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Bitcoin has just recorded a technical change that Bitfinex had been expecting for several days. According to the exchange, BTC's weekly Super Trend has become bullish again for the first time since the start of the downward trend. The signal comes after the powerful rebound in August, which had brought the price from the $63,000 area to over $80,000.

The Polish parliament failed on Friday, September 5 to overturn the third presidential veto on the crypto-asset markets law. The Sejm only gathered 241 votes of the 266 required, despite pressure from Prime Minister Donald Tusk amid the Zondacrypto scandal, an exchange accused of embezzling 94 million dollars of client funds.

In Biarritz, the SHAKA Festival stage is not reserved for headliners. From September 24 to 26, 2026, the SHAKA Startup Challenge gives selected young shoots a few minutes to convince, live, an audience where investors sit in the front row. For a founder, crypto or not, it might be the real reason to make the trip. Cointribune is a partner of the edition, with a discount code included.

The contrast is striking. In July, Brazilian residents purchased "only" 572 million dollars worth of crypto, according to the balance of payments report published on August 27 by the Central Bank. A month earlier, the counter peaked at 2.6 billion. Within thirty days, the plunge thus approaches 80%. Coincidence of calendar? Hard to believe: July marked the very first full month of application of the new governance and anti-money laundering control requirements imposed on local platforms.

Tether has won big again with USDT. The issuer of the market's first stablecoin reports a net operating profit of 1.3 billion dollars in the second quarter of 2026. Its excess reserves now reach 5.2 billion. U.S. Treasury bonds remain at the heart of its revenues.

Privacy-focused cryptos widely outperformed the market in August. Zcash (ZEC) climbed 82%, driven by the launch of Grayscale's spot ZCSH ETF on NYSE Arca. Monero (XMR), on the other hand, rose 40%, thanks to the arrival of native swaps on THORChain v3.20. And the momentum does not stop there: several more discreet privacy coins are also benefiting, even though regulatory pressure remains strong.

On August 19, 2026, the Belgian Department for Combating Online Harm (BAPO) issued five decisions requiring four registrars and one registry to provide a complete file on operators of illicit sports streaming sites: identity, IBAN, bank cards, crypto wallets, and transaction identifiers, plus twelve months of connection logs. All under seal of secrecy. The cross-border scope of the injunction remains, in practice, to be tested.

Solana could soon significantly reduce the remuneration of its stakers. The SIMD-550 proposal, currently submitted to a community vote, plans to accelerate the decline of SOL inflation. In the long run, the nominal staking yield could fall from about 5.25% today to 2.25% in three years. The community must decide between immediate income for stakers and increased scarcity of SOL.

International tax rules still see only a small part of on-chain crypto activity. Chainalysis estimates potentially taxable flows observed in 2025 across six major blockchains at at least $457 billion. The OECD's CARF would directly cover only 14% of this. The remaining 86% notably go through DeFi, peer-to-peer transfers, staking, or payments.

American students want more crypto in their courses. A survey commissioned by OKX shows that 90% of them support the teaching of cryptocurrencies and blockchain at university. The curricula lag far behind: only about 28% of accredited American business schools offered blockchain courses in a separate 2025 study. Between the two, social networks are taking the place.

Solana crypto ETFs have just recorded 33.5 million dollars of net inflows in a single session. It is their best day of 2026 and their fifth consecutive positive session. The cumulative flows now reach a record 1.22 billion dollars. Bitwise still absorbs most of the money.

Why do some buy bitcoin while others prefer to stay away? A study by the Cleveland Federal Reserve points less to age or income than to a harder-to-measure factor: what each person thinks about the future return of crypto. And a few figures on past performance can sometimes be enough to tip the undecided.

Donald Trump's memecoin has just gained more than 80% in a few hours. TRUMP crossed the $3 mark before settling around $2.94. The move caught short sellers off guard: over $30 million worth of positions were liquidated within 24 hours. A rumor about a new crypto project from the Trump family was enough to start the momentum.

