Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Hargreaves Lansdown, the UK’s largest retail investment platform, has opened crypto ETN trading to eligible investors, adding Bitcoin and Ethereum-linked exchange-traded notes to a platform used by millions of retail savers. The move, which took effect in early September 2026, comes nearly a year af

TradeXYZ, the dominant deployer of real-world asset perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid’s L1 blockchain, has seen its daily RWA trading volume settle around $2.1 to $2.6 billion. That’s a far cry from the platform’s blistering July 2026 performance, when monthly volume hit roughly $100 billion, large

LeBron James is now the face of Polymarket’s sports ambitions. The prediction market platform announced on September 5 that James has signed on as its first individual athlete partner, with a campaign focused on football timed to drop the week of September 8.James teased the deal through a short vid

Rob Hamilton, CEO of AnchorWatch and a Bitcoin contributor, got his first commit merged into Bitcoin Core on August 20. The fix addressed a wallet-related bug, and the interesting part is how he found it: by pointing AI models at Bitcoin’s codebase and letting them hunt for problems.Hamilton’s effor

Token Terminal just quietly turned its real-world asset dashboard into something resembling a Bloomberg terminal for on-chain finance. The crypto analytics platform added 145 new tokenized asset deployments, including five tokenized stocks on Solana with a combined market cap of roughly $1.7 million

ChainCatcher report: According to Bloomberg Intelligence’s analysis of Hyperliquid ETF’s first quarterly 13F filing, 30 institutions disclosed holdings in the Hyperliquid ETF, totaling approximately $74.9 million. Brazilian institution Wealth High Governance Asset Management leads the list with near

A Bitcoin mining facility in El Reno, Oklahoma, leaked roughly 3 to 3.8 million gallons of water into the ground while the surrounding region baked under a severe drought. The city has condemned the site and plans to send its operator, Athlon Blockchain Technology LLC, the bill.The leak, which surfa

Aerodrome’s tokenized stock trading volume has crossed $250 million in just two weeks. If the histogram trend continues, $300 million could be the next target for Aerodrome on Base. The numbers are getting attention, but the token still has plenty to prove.Aerodrome Stock Trading Gains Fresh Momentu

BlockBeats report, September 6: An analysis of Bitcoin’s historical performance from 2010 to 2026 shows that the majority of Bitcoin’s annual gains typically occur during just a few trading days, leading several industry experts to believe that long-term holding may be more advantageous than frequen

BlockBeats report: On September 6, ahead of the Federal Reserve’s September 15–16 policy meeting, the Trump administration is intensifying public pressure on the Fed to avoid rate hikes and even consider further cuts. Trump, Vice President Vance, Treasury Secretary Bessent, and White House senior ec

US spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $986.9 million in net inflows for the week ending September 5, capping off a three-week streak that has funneled $3.8 billion into these products. Early 2026 was rough for Bitcoin ETF flows, with year-to-date net figures still sitting at approximately negative $1 billi

CoinDesk reports:Latest data shows that the Southeast Asian blockchain industry has raised $680 million in funding since the beginning of 2026, surpassing the full-year total of $319 million in 2025. However, this rebound is not broad-based; rather, it is driven by a few large deals that have inflat

Standard Chartered extended its deliverable Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) spot trading to institutional clients in the United Arab Emirates on September 3, becoming the first Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) to offer the service in the country.The offering runs through Standard Chartered D

XRP has received another favorable U.S. regulatory signal, but the most consequential part of the latest SEC decision may have little to do with XRP's commodity status alone.The SEC order approving changes to Nasdaq Texas Rule 5711(d) explicitly uses Bitcoin, Ether, Solana and XRP as examples of dig

Bitcoin can move 10% on Sunday morning. Apple cannot trade on Nasdaq at the same time.The reason is not technology. Stock exchanges could stay online. The harder part is the infrastructure behind each trade: brokers, market makers, clearinghouses, custodians, banks and corporate-action systems.Crypt