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Akash Opens Vote to Move Its Network From Cosmos to Solana

Canada Opens 60-Day Consultation on Draft Stablecoin Rules

Keystone to destroy almost 19,000 wallets after breach exposes customer data and device verification key

Osmosis Votes to End OSMO Inflation and Fund Staking From Revenue

Bybit secures full VARA license for spot trading in Dubai

Dogecoin Foundation ends exclusive House of Doge trademark license

Evernorth signs Cantor equity facility to fund XRP purchases

Initia hack drove its USDC bridge reserve down to $63 as withdrawals failed

Tether says 15 mining firms back its MDK automation layer for Bitcoin mines

Bank of Korea Sets Out Stablecoin Forex Law Plan in Audit Filing

New York Seeks $1.37 Billion Judgment From NovaTech Founders

Pump.fun makes its own Pump Bridge the default crosschain route

SEC Exam Priorities Name Tokenization a High-Risk Area at Clearing Agencies

Blockchain Association asks Congress for digital asset tax legislation

Commodity Markets Council asks CFTC to reject Kalshi perpetual oil filing

Ethereum postpones Glamsterdam's Hoodi testnet activation over contract risks

Starknet poll backs layer 1 research with 93.5% of voting power

Thailand SEC has received no crypto ETF applications

Utexo opens early access to bridged USDT on Bitcoin ahead of Nov. 28 launch

Winklevoss super PAC reports first Texas Senate mail buy of $81,000

Binance Excludes Blue Ocean Outage Window From US Stock Perp Funding

FCA consults on DeFi operational resilience and perimeter exclusions

Fireblocks denies report of $2.5 billion Visa acquisition talks

Polymarket sues Ohio in federal court over sports event contract order

Robinhood wins Dubai license for 2027 Middle East launch

SEC Names Three Operators Notifying It of Tokenized Stock Venue Plans

Senate investigator demands records of Tether payments to Bo Hines firm

Aero launches as Aerodrome and Velodrome merge across seven chains

Bank Negara Malaysia launches SSDS+ platform for tokenized bonds and sukuk

Cardano Foundation tells EU not to extend MiCA rules to DeFi and staking

Chainlink, Cardano, five other groups ask SEC to codify digital commodity status

CME's Duffy calls perp funding a swap as CFTC lawsuit heads to full briefing

Dogecoin Labs launches to consolidate MyDoge, DogeOS and merchant tools

Eclair ships second Lightning security patch in five days

Ethereum staking hits record 43.8 million ETH as gross yield falls to 2.63%

France sets Nov. 3 budget vote after one-vote stablecoin tax win

Kalshi lets Prime clients borrow against bitcoin and ether for perpetual futures margin

NEAR opens House of Stake vote to cut annual token issuance to 1.6%

Nectar Group raises $5M seed to build HoneyB, a Bitcoin yield platform for institutions

Obol ships urgent Charon patch after eMudhra certificate compromise

OCC finalizes GENIUS Act stablecoin rules ahead of January deadline

Optimum brings mump2p block propagation to Ethereum mainnet with 16 operators

PancakeSwap fee overhaul vote faces 98% opposition before Saturday close

PHP releases emergency patches for two critical bugs after government sites go offline

Polkadot tells Fearless Wallet users to move funds after private-key leak

SEC comment window closes on Reg Crypto with submissions still arriving

Shinhan Card and SBI test yen stablecoin payments for Japan-Korea travel

Solana Alpenglow goes live on mainnet, cutting finality to 150 milliseconds

Standard Chartered signs definitive agreements to acquire Zodia Custody

Tech giants block eMudhra certificates as CertiK warns crypto apps may stay exposed

Tesla and SpaceX explore merger that would unite 30,221 bitcoin

Tether leads $15 million Series A in AI payments startup Mural

Trump to spotlight overseas crypto scams at White House cybercrime event

Zcash developers lock Nov. activation height for NU7 upgrade

Bitget plans Thai exchange acquisition after $388 million hack

CFTC tells court CME lacks standing to block US perpetual futures

Drift exploit wallets push $61 million in ETH to Tornado Cash

FINMA clears Switzerland's first retail bitcoin ETF

Injective and BDACS plan South Korean won stablecoin for RWA settlement

Kazakhstan court limits Coinbase, BingX and four others in AIFC

Mastercard opens early access for AI agent payments after pilots

OKX Shield extends customer reimbursements to US users

OKXICE objections climb to 16 as Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman opt out

