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Bit2Me Creates Dedicated Unit to Help Law Enforcement Track Crypto Assets

Brazilian Banks Sell Crypto to Retail Clients as Regulation Takes Hold

Jobs Report Fails to Shift Fed Rate Hike Expectations, Crypto Markets Brace

CLARITY Act Likely Dead Before Senate Vote, Former Prosecutor Reports

Polish Prosecutors Charge Fifth Suspect in Zondacrypto Fraud Case

Stablecoin Wallets Are Gunning for Your Bank Account. Here Is What They Still Cannot Do.

1win Adds USDC Support on Solana, Expands Web3 Initiatives

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Zcash Rally Shows Exhaustion Signals as Analysts Flag 50% Correction Risk
Zcash has staged one of the strongest altcoin rallies of the current market cycle, but two emerging technical signals are raising alarms that the move may be running out of steam, with analysts placing potential downside at 50% from recent highs.

Jobs Report Fails to Shift Fed Rate Hike Expectations, Crypto Markets Brace
Friday's U.S. jobs report failed to materially shift Federal Reserve rate hike expectations, leaving crypto markets in continued uncertainty. The Fed's focus on inflation over employment suggests the next Consumer Price Index print, not payrolls data, will drive market direction.

Stablecoin Wallets Are Gunning for Your Bank Account. Here Is What They Still Cannot Do.
Stablecoin wallets are moving from crypto curiosity to genuine challenger for traditional bank accounts, offering faster settlement and lower fees. But they lack FDIC insurance, credit products, and the full financial infrastructure banks provide. For specific use cases like remittances and...

1win Adds USDC Support on Solana, Expands Web3 Initiatives
1win announced USDC support via Solana, offering near-instant settlement at minimal cost. The move aligns with broader adoption of stablecoin payment rails in gaming and betting platforms seeking fast, cheap settlement layers.
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Bit2Me Creates Dedicated Unit to Help Law Enforcement Track Crypto Assets
Spain's Bit2Me has established a specialized internal unit focused on assisting law enforcement agencies with tracing and recovering cryptocurrency assets, marking a formalization of investigative support as regulatory pressure on exchanges intensifies.

Brazilian Banks Sell Crypto to Retail Clients as Regulation Takes Hold
Three of Brazil's largest banks are offering cryptocurrency directly to retail customers, marking a shift toward institutional adoption. The expansion is enabled by Brazil's Virtual Assets Law and regulatory framework, though the banks themselves avoid balance sheet exposure.

CLARITY Act Likely Dead Before Senate Vote, Former Prosecutor Reports
The CLARITY Act is unlikely to survive its September 15 Senate cloture vote, according to former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, who gathered assessments from lawmakers and congressional staff in Washington this week.

Polish Prosecutors Charge Fifth Suspect in Zondacrypto Fraud Case
Polish prosecutors have charged a fifth suspect in the Zondacrypto investigation, alleging organized crime and misappropriation offenses involving approximately $2.1 million in user funds. Prosecutors are seeking pretrial detention as the probe expands.
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.

Mystery AI Model Ox Alpha Beats Claude Fable on Benchmarks, Creators Unknown
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
Inception Labs released Mercury 2, an AI model that outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma while preserving model intelligence during the shift from sequential to parallel processing. The development marks a significant architectural transition in the post-autoregressive era.

Quantinuum Surges 13% on Nasdaq IPO Debut, Raising $1.68B
Quantinuum's shares opened at $68 on their first day of trading on Nasdaq, a 13% jump from the $60 IPO price, raising $1.68 billion in total proceeds and valuing the quantum computing company at approximately $17.63 billion market capitalization.
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