Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Strive, Inc. has pulled off something counterintuitive. Despite holding roughly 24,531 BTC compared to Metaplanet’s approximately 43,000 BTC, Strive’s market capitalization has climbed to the $2.5B to $3B range, overtaking Metaplanet’s $2B to $2.5B valuation.The development comes as Metaplanet’s Bit

ChainCatcher report: According to an official announcement, Tether has partnered with Fasanara Capital to launch a $400 million private credit fund, StableFund, with the goal of attracting $3 billion in third-party institutional capital. The fund will provide short-term, asset-backed credit financin

Huo Xing Finance reports that U.S. Bank (a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp), the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, has successfully completed a real-time cross-border payment test using its proprietary USD stablecoin, USBDC, via the Stellar blockchain between its North American and Euro

ME News reports that on September 9 (UTC+8), U.S. Bank, a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp and the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, announced the successful completion of a cross-border payment test using its proprietary USD stablecoin, USBDC. The transactions were executed via the Stel

ChainCatcher report: U.S. Bank (a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp), the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, has successfully completed a real-time cross-border payment test using its proprietary USD stablecoin, USBDC, facilitated via the Stellar blockchain between its North American and E

Germany is putting a deadline on tax-free Bitcoin (BTC). Buy before December 31, 2026 and the old rules follow your coins, but buy later and the taxman comes.That date sits inside a draft law from the finance ministry, and while nothing has passed yet, German investors are already doing the arithmet

Donald Trump’s latest salvo against the Federal Reserve, directed squarely at newly installed Chair Kevin Warsh, is testing central bank independence in real time.Trump took to Truth Social in early September to demand the Fed lower interest rates, tying the demand to trade policy by threatening res

Aave Labs just made it a lot easier for AI agents to talk to its lending protocols. The team launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI applications a single, standardized endpoint to pull live data from both Aave V3 and V4, replacing the patchwork of static datasets and third-part

US Bank has completed a live pilot of its proprietary USBDC stablecoin, executing real-time cross-border payments between its North American and European divisions on the Stellar blockchain. The test, carried out on September 9, makes US Bank one of the first major American financial institutions to

According to CoinDesk, U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, has completed a cross-border real-time payment using its proprietary USD stablecoin, USBDC, facilitated via the Stellar blockchain between entities in North America and Europe. The test encompassed USBDC’s mint

Fitch Ratings has put a potential AI-driven market correction near the top of its worry list, warning that a severe drop in equity prices could tip the US economy into recession. The agency’s Global Risk Outlook for Q3 2026, published July 27-28, identifies the intersection of sky-high tech valuatio

Key Insights:Michael Saylor’s Strategy repurchased $176 million of STRC stock last week.The company doubled its Digital Credit Securities Repurchase Program for STRC stock to $2 billion.David Lawrence said the STRC repurchases were accretive to common shareholders, with mNAV rising to 1.15x.Strategy

CoinDesk reports:Iran is easing foreign exchange controls, allowing businesses to settle cross-border trade using digital assets such as Bitcoin and USDT. This follows continued tightening of U.S. sanctions, which have restricted traditional international payment channels and increased the difficult

Bitcoin appears to be showing signs of a recovery in on-chain profitability despite the broader market still wrestling with uncertainty around where this cycle’s lows may ultimately form. A widely watched measure—spent output profit ratio (SOPR)—has remained above its breakeven level for an unusuall

When your deposit-attraction scheme works too well, you end up with a different problem entirely. That is roughly where the Reserve Bank of India finds itself right now, deploying short-term currency swaps to pull excess cash back out of a banking system it inadvertently flooded with rupee liquidity