The brokerage that brought zero-fee trading to millions just did the same thing to Layer 2. In 60 days, Robinhood Chain has gone from launch to $791 million in TVL, flipped Base in daily active users, and is now generating more daily revenue than Solana. The question is no longer whether Robinhood belongs in crypto
British financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown is letting retail investors buy bitcoin — nearly one year after it said the cryptocurrency was “not an asset class.” The Bristol, UK-based investment firm’s website said it was offering bitcoin and other crypto exchange-traded notes to investors. ETNs are investment funds which trade on stock exchanges and track
DefiLlama and Forgd have introduced an AAA-to-CCC rating system covering 128 of 149 listed tokens, with Uniswap currently holding the dashboard’s only AAA grade at a composite score of 60.80. Summary Universal Token Rating multiplies disclosure and performance scores instead of averaging them. Projects lose points for missing disclosures, weak liquidity arrangements and insider-friendly tokenomics.
A named ransomware crew put a price on a city in bitcoin, lost the auction, and turned Berlin’s files into a public download. The Rhysida Berlin bitcoin ransom clock died on Friday afternoon. The state refused a 30 bitcoin demand. Then the crew claimed to post stolen government data for anyone to take. German reporting
Robinhood has rejected AMC Entertainment’s demand to halt an AMC-linked token, turning a dispute over one of its 189 stock products into a test of how US rules may treat third-party tokenized equities. Summary Robinhood’s legal chief told AMC to send its lawyers after the theater chain demanded a trading halt. AMC token holders receive
01 July, 2026 Wednesday 1 July: Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing survey Prices-paid is the live cost-push gauge to watch. The May headline hit 54, the strongest reading since 2022. Thursday 2 July: US Non-farm Payrolls The print has been pulled forward from Friday because 3 July is the observed Independence Day holiday, so
Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor has defended Americans’ ability to advocate for Bitcoin without a license, while separating public recommendations from fraud and market manipulation. Summary Saylor said Americans do not need a license to discuss or publicly recommend Bitcoin. The Strategy chairman described Bitcoin as a commodity rather than a security. The CLARITY Act
In Bitcoin ETF news today, US spot ETFs posted approximately $236.46M in net outflows on September 1, wiping out the previous session’s $216.70 million inflow in a single trading day. The reversal landed just as BTC price briefly dipped below $77,000, having traded above $80,000 as recently as late August. At the time this data was
U.S. President Donald Trump has renewed his demand for lower interest rates and threatened to halt trade with deficit countries after employers added 162,000 jobs in August. Summary U.S. payrolls rose by 162,000 in August, beating economists’ forecast of 56,000. Trump demanded lower rates and threatened to stop trade with countries running surpluses against the
Coinbase has added six tokenized equities, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla, to Base after its first batch generated $227.7 million in decentralized exchange volume within about 30 days. Summary Six new equity tokens have joined Coinbase’s initial four-stock lineup on Base. Amazon, Microsoft, Strategy, SanDisk, SpaceX, and Tesla are included in the latest release. Token
