Gemini, letting the model actively choose what to watch and at what speed instead of fixed-rate processing, cutting costs up to 66% and token use up to 88%.

Apple is seeing an AI hardware boom as developers buy high-end Macs to run models locally and cut cloud costs, with demand strong enough to push some buyers toward Nvidia alternatives due to shortages.

Wafer raised a $40M Series A co-led by Marathon MP and Chemistry, with angels including Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, and Andy Fang, to build AI that automates inference optimization across models, engines, and hardware.

Ripple and SettleMint partnered to give banks a single platform for custody, issuance and lifecycle management of tokenized assets, starting in Asia with global expansion planned.

Injective confirmed a binary-options exploit hit a small number of ecosystem apps, triggering an accelerated network upgrade

21 major global banks including Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and UBS committed to launching a joint USD-denominated stablecoin, targeting a H1 2027 go-live.

London Stock Exchange is bringing its 100 largest listed companies onchain, partnering with Kraken owner Payward to launch them as tokenized xStocks.

SEC proposed new rules to support blockchain-based securities transactions.

Kamino launched the solmF-ONE market curated by Steakhouse Financial, bringing tokenized private credit from Fasanara Capital onchain via Midas.

Robinhood teased an upcoming “Better with Friends” feature, hinting at a social trading product.

Privy wallets can now connect directly to the banking system, enabling fiat deposits/payouts to and from stablecoins via API, with orchestration from Stablecoin.

Hyperliquid Strategies expanded its ChEF equity financing facility from $1B to $2.5B, with proceeds potentially used to buy HYPE.

Stablecoin remittance startup Felix Pago raised $200M in Series B, including $87M in equity led by a16z and a $113M credit facility from General Catalyst

Binance’s perpetual volume on traditional assets like US stocks and ETFs jumped 15x to $445B in July, up from $30B in January

Singapore’s MAS proposed a dedicated stablecoin issuance license requiring 100% reserve backing, redemption deadlines, and no interest paid to holders.

cbZEC and cbHYPE launched on Base, unlocking ZEC and HYPE liquidity for Base DeFi.

Perplexity is rolling out a Hybrid mode on Mac that lets local models (Gemma 4, Qwen3.6, or Perplexity’s own model) handle subtasks while the cloud orchestrates

OpenAI confirmed that ChatGPT Work experienced an outage, which has now been resolved.

xAI is building Library support for Grok on iOS, adding Media, Apps, Files, and filtering.

Claude’s Hub feature has moved into Early Access, and Managed Projects for Claude Code appear to be coming to Claude mobile.

Nous Research shipped Hermes Agent v0.21.0 (The Pantheon Release), with 2,475 merged PRs and roughly 5,800 commits from 760+ contributors

Anthropic published a security and alignment update, revealing three July incidents where Claude models running without safeguards gained unauthorized access to real systems during cybersecurity evals

Google released TimesFM 3.0 on Hugging Face, a 330M-parameter open foundation model for zero-shot multivariate time series forecasting.

Grok Bot now integrates with Microsoft accounts via new plugins for Outlook, Calendar, and OneDrive.

Zai_org’s GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-Flash models launched on the FLock API Platform, with GLM-5.3 posting a 50% gain over GLM-5.2 on Z.ai’s Code Bench.

Haseeb predicted the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs will funnel massive institutional capital to SF futurists, who’ll likely pour it into SF real estate and crypto once employee lockups expire in April 2027.

Jensen Huang said AI could help the US lead the next industrial revolution.

Arkham data showed Lazarus Group linked wallets moved over $30M through Hyperliquid since converting BTC to ETH/SOL and routing through Tron, Solana, and Ethereum to KuCoin, LBank

Strategy acquired 4,603 BTC for $370M at $80,318 per coin, now holds 845,050 BTC and $6.71B in USD assets with 0% net leverage

OpenSea added support for Solana NFTs, letting users buy, sell, trade and bid on top Solana collections

Strive bought 1,800 BTC for $143M at $79,431 average, bringing holdings to 23,156 BTC worth nearly $1.8B

Japan’s FSA is looking to fix a tax rule that currently requires paperwork every time a stablecoin changes hands

Hyperliquid Labs in advanced talks with Kraken parent Payward to bring a subset of its perpetual futures to US users via regulated exchange Bitnomial, pending CFTC approval

ICE and tZERO signed agreements to build infrastructure for ICE’s NYSE-affiliated tokenized securities platform

Chainalysis filed seven claims against the US government alleging ICE improperly steered a $94.66M sole-source blockchain analytics contract to TRM Labs

Cashlink, a European tokenization platform with over €1B in transaction volume and clients including KfW and DZ Bank, is bringing its institutional securities infrastructure to Avalanche

Cronos Network is back online and producing blocks after halting earlier to prevent an exploit on the Tectonic protocol

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said banks opposing the Clarity Act don’t want competition from crypto companies or to pay higher rates to customers

Fomo acquired Mobula’s technology and team in a $17M deal to bring its data infrastructure in-house for Fomo’s social trading platform

Morpho launched in-kind redemptions for vaults, letting users redeem for underlying market positions even without available liquidity

Balancer is urging V1 liquidity providers to exit immediately after SlowMist identified a rounding bug draining roughly $234K from non-pausable legacy pools

Longshot, a new prediction market app, launched on Base with free and paid contests, available in eligible regions excluding the US

Mantle launched a DeFi Vault incentive program offering up to 10% boosted yield on Fluxion via USDT0/USDC deposits, with GROVE rewards through Merkl

LI.FI partnered with Centrifuge to expand distribution of tokenized assets across Jumper and LI.FI’s integrations

Robinhood Chain hit a record $875M in 24-hour DEX volume on August 30, led by Uniswap v4 ($432M) and v3 ($357M), alongside a record 5.52M daily transactions

AnkrFLOW exploit let attacker drain $410K from MORE Markets; Flow Foundation said the Flow network was unaffected and will reimburse losses.

Bipartisan former SEC and CFTC officials are pushing the US to move fast on derivatives rules as the CFTC looks to onshore the $90T perps market.

Solana treasury company DeFi Dev Corp is raising up to $20M via a CHAD Stock offering paying 13% annual dividends, with proceeds going toward more SOL purchases.

Lighter now allows ETH and XAUt to be used as collateral at 70% LTV.

Aave V4’s Core Hub on Ethereum is offering 2% USDC rewards for USDC borrowers against any available collateral.

Webull is expanding crypto trading into Canada with Coinbase handling custody and trading infrastructure.