A dense wave of crypto and technology updates emerged between Sept. 14 and Sept. 15, spanning Bitcoin and Ether treasury activity, U.S. digital-asset legislation, AI financing, protocol governance and security incidents. Strategy reported no BTC purchases last week while its dollar reserves fell by $140 million to $6.4 billion, and Strive said it added 469 BTC for $36.6 million, bringing total holdings to 25,000 BTC. Bitmine kept expanding its Ether reserve strategy, lifting its ETH position to 5,956,378 coins, while Abraxas Capital was reported to be holding more than $980 million in short positions on Hyperliquid. On the regulatory side, the U.S. Senate scheduled a cloture vote on the CLARITY Act for Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. ET, while the House Financial Services Committee is set to review the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill on Sept. 16. SEC Chair Paul Atkins said the agency would continue moving on its crypto agenda regardless of the bill’s outcome. Elsewhere, Kaiko closed a $110 million round led by S&P Global, Temporal raised $550 million at a $12.55 billion valuation, and Cornelis secured $205 million. Nvidia expanded CUDA-Q with a fault-tolerant quantum orchestration layer, and Microsoft released a draft AI behavior code that says its systems must not resist shutdown or correction.

Global markets are heading into a packed week that could shape both macro sentiment and crypto policy. The U.S. Federal Reserve is set to release its rate decision and economic projections early Thursday Beijing time, followed by remarks from Chair Warsh, while the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are also due to announce policy decisions later in the week. In Washington, the U.S. Senate is preparing for a key procedural vote on the CLARITY Act on Tuesday, the same day the Securities and Exchange Commission plans to hold a roundtable on 24-hour trading. Around that backdrop, market participants are weighing fresh comments from Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, who argued that issuers should not have veto power over tokenized stock products if those instruments do not alter shareholder rights, issuer obligations, or the company’s official share register. Other developments include the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act taking effect, new product launches from Kraken and Grayscale, financing updates from Kaiko, Temporal and tZERO, continued inflows into spot Ether ETFs, and a newly disclosed exploit affecting Symbiosis’ Bitcoin bridge.

Crypto market data provider Kaiko said on Sept. 14 that it had secured an extension of its Series B round, bringing total funding to $110 million, with S&P Global leading the deal through S&P Global Ventures. The round also drew a mix of traditional finance and crypto investors, including BNP Paribas, Bpifrance, Broadridge, Canton Foundation, Coinbase Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, Nasdaq Ventures, RBC, Stellar and Susquehanna Private Equity Investments, while existing backers Anthemis, Point Nine and Revaia also joined. The financing came alongside a broader strategic push. Kaiko said it will chair a Strategic Industry Working Group with all strategic investors participating, aimed at setting data standards and infrastructure rules for tokenized markets. The investment follows a series of recent ties between Kaiko and S&P entities, including the on-chain launch of the iBoxx U.S. Treasuries Index on Canton Network on March 31 and the Sept. 1 release of the co-branded S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices, which cover more than 4,000 rates and indices. The deal lands after Kaiko spent years building out institutional products, compliance credentials and acquisition capacity. The company said it now covers more than 150 exchanges and protocols and serves more than 250 financial institutions and regulators.

Crypto market data provider Kaiko has secured a new investment led by S&P Global, bringing the total size of its latest funding round to $110 million, according to Bloomberg. Other participants in the round include DRW Holdings, Susquehanna, Royal Bank of Canada, Nasdaq, BNP Paribas, Bpifrance, Broadridge, Canton Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and Stellar. The funding comes as Wall Street accelerates efforts around asset tokenization and as always-on markets increase demand for 24/7 pricing, valuation and risk-management data infrastructure. Kaiko said it plans to use the proceeds to build new products and services. The company previously raised $53 million in a Series B round in June 2022, led by Eight Roads, with Revaia and existing investors Alven, Point Nine, Anthemis and Underscore also participating.

PANews’ latest funding roundup shows capital in crypto continued to cluster around stablecoin payments, compliance tooling, and the convergence of traditional finance with digital assets, while AI dealmaking stayed centered on infrastructure. In crypto, Nasdaq invested $100 million in Payward, the parent company of Kraken, valuing the company at $21 billion. Latitude raised a $35 million Series A for cross-border stablecoin payment infrastructure, and TRM Labs’ valuation doubled to $2 billion after another follow-on investment from existing backers. Circle also said it plans to acquire cross-border payments platform Tazapay in an all-stock deal valued at about $400 million, pending regulatory approval and expected to close in 2027. PANews said that from Sept. 7 to Sept. 13, the global blockchain sector recorded eight disclosed financing events with total funding of more than $158 million. Elsewhere, Antarctic Exchange, Agentum, RealGo, and TINA all announced fresh raises, while Sei Labs acquired Bilinear Labs. In AI, infrastructure remained the dominant theme. French startup Mistral AI closed a €3 billion Series D at a post-money valuation above €21 billion. Positron raised $875 million at a $5 billion valuation, Celero Communications secured $275 million at a valuation above $3 billion, and Cognition raised $2 billion, lifting its valuation to $48 billion. Additional rounds went to Clay, Savvy Wealth, Lightfield, and Herdr, while Meta acquired Sweden-based Stilla.ai.

SWIFT has started a pilot project with 17 banks to test cross-border payments using tokenized deposits, according to a report by Nikkei. The participating institutions include Citibank, Mitsubishi UFJ, Wells Fargo, BNY Mellon, UBS and BNP Paribas. The trial is aimed at enabling 24/7 instant transfers between different banks while also reducing the cost of cross-border payments. The move centers on payment infrastructure testing rather than a commercial rollout, based on the information provided. No additional details on the pilot’s timeline, transaction volumes or technical design were disclosed in the source material.

Arthur Hayes, chief investment officer of Maelstrom, said in a Sept. 8 interview on The Rollup that a reversal in Japan’s long-running overseas capital allocation, combined with stress in France’s bond market and the euro funding system, could force the Federal Reserve to accelerate dollar liquidity creation. In his view, EUR/JPY is the key short-term leading indicator to watch because it captures pressure building on both the yen and euro sides of the global funding complex. Hayes argued that Japan’s policy push to bring capital home, including potential changes tied to the Government Pension Investment Fund, may mark the unwinding of what he called the world’s largest yen carry structure. He said that if Japanese institutions are encouraged to hedge or repatriate without dumping U.S. Treasuries outright, expanded access to the Fed’s FIMA repo facility could become a critical tool. He also said the U.S. policy mix is no longer meaningfully restrictive and described the AI boom as the political narrative used to justify heavy spending. If large AI labs come under pressure because their unit economics fail to hold up, Hayes said governments may respond with more support, which would add to balance-sheet expansion and strengthen the long-term case for Bitcoin and gold. He added that Bitcoin could break its all-time high before year-end, though he expects a volatile path, and said ETH is one of Maelstrom’s larger positions for a liquidity-driven rally, alongside smaller positions in ether.fi and Ethena.

Financial AI platform Rogo has secured about $30 million in strategic investment, with Citigroup, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Mitsubishi UFJ, and Societe Generale joining the round. The new investors add to an existing bank roster that already included JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and Truist, bringing the total number of bank strategic investors to at least eight based on the information provided. Rogo initially focused on serving investment banks with tools for models, pitch decks, and research. It has now expanded into AI assistants for bank wealth advisers, offering functions such as portfolio checks, client relationship analysis, and support for preparing more personalized recommendations. The input also states that large banks including JPMorgan and Bank of America are already using Rogo. Earlier this year, in April, Rogo completed a $160 million Series D round at a $2 billion valuation. No updated valuation was disclosed as part of this strategic investment.