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Revolut Starts EURR Rollout With Bridge as Regulated Issuer
Revolut has begun rolling out EURR, its first euro-backed stablecoin, to selected customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, putting a branded onchain euro inside its app while Bridge Building S.A. serves as issuer and redemption counterparty. Bridge Building is the legal issuer; Revolut...
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SEC Crypto Custody Rewrite Enters White House Review
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rewrite of custody rules for investment advisers and investment companies entered White House review on Aug. 25, placing a new crypto-focused framework into regulatory review after the agency withdrew a separate 2023 safeguarding proposal. The...
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SEC Clears Tokenized Stocks To Trade Onchain As CFTC Widens Software Relief
The two U.S. market regulators issued crypto exemptions within hours of each other on Thursday, the first concrete use of the existing authorities both chairmen invoked after the Senate refused to take up the market structure bill. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted temporary,......
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Brent Tops $106 And Hike Odds Reach 64% As Crypto Sells Off
Almost every large crypto token fell through the overnight sessions and into Thursday's U.S. open, as an oil shock drove long-dated Treasury yields to multi-year highs and traders raised the odds of a Federal Reserve rate increase next week to 64%. Traders put a quarter-point September increase...
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Bitcoin Cash Runs 27% on CME Futures Listing as Bitcoin Gives Up the Day
Bitcoin Cash was the day’s trade from the moment CME Group published its listing release, and the bid that took it there did not fade into the close. Bitcoin went the other way, slipping through New York hours after failing to reach Monday’s high at any point in the session. The rally that...
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a16z And DeFi Education Fund Ask SEC To Put DEXs Outside Exchange Registration
Andreessen Horowitz and the DeFi Education Fund asked the SEC to define when decentralized exchanges and the apps that provide access to them fall outside the exchange registration requirements of the Securities Exchange Act, in a joint letter to Commissioner Hester Peirce published by the...
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Vitalik Buterin Backs Trueo's Ethereum Move As TRUE Jumps 900%
Vitalik Buterin endorsed a prediction market by name on Monday, welcoming Trueo's plan to move its primary deployment from Base to Ethereum mainnet. Ethereum's base layer has no prediction market of scale. Polymarket settles on Polygon, and Kalshi is a CFTC-designated contract market with no......
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Kalshi Denies Faking Its Crypto Volume
Kalshi denied faking its crypto trading volume in a response published Monday, attributing a repeating trade size in its ether perpetual futures to a single market maker it pays to keep orders resting on the book. Traders spent the weekend on X accusing the exchange of wash trading after the...
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Near Adds Ondo’s Tokenized Stocks With Confidential Execution
near.com began offering Ondo Finance’s tokenized U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), letting users buy them with crypto held across more than 30 networks. near.com, the app operated by Intents Technology Ltd. and built on NEAR Intents, announced the Ondo integration on Tuesday morning.......
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Kinetiq Opens Elysium Testnet for Hyperliquid-Focused DeFi Apps
Kinetiq said the testnet for Elysium is live, opening the Hyperliquid layer 2 it unveiled in August to developers with a published chain ID, a public RPC endpoint, a block explorer, a bridge and a faucet. The post went up at 9:45 a.m. ET on Sept. 22. Mainnet has no date. Elysium is Kinetiq's bid...
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CME Group to List Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap Futures Oct. 19
CME Group will launch Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures on Oct. 19, pending regulatory review, the exchange said on Sept. 22. The pace of listings has accelerated. CME added Solana futures and XRP futures in 2025, its first single-token contracts beyond Bitcoin and Ether. It has added five more...
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Binance Takes $100 Million Circle Stake And Renews The USDC Deal Circle Pays For
Binance bought $100 million of Circle stock and signed a five-year agreement to promote USDC across emerging markets, the companies said on Tuesday. Circle will pay Binance a monthly incentive fee set as a percentage of the USDC held through Circle's wallet infrastructure, according to a filing......
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Mastercard-Owned BVNK Adds Stellar Rail for Stablecoin Payments
BVNK has added native support for the Stellar network to its stablecoin payments platform, giving customers in more than 130 markets another settlement route seven weeks after Mastercard completed its acquisition of the company. Mastercard agreed to pay up to $1.8 billion for infrastructure... Read...
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Kamui Finance Brings Three Institutional Real-World Asset Vaults Live Onchain, Integrated With DigiFT, Hastra Prime, Midas
Built on Ethereum with DigiFT, Midas and Hastra Prime integrations, the vaults give platforms a single operational connection to real-world asset yield that would otherwise take a separate issuer onboarding for each asset. MAJURO, September 22, 2026 — Kamui Finance today announced bringing its......
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ZetaChain Votes to Wind Down Layer 1 and Move ZETA to Solana
ZetaChain governance has approved winding down the project's Layer 1 and replacing ZETA native to that network with a Solana SPL token at a 1:1 ratio. Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% of votes in favor. Participation reached 58%, exceeding the 40% quorum. The vote approves the direction of the... Read...
