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Dell Technologies Inc (NYSE:DELL) is using strong artificial intelligence-driven operating momentum to reshape its financing while expanding its data center business and lifting its sales outlook.

• Dell Technologies stock is approaching key resistance levels. Why did DELL hit a new high?

Dell Seeks about $4 Billion from Bond SaleDell is seeking to raise about $4 billion through an investment-grade bond offering as it looks to refinance existing debt.

The company is offering bonds across four tranches with maturities ranging from three to 10 years.

Initial pricing discussions for the longest-dated bonds indicated a premium of as much as 1.4 percentage points over Treasuries, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.

Dell plans to use the proceeds to repay outstanding notes due in 2026 and for general corporate purposes. The final size of the offering could change depending on investor demand.

Barclays, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group, HSBC Holdings, JPMorgan Chase, Toronto-Dominion Bank and Wells Fargo & Co. are managing the transaction.

Dell held $26 billion in long-term debt as of July 31, 2026.

AI Demand Drives Server MomentumDell has benefited from surging demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, including servers equipped with Nvidia AI chips.

The company is also securing contracts for traditional servers using CPUs, which have regained momentum for workloads such as managing AI agents.

Earlier this month, Dell raised its fiscal-year sales forecast by $25 billion, exceeding analyst expectations.

Analyst Consensus & Recent Actions: The stock carries a Buy rating with an average price forecast of $574.10. Recent analyst moves include:

Citigroup: Buy (Raises target to $600 on Sept. 2) JP Morgan: Overweight (Raises target to $635 on Sept. 2) Melius Research: Buy (Raises target to $735 on Sept. 2) Top ETF Exposure Tortoise AI Infrastructure ETF (NYSE:TCAI): 6.14% Weight GraniteShares 2x Long DELL Daily ETF (NASDAQ:DLLL): 66.65% Weight American Customer Satisfaction ETF (BATS:ACSI): 4.88% Weight Significance: Because DELL carries such a heavy weight in these funds, any significant inflows or outflows for these ETFs will likely trigger automatic buying or selling of the stock.

DELL Price ActionDell Technologies shares were up 2.46% at $546.74 at the time of publication on Wednesday, according to Benzinga Pro data.

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Mondelez International, Inc. (MDLZ) Barclays 19th Annual Global Consumer Staples Conference September 9, 2026 8:15 AM EDT

Company Participants

Amit Banati - Executive VP & CFO
Luca Zaramella - Executive VP & COO

Conference Call Participants

Andrew Lazar - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division

Presentation

Andrew Lazar
Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division

Good morning. Welcome back, day 2. I hope everybody is properly hydrated and ready for another long day. But we're really excited to have with us Mondelez International back at our conference. So thanks so much for being here. And with us this morning, we have COO, Luca Zaramella; CFO, Amit Banati. Welcome to you both.

Amit Banati
Executive VP & CFO

Thank you.

Luca Zaramella
Executive VP & COO

Thank you, Andrew.

Question-and-Answer Session

Andrew Lazar
Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division

Maybe we kick it off, Luca, with you. Mondelez has come through a pretty anomalous several years, extreme volatility in cocoa, which also necessitated a few years of sizable consecutive pricing, not to mention a broadly challenging consumer environment, all wrapped up in impacts from Middle East conflicts. While still a very dynamic macro theater, it seems as though perhaps we're getting closer to a more -- now I won't say normal, but maybe more stable operating environment. As you think out towards 2027 and beyond, you've continued to express confidence in the 3% to 5% organic sales algorithm and high single-digit constant currency EPS over time. I guess what gives you the most confidence today that, that algorithm is still intact? And what has changed in the business maybe the past few dynamic years that you think makes the algorithm more durable?

Luca Zaramella
Executive VP & COO

So yes, it has been a few years that have been quite eventful, I would say, but we learned a lot of

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Investors love to check automakers' quarterly (or otherwise) delivery figures, especially when it comes to young electric vehicle (EV) makers that are surviving amid low volume and scale. Rivian's (RIVN +0.46%) R2 has been long-hyped, and on June 9, 2026, customers finally began receiving their prized ride. However, while Wall Street analysts obsess over delivery charts and the smallest gains or losses, savvy investors know the R2 is about much more than increasing deliveries and revenue for the young EV maker. Here is one big development that's often forgotten.

Rivian robotaxi One of Rivian's underappreciated strengths is its ability to bring in investment from larger companies that see value in Rivian's software technology or vehicles as a service. In this case, Rivian's mass-market R2 was a solid choice for Uber Technologies (UBER -2.38%) to add to its numerous investments for robotaxi joint ventures. Uber will invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian through 2031, after it meets certain conditions and milestones, and the statement from Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi emphasizes Rivian's growing value with its vertical integration.

"We're big believers in Rivian's approach -- designing the vehicle, compute platform, and software stack together, while maintaining end-to-end control of scaled manufacturing and supply in the U.S.," Khosrowshahi said in a press release.

Rivian's R2 will be used by Uber as part of its robotaxi program. Image source: Rivian.

Uber and Rivian expect to deploy 10,000 fully autonomous R2 robotaxis during their joint venture's first phase. San Francisco and Miami are circled in red to host the initial R2 robotaxi deployments in 2028, with the target of entering 25 additional cities by 2031. If all goes well for the joint venture, there's an option for the companies to negotiate the purchase of up to 40,000 additional R2 vehicles beginning in 2030.

Before you brush this aside as not moving the needle, consider that, right now, a big chunk of Tesla's market capitalization and value is driven by its robotaxi potential. Ark Invest, run by Cathie Wood, has Tesla's robotaxi driving between 88% and 90% of the projected future enterprise value in its multiyear models. Bank of America Global Research believes the robotaxi potential drives 52% of Tesla's overall valuation. Even on the lower end, Morningstar estimates robotaxis to drive about 30% of Tesla's valuation.

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What it all means Sure, Rivian's R2 is about opening the door to a much wider market and driving deliveries higher. Beyond that, however, Rivian's R2 is about powering the future opportunities that could generate significantly higher margins than the vehicle sale itself. Under the Uber and Rivian partnership, Uber agreed to pay licensing fees to use Rivian's autonomous driving software. This recurring high-margin revenue stream would be a huge boost to gross profits down the road, and it could help drive its stock price higher in the near term if investors see Rivian's robotaxi isn't all hype.

Bank of America is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Daniel Miller has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Tesla. The Motley Fool recommends Uber Technologies. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Last week, AMC Entertainment's boss Adam Aron criticized Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev on X, after the platform launched a tokenized version of the theater chain's shares. Tenev joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss.

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It's highly successful, with #1 (Strong Buy) stocks producing an unmatched +23.8% average annual return since 1988. That's more than double the S&P 500. But because of the large number of stocks we rate, there are over 200 companies with a Strong Buy rank, plus another 600 with a #2 (Buy) rank, on any given day.

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Stock to Watch: PBF Energy (PBF - Free Report) PBF Energy Inc. is a leading independent refiner of crude oil based in Parsippany, New Jersey. Through six oil refineries and associated infrastructure in the United States, the company produces unbranded transportation fuels, heating oil, petrochemical feedstocks, lubricants and other petroleum products. The refineries can collectively process about 1,000,000 barrels of crude oil per day.

PBF is a #1 (Strong Buy) on the Zacks Rank, with a VGM Score of A.

It also boasts a Value Style Score of A thanks to attractive valuation metrics like a forward P/E ratio of 4.88; value investors should take notice.

For fiscal 2026, three analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $6.23 to $15.74 per share. PBF boasts an average earnings surprise of +123.4%.