Papertrade locks PAPER token to its own contract after launch week

Qubic restarts mainnet and opens claims after $14 million drain

Revolut gets Gibraltar DLT licence for international crypto expansion

Utah sues Kalshi and Susquehanna firms over prediction market betting

Binance opens its AI Pro strategy agent to all users with a free tier

BlackRock files for third bitcoin ETF, a protected-outcome fund on IBIT

Ethereum sets Oct. 26 for Glamsterdam's Hoodi testnet activation

Germany's Sparkasse banks turn on crypto trading inside their app

Hoskinson says he is writing a new Cardano language with Groth16 proofs

Mastercard scores stablecoin payments for fraud before they settle

Ramp applies to the OCC for a national trust bank and digital asset custody

SkyAI sells its entire Solana treasury and offers a $201 million tender

Sophon sets Nov. 25 withdrawal deadline before mainnet shutdown

Super League owners approve Metaplanet's 2,100 BTC deal and Superplanet rebrand

Visa and Mesh let wallets spend stablecoins at 175 million merchants

XRP Ledger patches its lending code before the feature ever turns on

Circle plans push into about 40 emerging markets, Allaire says

Circle says it kept 7 cents of each USDC revenue dollar in first half

Crypto.com and Novig sue Missouri over sports event contracts

Cysic halts bridge after unauthorized mint of 10 million CYS

French Assembly backs tax on crypto-to-stablecoin swaps by one vote

JPMorgan brings JPM Coin to Ethereum for institutional clients

Judge rejects Gemini and CFTC bid to void $5 million settlement

Latvia adopts 10% one-time crypto declaration and investment-account tax

Mt. Gox extends creditor repayment deadline to October 2027

Nine public companies block tokenized shares on OKX and ICE venue

Qubic halts network after attacker drains 1,404 wallets

Stablecoin payments jump 45% to $482B while supply barely moves

Strategy lifts STRC buyback cap to $3 billion after $193 million week

Strive holds 36,818 bitcoin ahead of $700 million SATS settlement

Zcash builder Zakura proposes per-swap keys to close a quantum privacy gap

Brooklyn prosecutors dismantle crypto scam aimed at Russian speakers

Ledger unveils $849 Atom device with Solana Seeker app

MSCI adopts rules that could oust Strategy from indexes

Starknet opens vote on becoming an independent layer 1

Trezor cuts resellers as Ledger halts sales in seven markets

Bitget Lists Jio Pre-IPO Perpetual Futures

Network School Acquires Farcaster From Neynar

Payward agrees to buy Saldo Bank for EU banking license

Richard Heart detained in Istanbul on Finnish request

Solana sets Oct. 21 for Alpenglow consensus switch

VanEck withdraws Lido staked ether ETF filing

White House crypto chief Patrick Witt steps down

Binance to shut mining pool and cloud services on Nov. 10

Blur to retire marketplace site and end new Blend loans on Nov. 12

Kyrgyzstan winds down gold-backed USDKG and state exchange

LDK patches reconnect flaw that let peers steal forwarded bitcoin

New iPhone spyware scans crypto wallets, iVerify finds

Sberbank wins crypto exchange approval, targets Dec. 1 launch

Strive adds 3,311 bitcoin for $280 million as warrants near expiry

UK court applies Chinese law to claims on 61,000 seized bitcoin

Jeonbuk Bank issues South Korea's first bitcoin-backed bank loans

Kraken parent wins full Dubai approval, targets UAE launch in weeks

Standard Chartered holds Ripple's RLUSD in Dubai, plans collateral link with LMAX

