Ethereum engineering firm Nethermind ended its LayerZero DVN verifier role and moved cross-chain ops to Chainlink, joining a growing exodus from LayerZero since April's $292M Kelp DAO bridge hack — The Block

Trump said CFTC Chair Mike Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid into the US "in a fully compliant fashion," sending HYPE up ~17% in 24h. Early talks, not an approval — The Block

Base App switched on Hyperliquid-powered perps with 290+ markets and up to 50x leverage, closed to US, UK and Canada users — Decrypt

Binance is delisting ICON (ICX), Secret (SCRT) and Storj (STORJ) from spot on September 3 at 03:00 UTC; withdrawals stay open until November 3 — Binance

X is exploring stablecoin payouts, including USDC, to pay influencers and content providers for royalties and commissions — Twitter

Binance launched Agent OS, letting AI agents analyze markets and trade for users via a new MCP server that plugs into Claude Code, ChatGPT and Cursor — Binance

BitGo Korea won VASP registration, the first foreign crypto firm to gain the status in Korea directly through its own local subsidiary rather than buying a licensed operator — WuBlockchain

An Optimism-funded team cast the deciding vote moving ~$49M in OP from user airdrops into a Foundation-run fund, raising conflict-of-interest concerns — CoinDesk

Ramp now lets businesses fund AI-agent wallets and make x402 payments on Solana, with built-in attribution, audit trails and spend controls — Ramp

Franklin Templeton won SEC clearance to use tokenized assets in traditional funds, using its BENJI money fund as cash or collateral in ETFs and mutual funds — WuBlockchain

MANTRA halted its network and all transactions as a precaution over an unspecified incident, freezing deposits and withdrawals; OM slid toward a record low — The Block

Bittensor's TAO is now live on Base as a 1:1 bridged token, tradable on Aerodrome, where the TAO-USDC pool is now eligible for AERO emissions — Aerodrome

Upbit's 24h volume spiked 273% to ~$1.84B, its biggest day since mid-March, as Korean investors rotate back into crypto on the BTC rally; XRP led, Bithumb +132.9% — The Block

Unsolicited USDT dust from sanctioned HTX wallets is triggering account freezes on Coinbase, Binance and others; who is behind it is disputed, Justin Sun calls it fabricated — Protos

Term Finance was drained for ~$8.5M in a governance attack: an attacker cheaply cornered its low-float DAO token and voted through proposals to seize the Ethereum vaults — Cointelegraph

Stablecoin neobank Fasset raised $68M led by SBI at a $1B valuation (3 months after a $51M Series B); it's profitable, up ~6x in revenue, $32B+ annualized volume — CoinDesk

Secret Network minted 1.079B SCRT to self-fund the chain after core dev SCRT Labs exits Sept 1, cutting existing holders collective share to ~25% (75% dilution); inflation set to 5% — CryptoSlate

World Liberty Financial won preliminary conditional OCC approval to open a national trust bank for issuing and backing its USD1 stablecoin, still pending $20M+ capital and other pre-opening conditions — WuBlockchain