Winklevoss Asset Services has filed a spot Zcash ETF application with the U.S. SEC, seeking to list a fund on Nasdaq under the ticker WINK that would hold ZEC directly. Following the disclosure, ZEC rose more than 5% over the past 24 hours. The token is currently trading at slightly more than $1,376.

Circle Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Fox-Geen said he will step down by the end of 2026 after five years in the role, having helped execute the company’s $1.2 billion NYSE listing. After the announcement, CRCL shares fell 4.1% to $89.00 in the session and slid a further 1.8% after hours. Fox-Geen will remain until December 2026 or until a successor is named, while Circle recently completed a $400 million Tazapay deal and rolled out Bitcoin-backed USDC loans.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Bitcoin treasury company Strive raised about $85.88 million through three at-the-market (ATM) sessions between September 21 and 23. The proceeds were used to buy an estimated 1,001.67 BTC, with average purchase prices ranging from about $84,556.00 to $86,266. Strive brought in $27.69 million, $36.08 million and $22.11 million across the three offerings. The activity puts Strive ahead of Strategy in the pace of Bitcoin accumulation.

The Nasdaq 100 completed its quarterly rebalance on September 21, lifting SPCX’s index weighting from 1.28% to 2.82%. A first-time unlock of up to 328.4 million SPCX shares is scheduled for September 24, allowing early investors and insiders to sell. Separately, xAI’s recent release of the Grok 4.7 model is cited as supportive for the SpaceX stock outlook.

SPCX shares fell more than 2% even after NASA said on September 17 that SpaceX will launch the StarBurst spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket. The market is also focused on an upcoming Nasdaq-100 weight rebalance that could lift SpaceX’s weighting from about 1.28% to roughly 2.82%. Estimates cited by commentator Sawyer Merritt suggest the change could trigger $15.5 billion to $22 billion in passive-fund buying.

CleanSpark shares jumped nearly 5% on Thursday after the company said it plans a $2.227 billion senior secured notes offering through its wholly owned subsidiary to fund an expansion of its Sandersville, Georgia data center. The company said August bitcoin production totaled 593 BTC, slightly higher than July. As of Aug. 31, CleanSpark held 13,703 BTC.

The U.S. Senate’s CLARITY Act failed to clear a procedural vote, 49-50, stalling progress on crypto market-structure legislation. In the same session, spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $450 million in net outflows in a single day. Attention has shifted toward the SEC and CFTC as a potential alternative path, while a Ripple executive said XRP already has regulatory clarity following a 2023 ruling. Separately, the House Ways and Means Committee advanced a federal crypto tax framework by a 38-5 vote.

Cronos, the blockchain ecosystem associated with Crypto.com, is renaming its trading app to Ult and plans a global iOS and Android rollout on September 17, expanding into prediction markets, perpetuals and tokenized assets. CEO Ryan Wyatt said the shift is meant to give users and developers clearer direction and put greater emphasis on products that create value for CRO. Cronos Labs has proposed using 100% of revenue from Ult and Cronos Launch to buy CRO on the open market and burn it, while funding operating and growth costs from existing capital.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has publicly called for slowing the pace of frontier AI capability gains ahead of the company’s IPO, arguing that risk prevention should take priority over unchecked progress. He said he believes the chance of a catastrophic AI event within the next decade is greater than 10%, and warned that swarms of AI agents could take control of the internet within the next 6 to 12 months. Anthropic is expected to go public next month, targeting a valuation of up to $2 trillion.