Bittensor (TAO) price climbed 8.33% to $264.83 on Monday, making it one of the cryptocurrency markets strongest performers alongside Chainlink (LINK) and Internet Computer (ICP). The rally extended TAOs five-session gain to nearly 25%, with the AI-focused cryptocurrency briefly reaching $277, its highest level in three months. Several factors are driving the Bittensor price rally, including new access through Raydium, growing Buttensor activity, protocol upgrades and increased derivatives trading. Raydium recently added TAO trading, giving Bittensor exposure to Solanas large decentralized...

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has used the Dutch central banks recent gold transfer to highlight what he sees as a major advantage of cryptocurrency: the ability to move value globally without physically relocating the underlying asset. Garlinghouse pointed to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), which transferred roughly 86 tonnes of gold between March and August 2026 as part of a reserve-management strategy. About 59 tonnes of gold held in New York were sold and replaced with bullion purchased in London, while another 27 tonnes were physically moved. According to Garlinghouse, the operation...

Chainlink (LINK) climbed to $13.64 on September 7, reaching its highest level since January 18, 2026, as growing network adoption and rising derivatives activity strengthened bullish sentiment. LINK has now gained roughly 94% between June 22 and September 7. The rally comes alongside expanding Chainlink usage. Analyst Chris Barret said the network has facilitated approximately $34 trillion in transactions. DeFiLlama data also shows Chainlinks total value secured (TVS) increased from $33.98 billion on August 7 to $40.02 billion, representing growth of $6.04 billion in one month. Chainlink has...

Zcash (ZEC) has extended its remarkable rally, putting major short sellers under mounting pressure as the privacy-focused cryptocurrency trades at levels not seen in nearly a decade. ZEC was trading around $1,176, up 1.2% over the past 24 hours and 44.1% over the previous week. The cryptocurrency surpassed $1,000 on Friday for the first time since 2016 and reached a high of $1,254 on Sunday during a four-day advance. Zcash has now gained approximately 137% over the past month and an extraordinary 2,389% over the past year. Despite the rally, one of the largest tracked onchain Zcash short...

Cardano is approaching a significant development period as preparations for the Dijkstra era accelerate, with several node releases, testing phases and a potential hard fork expected over the coming months. The Dijkstra rollout is planned in two stages. Phase 1 will introduce Nested Transactions and Linear Leios, with developers targeting a Mainnet launch by the end of 2026. Phase 2 will add Peras through an intra-era hard fork currently planned for the second quarter of 2027. According to Intersect, development is progressing across Cardano node software, ecosystem readiness and supporting...

Crypto markets are navigating a tighter macroeconomic environment after the latest U.S. labor report significantly exceeded expectations. August nonfarm payrolls increased by 162,000, compared with forecasts of just 55,000, while unemployment remained at 4.1%. The stronger jobs data reshaped Federal Reserve expectations, with futures markets placing the probability of a September 1516 rate cut at roughly 50%. Political pressure for faster monetary easing has added uncertainty ahead of the September 12 Consumer Price Index (CPI) report. The shifting outlook has fueled short-term volatility...

The cryptocurrency market entered a period of tight consolidation on Monday, September 7, with total market capitalization hovering between $2.77 trillion and $2.80 trillion. Bitcoin traded around $79,600$80,100 after Fridays short squeeze briefly pushed BTC toward $82,000. Institutional demand remained supportive. Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded three consecutive days of inflows, attracting roughly $770 million to $987 million during the week through September 4. Their combined net assets have now surpassed $101 billion, representing about 6.35% of Bitcoins total supply. Crypto derivatives also...

Bitcoin mining is undergoing a major transformation as artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) compete for power, infrastructure and capital. However, AIs rapid expansion may reshape Bitcoin mining rather than push it out of the market entirely. Bitcoins network hashrate surpassed 1.1 ZH/s in October 2025 before falling toward 900 EH/s several times this year. Mining difficulty also recorded unusually steep declines, dropping 11.16% in February and another 10.09% in June. Meanwhile, major Bitcoin miners are increasingly shifting resources toward AI and HPC operations. The...

Ripple appears to have shifted more than $1.36 million worth of its RLUSD stablecoin from the XRP Ledger (XRPL) to Ethereum, according to onchain data that has drawn attention from the crypto community. Blockchain records show that 1,363,614.85 RLUSD was burned on the XRP Ledger on September 6. The transaction, apparently conducted by Ripple as the stablecoins issuer, permanently removed the tokens from circulation on XRPL. Just seconds later, Ethereum recorded the minting of exactly 1,363,614.85 RLUSD. The newly created stablecoins were subsequently transferred to an external wallet,...

Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, is preparing to enter the cryptocurrency market with the launch of a new memecoin called LAPTOP, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The LAPTOP token is scheduled to launch on the Base blockchain on Sept. 9, with a total supply of 1 billion tokens. The project draws its name from the controversy surrounding Bidens abandoned laptop, which became a major political issue ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Under the tokens distribution plan, 30% of the LAPTOP supply will be allocated to the founders, including Biden. Those...