30 Sept
Bitcoin's Pullback Puts $82,000 in the Spotlight as Analysts Watch One Line
The coin topped $87,400 on Sept. 21 and has since slid back to the zone where May's rally died. A break below it could open the door to the high $70,000s.
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September 2026
30 Sept
AllUnity Adds Dollar-Pegged USDAU to Its MiCA-Regulated Stablecoin Roster
Frankfurt-based issuer now covers four currencies, betting on dollar demand even as European regulators warn about dependence on the greenback.
30 Sept
Kalshi Eyes $40B Valuation in New Round Led by Sequoia, Wellington
The prediction market is reportedly in advanced talks to raise roughly $1 billion, less than five months after closing a Series F at a $22 billion valuation.
30 Sept
Brazil's CSD BR Mirrors Fund Ownership on Public XRP Ledger
The depository for roughly $4 trillion in registered assets is copying live fund records held by BTG Pactual onto a public blockchain, while keeping its own database as the legal record.
30 Sept
Bitcoin Bulls Lose Steam as CryptoQuant Demand Gauge Nears Max
Spot and futures demand are both contracting even after BTC broke its 365-day moving average, the onchain firm says.
30 Sept
Illinois Moves to Define What Its 0.2% Crypto Tax Actually Covers
Stablecoins are taxable, NFTs are not, and most DeFi activity escapes the levy — unless a fee changes hands.
30 Sept
Crypto.com's ai.com Agent Remains Unlaunched Eight Months After Super Bowl Ad
The exchange says the platform is still "building in stealth mode," while Robinhood, Kraken and Bitget have already shipped narrower AI trading tools.
30 Sept
Binance Pay Opens USDT Spending at PayPay Merchants Across Japan
Overseas visitors can now pay with Tether at most PayPay-accepting stores via the HIVEX rails, while merchants settle in yen.
29 Sept
Robinhood Opens Weekend Stock Trading and 10x Crypto Perps in Active-Trader Push
The brokerage unveiled AI trading agents, leveraged perpetual futures and Saturday-Sunday equities at its HOOD Summit in Houston.
29 Sept
Aztec Revives zk.money Wallet for Private Stablecoin Payments on Ethereum
The self-custodial wallet lets users send USDC, USDT and DAI under readable ENS-style tags, with deposits still public and early caps in place.
29 Sept
Cboe and S&P Extend SPX Rights to 2051, Float Tokenized Options
The 25-year renewal keeps Cboe's exclusive S&P 500 index options franchise intact while the two firms study placing those contracts on-chain.
29 Sept
Bitwise's Near ETF Starts Trading on NYSE Arca as Token Climbs Past $5
The fund holds actual NEAR, stakes it for roughly 5% rewards and charges 0.75% a year, giving brokerage-account investors a route into the AI-linked layer-1 network.
29 Sept
SEC and CFTC to Operate With Three Commissioners After Peirce Exit
Seven seats across the two crypto regulators sit vacant. Trump alone can fill them, and the White House has yet to name anyone.
29 Sept
Kakaopay Taps Dinari and Ondo to Explore Tokenized Korean Stocks
The Korean brokerage signed two separate agreements to study sourcing, tokenizing and distributing Korean-listed equities abroad, with commercialization hinging on a securities framework due in 2027.
29 Sept
Bitcoin ETFs Rebuild After Clarity Act Defeat, Adding $2.95B in a Month
Eight straight days of inflows have erased the damage from a 49-50 Senate vote, though Monday's $31 million was the streak's softest session.
29 Sept
Bitcoin Nears Best September on Record as Monthly Close Hinges on Final Day
The asset is up 7.33% for the month, a hair ahead of September 2024 — but it has handed back roughly 4% of a late rally that took it to $87,354.
29 Sept
Bitcoin Stalls Below $85K as 24-Year Bond Highs Weigh on Markets
Long-term holders have clustered supply at $84K–$85K, and Glassnode says the rally needs a clean break above that band to continue.
