Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Bitcoin Knots developer Luke Dashjr says major exchanges now sell fake bitcoins, days after the Bitcoin hard fork split his BLAKE2b chain from the network.He blames platforms that skipped running their own full nodes. Meanwhile, the rest of the market treats his chain as dead.SponsoredSponsoredBitco

According to ME News, on September 4 (UTC+8), data from Brazil’s Central Bank (BCB) showed that cryptocurrency purchases in July amounted to $572 million, a nearly 80% decline from $2.6 billion in June and nearly a 60% drop from $1.4 billion in July 2025. Fernando Rocha, head of the BCB’s statistica

ME News reports that on September 4 (UTC+8), ZKsync tweeted that over the next six months, all Boojum/EraVM chains will begin phasing out the legacy execution environment, with each chain setting and publishing its own timeline. ZKsync stated that this move aims to address security risks arising fro

Huoxing Finance reports that on September 4, Morgan Stanley anticipated that, despite Federal Reserve Chair Powell’s hawkish signals at the Jackson Hole symposium, the Fed will hold interest rates steady. Current inflation data may provide justification for the Fed to maintain patience. The bank exp

Bitcoin BTC$80,995.17 is trading around $81,060 on Friday morning, easing 0.22% since midnight UTC after clearing $81,309 overnight, the level that had capped the rally through late August.The move higher is broad rather than selective. Ether ETH$2,523.75 added 4.52% over the past 24 hours, XRP 5.58

According to ZKsync’s official X account (@zksync), ZKsync has announced a security upgrade for its EraVM chain, with key measures including: the introduction of an instant upgrade framework, extending the execution delay from 3 hours to 24 hours, and developing a second prover, EraBender, to defend

Morgan Stanley has expressed its expectation that the Federal Reserve will maintain its current policy rates through the remainder of 2026. This outlook suggests that the Fed is likely to keep rates in the 3.50%–3.75% range, a stance consistent with its recent decisions. While some officials have in

Huo Xing Finance reports that the People’s Bank of China has released the overall operating conditions of the payment system for the second quarter of 2026. As of the end of the second quarter, a total of 10.267 billion bank cards had been issued nationwide. Among these, credit cards and combined cr

AMC Entertainment shares jumped more than 15% in premarket trading on Friday. The shares traded at $2.92. The shares gained 15.19%. The gain equaled 38.5 cents. Shares touched roughly $3.03 before easing back. AMC shares remained down 5.93% over five days. Shares traded between $2.50 and $2.72 for m

ChainCatcher report: The People's Bank of China has released the overall operating conditions of the payment system for the second quarter of 2026. As of the end of the second quarter, a total of 10.267 billion bank cards had been issued nationwide. Among these, credit cards and combined credit-debi

Tesla’s Cybercab officially rolled onto public roads in Austin, Texas on September 3, making it the first purpose-built robotaxi from the company to carry real passengers. The two-seater vehicle has no steering wheel and no pedals.The launch event was an invite-only affair, noticeably more restraine

Morgan Stanley anticipates the Federal Reserve will maintain its current interest rates, despite recent hawkish remarks from Chair Kevin Warsh at the Jackson Hole symposium. The financial institution cites expectations for August’s core Consumer Price Index (CPI) to increase by 0.23% month-on-month

ChainCatcher report: Hardware wallet provider Trezor has updated its progress on the data breach involving its logistics partner ShipMonk, stating that the initial disclosed scale of the breach was underestimated. An additional approximately 67,000 U.S. customers who placed orders between November 2

Huo Xing Finance reports, according to Korean media Greened.kr, Samsung Electronics has officially launched a joint R&D project with Arm on edge AI chips. Arm approved a one-time engineering fund for the development of the next-generation edge AI SoC at the end of August and has officially initiated

ChainCatcher report: According to Bloomberg on September 4, AI company DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei Technologies' top-tier accelerators at a large data center under construction in Inner Mongolia, potentially forming one of the largest known clusters of Huawei AI chips and adv