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SWIFT service provider Bottomline announced a collaboration with the blockchain infrastructure project Chainlink to enable over 600 bank clients in its network to access blockchain-based cross-border settlements. Bottomline processes over $16 trillion in payments annually and serves 1,200 financial institutions and 10,000 enterprises.Through this integration, banks can continue to use the ISO 20022 standard to send payment instructions, with Chainlink's infrastructure connecting the instructions to blockchain settlements. Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) supports the transfer of tokenized value across different blockchain networks, while Chainlink's Runtime Environment (CRE) is responsible for payment processes, transaction routing, and operational change coordination.CCIP has been recording mainnet activity since July 2023 and is currently connected to over 60 blockchain networks. Chainlink's Project Pangea has covered more than 50 banking institutions in Europe and South Korea, with participants managing assets totaling over $10 trillion, and the project's goals include achieving T+0 settlement for foreign exchange transactions.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the "Artificial Intelligence Superintelligence Prohibition Act," which calls for a permanent ban on the development of superintelligent AI and a suspension of advanced AI research until new federal agencies establish safety standards and review procedures. Sanders criticized large AI companies for developing technologies that they cannot fully understand or reliably control, stating that companies and individuals who violate the regulations could face up to 20 years in prison, with the most serious cases potentially subject to what is referred to as "corporate death penalty."The bill defines superintelligence as AI systems that achieve or exceed human capabilities across numerous tasks or could undermine human control (including overthrowing the U.S. government), and this definition also encompasses human-level AGI. The bill plans to establish a new cabinet-level agency responsible for monitoring advanced models, overseeing the removal of dangerous capabilities, and the destruction of banned systems, as well as forming an AI advisory committee to provide scientific and technical advice.On the same day the bill was announced, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, with co-founder Greg Brockman stating that he personally believes this model may meet the definition of AGI. OpenAI described Astra as its first model to reach a "critical" threshold of cybersecurity capability, potentially discovering and exploiting unknown vulnerabilities in protected systems without gradual human guidance, with its strongest cybersecurity capabilities limited to selected testers. Previously, OpenAI and Anthropic's models had repeatedly accessed real systems without authorization during testing, including incidents where OpenAI's model breached Hugging Face to obtain test answers.

On September 2, Curve DAO approved proposal 1492, appointing yRisk as the risk provider for crvUSD and Llamalend, concluding the selection process that began in July. The proposal passed with 621 million veCRV votes in favor, with only 5.33 votes against, and was executed 87 minutes after the voting ended. yRisk will receive a one-year revocable grant, including a principal of 125,000 frxUSD (held in sfrxUSD) and 568,000 CRV, while their previously requested annual funding amount was $250,000.yRisk consists of two members, who claim to be the main developers of Resupply, as well as core developers for Yearn and Resupply. Resupply is a stablecoin and lending protocol built on crvUSD and CurveLend, which lost $9.6 million in June 2025 due to a donation attack vulnerability, although this incident was not mentioned in the proposal. The reviewer, Swiss Stake, confirmed yRisk's experience with Curve but expressed concerns about their limited two-member team and the workload required to cover multiple Llamalend market monitoring scopes.LlamaRisk, which previously held the position, announced the early termination of its cooperation with Curve on May 29, ceased related work on June 30, and returned approximately 270,000 crvUSD of unallocated funds to the treasury. Curve founder Michael Egorov initiated a proposal solicitation on July 7.

On September 2, the Wyoming Stable Token Committee announced the adoption of Chainlink Proof of Reserve as the exclusive on-chain reserve verification layer for the Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), with reserves and supply balances audited by The Network Firm published to on-chain readable feeds. The current scale available for verification is not large: according to CoinGecko data, the total supply of FRNT is 967,900 tokens, with a unit price of approximately $0.99884, which only accounts for about 0.2% of the base scenario estimate (508.7 million tokens) submitted by the committee to the state legislature's budget meeting materials; the 24-hour trading volume is $160, all occurring on Kraken.The announcement separates the two products, with only Proof of Reserve currently online. The Proof of Reserve Secure Mint component, which programmatically prevents minting when reserves cannot cover total supply, is said by the committee to still be in the "adoption process." The committee previously published daily proofs on its official website, and this adjustment changes the method of data delivery rather than the update frequency. Committee Executive Director Anthony Apollo stated that adopting Chainlink's reserve proof provides transparent and verifiable confirmation that FRNT is fully backed by high-quality reserve assets; Chainlink Labs Chief Business Officer Johann Eid remarked that this demonstrates that governments can utilize the Chainlink platform to put trustworthy, fully verifiable on-chain financial infrastructure into production.

Cointelegraph reported that the crypto-friendly bank Revolut has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to obtain a national bank charter in the United States.The company aims to launch related services by 2027, which will include loans, credit cards, custodial deposits, and cryptocurrency access services.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has preliminarily approved OpenReserve's application for a national bank charter. The company completed a $25 million seed round of financing in April, led by a16z crypto, with participation from Jump Capital, Acrew, Coinbase Ventures, Clocktower, Quona, and the Middle Eastern venture capital fund AAF Management.OpenReserve is led by fintech executives including Dee Choubey, co-founder of MoneyLion, and is committed to combining traditional banking, blockchain infrastructure, and digital asset services, utilizing digital assets and technology to achieve 24/7 operations. OpenReserve is also applying for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance and has submitted its application to the FDIC.

According to the official announcement from the Ethena Foundation, the fee conversion vote has been approved, with 100% in favor. The programmatic ENA buyback will begin and will gradually scale up as indicators and milestones are achieved.Previously, on August 27, the Ethena Foundation announced four adjustments to the Ethena ecosystem, including the buyback of locked tokens held by early investors, further aligning the token with equity value, initiating a governance proposal for revenue buyback of ENA, and canceling future monthly VC investor unlocks.

