OpenAI rolled GPT-6 Astra into ChatGPT Plus desktop access and an API, though users flagged restrictive safeguards. OPENAI perpetuals jumped during the rollout.
The U.S. struck three Iranian oil tankers after Tehran fired missiles at Navy ships, and Bitcoin fell to $76,400 during the escalation. Brent later climbed to a six-week high of $97.73.
Bitcoin pulled back to about $78,300 after rejection at $81,000 to $82,000 but remains above a rising trendline. Losing $78,000 could send it quickly toward $75,000; holding it leaves another run at $82,000 in play.
PONS pulled back to around a $600 million valuation after nearing $900 million. Loracle’s short still needed roughly another $160 million drop in PONS market cap to break even.
Hunter Biden plans to launch LAPTOP on Base on September 9. The day-one airdrop assigns 10% to his Substack and Channel 5 subscribers, with unclaimed tokens burned after 30 days.
STONK extended its rebound to a $170 million market cap after falling 50% on news that Pump.fun plans to add stock pairings.
Robinhood Chain reached a record 375,000 active addresses, with DEX volume at $361 million and launchpad volume at $212 million. Robinhood Wallet’s confirmed swap route accounts for under 1% of transactions, so most activity may come from existing crypto users.
Vida Global CEO Lyle Pratt followed CTO’s community page after highlighting onchain trading tied to Vida shares. Traders treated the follow as support for the Solana meme token.
Robinhood Chain briefly overtook Solana in daily app revenue before Solana reclaimed first place with nearly twice as much over the next 24 hours. Bernstein says Robinhood Chain still led all chains with $33 million in fees over the past 15 days.
The Senate set a September 15 cloture vote to open debate on the CLARITY Act, which needs 60 votes to advance. Senator Cynthia Lummis said failure this Congress could push the next chance for crypto market structure legislation to 2030.
Useless Coin climbed to a $320 million market cap after gaining 250% in two days.
Max Extractors cut its supply from 44,444 to 15,449 in the first burn after owners declined to pay the daily holding fee. Burns can continue until no more than 444 NFTs remain.
NET hit $2,000 for the first time after recovering from an earlier 50% drop. A Uniswap v4 pool had little NET left during the move.
Variational launched onchain gold and Nasdaq 100 swaps that route liquidity through traditional venues. Traders filled the initial $40 million open-interest cap in 30 minutes, and open interest passed $100 million after Variational raised it.
Bitcoin’s 90-day correlation with gold rose to roughly 0.56 to 0.59, near its highest since tracking began. Its Nasdaq-100 correlation dropped to about 0.22 to 0.30.
Quotrons reached a 4.4 ETH floor and logged a 12.9 ETH Nasdank sale. The collection also moved above StonkBroker NFTs.
Artificial Inu held a $180 million market cap and moved back above September’s point of control and the seven-day volume-weighted average price. A drop back below those levels would restore the bearish setup.
South Korea plans to start with tokenized private bonds and funds for institutions in February 2027. Later stages would add public equities and stablecoin settlement.
Arc plans to launch mainnet on September 16. EdgeX expects to open foreign-exchange perpetuals on day one, and Aave plans an early deployment backed by a five-year revenue guarantee.
Pump.fun may have raised daily callout rewards to $1 million after paying more than $200,000 to 2,226 small accounts on one prior day. At that rate, callout rewards and token buybacks would absorb all daily revenue.
TradeXYZ allocated about $3.4 million, or 12% of perpetual-fee revenue, to buy roughly 59,000 HYPE through time-weighted orders.
Fourmeme launched 4Stock on BNB Chain, using USDC to buy BNC shares through a managed account and mint matching BNC4 tokens. The separate 4STOCK token touched a nearly $50 million market cap within hours.
ZEC rose above $1,200 and put Zcash among crypto’s top 10 by market cap. F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang called the rally narrative-driven and said the network’s fundamentals do not support that rank.
The Ethereum Foundation ranked FOCIL and Frame Transactions as the only S-tier proposals among 62 EIPs proposed for the Hegotá fork.
ZCAT takes a 3% tax from each transfer, converts it to ZEC and pays wallets holding at least $20 of ZCAT. It has distributed roughly 2,320 ZEC, worth $2.8 million.