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Disclosure: This content is provided by a third party. Neither crypto.news nor the author of this article endorses any product mentioned on this page. Users should conduct their own research before taking any action related to the company. Summary XRP rose 9.4% to $1.46 after holding $1.36 support and breaking above a short-term downtrend. Resistance between $1.50 and $1.80 remains the main barrier to further gains. September catalysts include an XRPL upgrade, a CLARITY Act vote and the Federal Reserve’s rate decision. ASDeFi promotes fixed-return cloud-mining contracts, but its earnings and operational claims require independent verification. XRP rebounds strongly after…

Bitcoin price pulled back after briefly breaking above $82,000 on Sept. 4, as traders took profits following a short squeeze driven by softer Federal Reserve expectations and renewed demand for US spot Bitcoin ETFs. Summary Bitcoin price retreated toward $81,150 after reaching an intraday high above $82,000. The 4-hour RSI reached 67.3, while the upper Bollinger Band stood near $82,034. US spot Bitcoin ETFs reportedly attracted $730.8 million in net inflows on Sept. 3. Liquidation clusters sit near $82,000 above price and between $79,800 and $80,300 below it. Bitcoin price pulls back after testing $82,000 According to data from crypto.news,…

South Korea has laid out a three-stage plan to bring stocks, bonds and funds onto tokenized infrastructure, with the final phase set to connect securities settlement to stablecoin-based onchain payments. Summary South Korea will begin expanding tokenized securities in February 2027, starting with selected funds, bonds, unlisted stocks and fractional investment products. The second phase will open tokenization to all publicly offered securities, while the final stage will introduce onchain payment infrastructure linked to stablecoins. Existing licensed financial firms will be allowed to handle tokenized securities under their current licenses, while qualifying issuers can manage their own securities accounts. Retail…

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have recorded $730.9 million in net inflows in their strongest single trading session since mid-January, led by more than $450 million entering BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust. Summary U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $731 million in net inflows on Sept. 3, their strongest single trading day since January. BlackRock’s IBIT led the session with $454 million, followed by $138 million for ARKB and roughly $74 million for Fidelity’s FBTC. Combined Bitcoin ETF net assets reached $103.34 billion, equal to just over 6% of Bitcoin’s market capitalization. The inflows followed a $236 million withdrawal on Sept. 1, when…

SoFi Technologies and Kraken parent Payward announced a partnership on Sept. 3 connecting SoFi’s banking and dollar-settlement services with Kraken’s digital asset trading infrastructure. Summary Payward will join SoFi’s real-time settlement network, enabling round-the-clock U.S. dollar transfers for institutional clients. Kraken will list SoFiUSD, extending access to SoFi’s dollar-redeemable bank-issued stablecoin across its trading platform. SoFi will route digital asset orders through Kraken Prime as an additional source of liquidity. Qualified custody may follow as the partnership expands, but neither company provided a deployment timetable. SOFI closed near $18.51 after rising 3.7%, without evidence attributing gains solely to partnership news.…

Hargreaves Lansdown opened access to nine Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded notes on Sept. 3, bringing regulated cryptocurrency exposure to eligible users of the United Kingdom’s largest retail investment platform. Summary Hargreaves Lansdown added nine Bitcoin and Ether ETNs for eligible users through Advanced Investing service. Approximately two million platform clients may access products after successfully completing required investor protection checks. Investors must self-certify, pass an appropriateness assessment, and complete a 24-hour cooling-off period before access. The FCA reopened eligible crypto ETNs to retail investors in October 2025 under safeguards nationally. Crypto ETNs track asset prices without giving investors direct ownership…

Coinbase has filed two SEC notice registrations dated Sept. 1 as it works to bring single-stock perpetual contracts to the United States through its regulated derivatives exchange and brokerage. Summary Coinbase Derivatives filed Form 1-N to register as a security futures exchange. Coinbase Financial Markets submitted Form BD-N as a limited-purpose security futures broker-dealer. The filings do not provide a launch date, a list of supported stocks, or proposed leverage limits. Single-stock futures fall under the joint oversight of the SEC and CFTC. Coinbase said in a Sep. 3 post on X that it is working to offer single-stock perpetual…

Paxos-issued USDG has launched natively on Mantle, adding the Ethereum layer-2 network to a stablecoin coalition with more than 150 partners. Summary USDG can now be minted directly on Mantle and used for DeFi liquidity and institutional settlement. Mantle has joined the Global Dollar Network and can share in rewards generated by USDG activity. USDG had about $3.18 billion in circulation, ranking seventh among stablecoins tracked by DefiLlama. Mantle’s distributed RWA value reached $234.2 million after rising 19% over 30 days. USDG brings native stablecoin issuance to Mantle Global Dollar Network said in its announcement on Sept. 3 that USDG…

BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo has supplied £4 million ($5.4 million), or about 75%, of the £5.3 million raised by Reform UK during the second quarter of 2026. Summary Ben Delo gave Reform UK £4 million through two donations made in April. Delo’s contributions accounted for about 75% of the party’s second-quarter funding. Reform UK raised more than Labour and the Conservatives from April through June. President Donald Trump pardoned Delo and two other BitMEX co-founders in March 2025. Ben Delo supplied most of Reform UK’s Q2 funding Electoral Commission records published on Sept. 3 showed that Delo made two cash…

U.S. lawmakers have proposed permanently banning artificial superintelligence, pausing advanced AI development, and imposing prison terms of up to 20 years for violations. Summary The proposal would ban AI systems matching or exceeding human ability across many tasks. Advanced AI work would pause until a new federal regulator establishes safety and review rules. Individuals could face 20 years in prison, while companies could receive a “corporate death penalty.” The proposal arrived as OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra and acknowledged growing monitoring problems. Sanders’ office said on Sept. 3 that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, had announced the…