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Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to create a dedicated team to monitor crypto service providers as it moves to strengthen oversight of the sector, CoinPost reported. According to the agency’s budget and staffing expansion plan for fiscal 2027, which runs from April 2027 to March 2028, 13 personnel will be assigned to address newly emerging financial services, including the new crypto monitoring team. The agency also plans to set up a team to strengthen oversight of electronic payment instrument operators and improve payment systems using digital technology, while assigning staff to address risks tied to the spread of new technologies such as AI. The Financial Services Agency requested 4.8 billion yen ($32.8 million) for promoting growth investment, including the use of on-chain finance, and 6.4 billion yen ($43.8 million) for ensuring confidence in the financial system and protecting users, including cybersecurity and AI market monitoring.

Robinhood Chain’s daily app revenue topped $2.5 million, surpassing Ethereum and Hyperliquid to rank second behind Solana. According to DefiLlama data, Robinhood Chain generated $2.66 million in fee revenue over the past 24 hours. Daily trading volume reached $874.8 million, while transaction count exceeded 5.52 million, both marking record highs. The increase in fee revenue is expected to be tied to the recent popularity of Pons, a token issuance platform and decentralized exchange.

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

The following are the 24-hour long/short ratios for BTC perpetual futures on the world’s three largest crypto futures exchanges by open interest: Overall: 49.45% long, 50.55% short - Binance: 48.73% long, 51.27% short - OKX: 49.63% long, 50.37% short - Bybit: 47.25% long, 52.75% short

Zcash’s ZEC development team has released Zakura Common, an open-source cryptography toolkit that significantly improves shielded transaction performance, according to Crypto Briefing. With the toolkit, processing time to generate privacy transactions can be reduced from three seconds to as little as 200 milliseconds, making it more than 14 times faster on mobile devices and more than five times faster on desktop. The feature can be deployed without a network upgrade.

Core said it confirmed an issue on the Core network in which some validators received block rewards above normal levels amid signs that had raised suspicions of a possible security problem. The company said the issue affected only reward issuance, while user assets remain safe and there has been no impact on network security or fund custody.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for ATOM at 10:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 2 for the Cosmos network upgrade.

Crypto projects have carried out about $640 million in token buybacks this year, marking the largest total on record, Cointelegraph reported. Hyperliquid (HYPE) and Pump.fun (PUMP) accounted for about 90% of the total buyback amount.

Japanese game company Enish said it will work with SBI VC Trade to raffle off ¥10 million ($67,000) worth of BTC and SOL to 580 shareholders, according to CoinPost. Eligible participants are SBI VC Trade users who hold at least 500 Enish shares as of Dec. 31. The prizes are scheduled to be distributed by the end of May 2027.

Crypto trading in Russia could reach at least $46.43 billion in its first year as the market enters the regulatory fold, Anatoly Popov, deputy chairman of Russia’s largest bank Sberbank, said, according to Wu Blockchain. Popov added the volume could rise to $87.06 billion by 2029. Russia’s central bank plans to allow investors to legally buy cryptocurrencies through brokers starting Sept. 1. Non-qualified investors will be allowed to buy up to $3,800 worth of cryptocurrencies per year through a single licensed intermediary.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced a temporary suspension of CORE deposits and withdrawals.

A Fireblocks custody address deposited an additional $30 million in USD1 to Binance over the past 15 hours, Onchain Lens reported. USD1 is a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial (WLFI), which is backed by the Trump family.

Around $234,000 in assets was stolen from a Balancer V1 BPool in an attack that exploited a calculation error, SlowMist reported. The attacker repeatedly used public swaps to drain the pool’s WBTC balance to near zero, then manipulated the `joinswapPoolAmountOut` function so the required WBTC input was calculated at roughly one satoshi. The attacker then deposited that tiny amount of WBTC, minted 4,408.8 BPT, and withdrew DPI, USDC, WETH and WBTC from the pool. The funds needed for the attack were sourced through flash loans from Spark, Aave, Morpho and Uniswap V3. SlowMist identified the lack of a minimum input threshold, a minimum pool balance requirement and validation checks to filter out calculation errors as the cause of the vulnerability.

Ant Group CEO and Alipay chairman Han Xinyi has identified stablecoin payments as one of four major models in the global AI payments market, PA News reported, citing Caixin. Han said crypto companies including Circle (CRCL) and Coinbase (COIN) are using stablecoins and wallets to make cryptocurrencies a payment method for machine-to-machine automated payments. The other three categories are payment infrastructure companies such as Stripe, card networks such as Visa and Mastercard, and AI platform companies such as Google and OpenAI.

Weekly net inflows into cryptocurrency funds reached $3.2 billion as of late August, the largest since October 2025, according to Bank of America’s weekly flow report. The figure marked a sharp reversal from net outflows of $392 million a week earlier. Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $1.9 billion and spot Ethereum ETFs absorbed $697 million, accounting for 81% of total inflows. Monthly inflows into Bitcoin ETFs in August also topped $3 billion.