29 Sept
Bitget's CEO Puts Little Faith in Clawing Back Its $388M Hack Loss
Gracy Chen points to Bybit's 2025 breach as the realistic benchmark, where roughly 3.5% of stolen assets were frozen and even less came back.
29 Sept
Tim Scott Blames Democrats for Clarity Act Defeat, Urges SEC and CFTC to Write the Rules
Sen. Tim Scott says Republicans accepted more than 120 Democratic amendments and still came up short. With under 40 days to Election Day, he wants the SEC and CFTC to write digital-asset rules instead.
28 Sept
South Korea floats market-maker role after JPYC trades 4x peg on Upbit
Regulators weigh legalizing crypto market making after a yen-backed stablecoin spiked on Upbit, reviving a long-running debate over liquidity and manipulation rules.
28 Sept
Buterin: Hegotá Will Be Ethereum’s Last ‘Normal’ Upgrade
The 2027 fork closes the era of 2015-style technology as Ethereum pivots to a proof-based ‘cryptographic world computer,’ the co-founder said.
28 Sept
Bitcoin Drifts Lower as Trump Leaves Door Open to Further Iran Strikes
Crypto and Nasdaq futures started the week on the back foot after the US president declined to rule out renewed military action ahead of November's midterms.
28 Sept
California Governor Signs Law Barring Officials From Issuing Memecoins
The measure also limits crypto firms from offering certain politician-branded tokens to state residents, effective for coins issued from Jan. 1, 2027.
28 Sept
Zano erases a month of chain history to purge counterfeit ZANO and fUSD
The privacy-focused layer-1 restarted at block 3,833,000 after a flaw in its Gateway Addresses feature let attackers mint unlimited tokens. Legitimate transactions from the period vanish too, and cross-chain payments cannot be clawed back.
27 Sept
THORChain spurns blacklist request tied to $387.5M Bitget hack as RUNE rallies
Bitget's CEO wants the cross-chain protocol to freeze hacker-linked addresses, but the network recently destroyed the admin key that could do it.
27 Sept
Quantum Defense Costs Crater as Bitcoin Prepares for 'Q-Day'
A cost breakthrough, a privacy design and a custodial playbook signal the industry is shifting from theory to logistics in the race to protect Bitcoin from quantum computers.
27 Sept
SEC Staff Eases Path for Token Buybacks Once a Network Is Live
A fresh round of staff guidance from the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance says public buyback announcements on a functioning blockchain do not, by themselves, turn a token into a security under the Howey test.
27 Sept
Crypto's flagship market-structure bill collapsed under politics, ethics fight and a rushed Senate timetable
A month after its make-or-break floor vote failed, interviews with more than a dozen industry officials and Capitol Hill aides show the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act was undone by an ethics dispute over President Trump's crypto profits, a Senate that ignored a House-passed version, and a calendar that left no room for compromise.
27 Sept
Riot Platforms clears $200 million Coinbase credit line, freeing bitcoin held as security
The miner paid off the loan early without penalty, even as its high-performance computing arm lands multibillion-dollar contracts.
27 Sept
Saylor: Digital Asset Rights Framework Needed to Unlock AI Era Growth
Strategy's executive chairman calls for five basic freedoms for digital assets, arguing they are essential to finance millions of new companies in an AI-driven economy.
25 Sept
Bitcoin privacy proposal borrows Zcash model without touching consensus
Researchers at Alloc Init propose Shielded Bitcoin, which would use zero-knowledge proofs and encrypted notes to hide transfer details, but faces questions about anonymity and quantum resistance.
25 Sept
Bitget says $352M theft came through faked transfer requests, not stolen keys
The exchange's CEO ruled out private-key compromise, saying intruders hijacked a backend wallet system and spoofed transaction data to trigger its own approval process.
25 Sept
Block wires Bitcoin Lightning into x402 as AI agent payments gather industry backing
The payments firm joins Google, Microsoft, AWS, Coinbase and the Solana Foundation in the Linux Foundation-governed standard for autonomous machine-to-machine transactions.
