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Recent issues

Robinhood Chain revenue fell 83% from its peak while trading volume set records
Senate Republicans posted revised CLARITY Act text five days before the cloture vote

Nasdaq Bought Into Kraken's Parent At $21 Billion
Plus: U.S. Bank issued its own stablecoin on Stellar, and MoneyGram put a dollar balance on a Visa card

Crypto Still Loves Memecoins -Just Not Hunter Biden's
Pump.fun now prices new coins in tokenized Nvidia and Tesla, Consensys is splitting in two, and Circle is buying Tazapay for $400 million

Hunter Biden is Launching a Memecoin Called LAPTOP
The Sept. 9 launch airdrops to wallets sitting on TRUMP losses, and Liquid's attacker sent 3,400 BTC back.

Robinhood Told AMC's CEO To Send His Lawyers
The AMC stock token printed $18 at midnight against a $2.54 stock, then 1.3 million new tokens closed the premium

Robinhood Chain Base Fee Climbed By 23x
Plus: Uniswap Labs bought PONS tokens

A Memecoin Ran A Nasdaq Stock Up 321%
Money Mushroom's 'tokenized Farmmi' has no issuer, no redemption, and a wallet running a contract called PoolRepricer

Pons Is Out-Earning Pump.fun Almost Three To One
Robinhood Chain settles $1.49B in a day, Cronos rewinds 11,000 blocks, and Fogo is still dark

Two Circuits Now Disagree About Kalshi
Nevada can enforce its gaming laws, an attacker drains Avici in real time, and Solana validators double disinflation after Kraken flips

Ethena Wants All Of Its Revenue Buying ENA
Plus: Moonwell loses $8.7 million to a MAMO price manipulation, and bitcoin clears $80,000