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Odaily News: Approximately 2.4 million ZEC participated in the privacy-protection vote for Zcash's next major network upgrade, NU7, accounting for about two-thirds of the tokens eligible to vote.Voters supported shortening the block time to 25 seconds, retaining the Bitcoin-style halving schedule, and launching NU7 as soon as possible; they also supported postponing the reissuance of fees collected by the network sustainability mechanism until February 2031 and disabling transactions related to the deprecated Sprout privacy system. (CoinDesk)
Block CEO Jack Dorsey has expressed support for review, independent evaluation, and planning of frontier AI, but opposes governments and leading AI companies negotiating industry-wide development restrictions.He advocates for an open-release approach that allows outside parties to reproduce results, identify problems, and develop alternatives, and supports providing models, computing power, and public infrastructure to independent researchers and safety researchers.Block is developing open-source AI tools and provides Bitcoin-related services across products including Square and Cash App. The company has also launched the open-source AI agent goose, and is developing Bitcoin mining hardware Proto and hardware wallet Bitkey. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to The Block, Katie Wobadden, spokesperson for Senator Cynthia Lummis, stated that the Democrats' amended counterproposal for the latest version of the Clarity Act is identical to their pre-recess position, leading Republicans to reject it. Wobadden noted that Republicans have already made significant concessions on multiple fronts, including agreeing to nearly the entire Tillis-Gallego ethics framework, while Democrats "have not budged," and called on them to engage in substantive negotiations.
According to The Block, on-chain confidentiality protocol Zama will open deposits for 16 Morpho confidential vaults on September 15, supporting assets such as USDC, USDT, AUSD, and TGBP. Previously, the first vault launched by Zama in collaboration with Morpho and Steakhouse Financial reached $40 million in total value locked within seven weeks.
perpetual contract platform RWAperp has announced the completion of $2 million in financing, with a post-investment valuation of $50 million. Participants in the round include Lime co-founder Brad Bao, Cresta AI co-founder Tim Shi, Tesla Autopilot team member Phil Duan, Crux members William Freiberg and Charles Ferguson, as well as members of the a16z and Sequoia Scout networks.RWAperp is a decentralized perpetual contract protocol for traditional financial assets. It is currently live on OKX X Layer and has opened 19 markets, covering BTC, ETH, SOL, Korean and U.S. stocks, the S&P 500 Index, the DRAM Index, gold, silver, and WTI crude oil. Users can settle in USDC, USDT, or USDG and gain leveraged long and short exposure to stocks, indices, commodities, and crypto assets without needing to hold, custody, or tokenize the underlying assets.RWAperp primarily designs its trading, pricing, liquidity, and risk management systems around the trading characteristics of the stock market, and handles situations such as market closure periods, overnight gaps, trading halts, and corporate actions. The platform uses a multi-issuer composite oracle and provides a professional order book trading terminal.RWAperp is also developing Agent Mode. This AI feature is designed to understand natural language trading instructions, analyze market conditions, and gradually support trading execution operations such as opening positions, position management, and closing positions. (The Block)
According to The Block, Bernstein analysts indicated that Senate Republicans' progress on the Clarity Act may surpass market consensus expectations. The Republican proposal has been finalized, incorporating 126 substantive amendments put forward by Democrats. President Trump has also endorsed most measures within the bipartisan ethics framework, including granting enforcement authority to state attorneys general. Bernstein pointed out that the crypto market currently holds a pessimistic view toward Tuesday’s procedural vote, with "any upside surprises not yet priced in." The probability of the bill's passage on prediction market platform Kalshi has climbed back above 30%. Analysts cautioned that a failure to pass the legislation, combined with hawkish remarks from the Federal Reserve, could trigger a "significant pullback" in markets. However, even if the bill fails, it will accelerate SEC and CFTC crypto regulatory rulemaking rather than derail broader regulatory efforts.
According to The Block, Uniswap Labs has launched the StablePair Hook, a stablecoin pair tool designed for Uniswap v4, supporting trading pairs such as USDC/USDT and USDC/USDG. The tool utilizes a dynamic fee mechanism that adjusts trading fees when the pool price deviates from the reference price, helping liquidity providers retain more value generated by stablecoin arbitrage and price reversion. The initial StablePair Hook pools will launch on Ethereum and can be upgraded via Uniswap governance.
Odaily News — Global payments company MoneyGram has launched its first stablecoin Visa card in Colombia, developed with assistance from stablecoin payment infrastructure company Rain. The card is currently available in digital form, allowing users to hold U.S. dollar stablecoin balances within the MoneyGram app and make online and offline payments through the Visa network. Users can also convert their balances into local cash and withdraw at MoneyGram locations. The card initially supports USDC, and MoneyGram plans to add its own stablecoin MGUSD in the near future. The company also plans to launch a physical card by the end of 2026 and expand its business to other Latin American markets first. (The Block)
Liquid Network announced on X platform that as of September 10 at 10:00 (UTC), the network has entered a controlled recovery phase. As a precautionary measure, the network has resumed block production but is not yet processing transactions, and is continuously monitoring to confirm full network stability. Blockstream stated that the required Functionary node and bridge node updates have been successfully deployed, and Functionary nodes are now signing and validating blocks as expected. Meanwhile, pegging operations, including PAK-authorized Peg-out, remain paused, and the network is in the final recovery phase, including restoring BTC/LBTC reserves. Liquid Network reminds users to be wary of scammers using this incident to publish fake update websites or messages, and to never transfer funds to unknown channels or disclose private keys or seed phrases.
