As NEAR consolidates following its most recent aggressive price expansion, Near Protocol is exhibiting an intriguing mix of short-term uncertainty and improving medium-term structure. NEAR is currently trading at about $2.41 after rising from about $1.80 at the start of September.

The most recent daily candle, however, has evolved into a spinning top pattern with comparatively little real-body movement in relation to its intraday range. This structure shows that neither buyers nor sellers have clearly established control around the current price after multiple strong bullish sessions.  

Although NEAR recently came close to $2.50–$2.55, buyers have found it difficult to sustain their momentum above this range. The most recent session peaked at about $2.55 before falling to $2.41. Therefore, a short-term consolidation or correction could be triggered by another rejection.  

The daily RSI is currently below the traditional 70 overbought threshold, at about 67. Even though momentum has already increased significantly from August levels, there is still potential for another upside attempt. The moving-average structure of NEAR is also growing more optimistic. 

A Golden Cross is possible because the 50-day moving average around $1.84 is getting closer to the 200-day moving average near $1.84. All three longer-term averages have narrowed into a small area, but the 100-day average at $1.88 is still marginally higher.  

The price is now significantly above this lagging moving-average cluster, so the crossover would confirm rather than start a trend change that has already begun. The immediate level to break for bulls is still between $2.50 and $2.55. 

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A profitable daily close above it might reveal $2.65, and then the June area between $2.80 and $3.00. If the spinning top turns into a reversal, the bearish scenario starts. The first level of support is at $2.20, and the quickly increasing 20-day average is at $2.05. 

The current breakout would be considerably weakened if that level were lost. The spinning top cautions that the market may need to absorb recent gains before attempting another leg higher, but for the time being, NEAR maintains a bullish structure.

XRP Ledger (XRPL) developers have joined the global technology race, officially aiming to make the ledger fully quantum-resistant by 2028. According to Vet, an XRPL Foundation contributor and validator on the decentralized Unique Node List (dUNL), major progress and the launch of a hybrid deployment of new security protocols are expected as early as 2027.

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The announced timeline puts XRP Ledger ahead in the industry-wide race: the network plans to complete the transition one year earlier than its key competitor, Ethereum, whose equivalent roadmap extends through 2029.

Experts point to three key architectural features as XRPL's main technological advantage in this migration:

• Native key rotation: XRPL's architecture will allow cryptographic keys to be updated while fully preserving existing r-addresses. This eliminates the risk of panic and confusion among custodians. On most other blockchains, the transition to post-quantum standards will require users to manually transfer their assets to new wallets.
• The "Quantum-Day" emergency response protocol: In the event of an unexpected technological breakthrough by quantum computer developers, XRP Ledger and RippleX developers have introduced a contingency plan. It will allow vulnerable accounts to be instantly isolated and moved into a secure mode without shutting down the ledger itself.
• Active cryptography testing: Developers have already begun practical testing of quantum-resistant algorithms. The new security protocols will be deployed through a hybrid approach, operating alongside the existing system and allowing security to be scaled without disrupting the network.

Against this backdrop, the crypto community has renewed its debate over technological leadership with Algorand, which has reported the launch of quantum-secured accounts based on Falcon-1024 signatures. Vet urged the community not to overstate this achievement, noting that Algorand's architecture is currently only partially protected.

Quantum secure accounts is just one part, Algorand is not fully quantum ready either. Lots of Ed25519 use on the network. That's why Project 11 is looking into Validators and other parts of the XRP Ledger as well to assess where we need to work on.

— Vet (@Vet_X0) September 9, 2026

According to him, the network still relies heavily on the vulnerable Ed25519 standard for most everyday operations, while the full integration of quantum protection, including the consensus mechanism, will not be completed before 2027.

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Meanwhile, Ripple's comprehensive strategy and the Project Eleven initiatives involve a complete security audit of every layer of XRP Ledger, from validators to network infrastructure.

The comprehensive plan includes a testing phase, the hybrid use of old and new signatures in parallel in 2027, and the final mainnet upgrade in 2028.

 Following its most recent periodic review, Binance is getting ready to remove Pax Dollar (USDP) from its platform because the stablecoin did not meet the exchange's requirements. All USDP spot trading pairs will stop trading on September 24, 2026, at 03:00 UTC, according to Binance.

Spot orders that are already in place will be automatically canceled after trading stops. The decision is noteworthy because USDP, a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Paxos, has traditionally functioned as one of the stablecoin industry's regulated alternatives.

Binance did not pinpoint a single infraction that led to the ruling. Rather, the exchange restated the factors it considers when reviewing listings, such as trading volume and liquidity, development activity, network security, legal requirements, transparency of projects, tokenomics, and community sentiment.

