With Treasuries sinking and the dollar falling this year, Bitcoin and gold are again being touted as hedges against currency debasement, according to Bloomberg.

Brightshore Capital, formerly GTIS Partners, has launched its first real estate debt investment platform with $250 million in initial capital, according to Bloomberg. The global real estate firm said the platform comes as homebuilders’ financing needs are mounting.

Standard Chartered said the tokenized stock market is expected to grow about 250-fold by 2028. According to Odaily, the bank said Arbitrum's business model could help traditional financial institutions move assets and operations onchain and benefit from the growth of tokenized stocks and other real-world assets. As of early September, the tokenized stock market was worth about $2.9 billion and had become one of the faster-growing asset classes in the real-world assets sector.

The White House Council of Economic Advisers will launch an interactive tool on Tuesday that lets users set parameters and run scenarios to support its conclusion that there is no material link between stablecoin growth and community bank deposit outflows. According to ChainCatcher, the move is aimed at helping Senate Republicans advance the CLARITY Act while addressing banking groups that said Monday the latest revisions still do not ease their concerns about stablecoin provisions. Several Republican senators have signaled they may vote against the bill, while pro-crypto Democrats remain dissatisfied that the ethics provisions do not sufficiently constrain U.S. President Donald Trump. The bill needs at least 60 votes to advance.

China's central bank and the National Financial Regulatory Administration issued a notice on August 28 that extends the maximum term for personal housing loans from 30 years to 40 years, and some banks have already begun accepting new 40-year mortgage applications, according to Jiemian News. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank and Bank of Communications have said they are implementing the new policy, but the actual term depends on factors such as the borrower’s age, the property’s age and structure, and bank approval. In Beijing, some banks require the borrower’s age plus the loan term to stay below 70 or 75 years, meaning only younger buyers may qualify for the full 40 years. For second-hand homes, older properties may face shorter terms or be ineligible, and one state-owned bank loan manager said the usual mortgage term is the lower of 75 minus the borrower’s age or the property’s age. A China Construction Bank post-loan manager said provident fund loans are not yet included in the extension process. The same August 28 notice also allows eligible existing mortgages to renegotiate repayment plans, with any extension capped at half of the original term and the total original term plus extension limited to 40 years. Banks and regions are moving at different speeds: some branches are already accepting applications, while others are still awaiting detailed rules. For a 1 million yuan mortgage at a 3.05% first-home commercial rate, Jiemian News calculated that a 30-year equal-principal-and-interest loan would have monthly payments of about 4,243 yuan and total interest of about 527,500 yuan, while a 40-year loan would cut monthly payments to about 3,609 yuan but raise total interest to about 732,200 yuan.

Mexico is trying to revive growth at its beach destinations as visits by big-spending travelers have slowed, according to Bloomberg. The decline is another weak sign for the country’s struggling economy.

Vitol Group paid $75 million to buy out a former employee charged with conspiring to bribe government officials and continued the payments after his corruption trial, according to court documents and Bloomberg reported.

Crusoe struck a multiyear cloud deal with Perplexity AI Inc. to provide cloud capacity, according to Bloomberg. The data center operator is continuing its push to win more business renting out artificial intelligence chips and related software.

Dario Amodei has admitted for the first time that the industry has long concealed AI risks and proposed a three-step rate-limiting framework, which has drawn fierce backlash from the open-source camp.

Many people regret missing out on this round of crypto price increases, while VCs who left the market are now turning their attention back to stock tokenization.

Saifedean Ammous, author of "Bitcoin Standard," argues that Bitcoin's electricity consumption may have peaked and may never again consume as much electricity as it did in 2024-2025.

HTX moved roughly 700 million TRX out of a wallet it had previously identified as part of its reserves, shortly before the tokens disappeared from the exchange’s June proof-of-reserves disclosure.

The failure of countless on-chain experiments reveals the barbell-shaped survival rule of the crypto market in 2026.

ByteDance has secured a $29.6 billion loan from 28 banks to fund its growing AI operations after lenders backed a larger facility than the $20 billion it initially sought.

The Treasury continues to expand the scale of Treasury bond issuance, while the Federal Reserve gradually withdraws from its role as a major buyer through balance sheet reduction; in long-term Treasury bonds…

The US Department of Justice is seeking to seize more than $61 million in Tether’s USDT, alleging the stablecoin represents proceeds from the black-market sale of sanctioned Iranian oil and was ultimately intended to support Iran’s government and military, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

BabyDoge has acquired LimeWire, with Abel Czupor taking over leadership as founders Julian and Paul Zehetmayr step down. LimeWire will focus on decentralised storage, AI tools and creator ownership, while its LMWR token remains in use across the platform.

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