Retrospective coverage of September 5: U.S. ether funds finished the week with sharply slower inflows, while one session supplied nearly three-quarters of bitcoin funds’ weekly net intake.
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U.S. spot bitcoin funds posted their strongest daily inflow in more than seven months as interest-rate expectations shifted after conditional remarks from a Federal Reserve governor. The one-day result is substantial, but it does not yet establish a durable allocation trend or prove what caused bitcoin’s rebound.
Payward will join SoFi’s round-the-clock settlement network and list SoFiUSD on Kraken, while Kraken Prime becomes another execution channel for SoFi crypto orders. The agreement links three normally separate layers of the U.S. digital-asset market, but its economics and implementation timetable remain undisclosed.
Australia’s central bank is considering how stablecoins and tokenised markets could connect to its settlement infrastructure. A parallel review found no clear public-interest case for issuing digital cash to households.
The NYSE American-listed company turned off every bitcoin miner at its Michigan campus to prepare 20 megawatts for an AI customer. Its SEC filings show that delivering the contracted capacity will require substantial new capital.
The Japanese listed company realized ¥117.8 million from selling its ether, solana, XRP and dogecoin positions. The proceeds were not committed to bitcoin and may instead support battery assets or the company’s balance sheet.
Payward will create tokens linked to 100 large London-listed companies, while the exchange intends to admit xStocks to its planned overnight venue in 2027. The exchange launch remains subject to regulatory approval, and the existing tokens do not confer direct share ownership.
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Japan’s financial authorities reportedly planned to study near-real-time securities settlement using blockchain, extending experiments involving central-bank money and Japanese government bonds. The initiative remained preliminary, with no approved system or implementation timetable.
Grayscale converted its nine-year-old Zcash trust into ZCSH, giving brokerage accounts access to spot ZEC exposure while retaining important distinctions from a 1940 Act-registered ETF.
A determination effective August 24, 2026 applied Executive Order 13902 to Iran’s digital-asset sector, widening the grounds on which the United States could sanction foreign operators and service providers.
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