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Nasdaq Ventures has agreed to invest US$100 million (AU$139 million) in Payward, the parent of crypto exchange Kraken, in a deal reported to value the company at US$21 billion (AU$29.19 billion). The two firms will launch Nasdaq Equity Tokens, blockchain versions of Nasdaq-listed stocks that carry shareholder voting rights, distributed through Kraken from the second quarter of 2027. Payward will also run Nasdaq’s market surveillance technology across its crypto, equities, futures and options venues to watch for manipulation. Nasdaq has agreed to invest US$100 million (AU$139 million) in Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, the two firms said…

LlamaRisk has proposed increasing borrowing costs for Ethena’s USDe across five Aave V3 markets, tightening the economics for positions that borrow the stablecoin and recycle it into yield-bearing sUSDe.The Sept. 9 recommendation would increase USDe’s base variable borrow rate from 5% to 6% on Core, Plasma, Monad, Mantle, and Avalanche. It would also reduce Slope1 by one percentage point on every deployment.At the utilization levels captured in the proposal, modeled borrower APRs would rise by 13 to 89 basis points across markets holding about $323.8 million of USDe debt against $1.18 billion supplied.Aave V3 marketUtilizationCurrent borrow APRProposed borrow APRIncreaseCore32.3%5.72%6.36%64 bpsPlasma22.4%5.79%6.53%74…

On Sept. 9, Binance’s pre-IPO perpetual contract for Anthropic traded above $2,100, reaching an implied value that exceeds $2.1 trillion based on Binance’s estimated one-billion-share denominator.Real traders are pricing exposure to Anthropic on Binance, but both the mark and the share-count convention behind the trillion-dollar figure belong to the contract, so the venue sets the price.A DefiLlama snapshot at 14:45 UTC on Sept. 9 showed the contract at $2,168.26, with $26.1 million in open interest and $24.76 million in 24-hour volume. A later ByKaranteli snapshot put the mark at $2,122.74, recorded open interest up 6.1% over 24 hours, and counted…

HIVE Digital Technologies said its Bitcoin-mining and GPU-cloud businesses generated more than $1 million in combined average daily revenue from Aug. 21 through Sept. 10, quantifying how much its AI pivot contributes to current operations.GPU cloud produced about $100,000 a day over the period, according to HIVE’s Sept. 10 update. That means the AI business is generating operating revenue, but it accounted for less than roughly 10% of the reported total. Bitcoin mining supplied more than nine-tenths.Infographic shows HIVE averaging more than $1 million in daily revenue, with 90% from Bitcoin mining and 10% from GPU cloud services.Mining still carries…

Bitcoin fell below $77,000 on Sept. 10 as oil rose above $100, and a global bond selloff pushed traders toward another Fed hike.BTC reached an intraday low of $76,676.07, Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.7%, and the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 4.93% while the 30-year touched 5.35%, its highest level in 19 years.The moves followed another acceleration in US producer prices and a renewed surge in crude, pushing rate markets to price in about a 76% chance of a quarter-point Federal Reserve increase next week.The complication is that the latest inflation reports capture little of oil’s most recent advance, leaving…

Strategy, the largest Bitcoin treasury firm, is making a case for an escape from its B- junk credit rating after building billions of dollars in liquidity and reducing debt.On Sept. 10, Strategy’s head of investor relations, Chaitanya Jain, said the Michael Saylor-led company has strengthened its balance sheet in the three areas S&P Global Ratings previously identified as potential paths to an upgrade: dollar liquidity, convertible debt, and capital-market access during Bitcoin stress.S&P affirmed Strategy’s B- issuer credit rating with a stable outlook in December 2025, after initially assigning the grade in October. The rating remains six notches below BBB-, the…

XRP Healthcare, an healthcare platform build on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), is winding down operations after a wallet flaw exposed thousands of accounts and led to roughly $450,000 in losses.On Sept. 10, the project said the Sept. 3 XRPH Wallet incident added financial and operational pressure to a business already burdened by development costs, a prolonged crypto bear market and an unsuccessful public-listing effort.Due to this, the platform said it was preparing to delist its tokens, including XRPH and XRPHAI, with individual exchanges expected to set withdrawal deadlines. The XRPH Wallet applications will remain offline while the company retains its…

OpenAI’s latest mathematics breakthrough could bring automated theorem proving closer to smart-contract security workflows.On Sept. 8, the AI company said that roughly 10,000 concurrent AI agents produced a solution addressing the Navier-Stokes fluid-motion problem after about 88 hours. Formalization and verification in Lean, a software proof assistant, required another 17 hours using GPT-6 Astra.The system generated an analytical proof showing that an initially smooth fluid can develop a singularity in finite time while retaining finite energy, establishing cases C and D of the Millennium Prize formulation. OpenAI released both the proof and its Lean formalization for independent scrutiny. Related ReadingOpenAI…

Consensys announced plans on Sept. 9 to operate MetaMask separately from its Ethereum infrastructure business, giving the consumer wallet and the protocol builder distinct management and investment priorities. For holders of ether, the split puts a practical question at the center of the growth story: how much activity will reach the networks that use ETH?The clearest example is already inside MetaMask. Its Money Account runs on a separate blockchain, Monad, while the new Consensys will include software used for both public Ethereum and private institutional networks. The economic effect depends on where transactions happen and who receives the fees.Under the…

Every card payment creates a timing problem for the company behind it. A card program may owe Visa through daily settlement before money arrives from its customers, leaving a short but recurring funding gap.Visa’s onchain lending initiative, announced Sept. 8, targets that gap. Credit Coop, an onchain credit protocol, supplies revolving stablecoin facilities that can fund settlement and sweep later cardholder payments toward repayment.The design brings a conventional form of receivables finance onto blockchain rails. Smart contracts handle draws, cash-flow control and repayment, while authorized Visa settlement files remain central to underwriting and facility sizing. The result is a hybrid…