'Purported White-Hat Hackers' Withdraw $320M in Bitcoin From Liquid
Summary: Blockstream and the hackers are engaging with each other through PGP-signed messages in Bitcoin transactions.
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XRP Gets Another Boost Through Ripple Deal With Florida Athletics
Summary: The multi-year deal will place the XRP logo on the field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium starting this season, extending Ripple's push into college athletics.
Stablecoins Won't Scale Without Banks
Summary: With a growing number of institutions exploring stablecoins, the bottleneck is regulated infrastructure they can trust.
This Crypto Project Just Funded 1,000 Student Loans Entirely On-Chain
Summary: The team behind Pencil Finance says the financing supported thousands of Southeast Asian students, but it did not disclose borrower costs, defaults, or investor returns.
Ancient Bitcoin Wallet That Turned $120 Into $3 Million Wakes Up
Summary: At least four more decade-old wallets moved a combined $15.7 million between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4, with one batch of coins sent to Coinbase in a likely sign of a sale.
What Is Robinhood Chain? The Ethereum Layer-2 Network for Tokenized Stocks and Meme Coins
Summary: Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum layer-2 network built with Arbitrum technology for tokenized assets, crypto apps, and on-chain financial products.
Update Your Browser: Google Patches Chrome Flaw Hackers Were Already Using
Summary: The update fixes a high-severity flaw in Chrome’s V8 engine, but Google has not revealed who is using it or whom they targeted.
AI Just Solved a 350-Year-Old Math Problem By Writing the Longest Proof Ever
Summary: Anthropic says Claude spent 11 days turning Fermat's Last Theorem into 13 million lines of code a computer can check itself, no human trust required
Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $3.8B in strongest three-week stretch of 2026
Summary: US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have recorded their strongest three-week inflow stretch of 2026 as Bitcoin traded around $80,000. The funds attracted $986.9 million in the week ending Friday, bringing net inflows over the past three weeks t
G7 Warns Quantum Threat Demands Action as Crypto Industry Weighs Fixes
Summary: The group is urging organizations to adopt post-quantum security before powerful computers can compromise today’s encryption and digital signatures.
TikTok's Parent Company Just Borrowed $30 Billion to Go All-In on AI
Summary: Nearly 30 banks backed the rare unsecured facility as TikTok’s parent company spends heavily on AI chips, models, and overseas data centers.
Polymarket Launches Crypto Perpetual Futures With Up to 20x Leverage
Summary: The prediction market platform's new Perps product scaled from 10 markets to 67 on its first day—though the 20x leverage ceiling only applies to some of them, and none of it reaches U.S. traders.
Crypto Traders Are Pairing Meme Coins With Stocks on Robinhood—And It's Working (Sort Of)
Summary: A meme coin called BONER cornered half of Hims & Hers Health's tokenized shares on Robinhood's new blockchain. It started a new trend that's spreading fast.
'Send Your Lawyers': Robinhood Isn't Backing Down From AMC Over Stock Tokens
Summary: Lawyers question AMC’s grounds for a securities-law challenge, but say the tokens’ branding and marketing could leave room for a dispute.
A16z-Backed OpenReserve Gets Approval for Full-Service National Bank
Summary: The a16z-backed startup chose a full national charter over the trust-bank route most crypto firms have taken, clearing a path toward insured deposits and conventional lending alongside stablecoin issuance.
BitMEX Co-Founder Ben Delo Gives Farage's Reform UK Another £4 Million
Summary: Two April payments supplied three-quarters of the party's donations for the quarter, where the next largest single gift was £180,000.
IMF Now Says Donations Funded El Salvador's Bitcoin Growth
Summary: A year ago the fund claimed the total had not moved, and that the reserve was only shuffling coins between government wallets.
Morning Minute: Crypto Stages Major Rally on Rate Hopes
Summary: Bitcoin soared past $81k, HYPE and ZEC hit smashing new ATHs and the onchain rally leveled up. Is this the first stage of the next leg up?
67,000 More Trezor Customers Exposed as Data Breach Widens
Summary: Some records exposed in the breach date to 2019, years beyond the 90-day retention Trezor said its partners had agreed to.
AMC CEO Calls Robinhood Stock Tokens 'Contemptible' and 'Vile'
Summary: Adam Aron says AMC Entertainment has no connection to the tokens and is putting outside securities counsel on the case.