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The group will focus first on a U.S. dollar stablecoin for payments and digital asset settlement, with a euro token a priority for expansion.

Global bond yields hit multi-decade highs today as Japan’s 10-year JGB yield reached a 30-year peak, keeping Bitcoin steady near $78,000. Global long-term bond yields are now at the highest level since the 2008 financial crisis as major long-dated sovereign bonds continued to sell off into trading on Tuesday. The sell off comes only days after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made headlines by announcing that the maximum size of debt buyback transactions would be increased to $4 billion from September.   While the Treasury does not conduct monetary policy, some commentators have compared this to a form of yield curve control. This has brought the debasement narrative, keenly followed by Bitcoin and precious metal investors, back into the spotlight.  Read more

Revenue on Robinhood Chain hit a 24-hour record of $1.9 million, driving a 30% rally in ARB as traders chased downstream gains.

The partnership gives institutions a unified system to issue, custody and manage digital assets. The offering has launched in Asia, but further expansion is planned as institutional demand grows.

[PRESS RELEASE – George Town, British Virgin Islands, September 1st, 2026] Aster, the privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, today announced the kickoff of USD1 RWA Boost: Phase 1 with World Liberty Financial (WLFI), featuring 125,000,000 $WLFI and 6,250,000 USD1 in rewards. The campaign builds on AOS-2, Aster’s earlier expansion of its Aster […]

[PRESS RELEASE – London, London, September 1st, 2026] ALKEMYA METACORE SCSp SECURES INITIAL USD 50 MILLION INVESTMENT AHEAD OF LISTING OF TOKENISED EQUITY NICKEL OFFERING Alkemya Luxembourg S.à.r.l. (“Alkemya”), the sponsor, is pleased to announce that Alkemya Metacore SCSp has secured USD 50 million in a pre-launch capital raise for its precision industrial nickel wire […]

On August 24, next-gen AI infrastructure platform B.AI hit a major milestone: cumulative token throughput across its sitewide free-access campaign officially crossed the 2 trillion threshold. The record-breaking run follows a series of aggressive, developer-first plays that have turned heads across the industry. While rising prices from leading model providers have sparked cost anxiety across […] The post 2 Trillion Tokens in 7 Days: B.AI Sparks Developer Frenzy With Accessible Compute appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Multiple crypto industry figures and CoinDesk staff received unexpected password reset emails on Tuesday, though there is no evidence yet that X itself has been breached.

The actor’s lawyers spent six months negotiating the contract for “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” in order to “protect” her performance.

Full Sail confirmed vault losses, Virtue reported 47 liquidations and Volo paused withdrawals while Sui and IOTA remained online. The post Cross-chain oracle compromise triggers liquidations and frozen vaults across multiple DeFi networks appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Here are the latest developments and most interesting updates related to Pi Network's ecosystem.

RevStealer targets more than 50 crypto wallets alongside browser passwords, cookies, messaging data and selected documents. A fake Claude desktop application is reportedly being used to distribute RevStealer, a Windows malware strain built to steal crypto, password and browser data. According to a Monday report by cybersecurity company Morphisec, RevStealer was previously distributed through GitHub repositories and game-cheat-themed sites but the most notable is a fake “Claude Opus 5 Free Desktop” project that impersonates AI developer Anthropic and promises free access to Claude. The researchers noted that the malware is designed to leave few traces and searches browser databases, cookies, password-manager records, VPN and remote-access settings, messaging data, screenshots and selected documents. RevStealer also targets over 50 cryptocurrency wallets. Read more

The protocol aims to give fintechs and investors a faster way to recover losses from DeFi hacks, while letting XRP, bitcoin and XLM holders earn yield by backing that protection.

September has historically been a poor month for risk assets in general, and bitcoin, in particular.

Banks and payment providers must investigate network indicators now, but the 100% OFSI ceiling still needs legislation. The post UK is hunting the $86 billion Russia-linked crypto pipeline as it moves to double sanctions fines appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Crypto is showing signs of life again, but its biggest wins look different from what early believers imagined. After a decade of building, has it all been worth it? Sentiment in crypto has dived lower than a snailfish in the Mariana Trench in recent months. Miners are capitulating to AI, cold wallets are getting exploited, and you can hardly fire up LinkedIn without reading another message from a newly unemployed crypto journalist searching for new opportunities. Even for an industry that’s endured nation-state bans, exchange blowups, and years of regulatory pressure, morale has rarely felt this low. With business models failing and public interest dropping, many long-term crypto fans have begun to question whether we’ve all wasted a decade of our lives on a pipe dream. Read more

The monthly close for Ethereum (ETH) has marked its first higher high since the downtrend started in August last year.

Ethena Pay offers a 6% dollar savings rate and 5% card cashback, using Avalanche for settlement.

Ripple was among the latest blockchain companies to sign a strategic partnership to build more custody and tokenized asset management solutions for Asian institutional participants. Blockchain enterprise solutions provider Ripple has partnered with digital asset infrastructure company SettleMint to offer financial institutions solutions for custody, issuance and management of tokenized assets across their full lifecycle. The strategic partnership will integrate Ripple’s institutional digital asset custody infrastructure, Ripple Custody, and SettleMint’s Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP) to offer institutions a less complex way to secure digital assets, Ripple announced on Tuesday. A day earlier, digital asset service provider Coincheck Group partnered with wallet infrastructure provider DFNS to build digital asset wallet technology and custody services in Japan. Read more

XRP holds near $1.38 as Bitwise's spot ETF tops $500M AUM. Key support at $1.35 could decide whether XRP retests $1.70 or breaks toward $2. The post XRP Targets $2 as Bitwise ETF Records 500 Million appeared first on Cryptonews.