With a solid Zacks Rank and top-tier Value and VGM Style Scores, PBF should be on investors' short list.

In brief Cronos says it reversed approximately $111.2 million tied to the Tectonic exploit by rolling back its blockchain. The intervention discarded 1 hour 54 minutes of transactions, including activity unrelated to the attack. Approximately $9.19 million left the network before validators halted it and remains unrecovered. Cronos, a blockchain network backed by Crypto.com, erased nearly two hours of transaction history to reverse approximately $111.2 million tied to an exploit of lending protocol Tectonic, according to a network post-mortem on Monday.

According to the developers behind Cronos, validators reversed completed transactions to protect roughly 92% of affected funds still on the network, overriding the expectation that blockchain transactions are permanent.

Myriad: Ethereum's next price move? Click to make your prediction.“It was a hard decision, taken together with the validators, weighing the finality users expect from a chain against the funds at risk,” Cronos’ devs wrote. “Restoring state meant discarding 1 hour 54 minutes of settled transactions. The alternative, restarting without restoring state, would have left the borrowed assets in the attacker's control.”

Adding to the “hard decision” was the fact that the rollback also reversed every legitimate transaction processed during that period.

On August 30, hackers targeted the Tectonic network, which lets users borrow crypto against deposited collateral. According to the report, the attacker drove up TONIC’s price in decentralized exchange markets with little liquidity, then borrowed approximately $120.4 million across nine markets against the inflated collateral.

According to Cronos, validators halted the network at 9:32 a.m. EST, then rolled back 10,961 blocks, erasing 1 hour 54 minutes of transactions.

“Every transaction in that window was reversed, whether or not it touched the exploit, and open positions on live apps repriced when trading resumed,” Cronos wrote.

Despite the rollback, approximately $9.19 million had already left Cronos before the halt. That money remains unrecovered and was beyond the rollback’s reach, according to the post-mortem.

Preliminary estimates put the affected value at $75 million, and the amount bridged out at $6 million. Cronos’s account puts the borrowing activity at $120.4 million, of which approximately $111.2 million was reversed.

The post-mortem says block production resumed at 6:49 p.m. EST on August 30, after roughly nine hours offline. Validators needed several rounds of coordination to restart using patched software and the same transaction record.

Cronos acknowledged poor communication during the shutdown and said the reversed transactions can now be checked through archived records rather than public blockchain explorers.

“We recognize the disruption this incident caused across the Cronos ecosystem,” Cronos wrote. “With network operations restored, our focus remains on completing reconciliation with affected platforms and applying the lessons from this incident to strengthen ecosystem safeguards.”

Other crypto exploits

Other networks have faced similar decisions about stopping operations or reversing transactions after an attack.

In August, Maya Protocol halted its network after an attacker exploited six software flaws and took approximately $1.65 million in crypto assets, according to the project. An exploited vulnerability in Ravencoin also prompted efforts to rebuild its blockchain, putting roughly three days of transactions at risk of reversal.

Security experts have warned that AI may help attackers find vulnerabilities faster, though the Cronos post-mortem provides no evidence of AI involvement in the Tectonic attack.

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Kripto para sektörünün ABD’deki düzenleyici geleceğini şekillendirebilecek CLARITY Act için kritik haftaya girildi. Kripto lobileri, 15 Eylül’de Senato’da yapılacak oylama öncesinde yasayı desteklemek amacıyla milyonlarca dolarlık ulusal reklam kampanyası başlattı. Ancak tasarının ilerlemesi için gereken 60 oyun hâlâ garanti olmadığı belirtiliyor.

CLARITY Act Oylamasında Neden 60 Oy Gerekiyor? Senato, 15 Eylül’de Digital Asset Market Clarity Act için görüşmelerin başlamasının önünü açacak cloture prosedürünü oylayacak. Bu aşamanın geçmesi için 60 senatörün desteği gerekiyor.

Oylamanın doğrudan yasanın kabul edilmesi anlamına gelmediğini belirtmek gerekiyor. Cloture başarılı olursa Senato tasarıyı tartışmaya başlayacak ve nihai onaydan önce başka prosedürel aşamalar da tamamlanacak.

CLARITY Act, dijital varlık piyasaları için federal kurallar oluşturmayı ve denetim yetkisini Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ile Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) arasında paylaştırmayı hedefliyor.

Kripto Lobileri Bankalara Karşı Neden Kampanya Başlattı? Görüşmelerin ilerlemekte zorlanması, kripto sektörünün siyasi baskıyı artırmasına yol açtı. Fairshake süper PAC ağıyla bağlantılı 501(c)(4) statüsündeki Cedar Innovation Foundation, üç ayrı televizyon reklamından oluşan yedi haneli bir kampanya hazırladı.

Reklamların ikisi tüketici korumasını ve kripto sektörü dışındaki destekçileri öne çıkarıyor. Üçüncü reklam ise yasanın bazı bölümlerine karşı çıkan bankaları hedef alıyor ve bankacılık sektörünün rekabeti engelleyerek büyük kâr elde etmeye çalıştığını savunuyor.

Özellikle küçük bankalar, stablecoin ödüllerine ilişkin hükümlerin sıkılaştırılmasını istiyor. Bankalar, kripto platformlarının getiri benzeri teşviklerle mevduatları geleneksel bankacılık sisteminden çekebileceğini savunuyor.

Kripto Piyasası İçin Tüketici Koruması Ne Sağlıyor? Kampanyanın diğer reklamları CLARITY Act’i yalnızca kripto şirketlerinin düzenleme talepleri üzerinden anlatmak yerine daha geniş bir seçmen kitlesine ulaştırmayı amaçlıyor. Bir reklamda büyük kolluk kuvvetlerinin desteği vurgulanırken AARP’nin yaşlıları hedefleyen kripto dolandırıcılıklarına karşı hükümleri desteklediği belirtiliyor.

Ancak AARP’nin desteği yasanın tamamını kapsayan bir onay niteliğinde değil. Kuruluş, özellikle kripto ATM dolandırıcılığıyla mücadele eden bir hükmü destekliyor.

Geçtiğimiz hafta National Sheriffs’ Association da önemli bir değişikliğe gitti. Kuruluş, CLARITY Act’in yasa dışı kripto faaliyetlerinin soruşturulmasını zorlaştırabileceği yönündeki itirazını geri çekerek tarafsız konuma geçti.

Trump Tartışması Tasarının Önündeki Engeli Büyütüyor Mu? Sektör ile bankalar arasındaki anlaşmazlıkların yanında daha büyük bir siyasi sorun ortaya çıktı: Başkan Donald Trump ve ailesinin dijital varlıklardan kazanç sağlamasını sınırlayacak etik kuralların kapsamı.

Cumhuriyetçi senatörler Mike Rounds ve Thom Tillis, Demokratlar ile Beyaz Saray arasındaki görüş ayrılıklarının tasarının geleceğini zayıflattığını belirtti. İki Demokrat yardımcı da Trump ve ailesini kapsayacak etik düzenlemesi konusunda fazla ilerleme sağlanamadığını söyledi.

Beyaz Saray ise bu değerlendirmeye karşı çıkıyor. Bir sözcü, Trump’ın CLARITY Act’in Kongre’den geçmesini istediğini ve yönetimin kapsamlı bir etik hükmü üzerinde çalıştığını açıkladı.

Başarısız Clarity Oylaması Kripto Düzenlemesini Geciktirebilir Mi? Senato’nun 60 oya ulaşamaması, daralan Kongre takvimi nedeniyle daha büyük sonuçlar doğurabilir. Temsilciler Meclisi eylül ayının ilerleyen dönemlerinde planlanan bazı oylama haftalarını iptal etti. Bu durum, Senato süreci başarılı olsa bile nihai kararın kasım ara seçimlerinin sonrasına kalma ihtimalini artırıyor.

