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Anthony Pompliano, founder of crypto-focused investment firm Pompl Investments, said in an appearance on Fox News that Bitcoin will rise sharply. He added, "미국 정부는 절대 돈을 찍어내는 것을 멈추지 않을 것이다. 정부가 계속 돈을 찍어내는 한 비트코인 가격은 계속해서 오를 것."

THORChain, a cross-chain decentralized exchange, has announced the THORChain 3.20 protocol upgrade centered on support for native swaps of Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC), Decrypt reported. The upgrade will allow privacy coins whose market presence had narrowed amid delistings by centralized exchanges and tighter regulation to be swapped directly for Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and stablecoins without conversion into wrapped assets or the use of CEX accounts and custodial procedures.

CME Group will offer a BTIC function for Bitcoin futures traders to help manage basis risk at expiry, Crypto Briefing reported. The product allows traders to lock in a premium or discount, or spread, relative to the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate rather than at a specific outright price.

Susan Collins, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said a rate hike could be appropriate soon unless there is evidence of sustained deflation.

Blockchain financial infrastructure firm tZERO Group has formed a strategic partnership with Sui and announced a direct network integration, FinanceWire reported. Through the integration, Sui-based projects and institutional issuers will be able to directly access token issuance, transfer agent, custody, trading, compliance monitoring, and settlement services within tZERO’s regulatory framework without building separate regulatory and custody systems.

Arcus, a decentralized exchange built through a collaboration between the dYdX development team and Robinhood Crypto, has launched the pToken protocol on Robinhood Chain, The Block reported. The protocol allows perpetual futures position accounts to be converted into ERC-20 tokens, letting users gain leveraged exposure by buying and selling them like spot tokens without directly managing complex futures accounts and margin requirements. The tokenized accounts can also be used as collateral in other DeFi protocols, including on-chain lending markets. Previously, holders of tokenized stocks had to sell those tokens to trade futures, but they can now borrow the stablecoin USDG against stock tokens such as SPY, QQQ and MAG7 and use the proceeds as futures margin, according to The Block.

Crypto custody firm Copper has received acquisition offers of around $200 million from multiple potential buyers as it pursues a sale, CoinDesk reported, citing multiple sources. Two to three parties are currently interested in an acquisition, according to the report. The offers are less than half the roughly $500 million asking price that investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald presented in May.

Upbit announced a temporary suspension of ZETA deposits and withdrawals from the time of the notice, citing delays in block production on Zetachain.

Nasdaq-listed Empery Digital (EMPD) said it currently holds 1,179 BTC. The company said it has about $62 million in cash and $35 million in debt, while maintaining its Bitcoin accumulation strategy and expanding investment in AI infrastructure and data centers.

Goldman Sachs raised its price target on Coinbase (COIN) to $196 from $173 while maintaining a buy rating, CNBC reported. The bank said ongoing improvement in the cryptocurrency market and growth in Coinbase’s new businesses, including derivatives and prediction markets, could provide further upside.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened higher today. - S&P 500: +0.28% - Nasdaq: +0.61% - Dow Jones: +0.30%

Crypto asset manager Bitwise plans to launch ATP (Automated Token Portfolios), an automated portfolio service built on tokenized stocks, Bloomberg reported. Through ATP, eligible investors outside the United States will be able to hold portfolios of multiple tokenized equities in their own wallets. Bitwise manages about $9 billion in assets.

Digital asset investment firm Hivemind Digital Group said it secured a $17 million strategic investment led by M&G Investments, with participation from CPIC Investment Management Hong Kong, ZA Bank and FalconX. Hivemind plans to use the proceeds to build infrastructure for tokenizing traditional and digital assets on blockchain networks and to expand global institutional partnerships.

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis worked with crypto companies including Binance and Coinbase, as well as global law enforcement agencies, on Operation Lighthouse to track networks distributing child sexual abuse material, CoinDesk reported. The investigative team analyzed more than 29,000 cryptocurrency addresses and digital identifiers, along with more than 100 related forums and hubs, securing more than 14,000 leads for further investigation. Suspects were identified across 125 countries. Europol, the Australian Federal Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the UK’s National Crime Agency also took part in the operation.

LayerZero (ZRO) will launch a new exchange called ATLAS in collaboration with Citadel Securities and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), The Information reported. ATLAS is designed as underlying exchange infrastructure for other trading platforms and financial institutions rather than as an app for retail users. It will initially support spot cryptocurrency trading and perpetual futures, with plans to expand into prediction contracts, standard futures and options. The platform will be built on Zero, a blockchain LayerZero unveiled in February.

