Hunter Biden defends LAPTOP ahead of Wednesday launch, calls TRUMP a ‘grift’
Biden says the token is about “resilience, redemption and recovery” and will give coins to nearly one million wallets that lost money on TRUMP. Source：CoinDesk
Moonshot’s Kimi rattled markets. U.S. agencies now say it was trained on American models
Moonshot, whose Kimi model rattled markets earlier this year, is among six Chinese AI firms accused of systematically extracting capabilities from U.S. models.…
Copper CEO Amar Kuchinad departs as search for a buyer enters a fourth month
Kuchinad, the CEO of cryptocurrency custody firm Copper since 2024, has left the company, according to two people familiar with the matter. Source：CoinDesk
Circle agrees to buy cross-border payments firm Tazapay for $400 million
The deal could grant Circle vital, regulated "lastmile" infrastructure, bridging the gap between stablecoins and traditional local banking systems.…
Strive’s SATA nears $1 billion market cap as Strategy’s STRC continues to underperform
SATA’s 13% annualised dividend and resilience around par are helping Strive raise capital and outperform Strategy. Source：CoinDesk
Visa combines VisaNet data with onchain lending to power stablecoin card working capital
Visa's stablecoin settlement volume surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate, up 15x year over year. Now it wants blockchain lenders to use that data to…
Bitcoin rally has more room as volatility shorts unwind, Two Prime CEO says
Alexander Blume said subdued funding rates and continued call selling suggest the rebound is not yet being driven by excessive speculation. Source：CoinDesk
Bitcoin’s complexity paradox: How layer-2 scalers became AI's main target
A string of incidents involving Coldcard, Lightning and Liquid highlights how AI is changing the economics of finding bugs in bitcoin infrastructure.…
Bitcoin ETFs are still $1 billion shy of breaking even in 2026
Your dayahead look for Sept. 8, 2026 Source：CoinDesk
Cronos executes controversial blockchain rollback to recover crypto worth $111 million
Validators rolled back nearly two hours of blockchain history to recover user assets. But the attackers still managed to get away with $9.19 million before…
Stablecoins could save South Korean merchants up to $3.8 billion a year, budget office says
South Korea’s budget office warned that stablecoin adoption could reduce banks' roles as credit intermediaries and potentially destabilize token pegs during…
Tracking cocoa may be just the beginning for PwC, Merck, Hashgraph provenance system
The firms say their combination of physical authentication, digital traceability and enterprise process design has no precedent in supply chains, and cocoa is…