Senato’nun yapacağı değişiklikler ayrıca Temsilciler Meclisi’nin onayını gerektirecek. Senatör Cynthia Lummis ise takvimin sıkışmasını, kararsız milletvekillerine yönelik siyasi baskıyı artırmak için kullanıyor.

Tasarıdaki önemli maddelerden biri, belirli aracıların müşteri varlıklarını şirket varlıklarından ayrı tutmasını ve uygun koşullardaki varlıkları iflas durumunda müşterinin mülkü olarak değerlendirmesini öngörüyor. FTX ve Celsius gibi iflaslar sonrasında ortaya çıkan sorunlar açısından bu düzenlemeler dikkat çekiyor.

Lummis, bu yıl başarısız olunması halinde piyasa yapısını düzenleyen kapsamlı bir yasanın 2030’a kadar yeniden hayata geçirilemeyebileceğini savunuyor. Bu ifade yasal bir zorunluluk değil, siyasi bir öngörü niteliğinde.

Bu içerik kesinlikle yatırım tavsiyesi niteliği taşımamaktadır. Piyasalar yüksek risk içermektedir ve yatırım kararlarınızı almadan önce kendi araştırmanızı yapmanız önemlidir.

Son Dakika kripto para haberleri için hemen tıkla.

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Key Takeaways Zscaler shares fell 0.6% in six months as major cybersecurity peers posted gains above 87%.Zscaler expects fiscal 2027 revenue and ARR growth of roughly 17%, down from 25% in fiscal 2026.Capital spending may reach the low teens of revenues in FY27, with free cash flow margins near 23%-23.5%. Zscaler, Inc. (ZS - Free Report) has struggled to keep pace with the broader cybersecurity sector. The stock has fallen 0.6% over the past six months, while the broader Zacks Security industry has gained 84.8%.

The performance gap becomes even more striking when compared with major peers, including Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PANW - Free Report) , CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD - Free Report) and Fortinet, Inc. (FTNT - Free Report) . Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike and Fortinet have surged 103.5%, 93.4% and 87.3%, respectively, during the same period.

Zscaler 6-Month Price Return Performance
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This raises an important question for investors: Is Zscaler simply being overlooked, or is the weak stock performance signaling deeper problems

The numbers suggest the latter may be the bigger concern.

Zscaler’s Growth Story Is Losing MomentumZscaler's biggest problem is no longer its position in the cybersecurity market. It is the pace at which the business is growing.

For years, Zscaler was known for delivering revenue growth above 40%. That growth rate has steadily declined. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 and for the full fiscal year, revenues increased 25% year over year. Annual recurring revenues (ARR) also rose 25% to $3.77 billion at the end of the fourth quarter.

While 25% growth is still respectable, it is a major slowdown for a company once viewed as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity stocks.

ZS expects growth to weaken further in fiscal 2027. Zscaler is projecting roughly 17% growth in both revenues and ARR. Management has pointed to several reasons for the weaker outlook, including changes in sales leadership and execution uncertainties surrounding new product integrations.

The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2027 revenue growth is in line with management’s guidance and points to another slowdown in fiscal 2028, with revenues expected to increase only 15.7%.

Zscaler Sales Estimates
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ZS’ Rising Spending Is Another Major ConcernZscaler is also spending more to support its long-term growth plans. The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is creating new opportunities for cybersecurity companies. However, AI workloads also require more computing, memory, storage and networking capacity. Rising infrastructure costs are putting additional pressure on Zscaler's spending.

Capital expenditures accounted for 8.3% of fiscal 2026 revenues, up from 6.1% in fiscal 2025. Management expects capital spending to remain elevated in fiscal 2027 and potentially reach the low-teens percentage of revenues.

Higher investment can be justified when it leads to faster growth. The problem for Zscaler is that spending is rising, while revenue and ARR growth are expected to slow.

Free cash flow also reflects this pressure. Zscaler's free cash flow margin declined to 23% in fiscal 2026 from 27% in fiscal 2025. Management expects the margin to remain around 23%-23.5% in fiscal 2027.

Macroeconomic uncertainty, tariffs and geopolitical tensions add to the near-term risks. These factors could keep customers cautious about technology spending and make it harder for Zscaler to regain its previous growth rate.

Zscaler’s Cheap Valuation Could Be a TrapZscaler looks cheap compared with other cybersecurity stocks. The company currently trades at around 6.63 times forward 12-month sales, well below the 17.05 times for the broader Zacks Security industry.

Zscaler Forward 12-Month P/S Ratio
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The discount is even more noticeable compared with major cybersecurity peers like Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike. Fortinet trades at 13.19 times forward 12-month sales, Palo Alto Networks at 19.16 times and CrowdStrike at 31.63 times.

At first glance, this valuation gap looks like a bargain for a high-quality cybersecurity stock.

However, a low valuation does not automatically make a stock attractive. Investors often pay higher multiples for companies that can deliver stronger and more consistent growth. But Zscaler's growth continues to slow, which justifies its low valuation.

In other words, ZS stock is cheap because investors are already pricing in a weaker growth outlook.

Final Thoughts: Exit ZS Stock for NowZscaler remains a major cybersecurity company with significant long-term opportunities, particularly as AI and cloud adoption create new security challenges. However, the stock's current investment case is difficult to defend.

The company is facing slowing revenue and ARR growth, rising capital spending and weaker free-cash-flow margins. At the same time, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike and Fortinet are delivering much stronger stock returns.

Zscaler’s discounted valuation is attractive on the surface, but it is not enough to offset the deterioration in growth. It is wise to exit Zscaler stock for now and wait for clearer evidence that growth is stabilizing.

Zscaler currently carries a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell).

You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.

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Rocket Lab launches IMM Apex with 31.5% efficiency for space power systems. IMM Apex cuts solar cell mass by 40% while reducing reliance on germanium use. Rocket Lab targets higher satellite demand with scaled solar cell production. More than 1,100 satellites already use Rocket Lab solar power technologies. RKLB closed 2.51% higher as Rocket Lab expanded its space systems portfolio. Rocket Lab expanded its space power business by releasing the new IMM Apex solar cell for production. The product combines higher efficiency, lower weight, and less dependence on germanium for spacecraft systems. RKLB closed at $65.87, up 2.51%, before falling 0.18% after hours to $65.75.

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IMM Apex Raises Space Power Efficiency Rocket Lab designed IMM Apex with 31.5% beginning-of-life solar conversion efficiency for space missions. The company also cut cell mass by 40%, increasing specific power for satellites and exploration spacecraft. Higher specific power lets spacecraft builders generate more electricity without adding similar system weight.

The new design removes germanium substrates used in conventional multi-junction solar cells across the industry. Rocket Lab reduces exposure to rising material costs and supply constraints affecting germanium. The change also gives production teams more flexibility when planning larger manufacturing volumes.

Rocket Lab made IMM Apex compatible with mechanical and electrical systems built for germanium-based cells. As a result, customers can integrate the product without major redesigns or costly manufacturing changes. This approach simplifies adoption across established spacecraft platforms while preserving existing engineering processes.

Rocket Lab Expands Solar Cell Production Rocket Lab improved manufacturing methods and invested in equipment to support demand for space power hardware. The company can produce IMM technology at volumes reaching several hundred kilowatts for customer programs. That capacity supports larger satellite fleets and exploration missions requiring reliable solar power systems.

