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Odaily News: U.S. digital asset bank Anchorage Digital has reportedly laid off approximately 17% of its workforce. The company was valued at $4.2 billion earlier this year; if its global headcount remains at around 400 as it was in February, this round of layoffs would affect roughly 68 positions. CEO Nathan McCauley informed employees of the layoff arrangements this week.In recent years, Anchorage Digital has expanded its regulated crypto business and entered stablecoin issuance, including participating in Tether's newly launched USD stablecoin USAT. The company also received a $100 million strategic investment from Tether earlier this year. (Cointelegraph)
Anchorage Digital has reportedly cut 17% of its workforce, affecting approximately 68 positions, primarily due to the downturn in the cryptocurrency market. Despite these downward pressures, the company secured a $100 million strategic investment from Tether.
According to an official announcement, MeshWallet, a gas-free USDT wallet headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, has completed a $10 million private funding round led by multiple private investors and small family offices. Operating on the TRON (TRC20) network, MeshWallet’s core feature eliminates the need for users to hold TRX to pay gas fees, with transfer fees settled directly in USDT to streamline the dual-token operation workflow. The funds will be used to expand its product roadmap and build a user ecosystem.
According to the official announcement, Binance will list the MOONSHOTUSDT USDT-M Pre-IPO Perpetual Contract, with Beijing Moonshot Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. as the underlying asset, on September 22 at 16:30 (UTC+8). The contract supports up to 20x leverage and 24/7 trading, with funding settlements occurring every 4 hours. If the underlying asset successfully completes its IPO, it will transition to a standard perpetual contract on traditional financial assets; if the listing fails, the contract will be removed.
According to Cryptonoticias, the Bolivian government has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to establish a regulatory and supervisory framework for virtual assets to curb illicit capital outflows and strengthen anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing mechanisms. At present, the relevant documents have not yet specified the implementation timeline, the competent authority, or the specific legislative form. Meanwhile, the government is assessing the feasibility of integrating Tether (USDT) into the national payment system.
Aave plans to launch a Real World Assets (RWA) lending hub on Avalanche, enabling institutions to borrow stablecoins using tokenized financial assets as collateral without liquidating their existing positions. Tether's USAT will serve as the primary source of USD liquidity. Within two months of Aave V4 launching on Avalanche, total deposits have exceeded $20 million.
Bloomberg reported that stablecoin issuer Tether has become a major gold lender. As of the end of June, the financing Tether provided to the U.S. gold trading platform Gold.com accounted for the majority of its $1.7 billion in outstanding precious metals loans, with Gold.com’s payables and advances to Tether totaling $1.45 billion. Tether took a stake in the platform earlier this year.
Odaily News — The funding round was led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Janus Henderson, Strobe Ventures, Venture Dept, Neoclassic Capital, and the Avalanche Foundation. Aave CEO Stani Kulechov, Tether co-founder Phil Potter, and Privy CEO Henri Stern also participated in the investment. Tare plans to develop loan management software on Avalanche, creating digital records for loans and automating back-office processes such as record-keeping, payment distribution, and transaction verification, in order to consolidate fragmented private credit business processes and reduce intermediary and operational costs.
Odaily News: Bitget Wallet has announced its integration with RWA protocol Reality, opening trading access to over 1,700 rToken tokenized US stocks. Through this integration, users can trade tokenized US stocks 24/7 on Arbitrum and Morph without needing to open an overseas brokerage account, submit KYC, complete a W-8BEN form, or arrange a wire transfer. Dividends generated by the corresponding underlying assets will be credited to Bitget Wallet in USDT at a 1:1 ratio.Reality is a compliant tokenized asset issuance platform, licensed under El Salvador's digital asset issuance law framework. Its issued rTokens are backed 1:1 by real US stocks, currently supporting over 1,700 tokenized US stocks including rTSM, rNVDA, rAAPL, and rQQQ, covering approximately 95% of US market trading volume. rTokens can connect directly to liquidity across all US markets including Nasdaq and the NYSE, with underlying assets compliantly custodied by FINRA-licensed broker-dealer Alpaca Securities, maintaining a reserve ratio exceeding 100%, with third-party CPA firms issuing daily real-time Proof of Reserve (PoR). This integration will further advance Bitget Wallet's Everyday Finance strategy, aiming to enable users to seamlessly conduct everyday transactions of traditional financial assets through an on-chain wallet.