The removal will go far beyond trading on the spot market. On September 11, at 06:00 UTC, Binance Margin is set to delist USDP; however, Binance Buy and Sell Crypto will cease to support the asset a few hours earlier. The remaining positions will be automatically redeemed and moved to users' Spot Accounts after Simple Earn support expires on September 17.

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Withdrawals and deposits are the most crucial deadlines. Standard withdrawals are still accessible until November 24, at 03:00 UTC, but USDP deposits will no longer be credited after September 25, at 03:00 UTC.

Additionally, Binance stated that after November 25, users' remaining USDP balances might eventually be converted into stablecoins. Nevertheless, the exchange made it clear that this kind of conversion is not guaranteed. Withdrawals might still be possible if conversion is not possible, depending on network conditions.

The delisting by itself does not mean that Paxos has ceased to support the stablecoin or that USDP has lost its dollar backing. It reflects Binance's choice to stop providing support in accordance with its internal listing guidelines.

Losing Binance distribution is significant, though. Liquidity, exchange integrations, and easy conversion paths are critical components of stablecoins. Removing USDP from one of the biggest trading platforms in the sector makes it less accessible and may further concentrate stablecoin activity around more popular alternatives like USDT and USDC.

U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have extended their losing streak to two consecutive sessions. 

They have now shed more than $147 million, which can be potentially interpreted as a sign of waning institutional demand. 

According to data shared by Onchain Lens, the ETFs recorded $100.7 million in net outflows on Sept. 9. This followed $46.6 million in withdrawals on Sept. 8. This brought the combined outflows over the two sessions to $147.3 million.

This comes after Bitcoin ETFs attracted substantial fresh capital earlier in the month. 

Still, September flows remain firmly positive, with Onchain Lens putting month-to-date inflows at roughly $622.7 million.

September had a very strong start. On Sept. 3 alone, U.S. spot Bitcoin products attracted roughly $731 million, according to industry flow trackers.

The inflows came as Bitcoin rallied back above $80,000 amid renewed optimism surrounding monetary policy and cryptocurrency regulation.

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However, institutional demand weakened sharply after the long U.S. holiday weekend.

SoSoValue data showed that the ETFs posted $46.65 million in net redemptions on Sept. 8. 

Grayscale's GBTC makes up a substantial portion of selling with roughly $65.5 million in outflows. Fidelity's FBTC and Invesco's BTCO also recorded withdrawals.

Those losses were partially offset by inflows into several competing products. BlackRock's IBIT attracted around $10.7 million. Bitwise's BITB, for comparison, took in approximately $14.5 million.

The Sept. 9 outflow of $100.7 million then more than doubled the previous session's withdrawals.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin slipped below the psychologically important $80,000 level earlier this week. 

Investors are cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's upcoming monetary-policy decision.

Rising Treasury yields and surging oil prices are also causing significant turbulence. Brent crude moved above $100 per barrel on Wednesday and it has obviously contributed to growing inflation concerns. 

Still, the ETF data shows that institutional demand has not completely reversed, so there is some hope for the bulls. 

Trezor users have been targeted by an unusually convincing phishing campaign after attackers compromised a third-party email provider used by the hardware wallet manufacturer. 

The company confirmed late Wednesday that a fraudulent email titled "Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability" had been distributed to users.

"Our third-party e-mail provider has been breached," Trezor said. "Please be aware that the email named 'Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability' is not coming from us, and it’s a phishing attempt. Do not click on any link."

Trezor added that it had taken down the affected domain and was investigating how the attackers managed to gain access to infrastructure that is linked to the legitimate domain.

The company has not publicly disclosed how many customers received the phishing message. 

This incident is particularly terrifying because it does not involve misspelled or obviously fraudulent addresses.

In fact, the malicious messages were delivered via infrastructure authorized to send email on Trezor's behalf. This makes it way harder for both users and automated spam filters to identify them. 

A screenshot circulating following the attack shows the email identifying its sender as "Trezor Security" with the address help@trezor.io.

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More importantly, Gmail displayed "mailed-by: mailing.trezor.io" and "signed-by: trezor.io."

The fraudulent messages passed SPF, DKIM, and DMARC checks. This helps explain why recipients could see "signed-by: trezor.io" in Gmail and why the messages were less likely to be relegated to spam.