Rocket Lab has developed and tested its IMM technology through more than a decade of space operations. Earlier IMM cells powered NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its historic mission on Mars. The technology has also supported satellites operating in orbit for more than ten years.

The company continues advancing IMM products for civil, commercial, security, and scientific space applications. Rocket Lab has completed extensive testing and qualification work across demanding mission environments. IMM Apex now enters production as the company expands solar manufacturing and customer reach.

RKLB Stock Reflects Broader Space Systems Push Rocket Lab’s solar operations extend its business beyond launch services and strengthen its space systems portfolio. Its products have supported the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program. The company has also supplied power technology for national security and interplanetary science missions.

More than 1,100 satellites currently use Rocket Lab solar products across commercial and government programs. IMM Apex adds a lighter option while addressing supply risks facing traditional solar cell production. Its germanium-free structure also supports more predictable sourcing, manufacturing schedules, and production costs.

RKLB stock finished higher as Rocket Lab added another product to its expanding space systems lineup. IMM Apex gives the company a new offering tied directly to satellite and exploration power demand. Future sales will depend on customer adoption, production scale, and growth across global spacecraft programs.

Compound Foundation launched a permissioned lending market on September 8 that only institutional borrowers can access, effectively carving the protocol’s liquidity pool into two distinct layers. Whitelisted participants get their own collateral sets, custom loan-to-value ratios, and tailored risk parameters, all separate from the retail-facing side of the protocol.

The move comes three weeks after Compound relaunched itself around institutional credit, and roughly a month after a DAO vote approved a $52 million development program, the largest funding initiative in the protocol’s history.

A protocol reinventing itself In August, Compound’s DAO greenlit the two-year, $52 million budget with $14 million released upfront and the rest gated behind milestones. The program is focused on onboarding regulated financial players: banks, asset managers, exchanges, and fintechs.

Leading the charge is a new executive team with deep roots in traditional finance. Aaron Schnarch, formerly CEO of Coinbase Custody, now serves as Executive Director. Christopher Donovan holds the COO role, Steven Liu is CPO, and Leo Eikelman fills the CTO seat.

The foundation says it has more than 10 confirmed partners, with discussions underway with over 20 additional potential collaborators.

Under the hood, the development program is building out compliance tooling including KYC and AML infrastructure, permissioned vaults, and integration kits designed to plug Compound’s lending rails directly into institutional workflows.

Why institutions, why now Compound’s total value locked currently sits at roughly $1.2B, down from a peak of $12B in September 2021. Since its 2018 launch, Compound has processed approximately $480B in total deposits and borrowing volume, and has recorded zero bad debt across its entire operational history.

The permissioned market structure directly addresses the single biggest objection institutions have had to DeFi participation: regulatory risk. By creating a walled-off environment where only whitelisted, KYC-verified entities can borrow, Compound sidesteps the compliance concerns that have kept most regulated capital on the sidelines.

The competitive landscape shifts The development program explicitly targets RWA support, which positions Compound to facilitate lending against tokenized treasuries, bonds, and other traditional financial instruments.

For existing COMP token holders, the strategic pivot carries both promise and risk. If institutional capital flows materialize, the protocol’s revenue and TVL could recover meaningfully from current levels. The milestone-gated budget structure provides some protection against the $52M being spent without results, but $14M is already out the door.

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Aave Labs just made it a lot easier for AI agents to talk to its lending protocols. The team launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI applications a single, standardized endpoint to pull live data from both Aave V3 and V4, replacing the patchwork of static datasets and third-party wrappers that developers previously had to cobble together.

The server, accessible at mcp.aave.com, connects to Aave V3 deployments across 21 different blockchains and to Aave V4 on Ethereum and Avalanche. Think of it as a universal translator between AI models and Aave’s on-chain infrastructure.

What the MCP server actually does Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is a standardized way for AI applications to access external data and tools in real time. Aave’s implementation offers approximately 40 tools that cover everything from market data retrieval to transaction preparation.

Users and AI agents can check wallet positions, examine health factors (the metric that determines how close a position is to liquidation), simulate potential actions before committing capital, and prepare unsigned transactions. That last part matters: the server is non-custodial by design, meaning it can assemble a transaction for you but never holds your keys or signs anything on your behalf.

For a concrete example: an AI portfolio manager could now query a user’s Aave positions across multiple chains, identify that a health factor on one position is trending dangerously low, simulate a partial repayment to see how it would improve the ratio, and prepare the exact transaction needed to execute it. All in one flow, all from one data source.

Why this matters for DeFi’s AI race Aave’s approach is notable for its scope. Supporting V3 across 21 chains means the MCP server covers the vast majority of Aave’s deployed capital. Adding V4 on Ethereum and Avalanche signals that the team views this integration layer as forward-looking, not just a convenience feature bolted onto legacy infrastructure.

The non-custodial architecture is a deliberate design choice that addresses one of the thorniest questions in the AI-agent space: who controls the keys? By limiting the server to unsigned transactions, Aave sidesteps the trust problem entirely. An AI agent can do everything up to the point of execution, but a human (or a separate, purpose-built signing module) still has to approve the final step.

The roughly 40 tools available at launch suggest Aave is thinking about this comprehensively rather than offering a minimal viable product. Market data, position management, risk simulation, and transaction preparation cover the core workflows that any AI-powered DeFi application would need.

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Dividend investors can often be grouped between high-yield investors and dividend growth investors. Today, I'm looking at the higher-yielding income-focused investor and providing two potential opportunities. One of these names also gets to deliver a higher relative yield but has over 35 years of consecutive dividend raises under its belt as well, a blend of both.

New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - September 9, 2026) - Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC, a nationally recognized investor-rights law firm, announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc. (NYSE: DKS) and certain of its officers.

This lawsuit seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired DICK'S securities between September 8, 2025 and August 24, 2026, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: bgandg.com/cases/dicks-sporting-goods-inc-dks-class_action_lawsuit.

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The Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that:

following Dick's acquisition of Foot Locker, the Foot Locker business was experiencing stagnant inventory; these inventory problems adversely affected the Company's ability to achieve its sales-growth and profitability targets; accordingly, the Company's business and financial prospects were materially weaker than Defendants represented; and as a result, Defendants' positive statements concerning the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.What's Next for DICK'S Investors?

A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint, you can visit the firm's site: bgandg.com/cases/dicks-sporting-goods-inc-dks-class_action_lawsuit, or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Client Relations Manager, Nathan Miller, of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 917-590-0911. If you suffered a loss in DICK'S you have until November 3, 2026, to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff.

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Toyota and Rivian Adopt Stratasys' New F870™ to Accelerate Factory-Floor Manufacturing Applications at Scale Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) announced the launch of the new F870™ FDM® system, a large-format additive manufacturing platform designed for industrial manufacturers, automotive OEMs, aerospace & defense production lines, looking to scale production on the factory floor.

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Stratasys F870™ FDM® system, a large-format additive manufacturing platform designed for industrial manufacturers, automotive OEMs, aerospace & defense production lines, looking to scale production on the factory floor.

Extending the Stratasys production-grade FDM portfolio, the F870 combines unrivaled large-format capabilities in a heated chamber backed by a suite of the strongest, most durable materials, all with a lower total cost of ownership so manufacturers can expand additive across manufacturing applications. Manufacturers increasingly demand larger, production-ready systems capable of producing tooling, fixtures, manufacturing aids and end-use parts at the size, throughput, and reliability needed for factory-floor deployment. The F870™ FDM® machine addresses this need.

