Crypto Industry News & Market Trends

UK Revolut Nears US Bank Launch as Bitcoin Services Could Follow

Key TakeawaysRevolut won conditional OCC approval for a U.S. bank charter in six months.A charter could cut reliance on partner banks and intensify U.S. fintech and crypto competition.Revolut targets H1 2027 launch, pending FDIC, Fed, and final OCC approvals.　　Revolut Eyes US Stablecoins After Clearing Key OCC Hurdle　　Revolut has moved a major step closer to becoming a full-service U.S. bank, potentially giving one of Europe‘s largest fintech companies a much stronger foothold in the world’s biggest financial market.　　The U.K.-based company, which serves more than 80 million customers and could go public in the next two years, received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for Revolut Bank US.　　The proposed bank, based in Stamford, Connecticut, is targeting a first-half 2027 launch. Revolut still needs approvals from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve, and final OCC clearance.　　Once approved, it plans to offer checking accounts, loans, credit cards, and foreign exchange. Stablecoins and broader crypto services are expected to follow.　　Discover more　　exchange-traded funds (ETFs　　NEWS　　Finance　　“Conditional OCC approval is an important first step towards establishing the proposed Revolut Bank US. It gives us the foundation to bring the full Revolut experience to millions of Americans,” founder and CEO Nik Storonsky said.　　Six-Month

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Robinhood Chain Halts Blocks for 14 Minutes, Stalling

Robinhood Chain halted block production for more than 14 minutes Friday, leaving transactions stalled on the Layer 2 network during U.S. trading hours.　　The network stopped producing blocks at around 12:57 p.m. UTC, leaving token transfers and smart contract transactions stuck. Block production later resumed, although the network showed signs of further instability. Robinhood has not explained what caused the halt.　　Robinhood Chain Faces Network Disruption　　On-chain data showed a buildup of transactions at the block where production stopped. Users continued submitting transactions during the outage, but the network did not confirm them until block production resumed.　　Block production eventually resumed, although explorer data showed periods of instability afterward. Robinhood has not disclosed what caused the halt or provided a detailed explanation of the disruption.　　Related: AMC CEO Criticizes Robinhood Over Tokenized Stock Offering　　The outage comes as tokenized stocks gain traction across blockchain networks. Data from RWA.xyz showed the number of tokenized-stock holders reached about 2.60 million in August, up sharply from roughly 1 million previously.　　Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain and Solana accounted for about 95% of tokenized-stock holders, highlighting the growing activity around blockchain-based equities.　　HOOD Shares Slide as Chain Recovers　　Robinhood Markets shares opened at $120.48 Friday, down from Thursdays close of $124.72. The stock fell

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Coinbase adds six tokenized stocks after $228M debut

Coinbase has added six tokenized equities, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla, to Base after its first batch generated $227.7 million in decentralized exchange volume within about 30 days.　　SummarySix new equity tokens have joined Coinbases initial four-stock lineup on Base.Amazon, Microsoft, Strategy, SanDisk, SpaceX, and Tesla are included in the latest release.Token Terminal recorded $227.7 million in DEX volume for Coinbase-issued stock tokens over 30 days.U.S. persons remain unable to access the products under Coinbases current Regulation S offering.　　Base said on Sept. 4 that Amazon (AMZNc), Microsoft (MSFTc), Strategy (MSTRc), SanDisk (SNDKc), SpaceX (SPCXc) and Tesla (TSLAc) are now available onchain, expanding Coinbases tokenized stock range weeks after the initial release.　　The additions give eligible investors exposure to five publicly traded companies and privately held SpaceX through tokens that can move across supported applications on the Ethereum layer-2 network. Developers can also integrate the assets into trading, lending, and other financial products built for Base.　　Coinbase tokenized stocks expand beyond the first four assets　　Coinbase started its Base rollout on Aug. 24 with tokens tied to Apple, Alphabet, Meta, and Nvidia. As crypto.news previously reported on the launch, the products use Bases B20 standard and represent beneficial interests in shares held through regulated custody.　　Adding

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Trump pushes Fed on rates after 162,000-job gain

