🇺🇸 SEN. LUMMIS: “If the Clarity Act doesn’t pass this Congress, the next real opportunity to bring market structure legislation back up is 2030.”

🇨🇳 JUST IN: China injects $45B into its largest banks and insurers in its biggest recapitalization in nearly two decades.

🇰🇷 NEW: South Korea’s $200B Hanwha is building a tokenization platform on Avalanche.

🇺🇸 NEW: Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, plans to launch the $LAPTOP meme coin on Base on Sept. 9, according to WSJ.

🇺🇸 BIG: President Trump says Bombardier will no longer be allowed to sell in the U.S. unless Canada opens its market to American banks, companies and Gulfstream Aerospace.

🚨 UPDATE: Liquid Network hackers have returned 3,400 BTC (85%) to the Federation wallet after negotiating on-chain with Blockstream.

They kept ~598 BTC (~$47M) as an apparent bounty.

🇺🇸 TRUMP: “Oil prices will drop precipitously, like everything else is dropping (but more!), when we WIN the war with Iran.”

⚡️ CZ: “IPOs will move on chain.”

🇰🇷 NEW: Won stablecoins could save South Korean merchants up to $3.8B annually in fees, per the National Assembly Budget Office.

🔥 NEW: Visa’s stablecoin settlement volume topped a $20B annualized rate, up 15x year over year.

🔥 JUST IN: Strategy bought no Bitcoin last week and repurchased $176.3M in $STRC shares.

🇯🇵 NEW: Citi offers instant cross-border payments for Japan firms via blockchain, per Nikkei.

🇺🇸 LATEST: Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff earned $107M in 2025 from the holding company behind his stake in World Liberty Financial, per a new financial disclosure.

🇮🇷 JUST IN: Iran quietly relaxes currency controls and turns to crypto like Tether and bitcoin to keep trade flowing under US sanctions and blockade, per FT.

⚡️ NEW: Hunter Biden says 20% of his new $LAPTOP meme coin will be airdropped to the community, including people who lost money on $TRUMP.

🔥 LATEST: Strategy launched custom Nike Air Jordans, which have already sold out.

🇩🇪 JUST IN: Germany plans to impose a 25% tax on cryptocurrency gains starting in 2027.

🔥 JUST IN: Consensys Software splits into two independent companies, MetaMask and Consensys.

🚨 JUST IN: The U.S. Treasury will buy back up to $6B in long-dated bonds on Sept. 10

🚨 INSIGHT: An iPhone cost 0.169 BTC in 2018 and 0.016 BTC in 2026.

Same phone, 10x less Bitcoin. Guess which one held its value.