The Month in Brief September turns the rate debate into a decision. Futures pricing puts a quarter-point increase at the 15–16 September meeting at 66.1 percent, against 33.9 percent for no change and zero for a cut (CME FedWatch, read 31 August). The meeting carries a Summary of Economic Projections, so the committee has to
Predict.fun has launched a self-service developer dashboard that lets builders create applications, generate API keys, monitor usage and manage rate limits from one interface. Summary 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
Kalshi’s market-tracking betting odds of government shutdown in 2026 have dropped 33 points overnight to just 4% on September 1. The move came even as Senate negotiators said they were making progress toward a stopgap funding deal. For Bitcoin and crypto readers, the market provides a snapshot of uncertainty around the funding deadline. It does
Ethena has launched Ethena Pay in beta for 400 early users, bringing USDe payments, Avalanche settlement and annual reward rates of up to 6% to a self-custodial mobile app. Summary 400 users will receive initial access, with the rollout expanding weekly during September. 49 countries can access the app, while the U.S., EU, U.K., and
The protocol aims to give fintechs and investors a faster way to recover losses from DeFi hacks, while letting XRP, bitcoin and XLM holders earn yield by backing that protection. Source link
The Cardano Foundation and Brazilian technology company Blockforce announced on Aug. 31 that Cardano now operates as the public verification layer for an enterprise supply chain platform. Summary Cardano now anchors cryptographic proofs for more than 500,000 supply chain records already in production. Confidential records remain permissioned while public Cardano proofs allow independent verification without
Bitcoin price traded just below $78,000 on Sept. 1 after retreating from the $81,000 area, as fading trend strength, Federal Reserve rate concerns and nearby liquidation clusters kept the cryptocurrency inside a narrow range. Summary Bitcoin price fell about 1.9% over seven days after encountering resistance near $81,300. The 4-hour ADX dropped to 12.26, indicating
Bitcoin on Monday shrugged off tensions in the Middle East, barely moving despite U.S. President Donald Trump vowing to hit Iran hard. The price of the biggest cryptocurrency recently stood at $79,076, unmoved over a 24-hour period. The coin also hasn’t budged from where it stood seven days ago. Geopolitical strife has this year hurt
Identity verification is becoming a core part of the DeFi stack as developers look to embed reusable credentials, privacy-preserving proofs and compliance checks directly into lending, payments, stablecoins and tokenized asset platforms. Summary Embedded verification SDKs are bringing identity, credentials and compliance checks directly into DeFi applications. AIR and zkMe focus on reusable credentials and
Bitmine owns 4.9% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 98% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 15 months ETH is the best performing macro asset in 3Q26 so far, outperforming the S&P 500 by 5,430bp Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June
