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The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Cluster published its Hegotá upgrade assessment and roadmap, grading 62 proposed EIPs. EIP-7805 (FOCIL, an anti-censorship proposal) and EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions, a core account abstraction proposal) were placed in the S tier as “must ship,” while 15 proposals were rated A tier as “expected to ship” and 28 were rejected. The Protocol Cluster also outlined research priorities through 2029, targeting quantum resistance across Ethereum L1’s execution, consensus, and data layers by December 2029, with fast finality, post-quantum security, privacy, state, and zkEVM identified as five cross-upgrade research areas.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, plans to launch a meme coin called LAPTOP on Coinbase’s Base network on September 9, with a total supply of 1 billion tokens. About 30% of the supply will go to the founding team, while 20% is allocated to investors who lost money on the Trump-linked $TRUMP token. Another 20% is earmarked for charity and operations, while up to 30% could be burned based on predetermined events, including a Democratic victory in the 2028 presidential election.

According to Glassnode, privacy is the only major crypto sector trading above its level at Bitcoin’s October 2025 high, up 213% while every other sector remains below that mark. The sector’s market cap has grown from $7.1 billion a year ago to $33.6 billion, led by ZEC, which has surged 2,496% and risen from 82nd to 7th by market cap. ZEC now accounts for about 62% of the sector, though Glassnode noted the rally is broader: excluding ZEC, the cap-weighted privacy basket is still up 85% over the past year.

According to Protos, Bitcoin’s 90-day correlation with gold has risen to 0.56, its highest level since most data providers began tracking the metric in 2017 and above the previous peak of around 0.50 in November 2020. Meanwhile, its 90-day correlation with the Nasdaq 100 has fallen to roughly 0.30, a one-year low. On a 30-day basis, BTC’s correlation with gold has climbed to 0.72, versus just 0.22 with the Nasdaq Composite, reinforcing the renewed “digital gold” narrative amid August’s debasement trade.

According to AP, 22-year-old Singaporean Malone Lam is set to appear at a plea agreement hearing Tuesday over his alleged role in a 2024 social-engineering scheme that stole more than $240 million worth of Bitcoin. Prosecutors say Lam and his associates spent the proceeds on luxury cars, private jets and mansions, with Lam spending more than $569,000 in a single night at a Los Angeles nightclub. If he pleads guilty, he would become the 11th defendant to do so among 18 people charged in the case; prosecutors previously estimated a sentencing-guideline range of at least 14 years.

DWF Labs said spot BTC and ETH ETFs recorded a combined $1.2 billion in net inflows last week, marking a third consecutive week above $1 billion for the first time since July 2025. BTC ETFs attracted about $986.7 million, including $730.8 million on September 3, the third-largest daily inflow of 2026, while total BTC ETF AUM rose to $103.3 billion, or about 6.32% of supply. Meanwhile, coin-denominated BTC open interest fell from 762,200 BTC in mid-August to 669,600 BTC even as BTC rose from around $63,000 to $80,000, which DWF Labs said suggests the recent move has been driven more by spot inflows than leverage.

DBS and Citi completed a cross-border USD payment between Singapore and the U.S. over the weekend using tokenized deposits via Swift’s blockchain-based Digital Ledger. The September 5 transaction took minutes to complete and demonstrated 24/7 cross-border payment capability outside traditional banking hours. Swift’s ledger synchronizes interbank payment commitments while settlement remains off-ledger through existing banking infrastructure.

