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If you hold Wrapped TON on Ethereum or on $BNB Smart Chain, you are facing a closed door today. The old TON bridge at bridge-v3.ton.org is being shut down permanently as of September 1, 2026. The wrapped token does not disappear from your wallet as a result, but the route by which it can be turned back into real Toncoin is no longer being operated. How much is affected had not been published anywhere. So we counted on the morning of the deadline: at 06:56 UTC, Ethereum and $BNB Smart Chain together held 11,344,908.81 Wrapped TON in wrapped form. Two…

The market for buying, selling and trading digital collectibles secured by blockchain technology is entering a new growth phase, according to a fresh industry outlook. Analysts tracking the sector now project $NFT platforms market growth at a compound annual rate of 8.5% between 2026 and 2033, a forecast that signals renewed confidence in an industry once dismissed as a passing fad. The projection, published in a market outlook report dated August 23, 2026, frames non-fungible token marketplaces as an expanding digital economy rather than a speculative bubble that has already burst. Key takeaways The $NFT platforms market is projected to…

Centrifuge and LI.FI announced a partnership on August 31, 2026 aimed at making tokenized assets easier to discover, access, and use across different blockchain networks. Centrifuge is a tokenization and onchain asset management platform with more than $1.6 billion in assets under management, while LI.FI is a liquidity orchestration platform powering more than 1,000 integrations across the crypto industry. Why This Partnership Exists Tokenized assets already live onchain, but capital remains fragmented across different networks, wallets, and applications, which limits how easily investors can reach them, according to Centrifuge’s announcement of the partnership. The two companies are addressing that fragmentation…

COZ has announced that MONOPOLY Experience: Tesouros do Brasil, a Hasbro-licensed immersive attraction opening Sept. 16 in São Paulo, is built on the Neo blockchain. The 90-minute experience uses non-fungible items as blockchain endpoints, with each card’s state, balance, room progress, player choices, and reward eligibility, tracked on-chain throughout the visit. The activation is the largest mainstream brand deployment on Neo to date. Blockchain operates entirely as back-end state infrastructure, with visitors experiencing the gamification without encountering seed phrases, wallet setup, or gas fees. The experience Located at Shopping Cidade São Paulo on Avenida Paulista, the attraction spans two floors…

Hedera has announced the introduction of its Cross-Ledger Protocol (CLPR), a significant advancement that could reshape how blockchain networks interact. This protocol allows for direct, cryptographic verification of ledgers’ consensus, eliminating the need for bridge validators. This innovation is designed to enhance security and efficiency in cross-chain communication, marking a pivotal moment for blockchain interoperability. Read more in Hedera’s official announcement. Inside the Move The broader cryptocurrency market is currently displaying mixed signals, with various assets showing fluctuating momentum. In this context, Hedera’s announcement of HIP-1535 and its Cross-Ledger Protocol could significantly influence how different blockchain systems communicate. By offering…

Federal regulators are suing Amazon for allegedly using hidden surcharges to secretly and systematically overcharge advertisers by more than $20 billion on its platform. The Federal Trade Commission’s complaint alleges that the e-commerce giant manipulated its pricing and auction systems after a 2019 rule change without notifying advertisers. The lawsuit targets sponsored products ads, brands ads and display ads that appear alongside search results. Officials allege the scheme boosted Amazon’s revenue through undisclosed fees affecting advertisers. The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and was joined by 22 states. Says FTC chairman Andrew…

The Cardano Foundation and Blockforce have launched a dual-ledger architecture for regulated supply chain traceability. Cardano now works as the public proof layer of Blockforce’s platform. Blockforce is a traceability platform for enterprise supply chains. Cardano is a blockchain network designed for secure and verifiable digital records. The system separates private data from public verification. Details of each supply chain step remain on a permissioned network and are visible only to authorized participants. Cardano stores only cryptographic proofs of these records. Auditors, regulators, and customers can then verify that a record is genuine without accessing the underlying information. One company…

The DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) that runs Arbitrum received $175,612 over the past 24 hours, $363,153 over seven days and $531,641 over 30 days, according to DefiLlama. “Ethereum’s cut is a fixed-ish L1 target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>post on X. “So on a spike day, Arbitrum scales up with REV but Ethereum barely moves in dollar terms.” Price action following onchain activity Altcoin rallies are often driven by thin liquidity and speculation, but $ARB’s move looks better supported than most. The token saw $618 million in volume in the past 24 hours, an eightfold increase over the previous day. Order books have…

BitMine has added 53,501 ETH to its corporate treasury in a $131 million acquisition, giving the market another example of public-company balance sheets moving beyond Bitcoin-only treasury strategies. The purchase was disclosed through a company filing, putting Ethereum back into the corporate treasury conversation at a time when investors are watching how listed firms use digital assets as reserve holdings. Bitcoin still dominates that category, but Ethereum has been gaining a clearer role as companies explore assets linked to staking, settlement, tokenization, and smart contract infrastructure. For BitMine, the latest allocation is not just a headline number. It is a…

Britain is widening its Russia sanctions crackdown from named entities to the payment routes that keep sanctioned networks moving money.On Aug. 31, the National Crime Agency issued its first nationwide industry alert on the A7 network, directing banks, payment providers and crypto firms to examine counterparties, intermediary wallets and cross-border infrastructure linked to Russia-related transactions.Rachael Herbert, Director of the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) at the National Crime Agency, said:“The National Crime Agency and the National Economic Crime Centre are committed to targeting the nexus between organized crime and sanctions evasion. Last year, our Operation Destabilize targeted and disrupted a…