Circle has scheduled the general public launch of Arc for Sept. 16, giving USDC a community the place the identical greenback stability can fund each funds and transaction charges. That may take away a standard impediment to utilizing stablecoins, giving Circle a doable approach to appeal to further USDC demand as it competes with Tether….
The European Central Bank has opened applications for on-line retailers to affix a controlled pilot of the digital euro, its proposed retail central financial institution digital foreign money. The transfer brings the 2027 take a look at nearer to on-line checkout, however it doesn’t put an issued digital euro into public circulation. The Sept. 15…
Bitcoin miners have signed greater than $100 billion in AI contracts whereas producing barely $1.1 billion in annualized revenue. More than 4 gigawatts of synthetic intelligence and high-performance computing capability are below contract throughout publicly traded miners tracked by CoinShares, but solely about 550 megawatts are presently billing. Still, traders are assigning a steep premium to…
Solana is rolling out a few of its most vital efficiency upgrades as network activity reaches record ranges. The blockchain is growing how a lot information purposes can pack into particular person transactions whereas additionally shortening the interval between successive slots, increasing each transaction functionality and network responsiveness. The upgrades come as activity across Solana…
Bitcoin faces a compressed volatility check because the Federal Reserve’s price choice lands two days earlier than a main IBIT options expiry. The Fed will launch its coverage statement at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, adopted by Chair Jerome Powell’s press convention and a recent Summary of Economic Projections. Any move in Bitcoin will then run…
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) validated 3,254 transactions in ledger 106,965,249 on Sept. 13, giving the community a high-count mainnet outcome with a extremely concentrated workload. The ledger closed at 20:51:50 UTC, with 20 submitting accounts supplying 2,000 profitable one-drop XRP funds, with every account submitting precisely 100 funds. The batch delivered 0.002 XRP. Vet, an…
Cardano collected 3.3 million ADA in transaction fees whereas recording 493.7 million ADA in staking rewards throughout the 73 epochs ending Sept. 1, 2026, in keeping with Bitquery’s full-chain depend. Fees covered about 0.668% of rewards, leaving the reward whole roughly 149.6 occasions bigger than price income. The figures flip Cardano’s fee-replacement query right into…
HM Treasury has laid the ultimate draft of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026, which would cut elements of the UK’s forthcoming crypto regulatory perimeter for UK qualifying stablecoin payments. The draft instrument, laid before Parliament on Sept. 15, would take away qualifying transfers from the foundations for dealing…
Global monetary markets are navigating a turbulent macro surroundings — oil again above $100, core inflation beating expectations, and crypto markets pulling again in tandem with equities. Yet amid the volatility, Gate is shifting quick. This week, the trade accomplished a significant Web3 infrastructure milestone with its full Arc blockchain integration, launched zero-gas on-chain buying…
Celsius Network’s chapter property has sued BitMEX over a 2020 liquidation cascade it says value greater than 6,360 Bitcoin. The grievance, filed Sept. 12 within the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, accuses entities behind the crypto derivatives exchange of fraud, market manipulation and wrongful liquidations throughout Bitcoin’s historic March 2020…