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Strive reported buying 1,355 Bitcoin between September 14 and 18. The company's September 21 SEC filing puts the average purchase price at approximately $79,475 per BTC, including fees and expenses.
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Strive reported buying 1,355 Bitcoin between September 14 and 18. The company's September 21 SEC filing puts the average purchase price at approximately $79,475 per BTC, including fees and expenses.
21Shares filed an amended S-1 for its Injective ETF with the SEC. The preliminary prospectus names the proposed Nasdaq ticker TINJ, the FTSE Injective Index and discretionary staking subject to legal conditions; the fund is not yet available for sale.
Aave V4 launched on Circle's Arc network with USDC, EURC, cirBTC and WETH. Its initial USDC capacity filled within hours as total deposits in the Arc Core Hub reached about $57.6 million.
Hunter Biden announced $LAPTOP, due on Base on 9 September. The announcement carries no contract address, website or launch venue, and Biden has not published the tokenomics himself. The first copycat carrying the same name appeared roughly a minute before the story broke; 22 more pools followed over the next 53 minutes, and at least 14 distinct tokens traded $6.9 million between them. With no official address, none of them can be the announced token.
According to Decrypt, Polymarket opened its perpetual futures product on 3 September 2026, with leverage up to 20x depending on the asset class and orders barred from the United States. This piece rests on a second-hand report; the company's own announcement could not be reached.
Seven G7 national cyber security agencies, together with the EU Commission, published a joint statement on migrating to post-quantum cryptography. The text is about public key cryptography; cryptocurrencies are relevant not because they are named in it but because they rest on the same mathematics. We set out the difference and why it matters.
Issuing a share as a token does not stop it being a security. A statement by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce dated 9 July 2025 says so plainly, and draws a line between a token issued by the company itself and one issued by a third party. We set out what the statement says.
On 18 August 2026 the SEC announced a proposed framework for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets, with two registration exemptions: up to $5 million over four years and up to $75 million every 12 months. We set out what the text is, and what it is not yet.
On 24 August 2026 Ethereum Foundation teams asked developers to test: the gas cost changes in the planned Glamsterdam upgrade can break contracts that rely on hardcoded gas assumptions. We set out what the announcement says and what it does not.
On 28 August 2026 Circle announced a principal partnership and front-of-shirt sponsorship with Chelsea; the USDC brand will appear on the men's, women's and academy shirts for 2026/27. We set out the scope of the announcement and the conclusions it does not support.