Bitget offers 5% bounty for freezing funds stolen in $351.6M attack
Bitget has launched a recovery bounty offering 5% for freezing stolen assets and another 5% for recovering them after an attack it initially valued at $351.6 million. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen announced the bounty on X and called on exchanges,…...
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Backpack CEO plans to bring 10,000 tokenized stocks to Solana
Backpack CEO Armani Ferrante has laid out a plan to expand tokenized stock access on Solana from about 200 symbols to 10,000, with shares moving between brokerage accounts and decentralized finance through one API. According to a post shared by…...
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Quant, Ethena and Bitway lead weekly crypto gains, can they hold?
Bitcoin has gained about 3.8% over seven days as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have drawn $2.39 billion this week, while Quant, Ethena and Bitway have led the 100 largest crypto assets by weekly price gain. According to CoinGecko, Bitcoin traded…...
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Kalshi lost another appeals case. Can states regulate prediction markets as gambling?
The Sixth Circuit ruled against Kalshi in Ohio and Tennessee a month after another appeals court sided with Nevada. New Jersey still has a conflicting ruling. The question for a national market is now practical as well as legal: can…...
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Bitget to resume withdrawals in stages starting Sep. 28 after security incident
Bitget has set a Sep. 28 restart for Bitcoin withdrawals after a Sep. 24 security incident, with Ether, USDT, and other withdrawal services scheduled to follow through Oct. 2. Bitget said in an update that its technical team had identified…...
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Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade reaches devnet with 150ms finality target
Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade has reached its public developer network, letting application teams test a system designed to cut transaction finality from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds. According to the Solana Foundation’s upgrade page, Alpenglow is now active on…...
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Ripple’s RLUSD supply nears $2.5B as XRPL stablecoins climb 6%
Ripple’s RLUSD has reached a circulating supply of about 2.49 billion tokens as the value of stablecoins on the XRP Ledger has risen roughly 6% in a week. CoinMarketCap data places RLUSD’s circulating supply at approximately 2.49 billion tokens and…...
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Zcash price gains 100% in a month as co-founder repeats $5,000 call
Zcash price has gained about 102% over the past month to trade near $1,535 as co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson has repeated his forecast that ZEC will reach $5,000 by the end of 2026. Ben-Sasson said in a recent X post that…...
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Bitcoin price faces $85,000 resistance as oscillator turns negative
Bitcoin price traded near $84,000 on Sep. 26 after retreating about 4% from its weekly high of $87,363. Sell orders clustered above the price, while the daily chart showed BTC holding well above its 20-day midpoint. Bitcoin faces sell orders…...
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Bitcoin ETFs draw $2.39 billion in a week of inflows
U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds took in $2.39 billion during the Sep. 21–25 trading week, with net inflows on all five days. Spot Ether ETFs added $689.8 million, while Solana funds drew $188.1 million. According to Farside Investors, Monday’s $999…...
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NFT sales rise 57.17% to $55.5M as Ethereum leads
NFT sales reached approximately $55.51 million over the seven days ending Sep. 26, up 57.17% from the prior seven-day period, according to a CryptoSlam dashboard captured on Sep. 26. Ethereum led blockchain sales, while CryptoPunks ranked first among collections. According…...
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Crypto VC funding: HIFI raises $37M, Atum secures $13.5M
Crypto and blockchain companies announced more than $104.2 million across eight disclosed financings from Sep. 19 to Sep. 25, 2026. HIFI’s $37 million Series A was the largest venture round. The total also includes Forward Industries’ $25 million registered direct…...
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Bitcoin tops $87K, Fed drafts stablecoin rules, Bitget hit by $351M hack | Weekly recap
In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, Bitcoin reached an eight-month high above $87,000 before pulling back, the Federal Reserve proposed rules for U.S. stablecoin issuers, and Bitget suspended withdrawals after a $351.6 million wallet breach. The developments led…...
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SEC staff clarifies when staking tokens may avoid securities rules
SEC staff has clarified when staking receipt tokens may be treated as digital tools rather than securities under U.S. law, alongside new answers on wrapped assets, token buybacks, and functional crypto networks. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation…...
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Google’s PageBreak finds over 500 XSS flaws in its web apps
Google has disclosed that its PageBreak AI security agent has found over 500 cross-site scripting vulnerabilities across the company’s web applications. The Google Product Security team said PageBreak began as a pilot in November 2025 and became a formal project…...