The Clarity Act is still not dead. Patrick Witt, the White House crypto advisor, even says he is "optimistic" ahead of the next vote scheduled in the Senate on September 15. The text exceeds 600 pages and aims to give the United States a federal framework for the crypto market. However, an old issue complicates the discussions again: the rewards paid on stablecoins.

Changpeng Zhao ended up abandoning the public wallet he was using. Too many memecoins, dust, and unwanted tokens were arriving directly at the address without him being able to stop them. The episode also moved Trust Wallet. CZ now requests that its feature allowing to ignore certain tokens becomes much easier to use.

Donald Trump opens the door to a new form of response against foreign criminal networks. In a memo signed on August 12, 2026, the American president authorizes certain licensed private companies to participate in cyber operations under federal supervision. Crypto scam networks are among the targets, but the precise rules of these interventions are still to be written.

Cole Villemain, former co-founder of Pudgy Penguins, sold out the 44,444 NFTs of his new collection Spritehood Wisps on Robinhood Chain this Monday, August 11, for 1,282,852 dollars according to the on-chain count by Lookonchain. The sale was full within a few hours. Is a sellout enough to erase the liabilities of Pudgy Penguins?

Pay for your groceries using your crypto wallet, without a bank transfer or three days of waiting: what was a gadget in 2020 has become a real market segment. Visa reported a more than 500% increase in spending via its crypto partners in 2025. But between cards disappearing from Europe, those that reserve their cashback for the United States, and those that have just arrived, choosing the right one in 2026 requires looking far beyond the rate displayed on the homepage.

Whales have accumulated more than 20,000 BTC since July 29, while US spot ETFs attracted $754.69 million this week. Two signals close to $1.95 billion, but Bitcoin still stuck below $65,000.

Tokenized RWAs move against the crypto market trend. Their deposits in lending protocols and decentralized exchanges reach $7.4 billion. Meanwhile, the entire DeFi records a contraction of about 15%.

Bitget has signed a cooperation agreement with the Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority in Bhutan. The deal opens a path toward a local legal presence and a future licence application. It does not yet authorize Bitget to provide regulated digital asset services in the special administrative region.

Hyperliquid faces a more demanding phase of its development. JPMorgan believes the decentralized platform could lose ground to regulated US offerings. At the same time, capital inflows into HYPE-related ETFs have significantly slowed down after their spectacular start.

Western Union launches Stablecard in 37 markets to receive, hold and spend dollar-backed stablecoins. With a Visa card and a digital wallet, the money transfer specialist brings blockchain assets closer to daily payments.

Intersect unveiled the first steps of Cardano's Dijkstra hard fork, which will deploy three innovations: Nested Transactions, Linear Leios, and Peras. The Ouroboros Leios protocol, cornerstone of this update, promises to improve the network's throughput and finality. The roadmap foresees deployment of the first two phases by the end of 2026.

The European Central Bank (ECB) presented on Thursday the accessibility standards of its future digital euro application, promising requirements exceeding those of European law. The Frankfurt institution is betting on inclusion to convince reluctant citizens. Will the digital euro manage to reconcile innovation and trust?

Bitget has integrated TradingView into its commodity CFD platform. The update combines professional charting, market monitoring and order execution within one screen. It also gives practical substance to the exchange’s ambition to connect crypto and traditional markets through a unified trading environment.

Aave wants to remove several reserves that have become too little used. This operation would involve 98.1 million dollars of deposited assets and 15.6 million dollars of debt. For the crypto protocol, it is not about responding to an immediate emergency. The goal is rather to reduce risks and costs related to markets that have become unprofitable.

Crypto projects that had resisted the collapses of Terra and FTX are now closing their doors. Zapper, Botanix, Step Finance, Parsec, and Odos held up during the most violent years of the market. Their disappearance in 2026 shows, however, that surviving a crash is not enough. The danger now comes from a more fragmented, more demanding, and less generous market.