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Coinbase Opens IPO Allocations to US Retail Investors With Oura
Coinbase has opened access to initial public offering allocations for eligible U.S. retail customers, beginning with Oura’s IPO this week. The product extends Coinbase’s equities business from trading listed stocks into primary-market share distribution. Coinbase said customers can request Oura......
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OCC Gives Catena Preliminary Conditional Approval for National Trust Bank
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted Catena Labs preliminary conditional approval to organize Catena Trust Bank, N.A. The Sept. 18 decision moves Catena from applicant to bank organizer, but does not authorize the proposed institution to open. Catena says the proposed bank is......
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Circle Opens Bitcoin-Backed USDC Borrowing To Mint Clients, Routed Through Morpho
Circle has opened bitcoin-backed borrowing to institutional customers of Circle Mint, and the loans run on Morpho. Customers deposit bitcoin, mint Circle's wrapped bitcoin token cirBTC, post it as collateral and receive USDC in their Mint account, Morpho said on X on Monday. The product routes......
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One Size Dominates Kalshi's ETH Perp Volume
Most of the dollar volume in Kalshi's ether perpetual futures market comes from trades carrying one repeating dollar value, according to data The Defiant pulled directly from the exchange's public perpetuals API. The pattern is the basis of wash-trading allegations made against the exchange this......
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Fairshake Plans $30 Million Ad Blitz Against Sherrod Brown in Ohio
Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to spend $30 million on advertising against former Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, its largest announced expenditure of 2026, after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act in a 49-50 cloture vote. The New York Times first reported the plan, saying Fairshake told......
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World Liberty Opens WLFI Vote on 180-Day Governance Rewards
World Liberty Financial opened a governance vote Monday on a program that would reward WLFI holders who lock tokens and participate regularly in protocol votes. Holders would have to lock WLFI for at least 180 days and vote at least once every 90 days to earn rewards. Payouts would have no fixed......
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Bitcoin Reaches Its Highest Level Since January as Crude Sinks 8%
Bitcoin reached its highest level in almost eight months on Monday, climbing through the London morning and holding the gain into New York, as crude oil fell more than 8% and U.S. equities opened higher. Spot buying and short covering are carrying the move. Perpetual funding rates on OKX and......
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Polygon Prepares Permissionless Burn of 100 Million POL
Polygon is preparing a permissionless contract that would let anyone permanently burn 100 million POL, or about 83% of a base-fee collector that Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal said holds 121 million tokens. Nailwal said the contracts are on testnet and would move to mainnet after the...
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CFTC Files Crypto Market Rulemaking With White House at Prerule Stage
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sent a crypto market structure rulemaking to the White House on Thursday, two days after the Senate refused to take up the bill that would have written one into law. It is the only CFTC action pending White House review. Chairman Michael Selig said in...
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Neutrl Opens NUSD Redemptions at 51 Cents as Strata Junior Tranche Faces Wipeout
Neutrl has opened a redemption program whose Ethereum contract pays 0.51 USDC per NUSD, giving holders an exit at a 49% shortfall to the token’s $1 reference value. The rate is directly visible in Neutrl’s redemption contract: its `redemptionRate()` function returns 510000000000000000, an... Read...
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Coinbase Seeks CFTC Approval for US Single-Stock Perpetual Futures
Coinbase Derivatives has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to approve a suite of cash-settled perpetual futures tied to individual U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds, extending its domestic perpetual-futures push from equity indexes to single securities. U.S. customers...
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Fake AI Bot Tutorials Tricked 224 Victims Into Deploying Their Own Drainers
Fake YouTube tutorials promising AI-built crypto arbitrage bots led 224 victims to deploy and fund their own malicious smart contracts, draining 274.60 ETH between Feb. 12 and Aug. 11, TRM Labs said in a Sept. 14 analysis. The blockchain intelligence firm said it found 234 victim-deployed...
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Blockchain Dead Drop Attacks Jump 420% as State Hackers Expand
Blockchain dead drop attacks — campaigns that use public chains to hide malware instructions — increased 420% over the past 12 months, Chainalysis said, as state-linked groups came to account for roughly two-thirds of new activity in the second quarter of 2026. Chainalysis described the 420%...
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Bitcoin Runs to $81,000 and NEAR Adds 32% as Tokenization Tokens Lead
Bitcoin reached $81,000 on Friday and NEAR Protocol gained 32% over 24 hours, as DeFi and tokenization tokens led a rally that started in the Asia session and extended through the first 90 minutes of U.S. trading. Equities did not follow. The S&P 500 was at 7,630, 0.1% below Thursday's 7,638...
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Morpho Opens Borrowing Against Coinbase's Tokenized Stocks
Lending and borrowing against Coinbase's tokenized stocks is live on Base, Morpho said in a post on X. Holders can pledge the tokens and draw USDC at variable or fixed rates. The markets make Coinbase's stock tokens collateral. Coinbase began issuing them in August for users outside the United......