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Bitwise NEAR ETF Clears Listing and Registration Hurdles
Bitwise’s NEAR ETF has secured NYSE Arca listing approval and an effective securities registration, clearing two steps toward offering brokerage investors exposure to the token and staking rewards under the ticker NRR. The fund’s Form 8-A, filed Sept. 24, says NYSE Arca approved its listing... Read...
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THORChain Pushes Back on Bitget’s Demand to Block Hacker Addresses
THORChain pushed back on Bitget CEO Gracy Chen’s demand to block addresses linked to the exchange’s hack, invoking its permissionless design while an address flagged by Bitget continued swapping XRP for bitcoin. A transaction recorded at 3:14 a.m. ET on Sept. 27 sent 9,999 XRP from an address on......
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Buterin Maps Ethereum's Post-Hegota 'Cryptographic World Computer'
Ethereum’s upgrades after Hegota should make cryptographic proof-checking and distributed offchain work central to the network, reducing the need for nodes to repeat the same computation, co-founder Vitalik Buterin argued. In “The cryptographic world computer,” an essay dated Sept. 27, 2026 on...
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CleanSpark Closes $2.276 Billion Debt Deal for Sandersville Data Center
CleanSpark closed a $2.276 billion senior secured notes offering on Sept. 25 to finance its Sandersville, Georgia, data center, adding a 7.875% annual interest obligation as the Bitcoin miner expands into leased computing infrastructure. The issuer, wholly owned subsidiary CSDC Finance I, plans...
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StarkWare Challenge Cuts Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Compute Estimate by 79%
An AI-assisted coding challenge run by StarkWare, Yukon Research and Eigen Labs has reduced the estimated compute bill for preparing an experimental Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) transaction to about $63, from roughly $320, according to the contest dashboard on Sept. 26. StarkWare announced the......
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Morpho Blames AI Marketing Tool for Deleted Post Saying Its Own Curator Business Model is Broken
Morpho co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot said early on Sept. 26 that a third-party artificial intelligence (AI) marketing tool wrote and published a post from Morpho's official X account describing curator businesses on the protocol as dependent on private distribution deals rather than onchain...
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Solana’s Alpenglow Goes Live on Devnet Ahead of Mainnet Migration
Solana’s Alpenglow consensus upgrade went live on devnet on Sept. 25, replacing TowerBFT on the developer network and opening a testing period before migration to mainnet-beta, according to Anza. The Solana software developer said the handoff completed at slot 504,148,999, where Alpenglow’s...
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AlphaFi Winds Down After Oracle Error, With Sui Foundation Support
AlphaFi is winding down its Sui-based lending protocol AlphaLend after an ALPHA oracle misconfiguration created bad debt, with the Sui Foundation stepping in to support its solvency, Sui said Friday. AlphaFi said certain loans backed by ALPHA had become substantially undercollateralized. “That...
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EBA Floats Stablecoin Lending Restrictions for EU Crypto Firms
The European Banking Authority has floated barring EU crypto service providers from arranging or facilitating borrowing and lending involving stablecoins that lack authorization under the bloc’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, or MiCA. In its Sept. 24 response to the European Commission’s...
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Duelbits Co-Founder Reports $7 Million Hack as Casino Stays Offline
Crypto casino and sportsbook Duelbits remained offline Friday after its co-founder reported a roughly $7 million hack, leaving customers waiting for withdrawals to resume. In a 2:28 p.m. ET update on Sept. 25, co-founder Joe said the team needed “a little more downtime” to secure the platform...
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Circle CFO Jeremy Fox-Geen to Step Down by Year-End
Circle Internet Group said Sept. 25 that Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Fox-Geen will step down by the end of 2026 and that it has begun a search for his successor. The USDC issuer said Fox-Geen will remain CFO until Dec. 31 or until a successor is appointed, whichever comes first. He will stay......
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SEC Staff Clarifies Token Buybacks and Liquid Staking in New FAQs
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff said Sept. 25 that announcing buybacks of non-security tokens on a functional crypto system does not constitute a promise to undertake essential managerial efforts—a key element of the investment-contract analysis. The new FAQs, issued by the...
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Bitget Raises Hack Estimate To $387.5 Million As Token Accounting Widens
Bitget raised its estimate of assets transferred to attackers in the Sept. 24 breach to approximately **$387.5 million**, up from $351.6 million, after expanding its accounting to include previously omitted Zcash and TRON assets. The exchange said in its Sept. 25 update that the increase...
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Legacy Magic Eden Approvals Exploited as White Hats Rescue NFTs
Attackers exploited Limit Break’s Payment Processor contracts to steal NFTs and tokens from wallets with legacy Magic Eden approvals, prompting a white-hat rescue across Ethereum and ApeChain. Yuga Labs’ vice president of blockchain, 0xQuit, said on Sept. 25 that the rescue team secured 23,155......
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Tether Says EQIBank Exposure Is Below 0.034% of Group Assets
Tether says assets held at EQIBank amount to less than 0.034% of its group assets, after The Information reported that some of the stablecoin issuer’s funds were stuck at the offshore bank, which faces liquidation risks following a U.S. asset seizure. A Tether spokesperson gave that percentage...