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According to RootData, crypto VC disclosed 61 venture deals in August 2026, down 10.3% month on month from 68 in July 2026 and down 45.0% year on year from 111 in August 2025. The past year’s trend is as follows:
By sector in August: CeFi about 18%, DeFi about 29.5%, NFT/Game about 3.3%, L1/L2 about 4.9%, RWA/DePIN about 4.9%, Tool/Wallet about 8.2%, AI about 9.8%, and Web3/Others about 21.3%.
Total crypto VC funding in August 2026 was about $742 million, down 68.0% month on month from $2.321 billion in July 2026 and down 86.5% year on year from $5.495 billion in August 2025. The past year’s trend is as follows:
Note: Deals with undisclosed amounts are counted in the deal total but not in the dollar total. Not all financings are disclosed in the month they close, so these figures may still be revised. The top 10 rounds by disclosed amount are as follows:
Ripple’s non-bank prime broker, Ripple Prime, completed an upsized $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes. Proceeds will support its U.S. business, including working capital and general corporate purposes. KBRA assigned the notes an investment-grade BBB rating; Ripple Prime previously received a BBB issuer rating from KBRA. Piper Sandler served as lead placement agent.
Crypto platform Bullish extended a $100 million debt facility to stablecoin protocol USD.AI, which is developed by Permian Labs and currently has more than $225 million in crypto assets locked in the protocol. Bullish also plans to list USD.AI’s sUSDai and open multiple trading pairs, giving investors a secondary-market channel for GPU-backed debt, connecting on-chain capital with demand for compute financing and supplying liquidity for AI infrastructure development.
Clearing and custody firm RQD* Clearing raised $74 million, led by Bain Capital, with ABN AMRO Clearing Bank and Nyca Partners participating. The company plans to use the proceeds to expand in North America, Asia, and the Middle East, and to develop products covering digital-asset custody and tokenization. RQD* provides clearing and custody to broker-dealers, investment advisers, and overseas financial institutions seeking access to U.S. markets. Clearing firms track positions, move securities and cash, and manage risk between trade execution and final settlement.
Stablecoin digital bank Fasset raised $68 million in a new round led by Japan’s SBI Group, taking its valuation to $1 billion. This is Fasset’s second large raise this year after a $51 million round in May, bringing 2026 funding to $119 million. Fasset operates a one-stop financial platform that lets consumers and businesses hold, send, pay, and invest across currencies and assets, with stablecoins as the underlying settlement infrastructure.
Yellow Card raised $40 million in strategic funding from SC Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, Polychain Capital, Blockchain Capital, and other strategic investors. The company provides stablecoin infrastructure. Proceeds will scale Global USD Accounts, its end-to-end dollar account for businesses, and extend the stablecoin rails that connect it to markets worldwide.
Yen stablecoin issuer JPYC completed an additional Series B close, bringing the round to about $38 million in total. New investor AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings, a major Japanese logistics group, contributed about $6.3 million. Proceeds will expand its financial and Web3 ecosystem and promote real-world use of the JPYC yen stablecoin.
Capital B completed a €21 million private placement, subscribed by global institutional investors including Adam Back and TOBAM, to accelerate its Bitcoin Treasury Company strategy. The company issued shares with four attached warrants (ABSA) at €0.58 per unit. If all warrants are exercised, it could raise up to about €135.8 million more. Net proceeds are expected at about €19.9 million and, together with cash from operations, could fund the purchase of a further 270 BTC, lifting potential holdings to 3,415 BTC.
Digital-asset investment manager Hivemind Digital Group raised $17 million in strategic funding led by U.K. asset manager M&G Investments, with CPIC Investment Management (H.K.), ZA Bank, FalconX, and Sonic Boom Ventures among the participants. Alex Seddon, Head of Impact and Private Equity at M&G Investments, will join Hivemind’s board. Hivemind said the proceeds will build institutional-grade investment infrastructure for blockchain and frontier-tech assets, offering investors related tools and a governance framework.
HIP-3 deployer Entropy.io raised $14 million, led by Ribbit Capital, and secured $40 million in HYPE staking support. Its first market, Anthropic pre-IPO, is live on Hyperliquid. Under Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 framework, Entropy already offers perpetual futures on global equities, commodities, indices, and pre-IPO stocks.
Full-stack new-finance infrastructure firm City Protocol raised a combined $11 million across seed and pre-A rounds. Participants included Dragonfly, CMT Digital, Stratified Capital, Bitscale Capital, Adaverse, Mirana Ventures, and Jump Crypto. City Protocol aims to bring structured financial products on-chain and lower the barrier to multi-dimensional asset allocation.
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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has proposed a 12-month suspension on new Operator of Payment System registrations while it reviews the country’s licensing framework. The draft would also require regulated institutions serving virtual asset businesses through merchant acquiring arrangements to apply enhanced due diligence, monitoring, and transaction and settlement limits. If finalized, the rules would take effect 15 days after publication.

Strategy CEO: Will Continue Buying Bitcoin Even If BTC Surpasses Its All-Time High
On September 2, 2026, Strategy CEO Phong Le said in an interview that the company remains a net buyer of Bitcoin. Even if the price reaches $80,000, $90,000, or $100,000, or even surpasses $130,000 to set a new all-time high, Strategy will continue buying.
The company previously sold around 7,000 Bitcoin, representing less than 1% of its holdings, mainly to fund preferred stock dividends and share repurchases. Phong Le said Strategy follows a two-way capital strategy, maintaining the flexibility to buy and sell Bitcoin as well as raise capital through stock financing.

DeFi researcher Ignas said that LIT and ZEC were among the best-performing assets after Bankless co-founder David Hoffman publicly sold ETH in May and rotated into LIT, ZEC, NEAR, and VVV. Since around the time of Hoffman’s ETH sale, LIT, ZEC, and NEAR have gained approximately 369%, 110%, and 54%, respectively, while ETH rose about 8% and VVV fell about 6%.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost said Bitcoin has recently experienced its sharpest deleveraging phase since 2023, with Binance’s open interest briefly falling below its 180-day average. Binance’s current open interest stands at approximately $9.6 billion, above the 180-day average of $8.3 billion and accounting for about 37% of Bitcoin’s total open interest. The current cycle has seen one of the largest liquidation events in Bitcoin’s history. Darkfost said traders appear to have returned and are fueling BTC’s rebound, while warning that excessive leverage could trigger another severe deleveraging episode.

