Bitcoin is heading into a week of U.S. inflation data and a Federal Reserve rate decision, while traders also watch Japan's currency intervention, possible Treasury sales and a futures-led rise in BTC.

Solana said it plans to activate Transaction v1 on September 7, increasing the maximum size of a single transaction from 1232 bytes to 4096 bytes and requiring supporting infrastructure to handle the new format.

A New York Fed study says most central banks are not systematically cutting dollar holdings, arguing the decline in the dollar’s reserve share mainly reflects concentrated adjustments by a few large reserve managers and exchange-rate effects.

Blockstream said it patched a vulnerability tied to Liquid network bridge nodes after hackers who extracted about 4,000 BTC signaled they would return the funds once the issue was fixed across the network.

A 22-year-old Singaporean man is expected to plead guilty in Washington in a case tied to the alleged theft of more than $240 million in Bitcoin, according to prosecutors handling one of the largest U.S. crypto theft prosecutions.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority is discussing a possible easing of retail restrictions on financial prediction markets, while its public position still supports the 2019 ban that treats such contracts as binary options.

Saudi Aramco said its Jizan oil facility was attacked on September 7, with damage still under assessment. Crude prices moved higher immediately as traders weighed the risk of renewed disruption to Saudi energy infrastructure.

Router Protocol said it will halt operations after more than four years of development and burn 30% of the ROUTE token supply, while token holders on exchanges were told to follow delisting instructions and withdraw before the deadline.

DBS Bank and Citibank said they completed a cross-border U.S. dollar payment between Singapore and the U.S. using tokenized deposits on Swift’s digital ledger, reducing settlement time from about two business days to minutes.

Hacken said about half of circulating USDT on Tron is controlled by a 2-of-3 multisig setup, highlighting governance and cross-chain key-management risks, while a separate Bluechip rating update pointed to Tether's reserve surplus.