Chainalysis sued the US government after ICE handed a sole-source ~$95M forensics contract to rival TRM Labs, calling the no-bid award arbitrary and unlawful; oral argument is set for Sept 2 — The Block

MORE Markets, a lending protocol on Flow EVM, was drained of ~$9.3M after an attacker looped an Ankr bonded LST through E-mode to empty its WFLOW reserve — Blockaid

Polygon quietly patched security bugs in two hard forks, closing a flaw that could force costly work across its entire validator set; none were exploited on mainnet — Decrypt

Strategy bought 4,603 BTC for $369.7M (avg $80,318), its first bitcoin buy since June; the stack now totals 845,050 BTC as Saylor posts We are Back — SEC filing

Real Finance's ASSET is now live on Kraken Pro for EU users, its widest European access yet, with the token up 13.8% at a $267M FDV — Real Finance

Pavel Durov launched Gram Wallet, a non-custodial wallet built into Telegram, live for a small group now and rolling out to its 1B+ users in the coming weeks — Cryptobriefing

Hyperliquid is in advanced talks with Kraken's parent Payward to bring its perps to US traders via the CFTC-regulated Bitnomial exchange, sending HYPE to a fresh ATH past $83 — Decrypt

Fomo acquired the tech, IP, and team of onchain data platform Mobula for $17M, bringing infrastructure it already ran fully in-house; Mobula will keep operating independently — Cryptobriefing

OpenSea added Solana NFT trading, letting users buy and sell collections like Mad Lads and Claynosaurz, more than four years after its short-lived 2022 beta — The Block

Polymarket is raising $1B in a round led by 1789 Capital at a $21B valuation, up from $15B in April, cementing its lead among prediction markets — Cryptobriefing

X switched on X Money for every US Premium and Premium+ subscriber, adding an X Visa debit card, instant fee-free transfers, up to 3% cash back and a 6% APY — X

Andreessen Horowitz topped up its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion, adding about $1.75 billion since January, just days after closing a separate $1.1 billion AI-hardware fund — TechCrunch

Kraken parent Payward and the London Stock Exchange will tokenize the 100 biggest UK stocks as xStocks, listed on LSE's 24-hour venue LSE 24 pending regulatory approval — CoinDesk

Injective lost about $4.9M after an attacker exploited a market-ID collision in its binary options logic with just 9,100 USDT, halting the chain for nearly four hours — Metaverse Post

Binance Futures listed MarsCoin, a BNB Chain memecoin whose 2% trade tax buys tokenized SpaceX stock (SPCXB), up to 20x leverage, a rare meme-to-equity crossover on a major exchange — Bloomingbit

Ethena launched Ethena Pay, its stablecoin neobank, on Avalanche, letting users earn a 6% savings rate on a synthetic dollar backed by its staked sUSDe — Ethena

Felix Pago raised a $200M Series B led by a16z ($87M equity plus a $113M General Catalyst credit line) to scale its WhatsApp stablecoin remittances, which have moved over $8B on USDC rails — CryptoBriefing

Aster pushed the unlock of 400M team-allocated ASTER (5% of max supply) back a full year to Sept 17, 2027, keeping its buyback-and-burn program unchanged — Aster

Hyperliquid Strategies, the Nasdaq-listed HYPE treasury firm, raised its committed equity facility with Chardan to $2.5B from $1B, giving it more room to grow a stack already near 29.4M HYPE — The Block

Combined trading volume across Kalshi and Polymarket fell 14.5% in August to $45.33B, the first monthly decline in a year as the post-World Cup betting surge faded — The Block

Remixpoint, Japan's second-largest DAT after Metaplanet, sold its entire altcoin book (ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE) for about ¥879M ($6M) on September 1 to go Bitcoin-only, and now holds roughly 1,506 BTC — WuBlockchain