Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

The European Union is done with polite suggestions. Brussels has set an early October deadline for China to deliver initial commitments on reducing a bilateral trade deficit that hit €360.6 billion ($412 billion) in 2025, a figure that grew another 9% in the first half of 2026.To put that in perspec

BlockBeats news, on September 8, the prediction market Polymarket announced the launch of Squads, a new social feature within its U.S. version of the Polymarket app. Squads provides a dedicated space for friends to discuss markets, share their prediction choices, and trade together directly on Polym

Huo Xing Cai Jing reports that on September 8, Shen Yu, co-founder and CEO of Cobo, posted on social media: "I have real trauma with ZEC. When Zcash launched on mainnet in 2016, BitMEX set a fixed price cap of 10 BTC. On the launch night, shortly after mining began, the transformer at a GPU mining f

Canaan Inc. posted Q2 2026 revenue of $31.9 million, a 49% decline from the prior quarter and a 68% plunge from the $100.2 million it reported in the same period last year. The culprit is straightforward: Bitcoin fell from roughly $82,000 to $58,000 during the quarter, and when mining becomes less p

Jacob Tsimerman, the 2026 Fields Medal winner, has founded the Mathematical AI Safety Institute, a new research body dedicated to building rigorous mathematical frameworks for understanding and mitigating the risks of artificial intelligence. The institute, known as MAISI, was launched on September

The supply dynamics of Hyperliquid [HYPE] strengthened as the protocol accelerated token burns, adding a layer of scarcity around the token’s available supply.Within 24 hours, Hyperliquid bought and burned 15.35K HYPE worth approximately $1.32 million. The protocol paid an average price of around $8

According to Lookonchain, a whale address 0xfc27 purchased 2 million PONS tokens at an average price of $0.347, spending 280.5 ETH (approximately $696,000) a week ago, and is currently sitting on an unrealized profit of about $830,000. Additionally, this whale spent 575.2 BNB (approximately $431,000

ChainCatcher report, according to Coinglass data, BNC experienced $4.06 million in liquidations over the past 12 hours, with $3.49 million from short positions and $570,000 from long positions; the largest single liquidation amounted to $623,440.

For more than a decade, the Bank of Japan was the buyer of last resort in the world’s second-largest bond market. Now it’s becoming the seller nobody expected to move this fast.The BoJ’s monthly Japanese Government Bond purchases have dropped to 2.9 trillion yen for the January-March 2026 quarter, t

Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale spent 280.5 ETH ($696,000) to purchase 2 million PONS at $0.347 each one week ago, currently realizing an unrealized profit of $830,000. Three hours ago, the same whale spent 575.2 BNB ($431,000) to buy 12.12 million 4Stock to

Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to GMGN data, BNC4, a token on the BSC chain, fell over 28% in the past hour, with its current price at $5.20. The underlying stock BNC is currently trading at $4.80 in the U.S. stock market, narrowing the premium between the token and the stock to 8%.CZ posted

CoinDesk reports:Polish prosecutors stated that the Katowice court has approved pretrial detention for Roman Ż. He is accused of participating in organized crime and embezzling client funds through computer fraud.The prosecution stated that the involved group is suspected of transferring at least 7.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies said it has added another tranche of Ether, tightening the gap between its current holdings and a long-stated corporate target to accumulate 5% of Ethereum’s total supply. The new purchase extends a streak of periodic ETH buys led by chairman Tom Lee, as the company po

Michael Saylor's firm paused new Bitcoin purchases while expanding its buyback authority for the STRC credit instrument.Strategy, the business intelligence firm led by executive chairman Michael Saylor, repurchased $176 million in STRC shares this week. The company also doubled its authorized buybac

The Aug. 31 disruption of the Sality botnet cut off its operator's ability to deliver new malicious software to infected computers, while malware already on those devices remained active, according to CrowdStrike's Sept. 1 report. Users of infected machines still need to remove the installed malware