Strategy spends $192 million on preferred buyback, nine times its bitcoin buy

SWI raises $894 million to turn former FTX miner toward AI

Bitcoin insurer Meanwhile raises $37.5M led by Bain Capital Crypto

Blumenthal demands Cantor records on Tether stake and custody role

CFTC proposes swap status for event contracts, excludes casino wagers

DWF Labs affiliates sue BitGo for $141M over early token sales

ESMA gives EU crypto firms until Jan. 8 to wind down non-MiCA stablecoins

French crypto tax votes wiped out as committee rejects budget revenues

Kalshi investigates wagers placed before Trump press secretary pick

New York bars ex-Celsius CEO Mashinsky in $35M conditional settlement

Papertrade launches 1000x perps, then tightens limits after manipulation claims

Solana activates final 200-millisecond slots at epoch 1053

Sui Foundation invests $30M as DATA Network retires its chain for Sui

Tether blacklists four THORChain vaults, then reverses within hours

Thailand finalizes bitcoin and ether ETF rules effective Oct. 16

UK sanctions crypto exchanges Cryptomus, Heleket and TokenSpot over Russia links

US government moves $1B in seized Bitfinex bitcoin to unlabeled wallets

XRP Ledger activates account delegation for banks and stablecoin issuers

Coldcard probes phishing post on its X account after July exploit

Ledger confirms hardware implant in reseller device as losses may top $86M

XRP Ledger patched decade-old bug that could have minted trillions

Abstract shuts down Ethereum layer 2, sets Dec. 15 deadline

Conduit sues Tether over $2.76M USDT freeze tied to Brazil probe

UK names six banks to lead first digital gilt pilot

Arbitrum Joins Paxos Global Dollar Network With USDG

Brevan Howard Taps Ripple Prime for Brokerage and Clearing

CFTC Proposes Federal Exchange Rules Triggered by Crypto Margin Trading

China P2P Stablecoin Wallets Grew 43 Fold Despite Ban

Crypto Godfather Adam Iza Gets 78 Months for Meta Fraud and Deputy Scheme

Don Davis Bill Would Fine Federal Candidates for Trading on Their Own Races

Eigen Labs and Shielded Labs Launch HashSmash AI Contest

Ether.fi Plans Dollar Stablecoin With Ethena Running Reserves

Ethereum Activates Glamsterdam Upgrade on Sepolia Testnet

Ethereum Economic Zone Tests First Atomic L1 to L2 Transaction

Fairshake Backs 32 House Incumbents With at Least $6 Million for Six Races

FinCEN Withdraws Unhosted Wallet and Mixer Reporting Proposals

Greenfield Asks Swiss Watchdog to Review Safe Foundation Governance

Hong Kong Plans 2026 Bill for Four Virtual Asset Licenses

OKX launches Money app with 10 percent USDG yield and stablecoin spending

OKX raises fresh capital at $25B valuation from Circle, Ripple, SC Ventures and QRT

