Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Rain Protocol has spent August turning prediction markets into something builders can actually control. The ‘RAIN’ listing on Hyperliquid, a $108 million token burn, an independent security audit, and the launch of SDK v2 have given the project plenty to discuss. Now, the RAIN price is showing a sim

Crossmint launched a stablecoin funding onramp on September 2 that the company says is available across more than 160 countries. The launch announcement says fintech apps can let users fund wallets with Apple Pay, Google Pay or payment cards without sending them to a separate interface. Crossmint is

The CFTC’s Division of Clearing and Risk has issued a staff advisory on how registered derivatives clearing organizations should handle tokenized collateral, including tokenized U.S. Treasuries used as margin.The advisory is a narrow but important signal. It does not approve tokenized collateral for

Base’s new token standard just crossed a milestone that took some entire blockchains years to reach. B20 tokens, the native token format introduced during Base’s Beryl upgrade, have now surpassed $1 billion in cumulative decentralized exchange trading volume, according to Dune Analytics data.The exa

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is in discussions to raise capital at a valuation of roughly $40 billion. If the round closes at that number, it would represent a more than threefold jump from the $12 billion post-money valuation the company secured du

Odaily Planet Daily report: Galaxy’s research head posted on X that the Republican leadership in the House has canceled voting schedules for the weeks of September 21 and September 28. The House will reconvene on September 14 for a four-day agenda, then leave Washington until after the midterm elect

The US dollar dropped to levels not seen since May after Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller pointed to meaningful progress on inflation, hinting that the central bank might hold rates steady at its mid-September meeting. The yen, meanwhile, surged against its major counterparts, a one-two p

Michael Selig, the newly installed chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is positioning the agency as a cornerstone of the Trump administration’s crypto strategy. In recent remarks, Selig declared that the administration is working to develop what he called the “new frontier of finan

U.S. financial markets reacted positively on Thursday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 580 points. This movement coincided with a decline in Treasury yields and oil prices following remarks from Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller. Waller indicated a preference for maintaining curr

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer has declared that the House of Representatives has completed its efforts regarding the crypto market structure, specifically pointing to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, known as the CLARITY Act. Emmer emphasized that the responsibility now lies with the Senate to

Senator Cynthia Lummis wants the rest of America to borrow Wyoming’s homework. The Republican lawmaker says the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, better known as the CLARITY Act, would take her home state’s pioneering crypto regulatory framework and scale it to a federal level, giving the entire ind

Odaily Planet Daily News: Uniswap founder Hayden posted on X that correlated trading pairs are forming. The top five trading pairs by volume involving tokenized SPY serve as "bridge" pairs connecting other common base pairs, subsequently linking primarily to tokenized stocks with higher correlation.

Patience isn’t usually the first word associated with venture capital. But 137 Ventures just made a compelling case for the slow play. The San Francisco-based firm’s 2014 vintage fund, which closed at $137 million, is now valued at more than eight times its original size, putting it north of $1.1 bi

SummaryColdcard Wave 3 hacker moved stolen Bitcoin from original addresses and converted part of it into Ethereum through THORChain for laundering purposes.Transaction details revealed replace-by-fee settings, recent locktimes, higher fees, and a two-of-two multisignature structure controlling the s

For years, cybersecurity researchers warned that AI would eventually be weaponized against the very systems that built it. In July 2026, that scenario stopped being hypothetical.Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform that serves as something like a GitHub for machine learning models, was hit by a