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Ethena Starts Equity-Basis Rollout for USDe With Binance
Ethena said Sept. 25 that it is beginning to allocate USDe backing to equity-basis trades through Binance, its first exchange partner for the strategy. The trades will pair bStocks tokenized equities with short positions in Binance’s USDT-denominated equity perpetuals. “Allocations begin today,”......
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Aave Adds Coinbase Stock Tokens as Collateral on Base
Aave has opened a market on Base where eligible non-U.S. holders of seven Coinbase-issued stock tokens can borrow USDC without selling them, bringing stock-backed lending to its V4 deployment. The Sept. 25 launch supports AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc and TSLAc—tokens representing......
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Binance-Owned CoinMarketCap Acquires CoinGlass
Binance-owned CoinMarketCap has acquired crypto data platform CoinGlass on undisclosed financial terms, adding its open-interest, funding-rate, liquidation and options analytics to the exchange group's market-data business. The purchase brings a provider of data about competing trading venues...
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Fed Proposes Capital Charges and Bank Approval Rules for Stablecoins
The Federal Reserve on Sept. 24 proposed rules requiring payment-stablecoin issuers it supervises to hold full reserve backing and capital against operational and certain credit risks, alongside an approval process for bank subsidiaries. The main requirements would cover approved subsidiaries of......
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Block Adds Bitcoin Lightning to x402 Standard
Block has joined the x402 Foundation and contributed a Bitcoin Lightning payment specification, adding a Bitcoin option to an open standard for payments by AI agents, the company announced Sept. 24. The x402 repository merged the specification on Sept. 23. Its author, Ben Carman, is a Bitcoin...
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Ethereum Draft Proposes Compliance Controls for Confidential RWA Tokens
Developer Aryeh Greenberg has proposed an Ethereum token interface that would add compliance checks and issuer enforcement powers to confidential tokens representing real-world assets. The submission, pull request #2034, opened Thursday evening ET, remains an unmerged draft. It extends ERC-7984,...
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Tokenized-Stock Holder Count Reaches 4.3 Million, Led by BNB Chain
Tokenized stocks have reached about 4.3 million asset holders across chains, up from roughly 100,000 a year earlier, according to a Sept. 24 update from Token Terminal. The increase puts exchange- and brokerage-linked distribution at the center of the market’s expansion. BNB Chain leads with...
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Evercrest Files BC Civil Claim Against LayerZero and Pellegrino, CEO Says
Evercrest, which LayerZero Labs CEO Bryan Pellegrino identified as KelpDAO, filed a notice of civil claim in British Columbia against him and LayerZero on Sept. 24, according to his public statement. “The claim continues to be meritless, will meet them in Vancouver and defend myself...
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Paxos Labs Launches PAXGy, Adding Lending Yield to Tokenized Gold
Paxos Labs launched PAXGy on Sept. 24, a token designed to earn returns in gold by lending reserve assets to institutional borrowers. The token builds on PAX Gold, or PAXG. Holders’ PAXGy balances stay constant while lending income is intended to increase the amount of PAXG redeemable per token.......
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Bitget Suspends Withdrawals, Says $351.6 Million Affected In Hot Wallet Breach
Bitget said approximately $351.6 million in assets were affected by unauthorized transfers from a limited number of its hot wallets on Sept. 24 and that it had temporarily suspended withdrawals, confirming an incident that onchain observers had tracked through the afternoon. “At 18:31 UTC on......
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Morpho Founder's Vault Classification Draws Pushback From Aave's Kulechov
Morpho co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot published an article on X on Sept. 24 proposing that onchain vaults be divided into two regulatory categories, and drew objections within the hour from Aave founder Stani Kulechov, attorney Gabriel Shapiro and several vault infrastructure founders....
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Kamino Opens GPU-loan-linked sUSDai Collateral Market on Solana
Kamino has opened a lending market on Solana for sUSDai, letting holders of USD.AI’s GPU-loan-linked token borrow USDC while retaining their yield-bearing position. The market is curated by Allez Labs. According to Kamino’s launch documentation, users can borrow up to 80% of their collateral’s......
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Gnosis Pay Sets Dec. 20 Card Shutdown as It Shifts to B2B
Gnosis Pay will retire its consumer cards and close most of its web app on Dec. 20, 2026, requiring users who want to keep spending through its infrastructure to join a partner card program and obtain a replacement card. The company’s formal notice, which it says was issued to all cardholders on......
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IBM Connects Digital Asset Haven to Swift Ledger in Beta
IBM has connected its Digital Asset Haven platform to Swift’s blockchain-based shared ledger in a beta offering, allowing participating institutions to instruct tokenized-deposit transactions using the payment-message standard they already use. The connection, announced by IBM on Sept. 24,...
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ARK Launches Tokenized Venture Fund on Ethereum With $500 Minimum
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has launched tokenized shares of its ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) on Ethereum through Securitize, with a $500 minimum investment. The offering is available to U.S. retail investors, Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo said, describing the launch as ARK’s first tokenization...