Really brutal. The phishing email is written quite convincingly, and it comes from the official Trezor domain.At least tens of millions will be lost; hopefully not hundreds of millions. Insane f*ckup from Trezor. https://t.co/GBVcqBEJVh pic.twitter.com/4xw8QM8bvi

— FatMan (@FatManTerra) September 9, 2026

The attackers attempted to create urgency by claiming that Trezor devices had a critical entropy vulnerability (compromised randomness). They were trying to capitalize on the panic stemming from the nightmare that devastated Coldcard wallet owners earlier this year. 

Unfortunate email recipients were then pushed to go through what looked like a security verification process. 

One Trezor forum user said an "offline" HTML file was capable of transmitting entered information to Telegram.

There have been other suspicious emails targeting customers of BitBox and cryptocurrency portfolio service CoinTracking.

Some community investigators have pointed to email marketing provider Brevo as the common infrastructure behind the incidents.

Trezor itself has not identified the email provider that has been compromised. 

As reported by U.Today, the company disclosed a separate incident in August . The incident, which involved shipping provider ShipMonk, exposed customer information and could increase the risk of targeted phishing.

There is currently no confirmed evidence that the ShipMonk exposure and Wednesday's email-provider compromise were caused by the same attackers.

• XRP: XRP remains bullish above the $1.33–$1.36 support zone, with a break above $1.55 potentially reopening the path toward $1.70.

• Stellar (XLM): Stellar needs to reclaim the $0.189–$0.190 200-day EMA to confirm its recovery and open the way toward $0.20–$0.22.

• Dogecoin (DOGE): Dogecoin's recovery remains intact, but $0.094–$0.095 is the critical resistance that must break before a broader bullish reversal can develop.

• Near Protocol (NEAR): NEAR has the strongest breakout of the group, but an RSI near 75 and a roughly 60% rally from its August low increase the risk of a near-term correction.

Following its powerful August breakout, XRP is still consolidating, and the daily chart indicates that buyers have so far been able to hold onto the most significant portion of the move.

Comfortably above all four major moving averages, XRP is currently trading at $1.42. The 200-day EMA at $1.36 is currently the most significant level; XRP broke above it during the August surge and has since tested it as support. There is now more support in the same area as the 20-day EMA has risen to about $1.34.

Thus, the main zone to watch is $1.33–$1.36. A daily breakdown below it would expose $1.24, the current location of the 100-day EMA, and seriously undermine the recovery structure.

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The 50-day EMA is at about $1.20, which is lower. According to the bullish scenario, XRP must break free from its current consolidation. $1.45–$1.47 is the initial resistance, followed by $1.50–$1.55. The path toward the $1.70 high could be reopened if $1.55 is cleared, removing the significant local resistance that was established following August's spike.

Around 61, the RSI is still positive and does not signal an overheated market. Since the breakout, momentum has significantly decreased, giving XRP potential for further growth if buyers return.

The situation facing Stellar is far more complex. XLM is trading at about $0.188, which is just below its 200-day EMA of about $0.189. Unlike XRP, it has not yet produced a strong breakout above this long-term trend indicator. The cluster of support beneath the price represents a positive development.

The 20-day, 50-day, and 100-day EMAs are approximately $0.181, $0.175, and $0.180, respectively. As a result, XLM has challenged the last significant resistance and moved above its shorter-term averages.

A sustained rise above $0.189–$0.190 would be crucial. XLM could then challenge the prior reaction area around $0.21–$0.22 after clearing $0.20. The current recovery would be at risk if it stalls at the 200-day EMA.

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The first bearish signal would be a loss of $0.180, and a drop below $0.175 would threaten the short-term bullish structure and possibly bring XLM back to $0.16. At roughly 56, the RSI is still neutral to bullish.

In contrast to a number of recent altcoin rallies, XLM is not overbought, so if the 200-day resistance eventually breaks, momentum could increase.

After being under intense pressure for the majority of the summer, Dogecoin is trying to establish a sustainable recovery. After a strong rebound from its August lows near $0.070, DOGE is currently trading around $0.090. At $0.094, the 200-day EMA is the current obstacle.

During the recent recovery, DOGE has already tested this level twice but has not established a daily close convincingly above it. As a result, the primary technical barrier separating the current rebound from a more significant trend reversal is the $0.094–$0.095 region.

A breakout would bring $0.10 back into the spotlight. After that, $0.105–$0.110, which served as both support and resistance in May, becomes the next significant resistance. Reclaiming it would significantly improve DOGE's medium-term structure. Support appears to be much more robust than it was a few weeks ago.

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The 20-day EMA is close to $0.084, while the 100-day EMA is approximately $0.083. Another layer of support beneath them is provided by the 50-day EMA at roughly $0.078. Therefore, losing the $0.082–$0.084 range would weaken the recovery and increase the likelihood of another move toward $0.075.

