Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

According to Announcement, KuCoin Earn will delist WAXP (WAX) products at 4:00:00 on September 4, 2026 (UTC). After delisting, users' principal and earnings will be automatically transferred to their Funding Account. The exchange apologized for any inconvenience and emphasized that KuCoin Earn is a

Standard Chartered will now hand institutional clients real Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) in the United Arab Emirates. Those clients receive the coins themselves, not a derivative that only tracks the price.The bank announced the desk on Thursday through its Dubai arm. Only 29 lenders worldwide carr

Nvidia is moving to buy Hugging Face, the platform often called the “GitHub of AI,” in a deal valued at roughly $13 billion. If completed, it would be the largest acquisition in the chipmaker’s history and a signal that Nvidia’s ambitions extend well beyond making the GPUs that power the AI boom.The

Nvidia has publicly committed to keeping Hugging Face open following its approximately $12.9 billion acquisition of the AI model hosting platform. The announcement addresses the single biggest question hanging over the deal since it was revealed in late August: whether the world’s most valuable chip

Computing power is becoming the new oil, and exchanges are racing to build the futures markets to prove it. Nodal Exchange Holdings, the dominant player in North American locational power futures, is seeking to launch futures contracts on computing power for artificial intelligence chips, putting it

Following its public testnet phase, RealFi has set the launch date for its decentralized finance (DeFi) platform on the Cardano mainnet.The RealFi team announced the date while providing an update on its Pioneer Season, which has served as a testing and feedback phase ahead of the mainnet rollout. A

Coinbase is expanding its Canadian product lineup with futures contracts offering leverage of as much as 10x, extending a broader push by US trading companies into the country’s digital-asset market.Eligible Canadian clients can trade 23 perpetual and dated cryptocurrency futures covering Bitcoin (B

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has tested the XRP Ledger (XRPL) to make official statistics easier to verify.The researchers created a system that uses blockchain technology to link statistical data to the organization that published it. This lets governments, banks, and automated syst

The US Justice Department said an international operation involving European law enforcement and private-sector partners disrupted Sality’s operations, cutting the malware network off from its operator. Sality had been linked to cryptocurrency theft and other cyberattacks.The Justice Department said

Standard Chartered has expanded its regulated digital asset business in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading for institutional clients, adding the service to a regional crypto offering that already includes custody.The London-headquartered bank introduced digital ass

Trust Wallet just made it easier for Android users to spend their Cash App balance on crypto. The self-custody wallet now supports Cash App Pay as a funding method through MoonPay’s checkout system, extending a feature that previously launched on iOS.The integration means eligible US users can purch

Barely two months after Robinhood Chain went live, a new class of DeFi strategies is emerging around Uniswap v4’s hook system, and the target market isn’t memecoins or stablecoins. It’s tokenized versions of Apple, Nvidia, and other blue-chip equities trading as ERC-20 tokens around the clock.The Et

ChainThink reports that on September 3, according to market data, the meme coin microduck, modeled after Hugging Face’s open-source bot, surged over 35% in the short term, with its market cap exceeding $46 million.On the news front, NVIDIA plans to acquire AI startup Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that NVIDIA has announced a stock retention program of up to $1 billion for Hugging Face employees joining NVIDIA, with the $12.9303 billion acquisition of Hugging Face expected to be completed in the first half of 2027, subject to regulatory approval. NVIDIA is currently

According to BusinessWire, Cari, a bank-led digital currency network, has announced raising $32.5 million in its first external funding round, with all capital coming from banking institutions including First Horizon Bank, Huntington Bank, KeyBank, M&T Bank, Old National Bank, SouthState Bank, and G