Silicon, the Polygon CDK layer 2 built in 2024 by South Korean exchange Korbit (now DigitalX) with Ozys and Hidow, stopped accepting deposits this week and will switch off its network and explorer after December 31. About $9.75 million in USDC, WBTC, ETH and USDT remains on the chain and must be bridged out by users themselves.
Silicon, the Polygon CDK layer 2 built in 2024 by South Korean exchange Korbit (now DigitalX) with Ozys and Hidow, stopped accepting deposits this week and will switch off its network and explorer after December 31. About $9.75 million in USDC, WBTC, ETH and USDT remains on the chain and must be bridged out by users themselves.
Sep 6, 2026
The Sept 5 retarget at block 965,664 lifted difficulty by 1.31% to roughly 127.45T, exactly reversing the cut of Aug 23, while seven-day hashrate sits near 915 EH/s, well below last year's record, as miners keep diverting power to AI workloads.
Sep 6, 2026
Strategy bought 4,603 bitcoin for about $369.7 million in the week of Aug 24 to 30, its first purchase in roughly ten weeks, funded by $602.8 million of at-the-market share sales that also paid for preferred-stock buybacks, dividends and a larger cash reserve.
Sep 6, 2026
The Arbitrum-built Ethereum layer 2 that Robinhood launched on July 1 saw decentralized-exchange volume climb from $989 million on Aug 28 to $1.6 billion on Sept 1 and $3 billion on Sept 4, with Uniswap handling about 98% of it and burning a record 184,000 UNI in a day.
Sep 6, 2026
Core developers on the Sept 3 consensus call discussed a builder-deposit caching bug and non-finality at the Glamsterdam activation on the latest devnet, affecting Lighthouse, Prysm and Teku. A post-call recap puts the Sepolia fork at Oct 6, later than the Sept 28 slot proposed in August.
Sep 6, 2026
US spot ether ETFs posted their first net outflow in 12 sessions on Sept 2, led by redemptions from BlackRock's ETHA, Fidelity's FETH and Grayscale's ETHE, while BlackRock's staked-ether fund ETHB took in $52.9 million. Flows turned positive again on Sept 3 and 4.
Sep 6, 2026
About 9.92 million HYPE, worth roughly $800 million at recent prices, vests to Hyperliquid's core contributors on Sept 6, the largest token unlock of early September. Prior monthly tranches saw only a small fraction claimed, which has muted the sell pressure so far.
Sep 6, 2026
LSEG announced on Sept 1 a partnership with Payward to issue the 100 largest London-listed equities as 1:1-backed xStocks tokens and to list the full xStocks suite on its planned 24-hour venue LSE 24 in 2027, subject to regulatory approval. UK investors are currently excluded.
Sep 6, 2026
Standard Chartered launched deliverable BTC/USD and ETH/USD spot trading for eligible institutional clients through its DFSA-regulated Dubai entity on Sept 3, extending the desk it opened in the UK in July 2025 and the custody service it has run in the UAE since 2024.
Sep 6, 2026
Twenty-one financial institutions across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa said on Sept 1 they will form a jointly owned company to issue a reserve-backed US dollar stablecoin on public blockchains in the first half of 2027, with a euro token to follow.
Sep 6, 2026The Sept 5 retarget at block 965,664 lifted difficulty by 1.31% to roughly 127.45T, exactly reversing the cut of Aug 23, while seven-day hashrate sits near 915 EH/s, well below last year's record, as miners keep diverting power to AI workloads.
Continue readingStrategy bought 4,603 bitcoin for about $369.7 million in the week of Aug 24 to 30, its first purchase in roughly ten weeks, funded by $602.8 million of at-the-market share sales that also paid for preferred-stock buybacks, dividends and a larger cash reserve.
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Continue readingSilicon, the Polygon CDK layer 2 built in 2024 by South Korean exchange Korbit (now DigitalX) with Ozys and Hidow, stopped accepting deposits this week and will switch off its network and explorer after December 31. About $9.75 million in USDC, WBTC, ETH and USDT remains on the chain and must be bridged out by users themselves.
Continue readingThe Arbitrum-built Ethereum layer 2 that Robinhood launched on July 1 saw decentralized-exchange volume climb from $989 million on Aug 28 to $1.6 billion on Sept 1 and $3 billion on Sept 4, with Uniswap handling about 98% of it and burning a record 184,000 UNI in a day.
Continue readingCore developers on the Sept 3 consensus call discussed a builder-deposit caching bug and non-finality at the Glamsterdam activation on the latest devnet, affecting Lighthouse, Prysm and Teku. A post-call recap puts the Sepolia fork at Oct 6, later than the Sept 28 slot proposed in August.
Continue readingUS spot ether ETFs posted their first net outflow in 12 sessions on Sept 2, led by redemptions from BlackRock's ETHA, Fidelity's FETH and Grayscale's ETHE, while BlackRock's staked-ether fund ETHB took in $52.9 million. Flows turned positive again on Sept 3 and 4.
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