Bitcoin miners in Ethiopia are receiving just 23% of their contracted electricity supplies, as worsening drought conditions force the country to ration dwindling hydropower and prioritize households and manufacturers.

Arkham said BlackRock bought $1.27 billion worth of ETH through ETHA over the past 20 days and another $296.5 million through ETHB, for a combined total of about $1.5 billion. According to ChainCatcher, ETHB saw no single-day outflows during the period.

Catcher Predict data shows that the Polymarket market for the Federal Reserve's October decision is currently among the most actively traded. According to ChainCatcher, the cumulative pool has reached $5.0006 million, with the leading outcome being no change at about 54.5%.

Foresight News reported that Solana yield protocol Hylo has launched a Hylo XP graduation mechanism. According to Foresight News, meme tokens paired with xAssets in the mechanism can receive Hylo XP as long as their market capitalization stays above $1 million. Holders can earn 1 XP per day for each dollar of value they hold. The company said the mechanism applies only to Stonk.

The Federal Reserve's latest rate hike may be the most important near-term variable for the AI industry. According to Sina Finance, higher short- and medium-term borrowing costs are likely to curb the debt-driven AI boom, especially with the possibility of another rate hike later this year. The biggest hit from higher rates will likely fall on small companies with weak or no credit ratings that urgently need funding, including emerging cloud providers planning new cloud infrastructure and data center projects. Rum Group, for example, plans to build a large data center in Georgia to support a project with Anthropic, but the financing has not yet been secured. The ripple effects of higher rates will eventually reach all players, including major technology companies spending heavily to expand AI data centers. Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Google have already borrowed aggressively and gained some breathing room. On Monday, Amazon issued 4.2 billion pounds of bonds, or about $5.7 billion; combined with the $67 billion it raised in the first half of the year, its debt load has nearly doubled. Amazon's securities filing showed that most of this year's bonds are fixed-rate debt, meaning its interest expense will not rise even if rates increase. Google and Meta have also issued bonds to varying degrees. But at their current spending pace, they will still need to borrow again soon. Amazon's borrowing has been used to cover heavy capital spending and investments in Anthropic and OpenAI. As of June 30, the company's cash balance stood at $123 billion, roughly unchanged from December 31. After June 30, Amazon added another $21 billion to OpenAI, completing a $50 billion investment commitment. S&P Global Market Intelligence data showed analysts estimate Amazon will burn through $10 billion in cash in the second half of the year and another $43 billion in the first half of 2027. Large technology companies still have better financing conditions than smaller firms because of their high credit ratings, but the impact of the Fed's rate hike should not be underestimated.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she wanted to work on “opening the door” for Canada to become the EU’s first associate member, according to BBC. She told the European Parliament on Wednesday that closer ties could cover energy, critical minerals, batteries, AI, cyber and economic security, and said the proposal was “not a partnership against anyone else, but for our common strength.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who attended the annual keynote speech in Strasbourg, last week spoke of seeking a “unique alliance” with the EU as relations with the US and Donald Trump remain tense. Von der Leyen also said the EU and Canada “see the world with the same eyes” on issues including AI, climate change, geopolitics, Ukraine, defence, raw materials and supply chains. She separately proposed a European Security Council that would include the UK and Ukraine.

High-frequency trading firms have made billions of dollars in India’s derivatives market while retail investors suffered record losses, according to Bloomberg. The report asks whether high-frequency trading is improving market efficiency or gaming the system.

Chainflip will reset affected liquidity providers’ active TRON USDT balances to zero under a restart plan following a 736,442.17 USDT exploit. According to NS3.AI, the protocol will record each provider’s pre-migration balance separately on-chain. Repayment remains pending, and Chainflip has not disclosed a funding source or payout schedule. Swaps and quoting resumed elsewhere on the network by Sept. 16, while TRON remained excluded.

Vanar said its VANRY token migration has been completed, and the contracts on Ethereum and Polygon have now been paused. Token trading will continue only on Base. According to Foresight News, Vanar L1 will be gradually shut down on September 18. The project will fully shift to Base, with a focus on Foundry, AI organizations, and its economic system. Foundry is scheduled to launch on October 1.

Ripple said it has expanded its XRP Ledger developer kit to support the machine payment protocol and open wallet standard jointly developed by Stripe and Tempo. According to ChainCatcher, the XRPL AI Starter Kit 1.1 update adds support for these standards, allowing AI agents to pay for online services such as data and computing using tokens including XRP and RLUSD. RippleX product lead Jazzi Cooper said Ripple aims to make XRP and RLUSD the preferred payment options for developers building applications. The machine payment protocol lets AI agents pay on demand, with service providers quoting a price, agents authorizing payment, and resources delivered afterward. Ripple has also supported the x402 network payment standard since June. The open wallet standard allows agents to initiate transactions without accessing private keys and includes safeguards such as spending limits and whitelisted destinations. Ripple said XRP payment channels are suited to small, high-frequency payments, allowing agents to deposit XRP once, run hundreds of paid queries, and authorize small payments one by one while service providers collect cumulative funds without putting each query on-chain. Single payments already support tokens including RLUSD, but continuous payment sessions are limited to XRP, and adding stablecoins to the channel depends on a proposed ledger upgrade. The payment software remains in testing.

A fake Cloudflare verification scam is targeting meme coin traders by tricking them into running malicious commands on their computers, with one trader reportedly losing around $600,000.

Interest rate hikes are no longer important; the key is the expectation of the subsequent policy pace and interest rate trends.

Faces are not fundamental, but they are the only signal that the community can quickly read when there is information asymmetry—which is precisely the cruelest part of the crypto market.

Justin Sun is putting up as much as $1 million for mathematical breakthroughs — and betting that the next generation of scientific discovery will be judged less by who makes a discovery and more by whether a machine can verify it.

It seems that while the U.S. Department of Justice can't control the president's attempts to profit from the system, it can certainly control employees of compliance agencies who want to profit from the system.

UBS believes that the Warsh policy response function has undergone a substantial shift compared to its predecessor, becoming more sensitive to inflation and supply shocks, significantly less concerned about the labor market, and setting higher thresholds for restrictive policies.

This does not mean that the Federal Reserve's influence on Bitcoin has decreased. The current price performance only indicates that short-term selling pressure has been controlled. What will truly determine the subsequent market trend is still the change in liquidity and market risk appetite.

Whether the stock market can withstand future interest rate hikes largely depends on oil prices. If the situation in Iran and oil prices ease, there will still be a large amount of capital waiting to enter the market, and interest rate hikes will be more of a precautionary measure. However, if oil prices remain high, market sentiment will inevitably be affected.

The agency said the intrusion began with an attacker exploiting a vulnerability in a VPN-connected device used by the Government Solution Service