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.

The United States and United Kingdom are forming a first-of-its-kind alliance against scam centers tied to crypto fraud that cost Americans an estimated $10 billion each year. The Scam Center Strike Force and British counterparts signed a new Memorandum of Understanding. The authorities will conduct parallel investigations, exchange intelligence and coordinate prosecutions.

LeBron James teased a forthcoming partnership with Polymarket on Saturday. James posted a 14-second video showing him entering a stylized Polymarket office. It remains unclear whether the teaser promotes an advertisement or a broader ambassador, investment or sponsorship arrangement.

Zcash broke above $1,000 on Sept. 4, pushing Grayscale's ZCSH ETF assets to $414.7 million. ZEC reached an intraday high of $1,050.70. About $40 million of ZEC short positions were liquidated in 24 hours. CoinGlass data showed Zcash futures open interest crossed $2 billion for the first time.

Anthropic says Claude formally proves Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days. The proof contains 13 million lines of code that computers can check line by line. Mathematician Kevin Buzzard reviewed the proof and said it works with no assumptions beyond the axioms of mathematics.

Polish lawmakers failed to override President Karol Nawrocki's veto of crypto legislation in a 241-198 vote. The measure needed 266 votes and received three abstentions. The vote came as the Zondacrypto investigation expanded and its Estonian operator entered bankruptcy.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund plans to reduce its U.S. Treasury holdings by nearly $80 billion. Managers aim to lower government bonds' benchmark weighting from 70 percent to 50 percent. The fund would increase its holdings of U.S. non-government debt while keeping overall dollar exposure nearly unchanged. The proposal seeks greater diversification to improve returns without sacrificing liquidity during market stress.

Robinhood rejected AMC CEO Adam Aron's demand to stop trading an AMC-linked Stock Token. The token is debt issued by Robinhood affiliate RHJ and gives holders no ownership rights in AMC. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said the company stands behind Stock Tokens. Aron said AMC would take the dispute to the Securities and Exchange Commission, but no regulator decision has resolved it.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse criticized De Nederlandsche Bank's $11 billion gold move. The Dutch central bank transferred roughly 86 tonnes from New York and Ottawa to London between March and August. Garlinghouse said global finance still shifts value as it did in the 1940s. DNB Governor Olaf Sleijpen said the relocation prepared for crises rather than showing distrust of Washington.

Sony says reasonable consumers know digital PlayStation game purchases provide limited licenses rather than ownership. The company made the argument in an August 21 court filing. Sony cited its Terms of Service and Software Product License Agreement, which say the software is licensed rather than sold.

US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $986.9 million in the week ending Friday. Net inflows over the past three weeks reached $3.8 billion. US spot Ether ETF inflows fell about 74% from the previous week. US spot XRP ETF inflows fell about 83%.

Bitcoin fell below $80,000 after August nonfarm payrolls rose by 162,000. Bitcoin reached an intraday low of $78,660 before recovering near $80,000. The stronger labor data reduced the case for an immediate Fed pause based only on labor-market weakness. The August consumer price index on Sept. 11 is the next major test before the Sept. 15-16 FOMC meeting.

Zcash crossed $1,000 for the first time in nearly a decade. ZEC rose nearly 100% over the past month. ETF inflows and the liquidation of roughly $34.5 million in short positions helped drive the move. The next major upside target is $1,100, with support between roughly $985 and $1,005.

Robinhood Chain halted block production for at least 14 minutes on Sept. 4. The Ethereum layer-2 network had launched its public mainnet roughly two months earlier. AMC CEO Adam Aron challenged Robinhood's token tracking AMC shares, while Robinhood said it would not stop trading the token.

The IMF says El Salvador's reserve growth of roughly 1,540 BTC came from private donations rather than new government spending. The IMF expects no further accumulation beyond those documented contributions. El Salvador's National Bitcoin Office said on Aug. 28 that the country had bought more Bitcoin.

Grayscale identified Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Solana as handling most tokenized stock trading last week. Weekly spot volume for the sector peaked near $3 billion in early August. About 5% of the tokenized equity market is used in on-chain finance.

ByteDance secured a $29.6 billion loan from nearly 30 banks. Lender demand allowed ByteDance to raise the facility from an initial $20 billion target. Reuters sources said the loan would mainly fund overseas AI projects, including data center capacity in Southeast Asia.

Hargreaves Lansdown is letting retail investors buy bitcoin through crypto exchange-traded notes. The move comes nearly one year after the firm said bitcoin was not an asset class. Hargreaves Lansdown manages nearly £173 billion in assets. The firm warns that crypto ETNs are high-risk and may be volatile.