25 Sept
Bitget CEO Points to North Korea in $351.6M Hack as Onchain Traces Emerge
Gracy Chen cited IP addresses consistent with a DPRK-linked group’s VPN habits, while an independent researcher flagged a possible connection to the AFX exploit.
24 Sept
New York Sues Polymarket US, Calling Its Event Contracts Illegal Gambling
Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul want the platform barred from the state and stripped of its profits, in the latest escalation between prediction markets and state regulators.
24 Sept
Fed Proposes Stablecoin Rules as GENIUS Act Implementation Lags
Dollar-backed token issuers under Fed oversight would need full reserves of liquid assets and dedicated capital under two proposals opened Thursday.
24 Sept
EU Banking Regulator Pushes to Fold Crypto Lending Into MiCA
In advice to the European Commission, the EBA recommends regulating crypto borrowing and lending, with possible leverage caps, suitability checks and a certification regime for DeFi protocols.
24 Sept
Fed pricing points to four more rate hikes by mid-2027 as bitcoin breaks below $83,000
Treasury yields are hitting multi-year highs across the curve, the dollar index tops 101, and crypto and gold are both under pressure.
24 Sept
Bitcoin's Bond Correlation Is Effectively Zero, Data Shows
Long-term data shows bitcoin's returns barely track Treasury yields, even as a yield spike hit markets mid-week. But surging bond volatility can still dent crypto in the short run.
24 Sept
EU Regulators Warn Quantum Computers Could Break Blockchain Crypto Sooner Than Expected
A joint warning from European watchdogs revives the debate over roughly 6.9 million bitcoin sitting in exposed legacy wallets, valued at about $586 billion.
24 Sept
Quantum-safe bitcoin transactions get cheaper after AI-assisted coding contest: estimated cost falls to $66
StarkWare's hash-based method for protecting bitcoin from a future quantum computer required about 3,100 GPU-hours per transaction in August. A week of open competition, with participants leaning on AI coding tools, cut the projected bill by roughly 80%.
24 Sept
Trump administration reportedly weighs overseas push for dollar stablecoins
Bloomberg reports the White House is exploring public-private ventures to spread dollar-backed stablecoins abroad, a move tied to Treasury demand and reserve-currency competition.
24 Sept
Bitcoin falls below $84,000 as 10-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2007
A surge in oil prices, the strongest reading for U.S. business activity in five years and a poorly received five-year note auction combined to lift government borrowing costs, leaving dogecoin the biggest casualty among major tokens.
24 Sept
Kalshi denies CFTC probe as $5B in uniform Ether trades draws wash-trading claims
The prediction markets firm says a stream of near-identical $5,500 Ether perps trades reflects its market-maker payments, not fake volume.
23 Sept
SEC Commissioner Uyeda: Dropped Crypto Cases Were About Courtroom Credibility
Mark Uyeda, who ran the SEC for four months last year, says litigation against digital-asset firms was abandoned to avoid arguing contradictory legal positions before judges.
23 Sept
Hsin-Ju Chuang, Former Hack VC Partner, Dies at 37
The crypto executive, who led growth at Stellar and Solana, was found dead in California on August 24; cause remains undisclosed.
23 Sept
Apple App Store app FomoPeek tied to ~$580,000 crypto theft via iOS kernel exploits
Blockchain security firm SlowMist says infected versions shipped through Apple's review process carried eight attack methods, broke out of the sandbox and drained Keychain data before version 1.3 cleaned them out.
23 Sept
Solana moves to testnet a redesign aimed at making payments irreversible in under a second
Alpenglow swaps the network's slow-stacking vote chain for direct peer-to-peer confirmation. Validators need Agave 4.3 to join.
23 Sept
Bitcoin Close to First Three-Month Win Streak Since 2012
After gains in July and August, BTC is on pace to close September higher, a pattern that last played out 14 years ago—and preceded a massive rally.
23 Sept
BlackRock: AI Agents Are an Underappreciated Demand Driver for Crypto
The world's largest asset manager says machine-to-machine payments and tokenized compute could make AI a structural catalyst for digital assets.
