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The Smarter Web Company has announced that it has raised gross proceeds of £2.6 million from the placing of subscription shares. The London-listed technology company confirmed that 2,043,000 ordinary shares. The company issued it under the Subscription Agreement, first announced on June 19, 2025. They priced each share at approximately £1.28. The company expects the settlement to occur early this week, with the Smarter Web Company receiving 97% of the proceeds. The fundraising leaves a balance of 548,799 ordinary shares. Which is still to be placed under the previously agreed terms. Management described the placement as a significant step in…

Key Highlights: The flagship play-to-earn game of the Floki ecosystem, Valhalla, is also hosting its first official tournament, with a total of $155,000 in rewards. Qualifiers start September 30, and the players will fight to make it to the leaderboard to make it into the 64-player main bracket.\ Even those who did not qualify get an opportunity to receive rewards, with 500 participants having a chance to obtain $10 worth of FLOKI tokens. The blockchain-based MMORPG named Valhalla, constructed around the FLOKI token, is about to host its first large-scale tournament, which means that it will open the competition to…

The world of corporate finance is increasingly intertwining with digital assets, and a recent announcement from Nasdaq-listed Faraday Future (FFAI) highlights this trend. The electric vehicle manufacturer is making significant moves in the crypto space, signaling a bold step in its cryptocurrency investments strategy. This decision could have ripple effects, drawing more attention to how traditional companies are integrating digital currencies into their treasury management. Faraday Future’s Strategic Cryptocurrency Investments Take Center Stage Faraday Future recently revealed its plan to inject an additional $2 million into its existing cryptocurrency purchasing program. This fresh capital is earmarked for the company’s C10…

Bitcoin’s hashrate hit beast mode this week, flexing a record-smashing 1,109 exahash per second (EH/s) as the network cranked its computational biceps harder than ever. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s hashrate fireworks are lighting up merge mined neighbors too, with Namecoin, Rootstock, and Fractal Bitcoin all hitching a ride on the rocket and scoring monster boosts of their own. How Merge Mining Has Unleashed 700+ EH/s Power Plays Thanks to merge mining—aka auxiliary proof-of-work (AuxPoW)— Bitcoin’s hashrate isn’t a one-trick pony. Miners can flex the same computational grind to lock down multiple chains at once, turning their application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) rigs into…

Stablecoins are finally reaching product market fit in the West. While stablecoins have found considerable usage and impact throughout the developing world, the US, UK, and Europe have lagged behind in terms of true market adoption due to unclear regulations and the strength of the existing digital payments infrastructure, especially in Europe and the UK. Now, though, in 2025, Congress enacted the GENIUS Act in July, and Stripe and Paradigm introduced Tempo, a payments-focused chain, in early September. The new law installs the first federal license regime for dollar-pegged tokens, and Stripe’s partner Paradigm describes Tempo as a stablecoin-first network…

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) shares are experiencing a significant surge in premarket trading, jumping 7.56% to $108.90 as of 5:56 AM EDT on September 6, 2025. This dramatic uptick follows the announcement that the commission-free trading platform will join the prestigious S&P 500 index, replacing casino operator Caesars Entertainment. The inclusion represents a watershed moment for the fintech sector and reflects Robinhood’s transformation from a pandemic-era trading upstart to a company with sustained influence in U.S. financial markets. The move is expected to drive substantial demand for HOOD shares as index-tracking funds adjust their portfolios to accommodate the new addition.…

NASDAQ, the U.S. exchange where the tech sector’s biggest names list their stocks, is seeking to put stocks on the blockchain, asking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday to bless its effort even as others in the securities world are sprinting toward the same tokenization goal. If the SEC filing is approved, the exchange would let customers choose either the traditional route for trading equities or to do so on-chain with tokenized stocks — an option that would be treated with the same priority as the legacy method. “The Exchange believes the markets can use tokenization while continuing…

CoinShares, one of Europe’s largest digital asset managers, is heading to Wall Street. The company announced Monday that it will go public in the United States through a $1.2 billion merger with Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp (VCIC)., a Nasdaq-listed SPAC. The deal shifts CoinShares’ listing from Stockholm to New York, opening access to U.S. capital markets and investors. The firm manages about $10 billion in assets, including a suite of 32 crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) covering bitcoin, ether, solana and other tokens. CoinShares ranks as the fourth-largest global provider of digital asset ETPs, behind BlackRock, Grayscale and Fidelity, and…

Over the weekend, a Minecraft maestro performed a striking feat: embedding a working language-model inference engine inside the immensely popular sandbox game. The catch? All of the “wiring” was done with Minecraft’s redstone system—no command blocks, no mods (beyond rendering assistance), just circuit logic built from in-game materials. The result is quirky, painfully slow, but fascinating: a GPT-style chatbot inside a block world, built from digital redstone and analog logic. To understand the stunt, you need to know what redstone is. In Minecraft, redstone is the game’s analog to wiring and electronic components: power sources, repeaters, comparators, logic gates, signal…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors mostly green, SOL leads; BTC at $112,000 Forward Industries announces $1.65B SOL DAT led by Galaxy, Multicoin & Jump BMNR discloses 2.069M in ETH, first $20M ‘Moonshot’ investment in WLD DAT HOOD stock soars 9% pre-market after S&P 500 inclusion; MSTR left out Hyperliquid soars to ATH on back of USDH stablecoin announcement 📈 Robinhood Makes the S&P 500, MicroStrategy Gets Skipped Friday…