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Elan Insights just added live data feeds for every chain in today's issue, including real-time TVL tracking for Zcash, NEAR, and Arbitrum ecosystems.
Strategy Resumes Aggressive Bitcoin Accumulation
Strategy has added another 950 BTC to its balance sheet, paying $75.7 million at an average price of $79,670 per coin.
NEAR Protocol & Arbitrum are the hottest assets right now
NEAR and ARB have both rallied sharply in recent sessions, outpacing the broader L1 and L2 markets.
Polygon Prepares for Major POL Burn
Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal has announced plans to permanently remove 100 million POL tokens from circulation, marking one of the most significant supply-reduction moves in the network's history.
Bitcoin Moves Ahead of Elon Musk's Tesla
BTC has overtaken Tesla by market capitalisation, cementing its place as a major force in global asset rankings.
Apple to Integrate Crypto Soon?
Apple appears to be laying the groundwork for a potential move into digital asset payments, as the company posted a job listing on August 26 for a "Head of Financial Products Strategy for Apple Pay," a role responsible for developing mid- to long-term strategies for financial services including Apple Card and Apple Cash, and identifying new opportunities in areas such as stablecoins.
A single job posting is not a product announcement, but Apple does not advertise roles for functions it has no intention of building.
The timing matters: stablecoin infrastructure has matured significantly in the past 18 months, and Apple Pay already moves billions in payments daily.
ZetaChain Voters Approve Layer 1 Shutdown
ZetaChain token holders have voted to shut down the project's Layer 1 blockchain and migrate ZETA to Solana, with Proposal 68 closing at 10:58 a.m. ET with 99.4% in favor.
The move abandons ZetaChain's original thesis as a chain-agnostic interoperability layer running its own consensus, in favor of repositioning as a cross-chain messaging protocol built on top of Solana.
For a project that raised capital to build its own L1, this is a complete strategic reversal. The vote was nearly unanimous, which suggests either widespread recognition that the original architecture was not viable, or token distribution so concentrated that governance is effectively centralized.
Saylor Calls CLARITY Act Failure a Win
Strategy founder Michael Saylor is framing the Senate's failure to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act as a potential positive for the digital asset industry, bucking the broader industry view that the vote was a major setback.
Saylor's argument hinges on the idea that the bill, despite its branding, would have codified the CFTC's jurisdiction over spot crypto markets in ways that could have limited Bitcoin's path to becoming a reserve asset or collateral in traditional finance.
Whether you buy that analysis depends on whether you think regulatory clarity is worth the tradeoff of locking in a specific framework that may not age well.
Meet Charles Hoskinson: Crypto's Most Outspoken Academic-Minded Founder
Charles Hoskinson is the founder of the Cardano blockchain and a co-founder of Ethereum, known for building Cardano on peer-reviewed research and for speaking bluntly. This profile breaks down his background, his philosophy of formal methods and academic rigor in protocol design, and why he remains one of the most polarizing figures in crypto. If you've wondered why Cardano takes years to ship features other chains launch in months, or why Hoskinson picks fights on Twitter with the frequency of a sitting politician, this is the deep dive.
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950 BTC:
** Strategy's latest purchase, bringing its total Bitcoin holdings to new highs as the company continues its aggressive accumulation strategy.
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99.4%:
** The approval rate for ZetaChain's proposal to shut down its Layer 1 and migrate to Solana, one of the most decisive governance votes on record.
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100 million POL:
** The number of tokens Polygon Foundation plans to burn, representing one of the largest single supply reductions in the network's history.
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70%:
** The approximate rally NEAR and ARB have posted in recent sessions, making them the standout performers among L1 and L2 tokens.
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Nine years:
** How long Zcash operated with only ZEC before launching its first token standard, ZRC-20.
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$1.635 trillion:
** Bitcoin's market cap as of September 19, placing it above Tesla in global asset rankings.
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Pi Network Protocol V27:
** Pi Network has cleared the last technical hurdle before switching Protocol V27 from its testing environment to the live mainnet, with the upgrade now running on Testnet 2 and showing stable performance at 250 transactions per block with no recorded failures.
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NearKat memecoin:
** NearKat, a Solana-based memecoin launched through the StonkFun platform, has surged 65% over the past 25 hours and is up 360% over the past seven days, with its market capitalization climbing to roughly $13.83 million during the latest rally.
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X sues Bitcoin influencers:
** X Internet Unlimited Company and X Corp. have filed a lawsuit in the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales against two Bitcoin influencers, Vivek Kumar Sen and Zamyang Sherpa, along with unidentified operators of related accounts, with the case submitted to the UK High Court on September 17.
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Absa and Ripple partner on African custody:
** Absa Corporate and Investment Banking has partnered with Ripple to launch an institutional digital asset custody platform in South Africa, marking a significant step for the continent's financial infrastructure.
Until Wednesday.