23 Sept
Zcash leads as Bitcoin holds near $87K while Washington and falling oil lift crypto sentiment
ZEC rises 10% during Asian hours; bitcoin steady and the SBR bill clears committee.
23 Sept
CFTC Puts Prediction-Market Exchanges on Notice Over 'Mention' Contracts
The agency flags manipulation risks in event contracts tied to what people say and do, months after a former White House staffer was fined for trading on presidential speech contracts.
22 Sept
Lummis Blames 'Visceral Hatred' of Trump for Failed Senate Crypto Bill
At a CoinDesk policy event, the Wyoming senator said Democrats' hostility toward the president sank the Clarity Act — a charge other lawmakers tempered by pointing to Trump's memecoin.
22 Sept
Four Dormant Bitcoin Hoards Worth $161M Stir in Two Weeks
Wallets idle since 2011–2016 moved nearly 2,000 BTC, with the largest sitting untouched for over a decade.
22 Sept
Australia's 40-Year Outlook Names AI a Top Economic Force, Skips Crypto
Canberra's Intergenerational Report puts agentic AI among five shifts reshaping the economy through 2066, but digital assets go unmentioned — a gap Coinbase's local chief says leaves the payments rails those systems will need unaddressed.
22 Sept
X Turns Cashtags Into a Trade Button, Handing U.S. Users a Direct Route to Exchanges
Tapping $BTC or $TSLA on the timeline now opens live charts and a link straight to Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken or Coinbase — with X staying out of the brokerage business.
22 Sept
Short Squeeze Lifts Dogecoin 15% as Bitcoin Holds Near $85,600
More than $1 billion in crypto positions were closed out in a day, most of them bearish bets. With forced buying exhausted, the next move depends on ordinary buyers.
22 Sept
Trueo to Leave Base for Ethereum Mainnet, Citing Integration Reach
The prediction market, live on Base since March 2025, says its next oracle will need broader integration than an L2 ecosystem allows.
22 Sept
Kakao Pay, KakaoBank Sign MoU With Fireblocks to Test Stablecoin Infrastructure in South Korea
The two Kakao-affiliated financial firms will run proof-of-concept work on digital asset rails built for Korean rules, with no timeline or investment attached.
22 Sept
Manhattan Prosecutors Lead Iran Sanctions Probe Into Binance, Bloomberg Reports
The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is examining whether the exchange knowingly permitted trading that breached US sanctions on Iran, according to Bloomberg.
21 Sept
Fairshake Puts $30 Million Behind Effort to Beat Sherrod Brown in Ohio
The crypto super PAC's second campaign against the former senator comes days after the Senate rejected the Clarity Act, leaving the industry's legislative path blocked before the midterms.
21 Sept
Robinhood's Prediction Markets Are Tilting Away From Sports, Tenev Says
Crypto-linked event contracts are taking a disproportionate share of the brokerage's fastest-growing business, and the CEO expects sports to become the minority within a few years.
21 Sept
Bitcoin Clears $86,000 as $750M in Shorts Get Liquidated; Traders Eye $90,000
Roughly $2 billion in fresh leveraged positions has entered the market since the breakout, and analysts say spot demand now has to keep pace or the move could unwind quickly.
21 Sept
Saudi Arabia Leaves mBridge Cross-Border CBDC Platform After Finishing Trial
The Saudi central bank ended its participation in the China-backed project in May 2025, saying the exit was planned. US policymakers have flagged the platform as a possible sanctions workaround.
21 Sept
X Takes Bitcoin Influencers to UK Court Over Alleged Bot Network That Drained $278K in Creator Payouts
The platform says six accounts cross-posted and liked each other's tweets to unlock payouts from a program it shut down earlier this month.
20 Sept
Grayscale will triple its Zcash ETF share count after a 2,800% year
Holders of ZCSH get two extra shares for every one they own at the close on Sept. 28. Nothing about the position's value changes.
19 Sept
REX and Tuttle list 2x leveraged ETF tracking Bitcoin treasury firm Strive
The ASSX fund on Cboe promises double Strive's daily return — but holds no Bitcoin itself and resets its leverage every day.