According to DefiLlama data, the Robinhood chain token issuance platform Pons has reached a protocol fee of 6.33 million USD in the last 24 hours, setting a new record and becoming the largest token issuance platform by protocol fees, surpassing Pump.fun. Among all protocols, Pons ranks fourth in fees over the last 24 hours, following Tether, Uniswap, and Circle. Pons' protocol revenue ranks 8th across the network.On September 2, the Pons platform issued nearly 25,000 new tokens, an increase of nearly 19% compared to Tuesday, with a 24-hour trading volume of 544 million USD. Data shows that since July, the platform has issued approximately 646,000 tokens from over 167,000 different creator addresses.

Bubblemaps stated that the wallet address that previously targeted the MARS token has sold all the tokens it held, making a profit of approximately 800,000 USD.

Circle President and former CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert stated at a hearing of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee that the GENIUS Act has established a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, equivalent to building a "dollar layer" for the internet financial system. He urged Congress to next pass the CLARITY Act to complete the long-term regulatory framework for the "market layer" of digital assets.In addition, Tarbert also urged that the final implementation rules of the GENIUS Act should close the regulatory arbitrage space for offshore stablecoins, requiring intermediary institutions that actually serve U.S. customers to be subject to corresponding restrictions, and ensuring that foreign stablecoin issuers meet truly comparable regulatory standards.

According to Hyperbot data, Huang Licheng has just opened a 10x leveraged HYPE long position again, with an overall position turning from loss to profit, and an investment return rate of about 11.18%, with unrealized profits exceeding $594,000:25x leveraged Ethereum long position, holding 40,800 ETH, with unrealized profits of $66,700;40x leveraged Bitcoin long position, holding 400 BTC, with unrealized profits of $540,200;10x leveraged HYPE long position, holding 69,000 HYPE, with unrealized losses of $11,000.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Abraxas Capital purchased 16,554 ETH in spot transactions over the past 12 hours, worth $39.8 million.Its two hedge accounts on Hyperliquid hold a total of 120,178 ETH short positions, valued at $291.4 million.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, a new address (0x362...95c45) withdrew 1000 PAXG from OKX in the past 7 hours, worth 4.428 million USD.After the rise in gold prices, the address has an unrealized profit of 36,000 USD.

According to a report by Reuters, Apple Inc. is facing a class-action lawsuit in London, with claims amounting to £2 billion (approximately $2.7 billion). The lawsuit was filed today in the London Competition Appeal Tribunal by Ann Pope, a former senior official of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, representing app developers.The core allegation is that Apple's "App Tracking Transparency" (ATT) feature, launched in 2021, imposes stricter restrictions on third-party developers than on its own services, giving Apple's own advertising ecosystem an unfair competitive advantage. Ann Pope stated that Apple's policies "have caused very significant harm to businesses that rely on Apple as a gatekeeper."Since its launch, the ATT feature has been a focal point of concern for global regulators for several years. Apple's official stance is that the feature is designed to allow users to control whether to permit apps to track their activities across other companies and websites.However, the plaintiffs argue that the actual enforcement of this rule has a double standard—tracking requests from third-party apps require strict pop-up authorization, while Apple's own personalized ads and services can bypass the same restrictions. This lawsuit represents the latest legal challenge Apple faces regarding its ATT policy and is the first large-scale private antitrust lawsuit initiated in the UK market against Apple's app ecosystem rules following scrutiny from regulators in the EU, the US, and several other countries.

According to CriptoNoticias, the Argentine Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) conducted a special training course titled "Virtual Assets: Financial Analysis, Tracking, Detection, and Seizure" for internal staff, officials, and judges on August 19 and September 2, 2026, via the Zoom platform, with anti-money laundering specialist lawyer Carmen Chena as the speaker.The course covered topics such as digital wallet asset analysis, domestic and international legal frameworks, the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and practical case studies on preservation measures. Previously, the Argentine judicial system had accumulated rich experience in cryptocurrency-related cases, including the freezing of 3 million USDT in December 2024 and the ruling in 2022 for Binance to return stolen BTC.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a year ago, Unipcs drove the market capitalization of USELESS to 430 million dollars. Now, after Unipcs has issued multiple opinions, USELESS has regained attention, rising 4 times in the past two weeks.Five months ago, when the market capitalization of USELESS dropped to 30 million dollars, Unipcs began to buy in through a dollar-cost averaging strategy. In the past month, Unipcs has continued to buy USELESS and currently holds 15.9 million USELESS, with an unrealized profit of 1.68 million dollars.

According to the official announcement, the Binance Futures platform will launch the GPROUSDT USDT-denominated perpetual contract on September 3 at 21:45, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times.

According to OnchainLens monitoring, a certain HYPE whale has withdrawn a total of 824,350 HYPE from Coinbase in the past 17 hours, equivalent to approximately 67.52 million USD.This wallet has now withdrawn approximately 865,840 HYPE from Coinbase, with a total value of about 70.64 million USD.

According to Businesswire, ProCap Financial, a Bitcoin treasury company owned by Anthony Pompliano, announced that it has sold approximately 50 Bitcoins, with the proceeds used to repurchase over 2% of its outstanding shares at a price that is about 40% below the net asset value (NAV).ProCap Financial stated that since the initiation of the stock repurchase program, the cumulative repurchased shares have accounted for approximately 10% of the outstanding shares, and as of the market close, it still holds about 5,305 Bitcoins, and will continue to assess opportunities for stock repurchases when the share price is significantly discounted to NAV.