Bitcoin ETFs See $120 Million Outflow as Ether Funds Draw $34.8 Million
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $120 million in net outflows on Sept. 9, while spot Ether ETFs posted $34.75 million in net inflows, according to SoSoValue. Morgan Stanley’s MSBT led Bitcoin ETF inflows with $4.49 million, while BlackRock’s Staked ETH ETF (ETHB) led Ether products with $22.94 million.
Bitcoin ETFs See $120 Million Outflow as Ether Funds Draw $34.8 Million
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $120 million in net outflows on Sept. 9, while spot Ether ETFs posted $34.75 million in net inflows, according to SoSoValue. Morgan Stanley’s MSBT led Bitcoin ETF inflows with $4.49 million, while BlackRock’s Staked ETH ETF (ETHB) led Ether products with $22.94 million.
Second-Largest Hardware Wallet Maker Trezor Warns of Phishing Email After Third-Party Email Provi...
Trezor said its third-party email provider has been breached. The company warned that an email titled “Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability” did not come from Trezor and is a phishing attempt, urging users not to click any links. Trezor has taken down the domain and is investigating how the hackers gained access to its legitimate domain.
PumpFun is preparing to let creators launch tokens paired with tokenized stocks, expanding beyond its existing SOL and USDC pairing options, per Tokens on Solana.
August 2026 Exchange Spot Volume Report: total $510.4 billion, MoM increased 19.0%
WuBlockchain data shows that spot trading volume across 14 major exchanges reached $510.4 billion in August, up 19.0% MoM from $429.0 billion in July, with 13 exchanges recording increases. Binance ranked first with $243.1 billion in volume and a 47.6% market share, followed by OKX at $46.9 billion and Coinbase at $40.9 billion. The top three exchanges accounted for 64.8% of total spot volume.
Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP Meme Coin Falls 99.5% From ATH, Circulating Market Cap Estimated at $565M
Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP meme coin is trading at around $1.614, down approximately 99.5% from its all-time high of $314.94, GMGN data shows. The token fell as low as $1.116 and has recorded roughly $11.74 million in total trading volume. LAPTOP launched on Base on September 9 with a total supply of 1 billion tokens. Based on the previously disclosed initial circulating supply of 350 million tokens, its circulating market capitalization is estimated at approximately $565 million, with a fully diluted valuation of about $1.61 billion. On-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa reported that market makers GSR, G20 and Wintermute received 15.5 million, 5 million and 2.5 million LAPTOP tokens, respectively, representing a combined 2.3% of the total supply.
Vitalik Proposes Recursive STARK Mempools for Ethereum’s Future I-Star Upgrade
Vitalik Buterin has proposed EIP-8288, a recursive STARK mempool design that he hopes will be included in Ethereum’s I-Star upgrade, following Hegota. The proposal aggregates transaction dependencies in the mempool and generates recursive STARK proofs. It aims to reduce the cost of quantum-safe signatures and privacy transactions, support new signature or proof schemes such as Falcon and ML-DSA without requiring EVM changes, and enable private account abstraction.
VerifiedX Launches $15 Million Financing Round to DeployInstitutional Bitcoin Infrastructure
VerifiedX Foundation has launched a $15 million financing round with Cantor Fitzgerald as its investment banking partner. The project said it has secured initial institutional capital but did not disclose the amount raised so far or the participating investors. The funding is intended to support institutional Bitcoin distribution, custody integrations, exchange listings, and lending infrastructure. VerifiedX also plans to expand its custody integration with BitGo for vBTC and vBTC.b on Base, and pursue centralized exchange listings for vBTC and its native token VFX.
Consensys Software to Split into MetaMask and Consensys as Independent Companies
Consensys Software Inc. will split into two independently operated companies. MetaMask will focus on its consumer platform, with Joseph Lubin serving as chairman and CEO. A newly formed Consensys will retain the protocols and institutional infrastructure businesses, including Linea, with Lubin as executive chairman. MetaMask says users’ apps, assets, keys and access will remain unchanged. The wallet has more than 100 million downloads across roughly 190 countries.
Plume Launches FACTOR Vault Offering Direct Exposure to Invoice Factoring and Working Capital Fac...
Plume has launched FACTOR, a limited-capacity vault developed in partnership with Tradeable and Deep Ocean Partners. The product directly invests in a curated and actively managed portfolio of invoice factoring and working capital facilities underwritten in partnership with the lender of record, without an intermediary issuer. It offers weekly liquidity and targets a net APY of 14% or more. This post is sponsored by Plume.
SkyAI Shareholders Plan to Withhold Support for All Directors as Stock Falls About 86% Over the P...
