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Markets
Bitcoin Holds $77,000 After Weak Hiring Print
ADP reported 38,000 private jobs added in August, down from 44,000 in July, and traders raised the odds of a September Federal Reserve increase anyway. Eighty-four of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell, gold rose 0.84% and the Nasdaq 100 dropped 1.29%.

NFTs & Web3
OpenSea Adds Solana NFT Trading Across OS2
Collectors can browse, buy and sell Solana NFTs alongside the network’s fungible tokens, with Mad Lads and Claynosaurz available at launch.
Blockchains
ArbitrumDAO Income Reached $6.19 Million In H1
The Arbitrum Foundation's first-half report puts $360,000 of Arbitrum Expansion Program license fees at 35% of ArbitrumDAO's July income, the first month Robinhood Chain ran on mainnet.
DeFi
Nomura's Laser Digital Moves Into DeFi Fixed Income
Laser Digital will act as risk governor for lending markets built with Keyring Network, with the first markets readied for Euler Finance. Neither company disclosed committed capital, fee terms or a launch date.

TradFi & Fintech
21 Financial Institutions Commit to Joint Stablecoin Venture
Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, UBS, Deutsche Bank and 16 other firms said Tuesday they will incorporate a company in the second half of 2026 to issue a dollar stablecoin, with a market launch targeted for the first half of 2027. The announcement did not name the company, its owners, its executives or the blockchain it will use.

TradFi & Fintech
Securitize Will Issue Socios' Tokenized Sports Team Equity
The Chiliz Group announced the equity token product on Aug. 27 without naming an issuer. The EU regime the companies say the first offering would run through admits shares only from issuers worth less than €500 million.

CeFi
Backpack Adds Micron and SanDisk Shares as Margin Collateral
The exchange also introduced 24/7 perpetual futures on MU, SNDK, SPY and QQQ, but its post did not specify key collateral and liquidation terms.

Regulation & Politics
SEC Proposes Transfer Agent Rules for Blockchain-Based Share Records
The proposal would update electronic recordkeeping rules and add risk-management and compliance requirements for registered transfer agents using blockchain systems.

Blockchains
Robinhood Chain DEX Volume Hits $1.49 Billion As Pons Takes Two-Thirds Of Launchpad Fees
The two-month-old Arbitrum network ranked second among all chains by decentralized exchange volume over 24 hours, ahead of Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base, with its memecoin launchpad earning almost three times what pump.fun did.
Markets
Arbitrum Jumps 25% on Robinhood Chain Fees as Bitcoin Holds $78,000
ARB led the 108 largest non-stablecoin tokens after chain fees on Robinhood's network doubled in a day, taking the Arbitrum DAO's contractual 10% cut to roughly $192,000 a day. Bitcoin fell 0.7% while Japanese and U.S. government bond yields rose and gold dropped 1.9%.