With an RSI of about 61.5, DOGE is experiencing positive momentum without approaching overbought territory. The setup remains favorable for the time being, but $0.094–$0.095 must break before the recovery can develop into a more extensive bullish trend.

NEAR has produced a much more aggressive breakout, extending a rally that began around $1.60 in August and rising roughly 13% on the day to $2.62. NEAR has firmly surpassed all significant moving averages as a result of the move.

While the 50-, 100-, and 200-day averages are still closely grouped around $1.83–$1.87, the 20-day EMA has increased to roughly $2.03. That cluster currently creates a significant medium-term support zone. Momentum presents the current challenge. With a daily RSI of roughly 75, NEAR is clearly in overbought territory.

This significantly raises the risk of short-term profit-taking, but it does not necessarily indicate a reversal, especially during a strong breakout. NEAR is currently testing the $2.60–$2.65 region.

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A clear continuation above it could open the path toward $2.80 and then the May–June highs around $3.00–$3.10. If momentum wanes, $2.40–$2.45 is the first area that buyers must defend.

A deeper correction could begin around $2.20, with the rapidly rising 20-day EMA near $2.03 as an eventual target. Although the overall structure currently favors buyers, NEAR needs to consolidate after rising roughly 60% from the August low in order to prevent the rally from becoming overly reliant on short-term momentum.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has urged senators to keep the CLARITY Act alive. He has warned that failure to advance the landmark cryptocurrency legislation would undermine America’s leadership in the realm of crypto. 

Bessent has, of course, reiterated his support for the bill that aspires to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency industry.

“In July, I called on the Senate to advance the Clarity Act,” Bessent said, describing the legislation as an effort to create clear rules for digital assets while strengthening the government’s ability to prevent their misuse.

The Treasury secretary also framed the legislation as a matter of national security and international competitiveness.

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“Failing to do so would send a troubling signal to our allies and adversaries alike that America is unwilling to lead on the future of digital assets and willing to forgo enhanced national security tools to combat their misuse,” he said.

His intervention comes as the CLARITY Act faces what could be its most consequential test yet.

The Senate is expected to hold an initial procedural vote on the legislation on Sept. 15. The vote will decide whether to move forward with consideration of the bill. The motion is expected to require 60 votes.

Republicans currently hold 53 Senate seats. At least seven Democrats would have to join them. 

Crypto policy advocate Dan Spuller predicted that more Democrats could ultimately cross the aisle than currently expected. However, Republican senators have recently sounded much less optimistic.

Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina has warned that the legislation could fail without further compromise.

Democrats have pushed for tougher ethics language governing crypto ventures linked to senior government officials.

With less than a week before the Senate vote, the crypto industry is dramatically increasing pressure on lawmakers.

The Cedar Innovation Foundation advocacy organization has launched a seven-figure national advertising campaign aimed at building support for the CLARITY Act. The campaign includes three advertisements. 

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, one of Congress’s most prominent cryptocurrency advocates, claims that failing to pass the crucial market structure bill risks surrendering financial leadership to China.

Ripple veteran David Schwartz has entertained one of the XRP community’s most ambitious scenarios: XRP eventually overtaking Bitcoin by market capitalization.

During a recent appearance on X's "Spaces," Schwartz argued that an XRP “flippening” is possible, but he attached an important caveat to the prediction.

Such a scenario, according to the longtime XRP Ledger architect and Ripple CTO emeritus, would be more likely to happen because XRP surges than because Bitcoin collapses.

XRP could potentially capture a disproportionate share of that growth because of characteristics such as transaction speed and greater functionality compared to Bitcoin.

The XRP Ledger was designed from the outset as a faster and more scalable alternative to Bitcoin for payments. 

Earlier this year, Schwartz recalled that even a rally to $0.25 seemed implausible to him when XRP was trading at roughly $0.006. 

Schwartz said that he sold some XRP around $0.10 because the valuation already seemed extraordinarily high at the time.

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He made a similar comparison with Bitcoin, recalling that $100 BTC once seemed almost absurd. 

At the same time, Schwartz stressed that such comparisons have an important weakness: XRP's market capitalization today is vastly larger than Bitcoin's was when BTC first crossed $100.

There is historical precedent for XRP dramatically narrowing Bitcoin's lead.

During the extraordinary cryptocurrency rally of late 2017 and early 2018, XRP surged into second place and became Bitcoin's closest major challenger.

XRP has notably overtaken Ethereum before. The most memorable flip occurred in late December 2017. 