Ondo launches Private Markets with tokenized notes tied to pre-IPO AI company

Polymarket Rebuilds Core Contracts With Protocol V2

Prysm Ships 200M Gas Limit Fix Hours Before Sepolia Test

Rain Files OCC Bid to Charter National Trust Bank for Stablecoin Business

SHIB Goes Live on Solana Through Sunrise Gateway

Solana Foundation Launches DvP Atomic Settlement Program for Banks

Spiko raises $90M Series B led by NEA to expand tokenized cash funds

Startale Japan launches digital corporate bond paid in JPYSC stablecoin

Strive buys 2,000 BTC and opens $500M buyback facility for SATA preferred stock

Umia raises $6M through Base token auction joined by Galaxy, DCG and Draper

Winklevoss Files for Spot Zcash ETF With WINK Ticker

ZachXBT Says He Posed as Client to Expose Lazarus Launderers

Bitcoin Core Merged Fix for SIGHASH_SINGLE Signing Gap on September 25

Circle Asks EU to Keep Multi-Issuance and Ease MiCA Reserve Rules

Drift opens DFX claims with redemptions near one cent per dollar

Ethereum Exit Queue Hits 2026 High as MetaMask Withdraws Validators

Ethereum Foundation launches zkAPI private metered credits on mainnet

Illinois Officials Join Industry Bid to Delay Digital Asset Tax to July 2027

IMF clears 138 million dollars for El Salvador after Bitcoin waivers

India-attributed exchange inflows hit $88.4B as domestic platforms keep 0.7%

Japan adds Garantex crypto exchange to Russia sanctions

Kraken operator Payward adds 24-7 dollar settlement with Singapore Gulf Bank

NEAR Intents recovers full $3.8M and closes exploit investigation

OKX and ICE Venture Files to Launch 24-7 Tokenized Stock Venue

Russia finance ministry pays staff wages in digital rubles

SEC clears Cboe listing rules for six 3x Volatility Shares funds

Trump names Jay Clayton to lead new Super Intelligence Force on AI

US sanctions Hamas financing network over France-linked crypto transfers

Zcash activates NU7 on public testnet with 25-second blocks

Zcash Advocacy Group Registers Its First Washington Lobbyist Effective October 1

Anchorage Digital Cuts 17 Percent of Staff

Community Bankers Sue OCC Over Crypto Trust Bank Charters

Judge Dismisses LIBRA Memecoin Class Action With Prejudice

Blast shuts down Ethereum layer 2 as costs exceed revenue

Evernorth wins vote for Nasdaq listing as XRP treasury

NEAR Intents loses $3.8 million in smart contract exploit

SEC proposes crypto custody rules for advisers and funds

Base Activates Cobalt Upgrade With Conditional Transactions

CFTC Wins $31.5M Fundsz Fraud Judgment in Florida Court

US Sanctions Tren de Aragua Network Over ATM Cash Thefts

Brazil depository CSD BR to mirror fund records on XRP Ledger

Coinbase wins CFTC clearing license to complete US derivatives stack

House Oversight widens prediction market insider trading probe

Bitwise NEAR ETF Clears SEC Registration and NYSE Arca Listing

Chainlink Launches CCIP 2.0 With Custom Bridge Checks

Citi and Coinbase Bring Stablecoin Checkout to Corporate Clients

NEAR Intents Says It Froze $503,000 Linked to Bitget Hack

California Bars Public Officials From Issuing Memecoins

Riot Platforms Repays $200M Coinbase Loan and Frees Collateral

THORChain Refuses Bitget Plea to Block Hacker Wallets

CFTC Sues Cash FX Over Alleged $950M Forex Ponzi Scheme

CleanSpark Closes $2.276B Notes Sale for Georgia Data Center

Kalshi Loses Sixth Circuit Appeal Over Sports Contracts

KelpDAO Sues LayerZero Over $292M Bridge Exploit

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to Leave Post on Oct. 2

Duelbits confirms $7 million hot-wallet hack and extends casino downtime

Magic Eden warns old Ethereum NFT listings were exposed to contract exploit

SEC staff says token buybacks on working networks are not securities promises

US prosecutors target $84.2 million tied to Tether banking partner in forfeiture case

ARK Invest puts venture fund on Ethereum rails with Securitize

Federal Reserve proposes reserve and capital rules for stablecoin issuers under GENIUS Act

New York sues Polymarket alleging unlicensed gambling operation

Bitget confirms $351.6 million wallet breach and suspends withdrawals

Coinbase impersonator sentenced to four to 12 years over $16 million theft

EBA calls for MiCA rules on crypto lending and access to DeFi

ESMA makes AI and tokenization a supervisory priority for 2027

Solana Foundation appoints Rachel Conlan and Jamal Raees to strategy and payments roles

