Hunter Biden's LAPTOP Meme Coin Crashes 99% on Debut

In briefLAPTOP launched on Base at 8am ET Wednesday and hit a $190.81 peak just two minutes later, per Arkham, before crashing to as low as $3.70 within the hour.The tokens fully diluted valuation briefly topped $144 billion against a liquidity pool of just $48,000, according to Arkham, before falling to roughly $4.8 billion.This is a common patter in celebrity and political meme coins, which tend to quickly crash.  Hunter Bidens controversial LAPTOP meme coin hit the crypto market on Wednesday morning and immediately did what most “celebrity meme coins” have done before it: it pumped, then it dumped.  The token, named for the Delaware laptop saga that dogged Biden through the 2020 election and years after, launched on Base—Coinbases Ethereum layer-2 network—at 8am ET Wednesday.  Blockchain intelligence firm Arkham reported that LAPTOP topped out at $190.81 just two minutes later, a peak that implied a fully diluted valuation near $144 billion against a liquidity pool holding only $48,000.  DID LAPTOP TOP IN 2 MINUTES?  LAPTOP just launched at 8:02pm. It reached a peak price 2 minutes later at 8:04.  The FDV of the coin is currently $144B and the liquidity pool contains $48K.   That gap between the valuation and actual tradable liquidity set up the

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Compound opens USDC market with up to 87% LTV

Compound Foundation has launched a USDC lending market with loan-to-value ratios of up to 87% as part of its $52 million plan to attract institutional capital.  Compound Foundation said in a Sept. 9 announcement that its Institutional Market runs on Compound v3 and separates selected collateral into a lending pool designed around specific liquidity and risk conditions.  Borrowers can use Ether (ETH), wrapped staked Ether, Wrapped Bitcoin, or Coinbase Wrapped BTC to access USDC. The market gives ETH an 87% loan-to-value ratio, while wstETH carries an 85% ratio. WBTC and cbBTC each have an 81% ratio.  Each collateral asset has a $10 million borrowing cap. Liquidation factors range from 86% for WBTC and cbBTC to 93% for ETH, while penalties begin at 5% for ETH and rise to 10% for both Bitcoin-backed assets.  Compound promoted the product as an institutional-only market in its announcement. However, its official market page states that anyone can borrow, while approval applies to suppliers seeking additional incentives.  Compound market pairs higher LTVs with a narrow collateral list  By limiting the market to four liquid collateral assets, Compound said it can offer terms based on their individual risk and liquidity profiles instead of applying one set of conditions across a large group

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KiiChain Adds Two Major Banks to Its 24/7 LatAm FX Network

Bogota, Colombia, September 9, 2026– With two major Colombian financial institutions onboarded — including state-owned Banco Agrario — more than $500 million in processed volume, and a target of up to $10 million in daily transactions with Financiera Juriscoop, KiiChain is expanding its institutional FX and settlement footprint across Latin America.  KiiChain is expanding its institutional footprint in Colombia through two new agreements that place its 24/7 foreign exchange and settlement infrastructure underneath regulated Colombian financial institutions, including state-owned Banco Agrario de Colombia.  Sponsored  Sponsored  The first is a partnership with Financiera Juriscoop, a regulated Colombian financial institution with more than 40 years in the market. Juriscoop brings institutional Colombian peso liquidity onto KiiChains FX rails, creating a foundation for currency execution and settlement outside traditional banking hours. The two are targeting up to $10 million in daily transaction volume as the integration scales.  The second names KiiChain as an infrastructure provider for a joint initiative between Banco Agrario de Colombia, the countrys state-owned agrarian bank, and Merke Plaza. Banco Agrario holds the banking relationship, custody of funds, and compliance controls.  Merke Plaza is digitizing Colombias plazas de mercado, the traditional market halls that anchor commerce in cities and small towns alike. KiiChain provides the settlement,

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DCENT Unveils New Brand Identity Eight Years After Its Launch, Expanding Beyond Digital Asset Storage

