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Crypto News

• Michael Saylor & other crypto executives to meet US lawmakers on September 16th; to push strategic Bitcoin $BTC reserve bill.

• Ethereum $ETH Foundation forms dAI team led by Davide Crapis; to focus on the AI economy on Ethereum & decentralized AI stack.

• Ethereum $ETH Foundation's Privacy & Scaling Explorations team rebrands to Privacy Stewards of Ethereum; releases roadmap.

• ⭐️ Native Markets wins $HYPE Hyperliquid $USDH stablecoin bid; to deploy USDH HIP-1 & its ERC-20 in the coming days.

• Monero $XMR suffers 18-block rereorganization due to Qubic’s “selfish mining” tactics; 117–118 transactions over ~40 minutes were invalidated.

• REX Shares-Osprey Ripple $XRP ETF & Dogecoin $DOGE ETF expected to list on September 18th; Bloomberg ETF analysts Eric Balchunas & James Seyffart caution nothing is certain.

• Digital Asset Investment Products saw $3.3B in inflows last week; Bitcoin $BTC ~$2.4B inflows, Ethereum $ETH ~$646M inflows, Solana $SOL ~$198M inflows, Ripple $XRP ~$33M inflows.

• MoonPay acquires Meso, a payments startup, for an undisclosed amount: Ali Aghareza & Ben Mills to join MoonPay team as new CTO and SVP of Product.

• Polkadot $DOT DAO passes Referendum 1710 proposal capping supply at 2.1B; to replace current unlimited issuance model.

Alpha

• USD (stablecoin) Farms by Olimpio.

• ⭐️ Base begins to explore the launch of a network token; currently in the early phases of exploration, no specifics regarding timing, design, or governance.

• MetaMask launches MetaMask USD $mUSD stablecoin; offers liquidity incentives on Linea $LINEA.

• OpenSea launches final pre-TGE phase of Rewards; claim a Treasure Chest & level it up to unlock rewards.

• Polymarket files form with US SEC showing "other warrants" offered in latest raise, typically used to mean tokens; to potentially launch token soon.

Airdrops

• Airdrops, Checkers, & Points by Olimpio.

• Boundless launches $ZKC airdrop claim; provers, open source contributors, & more are eligible.

• OpenEden to launch $EDEN TGE & airdrop at the end of September; Bill campaign snapshot taken on September 15th.

• ⭐️ Lombard to launch $BARD tokenomics & airdrop checker on September 16th; to launch airdrop claim on September 18th.

• ICYMI Aster launches $ASTER airdrop eligibility & allocation checker; Rh & Au points holders, Gems holders, & loyalty points holders are eligible; claim on September 17th.

Finance News

• ⭐️ US Appeals Court rules President Trump can NOT fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook before FOMC meeting this week.

• US Treasury Secretary Bessent says next round of US-China trade talks could result in another 90-day tariff pause; would be the third straight pause for a total of 270 days.

• US President Trump says companies will no longer be required to report earnings quarterly, but instead every six months; subject to SEC approval.

• US SEC Chair Paul Atkins says they will start issuing warnings before taking aggressive enforcement actions against companies.

• US SEC & Gemini $GEMI reach 'resolution in principle' over lawsuit involving Gemini Earn; subject to SEC approval.

• Strategy $MSTR buys 525 Bitcoin $BTC for ~$60.2M at ~$114,562 per BTC; now holds 638,985 BTC (~$73.7B) acquired for ~$47.23B at ~$73,913 per BTC.

• Strive $ASST announces Board of Directors & initial Bitcoin $BTC strategy details; announces $950 million in capital initiatives.

• Bitmine $BMNR buys ~82,233 Ethereum $ETH; now holds 2,151,676 ETH (~$9.7B) acquired for $4,632 per ETH.

• Forward Industries $FORD buys 6.82M Solana $SOL for ~$1.58B at ~$232 per SOL; recently raised $1.65B led by Galaxy Digital, Jump Crypto, & Multicoin Capital.

• Helius Medical Technologies $HSDT announces $500M PIPE led by Pantera Capital & Summer Capital; to launch a Solana $SOL treasury company.

• Gold $XAU reaches new all-time high of ~$3.68K; up ~40% year to date.

• PayPal $PYPL launches PayPal Links, a way to send & receive money through a personalized one-time link; to launch crypto support soon.

Security and Exploits

• ⭐️ Sybil claims ~$4M from Avantis $AVNT airdrop; the sybil attack was coordinated & spread across 300+ addresses.

• Shibarium $SHIB $BONE bridge drained for ~$2.4M after flash loan attack; attacker also gained access to 10 of 12 validator signing keys.

• Tether assists Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in recovering ~460,000 $USDT connected to sophisticated investment fraud scheme.

Token Unlocks

• Starknet $STRK / ~$17M / SEP 15th
• Arbitrum $ARB / ~$46M / SEP 16th
• ZKsync $ZK / ~$10M / SEP 17th
• ApeCoin $APE / ~$10M / SEP 17th
Sourced from Tokenomist

Funding

• Shift raises an undisclosed amount in Seed funding led by SNZ Holding.

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