StarkWare reports 79% cut in estimated quantum-safe Bitcoin compute cost

Animoca Brands Pauses Currenc Merger and Nasdaq Listing Plan

Bitcoin ETFs Draw 999 Million Dollars in Largest Inflow Since October

Circle Opens Bitcoin-Backed USDC Borrowing in Mint

Coinbase Opens Oura IPO Allocations to US Retail Customers

Ondo Opens In-Kind Route for Tokenized Stocks With Alpaca

X Sues Operators of Six Bitcoin Accounts Over Creator Payouts

ZetaChain Voters Back Solana Migration in Proposal 68

ECB Launches Pontes Settlement Platform and Plans Tokenised Bond Buys

Fairshake Commits $30 Million to Oppose Sherrod Brown in Ohio Senate Race

Hana Bank Issues $100M Digital Bond on Euroclear Blockchain

North Korean WaterPlum Crew Stole $10.7M in Fake-Job Crypto Raids

Polymarket Faced $10M Stolen-Card Fraud Attempt, Journal Reported

Same Attacker Drained Fetch.ai Converter and Minted NuNet Tokens in $2M Exploit

Visa Moves to Close Meme Coin Credit Card Rewards Loophole

Bastion Wins Conditional OCC Approval for National Trust Bank Charter

Grayscale Sets 3-for-1 Split for Zcash ETF

Morpho Launches USDC Borrowing Against Coinbase Tokenized Stocks on Base

Solana Cuts Slot Time to 250 Milliseconds in Third Speed Step

XRP Ledger Nears Activation of Batch Payments Upgrade

Zcash Community Approves NU7 Upgrade With 25-Second Blocks and 2031 Reserve Plan

CFTC Sends Crypto Market Rulemaking to White House Review

dtcpay Closes $25 Million Series A With SBI Group Investment

FCA Publishes Crypto Perimeter Guidance for 2027 Regime

Radix Traces $1.3M Vault Drain to 2023 Code Cleanup

US Sanctions BitBank Exchange Over Bitcoin Transfers to Iranian Guards

WSJ Reports Lagarde Intervened to Stall Binance MiCA License

CFTC Opens Broker Relief to All Passive Trading Software

Ethereum Glamsterdam Rehearsal Clears Path to Sepolia Test

House Panel Advances Bitcoin Reserve Bill in 28-21 Vote

Justin Sun Launches $1 Million Math Prize for Machine-Checked Proofs

S&P Global Agrees to Acquire OpenZeppelin

SEC Issues Five-Year Exemption for Tokenized Stock Venues

CoinEx to Shut Down Exchange After Nine Years

Zcash Holders Back Faster Blocks and Halving Schedule

Binance Adds 11 US-Listed ETFs to Wealth Service

BlackRock Ether Staking ETF Extends Inflow Run to 20 Days

Circle Arc Public Mainnet Is Live

ECB Asks Online Merchants to Join Digital Euro Pilot Starting 2027

FCA Crypto Authorisation Window Opens Sept 30

Kamino Names Yieldstreet Co-Founder Michael Weisz as CEO

MEV Bot Yoink Seized $7.7M in rsETH After Ethereum Wallet Exploit

Thailand Proposes 5 Million Baht Stablecoin Transfer Cap

UAE Identity Vault Moves to Avalanche Blockchain

US Seeks Forfeiture of $61 Million in Crypto Tied to Iranian Oil Sales

VeChain Interstellar Hardfork Set for Sept 16

Ethena and TRON DAO Bring USDe and sUSDe to the TRON Network

House Weighs Two Crypto Tax Bills With Markup Scheduled for Sept. 16

Kazakhstan Launches Tenge-Pegged KZTg Stablecoin on Telegram

Nasdaq Invests $100 Million in Payward to Advance Tokenized Equities

Symbiosis Recovers 15 BTC After Bitcoin Bridge Exploit, Offers 20% Bounty

Coinbase and Moov Announce Stablecoin Payments and Custody Plan for Community Institutions

Coinbase Wallet and Base Are Again Presented as Separate Products

EigenLayer Slashing Went Live With AVS-Defined Penalties and Delayed Exits

ESMA Sets Out EU Rules and Risks for Prediction Markets

Indian State of Maharashtra Explores Tokenizing Infrastructure Assets

Kalshi Plans 24/7 Tesla and Nvidia Perpetual Futures

Liquid Restarts Transactions as Blockstream Declines Ransom Demand

MetaMask Plans Consumer Split from Consensys

MoneyGram Launches Stablecoin-Backed Visa Card in Colombia

Polymarket Names Warren Jenson as Its First Chief Financial Officer

Preprint Reports Lower Quantum Cost Metric for Bitcoin's Curve

Robinhood CEO Rejects Issuer Veto in AMC Stock-Token Dispute

SEBI launches Demat 2.0 tokenised corporate bond pilot

SEC Proposal Sets Conditions for Blockchain Securityholder Records

Senate Blocks Clarity Act on Procedural Vote

Starknet's Fee and Privacy Overhauls Land as v0.14.4 Enters Prerelease

Uniswap Documents StablePair Hook and Initial Ethereum Pools

Bitcoin Dips Below $80,000 Ahead of Fed Decision, Midterms

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Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint says it’s not rushing retail stablecoin

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Block's new voice AI sounds eerily human, sparking awe and scam fears

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Morning Minute: a16z Drops 'Crypto' From Its Fund

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Heatbit's $899 Water Heater Element Mines Bitcoin While It Heats Your Tank

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Bitcoin in 'Wait and See Mode'—And That Might Be a Good Thing

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