Back then, XRP's capitalization had jumped to roughly $86 billion, putting it comfortably ahead of Ethereum at $73 billion and making XRP the world's second-largest cryptocurrency. XRP remained ahead at the end of the year. 

At a price of $1.42, XRP currently has a market capitalization of approximately $89.1 billion, making it the fifth-largest cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin, meanwhile, is changing hands at roughly $78,693 with a market capitalization of approximately $1.58 trillion.

That means Bitcoin is currently worth about 17.7 times more than XRP by market capitalization.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced that the crypto exchange is building payment infrastructure for AI. Coinbase for Agents essentially gives AI models their own equivalent of a bank account, an isolated portfolio and the right to manage money autonomously.

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The announcement was prompted by a post on X from Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), who was looking for an "agentic bank" where a machine could be given a spending limit and permission to "just take care of things." Armstrong responded immediately, confirming in his teaser that Coinbase already "is building the financial account for AI."

@coinbase is building the financial account for AI

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) September 9, 2026

A model such as Claude or ChatGPT can already be connected directly to Coinbase through a local MCP server. However, instead of receiving unrestricted access to its owner's cards, the AI gets a strictly isolated sub-account.

The user sets daily spending limits and the maximum size of a single transaction once, after which the robot begins operating autonomously. Armstrong is expanding the boundaries of this autonomy every week.

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The platform's launch followed an aggressive internal optimization campaign at Coinbase. Earlier in 2026, Armstrong cut around 14% of the company's workforce, or roughly 700 employees, replacing them with ultra-compact AI-native pods in which one specialist orchestrates a fleet of AI agents.

The exchange then scaled this internally tested model to the broader market. During August, AI agents were given access to derivatives and S&P 500 stocks, while the technology was tested in practice by allowing robots to independently plan trips through AWS AgentCore and pay for hotels on Travala with USDC stablecoins on Base.

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The final technical barrier was the payment mechanism, as conventional subscriptions are inconvenient for autonomous software. The problem is addressed by the x402 protocol, which moves payments to a pay-per-request model. AI instantly pays for individual micro-actions directly from its USDC balance without generating API keys. For now, x402 works through a workaround in the form of Agentic Wallet, but its direct integration into Coinbase for Agents will close this gap.

Armstrong's goal is to build the rails for a world in which robots conduct more transactions than humans. The appointment of Anthony Armstrong to the company's board of directors in early September definitively cemented this direction.

The Tron ecosystem is buzzing with excitement after its native crypto asset, TRX, finally joins the list of major crypto ETF products trading in the U.S.

In a recent post shared earlier today, Tron's founder, Justin Sun, confirmed the development after he reacted to the news, highlighting the launch of the first U.S. spot staked TRX ETF while declaring that the network has kicked off to a good start.

Shortly after Sun's reaction to the news on X, the network officially revealed the debut of the first U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund (ETF) offering exposure to TRX.

With this development, institutional investors in the U.S. can now gain regulated access to TRX through traditional firms offering support for the product.

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Following the launch, the Canary Staked TRX ETF has begun to trade on the Chicago Stock Exchange, Cboe, today under the ticker TRXS.

Furthermore, the TRX ETF will be issued by Canary Funds, being the only company that has launched the TRX fund. 

Notably, the Canary TRX ETF has been designed to provide investors with exposure to the spot price of TRX and also allow them to generate additional returns through staking.

Canary Funds specifically declared that it has designed the fund to allow U.S. investors access to both TRX and the rewards generated from staking the asset without having to hold it directly.

This way, the Canary Staked TRX ETF could become particularly relevant to investors interested in venturing into TRON's role in payment and settlement infrastructure while seeking exposure through an exchange-traded platform.

Privacy token Zcash (ZEC) has extended its rally, reaching a high of $1,290 early Wednesday to lock in a one-year gain of 2,413%.

At the time of writing, ZEC was trading up 10.55% in the last 24 hours to $1,282, a price level it last traded at in November 2016. The privacy token is now up 57.23% weekly.

Zcash's rally has often coincided with pennant breakouts. At the start of September, Zcash resolved a bullish pennant, which led to its surge higher. The cryptocurrency started rising from a low of $804 on September 3. The surge took a breather after ZEC reached $1,257 on September 6, with bulls resuming after the brief pause.  

The privacy coin is currently on one of the most impressive runs in the crypto market, especially among older digital assets. ZEC has risen 154% in the last 30 days and is up 2,413% on a one-year basis, according to CoinGecko data.  

The year-long rally has pushed Zcash's market cap to $21.62 billion, retaining the privacy coin among the top ten cryptocurrencies.

