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Bitwise Asset Management launched the PAPY real-world asset lending vault on Morpho on September 2. According to the company announcement, users deposit Agora’s $AUSD stablecoin while the vault lends against approved tokenized collateral. Bitwise is targeting a variable annual percentage yield of 5%–6%, but says that estimate can change with borrower demand and protocol utilization. PAPY Uses Whitelisted Tokenized Collateral Borrowers must post assets from a predetermined collateral list. The initial set includes PST, sUSDai and PRIME, giving depositors exposure to several real-world credit structures rather than one crypto-native collateral type. Loans are overcollateralized, according to Bitwise, and interest rates…

Europe’s largest asset manager, Amundi, has significantly increased its exposure to Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), boosting its shareholdings by 148% to reach 1.32 million shares. The move, reported by Cointelegraph, underscores a growing institutional appetite for companies with substantial Bitcoin treasury reserves. Amundi’s Strategic Expansion Amundi’s decision to nearly triple its position in Strategy (MSTR) signals a notable shift in how traditional asset managers perceive Bitcoin-related equities. As of the latest filing, Amundi holds 1.32 million shares, a substantial increase from its previous position. This aligns with a broader trend of European institutional investors gradually warming to digital assets, despite regulatory…

$XRP Trading Develops a Weekday Rush Hour $XRP treasury company Evernorth shared Aug. 18 that weekday on-chain activity increasingly concentrates between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time. Its X thread linked the shift with growing institutional interest, placing nearly one-quarter of weekday on-chain $XRP volume inside the three-hour overlap between London’s afternoon and New York’s morning. Evernorth stated: “$XRP’s on-chain market has been growing during banker hours, according to ledger data we looked at last week. It’s consistent with growing institutional interest.” “Three hours a day (London’s afternoon, New York’s morning) now carry ~23% of all the $XRP…

India’s long-awaited crypto regulation plans are facing another major challenge as a key parliamentary hearing was cancelled. The hearing with the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) was originally scheduled for today to discuss the country’s approach to virtual digital assets (VDAs). Now, the hearing is cancelled, with no new date confirmed yet. This delay adds to the uncertainty in India’s crypto regulation space. While the country’s current VDA rules largely focus on taxation and AML regulations, there is still no clarity on the asset class’ broader regulatory framework. India’s Crypto Regulation Has Hit Another Delay Indian crypto industry has been…

Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States, has added four new assets to its official listing roadmap: $BASECAT, DRB, POD, and $GRASS. The announcement, made on the company’s public roadmap page, signals that the exchange is actively evaluating these tokens for potential full listing. While inclusion on the roadmap does not guarantee immediate trading availability, it is a significant step in the listing process and often precedes a formal launch. What Is the Coinbase Listing Roadmap? The listing roadmap is a public list of digital assets that Coinbase is considering for listing. It provides transparency into…

Chainlink announced again on Tuesday, September 1, about its data feeds that relay official US economic figures across ten public blockchains. It enables blockchains to have access to GDP, inflation, and private spending, but the agreement started in August 2025. Chainlink crypto connects blockchains with government data The figures come from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis [BEA], which publishes some of the country’s most closely watched economic reports. Through its work with the US Department of Commerce, Chainlink makes three measures available to blockchain applications: real GDP, the Personal Consumption Expenditures [PCE] Price Index and real final sales to…

Bitcoin fell below $64,000 on Tuesday as traders reduced risk before the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision, while ETF outflows and leveraged liquidations added to selling pressure. Bitcoin price falls below rising trendline According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin ($BTC) price opened Tuesday near $63,706 and extended its decline toward $63,327 as traders cut exposure before the Fed decision. $BTC later traded around $63,858, leaving it down roughly 2.5% during the session. The 4-hour chart shows that Bitcoin broke below an ascending trendline that had supported the recovery from its late-June low near $58,000. Price attempted to move back above the…

Tether Sheds $870M in 11 Days as Stablecoin Demand Weakens Tether’s $USDT supply is shrinking after years of rapid expansion, adding to signs that some crypto capital is moving offchain rather than simply rotating between stablecoins. Cryptoquant data shows $USDT’s 60-day rolling supply change at roughly negative $4 billion. About $870 million of that decline occurred over the past 11 days. $USDT remains the dominant stablecoin, with around $184 billion in circulation and an estimated 60% share of total stablecoin supply. Still, the recent contraction has raised questions about whether investors are reducing exposure to crypto altogether. Analyst Stacy Muur…

Solana has published an analysis of the validator and market-structure trade-offs involved in a proposal to reduce target slot time from 400 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds. The Aug. 19 analysis describes the change as a staged, feature-gated path through 350, 300, 250 and 200 milliseconds. The work discusses SIMD-0525 rather than announcing that 200ms slots are already active on mainnet. That distinction is central: it is an engineering and economic analysis of a proposed change. Potential latency and execution effects Solana says shorter slots could allow information to reach canonical state more frequently and shorten the time a single leader…

Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Police arrested three men in Maracaibo last week, accusing them of running a currency arbitrage scheme through Binance’s peer-to-peer platform. The case has drawn attention to a broader question facing crypto users in the country: where exactly does ordinary P2P trading cross into criminal territory? How the Scheme Allegedly Worked According to police, the three men, identified as 18-year-old Adrián Jesús Gómez, 19-year-old José Ángel Hernández, and 22-year-old Guillermo José Roldán, were part of a criminal gang, ‘Los Binanceros’, and operated out of a residential area in Maracaibo’s Francisco Eugenio Bustamante parish. Investigators say the group: Acquired…