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Liquid, a Bitcoin sidechain, paused after purported “white hats” withdrew 4,000 BTC, valued at about $320 million. The actors told Blockstream they would return most of the funds after an Elements vulnerability is patched.
Oil prices rose and bitcoin fell nearly 1% after reported U.S. strikes on Iranian crude carriers intensified U.S.-Iran tensions. Brent and WTI gained attention as energy markets moved higher while the leading cryptocurrency declined.
Bitcoin’s latest rally began after the Treasury announced that, from Sept. 9, it would raise the maximum size of certain buyback operations for 10- to 30-year government bonds from $2 billion to $4 billion.
CryptoSlate reports that Wall Street is building a $61 billion bond market around AI data centers, where electricity, cooling and power availability are increasingly important operating and infrastructure considerations.
Bitcoin slipped below $80,000 after August payrolls changed expectations for Federal Reserve policy. Crypto markets now await the Sept. 11 CPI report, identified by CryptoSlate as Bitcoin’s next major volatility test.
Michigan has ordered Kalshi to remove sports event contracts and faces the platform with potential daily fines of $500,000. The preliminary injunction remains active until a final order and includes a futures broker notice requirement.
Bitcoin and gold have reached their highest 90-day correlation since 2020, at about 0.55. Bitcoin volatility is 36.2% versus gold’s 25.3%, narrowing the volatility ratio to 1.43 times.
Bitcoin now buys slightly more than 18 ounces of gold, the strongest bitcoin-to-gold ratio since January. CoinDesk linked the joint rally in both hard assets to concerns about inflation reducing government debt burdens.
Bitcoin gained 5% and reclaimed $80,000 as the US dollar weakened amid suspected Bank of Japan intervention in the yen. Analysts remain split on the broader impact of the currency-market development.
A BitMEX co-founder supplied 75% of Reform UK’s donations in Q2 2026, Cointelegraph reported. Contributions from crypto-linked figures to the party and Nigel Farage have prompted questions about possible influence on future policy.
Ontology requires nodes to upgrade to version 3.1.5 after malicious activity hit the chain following a restart. The attack path and wider service-recovery details remain undisclosed, according to CryptoSlate.
OpenAI’s unreleased Astra model can reportedly find zero-day vulnerabilities and combine them into working exploits without step-by-step human guidance. Decrypt says access to the capability is beginning with a small group of testers.
Public Citizen’s analysis of FEC filings found record corporate political donations of $646 million over 18 months. Crypto led sectors with $206 million, while crypto, AI and online betting together spent $344 million.
