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Three of Brazil’s largest financial institutions are now functioning as crypto brokerages for millions of retail customers. Itaú, Nubank, and Banco do Brasil have each built out token menus that rival some standalone exchanges, all while maintaining a strict policy of never holding a single satoshi

ChainCatcher report: Brazilian banks are expanding their cryptocurrency services for customers. According to Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil’s largest asset management bank, Itaú, now offers 15 cryptocurrencies—including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the USD-stablecoin USDC—through its investment app. Nubank, Bra

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Brazil’s cryptocurrency market reached a trading volume of R$505.5 billion (approximately $98.7 billion) in 2025, more than five times the R$94.9 billion recorded in 2020. Corporate-related transactions amounted to R$497 billion, accounting for 98.3% of the total vol

CoinDesk reports:The growing demand for AI training and inference continues to drive increased usage of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), making Micron, a memory chip manufacturer, one of the top-performing companies in the U.S. semiconductor sector over the past five years. According to the data cited i

Boyaa Interactive, the Hong Kong-listed online gaming company that pivoted hard into Bitcoin accumulation back in late 2023, just added another 115 BTC to its balance sheet. The firm now holds approximately 4,316 Bitcoin, putting it at 22nd on the global ranking of public company Bitcoin holders tra

Xverse, the self-custodial Bitcoin wallet, has opened enrollment for a pooled Bitcoin staking product that lets users earn BTC-denominated yields without handing their coins to a third party. The staking pool went live on September 7, with rewards expected to kick in around September 10 at approxima

Japan’s 10-year government bond yield climbed to 3% on September 1, a threshold the country hasn’t touched since 1996.The milestone caps a dramatic repricing that has added more than 1.4 percentage points to the benchmark yield since August 2025. In a country where negative interest rates were the n

TL;DRSolana is seeing renewed memecoin liquidity as traders rotate capital into ZCAT and other speculative tokens. ZCAT surged sharply, showing that risk appetite is returning to parts of the Solana ecosystem despite weaker broader memecoin dominance. SOL faces a key test in Q4, with sustained on-ch

Chinese companies just posted their best quarterly earnings in nearly five years. The stock market’s response? A collective shrug followed by a sell-off.Onshore-listed Chinese firms reported a 25.7% year-on-year profit increase in Q2 2026, a number that would normally have investors popping champagn

Bitwise has filed an amended S-1 registration statement for its spot Ethereum ETF, adding language around staking mechanics, validator operations, slashing risk, and staking-yield accounting.The filing is significant because staking remains one of the biggest unresolved questions around spot Ethereu

CoinDesk reports:U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on September 7 for Labor Day, giving investors a three-day weekend. The New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, and U.S. bond markets will resume trading on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time.Last week, the market closed lower.Last week, major U.S.

When the King of England wants to talk artificial intelligence, he apparently calls the guy who makes the chips powering most of it. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined King Charles III and a roster of tech heavyweights at Blair House in Washington, D.C. on April 28 for a meeting focused on AI developmen

Andreessen Horowitz just had the kind of week that venture capitalists daydream about during partner meetings. Within a five-day stretch in August 2026, two of the firm’s AI infrastructure portfolio companies were acquired in blockbuster deals, leaving a16z sitting on combined stakes worth more than

TL;DR:The technical amendment BatchV1_1 reached approximately 68% support among network validators.The code was integrated into XRP Ledger software version 3.3.0, released on August 6.To be activated, the proposal must exceed 80% favorable votes continuously for a 14-day period.The decentralized pay

Securitize has expanded institutional collateral support for BlackRock’s BUIDL fund across participating crypto prime brokerages, giving tokenized Treasuries another step toward deeper use in trading infrastructure.The expansion means qualified institutional traders can post BUIDL token shares as of