Velodrome said on X that its community will be integrated with Aerodrome as part of preparations for Aero’s launch. Starting tomorrow, activity on Velodrome’s official X account will be reduced, with future news and announcements set to be released mainly through Aero’s official account. The change also extends to community channels: from Sept. 10, the Velodrome Discord server will be scaled back to only essential channels, while community activity will move to the Aero Discord. Velodrome also said VELO is scheduled to stop trading on Binance this week. In the same update, the project said Aero’s public audit competition is expected to conclude on Sept. 21. The statement outlines a near-term transition of social and community operations from Velodrome to Aero and sets a timetable for several related changes over the coming days.

Binance said it will remove and halt trading for three spot pairs at 11:00 on Sept. 11, 2026, Beijing time: OPEN/FDUSD, SAGA/FDUSD, and VELODROME/USDC. The exchange also said spot trading bot services tied to those pairs will end at the same time. Users are advised to update or cancel related bot settings before the change takes effect. The notice was reported by BlockBeats on Sept. 8.

Crypto markets opened Sept. 4 with a clear macro catalyst: traders sharply cut expectations for a Federal Reserve rate hike this month. CME pricing showed the odds of a 25-basis-point increase at roughly 50%, down from 70% a day earlier, after comments from Fed Governor Christopher Waller and New York Fed President John Williams signaled that a hike is not a settled outcome. Bitcoin briefly moved above $82,000 in early trading, while most major tokens in centralized exchange volume rankings posted gains, including BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, BNB, DOGE, UNI, and ZEC. The day’s policy picture was mixed. A Galaxy research executive said House Republican leadership had canceled voting weeks in late September, leaving the CLARITY Act with very low odds of passing before the midterm elections. At the same time, SEC Chair Paul Atkins told Fox Business he expects the bill to be voted on in the Senate on Sept. 15 and ultimately sent to the president for signature. Separately, G20 finance ministers and central bank governors backed a clearer regulatory path for digital assets and called for stronger anti-money-laundering enforcement in large virtual-asset jurisdictions. Elsewhere, Coinbase said it is working to launch single-stock perpetual futures in the U.S., Polymarket rolled out perpetual contracts more broadly, Robinhood Chain DEX volume hit a record $1.89 billion in 24 hours, and Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9303 billion.

Crypto markets on Aug. 31 were led by a cluster of stories around Robinhood Chain activity, tokenized stock trading, and U.S. crypto legislation. Robinhood Chain posted $945 million in single-day DEX volume on Aug. 29, setting a new all-time high and moving above its previous peak from mid-July. Token Terminal said the seven most actively traded tokenized stocks all sit on either BNB Chain or Robinhood Chain, generating a combined $4.3 billion in DEX volume over the past 30 days. Pons, a token launch platform active on Robinhood Chain, said it has paid $20.93 million to token creators over the past 47 days, while Dune data showed 23,080 tokens were deployed on Robinhood Chain on Aug. 29, with Pons V2 accounting for 15,957 of them, or about 69.1%. The broader news flow also included a planned Sept. 15 procedural vote in the U.S. Senate on the CLARITY Act, new governance and infrastructure updates from Hyperliquid, Solana and Deribit, multiple security incidents across Cosmos-linked and other networks, and a series of market comments from figures including Tom Lee, Ki Young Ju, Ansem and Bonk Guy. In spot trading, UNI was the only gainer among the listed top-10 CEX turnover tokens, up 11.2%, while ZORA led the OKX 24-hour gainers with a 33.52% rise.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is set to hold a public meeting on Aug. 14 to consider a proposed "Regulation Crypto" framework that would let some crypto projects raise capital without completing a full securities registration process. If advanced for public comment, it would become the SEC’s first formal, durable rulemaking effort aimed specifically at the crypto sector. The proposal would also outline a route for projects to exit SEC oversight once developers stop actively managing the network and the project becomes decentralized. SEC Chair Paul Atkins has previously said the exemption period could last as long as four years, though no fundraising cap was disclosed. On the litigation front, a federal judge in Connecticut ruled that Kalshi’s sports-event contracts are not swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, meaning the Commodity Futures Trading Commission did not obtain exclusive jurisdiction on that basis. The decision lands as Kalshi remains under pressure in New York, where the CFTC said it used “emergency powers” to require the prediction-market operator to continue operating after the company sought assistance following a lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James. Elsewhere, the market snapshot showed broad declines among major tokens over the past 24 hours, while project, funding, security and AI headlines spanned Bitwise layoffs, a reported COLDCARD Mk3 wallet flaw, Hyperliquid and Robinhood Chain user metrics, and a string of new financings across crypto, AI and financial infrastructure.

July 28 brought a dense mix of crypto market moves, semiconductor headlines, AI developments, and regulatory updates. In equities tied to China’s chip sector, CXMT posted a 465.82% gain on its first trading day, with turnover topping RMB 140 billion and market capitalization reaching RMB 3.28 trillion. Separate reporting cited by The Information said a Shanghai state-backed company has started mass production of self-developed DUV lithography manufacturing equipment, with output planned at around five units in 2026 and about 20 in 2027; SMIC, Hua Hong Semiconductor, and CXMT were named as intended customers. In crypto, most of the highest-volume CEX tokens were down over the past 24 hours, while AEON led the OKX gainers list with an 84.28% rise. Hyperliquid data around the CXMT IPO drew attention after Allium said pre-listing volume reached $17.8 million and that 96% of smart-money accounts had established profitable shorts before the open. Elsewhere, Strategy disclosed its first buyback of Stretch STRC shares under its digital credit securities repurchase plan, and Triple-A’s reported exploit losses expanded to $11.8 million. On policy, BlackRock backed the CLARITY Act, but the U.S. Senate temporarily set the bill aside, while lawmakers in Japan called for easing the country’s 2x crypto leverage cap.

BitMEX said it will shut down on Sept. 23, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. Beijing time after halting new user registrations immediately, with new positions to be restricted from Aug. 26 and remaining positions forcibly closed after the deadline. In China, regulators in Shenzhen said a group of self-media accounts that promoted virtual currency-related business activities to domestic users had been permanently shut down under existing policy rules. The day’s roundup also included fresh market data, with BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and DOGE all down over the past 24 hours, while tokens such as RE, VELO and WLFI led gainers on OKX data. Macro attention centered on U.S. initial jobless claims, which came in at 187,000 for the week ended July 18, below the 212,000 expectation and marking the lowest reading since the week of Sept. 24, 2022. Elsewhere, the European Union announced sanctions covering more than 100 banks and crypto operators, Argentina moved toward allowing mutual funds to invest in bitcoin and crypto, Grayscale’s Worldcoin ETF filing disclosed concentration and governance details around WLD, and several funding deals and industry statements added to the day’s developments.

US congressional trade disclosures filed under the STOCK Act show Bitcoin as the most common crypto holding among lawmakers, followed by Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and Cardano, with a few smaller tokens also appearing.