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Top Stories

BTC $76,605 (-1.9%) | ETH $2,377 (-3.4%) | SOL $98 (-4.4%)

• US strikes Iranian targets and Iran retaliates

• The crypto market exits Extreme Greed as its total market cap falls $50B on the day

• Anthropic launches Fable 5.1 generally and Mythos 5.1 via trusted access

• U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs record $236M in net outflows on September 1 while spot Ethereum ETFs post $11M of inflows to continue a 12 day streak

• OpenAI prepares Astra release as a significant capabilities and alignment step that hits a Critical cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework

• Nous Research ships official Hermes Desktop app

• 10-year Treasury yield climbs back above 4.80% for the first time since January 2025

• Massive phishing scam wave hits X users

• SEC proposes modernizing transfer agent rules to recognize blockchain as an official securities record and require reporting on tokenized holdings

• Dell stock surges over 9% after stronger-than-expected earnings driven by AI

• Robinhood Chain generates more fees than Solana, Base and Ethereum on the day amid $1.49B DEX volume and memecoin-tokenized stock pairs — Vlad engages with Robinhood memecoin traders

• Phong Le says Strategy will keep buying Bitcoin regardless of price as bull market approaches

• ETHOS’ WHUF token sale goes live and is closing on Friday

• Visko demos Orbis 1.0 live video ai model

• SDNY lawsuit against Pump Fun and Solana gets dismissed