perpetual contract platform RWAperp has announced the completion of $2 million in financing, with a post-investment valuation of $50 million. Participants in the round include Lime co-founder Brad Bao, Cresta AI co-founder Tim Shi, Tesla Autopilot team member Phil Duan, Crux members William Freiberg and Charles Ferguson, as well as members of the a16z and Sequoia Scout networks.RWAperp is a decentralized perpetual contract protocol for traditional financial assets. It is currently live on OKX X Layer and has opened 19 markets, covering BTC, ETH, SOL, Korean and U.S. stocks, the S&P 500 Index, the DRAM Index, gold, silver, and WTI crude oil. Users can settle in USDC, USDT, or USDG and gain leveraged long and short exposure to stocks, indices, commodities, and crypto assets without needing to hold, custody, or tokenize the underlying assets.RWAperp primarily designs its trading, pricing, liquidity, and risk management systems around the trading characteristics of the stock market, and handles situations such as market closure periods, overnight gaps, trading halts, and corporate actions. The platform uses a multi-issuer composite oracle and provides a professional order book trading terminal.RWAperp is also developing Agent Mode. This AI feature is designed to understand natural language trading instructions, analyze market conditions, and gradually support trading execution operations such as opening positions, position management, and closing positions. (The Block)
Tether 宣布与科技型私人信贷资产管理机构 Fasanara Capital 共同推出私人信贷基金 StableFund。该基金由双方共同发起，目前由两家机构提供总计 4 亿美元的锚定投资，并计划进一步吸引最高 30 亿美元的第三方机构资本。 该基金将重点向中小企业提供短期限、资产支持型信贷。Fasanara Capital 将担任投资管理人，通过覆盖 60 多个国家的金融科技借贷网络进行资产配置；Tether 则担任联合发起方、资产发起方及顾问，负责寻找与 USD₮挂钩的融资机会，并提供稳定币结算、出入金及资金管理基础设施。
Odaily News: Bitcoin fork asset BTCB2 hit an all-time high of $1,799 on September 5. Over the past 4 hours, its price has fluctuated between 750 and 1,000 USDC; the Neoxa USDC market recorded a 24-hour trading volume of approximately $1 million.BTCB2 originated from a chain split that occurred on August 8, 2026, at block height 961,632. The network subsequently changed its proof-of-work algorithm to Blake2 and reduced block size, and it can now be mined using Blake2-compatible ASIC miners.Neoxa Exchange and Nonkyc.io have listed BTCB2, with the former offering BTC, USDC, and USDT trading pairs, and the latter offering a USDT trading pair. Both platforms have limited liquidity, and CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko have not yet listed the asset.Based on a BTCB2 price of $1,000, its fully diluted valuation stands at approximately $20.9 billion. Since UTXOs need to be split from Bitcoin first, transactions may otherwise be vulnerable to replay attacks; the network's hash rate has risen by 30.41% over the past 7 days, reaching approximately 5.1 PH/s. (Bitcoin.com News)
Binance Futures announces the listing of multiple USDT-M perpetual contracts for traditional financial assets on September 7, 2026. The BYDUSDT contract will list at 10:00 (UTC+8) on that day, with BYD Company Limited H-shares as the underlying asset. The HK0992USDT Quanto perpetual contract will list at 10:05 (UTC+8), with Lenovo Group Limited as the underlying asset.
According to Crypto Briefing, Colombian fintech company Plenti has completed a $3 million seed funding round led by Tether, with participation from Verda Ventures. Plenti plans to use the funds to expand its operations in Colombia and enter the markets of Peru and Bolivia.
