Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

According to Lookonchain, a trader used 50x leverage to go long on BNB and ASTER on the decentralized exchange Aster, achieving returns of approximately 3.9x and 5.9x, respectively. The BNB long position amounted to 230 BNB (approximately $171,600), yielding a profit of about $13,000; the ASTER long

Zcash has surged to its highest level since 2016, pushing the privacy-focused token’s market capitalization past $20 billion as momentum continues into the new week. CoinGecko data shows ZEC briefly touched $1,249.28 before easing to around $1,195 on Monday.The move has been rapid: ZEC is up roughly

Huo Xing Finance reports that on September 7, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently found that approximately $9 billion in suspected Iranian-linked “shadow banking” activities flowed through U.S. correspondent accounts in 2024, with about $5 bil

According to ME News, as of September 6 (UTC+8), over the past year, the strongest-performing sector in the crypto market has been privacy assets. The total market capitalization of privacy-themed tokens has risen from $7.1 billion a year ago to $33.6 billion, an increase of approximately 3.7 times,

CoinDesk reports:On September 2, Polygon Labs announced that its Open Money Stack has completed a SOC 2 Type 1 audit. This is a significant compliance infrastructure milestone for teams seeking to integrate wallet, stablecoin, and cross-chain capabilities into enterprise systems. However, the most c

BlockBeats report: On September 7, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently found that approximately $9 billion in suspected Iranian-linked "shadow banking" activity flowed through U.S. correspondent accounts in 2024, with about $5 billion originat

BlockBeats news: Over the past year ending September 6, the strongest-performing sector in the crypto market was privacy assets. The total market capitalization of privacy-focused tokens has increased from $7.1 billion a year ago to $33.6 billion, a rise of approximately 3.7 times, with nearly half

ChainCatcher report, according to Hyperbot data, the whale Loracle continues to increase its 3x leveraged PONS short position, with current holdings rising to 25,747,236 PONS, valued at approximately $21.078 million.

Researchers identified an alleged failure in Liquid's transaction-validation cache that may explain how roughly $320 million in Bitcoin left the network. Liquid's L-BTC tokens are intended to be backed one-for-one by BTC held by its federation. SideSwap said a customer submitted 4,000 L-BTC through

Huoxing Finance reports that on September 5, DBS Bank of Singapore and Citibank’s New York branch completed the first weekend U.S. dollar payment between Singapore and the United States using Swift’s Digital Ledger, settling via tokenized deposits. DBS stated that the transaction took only minutes,

Researchers examining the roughly $320 million Liquid Network incident have identified an alleged failure in the software’s transaction-validation cache, offering a more specific explanation for how unbacked tokens could be redeemed for real Bitcoin.Accounts also raise a deployment question. Mononau

Glassnode reported that, as of September 6, 2026, Bitcoin is down 36% from its October 2025 high, while the median of the top 200 assets is down 58% from that level. Among all sectors, only the privacy sector remains above its prior level, up 213%, and has also led the top ten sectors with a 90% gai

SummaryHanwha Investment and Securities developed a multichain tokenized securities platform using Avalanche and Hyperledger Besu alongside FairSquare Lab in 2025.South Korea will officially recognize distributed ledgers as securities registers when its amended capital markets framework takes effect

U.S. mortgage rates are entering the new week close to 7% as higher Treasury yields and a surprisingly strong August jobs report increase uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s next move. With U.S. fixed-income markets closed Monday, Sept. 7, for Labor Day, the latest broad mortgage-rate readings re

It appears that liquidity is becoming a theme for Solana’s Q4 cycle.Despite closing out August with a 41% rally, one of the best performers among high-cap assets, Solana’s fundamentals have started September on a bearish note. The biggest concern has been Robinhood Chain flipping Solana in daily DEX