19 Sept
Kalshi files for single-stock perpetual futures, arriving at the same product Coinbase proposed hours earlier
The prediction market operator asked the SEC and CFTC on Friday to sign off on equity contracts with no expiry date, cleared through its own registered clearinghouse. Coinbase filed for the same product the same day, and Kraken's Bitnomial is close behind.
19 Sept
Congress stalled on crypto rules. The agencies did not wait.
The Clarity Act fell eleven votes short in the Senate. Within two days the SEC and CFTC had each moved into the space it left behind.
19 Sept
VanEck faults Metaplanet's executive pay structure as worst among major Bitcoin treasury firms
The asset manager says the Japanese company's equity plan still dwarfs its peers despite a 41% reduction, and is pressing for the full reversal of a 273 million-share expansion.
19 Sept
Bitcoin's 24.6% August Surge Was Mostly Short Sellers Being Forced Out, Report Finds
Glassnode and Bybit data show open interest falling as the price climbed, with shorts accounting for 89% of liquidated dollars — and the same pattern reappearing when Bitcoin broke $80,000 this week.
19 Sept
Grayscale Files to Split Zcash ETF Three-for-One After $233 Million Inflows
Record-date shareholders get two extra shares each under the plan, which lowers the entry price as ZEC's 2,800% rally pushes the fund's per-share cost beyond what many retail buyers will pay.
19 Sept
Hut 8 co-founder who sold bitcoin for AI now worries the technology has slipped out of human control
Marc van der Chijs says he has turned 'doomer' on AI, warns of shocks to banking and infrastructure, and is recycling some of his AI profits back into crypto.
19 Sept
XRP Ledger batch upgrade nears activation after signature flaw forced a redesign
Ripple says asset managers are preparing to use the rebuilt Batch feature, which bundles up to eight transactions into one all-or-nothing settlement, once a 14-day validator vote concludes on Sept. 29.
19 Sept
'A $1.6 trillion success': Michael Saylor fires back at Jason Calacanis's bitcoin critique
The venture capitalist argued bitcoin has become boring and outpaced by modern technology. Strategy's chairman dismissed the attack with a figure of his own.
19 Sept
Robinhood Chain got 25 times cheaper. Almost nobody left.
Fee income on the two-month-old network fell 97% in three weeks while transaction counts slipped less than a third — a gap that points to relief, not abandonment.
19 Sept
A British challenger bank wants to put retail savings on a blockchain JPMorgan won't touch
Monument Bank plans to tokenize up to £250m of customer deposits on Midnight, betting that regulated, interest-bearing tokens can reach ordinary savers where Wall Street's institutional platforms have not.
19 Sept
Hong Kong hands four-year sentence to ex-banker in $1.6 billion credit fraud tied to crypto bribes
Lam Chun-yin, once a customer relationship manager at China Construction Bank (Asia), admitted authenticating more than $1.6 billion in letters of credit under false pretenses and taking $470,000 in crypto payments.
18 Sept
Coinbase seeks CFTC nod for single-stock perpetual futures on Apple, Tesla and Nvidia
Filed through Coinbase Derivatives, the application would let US traders take leveraged positions on individual equities around the clock — without ever owning the shares.
18 Sept
VanEck pans Metaplanet pay as Bastion lands OCC approval and Coinbase courts CFTC on stock futures
Asset manager VanEck singled out Metaplanet's compensation structure as the worst among the 10 largest digital asset treasury companies, while stablecoin firm Bastion won preliminary OCC approval and Coinbase pushed to list single-stock perpetual futures for US traders.
18 Sept
Coinbase seeks CFTC green light for perpetual futures on individual US stocks
The exchange's derivatives arm filed with the commodities regulator to offer never-expiring futures on single equities, with an initial lineup of roughly 50 to 60 names reportedly planned.
18 Sept
Zcash Sets November Launch for NU7, Its Biggest Speed Upgrade Yet
Block times fall from 75 seconds to 25 under an upgrade five development teams have agreed on, while a new fee mechanism aims to keep miners funded long after halvings wind down rewards.