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Cosmos Hub secures 1.23 million ATOM after Neutron attack
Cosmos Hub validators have secured 1.23 million ATOM taken in a Neutron governance attack after halting the network for about 24.5 hours and moving the tokens to a recovery wallet. Cosmos Labs said in a Sep. 25 update that the…...
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Polymarket partners with OpenWorlds on AI trading agents
Polymarket has partnered with OpenWorlds to bring autonomous AI agents to prediction markets covering politics, sports, and thousands of other events. According to OpenWorlds’ announcement and information shared with crypto.news, the AI lab is working with Polymarket to let agents…...
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Bitget hacker swaps USDC for ETH as Circle faces renewed freeze questions
The Bitget hacker has converted stolen USDC into ETH after a breach that the exchange valued at about $351.6 million, renewing questions about when Circle freezes funds linked to an attack. Security researcher Taylor Monahan flagged the attacker’s activity on…...
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Anthropic founders seek 50.1% voting control before IPO
Anthropic has sought shareholder approval for a plan that would give CEO Dario Amodei and six other co-founders a combined 50.1% of voting power after its planned IPO. According to The Information, which cited people familiar with the planning, Anthropic…...
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Jumper sets Sep. 29 date for JUMP token sale on Legion
Jumper has scheduled its JUMP token sale on Legion for Sep. 29 at 13:00 UTC, with the three-day offering set to close on Oct. 2 at the same time. In its Sep. 25 announcement, Jumper said eligible participants will be…...
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Bitcoin price tests $83K support as 4-hour MACD turns bearish
Bitcoin price fell to about $83,450 on Sep. 25 after a rally above $87,000 earlier in the week gave way to a narrower trading range. The pullback comes as traders weigh a quarterly options expiry against higher U.S. Treasury yields.…...
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Circle Foundation funds UNDP, WFP stablecoin payment trials
Circle Foundation has announced two grants to help the United Nations Development Programme and World Food Programme test digital payments for development work and humanitarian aid. Circle Foundation said in its Sep. 25 announcement that the separate grants will help…...
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Crypto tax forms leave 1 in 5 US investors unsure of accuracy
A survey of US crypto investors has found that about one in five who filed or planned to file a tax extension received an incomplete 1099-DA or were unsure whether the form matched their trades. Awaken Tax’s August survey found…...
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Aave V4 adds Coinbase tokenized stocks, will AAVE price respond?
Aave has announced a Base equities market designed to accept seven Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans, with an initial borrowing cap of $21 million. According to a Sep. 25 X post, the Equities Hub covers tokens tied…...
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Sequans ends Bitcoin strategy after selling its remaining BTC
Sequans Communications has sold its remaining 314 Bitcoin and fully exited its BTC treasury strategy after using earlier sales to cut debt and reshape its balance sheet. Sequans said on Sept. 24 that the sale covered all Bitcoin held on…...
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Polygon payment channels hit 11 million updates per second across 25 hubs
Polygon has tested a new agent payment system that processed more than 11 million verified payment updates per second across 25 hubs while keeping final settlement anchored to Polygon Chain. Polygon Labs said the benchmark used agent pay channels designed…...
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Ethena takes USDe basis trade into tokenized US equities
Ethena has added tokenized U.S. equities and equity perpetual futures to the basis trading strategy used for part of USDe’s backing, taking a funding model previously centered on crypto markets into listed stocks. According to a statement shared with crypto.media,…...
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XRP could lose some payment flows to stablecoins, Ripple CEO says
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says XRP may suit some cross-border payments, while stablecoins can be a better fit for other customer needs....
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Billions in Bitcoin options expired today. What actually changed hands?
Bitcoin’s September 25 quarterly options expiry has put an enormous open-interest figure beside a much smaller and less visible question: which contracts produced payments? The exchange rules tell us what a winning holder receives. They do not turn a pre-expiry…...
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A Solana oracle’s support ends today. Who still relies on its prices?
Switchboard’s September 25 support deadline has turned a six-day migration warning into a test of Solana’s price feeds. Current public documentation shows where its data remains part of an application’s design, but those pages cannot prove that a live market…...
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NEAR price rally meets Bitwise ETF listing, is $5 next?
NEAR trades near $4.96 after NYSE Arca approved Bitwise’s NRR listing, while staking plans and stretched momentum shape the next move....
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Crypto can serve as derivatives collateral. What happens when its price falls?
