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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......
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WisdomTree Opens Tokenized Treasury Fund To MoonPay's 35 Million Accounts
WisdomTree and MoonPay will build an access point letting U.S. investors buy shares of WisdomTree's tokenized government money market fund inside MoonPay's platform, and MoonPay will use the fund in the reserve management behind its stablecoin business, the two firms said on Thursday. The... Read...
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Polymarket Hires Ex-Zora CEO for Onchain Product Push
Polymarket has hired former Zora CEO Jacob Horne to work on product with an emphasis on its DeFi offering, as CEO Shayne Coplan acknowledged that the performance of the prediction market’s onchain product has “waned” while the company scaled. Coplan said some longtime users believed Polymarket...
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Solana's Historic Governance Vote — While Robinhood Invades Its Meme Coin Turf
🎧 Listen to Interview 💻 Watch Video How JitoSOL Swung Solana's Governance Vote Jito Foundation's head of governance says a liquid-staking override mechanism decided Solana's closest on-chain vote, as validators confront an 87% revenue decline and rising competition from Robinhood Chain....
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X Adds US 'Trade' Button to Cashtags With Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini
X launched a U.S. Cashtag Partner Program on Sept. 15 that connects supported stock, ETF and cryptocurrency pages to Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Interactive Brokers and Moomoo. The new “Trade” option does not execute a transaction on X. A user taps a Cashtag to see its price chart and related...
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World Rolls Out Money App as Key Features Remain Country-Limited
World has begun rolling out World Money in more than 150 countries, bringing stablecoin balances, global payments, virtual accounts, trading, yield programs and Mini Apps into a self-custodial financial app. Existing World App and World ID App users can carry their credentials into World Money....
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S&P Global to Acquire OpenZeppelin in Onchain Risk Push
S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, bringing a provider of smart contract audits and open-source developer libraries into the financial-data company’s digital asset risk business. The companies said OpenZeppelin will retain its name and operate as a separate business unit. CEO Demian......
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Blockworks Lets Exchanges Take Compliance Alerts Straight From AI Agents
Blockworks will let crypto exchanges and banks take compliance alerts directly from AI agents, without waiting for a human analyst to sign off. Analyst verification took roughly five minutes per development, the company said. A proprietary model trained on years of Messari analyst work now... Read...