Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

CoinDesk reports:A Michigan court has issued a preliminary injunction against the prediction market platform Kalshi, requiring it to cease offering sports-related contracts to residents within the state. If the platform fails to implement proper geofencing, it will face daily fines of $500,000.The c

ChainThink reports that, according to U.S. Department of Labor data as of September 3, the number of initial jobless claims for the week ending August 29 came in at 206,000, exceeding the market expectation of 205,000. This marks the highest level since the week ending August 15, indicating signs of

ME News reports that, as of September 3 (UTC+8), according to GMGN market data, the meme coin microduck—inspired by Hugging Face’s open-source robot—surged over 35% in the short term, with its market cap exceeding $46 million. On the news front, NVIDIA has just announced its plan to acquire AI sta

Huo Xing Finance reports, according to TechCrunch, cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks has announced the acquisition of AI Agent startup Console for $500 million in cash and stock. Founded in 2024, Console uses AI Agents to automate tasks such as password resets, application permission provisioni

ME News reports that on September 3 (UTC+8), Sui posted on X that real-world assets have holding rules, which are embedded within the assets on Sui. HIGH, launched by @Emberprotocol, is a tokenized U.S. high-yield credit asset that can be used as collateral on @suilendprotocol, @navi_protocol, and @

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