Shipyard, which has maintained core projects for the decentralized file storage system IPFS, said it will halt IPFS-related development, maintenance and infrastructure operations on Sept. 30 after Protocol Labs ended funding. As a result, projects managed by Shipyard, including Kubo and Helia, will no longer have dedicated maintainers responsible for new feature development, bug fixes and releases. Shipyard also plans to shut down public infrastructure currently in operation, including ipfs.io, dweb.link and IPFS bootstrap nodes. Protocol Labs will decide future operating plans for the related domains and infrastructure.

European crypto asset manager CoinShares will put a proposal to a shareholder vote on Sept. 15 that would allow it to repurchase up to 25% of its outstanding shares, CryptoSlate reported. The report said the company would not be required to retire the repurchased shares immediately. Instead, CoinShares could hold them as treasury shares and reuse them for purposes including employee compensation, meaning the actual number of shares in circulation would not necessarily fall by 25%.

Recent gains in the cryptocurrency market are being led by Binance and Coinbase, crypto analyst CW8900 said on X. CW8900 said Binance took in $2.0261 billion in stablecoins and Coinbase received $1.4472 billion on Aug. 21, the day that saw the largest recent stablecoin inflows. Combined inflows to the two exchanges accounted for more than half of the total, CW8900 added.

The Lisk team has unveiled a governance proposal to halt DAO operations and burn 100 million LSK. If approved, a total of 100 million LSK allocated to the DAO treasury for 2027-2033 would be burned, reducing total supply to 300 million LSK from 400 million LSK. Around 47 million LSK allocated to the DAO treasury through 2026 or currently held there would be transferred to Lisk Ltd. The team also plans to shut down the governance forum and remove the penalty for unstaking LSK early, although users would still need to wait three days before withdrawals. Lisk previously announced it will shut down the Lisk chain on Oct. 31.

Shares of Bitcoin treasury company Strive (ASST) rose above $20, pushing its market capitalization to a record $1.7 billion and above that of U.S. fast-food chain Wendy’s, according to BitcoinTreasuries.NET. Strive currently holds 21,356 BTC.

Flop Labs CEO Arthur Hayes said FLOP airdrop allocations will be determined by users’ testnet activity. In a post on X, Hayes wrote, "테스트넷 토큰은 테크노코어챗(Technocore.chat)에 개설되는 퍼싯(faucet)에서 받을 수 있으며, 해당 퍼싯은 탈중앙 신원증명(DID) 키를 보유한 AI 에이전트가 이용할 수 있다. 자세한 내용은 곧 공개하겠다" Flop Labs is developing a blockchain network for AI agents, and Hayes had previously said the company plans to release related details, including FLOP tokenomics, in stages starting next week.

Crypto asset manager Grayscale has launched the first U.S. spot ZEC ETF, The Block reported. The product is a conversion of the existing Grayscale Zcash Trust into an ETF, trades under the ticker ZCSH, and is listed on NYSE Arca.

Forest Bai, a former Bitget executive and co-founder of Foresight Ventures, is launching Mojo, an AI-based trading app designed to integrate data analysis, research, investment decision-making and trade execution into a single interface. The service supports spot trading, real-world assets and perpetual futures. Users can enter trading strategies or intentions in natural language, and the AI executes them across multiple platforms while allowing users to monitor and control the process. Limited beta testing will begin on Aug. 27, with participants to be recruited through a waitlist. Bai said the goal of Mojo is to strengthen retail investors’ research and trade execution capabilities.

Chris Millas, an adviser to Brazilian fintech company Meliuz, which has been accumulating Bitcoin, likened Strategy (MSTR) to Standard Oil, the oil company founded by John D. Rockefeller. In a post on X, Millas said Strategy was maximizing Bitcoin’s utility by turning BTC into products tailored to investor demand, much as Standard Oil refined crude into products aligned with consumer demand. Millas added that just as Rockefeller built the world’s most valuable company by refining oil, Michael Saylor was "refining" BTC to build the world’s most valuable company.

Thailand’s government has approved four financial market law amendments aimed at strengthening Securities and Exchange Commission oversight and updating digital asset rules, Crypto Briefing reported. The revisions include the 2018 emergency decree on digital asset businesses, a key law governing cryptocurrency exchanges, token issuance and digital asset custody in Thailand. The amendments are intended to align digital asset regulations with current market conditions, while expanding the SEC’s authority to investigate major financial crimes and modernizing rules on the legal validity of electronic documents, fundraising and secondary markets. Separately, Thailand’s SEC has released draft rules for spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs to be listed on the local stock market and has begun collecting public feedback. Comments are due by Sept. 20.