Systems are currently being adopted by leading manufacturers, including Toyota Production Engineering in Georgetown, Kentucky, and Rivian Automotive in Plymouth, Michigan. These organizations are assessing the platform across a range of applications, from factory-floor tooling and manufacturing aids to advanced prototyping workflows, ahead of commercial availability.

Early deployments address customer needs for automotive tooling, manufacturing aids, and other production-support applications, including large fixtures, assembly tools, and inspection gauges that traditionally require lengthy machining lead times.

"Manufacturers are looking for proven solutions to speed up production, reduce cost, and respond in real-time to ever-changing supply chain and manufacturing requirements," said Rich Garrity, Chief Business Unit Officer, Stratasys. "The F870 is a very unique solution, demonstrating our advanced manufacturing expertise and our deep understanding of customer demand for additive manufacturing solutions that produce larger tooling, fixtures, and manufacturing aids on the factory floor. The new platform is geared towards real manufacturing environments, delivering our leading industrial-scale capabilities with increased build capacity, combined with Stratasys’ proven materials, and production reliability at a competitive price-point."

"We've already seen the value Stratasys additive manufacturing can deliver," said Dallas Martin, Additive Manufacturing Engineer at Toyota North America. "The next challenge is expanding its use across more applications. The F870's combination of build size, material performance and industrial features aligns with the kinds of manufacturing needs we're looking to address."

Designed for production-support applications, the F870 features a build volume of 1000 x 610 x 610 mm (39.4 x 24 x 24 in.) and combines the market's longest build capacity in a fully heated chamber with a portfolio of industrial-grade materials, including Nylon 12CF™, ASA, ABS and the new FDM® ABS Draft (Gray). In particular, Nylon 12CF Carbon Fiber provides the strength, stiffness and durability required for demanding manufacturing-floor tooling and fixture applications. The platform enables manufacturers to produce larger tooling, fixtures, manufacturing aids and end-use parts with the repeatability, durability and throughput required for factory-floor deployment.

Built on Stratasys' industrial FDM® foundation, the F870 expands Stratasys's portfolio of production-focused additive manufacturing solutions, helping manufacturers reduce production costs, improve responsiveness and scale additive manufacturing across manufacturing operations.

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Stratasys is leading the global shift to additive manufacturing with innovative 3D printing solutions for industries including aerospace, automotive, consumer products, and healthcare. Through smart and connected 3D printers, polymer materials, a software ecosystem, and parts on demand, Stratasys solutions deliver competitive advantages at every stage of the product value chain. The world’s leading organizations turn to Stratasys to transform product design, bring agility to manufacturing and supply chains, and improve patient care.

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The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a key ‌New Jersey water permit for U.S. energy company Williams Cos' (WMB.N) long-delayed Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) natural gas pipeline project in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

The court said in a ruling on Tuesday that it granted petitions by environmental groups, vacated the Water Quality Certification and remanded the case to the ​New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP).

A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit last November against the NJDEP for unjustifiably ​approving the certification for NESE, after first rejecting the project in 2019 for failure to demonstrate compliance ⁠with state water quality standards.

“When the water quality certificate was denied in 2019, that should have been the end of it," ​said Charlie Kratovil, Central Jersey Organizer at Food & Water Watch, one of the environmental groups opposing the project.

Officials at Williams were not immediately ​available for comment.

NESE is a roughly $1 billion project under construction by Williams' Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co (Transco) unit that would expand the existing Transco gas pipe. NESE includes the construction of an offshore pipe in the Raritan Bay between New Jersey and New York.

The environmental groups contended that the underwater segment ​would require dredging the bay floor, stirring up sediment containing toxic contaminants like mercury and PCBs (Polychlorinated biphenyls), which could pose risks ​to human health and marine habitats.

Williams officially broke ground on NESE in Brooklyn, New York, in April 2026.

In addition to NESE, Williams is also developing another ‌long-delayed ⁠gas pipe in the region, Constitution Pipeline from Pennsylvania to New York.

Both projects were controversial in part because they were previously rejected by state environmental regulators and canceled by Williams in past years before U.S. President Donald Trump sought their revival after returning to office in 2025.

Williams canceled Constitution in 2020 and NESE in 2024 after years of fighting for permits, especially water permits, from state regulators ​in New York and New Jersey.

In ​May 2025, the Trump administration ⁠used New York's reconsideration of Williams' proposed gas pipes in the state as part of a deal with New York Governor Kathy Hochul to lift a federal ban on construction of Norwegian energy ​firm Equinor's (EQNR.OL) Empire Wind offshore wind farm off New York.

Hochul did not agree to approve either ​pipe project but ⁠said the state would work with the U.S. administration and private entities on projects that meet the legal requirements under New York law.

Williams said on its website that it targeted completion of NESE in the fourth quarter of 2027 and Constitution in the fourth quarter of 2028.

NESE ⁠is designed ​to move around 0.4 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of gas from Pennsylvania, ​across New Jersey and into New York.

Constitution, which is not under construction, is designed to move around 0.65 bcfd of gas from Pennsylvania to New York.

One billion ​cubic feet of gas is enough to supply around five million U.S. homes for a day.

Polkadot rose 16.7% on the day and 42.5% on the week, with Cosmos Hub, Decred and Ethereum Classic all up more than 8%, while bitcoin ended the first U.S. session since Labor Day down 0.83% at $78,539. Polymarket traders raised the odds of a quarter-point Federal Reserve increase next week to 54.5%, a third consecutive session of widening. Brent crude settled at $99.31, its highest close since July 23.

A group of layer-1 tokens that launched before 2018 carried Tuesday's crypto tape while bitcoin and ether finished lower, and traders extended their bet that the Federal Reserve raises rates next week.

Only one of those tokens has a dated event behind it. Polkadot holders are voting on a proposal to give the network its own stablecoin, submitted to OpenGov on Monday and running 97.5% in favor. Cosmos Hub, Decred and Ethereum Classic produced no filing, release or governance action in the window, and the four moved together on a week when bitcoin gained 1.6%.

Bitcoin last changed hands at $78,539, down 0.83% over 24 hours and up 1.6% over seven days, after trading between $77,666 and $79,432, CoinGecko data shows. Ether was at $2,484.83, down 0.29% on the day and up 2.8% on the week. XRP rose 1.53% to $1.42; Solana fell 0.59% to $103.24; BNB gained 1.66% to $751.92 and holds a 10.5% weekly advance. Total crypto market value stood at $2.70 trillion on $91.54 billion of volume, with bitcoin dominance at 58.36%. Fifty-seven of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens rose and 66 fell.

A Round TripBitcoin peaked at $79,432 shortly after 10 p.m. ET Monday, during Tokyo's morning, and sold off through the European session. The 24-hour low of $77,666 came in the 10 a.m. ET hour. It recovered to $78,833 by midday and gave that back through the afternoon, ending the U.S. session near where it opened.

The token is 37.7% below the $126,080 record it set in October 2025.

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index read 69 on Tuesday, down from 71 on Monday and 74 on Sept. 4, according to Alternative.me. It has read above 60 every day since Aug. 29.

Polkadot Wants A StablecoinPolkadot rose 16.7% to $1.25 and 42.5% over seven days, a second consecutive double-digit day after Monday's 13.85% gain, on $420 million of volume against a $2.13 billion market value. It is the largest weekly gain among the 50 biggest tokens.

The proposal driving it went on-chain at 11:49 a.m. ET Monday. OpenGov Referendum 1944, "dotUSD: A Native Stablecoin for Polkadot," sits on the Root track and is in its deciding period. "This proposal signals the intent of the DAO to introduce dotUSD, Polkadot's native stablecoin, as the protocol's primary stable-value instrument," the text reads.

