Bitcoin
The Fed might hike in September. Here is what that does to every crypto thesis.
CME FedWatch odds for a September rate hike have surged past 66% after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole speech and oil prices driven above…
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Chainlink
Cronos rolled back its own chain to undo a $75 million hack. that should terrify you.
Cronos validators erased 10,000 blocks to reverse the Tectonic exploit, saving $69 million in frozen assets while sparking a fierce debate about whether a blockchain that…
DeFi
Pi Network targets September 15 for Protocol 27 and the DEX that will decide if 30 million users matter
Protocol 26 is complete. Protocol 27, the final infrastructure upgrade in Pi Network’s current roadmap, is on testnet with a September 15 mainnet target. The decentralized…
ETF
Ripple opened a Wall Street equities desk and XRP is barely in the announcement
Ripple Prime launched a Delta One desk on Aug. 27 that lets hedge funds trade Apple, the S&P 500, and U.S. Treasuries through total return swaps…
CFTC
The Clarity Act has 14 working days to become law or crypto regulation dies for two years
The United States Senate returns from its August recess on September 14 with exactly 14 working days to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before…
Bitcoin
Russia legalized crypto trading and launched the digital ruble on the same day, and the contradictions are already showing
On Sept. 1, 2026, Russia flipped three switches at once. Federal Law 282-FZ brought bitcoin, ether, and USDT into a regulated market under the Bank of…
altcoins
Pi Network ships a DEX while the market looks away
Protocol 26 tightened the smart contract layer, Protocol 27 is bringing automated market making to testnet, and a decentralized exchange is planned for September; the token…
DeFi
XRP had its best month since the SEC settlement and the network is about to change underneath it
XRP rallied 37% in August on a wave of record ETF inflows. The market is pricing momentum. It is not pricing the Sept. 11 mainnet upgrade…
CFTC
Polymarket hit $1 billion in revenue and now 20 states want to shut it down
A prediction market that went from zero revenue to a billion dollar run rate in six months is signing deals with major sports leagues while state…
DeFi
Robinhood Chain hit $945M in daily DEX volume and nobody on crypto Twitter noticed
A two-month-old Layer 2 built by a stock brokerage is now processing more daily decentralized exchange volume than chains that have existed for years, and the…