Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

In Brief:Ripple secured a multi-year Florida Athletics partnership, placing XRP logos prominently at both 25-yard lines inside Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.The deal may generate $5 million annually while giving Ripple exposure through broadcasts, digital platforms, event signage, and nationwide universi

TL;DR:Chainlink reported over $340 billion in cumulative value of on-chain real-world assets as of September 4, 2026.An analysis by consulting firm McKinsey projects that the global tokenized asset market could reach between $2 trillion and $4 trillion by 2030.Records from the decentralized oracle n

Anthropic, the AI lab behind the Claude chatbot, is gearing up to go public in what could become one of the largest initial public offerings in history. The company filed a confidential registration statement with the SEC on June 1 and plans to publicly unveil its IPO prospectus after Labor Day on S

Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Solana handled most tokenized stock trading last week, Grayscale said in a research note published Thursday. Weekly spot volume for the sector peaked near $3 billion in early August.Those numbers show tokenized equities have found buyers. Almost none of that money, ho

ByteDance just convinced nearly 30 banks to hand over $29.6 billion with no collateral attached.The unsecured syndicated loan, coordinated by Citigroup and JPMorgan, was originally pegged at $20 billion. Then demand piled up past $30 billion, and ByteDance decided to upsize the facility to $29.6 bil

The White House vetted candidates for all four vacant Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) seats, according to CNBC. Two of those seats belong to Democrats.Nothing in law requires them to be filled, as the statute caps one party at three of five seats, and stops there. Chairman Michael Selig

Anthropic, the AI lab behind the Claude chatbot, appears to be advancing towards a public filing of its IPO prospectus, an event that could significantly influence the appetite for AI investments. According to a Financial Times report, the company is preparing to publicly reveal its IPO plans, poten

Key InsightsXRP price has formed a large bullish flag pattern on the daily chart.Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin has continued gaining momentum.Spot XRP ETFs have added substantial assets in the past few days.XRP price rose sharply today, reaching its highest level since August 25 this year. It jumped

CoinDesk reports:After the U.S. August employment data significantly exceeded expectations, the market quickly adjusted its expectations for the Fed’s policy path. Expectations for rate cuts cooled, putting pressure on risk assets; Bitcoin briefly fell below $80,000, with Ethereum and XRP also decli

According to ME News, on September 5 (UTC+8), the G7 Cybersecurity Working Group stated in its latest report that quantum computing poses both security and economic threats to public and private institutions, and that organizations should immediately begin migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC

Robinhood Chain processed blocks without interruption on September 4, 2026, but its blob submissions to Ethereum went dark for roughly 14 minutes during what turned out to be the network’s busiest day on record. The sequencer kept running. The Layer 1 data pipeline did not.What actually happenedRobi

CoinDesk reports:Strategy's Bitcoin treasury strategy is undergoing a shift. The company sold approximately 6,916 Bitcoin this summer, then repurchased 4,603 BTC. Market data firm Kaiko believes this indicates Strategy is moving away from its previous "buy only" approach toward more active treasury

When you sell nearly half your position in a stock and it’s still your second-biggest bet, you know you’ve had a good quarter. David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management dumped 690,000 shares of Micron Technology during Q2 2026, trimming the fund’s stake by 41% to 975,000 shares.The punchline: the remainin

GitHub just made a compelling case that the best AI coding assistant isn’t a single model. It’s a traffic cop that knows which model to call and when.The company announced Project HydraFusion on September 4, 2026, as a research preview inside GitHub Copilot. The system is a multi-model orchestration

Dash [DASH] climbed 17.5% on Coinbase as traders turned their attention to another crypto associated with private payments.The rally took DASH to its highest price since May and followed hard on the heels of a powerful run by Zcash [ZEC] – perhaps showing the increased interest in privacy-focused as