The referendum lists seven actions, among them creating the dotUSD asset "owned by the protocol," opening a DOT-dotUSD liquidity pool on Asset Hub, designating dotUSD a sufficient asset and setting peg stability module parameters. It commits treasury funds: "$2.5M in USDT will be used to mint dotUSD and $2.5M in DOT will be allocated initially to the pool."

The Polkadot Community Foundation submitted it and disclaims operational control. "dotUSD is a decentralized, protocol-native stablecoin project," the text reads. "It would have no issuer and would instead operate autonomously via on-chain logic."

Voting stands at 2,343,074 DOT in favor against 59,896 opposed, with 558,519 DOT of support against an electorate of 1.67 billion DOT. A second referendum, 1942, upgrading system chains to runtime 2.5, went on-chain Sept. 5 and is also deciding.

No U.S. product filing accompanies the move. EDGAR full-text search returns one document mentioning Polkadot between Sept. 1 and Sept. 8, a Canary Staked TRX ETF prospectus that uses the word in passing. Polkadot's own account has posted nothing about dotUSD.

The Old Guard MovesTokenPrice24h7dPolkadot (DOT)$1.25+16.7%+42.5%Cosmos Hub (ATOM)$1.83+10.8%+23.3%Decred (DCR)$17.30+9.4%+19.4%Ethereum Classic (ETC)$8.60+9.3%+18.3%Cosmos Hub, Decred and Ethereum Classic rose alongside Polkadot without a dated catalyst.

The Cosmos Hub's most recent governance proposals, 1052 and 1053, were submitted Aug. 25 and finished voting Sept. 1. Decred's last substantive release is the v2.1.6 consensus security patch from late August; its account's most recent post, dated Sept. 7, is a marketing message. Ethereum Classic's core-geth has not shipped a release since Hermes v1.12.22 on March 28, and the project's repositories show no September activity. None of the three appears in Binance's listing announcements for Sept. 4 through Sept. 8.

VeChain added 10.6% to $0.008006 and 19.5% over seven days. Its Aug. 6 post on the Interstellar upgrade and its Aug. 24 statement that the VIP-255 vote passed give no mainnet activation date.

Hike Odds Reach 54.5%Traders widened their bet on tightening for a third session. Polymarket put a quarter-point increase at 54.5% and no change at 45.5% on $104.6 million of volume. The same contracts read 52.5% and 45.5% at midday Tuesday, 50.5% and 49.5% on Monday, and 30.5% and 67.5% on Aug. 24. A quarter-point cut trades at 0.45%. The Federal Open Market Committee meets Sept. 15-16, one of the four meetings a year that carries a Summary of Economic Projections.

Friday's labor data set the direction. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that "total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in August, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent", with June and July revised up by a combined 55,000. August producer prices publish Sept. 10 and consumer prices Sept. 11, both at 8:30 a.m. ET, the last two federal releases before the committee meets.

Brent Closes Near $100Brent crude settled at $99.31 a barrel, up 3.15% from Friday and its highest close since July 23, when it ended at $100.69. West Texas Intermediate rose 3.03% to $94.25. The yen traded at 153.97 per dollar, its firmest since Feb. 18, and the dollar index fell 0.31% to 98.85.

"Higher oil prices on the back of continued geopolitical escalations between the US and Iran and a rally in the Japanese yen to a 7-month high have taken the spotlight in the past 24 hours," Thahbib Rahman, research analyst at Block Scholes, wrote in a note emailed to reporters on Tuesday. "Both events weighed on risk assets across US equity markets and crypto markets alike."

Rahman said options positioning has not followed spot lower. "While not near the highs of mid-August and early September, after the US Treasury's bond interventions and Fed Governor Waller's dovish speech, short-dated BTC put-call skew remains tilted towards call options," he wrote. "This means investors are leaning more bullish than bearish and is an indication that traders are willing to pay more for upside exposure to spot price than downside protection."

U.S. equities closed lower. The S&P 500 fell 0.58% to 7,673.52 and the Nasdaq Composite 0.32% to 26,421.41. The 10-year Treasury yield rose to 4.81% and the 30-year to 5.26%. Gold futures fell 0.67% to $4,400 an ounce.

Zcash Gets OptionsZcash rose 0.82% to $1,166.37 and 39.2% over seven days after touching $1,210.35, holding tenth place at a $19.73 billion market value, above Hyperliquid at $18.79 billion and Dogecoin at $14.01 billion. It remains 63.4% below the $3,191.93 record set on Oct. 28, 2016.

Grayscale said on Tuesday that "$ZCSH, the world's first Zcash fund, is now available for options trading on @NYSE." The post links to the fund's prospectus and does not name the options venue; the shares list on NYSE Arca, and NYSE American Options and NYSE Arca Options are separate venues. No exchange listing notice or SEC rule filing corroborating the options listing was retrievable, and the most recent document under the trust's EDGAR record is the Aug. 25 prospectus.

The fund completed its uplisting from OTCQX to NYSE Arca on Aug. 25 under the ticker ZCSH, registering the shares through a Form 8-A12B filed Aug. 24 and changing its name to The Zcash ETF the same day. Grayscale's fund account said on Sept. 4 that ZCSH "just crossed $400,000,000 in AUM." The Defiant covered the original conversion filing in November 2025.

Monero fell 4.3% to $497.42 after trading as high as $525.33, and is down 0.7% over seven days against Zcash's 39.2%. Monero's official blog has published nothing since the July 21 GUI release, and no Monero item appeared on the announcement pages of Binance, Kraken, OKX or Bithumb on Monday or Tuesday. The token has no U.S. listed vehicle.

Injective Lists TwiceInjective rose 5.25% to $6.45 and 33.8% over seven days after trading 12.7% higher at midday, on $190 million of volume against a $650 million market value.

Three dated announcements sit behind it. Injective said on Tuesday that "native USDC on Injective is now live on @krakenfx," allowing deposits and withdrawals of the stablecoin directly between the exchange and the chain. On Monday it said that "$INJ is now live on @RobinhoodCrypto"; Robinhood's own asset page lists the token as tradable without stating a date. Also on Monday, the project said that "over 58.8 Million INJ tokens are now staked onchain," which it called a record. Injective's public node reported 58,461,008 INJ bonded against a total supply of 122,781,894, or 47.6%, slightly below the figure the project gave. INJ trades 87.7% below the $52.62 record it set in March 2024.

The chain's most recent blog post, dated Sept. 4, says Pineapple Financial has moved more than $1 billion in residential mortgage records onto Injective.

Korea Bids UselessUseless Coin gained 24% to $0.2791 on $174 million of volume, against a $279 million market value, after two Korean exchanges opened trading in it on Tuesday.

Bithumb's market list carries a KRW-USELESS pair whose hourly candles begin at 1 a.m. ET. Upbit's market list carries BTC and USDT pairs whose candles begin at 8 a.m. ET, with the USDT pair flagged for price volatility and cross-venue price gaps; Upbit did not open a won pair. The listings account for Tuesday's move. The 138.5% seven-day gain predates both, and no project statement covering that period is available.

Venice Token led the day at 30.2%, reaching a record $25.49 before easing to $24.18 and a $1.15 billion market value on $177 million of volume. The most recent post on the Venice blog is dated July 17, carrying an Aug. 5 update that cuts VVV emissions to 2.5 million a year on Sept. 1 and to 2 million on Oct. 1, and raises the DIEM supply target to 40,000 on Sept. 14. Those dates were set five weeks ago. The project's changelog has not been updated since July 30.

