Alice Liu, CoinMarketCap’s head of research, said in an interview with Cointelegraph that AI-themed cryptocurrencies launched in the previous cycle and later turned into meme tokens, meaning AI tokens with no real utility or infrastructure, risk converging to zero value. Liu added that solid AI projects do exist in crypto with strong infrastructure and real utility, but those fundamentally backed AI tokens are also likely to trade at a discount in the market because of the useless AI-themed coins mentioned earlier. Liu said investors still find it much easier to…

BNB has moved higher in the short term and reclaimed the $750 level, according to CoinNess market monitoring. BNB was trading at $751.13, up 4.7%, against USDT on Binance. Source: Coinness

A recent surge in trading volume on Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum-based Ethereum layer-two network, appears to have come mostly from existing crypto traders rather than new user inflows, according to Lorenzo Valente, head of digital asset research at crypto investment firm ARK Invest. Valente said he reviewed on-chain data and analyzed contract-level data directly, concluding that the vast majority of Robinhood Chain volume appears to have been driven by existing Degen traders, meaning crypto-native traders. Robinhood Wallet swap transactions are routed through 0x’s Settler contract, which Valente said is currently…

The dollar value of Uniswap’s daily UNI burn reached $1.15 million for the first time on Sept. 4, topping $1 million for the first time, Wu Blockchain reported. Uniswap burned a total of 184,000 UNI that day, marking the second-largest daily burn on record by token amount. Of that total, about 150,000 UNI was attributed to burns tied to Uniswap trading on Robinhood Chain. The recent surge in Uniswap’s UNI burn appears to reflect increased trading activity on Robinhood Chain. On the same day, Robinhood Chain’s daily DEX trading volume…

Nasdaq-listed TRON (DAT) said on its official X account on Sept. 5 that it bought an additional 151,042 TRX at an average purchase price of $0.331, worth about $50,000. The purchase brought the company’s total TRX holdings to 713 million TRX. According to CoinMarketCap, TRX was trading at $0.332, up 1.02%, at the time of writing. Source: Coinness

Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum-based Ethereum layer-two blockchain developed by U.S. stock and crypto trading app Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD), posted a record $6.12 million in daily fee revenue on Sept. 4, Tom Wan said. Wan added, "I thought Robinhood Chain’s design would make it difficult for daily fee revenue to rise above $4.6 million, but it surpassed $6 million in just one day." Based on the past seven days, Robinhood Chain’s annualized fee revenue has reached $1.1 billion, Wan said. Source: Coinness

Active accounts on Ripple’s layer-one blockchain XRP Ledger, or XRPL, fell sharply from a year earlier, while order-book trading volume and the value of tokenized assets increased, CoinDesk reported. The number of accounts participating in XRPL order-book trading fell about 40% year over year, while daily active accounts and new accounts declined 24% and 25%, respectively. In contrast, XRPL order-book trading volume in the second quarter of this year rose 79% from a year earlier. The average value of tokenized assets on XRPL in the second quarter reached $3.72 billion,…

Southeast Asia’s blockchain industry has attracted $680 million in equity investment so far this year, more than double the $319 million raised in all of 2025, CoinDesk reported. According to market intelligence platform Tracxn, the number of blockchain funding rounds in Southeast Asia fell to 25 this year from 46 last year, while capital was concentrated in crypto financial services and later-stage companies. Crypto.com’s $400 million Series D round alone accounted for about 60% of total funding. By country, 82.5% of the $6.2 billion in cumulative investment raised by Southeast…

Poland’s lower house failed to override the president’s veto of a cryptocurrency regulation bill, local state news agency PAP reported. Polish President Karol Nawrocki had previously vetoed the bill passed by parliament, saying it would impose excessive regulation on the industry. The Sejm attempted a revote on Sept. 4 to overturn the veto but failed to secure the three-fifths majority required from seated lawmakers, according to PAP. It was the third time a Polish president has vetoed a cryptocurrency regulation bill, and the legislation includes a provision designating the Polish…

Connecticut authorities issued a consumer alert on overseas DeFi trading platforms after disclosing a case in which a local resident lost $200,000 to a scam involving an impostor posing as an acquaintance. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong strongly criticized seven unregulated offshore platforms in the U.S., including GMX, dYdX and Hyperliquid, calling them "not innovation, but exploitation." Tong said the platforms offer leverage of up to 250x and trading in synthetic assets rather than actual stocks, leaving users at risk of a full liquidation of principal even on small price…

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded net inflows of $174.6 million on Sept. 4, marking a third straight trading day of net inflows, according to Farside Investors. - BlackRock IBIT: +$117.4 million - Fidelity FBTC: +$57.2 million Source: Coinness