Bitcoin processed 893,391 transactions, up 23.4% from the previous day.Daily activity more than doubled from the corresponding level one year earlier.Galaxy Research ranked the session as Bitcoin’s fourth-busiest day in history.Low-value transfers have accounted for much of Bitcoin’s transaction growth during 2026.

Ethereum developers have scheduled EIP-8141 Frame Transactions for inclusion in the Hegotá upgrade planned for 2027.Frames separates transaction authorization, gas payment and execution, allowing an app or another account to cover a user’s ETH transaction fee.The proposal could let users transact with stablecoins without holding ETH while validators continue receiving network fees in ether.Frames can bundle related actions such as token approvals and trades so permissions are reversed if the accompanying transaction fails.Programmable validation could allow accounts to rotate private keys or adopt quantum resistant authentication without moving assets to a new address.

Coinalyze data showed altcoin perpetual futures open interest surpassing Bitcoin’s for first time since 2024.Bitcoin perpetual open interest remained near $23.9 billion, representing roughly 37% of aggregate tracked positions.Zcash open interest reached about $2.4 billion as short liquidations exceeded $34 million during breakout.Altcoin market capitalization outside the ten largest assets increased above $200 billion during early September.Open interest records outstanding contracts but does not reveal whether positioning is bullish or bearish.

AUSTRAC removed 45 remittance and virtual asset registrations through three types of regulatory action recently.GetCoins lost its registration after complaints and alleged exploitation by organized cryptocurrency investment scams emerged.Cryptolink’s registration was suspended for three months covering its network of 96 cryptocurrency ATMs nationwide.The regulator did not publicly identify all 45 businesses or separate crypto providers from remitters.Businesses with canceled registrations cannot operate and some associated individuals were referred to enforcement partners.

Arthur Hayes has released the FLOP white paper detailing a blockchain where AI agents pay miners in FLOP for inference and computing resources.FLOP will launch with approximately 2.48 billion tokens allocated through airdrops, with no venture capital premine or token auction.Miners will receive 75% of block rewards, while validators and agents each receive 10% and regular stakers receive 5%.Block rewards will start at 96 FLOP and halve every 730 days until reaching a permanent reward of 3 FLOP.

Developers can create Predict.fun applications and generate API keys without opening a manual support request.The dashboard displays API usage and lets developers request higher usage-based rate-limit tiers.Existing API keys can be imported into the portal for centralized management.New applications receive trade burst limits for order creation and cancellation by default.

Robinhood Chain generated $6.04 million in fees and retained $5.44 million in daily revenue.Seven-day revenue reached $20.33 million, equal to an annualized rate of roughly $1.06 billion.GMGN and Pons have become two of the largest application-level revenue sources on the network.Robinhood Chain recorded $1.71 billion in decentralized exchange volume over the latest 24 hours.

With a growing number of institutions exploring stablecoins, the bottleneck is regulated infrastructure they can trust.

Cronos says $9.19 million remains unrecovered after an attacker borrowed $120.4 million from Tectonic using manipulated TONIC collateral.Validators rolled back 10,961 blocks covering nearly two hours of transactions, restoring roughly $111.2 million in affected value.The attacker moved 7.6% of the affected funds off Cronos before the network was halted, putting them beyond the rollback.Cronos resumed block production around 11 hours after the attack and continues reconciliation work with exchanges, bridges and other platforms.

The team behind Pencil Finance says the financing supported thousands of Southeast Asian students, but it did not disclose borrower costs, defaults, or investor returns.

Hunter Biden is set to launch the 1 billion supply LAPTOP meme coin on Base on Sept. 9, according to the Wall Street Journal.The founding team will receive 30% of the supply, locked for six months and gradually unlocked over two years.Another 20% will be distributed through two airdrops that include users who lost money trading Donald Trump’s TRUMP meme coin.Up to 30% of LAPTOP’s supply could be burned if preset events occur, including Bitcoin reaching a new all time high or LAPTOP overtaking TRUMP by fully diluted valuation.

NFT sales fell 44.70% to $63.33 million, while transactions declined 14.13% to 802,330.Buyer addresses rose 30.48% to 227,316, while seller addresses climbed 54.64% to 247,373.Ethereum led with $35.56 million in sales despite recording a 49.01% weekly decline.Bitcoin placed second with $8.68 million as sales fell 59.53% and buyers rose 41.11%.Courtyard led collections with $6.09 million, while a Bitcoin NFT sold for $2.14 million.

Onchain analyst Conor Grogan traced roughly $350,000 in withdrawals to wallets associated with CYBERLEEK activity.Grogan said the proceeds came from liquidity fees rather than large direct token sales alone.CyberLeek’s controller remains publicly unidentified, and wallet analysis does not prove the operator’s legal identity.Take-Two obtained federal subpoenas seeking Microsoft and Discord records connected to the unauthorized gameplay leaks.Microsoft and Discord were directed to produce requested records by September 4, court documents show.

Flare staking increased from about 16 billion to 21.5 billion FLR after the July upgrade.FIP.16 reduced annual FLR inflation from 5% to 3% and lowered its issuance ceiling.Transaction-fee burns have risen to more than 10 times their level before the network upgrade.FIRE has collected $31,438 from four revenue sources since it started operating in May.