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Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Singapore-based cross-border payments infrastructure provider Tazapay in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $400 million. The acquisition hands Circle direct access to Tazapay’s extensive payment infrastructure, banking relationships, and local payout capabilities across international markets. According to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissi

Key TakeawaysOn Sunday, September 6, 2026, self described whitehat hackers withdrew about 4,000 Bitcoin (BTC), worth roughly $320 million, from the federation wallet backing Blockstream's Liquid Network, about 95% of the sidechain's reserves of around 4,200 BTC.The attackers exploited a bug in Elements, the open source software underlying Liquid, to create L-BTC that was not backed by real Bitcoin, then pegged it out through SideSwap's peg out authorization path. Blockstream says the key itself

Key TakeawaysThe Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster published a firm target on Monday, September 7, 2026: make Ethereum's base layer resistant to quantum computing attacks across its execution, consensus and data layers by December 2029.The plan assumes Q-day, the point at which a quantum computer could break today's public key cryptography, could arrive as early as 2030, a deliberately aggressive assumption that matches migration timelines set independently by Google, Cloudflare and Microso

Key TakeawaysCronos, the Crypto.com associated layer 1 blockchain, published a post mortem on Monday, September 8, 2026 confirming that an attacker borrowed $120.4 million from lending protocol Tectonic on August 30 using manipulated collateral, in an exploit that touched roughly 46% of the chain's DeFi value.Validators halted the network and then rolled it back 10,961 blocks to the last block before the attack, erasing 1 hour and 54 minutes of transaction history and reversing about $111.2 mill

I. Macro & Market SentimentMarket Data: BTC $78,877 (-0.67%) | ETH $2,498 (-0.21%) | SOL $104 (-0.47%)Market Sentiment: Funding Rate +0.0065% | Fear & Greed Index 66 (Greed)Geopolitics & Energy: Daily vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has plunged from 88-130 to approximately 10, with Iranian crude exports down 47%. U.S. Labor Day gasoline prices reached $4.14/gallon, the highest for the holiday since 2012. Read MoreData Preview: Friday's CPI release will serve as the first stress t

The previous trading day was September 4th (Friday), and September 7th was closed for Labor Day. On that day, only the Russell 2000 rose 0.25% among the four indices, the S & P 500 closed at 7,718.60 points, down 0.38%, the Nasdaq Composite closed at 26,506.99 points, down 0.29%, and the Dow Jones Industrial closed at 53,414.25 points, down 0.51%.The star of the day is IREN, which rose 7.27% in a single day to close at $44.68. On this day, IREN did not release any company announcements, and the

Overview As Chinese cloud artificial intelligence accelerator designer Enflame officially initiates its public listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market under ticker 688801, secondary equity desks face an intense debate over capital formation multiples in indigenous compute hardware. Backed substantially by internet conglomerate Tencent, Enflame established its initial public offering price at 142.18 yuan per share across 43.035173 million ordinary shares, targeting gross proceeds of ap

Overview As a critical settlement layer connecting digital asset exchanges with Bitcoin liquidity, the Blockstream developed Liquid Network has experienced the most severe operational crisis in its history. Following an unauthorized withdrawal of roughly 4,000 Bitcoin valued at approximately $320 million from its federation reserve wallet, the sidechain initiated urgent on-chain negotiations and emergency hotfixes. Verified on-chain records confirm that the self-described white-hat actor returne

Overview United States spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded another substantial surge in institutional demand, pulling in $987 million in net weekly inflows according to asset tracking from CoinShares. This marks the third consecutive week of positive net inflows for spot exchange-traded products, bringing cumulative allocations over the period into the multi-billion-dollar range. However, this consistent capital deployment across regulated investment vehicles has diverged sharply from sp

Executive SummaryDell Technologies Inc. (NYSE:DELL) jumped roughly 8% to 10% after hours on September 1, 2026, following a fiscal second-quarter report that blew past Wall Street's expectationsThe company booked a record $60.9 billion in AI server orders during the quarter and exited with a record $95 billion AI backlog, up from $51.3 billion just three months earlierDell raised its full-year fiscal 2027 revenue guidance from $167 billion to $192 billion, nearly 70% year-over-year growth, and li