The CFTC has updated its guidance on tokenized customer-fund investments and blockchain records, putting the focus back on the rules that already let some futures intermediaries take crypto as margin. A fall in the token’s price sets off several different…...
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Bitcoin holders are taking profits, is a selloff coming?
Bitcoin long-term holders realize 72% profits as exchange reserves and open interest fall, but CryptoQuant says the recovery remains unconfirmed....
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The Fed has drafted stablecoin rules. Who can qualify to issue one?
The Federal Reserve’s two September 24 proposals describe more than the assets behind a dollar token. One proposal sets the terms for an insured state member bank to seek approval for a stablecoin subsidiary; the other would govern the issuer,…...
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Samourai co-founder faces new move after 30-day ordeal
Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez says he faces another prison transfer after FCI McKean deactivated a treatment program....
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Toshiba joins 25 firms in Japan’s six month EJPY stablecoin trial
Japan has expanded its push to bring yen stablecoins into everyday business use, with 26 companies, financial institutions and local government bodies joining a six month program that will test EJPY and other stablecoin use cases across payments, remittances and…...
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What retail traders should look for in a multi-asset trading platform in 2026
Compare multi-asset trading platforms in 2026 by checking execution, costs, leverage, withdrawals, market access, risk controls and legal status....
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XRP price is being squeezed near $1.60, what happens next?
XRP trades near $1.54 after a 16% weekly rally as ETF inflows, whale buying and stronger momentum put the $1.60 resistance zone in focus....
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Will Ethereum price rally as ETFs post 5 days of inflows?
Ethereum trades near $2,667 as ETFs add $66M, while $2,540 support, positive BBP and leverage risks shape the next move toward $3,000....
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Bitcoin, Ethereum outlook as US Iran talks revive Hormuz reopening hopes
Bitcoin and Ethereum have remained near their recent highs as renewed talks between the United States and Iran have brought another proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz into focus, with lower oil prices potentially easing one of the pressures…...
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Magic Eden undergoing possible exploit as thousands of NFTs move for 0 ETH
Magic Eden has faced reports of a possible contract exploit after unusual transactions showed thousands of NFTs being sold for 0 ETH, although one account involved in the activity has claimed the transfers are part of a whitehat operation. NFT…...
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Crypto outlook clouded by 5.2% Treasury yield and stalled US bill
The US 10-year Treasury yield has reached 5.2% during trading, raising questions about whether crypto can hold its recent gains while another Federal Reserve rate hike remains possible and a major US digital asset bill is stalled. The US Treasury…...
Read MoreWhy is Bitcoin price stuck near $84,000 despite ETF inflows?
Bitcoin holds near $84K as ETFs add $191M, whales accumulate 30,269 BTC and Binance records its biggest BTC outflow since 2023 as momentum cools....
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Bitcoin leaves Binance at fastest daily pace in three years
Bitcoin has seen its largest single day net outflow from Binance since 2023, with more than 13,800 BTC leaving the exchange as the cryptocurrency holds above $84,000 following its latest rally. CryptoQuant analyst Darkfrost said on Sept. 25 that withdrawals…...
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Hyperliquid Strategies buys $45.8M HYPE while whale selling concerns remain
Hyperliquid Strategies has bought another 494,200 HYPE worth $45.8 million as the company continues to build its treasury while large holders move millions of dollars worth of the token toward potential sale. Lookonchain reported on Sept. 25 that wallet 0x6436,…...
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Tether says EQIBank exposure below 0.034% after U.S. seizure
Tether says its EQIBank exposure is below 0.034% of assets as the offshore bank fights a U.S. forfeiture case involving $84.2 million....
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KelpDAO sues LayerZero over $292M rsETH exploit
KelpDAO has sued LayerZero and CEO Bryan Pellegrino over April’s $292M rsETH exploit, alleging security and disclosure failures....
Read MoreBitcoin privacy proposal avoids soft fork with ZK proofs
Researchers proposed Shielded Bitcoin, using ZK proofs and encrypted notes for private BTC transfers without a soft fork or consensus changes....
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Jack Dorsey’s Block joins x402 with Lightning support
Block has added Bitcoin Lightning support to x402 after joining its foundation, extending the open AI-agent payment standard beyond stablecoins....
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Ondo Finance denies sale talks after founder’s death
Ondo Finance denies seeking buyers after Nathan Allman’s death as an active Delaware court fight continues over company control....
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