Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Coinbase just told US regulators, in polite but unmistakable terms, that it wants American investors to be able to place leveraged, round-the-clock bets on stocks without ever owning a single share. The company filed a comment letter on August 25 with both the CFTC and SEC, responding to a joint req

Bitcoin ETFs staged a rebound in fund-flow momentum just as Ethereum and XRP ETF products ended recent winning streaks, marking a divergence in demand across the largest US-listed crypto ETFs that traders from Jakarta to Singapore are watching closely.TLDR KEYPOINTSBitcoin ETF momentum rebounded aft

Anthropic, the developer behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly close to securing a substantial $15 billion pre-IPO revolving credit facility. This deal is significantly larger than the $2.5 billion facility the company obtained last year. The financial backing appears to surpass previous expectat

Tron now hosts more USDT than Ethereum, a milestone that would have sounded absurd a few years ago. On-chain data shows the USDT supply on Tron climbed by $4 billion over the past month, reaching $94.27 billion and firmly pulling ahead of the network that once dominated stablecoin traffic.The number

CoinDesk reports:Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller stated that the recent downward trend in inflation is encouraging, but whether to continue raising rates at the September meeting will depend on the August inflation data. If price pressures continue to ease, he favors maintaining the curr

ChainCatcher report: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has publicly released its responses to comments on “Novel ETFs,” which may hold crypto assets or employ unconventional strategies. Disagreements center on whether filing documents should remain public before the funds begin tradi

Odaily Planet Daily report: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has publicly released its responses to comments on "Novel ETFs," which may hold crypto assets or employ unconventional strategies. Disagreements center on whether filing documents should remain public before the funds begi

Hyperscale Data has shut down its Bitcoin mining operations in Michigan and repurposed the site toward an AI data-center contract expected to be worth approximately $1.2 billion, cementing one of the clearest examples yet of a bitcoin miner AI deal where GPU compute demand outbids proof-of-work econ

ProCap Financial just sold 50 Bitcoin to buy back more than 2% of its outstanding shares at roughly a 40% discount to net asset value. The company now holds approximately 5,305 BTC, making it one of the larger publicly traded Bitcoin treasury firms on the Nasdaq.When a company’s stock trades at a 40

Polymarket, the platform best known for letting people bet on everything from presidential elections to weather patterns, just made a sharp left turn into traditional finance territory. Its new Perps platform, which went live on September 3, offers perpetual futures contracts on assets ranging from

The collapse of FTX, which vaporized $8 billion in customer funds and sent its founder to prison for 25 years, is getting the prestige TV treatment. Netflix’s The Altruists premieres November 19, 2026, an eight-episode limited series that traces the rise and implosion of the crypto exchange through

Michigan has escalated its efforts to rein in Kalshi, a prediction markets platform, by securing a preliminary injunction that blocks the company from offering event contracts to residents. The state’s attorney general said the order is meant to stop what officials described as “sports betting” oper

Tether reported $1.3 billion in Q2 net operating profit in its latest BDO attestation statement, while excess reserves rose to $5.2 billion above full USDT backing.The figures keep Tether at the center of the stablecoin market’s profitability and reserve debate. USDT remains the largest dollar stabl

CoinDesk reports:Polymarket has expanded its business from event prediction contracts to perpetual contracts. The new service is currently available to international users who are legally permitted to use the product, with an initial launch of 10 markets covering crypto assets, precious metals, crud

ChainCatcher report: Bitwise’s latest report shows that the correlation between Bitcoin and gold has reached a six-year high. André Dragosch, Bitwise’s Head of European Research, noted that the last time this level of correlation occurred was in 2020, during the multiple rounds of fiscal and monetar