Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

CoinDesk reports:Google Cloud is forming a joint team with Accenture to deploy engineers directly into enterprises to assist with the implementation of AI tools and services. The competition among large models is shifting from model performance to practical deployment capabilities—those who can inte

Canada is hitting back. Prime Minister Mark Carney has moved forward with counter-tariffs on US imports, calling the measures essential to protecting Canadian businesses and workers caught in the crossfire of an escalating trade war with the United States.The retaliatory duties, which took effect on

ICE’s stake in tZERO signals a shift toward tokenized securities as core market infrastructure, linking blockchain settlement with established financial markets.ICE’s investment in tZERO points to tokenization becoming part of mainstream securities infrastructure rather than a separate crypto market

Ramp is negotiating a new funding round that would value the company at $60 billion, according to people familiar with the discussions. If the round closes at that number, it would mark a 36% jump from the $44 billion valuation the New York fintech achieved just months ago.For context, Ramp was valu

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood before the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai on September 8 and made his ambitions for the country’s Unified Payments Interface clear: eleven countries down, a lot more to go.UPI, the real-time payment system managed by the National Payments Corporation of Indi

Ethereum Foundation targets quantum resistance across execution, consensus and data layers by December 2029.The Hegotá review gives EIP-7805 and EIP-8141 S-tier status, marking them as proposals that “must ship.”Ethereum’s roadmap expands research into privacy, fast finality, state management and zk

The US Treasury is throwing nearly $1 trillion in firepower at a bond market that’s been running a fever. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a doubling of the government’s buyback program for longer-dated securities, a move designed to cool yields that had climbed to levels not seen since 20

Odaily Planet Daily reports that DeFi Development Corp has announced the completion of a $11 million preferred share offering of CHAD, with Tom Lee of Fundstrat participating in the subscription. The company stated that this offering is the first digital credit instrument backed by Solana. Its CEO,

The Japanese yen has staged one of its more convincing recoveries in recent memory, climbing roughly 3.3% against the US dollar over five trading sessions in early September 2026. The currency reached ¥152.89 to ¥154 per dollar, territory it had not visited since February.The intervention backdropFr

An AI-payment hub on the XRP Ledger has recorded almost 4.5 million transactions while settling only a few thousand XRP.Near press time, the XRPL AI Hub, a dashboard run by t54 labs, showed 4,491,820 all-time transactions alongside cumulative settlements of 5,836.71 XRP and 4,125.29 RLUSD, Ripple’s

TL;DR:Glassnode found long-term holder supply explains more of Bitcoin’s one-month realized volatility than market capitalization, open interest, funding rates, or trading activity.More than 71% of Bitcoin supply is profitable, nearing the 74.7% historical mean that has often accompanied bear-to-bul

ME AI message: Emad Mostaque shared OpenAI’s announcement and commented that this is a milestone toward ASI. OpenAI announced that a team of agents used a next-generation model significantly more powerful than GPT-6 Astra to provide a blow-up solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, w

Circle Internet Group signed a definitive agreement to acquire Singapore-based cross-border payments company Tazapay on Sept. 8. The proposed transaction would add Tazapay’s bank connections and local payout rails to Circle’s stablecoin payment infrastructure, but the deal has not closed.Circle said

Treasury yields have reached fresh 2026 highs, while the 30-year yield approaches 5.26%. Meanwhile, the Treasury prepares to increase its buyback program from September 9.The move now faces rising yields that could weaken the liquidity boost expected to support crypto prices.The Treasury market has

With AI and big data tokens experiencing renewed capital rotation, Injective is pumping. In fact, after successfully holding $5.3, Injective finally reclaimed and flipped $6 resistance. In doing so, the altcoin jumped to a three-month high of $6.7. As of this writing, Injective traded around $6.39,