Kalshi prematurely settled a Western Michigan versus Michigan market that had traded $18.6 million. The exchange paid traders who backed Western Michigan before reversing the payouts. Michigan won 13-12 after officials restored one second to the clock.

Coinbase Ventures-backed Router Protocol will shut down all operations by Sept. 30 and permanently burn 303,333,198 ROUTE tokens. Router said commercialization, licensing, and acquisition efforts failed to produce a sustainable business. Router will work with centralized exchanges to end token support, with separate delisting and withdrawal procedures likely.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $174.6 million in net inflows on Sept. 4, 2026. The total was 76.1% below Thursday's $730.8 million inflow. Only BlackRock and Fidelity funds recorded positive net flows. US exchanges are scheduled to reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 8, after the Labor Day closure.

Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a record $730.87 million daily inflow on September 3rd. TedPillows warned that Bitcoin formed a local top shortly after the two prior occasions when daily ETF inflows exceeded $700 million. Alex Adler Jr. said US spot ETFs contributed about 42.8K BTC of net flows over the past month. DonAlt predicted Bitcoin will reach as high as $90,000 before a meaningful pullback.

US employers added 162,000 jobs in August, prompting President Trump to demand lower Federal Reserve interest rates. The unemployment rate remained at 4.1%. The United States runs annual deficits of more than $1.2 trillion with China, Mexico and Canada, according to The Wall Street Journal. The odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike at the September meeting rose to around 53%.

Better and Coinbase made their bitcoin-backed home loan generally available last week with requested pre-application loan volume at $360 million since launch. Bitcoin price drops do not trigger margin calls or automatic liquidations. The bitcoin is sold only if a borrower misses combined monthly payments.

LeBron James made his Polymarket partnership public in a video posted to X. Polymarket promised a full reveal on Tuesday. The terms of the partnership remain undisclosed.

Pencil Finance says it completed a $1 million student-loan cycle entirely on-chain. ErudiFi issued the loans across Southeast Asia, including Indonesia and the Philippines. The company says about 1,050 students received funding directly attributable to Pencil Finance.

Vitalik Buterin published an updated EIP-8141 draft for the next Ethereum upgrade. The draft could change how Ethereum wallets sign, batch, and pay. The proposal allows one transaction to carry up to 64 steps.

Solana's US ETF inflows fell 97% in the week ending Sept. 4. The funds recorded USD 4.9 million in net inflows compared with USD 142.7 million in the previous five trading sessions. CME leveraged funds became less net short SOL but remained net short. The CME positioning snapshot predates the end of the ETF week.

The U.S. Department of Justice expanded its antitrust probe into high beef prices by seeking six years of records from eight major grocery chains. The letters went to Walmart, Amazon, Costco, Kroger, Publix, Albertsons, Aldi and Ahold Delhaize USA. Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. sent the letters in mid-July. The inquiry follows a May investigation of meatpackers after President Trump accused the industry of collusion and price manipulation.

S&P Dow Jones Indices removes Nike from the S&P 100 on September 21. Dell Technologies, Palo Alto Networks, Arista Networks and SanDisk enter from the S&P 500. Nike keeps its S&P 500 membership. Honeywell Aerospace, Simon Property Group and Colgate-Palmolive also leave the index.

Polish lawmakers failed by 25 votes to override President Karol Nawrocki's veto of crypto regulation. The vote left Poland as the only EU member state without a functioning national framework for MiCA. The bill would have made the Financial Supervision Authority the country's crypto regulator.

Franceska Herrera sued Citigroup over alleged privacy violations involving website tracking pixels. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The complaint alleges that the pixels captured visitors' page navigations, searches and content interests without notice or consent.

President Trump is pledging to allocate up to $500 million from his super PAC to support Republican candidates in the November midterms. MAGA Inc. reported $403.45 million in cash on hand as of July 31st. The PAC has spent roughly $21 million since the start of 2025.

Tether-backed Chilean crypto exchange Orionx is permanently closing after an audit found more than $7 million in customer assets had moved to wallets outside its custody. Orionx said withdrawals are temporarily suspended. The exchange filed a criminal complaint against former executives Roberto Zibert and Joaquín Díaz. The complaint alleges that assets were transferred from Orionx's custody between 2018 and 2021.

The Alpine F1 Team Fan Token climbed roughly 3.6% in 24 hours to trade near $0.3557 on September 5. Pierre Gasly claimed his first career pole position for Alpine at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza. Gasly edged Mercedes' George Russell by 0.060 seconds with a lap of 1:21.786.

Bank7 Corp. won a controlling stake in Century Financial Services Corp. for a net cash price of $89 million. The purchase covers about 71% of the parent of Century Bank. The deal needs regulatory approval and is slated for the fourth quarter.

The national average diesel price was $5.88 a gallon on September 5th. AAA said the average was its highest on record and exceeded the June 2022 peak. The average was $5.60 a week earlier. EIA data showed U.S. distillate inventories at 104.2 million barrels for the week ending August 28th.

A Bank of Korea study found that fiat-stablecoin pairs can push local currencies lower after local stablecoin premiums fell 0.33 to 0.38 percentage points. Researchers examined Binance trading between the Brazilian real and dollar-pegged stablecoins such as USDT and USDC. Won purchases of stablecoins reached $64 billion in the 12 months through June 2025, according to Chainalysis data.