South Korean prosecutors have sought a 20-year prison term for a man surnamed Park, known as "Jonber Kim," who was indicted on fraud charges tied to a 340 billion won ($247 million) scheme, Digital Asset reported exclusively. According to the report, prosecutors on Aug. 21, during the closing hearing of the "Jonber Kim" fraud case before the 13th Criminal Division of the Seoul Southern District Court, sought a 20-year sentence and about 18.8 billion won ($13.7 million) in forfeiture for Park over alleged fraud involving PODO Coin (POD) and ATube (ATT). Sentencing for the four defendants, including Park, is scheduled for 6:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 15.

American Bitcoin (ABTC), a Bitcoin mining company tied to U.S. President Donald Trump’s family, is producing 11 to 13 BTC a day with a gross margin of about 49%, Eric Trump said on the Wolf Financial podcast. According to BeInCrypto, American Bitcoin is operating about 90,000 mining machines, and its second-quarter output reached a record 932 BTC. Eric Trump said the company held about 8,300 BTC as of late August, up from 5,401 BTC at the end of 2025. Debate continues, however, over the cost of mining one BTC. Eric Trump put the figure at $57,000, while Forbes reported it rises to $90,000 when broader expenses are included. Trump dismissed that report as politically motivated.

The following shows estimated liquidation volumes and position ratios for major crypto perpetual futures over the past 24 hours: - BTC: $88.32 million liquidated (62.66% longs) - ETH: $127.70 million liquidated (59.65% longs) - SOL: $29.43 million liquidated (84.03% longs)

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals of Monad (MON) at 10:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 2.

South Korean financial authorities are reviewing a plan to create a new incorporated association for virtual assets through a separate preparatory committee, selectively absorbing functions from the Digital Asset eXchange Alliance (DAXA), which has so far remained at the proposal stage in the National Assembly, Newsis reported. Ahead of legislation on the second phase of South Korea’s Digital Asset Basic Act, authorities are considering launching a preparatory committee to establish the new body, according to Newsis. An official said DAXA is currently only an industry-level group with no legal status, and authorities are considering creating a new incorporated association rather than trying to restructure the existing organization while keeping it in place.

South Korean exchange Korbit announced it will end its Web3 wallet service at 3:00 a.m. UTC on Dec. 31. From that point, all asset transfers through the Web3 wallet, including withdrawals and transfers, will no longer be available, and users were urged to move their holdings beforehand to their Korbit exchange accounts or external wallets. Ahead of the shutdown, Korbit said it will suspend withdrawals on the Silicon network from the Korbit exchange, the creation of new Web3 wallets, and the receive function within the Web3 wallet at 3:00 a.m. UTC today. After the service ends, existing wallets will only allow balance inquiries in the Korbit app.

Four people have been referred to prosecutors without detention for allegedly illegally exporting 1,024 used cars worth 50.7 billion won to Russia and Belarus, both subject to international sanctions, and illegally receiving 279.6 billion won in cryptocurrency as export payments, Newsis reported. South Korea’s Incheon Main Customs said it sent the group, including a foreign man in his 40s identified as the ringleader and three South Korean accomplices, to prosecutors on charges of violating the Customs Act and the Foreign Trade Act. Investigators found the group received export payments in cryptocurrencies including USDT after international financial sanctions made normal remittances impossible. The funds were then sent to crypto wallets controlled by an unregistered foreign-exchange operation in South Korea and concealed by being sold on a South Korean exchange and converted into won.

Metaplanet deposited an additional 800 BTC worth $62.19 million into Coinbase Prime, Onchain Lens reported. While exchange deposits are typically interpreted as a sign of potential selling, Coinbase Prime is a prime brokerage platform for institutional investors that offers trading, custody and financing services, suggesting the transfer may have served other purposes. Metaplanet has been depositing BTC into Coinbase Prime since Aug. 25.

U.S. fast-food chain Steak 'n Shake said it ranked first in the fast-food industry for same-store sales after introducing Bitcoin payments. In a post on X, the company included the English phrase "BTC", said Bitcoin holders have continued to support the business, and said higher sales and cost savings have helped fund reinvestment in food quality improvements. Steak 'n Shake added it had not seen customer loyalty this strong before and described itself as a "BTC" company.

A South Korean court previously ordered YouTuber Choi Seung-jung to repay a victim’s full 20 million won investment plus interest in a separate civil case tied to the Golden Goal coin case, JTBC reported in an exclusive. Choi, who has been indicted on allegations of fraud involving tens of billions of won, repeated in court that Choi was also a victim. But in a separate damages suit filed by one victim half a year ago, the court ruled in February that Choi must repay the full 20 million won investment plus interest, according to JTBC. The victim invested 20 million won after Choi promised principal protection and an exchange listing in 2021, but neither the listing nor a refund materialized. The victim then filed the damages suit last year. Hong Pureun, managing partner at Descent Law Office, said the earlier ruling is being used as evidence favorable to victims in other ongoing lawsuits. One Golden Goal coin victim also said Choi appears to have already moved out substantial funds, adding that asset checks turned up nothing. Choi’s next hearing is set for Oct. 23.