Circle Invests in Hyperliquid

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Crypto News

• Michael Saylor & other crypto executives meet US lawmakers to push strategic Bitcoin $BTC reserve bill.

• US SEC approves generic listing standard for commodity-based trust shares on the Nasdaq, CBOE, & NYSE; streamlines the approval process for crypto exchange-traded products.

• US SEC approves Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund for trading; includes Bitcoin $BTC, Ethereum $ETH, Ripple $XRP, Solana $SOL, & Cardano $ADA.

• ⭐️ Binance $BNB in talks with US DOJ to remove compliance monitor; the three-year monitorship was mandated as past of its plea deal with the DOJ in 2023; DOJ may seek enhanced compliance reporting instead.

• CME Group to launch options on Solana $SOL & Ripple $XRP futures on October 13th; pending regulatory review.

• ⭐️ Circle $CRCL invests in Hyperliquid $HYPE; launches native $USDC & CCTP V2 on HyperEVM; to potentially become a Hyperliquid Validator.

• Kraken & Circle $CRCL partner to "accelerate global access and utility of $USDC & $EURC"; Kraken users to gain access to increased liquidity, reduced conversion fees, & more.

• Kalshi launches Kalshi Ecosystem, a hub to support builders, traders, & creators; partners with Base & Solana $SOL, offering dedicated grants.

• EigenCloud $EIGEN partners with Google as a launch partner for its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2); EigenCloud to provide verifiability infrastructure that ensures AI agents are held accountable by any counterparty.

Alpha

• ⭐️ Nansen teases "Next week. Subscribe. Stake. Points." on X; Nansen Points Season 1 to end at the end of September; to potentially launch Season 2.

• Jumper launches Jumper Perks batch 3; partners include Earndrop, Nansen, NordVPN, & Airalo; level up your Jumper Pass for access.

• Socket announces Socket Surge, an "initiative to showcase the power of the SOCKET protocol..."; to launch Chain On Top, a chain-abstracted social strategy game, soon.

• Rainbow teases "rainbow season is loading..." on X; to launch Rewards Phase 3 soon.

• Human Passport launches MetaMask OG campaign round 2; eligible users can claim 1,000 HUMN Points.

• ICYMI USD (stablecoin) Farms by Olimpio.

Airdrops

• ⭐️ Aster launches $ASTER airdrop claim; Rh & Au points holders, Gems holders, & loyalty points holders are eligible.

• ⭐️ Lombard launches $BARD airdrop eligibility & allocation checker; Lux (points) holders are eligible; claim on September 18th.

• Binance launches Lombard $BARD HODLer airdrop; BNB Simple Earn and/or BNB On-Chain Yields subscribers from September 9th to September 12th are eligible.

• 0G Labs launches 0G airdrop registration; Galxe/Intract participants, Discord community members, & One Gravity NFT holders are eligible; registration closes on September 21st.

• Anoma launches Anoma airdrop registration; testnet participants, Discord community members, & Shrimpers NFT holders are eligible; registration closes on September 22nd.

• Binance launches Avantis $AVNT HODLer airdrop; BNB Simple Earn and/or BNB On-Chain Yields subscribers from September 6th to September 8th are eligible.

• ICYMI Airdrops, Checkers, & Points by Olimpio.

Finance News

• ⭐️ US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by 25 basis points to 4%-4.25%; cites weak labor market.

• China bans domestic companies from buying Nvidia $NVDA AI chips; promotes alternatives from local manufacturers.

• Google $GOOG announces Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an "open, shared protocol that provides a common language for secure, compliant transactions between agents and merchants."

• •Metaplanet $3350.T launches Metaplanet Income Corp, a US subsidiary to scale Bitcoin $BTC income & derivatives operations; holds 20,136 BTC (~$2.3B).

• Sharplink $SBET rebuys 1M shares as part of its $1.5B buyback program; currently holds 838,152 Ethereum $ETH (~$3.8B).

• The Ether Machine files to go public via merger with Dynamix $ETHM; holds 495,362 Ethereum $ETH (~$2.3B).

• Forward Industries $FORD to raise up to $4B via ATM equity offering program; proceeds to fund its Solana $SOL strategy, working capital, & other growth initiatives; currently holds ~6.82M SOL (~$1.6B).

• DeFi Dev Corp $DFDV buys an additional 62,745 Solana $SOL (~$15M); now holds 2,095,748 SOL (~$501M).

• Ark Invest $ARKK $ARKW buys 161,183 shares of Bullish $BLSH (~$8.3M); Bullish also just secured a New York BitLicense.

• CleanCore $ZONE buys 100M Dogecoin $DOGE (~$28M); now holds ~600M DOGE (~$169M)

• Thumzup $TZUP buys 7.5M Dogecoin $DOGE (~$2.1M); recently announced plans to set up 3,500 Dogecoin mining rigs by year’s end through its acquisition of Dogehash.

Security and Exploits

• Apple $AAPL releases security update for older Apple devices; patches actively exploited zero-day vulnerability; recently released security update patching the same vulnerability for newer Apple devices in August.

• Google removes 224 malicious Android apps from the Google Play Store; apps were used to generate 2.3B ad requests per day.

• Ethereum $ETH Foundation launches Fusaka security audit contest; offers up to $2M in rewards & runs from September 15th through October 13th.

• Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, announces PearPass is releasing soon; PearPass is local & private password manager.

Token Unlocks

• Arbitrum $ARB / ~$46M / SEP 16th
• ZKsync $ZK / ~$10M / SEP 17th
• ApeCoin $APE / ~$9M / SEP 17th
• Lista $LISTA / ~$9M / SEP 20th
• LayerZero $ZRO / ~$51M / SEP 20th
• Kaito $KAITO / ~$10M / SEP 20th
Sourced from Tokenomist

Funding

• Kredete raises $22M in Series A funding led by AfricInvest.

• Stablecore raises $20M in funding led by Norwest.

• Mavryk raises $10M in Strategic funding led by MultiBank Group.

• Openverse raises $8M in Series B funding from several investors.

• $BIO Protocol raises $6.9M in Seed funding led by Maelstrom.

• Senpi raises $4M in Seed funding led by Lemniscap.

• Alloca raises $2.5M in funding from several investors.

• Superform raises $1.42M in Community funding on Echo.

• Epoch Protocol raises $1.2M in Pre-Seed funding from several investors.

• Beezie raises an undisclosed amount in Strategic funding led by Moonrock Capital.

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