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09/01/2026Buzz

‘This Never Happens’: Woman’s Hinge Success Story Goes Viral on TikTok—They Lived Three Blocks Apart

A Los Angeles woman’s Hinge success story has gone viral on TikTok after she revealed that she met her current partner through the dating app—even though they lived just three...

09/01/2026Buzz

Woman Says U.S. Marshal Still Remembers Her Popcorn Chicken Incident at Walmart: ‘Now Y’all Have Scared Me Straight’

A TikTok video from @alexi.marie has drawn more than 219,000 likes and 3,600 comments after describing an incident at Walmart in which a U.S. Marshal...

09/01/2026Coins

DeFi Development Prices $19.8 Million CHAD Stock Offering

DeFi Development Corp. has priced its Variable Rate Series C Perpetual Preferred Stock offering at $9 per share, according to an updated prospectus filed with...

09/01/2026Coins

a16z Adds $1.75 Billion to Growth Fund Days After Closing $1.1 Billion AI Hardware Bet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has raised an additional $1.75 billion through its fifth growth fund, just days after closing its $1.1 billion AI hardware fund. The...

09/01/2026Coins

SEC Presses Investment Firms to Prove They Own the Hot Startup Shares They Sell

According to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report published Monday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is asking investment companies to prove that their...

09/01/2026Coins

BlackRock’s BUIDL Outpaces Circle’s USYC as Tokenized Treasury Race Heats Up

BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) has narrowly overtaken Circle’s USYC to become the second-largest tokenized U.S. Treasury fund, highlighting the accelerating competition in...

09/01/2026Coins

Why Crypto Faces Its First September Test as U.S. Labor Data Looms

September 15 is shaping up to be a potentially pivotal day for financial markets, with monetary policy, economic data and crypto regulation all converging. The...