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.
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September 2026
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.