Odaily News: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized approximately $560,000 in cryptocurrency and taken control of the domain and servers of a fundraising website linked to Hamas. The U.S. Department of Justice stated that these funds were allegedly intended for use by Hamas's military wing, Al Qassam Brigades.Investigators tracked and confiscated the relevant crypto assets based on three seizure warrants issued on March 25, June 25, and October 10, 2025. Court documents show that the assets involved include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Wrapped Ethereum, Tether (USDT), and TRON (TRX), distributed across 18 addresses controlled by Tether and 3 Binance accounts.According to court documents, encrypted chat groups had directed supporters to visit AlQassam.ps and solicited donations via rotating wallet addresses. After the FBI took over the relevant domain and servers, it obtained information on thousands of individuals who had contacted Hamas to inquire about making donations. (Decrypt)
Gate has officially launched its US stock options trading service, initially covering 9 popular US stock targets, including Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Meta, AMD, Micron, Amazon, and others, spanning hot sectors such as AI technology, semiconductors, electric vehicles, and cloud computing. Users can participate in US stock options trading by updating the Gate App to v8.35.0 or above.In terms of product experience, Gate's US stock options require no separate US stock account or margin account to be opened by users, and settle in USDT without involving physical stock delivery, making the trading and settlement process more direct. Meanwhile, the product initially supports intraday trading of US stocks and charges 0 platform fees and 0 options commissions, further lowering the barrier to participating in US stock options trading. Relevant third-party regulatory and clearing fees will be charged separately in accordance with applicable rules.This launch further completes Gate's global stock product ecosystem. Currently, Gate covers four core markets—US stocks, Hong Kong stocks, Korean stocks, and Japanese stocks—supporting over 12,800 stocks and ETFs, and offering services such as fractional share trading, stock dividends, and cross-broker transfers. With the addition of US stock options, users can not only participate directly in the stock and ETF markets but also gain more market participation choices around the future movements of popular US stock targets through strategies such as calls and puts.
According to Decrypt, South Korea's Gwangju Metropolitan Police Agency arrested four Uzbek citizens on charges of "terrorist financing," one of whom appears on the Interpol Red Notice list. The principal suspect is accused of, between August 2024 and April 2025, sending a total of 4,267 USDT via seven transfers to the UN-designated terrorist organization Katibat Tawhid wal Jihad (KTJ), while simultaneously receiving cryptocurrency from KTJ to purchase 11 used cars and 2 excavators (totaling approximately 170,000 Korean won, equivalent to roughly $121,000) for shipment to Syria. Police stated that this case marks South Korea's first involving the receipt of crypto funds from a terrorist organization and their return in the form of physical goods.
Odaily News - Bitfinex Securities, the tokenized investment platform under crypto exchange Bitfinex, has listed 5 tokenized notes, providing eligible investors with economic exposure to bitcoin treasury companies such as Strategy, Metaplanet, H100 Group, and Capital B. The platform has also listed Strategy's floating-rate perpetual preferred stock, STRC.The aforementioned notes are issued through the Luxembourg-based ORO (II) fund and managed by SICOS Securities. The underlying securities are held in custody by regulated financial institutions but do not grant investors direct ownership of shares in the corresponding companies. The products allow fractional investments starting from approximately $1 and support trading in USD, USDT, and Bitcoin, and are only available to eligible non-US investors.Bitfinex Securities stated that this marks the first time such products are available for secondary trading on a regulated tokenized securities exchange. Following the completion of a $50 million tokenized fundraising round for metals company Alkemya in August this year, the platform's total listed assets have surpassed $500 million. (Cointelegraph)
According to Odaily, the Iranian rial hit a record low this week, with the open market exchange rate falling to approximately 2.02 million rials per US dollar on August 24, compared to around 1.53 million rials in the first quarter. During the same period, the US government launched "Operation Economic Exodus," adding more than 60 entities to the Treasury Department's blacklist and, for the first time, designating digital assets as a sanctionable category.State-controlled farms linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) control approximately 65% of Iran's Bitcoin mining capacity. Iranian miners have accounted for roughly 3% to 7% of global Bitcoin hashrate since 2019, with the mined Bitcoin valued at an estimated $1.35 billion to $3.15 billion at various stages.Iran legalized Bitcoin mining in 2019, allowing licensed operators to use industrial electricity at approximately $0.004 per kilowatt-hour and sell the mined tokens to the Central Bank of Iran. Chainalysis estimates that IRGC-affiliated wallets received over $3 billion in Q4 2025; Elliptic states that the Central Bank of Iran holds at least $507 million in USDT.The US Treasury sanctioned Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin, and Ramzinex in June. Nobitex had processed more than half of Iran's digital asset inflows; in April, the US Treasury seized nearly $500 million in Iran-linked crypto assets. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to an official Binance announcement, Binance Futures will list U-margined perpetual contracts for SKUUUSDT, SKDDUSDT, RAMUSDT, DJTUSDT, and MRNAUSDT in batches on August 25 between 17:00 and 17:20 (UTC+8), with underlying assets including the SK Hynix Leveraged ETF, DRAM-themed ETF, Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), and Moderna (MRNA) — traditional financial assets. All the aforementioned contracts settle in USDT, support 24/7 trading, multi-asset mode, and leverage of up to 20x. Funding rates are settled every 8 hours, with upper and lower limits set at +2% and -2%, respectively.