South Korea-based digital asset wallet company IoTrust, led by CEO Sangsu Baek, unveiled a new brand identity for DCENT on September 8, marking the first major rebranding since the brand was launched eight years ago.  As part of the rebranding, the English brand name has changed from “DCENT” to “DCENT,” removing the apostrophe, while the Korean brand name remains unchanged.  Sponsored  Sponsored  The new slogan, “Own your future. At ease.”, reflects DCENTs commitment to keeping ownership of digital assets in the hands of users while reducing the burden associated with storing and managing them. The new wordmark and signature color, “DCENT Lime,”visually represent this direction.  Beyond the Name: Expanding the Digital Asset Experience  The rebranding goes beyond changes to the brand name and visual identity. Hardware wallets have evolved from devices used primarily for asset storage into access points for approving transactions, participating in staking, and using a wide range of digital asset services.  In line with this evolution, DCENT is expanding into a brand that provides a comprehensive digital asset experience encompassing storage, backup, management, and utility.  The key phrase behind the rebranding is “Beyond Storage.”It represents DCENTs commitment to making the entire digital asset journey more convenient—from secure storage to backup, recovery, management, and use.  Unveiled alongside

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HTX Releases August Performance Report: 13th Anniversary Celebration Ignites Global User Engagement

Apia, Samoa, September 9, 2026– In August, leading global cryptocurrency exchange HTX marked its 13th anniversary with a major anniversary celebration. In an industry where leading projects come and go rapidly, few platforms have continued delivering quality services to users worldwide for 13 consecutive years. Even fewer have continued expanding their capabilities after weathering multiple bull and bear cycles.  Centered around the “Resilience Reveals the Future” campaign and Trading Championship #3, HTX delivered a series of anniversary rewards for global users throughout August. At the same time, the platform continued to expand its asset offerings and enhance its trading tools and yield products.  On-platform balances grew 6.6% month over month, supported stock trading assets reached 210, and cumulative TradFi trading volume surpassed $4 billion, resulting in a strong August performance.  13th Anniversary “Resilience Reveals the Future”: Rewards All Month Long  At 13:13 (UTC+8) on August 13, HTXs 13th anniversary carnival month campaign, “Resilience Reveals the Future,” officially kicked off. The campaign allowed users to complete designated Growth Challenge tasks, light up Future Gems, and unlock anniversary rewards step by step.  Sponsored  Sponsored  The Grand Prize included a 2,000 USDT Future Exploration Fund, an all-inclusive trip to Singapore TOKEN2049 (flights & hotel included), and an HTX 13th Anniversary

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U.S. Bank Moves Real Dollars on a Public Chain, But With a Kill Switch

On Wednesday, U.S. Bank sent dollars from North America to Europe on a public blockchain. However, while anyone can watch that network, only the bank can undo the payment.  The bank calls it a launch, but its own announcement describes it as a test. U.S. Bank paid itself, using a token, USBDC, that no customer can buy.  Sponsored  Sponsored  The Kill Switch for U.S. Bank  Cryptos founding promise was that nobody could pull your money back. USBDC breaks that promise deliberately. The bank chose Stellar, whose token XLM ranks 19th by market value.  Stellar lets whoever issues a token cut off an account, while at the same time allowing that issuer to destroy coins sitting in someone elses wallet.  U.S. Bank tried creating the token, cashing it out, freezing it, and taking it back. All four worked.  So this is not a rival to the dollar coins traders already use. It is a wire transfer with an undo button.  “This live pilot demonstrates our ability to accelerate global cash management and money movement capabilities,” read an excerpt in the banks statement, citing Gunjan Kedia, chairman and chief executive officer at U.S. Bank.  Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens  Sponsored  Sponsored  Wall Street Split, and the U.S. Bank

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Germanys Bitcoin Tax-Free Era Could End: The Date Every Crypto Investor Must Know

Germany is putting a deadline on tax-free Bitcoin (BTC). Buy before December 31, 2026 and the old rules follow your coins, but buy later and the taxman comes.  That date sits inside a draft law from the finance ministry, and while nothing has passed yet, German investors are already doing the arithmetic.  Sponsored  Sponsored  The Rule That Made Germany Different  For years, Germany had it such that you hold your crypto for 12 months and the profit was yours, untaxed. Sell sooner and you paid income tax, up to 42%.  It gave a country famous for paperwork a reputation as one of Europes friendliest homes for long-term crypto holders.  The draft seen by Handelsblatt kills the clock, with every sale expected to become taxable. Gains would meet a flat 25% withholding tax, the same one Germany charges on shares and dividends.  INTEL: Germany plans to scrap its one-year crypto tax exemption and impose a flat 25% capital gains tax on new holdings from 2027 pic.twitter.com/IR9cTHf2uU  — Solid Intel ???? (@solidintel_x) September 9, 2026  A solidarity surcharge also lands on top, so that the first €1,000 ($1,163) of yearly gains stays free, and losses could finally be written off against other gains.  Sponsored  Sponsored  The Part That Stings  The ministry says the exemption rewards speculation.  “It