18 Sept
Binance rolls out 24/7 foreign exchange perps, starting with dollar-real pair
The exchange will settle a USDBRLUSDT perpetual futures contract in USDT with up to 100x leverage, following similar moves by Bybit and Kraken.
18 Sept
Kevin O'Leary Sticks a $1 Million Price on Bitcoin—With One Condition
The Shark Tank investor says seven figures is possible, but only if the industry defeats the quantum threat that keeps institutions cautious.
18 Sept
Crypto equities claw back losses as regulators act without Congress
Bitcoin's return above $80,000 lifted Coinbase, Strategy and a broad set of crypto-linked shares, after Senate inaction on the CLARITY Act triggered this week's selloff.
18 Sept
XRP Jumps 7% as Capital Rotates Into Altcoins, Moving Averages Edge Toward Golden Cross
Bitcoin's recovery above $80,000 pushed XRP to one of its strongest daily gains in weeks, with the token's 50-day and 200-day exponential moving averages now closer than at any point since August 2024.
18 Sept
CFTC Sends Crypto Rulemakings to White House, Pressing Ahead Without Congress
A prerule on crypto asset transactions and markets reached OIRA days after the Clarity Act failed in the Senate, as regulators fill a gap left by stalled legislation.
18 Sept
CFTC sends crypto market rules to White House as CLARITY Act stalls in Senate
The prerule-stage filing covers crypto asset transactions and markets but discloses few details, while the SEC and CFTC press ahead with interim relief for software providers and tokenized securities platforms.
18 Sept
Bitcoin passes $80K as oil-supply fears lift bond yields
A short-squeeze near the Wall Street open drove BTC to $81,034, but traders are watching $82,000 for confirmation that the move can last.
18 Sept
Haruko cyberattack exposed 15 institutional clients, with some funds lost
The crypto infrastructure provider said a targeted attacker pulled a user-access token from its server memory, capturing read-only exchange API credentials and trading data.
18 Sept
German lenders push banks to nearly a quarter of Europe's MiCA-registered crypto firms
The number of credit institutions on ESMA's register doubled to about 80 in under three months, with cooperative banks from Germany joining Deutsche Bank in seeking a foothold.
18 Sept
DHS Predictive Policing Program Raises Fourth Amendment Concerns as Financial Data Fuels Traffic Stops
Op-ed from Coin Center calls for congressional audit of Homeland Security's data-driven tips to local police, citing Montana and Texas cases.
18 Sept
Lagarde personally pressed Greek regulators to block Binance's EU license, WSJ reports
New reporting says the ECB president raised the exchange's case with Athens directly as Binance's Greek MiCA application collapsed in June.
18 Sept
Zcash sets Nov. 5 target for upgrade that would cut block times to 25 seconds
The NU7 proposal, backed by 98.9% of voting ZEC holders, would also divert at least 60% of transaction fees from circulation until February 2031, when they would be returned to miners as block rewards.
18 Sept
Ethereum Institutional Backs Push to Cut Block Times to 10 Seconds
The advocacy group endorsed Ethlabs' EIP-8198 proposal, citing growing onchain institutional activity, as rival networks race to shrink their own block intervals.
18 Sept
SEC Green-Lights Tokenized Stocks on Public Blockchains Under New Innovation Exemption
The relief took effect immediately, skips any application process, and runs five years — with carve-outs for real dividend-paying shares and a 30-day issuer objection window.
18 Sept
HYPE climbs past $90 to record high as Hyperliquid turns on manual borrowing
Users can now post HYPE and Bitcoin as collateral against USDC and USDt, with $269 million already borrowed through the platform's lending infrastructure.
18 Sept
Zcash dev fund rally to $95M reignites governance fight as Qureshi urges 2028 sunset
Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi wants the ZEC developer fund wound down when it expires, while Paradigm's Matt Huang and others argue a pool worth nearly $100 million needs thoughtful control, not abolition.
