Federal Reserve Board member Michael Barr said he is prepared to support interest rate hikes if inflation does not fall sufficiently. Speaking at a banking forum in Washington, Barr stated that inflation remaining above the Fed’s 2 percent target for nearly five and a half years increases the risk of broader price pressures becoming permanent
Figure Technology Solutions closed its $717 million acquisition of Kiavi on Tuesday, bringing one of the largest US lenders to residential real-estate investors onto blockchain rails. The September 1 closing was confirmed in both Figure’s acquisition announcement and its Form 8-K filed with the SEC. The arrangement represents a chance for the crypto sector to
The headwinds hitting bitcoin aren’t landing, even as they inflict damage on major traditional assets. That relative strength, however, may still get challenged by the resilient Dollar Index. Futures tied to WTI oil have topped $90 and are up nearly 9% for the week, as of this writing, according to data from TradingView. A higher
Nancy Beaton, President of the US for digital asset platform Uphold, said traditional banking is in the middle of a structural move toward blockchain infrastructure, and argued that partnerships between companies like Ripple and Uphold are what will actually carry the financial system there. “There’s no question that the traditional banking system and financial system
Robinhood Chain revenue from applications totaled between $2.66 million and $2.82 million over a rolling 24-hour window early on Sept. 1, creating an eye-catching measure of network activity with no disclosed bridge to Robinhood’s corporate accounts. DefiLlama tracks application revenue, chain revenue and chain fees as separate layers. Its dashboard showed $963,612 of chain revenue
Federated Hermes, Inc. (NYSE: FHI), the asset manager with $911.6 billion under management, said on September 1 that it has formed a strategic alliance with Singapore-based Conduit Digital Holdings to support the launch of a regulated tokenized money market fund distribution structure in Asia-Pacific. The announcement marks Federated Hermes’ first digital-assets initiative in the region
According to a Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 1, Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (HSI), the Nasdaq-listed company building a treasury around $HYPE, has doubled its stock-sale program, which is used to fund its strategy, thereby increasing its equity financing commitment to $2.5 billion from $1 billion. The move demonstrates how corporate treasuries have
August 2026 has set a bullish tone for crypto. According to The Kobeissi Letter, investors are now putting large amounts of money into both crypto and gold funds at the same time. Last week alone saw crypto funds recording $3.2 billion in inflows, marking their biggest weekly inflow since October 2025. Source: The Kobeissi Letter/X
Arch Lending, the alternative-asset lending platform operated by ChainFi, Inc., said on September 1 that it has begun accepting PAX Gold and Tether Gold as collateral at starting loan-to-value ratios of up to 75%, opening credit access to a class of investors that has largely sat outside digital-asset lending. The expansion, detailed in a company
Ripple and Settlemint Combine Custody With Tokenization Ripple and Settlemint, a blockchain technology company specializing in digital asset lifecycle management, formed a strategic partnership to provide regulated financial institutions with an integrated system for issuing, holding, and managing tokenized assets. The partnership announced Sept. 1 connects Ripple Custody with Settlemint’s Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform, known