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Binance announced the addition of 牛来 for spot trading at 2:30 p.m. UTC today. The listing will carry a Seed Tag, which Binance uses for tokens that may have higher volatility and risk than other listed tokens.

Bank of America Securities upgraded its rating on blockchain-based online lending platform Figure to neutral from underperform and raised its price target to $49 from $31, Crypto Briefing reported. The move reflects rapid growth in Figure’s consumer lending transaction volume. Its second-quarter consumer lending marketplace volume reached $4.3 billion, up 132% from a year earlier, with Figure Connect, which links lenders and funding providers, accounting for $2.8 billion.

U.S. Bank said it completed a pilot cross-border transfer between its North American and European entities using its dollar-pegged stablecoin, USBDC. The transaction was carried out on the Stellar (XLM) blockchain, and the bank tested USBDC issuance and redemption, as well as freeze and clawback functions. U.S. Bank is also reviewing ways to expand its use of blockchain for institutional operations, including liquidity management, collateral transfers and cross-border treasury management.

Jiang Zhuoer, founder of mining pool BTC.top and a figure with Chinese roots, said BTC could climb to $83,000-$84,000 before correcting to $72,000. Jiang said BTC was still moving within an upward channel and a correction would come afterward. He added that if $82,300 marks the pre-correction high, the pullback is likely to last a long time and be followed by frustrating sideways trading with wide price swings.

Upbit announced the resumption of withdrawal services for The Sandbox’s SAND. Deposits will not resume following its designation for the delisting watchlist.

Charles Schwab holds $1,011,417 worth of Grayscale XRP Trust ETF shares as collateral assets through multiple affiliated funds, The Crypto Basic reported, citing a U.S. SEC filing. In a separate SEC filing, digital asset manager Cyber Hornets’ S&P 500 & XRP 75/25 Strategy ETF showed XRP as its largest holding at 22.5%, ahead of Nvidia at 6.1% and Apple at 5.2%. The ETF invests in both XRP and the S&P 500.

A Hyperliquid user account was compromised through unauthorized access, with about 738,600 USDC drained and an additional 10,287 HYPE unstaked. Some of the unstaked assets were transferred to an address believed to be linked to Bitget.

Bitcoin’s spent output profit ratio, or SOPR, has remained above the breakeven level of one for three straight weeks, marking its longest bullish stretch of 2026. SOPR is a widely used on-chain indicator that measures whether coins transacted on the Bitcoin blockchain were sold at a profit or at a loss. According to CryptoQuant data, the metric has stayed at one or higher since Aug. 19 and was at 1.002 at the time of writing. That indicates most Bitcoin moving on-chain is being transacted in profit territory. Checkonchain, an on-chain analytics tool, said the structure of short-term holder SOPR is starting to resemble the early stages of a bull-market recovery rather than the sell-after-bounce pattern typically seen in short-lived bear-market rebounds.

Osmosis said an nBTC double-spend exploit occurred on Nomic, a proof-of-stake network that supports Bitcoin transfers to other blockchains. According to Osmosis, 39.84 nBTC tied to the exploit was included in Alloyed BTC, accounting for about 36% of that asset’s collateral. Osmosis halted deposits and withdrawals for Nomic and Alloyed BTC and froze 22.65 BTC in the attacker’s address. The platform plans to propose to governance a measure to cover the shortfall through confiscating the assets and deploying BTC from the community pool. Osmosis added that neither it nor Inter-Blockchain Communication, or IBC, was compromised, and the vulnerability stemmed from Nomic’s native transfer function.

DeFi lending protocol Aave has launched an official MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets AI tools including ChatGPT and Claude access Aave’s real-time data and prepare information needed for trades, The Block reported. The AI tools can pull protocol information from Aave V3 and V4 and structure transaction details, but users must still provide the final signature to approve any trade.