18 Sept
XRP approaches a golden cross as bitcoin's market grip loosens
The token's 50-day average sits within 2% of its 200-day line, but its track record with the pattern is mixed at best.
18 Sept
Analyst flags rare Fisher Transform crossover as potential Bitcoin bear-market bottom signal
Willy Woo says the monthly-chart crossover has preceded every previous BTC macro uptrend, though he stops short of calling the bottom with certainty.
18 Sept
DeFi and layer-2 tokens steer crypto higher as inflation jitters ease
Bitcoin cleared $78,000 while the DFX index jumped 16% in a day, with 98 of the CoinDesk 100 trading up as Treasury yields retreated below 5%.
18 Sept
Bitcoin shrugs off Fed hike and Senate defeat to stay on course for first quarterly gain in a year
September's seasonal sell-off has been muted so far, with BTC down just 1.5% despite hawkish Fed policy, a stalled crypto bill, spiking oil and a strong dollar.
18 Sept
Crypto Trail Leads UAE and Swedish Police to $7.1 Million Laundering Operation and Contract Killings
Seven suspects were detained in coordinated raids after investigators followed digital transactions from cash laundering into organized crime networks behind murder-for-hire.
18 Sept
Bitcoin Tops $80,000 as Crypto Rally Outruns Rate Hikes and Yen Slide
Solana hits a seven-month high, $470 million in short positions are wiped out, and the CFTC sends a crypto rulemaking proposal to the White House as digital assets close out a volatile week.
18 Sept
US Targets Bitcoin Exchange at the Center of Iran's Hormuz Shipping Tolls
OFAC's new designations reach the platform that funneled vessel payments to the Revolutionary Guards, plus its software builder, a parent firm and three executives.
18 Sept
Two capitulations later, onchain data points to a Bitcoin floor near $58,000
James Check argues the worst of the selling is behind the market and says traders should read holder behavior rather than circle dates on a calendar.
18 Sept
SBI Group backs stablecoin payments firm dtcpay with strategic stake in $25 million Series A
The Japanese financial group joins through two venture vehicles as dtcpay, which holds a Singapore payments license, extends regulated stablecoin infrastructure across Asia and beyond.
18 Sept
Solana tightens block times to 250 milliseconds, without adding throughput
The faster clock hands fresher data to applications and shortens each validator's turn, but per-slot limits shrink by the same proportion, keeping overall capacity flat.
18 Sept
Corporate Bitcoin Buying Collapses to 5,900 Coins in Three Months, Leaving Treasuries Underwater
Listed companies added a fraction of last year's purchases, and ETF inflows, the Coinbase premium and stablecoin supply all point to tepid demand.
18 Sept
Ethereum schedules Glamsterdam testnet fork for Oct. 6 as developers flag a cheap attack that could disrupt it
A single actor spinning up fake builders could win block auctions on Sepolia and withhold payloads, freezing the very traffic developers need to rehearse against.
18 Sept
Ether ETF Bleed Extends to Third Session as XRP Funds Also Slip
Withdrawals hit ether products even as the token gained 2%, with bitcoin funds absorbing $159 million and a single Zcash trust drawing record monthly interest.
18 Sept
Cardano creator's YouTube channel streams suspected AI-fake of Hoskinson pushing giveaway
The hijacked channel ran a fake Project Catalyst town hall for close to two hours, steering viewers to a QR code that promised to double their money.
18 Sept
World splits identity and finance with launch of self-custodial World Money app in 150+ countries
The stablecoin payments and rewards app, run by Tools for Humanity, marks the final step in separating World's financial products from its identity business.
18 Sept
Bitcoin climbs past $77,000 as Bank of Japan lifts rates to 31-year high
BTC gained against both the dollar and the yen after the BOJ's 25-basis-point hike to 1.25%, while the yen slipped to 156.70 against the dollar.
18 Sept
OFAC hits Iranian exchange BitBank over Bitcoin tolls collected from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz
The US Treasury alleges the exchange sat at the center of a scheme that forced vessel owners to buy insurance for passage through the strait, then funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto to the IRGC.