According to The Block, Anchorage Digital has added support for Robinhood Chain, enabling institutional investors to custody tokens, tokenized debt securities, and real-world assets issued on the layer-2 network through this federally chartered crypto bank.
According to The Block (@TheBlockCo), Vitalik Buterin is actively pushing to incorporate EIP-8288 (a recursive STARK memory pool draft released this June) into Ethereum's I-star fork upgrade following the Hegota fork. The proposal aims to reduce the cost of quantum-safe transactions, with its core approach moving signature and proof computation out of Ethereum's core execution path while keeping proof data on-chain.
According to The Block, Aave has officially launched its official MCP server, allowing AI agents to access real-time protocol data from Aave V3 and V4 and prepare transactions. The server supports integration with MCP-compatible tools such as ChatGPT and Claude, enabling users to independently control transaction signing permissions.
According to The Block, the Ethereum Foundation Protocol Cluster has released a list of EIP ratings for the upcoming Hegotá upgrade, setting December 2029 as the target milestone for achieving full quantum resistance. The two S-tier (mandatory delivery) proposals for the upgrade are: FOCIL (EIP-7805) at the consensus layer, which enhances censorship resistance by requiring validator committees to enforce the inclusion of public mempool transactions; and framework transactions (EIP-8141) at the execution layer, which natively integrates account abstraction, supporting custom signatures, sponsored gas, and batch operations to improve security and quantum resistance. The Ethereum Foundation stated that this timeline aligns with the independent migration targets of Google, Cloudflare, and Microsoft, and the December 2029 deadline will be considered non-negotiable prior to January 2027. Hegotá is not the final quantum-safe fork, but rather a critical milestone determining whether subsequent upgrades can proceed on schedule. From the Q4 2026 Glamsterdam upgrade to December 2029, the average fork cycle is only about 7.2 months, leaving extremely limited execution slack.
According to The Block, the University of Florida has signed a multi-year partnership agreement with Ripple. Starting with the 2026 football season, the XRP brand will officially enter the university's athletic programs, including featuring a prominent logo on the field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, alongside branding for digital assets and event promotions. Additionally, Ripple will provide financial and technology education support to student-athletes and the campus community.
According to The Block, World has open-sourced the zero-knowledge identity verification toolkit ProveKit, which is already used in World ID. ProveKit enables users to generate cryptographic proofs locally on their phones or browsers, allowing them to prove information such as age, nationality, or ownership of valid identification documents without disclosing personal data.
According to The Block, the Wyoming Stable Token Committee announced the adoption of Chainlink Proof of Reserve to provide near-real-time on-chain reserve validation for its official stablecoin, Frontier Stable Token (FRNT). The Network Firm will audit FRNT reserves in accordance with AICPA standards, while Chainlink will post verification data on-chain in real time to bridge information gaps between reporting cycles. Previously, Wyoming fully migrated FRNT from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP last month as its sole cross-chain infrastructure. The committee is also advancing the Chainlink Proof of Reserve Secure Mint feature, which requires verifying that reserves do not fall below FRNT's total supply before minting new tokens to prevent infinite minting attacks. FRNT launched in January this year and is the United States' first government-issued stable token, backed by U.S. dollars and short-term U.S. Treasuries.
According to The Block, Robinhood Wallet and Fomo users can purchase select memecoins using credit cards via Apple Pay or Google Pay without completing a separate identity verification process. Testing shows that these transactions are powered by crypto infrastructure company Crossmint and are classified under the "digital goods media" category rather than as cryptocurrency purchases, thereby qualifying for standard credit card points or cashback rewards.
According to The Block, Hyperliquid’s institutional trading layer, Silhouette, officially launched its Request for Quote (RFQ) system on mainnet on Tuesday, initially supporting Payward’s tokenized equity framework, xStocks. Traders can submit quote requests to designated market makers; after market makers place bids, the winning counterparty settles the trade on-chain. This enables round-the-clock, large-volume trading without the need for a dedicated order book. Tokens that meet trading activity thresholds can be migrated to standalone HyperCore markets in the future. Since its launch in June 2025, xStocks has processed over $40 billion in cumulative trading volume, settled approximately $20 billion on-chain, and accumulated more than 200,000 holders. With a current market cap of around $620 million, it ranks as the third-largest global issuer of tokenized stocks.
According to The Block, Ethena Labs has officially launched the beta version of its self-custody payment app, Ethena Pay, built on Avalanche, which is now available in 48 countries including Brazil, Japan, Singapore, and Kenya. Users can receive funds via IBAN or cryptocurrency, hold balances in USDe, and benefit from fee-free instant global transfers. The app features three membership tiers: Standard (free), Pro (requires locking $2,000 worth of ENA or inviting 10 users), and VIP (requires locking $10,000 worth of ENA or inviting 50 users), offering respective annual yields of 5%, 6%, and 6%, with balance caps of $5,000, $15,000, and $50,000. The Ethena Pay card provides a 4%–5% base cashback (settled in AVAX), while Pro and VIP users enjoy up to 10% exclusive cashback at brands such as Uber, Spotify, and Claude. The backend infrastructure is powered by Iron, a subsidiary of MoonPay. Markets including the United States and the European Union were not part of the initial launch and will be progressively rolled out once regulatory compliance is achieved.
According to The Block, OpenSea has added support for Solana non-fungible tokens (NFTs), enabling users to buy, sell, and trade on-chain digital collectibles from collections such as Mad Lads, Claynosaurz, BoDoggos, Collector Crypt, and Phygitals on its platform.