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In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, Polymarket pursued a $1 billion funding round at a proposed $21 billion valuation, while Cronos reversed its blockchain after a $75 million exploit. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs also posted their strongest daily…
The brokerage that brought zero-fee trading to millions just did the same thing to Layer 2. In 60 days, Robinhood Chain has gone from launch to $791 million in TVL, flipped Base in daily active users, and is now generating…
Zcash crossed the four-digit barrier for the first time on Sept. 4, 2026, riding a spot ETF, a closed SEC probe, and a hard money thesis that sounds a lot like Bitcoin. The question is no longer whether privacy coins…
A memecoin launchpad on Robinhood Chain is quietly outearning Solana’s biggest token factory. The fees are real, the volume is accelerating, and the gap is widening every day. A memecoin launchpad nobody outside of onchain circles talks about is printing…
Adam Aron discovered that Robinhood had tokenized AMC stock on its own blockchain without telling anyone at AMC. His reaction set off a corporate brawl that exposed the biggest unresolved question in tokenized finance: who gets to decide what happens…
Anthropic has reportedly pushed its IPO prospectus to late September and its investor roadshow to mid-October, while some investors have placed the potential listing valuation as high as $2 trillion. Anthropic IPO timetable moves closer to US elections Reuters reported…
Connecticut has issued a warning about unregulated offshore DeFi exchanges after a resident lost access to $200,000 deposited following a deceptive solicitation. The Connecticut Attorney General’s Office said on Sept. 3 that a person claiming to know the resident persuaded…
Southeast Asia’s blockchain companies have raised $680 million in 2026, more than double the total for last year, even as the number of completed funding rounds has fallen sharply. According to a new report from market intelligence platform Tracxn, funding…
Coinbase has added six tokenized equities, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla, to Base after its first batch generated $227.7 million in decentralized exchange volume within about 30 days. Base said on Sept. 4 that Amazon (AMZNc), Microsoft (MSFTc), Strategy (MSTRc),…
U.S. President Donald Trump has renewed his demand for lower interest rates and threatened to halt trade with deficit countries after employers added 162,000 jobs in August. US jobs growth has exceeded forecasts The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported…
Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor has defended Americans’ ability to advocate for Bitcoin without a license, while separating public recommendations from fraud and market manipulation. According to a Sept. 4 X post, Saylor argued that discussing Bitcoin, advocating for its…
The tokenized real-world asset market has reached $34.6 billion onchain, but only $3.79 billion has been deployed in protocols, leaving about 89% of issued value idle. DefiLlama data shows a sharp difference between the value of tokenized assets issued onchain…
