Bitcoin closed below $77,100 for a third session and could retest $73,500.Futures open interest recovered to $52.15 billion after falling by $1.7 billion.U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $450.4 million in daily net outflows.Coinbase’s spot discount widened as perpetual traders increased buy-side activity.

Ethereum and Base developers have ended efforts to align EIP 8141 and EIP 8130 after failing to agree on a common account abstraction design.Ethereum is prioritizing censorship resistance, privacy and security, while Base is focusing on scale, customization and compliance.EIP 8141 has been labeled a must ship proposal for Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade, while Base will continue developing EIP 8130 separately.Wallet developers may need to support two native transaction formats if both proposals are eventually deployed.

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CFTC staff will not recommend enforcement against qualifying passive software providers over certain registration failures.The relief applies when software connects users with registered derivatives exchanges, brokers and futures commission merchants.Providers must meet 10 conditions, including filing a notice and accepting the CFTC’s enforcement jurisdiction.The decision follows separate SEC relief covering eligible tokenized stock trading venues for five years.

Anchorage Digital has added custody for seven Etherlink assets, including xU3O8 tokenized physical uranium.Institutional clients can hold the assets in segregated accounts at federally chartered Anchorage Digital Bank.Support covers xU3O8, WXTZ, stXTZ, USDT, USDC, USDSM and wrapped Ether.Etherlink is an EVM compatible Tezos layer 2 used by projects including Uranium.io for tokenized real world assets.

The self-custodial wallet is expanding beyond The Open Network, with support for seven blockchains and more financial products planned.

Standard Chartered initiated ARB coverage with a $10 end-2030 target, implying roughly seventyfold upside today.The bank forecasts ARB at $0.50 in 2026, $1.50 in 2027, and $3.50 in 2028.Robinhood Chain returns 10% of net protocol revenue to Arbitrum under its expansion program license.Arbitrum Foundation said expansion-program fees represented 35% of DAO income during July after Robinhood launched.Standard Chartered forecasts tokenized assets reaching $4 trillion by 2028 and equities reaching $750 billion.

Kyobo Life and SBI tested direct yen-won stablecoin exchange without routing transactions through U.S. dollars.The Canton Network test environment handled institutional transfer, foreign exchange, settlement, tracking, and reconciliation processes.Test tokens represented yen and won stablecoins, while no institutional funds changed hands during testing.Kyobo Life called the project South Korea’s first cross-border institutional stablecoin test by an insurer.Both companies plan further work linking digital asset exchange, settlement, and asset management between markets.

S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin to expand its smart contract security and onchain risk assessment capabilities.OpenZeppelin has completed more than 900 security engagements, while its smart contracts have supported over $37 trillion in value transferred.OpenZeppelin will operate as a separate S&P Global business unit and keep its open source contracts library free and publicly maintained.The deal follows S&P Global’s $110 million strategic investment round in crypto market data provider Kaiko earlier this week.

Crypto VC funding reached $5.683 billion in Q2 across 384 deals, up 31% from Q1.Later-stage companies received 78% of Q2 venture capital, while pre-seed deals represented 21% of transactions.Trading, exchange, investing, and lending startups attracted $3.523 billion, nearly three-fifths of Q2 venture capital.U.S.-headquartered companies received 73.5% of Q2 crypto venture capital across 39.1% of completed deals globally.Five crypto venture funds raised roughly $3.9 billion in Q2, the fewest funds since 2019.

Bitwise will end BWOW trading on October 14, roughly ten months after the fund launched.Remaining shareholders will receive cash based on October 21 net asset value eight days later.New BWOW share creation will stop before NYSE Arca opens for trading on October 15.Dogecoin ETFs recorded $318,000 in August net inflows, according to figures published by SoSoValue online.DOGE traded near $0.084 on Friday after declining approximately 2.6% during the previous market session.

NFT sales increased 55.6% to $75.54 million, while transactions fell 14.77% to 650,332.Buyer addresses rose 20.38% to 273,655, and seller addresses increased 18.09% to 291,266.Ethereum sales fell 14.23% to $18.94 million despite an increase in buyer addresses.BNB Chain sales surged 1,042% to $32.75 million, making it the top-ranked network.Courtyard led collections with $6.32 million, while a BRC-20 NFT sold for 10 BTC.

Riot Games has discussed potential esports sponsorship deals with prediction market operators Kalshi and Polymarket.Any approved sponsor would be required to use official betting data supplied through Riot partner GRID Esports.The talks come ahead of the League of Legends World Championship, which begins in October.Riot said it is evaluating prediction markets based on competitive integrity, value for teams and their impact on fans.

Tests cut median propagation for a 1 MiB payload from five seconds below one second.EIP-8411 splits execution payloads into chunks that nodes can verify and forward before full completion.A Merkle root in the execution bid lets nodes validate each received payload segment independently.Prototype tests used 500 simulated nodes, home-builder bandwidth, geographic latency, and ten randomized network seeds.Ethereum developers will discuss EIP-8411 for Hegotá inclusion at ACDC on September 17, 2026 today.