Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

For years, signing a crypto transaction on a hardware wallet has felt a bit like signing a legal document written entirely in hieroglyphics. You trust that it says what your app told you it says, but the device screen itself? A wall of hexadecimal gibberish that could mean “swap 100 USDC for ETH” or

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for a coordinated approach with the EU, Canada, and other G7 allies to confront China’s massive trade surplus, signaling that Washington views bilateral tariffs alone as insufficient to reshape global trade dynamics.The numbers behind the pushChina’s go

Antioch, a startup barely a year old, just locked down $32 million in Series A funding to expand its cloud-based simulation platform for physical AI and robotics. Greylock led the round, with participation from A*, Category Ventures, Box Group, Icehouse Ventures, and a roster of angel investors that

XRP has entered another important phase after its August rally, with the weekly chart now indicating a possible cup-and-handle breakout. The structure suggests that the recent decline may represent a retest of this breakout. If XRP holds key support and eventually clears the handle, the chart projec

ChainCatcher report: On September 8, the decentralized lending protocol Morpho deployed its fixed-term, fixed-rate lending protocol, Midnight, on Ethereum, expanding its product from the Base network to Ethereum. Ethereum users can now access USDC loans collateralized by WBTC or cbBTC. Merlin Egalit

Odaily Planet Daily report: According to MSX.COM data, the top five U.S. stocks by market capitalization all fell more than 1%. NVIDIA's stock dropped 1.17%, Apple's stock fell 1.41%, Google-A's stock declined 1.17%, Microsoft's stock dropped 1.83%, and Amazon's stock fell 1.3%. Additionally, the Do

Huo Xing Cai Jing reports that trader Bonk Guy posted that PONS has generated daily revenues of over $1.3 million to $2 million for most days over the past week, with no single day falling below $1.1 million in the last seven days. Meanwhile, PONS’s buyback wallet has now accumulated nearly $3 milli

Strive acquired 1,375 bitcoin last week. The purchase cost approximately $109 million. Strive's total holdings reached 24,531 BTC. A Form 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission said Strive bought the bitcoin between Aug. 31 and Sept. 4. The bitcoin had an average purchase price of $7

Within Anthropic, a Labs team of fewer than 20 members is dedicated to rapidly prototyping and validating new product ideas. According to team lead Ben Mann, only about 20% to 30% of projects succeed, with 70% to 80% ultimately being discontinued. This team, regarded as a startup incubator, has spaw

XRP has long been one of crypto’s most widely held assets, but it’s also been one of the most frustrating to put to work. While Ethereum and Solana holders have had a buffet of DeFi options for years, XRP largely sat in wallets collecting dust. Flare Networks is changing that equation, and the numbe

Visa just quietly built one of the most successful lending operations in crypto, and almost nobody noticed. The payments giant’s collaboration with Credit Coop has produced an onchain lending model that has financed over $2.5 billion in cumulative settlement volume since 2023, processing more than 3

ChainCatcher report, according to The Block, Matter Labs, the developer of ZKsync, has open-sourced the permission engine of its institutional distributed ledger platform, Prividium, enabling institutions to run, inspect, and modify the core code within their own environments. The German Central Ban

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the prediction market platform Polymarket has announced the launch of a new social feature called Squads, available on the U.S. version of the Polymarket app, allowing users to create private groups to discuss markets, share positions and portfolios, and trade direct

Advanced Micro Devices shares broke above $500 on September 8, 2026, rising more than 5% intraday and peaking around $503 before settling near that threshold. The move came with no single company-specific catalyst.Peer chipmakers Micron, Nvidia, and Intel logged gains on the same session, as investo

TL;DRSolana will activate on September 9 an upgrade that will triple the maximum transaction size, from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes.The change, proposed in SIMD-0296 and the adoption of QUIC, allows ZK proofs, rollups and large multisigs to be executed in a single atomic transaction.The new limit only appl