Three wallets, possibly belonging to the same whale, spent 3,700 $ETH ($9.23M) and 2M $USDC to buy 8,994 $ZEC ($11.23M).And they're still buying.Wallets:0x83C0a25705E66890A36DFF67a7B4F67ad8cE7Dc10x7D38EAe1a032eA08eCA1730480fd81c52f062DCa… pic.twitter.com/6Krfkm7Yvf

— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 9, 2026

Zcash's current surge coincides with increased buying pressure from whales, or large holders. According to Lookonchain, three wallets, possibly belonging to the same whale, spent 3,700 ETH—about $9.23 million—and 2 million USDC to buy 8,994 ZEC worth $11.23 million. Lookonchain noted that these wallets are still buying.

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In the last 24 hours, Zcash's open interest has increased 15.47% to $2.91 billion, indicating new money entering the derivatives market. A short squeeze may have also aided Zcash's rally; about $11.52 million in shorts were liquidated in the last 24 hours, while longs came in at $2.33 million, according to CoinGlass data.

Zcash also reached a major milestone with the first options market on a US-listed privacy asset ETP.

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Zcash ETF options have gone live on NYSE, according to a recent announcement. Dubbed the world's only Zcash fund, ZCSH has just surpassed $500 million in AUM, now holding over 550,000 ZEC.

Grayscale's Zcash ETF began trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker ZCSH on August 25, giving brokerage investors a way into ZEC without a wallet.

U.S. financial giant U.S. Bank has successfully completed the first live pilot of its USBDC stablecoin, moving real money between its U.S. and European branches through the public Stellar (XLM) blockchain.

The bank chose not to create an isolated private network, proving that large amounts of capital can be transferred securely over open rails.

Major banks usually avoid open networks because of regulatory concerns, but U.S. Bank addressed this problem through technology. As Jamie Walker, the bank's head of digital assets, explained, its platform is fully integrated into its internal risk management system.

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The USBDC stablecoin's code includes freezing and clawback functions. If a payment is sent to the wrong address or draws the attention of financial intelligence authorities, the bank can immediately freeze or return the funds with a single click.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon called the launch a major precedent for the entire industry. She emphasized that U.S. Bank's live pilot is a clear example of real institutional adoption, with regulated financial institutions using Stellar's speed and open architecture for secure and compliant cross-border settlements.

U.S. Bank CEO Gunjan Kedia confirmed that the pilot had been successful. According to her, the technology will allow the bank to move capital between continents around the clock and at almost no cost, bypassing traditional intermediaries and lengthy interbank reconciliations.

At the initial stage, USBDC will remain a closed instrument used only for the bank's internal settlements and treasury operations.

Stellar was selected because of its ready-made infrastructure. According to the latest RWA.xyz data, the network's ecosystem currently holds $3.32 billion in real-world assets (RWAs). However, while ordinary users know Stellar through the retail stablecoin USDC, which has 685,000 holders, U.S. Bank is following the path of major funds such as Spiko and Figure's YLDS token.

This is a format that is "not for everyone": the system will have only a handful of wallets belonging to the bank's own divisions, but billions of dollars in transactions will flow through them.

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As for U.S. Bank, it can be argued that the institution has beaten its competitors to the punch. While a consortium of two dozen other major banks, including Goldman Sachs, is only promising to launch a shared interbank token by 2027, the fifth-largest U.S. bank has already tested a working solution on a public blockchain.

Former Ripple engineer and current Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger has estimated that there is a greater than 10% chance that artificial intelligence (AI) could wipe out humanity within the next decade.

Hubinger made the comment while responding to former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon. The latter announced his resignation from the AI company on Wednesday after accusing the industry’s leading laboratories of racing toward self-improving superintelligence without adequate safeguards.

"Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!" Hubinger wrote on X. "I personally think it is >10% within the next decade."

Hubinger stressed that his estimate was not an accusation that Anthropic was ignoring the problem altogether.

"I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to," he said.

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The somewhat sensationalist warning has attracted a lot of attention because Hubinger works directly on the problem he is warning about. At Anthropic, his job is alignment stress-testing, which means that he is currently monitoring how safety techniques could fail in the realm of AI.

Coxon said that neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is acting responsibly. 

"Neither company is acting responsibly," he wrote. "They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."

Frontier systems might soon gain an ability to exert meaningful influence outside controlled environments, according to Coxon. 

"These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources," he said.

Major laboratories are not properly disclosing AI-related risks to the public, according to Coxon. 

Coxon nevertheless said he remained optimistic that major AI laboratories could coordinate to slow the race. 

The warnings from Hubinger and Coxon have arrived just days after OpenAI and Anthropic released some of the most powerful models. 

OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra on Sept. 3, which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has described as the advent of superintelligence. 

In the meantime, Anthropic introduced Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. These are the company's most advanced models for coding and scientific research. 

Before becoming one of the more prominent researchers working on AI alignment, he spent roughly a year as a software engineering intern at Ripple between June 2014 and August 2015.

Hubinger worked on the early design of Interledger, a protocol intended to allow payments to move across different ledgers and currencies.

Hubinger later moved toward theoretical computer science and AI safety, including work at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

As reported by U.Today, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has stated that the company had been adopting AI "aggressively," predicting that it could boost growth. Garlinghouse admitted that his AI optimism was somehow contrarian. 

"I have a somewhat contrarian view on some of this," Garlinghouse said during an appearance at the SALT Wyoming conference.

A rare on-chain signal has appeared in the cryptocurrency market that, at first glance, looks like a deep crisis but has historically foreshadowed the end of a prolonged decline and a global trend reversal.

According to 'Crypto Dan' from analytics platform CryptoQuant, even the most resilient large investors have begun selling Bitcoin at a loss en masse amid a critical decline in public interest in the industry.

The essence of this paradox lies in a key on-chain indicator: the SOPR Ratio, which measures the profitability of long-term holders relative to short-term holders. 

It has fallen below the psychological threshold of 1.0. In previous market cycles, a drop in this metric below the signal line has always marked the final stage of clearing speculators from the market and the formation of a global macro bottom.

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Bitcoin's current consolidation around $78,400 has trapped market participants in a state of uncertainty. After a prolonged correction from previous highs, investors who had held their coins for years began to lose their nerve.

A drop in the ratio below one literally means that "old money" is now realizing deeper losses relative to its purchase price than recent buyers.

CryptoQuant analysts emphasize that periods in which even mid- to long-term investors keep selling Bitcoin at a loss have historically proved to be excellent entry points. The current situation is unique because the capitulation of large investors is occurring just as market participants' interest hits rock bottom.

Such a combination of factors — panic among market veterans and complete indifference from the crowd — comes around only once every few years. Experts conclude that even at its current levels, Bitcoin still looks cheap.

For the average observer, large investors selling at a loss looks like a reason to panic, but institutional investors view the situation differently. The capitulation phase among long-term holders traditionally coincides with the formation of a market bottom for two reasons:

Complete lack of hype: The market has been fully cleared of casual participants, while panic selling among retail traders has stopped, removing additional pressure on the price.

Transfer of coins into strong hands: While short-term participants dispose of their assets during local price fluctuations, large addresses, or "whales," use the lull to quietly absorb the available supply at relatively low prices.

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Despite the strong bullish potential of this paradox, analysts urge investors to wait for confirmation. For the trend to be decisively broken, the SOPR Ratio must not simply find a bottom but return above 1.0 and remain there consistently. This would prove that the market is ready to sustain new price levels and return to steady growth.

Shiba Inu's layer-2 blockchain Shibarium has seen a 122% increase in its daily transaction count even as the network's block explorer has been ongoing reindexing process.

Shibarium experienced a 122% increase in daily transaction count from 786 on September 6, 2026 to 1,750 on September 8, 2026 according to Shibariumscan.

The transactions jumped 122%, signaling a substantial increase in activity on Shibarium, after a sharp drop last week. Still, the spike in transactions must be seen in light of the current technical condition of the explorer.

According to the Shibariumscan homepage, indexing is in process and this could affect explorer statistics. The figures you see during the reindexing phase may not be indicative of actual activity on the blockchain. As stated on the Shibariumscan page, "51% Blocks Indexed—We are currently indexing this chain. Some of the counts may be inaccurate."

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Since late 2025, Shibarium has been undergoing massive infrastructure work, including server migration and chain reindexing.

During earlier stages of the process, the Shibarium explorer displayed significantly fewer blocks and transactions than the network had actually processed. Reindexing essentially involves rebuilding the explorer's database so it can accurately capture and display blockchain history.

Shiba Inu fell to a low of $0.00000535 early Wednesday before recovering, as cryptocurrency markets remained focused on inflation data and the Federal Reserve's Sept. 15 to 16 rate decision.

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Investors are awaiting a series of economic data releases this week for clues on how the economy is holding up. August producer price index data is scheduled for Thursday, while the consumer price index reading for that month will be released on Friday.

At the time of writing, SHIB was up 0.35% in the last 24 hours to $0.00000543 and up 6.35% weekly. Since reaching a high of $0.00000558 on September 5, SHIB has fluctuated between $0.00000534 and $0.00000557, with traders now watching for the next move.

