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Bitcoin network difficulty reached 136.04 trillion on Sept. 4, while dollar hashprice slipped to about $52 per petahash per day this week. Per Hashrate Index, the last adjustment set a new high for difficulty, and the forward market now prices an average hashprice near $49.17 per PH per day for the next six months. The squeeze leaves miners deciding whether to sell inventories, consolidate operations, or pursue high-performance computing revenue tied to artificial intelligence. The production backdrop is firm. The seven-day average hashrate sits near one zettahash per second, while transaction fees contribute a little over 1% of block rewards…

Orochi Network, a verifiable data layer for Web3, has led the charge in the race toward verifiable privacy-preserving data infrastructure. zkDatabase is ready for its highly anticipated mainnet debt, allowing the project to announce the launch of zkDatabase Alliance. zkDatabase Alliance can be defined as a powerful consortium of leading teams of AI, tokenization, DePIN, gaming, and more. The first wave of the zkDatabase Alliance empowered early builders with integration, tooling, and cross-marketing support. Tokenization, RWA, AI/LM, and DePIN pioneers are building with zkDatabase. Be part of the Alliance and shape the future of verifiable data. pic.twitter.com/T70RzfvzzP — Orochi Network…

Project 0 has officially announced the launch of the first native prime broker of DeFi on Solana, marking a groundbreaking moment for the entire decentralized finance ecosystem.The protocol introduces an innovative unified margin system, designed to eliminate the historical capital inefficiencies that have limited the growth and flexibility of DeFi users.Thanks to this solution, Project 0 enables portfolio-level risk management, paving the way for a new era of composability and interoperability between platforms. The Problem of Capital Inefficiencies in DeFi The Launch on Solana: A Turning Point for the Ecosystem Innovative Features for Passive Users and Sophisticated Traders A Different…

BlackRock’s dominance of the spot Ethereum (ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF) was on display on September 4, when the world’s largest investment firm dwarfed competitors in the market. In this case, BlackRock recorded $148.8 million in net Ethereum ETF inflows, making it the sole major buyer and far outpacing rivals, according to data retrieved by Finbold from Coinglass. In contrast, several competitors faced heavy redemptions. Particularly, Fidelity led the sell-off with $216.7 million in outflows, followed by Bitwise with $45.7 million. Grayscale’s ETHE shed $26.4 million, while its separate Ethereum Trust saw another $6.4 million in redemptions. On the other hand,…

Robinhood’s CEO Vlad Tenev laid out a roadmap for his retail trading company (NASDAQ: HOOD) that signals a departure from the typical online brokerage model and a move toward what he described as a “family office in your pocket.” Speaking in an extended interview with The Iced Coffee Hour podcast, Tenev detailed a vision for a multigenerational financial platform that could widen access to investing, integrate tokenized assets, and streamline services for users across age groups. Tenev said the company is responding to a major shift in how Americans approach investing, with younger users channeling discretionary spending into stocks, technology,…

Block won its shareholder lawsuit on Tuesday over the alleged December 10, 2021, Cash App data breach. The financial company was accused of misleading shareholders in connection with a large data breach at its Cash App mobile payment service. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett ruled in favor of the tech firm, arguing that there was no valid proof Block intended to defraud shareholders in regards to the data breach incident. According to a 42-page court document, a former Block employee downloaded personal information of about 8.2 million Cash App users. Shareholder suit alleges Block misled on security practices The class…

This is a segment from The Drop newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. You’ve probably heard about superhero fatigue — the oft-written-about concern that moviegoing audiences are burnt out on superhero movies as a genre because studios like Marvel and Warner Bros. have been churning out so many for over a decade now. Some believe superhero fatigue has occurred in part because the quality of said movies and shows has declined overall over time. The movies start to blend together; a few gain loyal fans, while many others are quickly forgotten. Sound familiar? I can’t help but feel like this…

Yield tokenization platform Pendle and Hyperliquid’s leading liquid staking protocol, Kinetiq, continue to benefit from each other as Pendle’s kHYPE markets cross the $1 billion milestone. Kinetiq staked HYPE, or kHYPE, is the third largest market on Pendle, trailing Ethena’s USDe and sUSDe, with $1.13 billion in total value locked. Nearly 80% of that is concentrated in kHYPE, while the remaining 20% is in Veda kHYPE (vkHYPE) markets. kHYPE Markets on Pendle – Pendle PENDLE and HYPE have been two of DeFi’s top-performing tokens in 2025, with HYPE up 480% from its April low, and PENDLE up 170% from its…

ETH price appears poised for further upside as on-chain data shows investors are withdrawing record amounts from exchanges. Summary Despite failing to break into the $4800 level on two tries, ETH price continues forming higher lows, keeping the uptrend intact. Exchange Flux Balance for ETH has turned negative for the first time in history, indicating strong accumulation. Ethereum (ETH) price has recently faced another rejection at the $4,800 level, despite briefly peaking at $4,957 on Sunday. However, ETH continues to form higher lows, currently consolidating above the $4,200 horizontal support and staying firmly above the previous higher low at $4,060,…

A debt buyback of up to 1.4 billion was completed by the U.S. Treasury on an August 26, 2025, bringing the two-week total to 7.4 billion. This action is consistent with quarter-to-quarter refunding techniques, and it indicates the growing worry about liquidity control in the context of national debt that is over 35 trillion. Operation Details and Scale The redeeming on August 26 repurchased $1.4 billion worth of Treasury securities that have a maturity date between August 2025 and December 2030. An amount of 5.87 billion worth securities were received, which shows great participation of both the primary dealers and…