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Verified as of September 5, 2026 | Coverage period: September 7–13, 2026 (ET)
The key events to watch this week:
Thursday, September 10, 8:15 a.m. ET | ECB Rate Decision; 8:45 a.m. Press Conference
The ECB will also publish updated macroeconomic projections at 9:45 a.m. ET. The focus is not only on the rate decision itself, but also on whether inflation and growth forecasts change and whether the central bank signals a more hawkish or dovish policy path ahead.
Thursday, September 10, 8:30 a.m. ET | U.S. August PPI
This will provide an important inflation signal ahead of CPI. Investors will watch whether core goods and services prices show renewed pressure, and whether changes in business costs are beginning to flow through to margins and final prices.
Thursday, September 10, 5:00 p.m. ET | Oracle Q1 FY2027 and Adobe Q3 FY2026 Earnings Calls
Oracle and Adobe will report quarterly results. Investors will focus on whether AI investment is translating into revenue growth and profitability rather than simply increasing capital spending and computing costs. For Oracle, the key areas are OCI growth and AI cloud demand conversion; for Adobe, the focus is whether AI features are driving subscription growth and enterprise demand.
Friday, September 11, 8:30 a.m. ET | U.S. August CPI
This is the week’s most direct input into Fed rate expectations. Markets will focus on sticky inflation components including core services and shelter. Continued price pressure could lift Treasury yields and weigh on high-valuation technology stocks.
Friday, September 11, 10:00 a.m. ET | Preliminary September U.S. Consumer Sentiment
The key focus will be inflation expectations and consumer sentiment. The release will help determine whether elevated inflation expectations are becoming more entrenched and whether they are beginning to weigh further on household spending.
Bottom line:
With the Fed in its pre-meeting blackout period, U.S. PPI and CPI, alongside ECB policy signals, will take the lead in shaping rate expectations this week. Oracle and Adobe earnings will test whether AI investment is translating into durable revenue and profit growth.

CZ: Bitcoin May Flip Gold in the Next Bull Run
In a Bitcoin Asia fireside chat published by Bitcoin Magazine on Aug. 28, 2026, Binance founder CZ said that if Bitcoin gradually becomes a strategic reserve asset for countries, its ultimate importance will likely surpass gold's.
The real resistance today is not the asset itself, he argued, but the mature valuation, custody and reserve systems countries have already built around gold, and for large economies completing such a switch typically takes many years. Bitcoin nonetheless holds the stronger long-term advantage over gold, CZ said, with a single low-probability exception: a stronger digital asset emerging to replace it before Bitcoin closes the gap, which he sees as unlikely for now.

Capital B announced the completion of a €1.44 million ATM offering and a €28.7 million private placement, and acquired 376 BTC for €25.3 million. The company and its subsidiary now hold a total of 3,521 BTC, with an aggregate acquisition cost of €309.4 million and an average cost of €87,878 per BTC.

South Korea’s National Tax Service said residents must still report overseas financial accounts holding crypto assets, even if the overseas exchange has gone bankrupt and trading or withdrawals are no longer possible. Accounts with balances exceeding KRW 500 million on any month-end must be reported in June of the following year. Crypto assets have been subject to the reporting requirement since 2023.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he is quite optimistic about the long-term development of cybersecurity and expects Bitcoin to handle issues that do not require social consensus well. Network-layer attacks can be addressed by upgrading clients and mining pools, while the probability of hashes or PoW being successfully broken is “tiny.” Therefore, he disagrees with the view that BTC could fall more than 50% over the next two years due to AI undermining its security.

From August 31 to September 4 (ET), Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $987 million in net inflows, marking three consecutive weeks of inflows. Ethereum spot ETFs saw $218 million in net inflows, also marking three consecutive weeks of inflows. Solana spot ETFs recorded $6.1751 million in net inflows, extending their inflow streak to 10 consecutive weeks. XRP spot ETFs saw $18.9602 million in net inflows, while HYPE spot ETFs recorded $12.2734 million in net inflows.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis said that if the CLARITY Act does not pass during the current Congress, the next real opportunity to advance market structure legislation may not come until 2030. She said completing the legislation now could help avoid years of lost jobs, investment, and tax revenue.

According to Coinalyze data, aggregate open interest in altcoin perpetual futures has surpassed Bitcoin’s for the first time since December 2024. The market capitalization of altcoins outside the top 10 has risen above $200 billion, up more than 10% since the beginning of September. ZEC open interest reached a record $2.4 billion in early September, while its price crossing $1,000 triggered $34 million in short liquidations. Historically, similar shifts have preceded sharp corrections in mid-cap tokens.