Falcon Finance rose 25.6% to $0.1495 and 51.9% over seven days. Its most recent blog post is dated Aug. 31 and its account's Sept. 8 posts respond to the price rather than explain it. Pons added 17.7% to $0.8265 and 93.8% over seven days; Uniswap Labs bought PONS tokens on Sept. 3.

ETFs Skip A SessionU.S. spot bitcoin and ether ETF flows for Tuesday had not published as of 5 p.m. ET. The last completed session is Friday, when bitcoin funds took in $174.6 million and ether funds $25.9 million, according to Farside Investors. BlackRock's IBIT accounted for $117.4 million of the bitcoin total and Fidelity's FBTC $57.2 million; among ether funds, BlackRock's two products drew $74.2 million while Fidelity's FETH lost $48.3 million. No row exists for Monday, when U.S. markets were closed for Labor Day, which means Monday's altcoin advance ran with the ETF and equity markets shut.

DeFi total value locked stood at $87.94 billion, down 0.7% over 24 hours and up 1.57% over seven days, DefiLlama data shows. Stablecoin supply was $311.71 billion, down 0.1% on the day, up 0.49% over seven days and 1.35% over 30 days.

Hyperliquid fell 0.79% to $84.50 and trades 5.7% below the $89.60 record it set on Sept. 6. Its account has posted nothing since Aug. 31. WhiteBIT Coin rose 6.16% to $81.35 and 14.3% over seven days after touching a record $81.98 at 12:40 p.m. ET; its blog has published nothing since July 28.

Venice Takes The DayTokenPrice24h7dVenice Token (VVV)$24.18+30.2%+48.9%Falcon Finance (FF)$0.1495+25.6%+51.9%Useless Coin (USELESS)$0.2791+24.0%+138.5%Pons (PONS)$0.8265+17.7%+93.8%Polkadot (DOT)$1.25+16.7%+42.5%Cosmos Hub (ATOM)$1.83+10.8%+23.3%VeChain (VET)$0.008006+10.6%+19.5%Decred (DCR)$17.30+9.4%+19.4%Ethereum Classic (ETC)$8.60+9.3%+18.3%Akedo Gives It BackTokenPrice24h7dRibbita by Virtuals (TIBBIR)$0.2055-10.8%-14.8%Akedo (AKE)$0.01575-8.6%+76.7%Unibase (UB)$0.1207-7.9%+2.4%Monad (MON)$0.02582-5.9%-0.4%Pudgy Penguins (PENGU)$0.008108-5.1%-4.5%Kite (KITE)$0.1135-4.8%-8.1%Arweave (AR)$2.84-4.8%+24.5%Hedera (HBAR)$0.07895-4.6%+6.8%Akedo traded 21% higher at midday before ending 8.6% lower. It holds a 76.7% weekly gain.

Hedera was the largest token among the decliners at a $3.46 billion market value, and is still up 6.8% over seven days. Its most recent blog post, dated Sept. 4, covers new council partners, and its Tuesday statements concern an insurance consortium building on the network. Monero's 4.3% decline falls just outside the table.

Prices and market data as of 5:11 p.m. ET on Sept. 8, 2026.

Polkadot’s governance system is in the process of deciding whether the network should mint its own US dollar-pegged stablecoin, and the vote isn’t exactly close. Referendum #1944, which proposes creating a decentralized stablecoin called dotUSD, has attracted 97.5% support from voters so far, with roughly 2.31 million DOT cast in favor against just 59,900 opposing votes.

The proposal calls for $5 million in initial liquidity, split evenly between $2.5 million in USDT for minting the stablecoin and $2.5 million in DOT allocated to a liquidity pool. If approved, dotUSD would become the default stable-value instrument across Polkadot’s ecosystem, a move designed to cut the network’s dependence on third-party stablecoins like USDT and USDC.

How dotUSD would actually work dotUSD would be an over-collateralized stablecoin primarily backed by DOT, Polkadot’s native token. The liquidity pool would pair USDT with DOT on Asset Hub, giving dotUSD holders a pathway to swap in and out of the stablecoin. Over-collateralization means more DOT is locked up than the dollar value of dotUSD minted, providing a buffer against price drops in the underlying asset.

This is a protocol-level decision, not a private company launching a product. The proposal is moving through Polkadot’s OpenGov system on the Root track, which handles the network’s most consequential governance decisions. Contributions backing the initiative come from builders within the Polkadot ecosystem itself.

Polkadot’s second stablecoin attempt This isn’t actually Polkadot’s first crack at a native stablecoin. A previous proposal for a DOT-backed stablecoin called pUSD secured over 75% support earlier in 2025, with more than $5.6 million in DOT committed to the effort.

The referendum is currently in its deciding phase, meaning the vote has passed the initial support threshold and is now running through the full decision period required by OpenGov’s rules.

Why this matters for Polkadot’s DeFi ambitions Polkadot’s DeFi sector has historically been smaller than its peers, partly because the network’s architecture, built around specialized parachains, fragments liquidity across multiple chains. A protocol-owned stablecoin could serve as connective tissue, giving traders and developers a single stable asset that works natively across the ecosystem without relying on Circle or Tether to maintain bridge infrastructure.

External stablecoins carry counterparty risk. If Tether or Circle ever restricted access to their tokens on Polkadot, the ecosystem would have no fallback. dotUSD, backed by DOT sitting in Polkadot’s own smart contracts, removes that single point of failure.

An over-collateralized stablecoin backed primarily by DOT means the stablecoin’s health is tethered to DOT’s price performance. A severe and prolonged decline in DOT could strain the collateral ratio, potentially requiring liquidations or additional capital injections to maintain the peg.

The $5 million initial liquidity figure is modest by industry standards. For comparison, DAI’s total supply sits in the billions, and even smaller ecosystem stablecoins typically launch with larger war chests.

If dotUSD gains traction, it creates persistent demand for DOT as collateral. Every dollar of dotUSD minted requires more than a dollar’s worth of DOT locked up, effectively removing supply from circulation.

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Polkadot’s community has opened a governance vote on a native decentralized stablecoin called dotUSD, with a proposal to make the dollar-pegged asset the network’s primary stable-value instrument and eventually back it mainly with DOT.

Summary

Polkadot OpenGov is voting on a proposal to create dotUSD as the network’s native decentralized stablecoin. The plan calls for $5 million in initial DOT and USDT liquidity for a DOT and dotUSD pool. dotUSD would initially be minted against USDT before a second phase introduces DOT backed vaults, liquidations and redemptions. The full system would let users lock DOT to mint dotUSD while using on chain mechanisms to maintain its dollar peg. According to OpenGov Referendum 1944, the proposed stablecoin would be owned by the protocol and operate autonomously through on-chain logic, without a centralized issuer. The proposal was drafted with contributions from builders, developers and other participants in the Polkadot ecosystem.

The proposal remains in the decision stage at the time of writing. Its implementation would create dotUSD as a new asset, recognize it as the Polkadot stablecoin and establish a DOT/dotUSD liquidity pool on Polkadot Asset Hub.

An archived Polkassembly snapshot showed 2.4 million DOT voting in favor and 59,900 DOT against, equivalent to 97.5% Aye and 2.5% Nay at that point in the vote. The archive cautioned that the figures were frozen while the referendum was still in progress and may not represent the eventual on-chain result.

Polkadot proposes phased launch for dotUSD Under the plan, dotUSD would initially operate differently from the full DOT-backed system envisioned by its developers.

The first phase has already been built on-chain and would allow users to mint dotUSD one-for-one against USDT, subject to a supply cap. Since USDT would provide the reserve backing at this stage, the system would not require an oracle, collateral vaults or liquidation infrastructure.