Bastion Trading Limited, a 9.99% shareholder of Solana treasury company SkyAI (Nasdaq: SKYA), said in a Schedule 13D filed with the SEC that it intends to vote “WITHHOLD ALL” on all five incumbent directors at the company’s September 18 annual meeting. Bastion said it is “deeply concerned” about the company’s bylaw amendments that it believes curtailed shareholder rights, the Board’s adoption of a “poison pill” without a shareholder vote, and related-party transactions involving entities linked to a director’s family member. Separately, independent director Annemarie Tierney resigned from the Board and from its audit and compensation committees on December 19, 2025, approximately two months after being elected at an October special meeting. According to a subsequent company filing, Tierney had raised concerns with management regarding potential conflicts of interest and related-party transactions involving entities connected to the digital asset treasury strategy. SkyAI, formerly known as Sharps Technology, raised more than $400 million through a PIPE financing in August 2025 to build a Solana treasury and currently holds approximately 2 million SOL. Other PIPE investors included ParaFi, Pantera, FalconX, Arrington Capital, Avenir, CoinFund, Arche Capital, Electric Capital, and Saba Capital. SKYA currently has a market capitalization of around $59 million, with its share price down roughly 86% over the past year. Shareholders will also vote on a new equity incentive plan authorizing the issuance of up to 5.145 million shares, or 7.2% of a fully diluted share base.
Chainalysis Competitor TRM Labs Raises Follow-On Funding at a $2 Billion Valuation
Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs has completed a follow-on funding round from existing investors, doubling its valuation to $2 billion from about $1 billion roughly six months ago. CEO Esteban Castano did not disclose the amount raised, describing it as relatively small. TRM expects annual recurring revenue to reach $100 million in the coming years and currently has about 500 employees. The company is also expanding into AI-powered criminal investigations and plans to launch a new platform in November to detect AI-related crimes, including deepfake financial fraud. Previously, Chainalysis accused ICE of awarding TRM Labs a roughly $95 million blockchain analytics contract without a competitive bidding process and questioned the procurement process.
Citi plans to launch tokenized deposit-based international transfers for Japanese companies by year-end. The service will enable instant, 24/7 cross-border payments across five countries, making Citi the first foreign bank to offer the service in Japan.
August 2026 Exchange Spot Volume Report: total $510.4 billion, MoM increased 19.0%
Statistics compiled by the WuBlockchain team: https://data.wublockchain.xyz/dashboard/exchange_volume In August 2026, spot trading volume across major exchanges totaled about $510.4 billion, increased approximately 19.0% from $429.0 billion in July 2026. The sample covers 14 exchanges, of which 13 rose and 1 fell month over month. By notional volume, the top three were Binance $243.1 billion (47.6% share), OKX $46.9 billion (9.2% share), Coinbase $40.9 billion (8.0% share). On concentration, the largest venue held about 47.6%, while the top three combined for about 64.8%. Note: The data may involve significant wash-trading or bot activity. Figures have been preprocessed, including outlier removal, calibration, and standardization. Follow us Twitter: https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain Telegram: https://t.me/wublockchainenglish
Osmosis said an exploit on the Nomic chain allowed an attacker to double-spend nBTC and send fake vouchers to Osmosis. Osmosis and IBC were not compromised. 39.84 nBTC, representing about 36% of Alloyed BTC’s backing, is affected. Osmosis has paused inflows and outflows, while an emergency upgrade froze 22.65 BTC in the attacker’s address. Osmosis plans to seek governance approval to seize the frozen assets and use BTC from the community pool to restore full backing.
According to Glassnode, Frankfurt and Amsterdam together produce more than half of Solana’s blocks, accounting for 33% and 19%, respectively. The two cities host 310 of the network’s 675 validators, representing 46% of all validators and 53% of total stake.
India’s Financial Intelligence Unit Issues AML Non-Compliance Notices to 15 Offshore Crypto Platf...
India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND) has issued AML non-compliance notices to 15 offshore crypto platforms: Weex, Blofin, Rezorex, Bitunix, DigiFinex, Toobit, XT com, Latoken, WOO X, Pionex, ChangeNow, SimpleSwap, FixedFloat, WhiteBIT and Guardarian. The platforms are accused of serving Indian customers without registering with FIU-IND. They may face further action under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Highlight Clip: CZ: A National Crypto Reserve Should Be Over 50% Bitcoin and 10-20% Ethereum
CZ: A National Crypto Reserve Should Be Over 50% Bitcoin and 10-20% Ethereum In a Bitcoin Asia fireside chat published by Bitcoin Magazine on Aug. 28, 2026, Binance founder CZ proposed that countries allocating crypto reserves take the top five cryptocurrencies by market cap and allocate strictly by market cap, leaving Bitcoin at 50-something percent and Ethereum at 10-20%. The real reason not to go all-in on Bitcoin, he argued, is not a lack of confidence in it but that an industry with only Bitcoin would grow much slower, and other blockchains' innovation actually helps Bitcoin grow. Bitcoin will likely serve as the global reserve currency for a very long time, CZ said.
FT: Using Crypto to Receive Export Payments in Iran Has Become Completely Normalized
According to FT, under pressure from U.S. sanctions and financial blockades, Iran’s central bank has quietly eased foreign exchange controls in recent months, encouraging exporters to repatriate overseas funds through various methods, including crypto. Sources said businesses can now use USDT, BTC and other cryptocurrencies for cross-border settlement through Iranian crypto exchanges, with USDT being the most widely used. An executive at a government-linked company said, “Receiving export payments in crypto has now become completely normalized.” TRM Labs data shows that crypto transaction volume in Iran approached $ 10 billion in 2025. The Central Bank of Iran did not comment.