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Hunter Biden's LAPTOP Coin Creates A Crypto Millionaire and a $200,000 Bagholder

Hunter Biden‘s LAPTOP meme coin peaked two minutes after Wednesday’s launch and now trades 99% below that high. One trader cleared more than $1 million inside the window. Another turned $200,000 into less than $2,000.  Blockchain analytics firm Arkham put the peak at $199.51. Hours later the token changed hands at $2.27, a market value near $794.5 million, and it has kept sliding since. It trades on Base, the network Coinbase built.  Sponsored  Sponsored  Hunter Bidens Laptop Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoA $48,000 Pool Was Pricing a $144 Billion Token  Arkham said the pool of money backing LAPTOP trades held about $48,000 shortly after launch, while the tokens full supply was being valued at $144 billion. A liquidity pool is the pot of assets buyers trade against, and a shallow one means a modest order moves the price a long way.  DID LAPTOP TOP IN 2 MINUTES?  LAPTOP just launched at 8:02pm. It reached a peak price 2 minutes later at 8:04.  The FDV of the coin is currently $144B and the liquidity pool contains $48K. pic.twitter.com/9yvDk6r2sB  — Arkham (@arkham) September 9, 2026  That mismatch drove what followed. The LAPTOP price was anchored to almost nothing, so a few large buys could mark it in the hundreds of dollars, and a

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Brazils Tokenization Push Accelerates With $2 Billion Credit Plan

In July, Brazils Securities and Exchange Commission, the CVM, created a dedicated Tokenization Working Group to study the registration, custody, trading, and settlement of securities using distributed ledger technology.  The group has also been tasked with proposing an experimental regulatory regime for tokenized securities, placing tokenization directly within the regulator‘s agenda for the modernization of Brazil’s capital markets.  Meanwhile, Brazilian tokenization platform Liqi Digital Assets and XDC Network have renewed their partnership for another two years and raised the total targeted issuance from $500 million to $2 billion through 2028.  The new agreement consists of the original $500 million, which the companies say has already been completed, alongside a further $1.5 billion in planned issuance.  JUST IN: Monthly transaction count on @XDCNetwork is at an all-time high of 27.7 million, up 50% over the past six months.  A network to watch ???? pic.twitter.com/E7UaiiHRY9  — Token Terminal ???? (@tokenterminal) August 17, 2026  Liqi Reached Its Original $500 Million Target Nine Months Early  The expansion follows faster-than-expected issuance under the companies first agreement.  Liqi and XDC initially signed their partnership in April 2025, setting a target of up to $500 million in real-world assets over 24 months. According to the companies, that target was reached in roughly 15 months, nine months

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Bitcoin miner manufacturer Canaan sells crypto to buy back shares after $97 million loss

Canaan, the Bitcoin mining-equipment maker, reported second-quarter 2026 revenue below its earlier guidance on Sept. 8, as weaker machine demand put more weight on its cash and crypto treasury. More than half of its Bitcoin holdings were pledged for loans at June 30.  Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $78,761.17 24-hour change: up 0.36% 24H Up 0.36% 7D Up 2.21% 30D Up 21.90%  Revenue totaled $31.9 million, short of the $35 million to $45 million range forecast in May. Product revenue fell to $13.6 million from $42.9 million in the first quarter. Canaan attributed that decline to less computing power sold and lower selling prices amid weaker demand.  Managements outlook points to further pressure: Canaan forecast third-quarter revenue of $11 million to $15 million. That prospect makes the distinction between treasury holdings and available cash more consequential.  Related Company Canaan Mining hardware manufacturer  Cash, collateral and buybacks  Canaans June 30 total of 1,915.5 BTC included 1,117 BTC pledged for secured term loans and 100 BTC transferred to a fixed-term product. Another 698.5 BTC sat in its cryptocurrency assets category.  The pledged coins therefore represented more than half the total. They were already serving as loan collateral, while the fixed-term allocation was also distinct from cash. The headline

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