The proposal seeks to use Polkadot Treasury assets to seed a DOT/dotUSD pool on the Hub decentralized exchange. The version submitted with the referendum allocated $2.5 million in USDT to mint dotUSD and another $2.5 million worth of DOT to the pool, giving it $5 million in initial liquidity.

A more recent version displayed on Subsquare lists $1.5 million in USDT and $1.5 million in DOT for the initial pool, reducing the proposed allocation to $3 million.

dotUSD would be designated a “sufficient asset,” allowing an account to hold the stablecoin without having to maintain a DOT balance. Governance would set parameters for the peg stability module, including the maximum amount of dotUSD that could initially be minted.

Phase two would move dotUSD toward its intended design by introducing DOT-backed collateral vaults, an oracle, a stability pool, liquidations and a redemption mechanism. The proposal describes dotUSD as an overcollateralized stablecoin whose architecture draws heavily from Liquity v2’s BOLD system.

Plans for a DOT-backed stablecoin have been under consideration for more than a year. As crypto.news previously reported in July 2025, Polkadot co-founder Gavin Wood disclosed work on a fully decentralized stablecoin during the Web3 Summit and said a treasury proposal was being prepared to bootstrap its liquidity.

How would the DOT-backed dotUSD system work? Once the second phase is implemented, users would deposit DOT into vaults and borrow dotUSD worth less than the collateral they provided.

The proposal gives an example of 300 DOT priced at $5 each, producing $1,500 in collateral. A user could mint up to $1,000 of dotUSD against the position, corresponding to a collateralization ratio of 150%. If the value of the DOT falls far enough to breach the required collateral ratio, the vault would become eligible for liquidation.

Borrowers would set the interest rates they pay on their own positions. Lower rates would place a vault earlier in the redemption queue, while borrowers willing to pay higher rates could reduce the chance that their collateral is selected for redemption.

Two arbitrage routes are intended to keep dotUSD close to $1. When the stablecoin trades above its peg, users could lock DOT, mint dotUSD and sell it at the higher market price, increasing supply. If dotUSD falls below $1, traders could buy it at a discount and redeem it through the protocol for $1 worth of DOT.

A capped stablecoin buffer is planned alongside the DOT redemption system. Existing stablecoins would back this portion of dotUSD and remain redeemable at $1, providing another route for maintaining the peg without selling the DOT used as collateral.

Liquidations would first be absorbed by a stability pool funded with dotUSD deposited by participants. In return for providing capital, stability pool participants would receive liquidated DOT at a discount while the corresponding dotUSD is burned to cancel the outstanding debt. If the pool runs out of funds, collateral and debt would be redistributed proportionally across the remaining vaults.

dotUSD ties into Polkadot’s new economic model The stablecoin proposal comes after Polkadot changed the economics of DOT, including the introduction of a fixed maximum supply.

The DAO approved a 2.1 billion DOT cap in September 2025, replacing the network’s previous model of uncapped issuance. A subsequent tokenomics upgrade introduced the Dynamic Allocation Pool, or DAP, which receives newly issued DOT and other network income for allocation through governance.

When the new tokenomics framework entered its implementation phase in March, DOT emissions were set to fall 53.6%, while newly minted tokens, transaction fees and slashes were directed into the DAP. Governance can allocate those funds toward staking rewards, treasury spending and other network budgets.

Referendum 1944 proposes using dotUSD within the next stage of that system. Under phase two of the DAP, validators and nominators are expected to receive remuneration in stable assets, while the Treasury would receive a combination of stablecoins and DOT. The proposal says dotUSD would allow those obligations to be denominated in dollars and settled through an asset native to Polkadot.

Polkadot already supports externally issued dollar tokens. USDC became available on Polkadot Asset Hub in September 2023, allowing the stablecoin to move to parachains through the network’s cross-consensus messaging system.

The dotUSD proposal argues that relying on externally issued stablecoins leaves Polkadot applications and treasury operations dependent on outside issuers and their governance. Its proposed full version would instead use DOT as the primary collateral while remaining governed through Polkadot.

The Polkadot Community Foundation said its role is administrative and that it would not issue, control or take custody of dotUSD, DOT or USDT under the proposal. It would not operate the stablecoin or provide liquidity, with dotUSD intended to function through on-chain logic without an issuer.

Implementation of the referendum’s preimage depends on Polkadot system chains being upgraded to version 2.5 under a separate governance proposal, Referendum 1942.

Polkadot [DOT] climbed 11.35% over 24 hours as its dotUSD proposal gained 97.5% governance approval, adding a major catalyst to the recent price recovery. 

Specifically, the proposal highlights a native decentralized stablecoin, which is designed to serve as the Polkadot protocol’s key stable-value instrument.

The initiative also proposes $5 million in initial liquidity for a DOT-dotUSD pool on the Polkadot Asset Hub. Additionally, the treasury funds are expected to provide $2.5 million in USDT for minting and allocate another $2.5 million in DOT.

Therefore, the structure will expand DOT’s utility while also improving stablecoin liquidity across the protocol.

Futures sellers challenge renewed DOT demand After the earlier stronger market demand, DOT’s 90-day Futures Taker CVD printed seller dominance at the time of press. This implied aggressive Futures sellers started opposing buyers as DOT advanced toward the $1.282 zone.

Initially, the demand absorbed the supply-side pressure pushing DOT above its previous consolidation structure. 

However, the momentum changed when the $1.282 price level rejected further expansion, and eventually the price started retracing.

The taker selling activity, therefore, contrasted with the governance catalyst supporting the broader price recovery. 

The derivatives’ pressure, on the other hand, intensified further as the leveraged bullish positions unwound following the rejection at $1.282.

Source: CryptoQuant Long liquidations amplify selling pressure Notably, DOT’s price rejection aligned with approximately $305.57K in long liquidations against only $42.38K in shorts. 

According to CoinGlass, Binance accounted for roughly $246.29K of the long liquidations, reflecting the exchange with the most losses across tracked exchanges.

The long liquidations imply that the leveraged buyers absorbed substantially heavier losses as the token retreated away from the $1.282 supply zone. Additionally, forced long closures also strengthened the ongoing seller dominance across the futures markets.

Combined, the liquidation imbalance and Futures Taker CVD, therefore, reinforced the derivatives-driven selling narrative behind DOT’s retracement. 

Notably, this leverage pressure also coincided closely with the emerging exhaustion indicator across the technical price structure.

Source: CoinGlass Is DOT’s $1.282 rejection signaling exhaustion? Polkadot broke above the $0.946 and $1.044 resistance levels before rallying towards the  $1.282 resistance zone, where buyers failed to sustain further advance. 

The rejection provided a sharp red candle towards the $1.192  level, signaling possible profit-taking after the sharp price breakout.

Notably, the price and RSI earlier formed an upward convergence, confirming stronger buying pressure as the rally unfolded. However, the RSI also retreated from 85.26 to 75.95 following the price rejection at the $1.282 zone.

However, despite the correction, the MACD indicator remained bullish, with its line holding above its signal line.

Additionally, the positive histogram has expanded, showing that the broader bullish  technical structure retained some strength despite the immediate selling pressure. 

Therefore, the $1.044 price level would become the key support if the retracement deepens further. Holding above this support level could revive another attempt of the $1.282 resistance, but a break below could expose the $0.946 support zone.

Source: TradingView Final Summary DOT’s dotUSD catalyst supported demand, but $1.282 triggered clear short-term exhaustion. Futures selling and long liquidations increased pressure as DOT retraced from resistance.