The spot CVD chart is an order-book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper panel shows the Volume Heatmap, while the lower panel shows cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The upper volume heatmap tracks trading volume at each price level. The background becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move. Brighter zones may act as support or resistance. - The lower cumulative volume delta indicator reflects buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the corresponding colored line rises. The yellow line is based on orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line is based on large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

Web3 project PinGo said it recently suffered another cyberattack, with some of the stolen tokens confirmed to have been sold on the market by the attacker. PinGo said it responded immediately after the attack and completed the consolidation and secure isolation of its on-chain assets to prevent further damage. The team is now carrying out internal response procedures to resolve the incident, and said more details on the scale of the losses and subsequent developments will be disclosed soon.

The Bank of Italy said crypto-asset service providers must verify whether both senders and recipients are subject to sanctions for all crypto transfers, regardless of amount. It also directed firms not to set minimum-value thresholds in internal systems that would allow small transfers to bypass automated screening procedures. The measure does not create a new compliance obligation, but clarifies how European Banking Authority guidelines that took effect in Italy on Dec. 30 last year should be applied to crypto transfers, according to DgWatch. As a result, local crypto firms need to review related systems and alert procedures to ensure sanctions-list screening is applied to every transfer.

Mexican federal prosecutors, the navy and Puebla state police seized 300 cryptocurrency mining machines from a mining site that allegedly drew electricity illegally from a federal hydroelectric facility, Decrypt reported. Transformers, medium-voltage power equipment and a satellite internet antenna were also seized. Local media identified the confiscated equipment as GPUs, which suggests the operation may have mined cryptocurrencies other than BTC that are typically mined with graphics cards. While cryptocurrency mining itself is legal in Mexico, prosecutors are preparing to pursue electricity theft charges, and authorities are also investigating whether assets produced at the site were used to launder criminal proceeds.

Bitcoin’s correlation with the S&P 500 has fallen to its lowest level since 2015 under one metric, although the two assets still showed synchronization in short-term daily returns, according to a Bitwise report. Based on 260-day log-level prices, the correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500 dropped to -0.62. By contrast, the 260-day correlation based on daily returns stood at +0.40, indicating their medium- to long-term price paths diverged while their day-to-day gains and losses still moved in the same direction. The report also showed mixed results depending on the time frame. With a 5% Bitcoin allocation in a portfolio, annualized volatility rose from 12.68% to 13.01% and maximum drawdown widened from 9.10% to 9.98% over 260 days, while both measures declined over a longer 500-day period. The analysis suggests it is difficult to conclude from correlation metrics alone whether Bitcoin can serve as a full risk hedge during sharp daily stock-market declines.

Germany is pushing a plan to impose a 25% flat tax on investment gains from cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum starting in 2028, Golem reported, citing Der Spiegel. According to a German Finance Ministry draft bill obtained by Der Spiegel, authorities plan to tax crypto gains at the same 25% rate applied to stock and other financial investment gains, replacing the current exemption for crypto held longer than one year. The measure would apply to cryptocurrencies acquired on or after Jan. 1, 2027, while whether the existing tax exemption will remain in place for assets acquired earlier is set to be decided during the legislative process. The current personal tax-free allowance of €1,000 ($1,170) is expected to remain in place, and the draft also includes a provision allowing crypto investment gains and losses to be offset against gains and losses from other securities such as stocks. The Finance Ministry expects the measure to generate about €350 million ($409 million) in additional tax revenue, and the draft is currently under review after being circulated to other ministries.

The supply of euro-pegged stablecoins reached $848.1 million, up 22.6% since the start of the year, according to a Sept. 7 data analysis by Token Terminal. While the market remains just one-350th the size of the U.S. dollar stablecoin market, the pace of on-chain inflows into euro-based assets has been rising sharply. EURC and EURCV, the latter issued by a Societe Generale subsidiary with a MiCA license, account for 82% of the market. By chain, Ethereum absorbed 69.4% of new inflows and Solana took 14.7%. The analysis indicated, however, that current supply growth is being led more by issuers than by underlying user demand, leaving limited euro liquidity in DeFi and a supply-demand gap as key challenges ahead.

