Coinbase Surges 10% on Stock Perpetual Futures Filing as CFTC Moves to Dismiss CME Lawsuit
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Crypto Trading Terminals Hit $1B Daily Volume for First Time Since January 2025
Coinbase Files SEC Notices to Launch 24/7 Single-Stock Perpetuals in U.S.
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Bybit Pay Integrates With Mesh, Opening Direct Crypto Spending to 80 Million Users
Bitget in Advanced Talks With BlackRock and Wall Street Giants to Expand Asian Distribution
Senate Sets September 15 Cloture Vote on CLARITY Act, but House Schedule Threatens Timeline
SoFi and Kraken Team Up as Crypto Exchanges and Banks Converge
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Bybit Pay Integrates With Mesh, Opening Direct Crypto Spending to 80 Million Users
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Bitcoin Correlation With Gold Hits Six-Year High as Dollar Confidence Wavers
Bitcoin's correlation with gold has reached its highest level since 2020, signaling a shift toward macro-driven safe-haven positioning. The surge follows Treasury Secretary Bessent's bond market intervention and reflects investor concerns about dollar stability.
Crypto Trading Terminals Hit $1B Daily Volume for First Time Since January 2025
$1 billion in daily volume. Crypto trading terminals crossed that threshold on September 2, 2026, the first time in roughly 20 months. GMGN captured 50% of that volume, with 91% settling on Robinhood Chain, signaling a shift in settlement preferences away from Solana.
Bybit Pay Integrates With Mesh, Opening Direct Crypto Spending to 80 Million Users
Bybit Pay has integrated with Mesh, enabling 80 million registered users to spend digital assets directly from their exchange balances without withdrawals. The integration removes friction from crypto payments by eliminating wallet transfers and confirmation delays, following a pattern set by...
Bitget in Advanced Talks With BlackRock and Wall Street Giants to Expand Asian Distribution
Bitget is in advanced discussions with BlackRock and major Wall Street institutions to expand distribution of tokenized assets across Asian financial markets, signaling potential acceleration in institutional crypto infrastructure buildout.
Regulation
Coinbase Surges 10% on Stock Perpetual Futures Filing as CFTC Moves to Dismiss CME Lawsuit
Coinbase Global surged 10.14% to $192.70 on Thursday following SEC filings for stock perpetual futures operations and a CFTC motion to dismiss CME Group's lawsuit challenging crypto derivatives legality.
Coinbase Files SEC Notices to Launch 24/7 Single-Stock Perpetuals in U.S.
Coinbase filed SEC notices this week to bring 24/7 single-stock perpetuals to the U.S. market, targeting products already available internationally on Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia. The dual SEC-CFTC regulatory pathway could take several months to over a year for approval.
BitMEX Co-Founder Ben Delo Bankrolls 75% of Reform UK Donations in Q2 2026
Ben Delo, BitMEX co-founder, bankrolled 75% of Reform UK's Q2 2026 donations, extending a pattern of crypto-industry dominance in the party's fundraising. The concentration raises questions about regulatory influence and political access.
Senate Sets September 15 Cloture Vote on CLARITY Act, but House Schedule Threatens Timeline
The U.S. Senate will hold a procedural vote on the CLARITY Act on September 15, advancing crypto regulatory legislation. However, the House has cancelled sessions for the second half of September, creating a timeline obstacle that could delay House passage into October or beyond.
DeFi
Nomura's Laser Digital Taps Keyring Network for Compliant DeFi Fixed Income on Euler
Nomura's crypto subsidiary Laser Digital has partnered with Keyring Network to launch institutional-grade fixed income markets on Euler Finance, positioning the Japanese banking giant as one of the first major traditional finance names to target DeFi lending infrastructure directly.
Ethena Adds Equities and Commodities to USDe Basis Trade, Closes HIP-3 Market on Hyperliquid
Ethena is broadening the collateral strategy underpinning its USDe stablecoin to include equity perpetuals and commodities, while simultaneously shutting down its HIP-3 market on Hyperliquid and overhauling ENA tokenomics in what the protocol is framing as a push to reignite growth.
Bullish Commits $100M to USD.AI for GPU-Backed Loan Products
Bullish has committed $100 million in financing to USD.AI, a lending platform using GPU hardware as collateral for digital asset loans. The deal marks a major institutional bet on computational assets as a DeFi lending primitive, following broader adoption of real-world asset lending.
Virtu and Tradeweb Complete First Onchain Repo Trade Using Marshall Islands Digital Bond
Virtu Financial and Tradeweb have executed what appears to be the first onchain repurchase agreement using a sovereign digital bond as collateral, completing the full transaction cycle in under 10 minutes on the Canton Network.
Technology
Nvidia Earnings Beat and $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Push Nasdaq Futures Up 1.1%
Nvidia stock jumped 7% in premarket trading Thursday after posting an earnings beat and announcing a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. Nasdaq futures climbed 1.1% on the news, arriving ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.
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A new AI model called Ox Alpha has surfaced with no identifiable creators, a free price tag, and benchmark scores that outperform Anthropic's Claude Fable. The model ships with a 1 million token context window, accepts video as input, and is available at no cost.
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown
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Quantinuum Surges 13% on Nasdaq IPO Debut, Raising $1.68B
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