Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

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

Trust Wallet just made it easier for Android users to spend their Cash App balance on crypto. The self-custody wallet now supports Cash App Pay as a funding method through MoonPay’s checkout system, extending a feature that previously launched on iOS.The integration means eligible US users can purch

Barely two months after Robinhood Chain went live, a new class of DeFi strategies is emerging around Uniswap v4’s hook system, and the target market isn’t memecoins or stablecoins. It’s tokenized versions of Apple, Nvidia, and other blue-chip equities trading as ERC-20 tokens around the clock.The Et

ChainThink reports that on September 3, according to market data, the meme coin microduck, modeled after Hugging Face’s open-source bot, surged over 35% in the short term, with its market cap exceeding $46 million.On the news front, NVIDIA plans to acquire AI startup Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that NVIDIA has announced a stock retention program of up to $1 billion for Hugging Face employees joining NVIDIA, with the $12.9303 billion acquisition of Hugging Face expected to be completed in the first half of 2027, subject to regulatory approval. NVIDIA is currently

According to BusinessWire, Cari, a bank-led digital currency network, has announced raising $32.5 million in its first external funding round, with all capital coming from banking institutions including First Horizon Bank, Huntington Bank, KeyBank, M&T Bank, Old National Bank, SouthState Bank, and G

Huo Xing Finance reports that PPP predictive market tools show the probability of a 25-basis-point Fed rate hike in September on Polymarket has dropped to 49%, a 10% decline over 24 hours. The previously released U.S. “Small Non-Farm” August ADP employment data came in below expectations, with only

Huo Xing Finance reports that, on September 3, according to OnchainLens monitoring, a HYPE whale withdrew a total of 824,350 HYPE tokens from Coinbase over the past 17 hours, equivalent to approximately $67.52 million. This wallet has now cumulatively withdrawn about 865,840 HYPE tokens from Coinbas

ChainThink reports that, according to Glassnode, BTC rebounded to the $80,000 range in mid-August but encountered resistance and subsequently declined, currently trading in a range between $83,000 and $86,000.On-chain data shows that as the price retested May levels, the percentage of profitable sup

Student-loan infrastructure startup Pencil Finance says it has completed a fully onchain lending cycle worth $1 million, financing education borrowers in Southeast Asia and repaying investors via smart-contract-recorded cash flows.In a Thursday announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Pencil describe

On December 1–2, Blockchain Life 2026 will once again bring the global crypto industry together in Dubai: 15,000+ attendees from 130+ countries, 200+ speakers, and 200+ sponsors.3 months to the biggest crypto event of the year. The countdown has begun.Blockchain Life brings crypto industry leaders f