The public resignation of leading AI developer Jacob Coxon from Anthropic has caused a stir among international technology investors. The incident drew the attention of Emi Yoshikawa, Ripple's former vice president of global operations, who is now involved in venture capital projects.

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On her X account, she quoted an insider and wrote that the researcher's post was rapidly gaining traction, while developers inside the company genuinely believe that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity within just a few years.

Jacob Coxon spent the last three years specializing in neural network pretraining, working at both OpenAI and Anthropic. In his resignation manifesto, he directly accused the leadership of both laboratories of engaging in an irresponsible race to create self-improving superintelligence.

"I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," Coxon stated.

According to the researcher, specialists developing advanced models such as Claude privately acknowledge the technology's existential threat. Coxon highlighted the difference between the companies' approaches: while many OpenAI employees still do not fully understand the scale of the risks, those at Anthropic recognize the danger but continue to accelerate development out of fear of losing the competitive race.

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Yoshikawa's public analysis of Coxon's manifesto highlights a new trend: the fintech market and venture capital funds have begun to treat internal turmoil at AI laboratories as a direct financial risk. When a former senior Ripple executive with ties to international investment circles amplifies panic among developers, it damages investor confidence more severely than any regulatory forecast.

For Anthropic and OpenAI, such insider revelations are not merely a blow to their reputations but a genuine threat to their valuations ahead of new funding rounds.

As a systemic solution, Coxon urged fellow engineers to reflect on their work and called on regulators to establish international agreements governing the pace of technological development, including a temporary ban on advancing AI's core capabilities.

As top crypto assets continue to show mixed price actions, it appears that institutional investors across the broad crypto market are gradually withdrawing their interest, causing momentum in the ETF market to fade.

While the broader crypto ETF market is seeing less participation from investors, the latest data from SosoValue shows that XRP has emerged as the only major cryptocurrency among Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana to attract fresh capital during the latest daily trading session.

After a day of zero participation in the XRP ETF ecosystem, it appears that investor demand for the XRP investment product has returned.

Per the data, XRP ETFs recorded a modest $1.55 million in net inflows on September 8, while Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana ETFs all posted net outflows on the same day.

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With XRP being the only asset that attracted fresh capital on that day, Bitcoin ETFs collectively recorded about $46.65 million in net outflows, while Ethereum and Solana ETFs saw $24.29 million and $667,720 in withdrawals on the same day.

Although XRP only saw a very modest capital flow into its funds, it has taken dominance over the ETF market, as it shows that investors are more interested in gaining exposure to XRP through regulated ETF products rather than other assets.

While XRP is back on a bullish trajectory, showing a modest price gain of around 3% over the last day, the sustained demand for its ETF product could further drive price appreciation for the asset.

As such, traders are increasingly becoming optimistic about a $2 breakout for XRP as momentum continues to build despite market instability.

With more than twice as much revenue from 24-hour applications as Robinhood Chain, Solana has surpassed a number of significant blockchain ecosystems. Solana is the largest network in the ranking, with applications generating about $6.56 million in revenue in a 24-hour period, according to the most recent data. 

Robinhood Chain recorded about $3.22 million, while BSC came in second with $3.26 million. This indicates that during the measured period, Solana generated slightly more than twice the revenue of the Robinhood Chain app. Additional context is given by the remaining rankings. With about $1.94 million generated, Hyperliquid L1 surpassed Ethereum at $1.59 million. 

None of the five biggest networks included Base. The revenue performance for Solana coincides with a significant recovery in SOL. SOL has recovered significantly from its June low of about $62, and it is currently trading at about $104.40. The largest technical development occurred in August when SOL quickly moved through its major moving averages after breaking out of its protracted $74–$78 consolidation. 

At approximately $97.07, the asset is currently trading above the 20-day moving average and significantly above the 200-day average, which is close to $91.38. The support structure beneath the current price is strengthened by the concentration of its 50-day and 100-day averages around $86. 

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After momentarily entering overbought territory, the RSI has dropped to about 63, and trading volume has also decreased since the August spike. Since then, SOL has stabilized around $100 to $108. The next significant technical confirmation would be a breakout above $108–$110, which might pave the way for a move toward $116 and possibly $120. 

The first psychological support, on the other hand, is $100, and the rising 20-day average is about $97. Since app revenue and token valuation measure different things, a higher SOL price is not directly guaranteed by the application-revenue ranking. 

However, Solana's ability to generate $6.56 million in a single day provides a clear indication of economic activity at a time when SOL is trying to establish a sustained recovery above $100.