Hunter Biden to launch LAPTOP memecoin on Base chain September 9, to airdrop 20% supply to those who lost money on TRUMP.
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
Buried in this roundup: two banks moved dollars from Singapore to the US in minutes, on a weekend, with no crypto involved at all — the same corridor Circle just agreed to pay $400 million to reach.