Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

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

Chip-equipment and memory stocks have started outpacing Nvidia in 2026, with companies like Micron Technology, Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLA posting gains that make the GPU king look almost boring by comparison. The PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index has climbed roughly 79% year-to-date thro

AI-driven payments using XRP and Ripple USD are approaching 4 million transactions, but the more notable development may be how quickly the activity is accelerating.Data cited by t54 show approximately 3,992,146 agentic transactions have settled through its XRP Ledger x402 infrastructure. That compa

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra has claimed the top spot on Code Arena’s WebDev leaderboard with a score of 1,797, putting 35 points of daylight between itself and Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1, which sits at 1,762. Two days after its official launch on September 3, 2026, the model is already rewriting the peck

Solana has been building something quietly significant. The network’s combined real-world asset footprint, counting stablecoins, tokenized funds, equities, and commodities, has crossed $18.5 billion, according to data tracked by RWA.xyz and research from Galaxy Digital and the Solana Foundation. The

Bitcoin BTC$80,016.98 trades 24 hours a day, seven days a week, allowing traders and fund managers to react to the news and manage risk at any hour, including weekends and holidays. Yet out of 365 trading days a year, only a handful actually decide whether a year is a win or a loss. Which is why som

Pineapple Financial (NYSE American: PAPL) has moved more than $1 billion in residential mortgage records onto the Injective blockchain, the network announced in a blog post on September 4, 2026. The milestone makes Injective one of the largest layer-1 chains by total value of tokenized real-world as

Bitcoin ETFs record $175 million in net inflows, led by BlackRock’s IBIT with $117 million and Fidelity’s FBTC with $57.22 million.Ethereum ETFs post $26.46 million in net inflows, with BlackRock’s ETHA gaining $57.79 million despite mixed fund flows.Bitcoin ETF inflows extend to three days as recen

Polygon CEO Marc Boiron says staff time off pains him. His post on X split the crypto industry within hours.The Polygon Labs boss admitted he prefers speed over rest. Critics called that a fiat mindset, so Boiron answered with a lesson about Bitcoin culture.SponsoredSponsoredPolygon CEO Triggers a F

While the August non-farm payrolls data from the US presented a strong picture in the headlines, analysts noted that when one-off effects are removed, the underlying growth in the job market remains much more limited. Non-farm employment increased by 162,000 in August, significantly exceeding the ma

SummaryRobinhood Chain recorded $3.7 billion in daily DEX volume, surpassing Ethereum and Solana while establishing a new all-time high overall.Despite its daily lead, Robinhood Chain ranked fifth over 30 days, recording $23.09 billion against Solana’s $64.54 billion total volume.Sustained growth de

A chart tracing Nvidia’s September market capitalization back to 1999 shows one of the most extreme wealth-creation stories in public-market history.But the most striking number is not the jump from roughly $1.5 billion in September 1999 to about $5.56 trillion today.It is what happened in just the

Odaily Planet Daily reports that four long-dormant Bitcoin wallets became active between August 29 and September 4, transferring a total of 202.84 BTC, worth approximately $15.73 million. The largest address held 146.06 BTC, remaining dormant for nearly 12.8 years since November 2013, with a cost ba