U.S. President Donald Trump has renewed his demand for lower interest rates and threatened to halt trade with deficit countries after employers added 162,000 jobs in August.　　US jobs growth has exceeded forecasts　　The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that nonfarm payrolls increased by 162,000 in August, while the unemployment rate remained at 4.1%. Economists polled by Reuters had expected the economy to add about 56,000 jobs.　　Augusts increase was also well above the average monthly gain of 31,000 recorded during the previous 12 months. The number of unemployed people changed little at 7 million, while the labor force participation rate edged up to 61.6%.　　Revisions strengthened the report further. The BLS raised June‘s increase from 20,000 to 31,000 and changed July’s estimate from a loss of 23,000 jobs to a gain of 21,000. Combined employment growth for the two months was therefore 55,000 higher than initially reported.　　Food services and drinking establishments accounted for 59,000 new positions in August, compared with their 12-month monthly average of 12,000. Local government education added 42,000 jobs, and manufacturing employment rose by 16,000.　　Information companies cut 23,000 positions, including losses among computing infrastructure providers, publishers, and broadcasters. Healthcare employment increased by 13,000, but the gain was below

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SoFi Partners With Kraken On Crypto Trading

SoFi Technologies and Payward, the parent company of Kraken, announced a strategic partnership on September 3 that connects banking, payments and digital asset markets. Under the agreement, Kraken will list SoFiUSD, the bank-issued stablecoin from the nationally chartered bank, while SoFi routes its digital asset order flow through Kraken Prime for trade execution, according to the Kraken announcement.　　How the Partnership Works　　Payward is joining the SoFi Exchange Network‘s real-time settlement rails, the announcement said. Kraken Prime’s institutional and business clients will also gain access to SoFis Big Business Banking and its SEN settlement network, giving them a regulated banking partner that settles fiat in real time, 24 hours a day. Qualified custody capabilities are expected to follow as the relationship grows.　　SoFi counts 15.8 million members, and the app already lets users buy and sell crypto. By routing that order flow through Kraken Prime, those trades now reach a deeper pool of liquidity rather than filling against a single order book. SoFi operates as a nationally chartered bank, so the tie-up pairs a regulated banking franchise with Krakens institutional trading stack.　　Kraken Primes Execution Model　　Kraken Prime, launched in 2025, uses a smart order routing system that reads pricing and depth across supported venues

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Grayscale Names 3 Blockchains Leading the Tokenized Stock Boom

Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Solana handled most tokenized stock trading last week, Grayscale said in a research note published Thursday. Weekly spot volume for the sector peaked near $3 billion in early August.　　Those numbers show tokenized equities have found buyers. Almost none of that money, however, does anything else on-chain once a trade settles.　　Sponsored　　Sponsored　　Grayscale Names Robinhood Chain, BNB and Solana as Tokenized Stock WinnersTokenized Stock Trading Runs Ahead of Onchain Utility　　Tokenized stocks are blockchain tokens that track a listed share price without handing the buyer the share itself. Trading them is easy. Doing anything else with them is not.　　About 5% of the tokenized equity market is put to work in on-chain finance, according to the note. Grayscale research head Zach Pandl tied that to what investors actually want, which is round the clock trading and access from anywhere.　　Value locked in tokenized stocks passed $110 million in late August, Grayscale said in a post citing on-chain data from Allium. That sits far below the billions changing hands every week.　　$HOOD, $BNB, and $SOL are leading chains for tokenized equity trading by volume.　　Weekly spot volume has already reached $3B, with onchain Total Value Locked (TVL) surpassing $110M. Tokenized equities are growing fast.　　Read

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CLARITY Act Gets a Boost as Sheriffs Drop Opposition

The NSA officially changed its CLARITY Act position from opposition to neutral.The group said important details of the legislation are still under consideration.Its previous opposition had complicated efforts to secure Democratic support.Restrictions on government officials profiting from crypto remain a larger political hurdle.　　The National Sheriffs Association (NSA) has dropped its opposition to the CLARITY Act, removing a law enforcement obstacle that had complicated efforts to build bipartisan support for the landmark U.S. crypto market structure bill. In a September 3 letter to Senate leaders, the NSA changed its position to neutral and said Congress should be allowed to continue negotiations on the regulatory framework. The move could help with Democratic votes, but disputes over government ethics and other provisions remain unresolved.　　Sheriffs Step Aside Rather Than Endorse the Bill　　The NSAs September 3 letter provides a more nuanced signal than a straightforward endorsement.　　Addressed to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the organization acknowledged that the CLARITY Act is attempting to regulate a market that has operated without sufficient oversight and credited Congress, the administration and other stakeholders for working through its legal and enforcement implications.　　But the group stopped short of saying the legislation is ready for passage.　　“Given the

