Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

On Wednesday, U.S. Bank sent dollars from North America to Europe on a public blockchain. However, while anyone can watch that network, only the bank can undo the payment.The bank calls it a launch, but it’s own announcement describes it as a test. U.S. Bank paid itself, using a token, USBDC, that n

Key Insights:Solana whales opened about $9.11 million in long positions before the September 9 Transaction v1 network upgrade.One Hyperliquid whale bought 285,503 SOL worth about $28.82 million over the past three weeks, Arkham data shows.Solana will raise its maximum transaction size from 1,232 byt

Nobody wants to be told how to pay anymore. That sounds obvious, but it took the payments industry a surprisingly long time to act on it. For years, the assumption was that a credit card field and maybe a PayPal button covered most people. That assumption is dead in 2026, and the numbers make it off

According to CoinDesk, the Algorand Foundation has officially appointed William Herkelrath as CEO, succeeding Staci Warden, who served for nearly five years. Herkelrath previously held leadership roles at blockchain data provider Chainlink and crypto custody company Curv, and co-founded the AI autom

A dark-web service is reportedly offering more than 153 million American and Canadian driver’s license records for sale, and the FBI is investigating an apparent data breach involving the identity-verification provider IDScan.net. This is yet another case where some of the very mechanisms that are s

The Algorand Foundation appointed William Herkelrath as chief executive officer as the blockchain organization seeks to expand its institutional business and position its technology against emerging quantum-computing threats.Herkelrath, who formally took over on Aug. 31, succeeds Staci Warden after

ME News reports that on September 9 (UTC+8), according to official information, the mainstream liquidity pool for Biden’s son’s meme coin, LAPTOP, was launched on Aerodrome. The pool currently has a trading fee of 2%, a cumulative trading volume of $510,000, and a TVL of $2 million. However, poss

Most token launches follow a familiar script: project raises money, team gets the cash, investors cross their fingers. MetaDAO is rewriting that playbook with an onchain treasury model that keeps raised funds locked in a governed structure, releasing capital to project teams only through budgets and

According to ChainCatcher, data from GMGN shows that within 40 minutes of its launch, the meme coin LAPTOP, issued by Biden’s son, saw its fully diluted valuation plummet from a peak exceeding $300 billion to $5 billion, with a trading volume of $6.89 million during the same period.

BlockBeats news, on September 9, crypto KOL Rune (@RuneCrypto_) posted that a set of newly created wallets with direct fund transfers appeared during the LAPTOP airdrop claim process. The newly created wallet 0x8DA...A18d claimed 4,276 LAPTOP tokens for free, then sold them for approximately $400,00

BlockBeats news, on September 9, according to official website information, the mainstream LP pool for President Biden's son's meme coin, LAPTOP, has been launched on Aerodrome. The pool currently has a trading fee of 2%, with cumulative trading volume reaching $510,000 and a TVL of $2 million.Howev

CoinDesk reports:Germany is advancing a proposal to adjust its crypto asset tax regime, planning to impose a flat 25% tax rate on related gains starting in 2028. This means the long-standing arrangement in the country allowing tax-free treatment for assets held over one year may no longer apply to n

According to ME News, on September 8 (UTC+8), XRP Healthcare, a health platform built on the XRP Ledger, released a full incident report stating that a wallet generation flaw introduced on June 13, 2023, significantly reduced the effective key space, making offline private key reconstruction computa

Just now, OpenAI announced in collaboration with MIT: AI has successfully taken control of a quantum computer!In a joint report titled “Case Study: Agent Calibration for Superconducting Qubits,” researchers from MIT’s Quantum Engineering Systems Group (EQuS) confirmed that AI agents, powered by GPT-

Most semiconductor fabs cost billions of dollars and take years to build. Besxar Space Industries is trying a different approach: strap a microwave-oven-sized manufacturing pod to a SpaceX rocket, let it cook for eight minutes in the vacuum of space, and bring it back down with the booster.The Washi