U.S. asset manager Gratus Reserve V, LLC has filed a registration statement with the U.S. SEC to launch a $75 million cryptocurrency corporate treasury fund open to retail investors. The fund plans to allocate capital primarily to financial network cryptocurrencies compatible with the ISO 20022 standard, including XRP, Stellar, Cardano, Hedera and Quant, while also adding Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana to support portfolio stability. Gratus Reserve V also presented an analysis indicating that buying $5,000 worth of XRP through an institutional over-the-counter desk costs about one-tenth as much as in the retail investor market.

Europe accounts for 72.9% of Solana (SOL) block production, according to Glassnode. Germany held the largest country share at 36.1%, followed by the Netherlands at 19.6% and the U.S. at 15.2%. By city, Frankfurt in Germany and Amsterdam in the Netherlands accounted for 35.3% and 19.4%, respectively, meaning the two cities produced more than half of the total. Solana validators located in those two cities also totaled 310 out of 675, or 46%, while they accounted for 53% of staked assets. Ark Invest and Glassnode had previously analyzed Solana’s network infrastructure as relatively concentrated in Europe.

A survey of 500 college students in South Korea found 68.0% are currently making financial investments, with 15.3% holding virtual assets as part of their portfolios. According to a survey conducted by Vinu Labs Insight through Everytime, domestic stocks ranked highest among holdings at 77.6%, followed by overseas stocks at 63.2%. Virtual assets came next after bonds, funds and ISAs at 21.8%, with a holding rate of 15.3%. More than half of respondents, or 50.4%, said they invested 3 million won or less, while 25.6% said they managed at least 10.01 million won. The most-used securities platform was Toss Securities at 50.5%, followed by Kiwoom Securities at 10.7%, and Samsung Securities and KakaoPay Securities at 6.7% each.

Canaccord Genuity, a Canadian investment firm, raised its price target on Strategy to $179 from $175 and maintained a buy rating.

Crypto exchange BitMart said it has appointed Alvarez & Marsal, or A&M, as an external financial adviser to review options including an orderly resumption of customer withdrawals after limiting access to client assets following its decision to shut down operations. A&M will assess BitMart’s assets, financial condition, and stakeholder-related matters, while reviewing multiple paths including an orderly restart of withdrawals and the company’s future operating direction. BitMart plans to disclose progress updates and short-term action plans in stages over the next three weeks. The exchange also said it plans to launch a dedicated webpage within five business days to gather user feedback and appoint an independent third party in the near term to oversee company operations and asset custody. Earlier, BitMart customers formed an ad hoc creditor committee to recover frozen assets, and the exchange had said it was considering a restructuring plan that would gradually restore some services.

A whale that had used borrowed funds to hold 149,800 ETH worth $377 million at roughly two times leverage sold part of the position to repay debt, on-chain analyst EmberCN reported. About four hours ago, the whale sold 6,000 ETH at an average price of $2,496 and swapped the proceeds into 14.97 million USDe, which was then used to repay an Aave loan. The whale now holds 143,800 ETH worth $362 million and still has $181 million in debt on the lending platform, according to EmberCN.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, four addresses believed to belong to the same whale broke six months of inactivity to make large purchases of ETH and ZEC. The addresses bought a combined 13,290.6 ETH via Cowswap at an average price of $2,511, then used 2,500 ETH through cross-chain intent protocol Near Intents to buy an additional 6,601.37 ZEC. The whale paid 16.75 ETH in fees, worth about $42,000, and the buying was still underway.

According to DeFiLlama data, HTX, formerly Huobi, recorded about $447 million in net inflows over the past 24 hours as of 4:30 a.m. UTC on Sept. 9, the largest among centralized exchanges tracked by DeFiLlama. At the same time, HTX held about $4.232 billion in total assets and about $4.218 billion in clean assets, while 24-hour spot trading volume reached $1.036 billion and open interest in futures and other derivatives stood at about $3.948 billion. As of 12:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 9, HTX had also ranked first among CEXs with about $437 million in net inflows over the previous 24 hours.