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A Base Traffic Spike Crowded Robinhood Chain Out Of Ethereum's Blob Space

Robinhood Chains batches stopped reaching Ethereum for 14 minutes across an 18-minute stretch on Friday, the longest single gap 8 minutes 36 seconds. Its own blocks never stopped.　　A surge of transactions on Base filled Ethereum‘s market for temporary data storage on Friday and crowded Robinhood Chain out of it, leaving Robinhood’s network unable to deliver its transaction batches to Ethereum for 14 minutes.　　Robinhood Chain buys more of that space than any other network. Posting the batches is what lets anyone reconstruct the chain and check it, and what allows funds to leave for Ethereum. Today, the largest buyer of Ethereums data capacity was the one left waiting when the capacity ran short.　　Base‘s blocks filled at 12:30 UTC and its batcher began posting to Ethereum four times as often. Ethereum blocks hit their 21-blob ceiling and the blob base fee climbed 27-fold inside half an hour. Robinhood Chain’s batch poster went 8 minutes and 36 seconds without landing a batch, then another 5 minutes and 24 seconds, and quadrupled its fee bid to get back in. Its own blocks never stopped, so traders in the Robinhood app saw nothing.　　Arbitrum addressed the incident on Friday afternoon, after posts on X reported that

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Why 89% of tokenized RWAs remain idle in a $34.6B market

The tokenized real-world asset market has reached $34.6 billion onchain, but only $3.79 billion has been deployed in protocols, leaving about 89% of issued value idle.　　SummaryRoughly 11% of the $34.6 billion tokenized RWA market is deployed in protocols.BlackRock‘s BUIDL, Franklin Templeton’s BENJI and Circles USYC all have utilization below 1%.JAAA and reUSD have utilization rates above 97%, according to DeFiLlama.Falcon Finance examines legal claims, redemptions, liquidity, pricing, and credit quality before accepting RWA collateral.　　DefiLlama data shows a sharp difference between the value of tokenized assets issued onchain and the amount being used inside decentralized finance protocols.　　BlackRock‘s BUIDL has a utilization rate of 0.64%, while Franklin Templeton’s BENJI stands at 0% and Circle‘s USYC at 0.52%, according to the platform. Each product gives holders exposure to yield-bearing assets, but little of their issued value has moved into the protocols covered by DefiLlama’s utilization measure.　　Products created for use as collateral show a different pattern. Centrifuge‘s tokenized Janus Henderson Anemoy AAA CLO Fund, known as JAAA, has reached 97.97% utilization, while Re Protocol’s reUSD stands at 97.87% and Maple Finances SyrupUSDT at 88.84%.　　You might also like:　　Robinhood Chain RWA volume hits $390M as memecoin stock pairs surge　　Artem Tolkachev, chief RWA officer at Falcon Finance,

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Balancer Gives Hacker Sept. 8 Deadline to Return Funds or

Balancer has given the operator of a wallet linked to its Aug. 31 exploit until Sept. 8 to return the stolen funds or face further action.　　The warning, posted on-chain Sept. 3, offers a bounty for funds returned to the Balancer DAO multisig. The operator must respond through Blockscan by 21:00 UTC.　　If the attacker does not cooperate, Balancer said it will escalate its response, potentially using technical, on-chain and legal measures.　　Balancer Offers Bounty for Fund Recovery　　“We understand this wallet is linked to the exploit of Balancer V1 on Aug. 31st, 2026,” the protocol said in the notice.　　Related: Trezor Confirms 67,000 More US Users Impacted in ShipMonk Leak　　Balancer said it prefers to resolve the matter without escalation and would avoid legal action if the funds are returned. It also offered the bounty to anyone who provides information that helps recover the assets.　　Security firm SlowMist estimated the loss at about $234,000, citing issues involving WBTC reserves and rounding calculations in Balancer V1.　　The incident adds to Balancers security challenges. In November, the protocol reported an exploit that drained about $128.6 million from its vaults.　　Balancers Current Position　　Balancer V3 now holds about $29.4 million in total value locked, down sharply from more than $400 million at

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