Zcash takes crypto’s ninth spot
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Zcash reached an $18.73 billion market cap, putting ZEC ninth and just ahead of Hyperliquid at $17.66 billion. ZEC gained 116% over the past month.
Zcash reached an $18.73 billion market cap, putting ZEC ninth and just ahead of Hyperliquid at $17.66 billion. ZEC gained 116% over the past month.
Investors pulled a net $389.7 million from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs from August 10 to 14, the largest weekly outflow in six weeks. Fidelity’s FBTC accounted for $153 million.
Quotrons reached a 4.4 ETH floor and logged a 12.9 ETH Nasdank sale. The collection also moved above StonkBroker NFTs.
Saudi Arabia plans to restore half of East-West pipeline flows within days and offered extra crude through Oman after drone strikes halted Yanbu loadings. Oil fell, easing one source of inflation pressure on Bitcoin.
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that can shop and pay through Stripe Link. It also handles email and travel bookings.
Italian prosecutors are investigating whether hackers used a compromised prefecture email account to obtain records for about 680 Revolut customers selected for their crypto holdings. A group claiming the breach demanded 6,000 XMR, about $3 million, within 24 hours.
ZCAT takes a 3% tax from each transfer, converts it to wrapped ZEC and pays qualifying holders. Cumulative ZEC distributions have surpassed $8 million.
NET fell about 60% from its August 29 peak of $2,010 to $750 on September 15. It has since climbed back above $1,000 but remains well below the peak.
STONK fell about 50% from its all-time high, wiping out the earlier rebound near a $240 million market cap. Recent buyers remain underwater.
Bitcoin bounced from roughly $74,000 but remains below Glassnode’s $76,700 True Market Mean. A second close below it could expose the $71,300 short-term holder cost basis.
The House Financial Services Committee advanced H.R. 8957 by 28–21 after an earlier delay. The bill would require a 20-year hold for reserve Bitcoin and direct a study of budget-neutral acquisitions.
Rare Friends opened its Genesis NFT mint, and activated NFTs earn fee rewards. Holders can burn one for 1 million RAREFRIEND tokens by paying a 100,000-token fee, leaving 900,000 tokens net.
Zcash holders voted 99.9% to cut block times from 75 seconds to 25, and 97% backed delaying the Network Sustainability Mechanism until February 2031. The vote is advisory, so developers still need to ship the changes.
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced H.R. 10357 by 38-5. It extends wash-sale rules to crypto, sets rules for stablecoins, mining and staking, and exempts qualifying network and transaction fees of $10 or less from gain or loss calculations.
U.S. forces struck three more Iranian oil carriers on Sept. 5, extending tanker attacks that began near Khasab on Aug. 31. Brent neared $108, adding inflation and rate pressure for Bitcoin.
Hashcats raised the next-epoch mint price to about 0.16 ETH and routes future mint proceeds to existing holders. The floor fell to about 0.12 ETH, below the mint price, even as holder payouts continued.
The 10-year Treasury yield rose to 5.04%, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blamed the jump on higher oil prices. Yields near 5% give bonds a stronger short-term pull against Bitcoin.
CASHCAT hit a new high near $0.30 and a $300 million market cap on September 3. It was valued at roughly $5 million in July.
Meebit Company and Clutch Markets launched NightShades NFTs and four faction tokens on Robinhood Chain. All four tokens completed their bonding curves, generating nearly $500,000 in volume and a shared pool of 60 ETH.
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.
Artificial Inu’s breakout failed again, sending it back into the value area near the seven-day relative volume-weighted average price and September point of control. The rejection could lead to a correction below a $180 million market cap.
Strategy bought 4,603 Bitcoin for $369.7 million after a two-month pause, funding the purchase through common stock sales. Its holdings rose to 845,050 BTC.
The DOJ charged two Robinhood engineers with commodities and wire fraud. Prosecutors say they used confidential listing information to trade Hyperliquid perpetuals and each made more than $50,000.
An onchain contract tracking OpenAI’s pre-IPO value fell about 5% after David Sacks pushed back on Dario Amodei’s call to slow frontier AI development. The comparable Anthropic contract held steady.
Zama opened 16 confidential Morpho vaults across five curators and five assets on September 15, including its first confidential WBTC vault. Its first confidential vault grew from $5.7 million to $43 million even after its yield fell from 49.2% to 7.2%.