Crypto news
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Uniswap Labs Plans OUSD Rewards Hook for Liquidity Providers
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Bitget Hacker Turns to Zcash Privacy Pool After Near Rejects $50M in Swaps
The attacker behind the $387.5 million Bitget heist has started hiding about $3.8 million in ZEC inside Zcash's Ironwood pool, after Near Intents turned their swaps away.
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Daines Unveils Crypto Tax Bill Pairing Payment Relief With Wash-Sale Rules
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UK FCA Opens Crypto Authorization Window Ahead of 2027 Regime
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority opened its crypto authorization gateway on Sept. 30, 2026, urging firms that intend to keep operating in the country to apply by Feb. 28, 2027. The new regime takes effect on Oct. 25, 2027, with standards covering consumer protection, safeguarding customer......
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US Government's New AI Chatbot Has a Weird Minecraft Secret
Ask the U.S. government's new AI chatbot about Minecraft and it produces a roughly 1,800-word bureaucratic remix of the game's ending poem. It's an easter egg, not a hallucination.
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Crypto advocacy group announces picks for US Congress as midterms loom
The organization’s endorsements in the House and Senate came as many polls showed Democrats favored to regain control of both chambers in 2027.
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Base Ships Cobalt With Conditional Transactions And A Seize Function
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Base launches Cobalt upgrade with conditional transactions and new B20 asset functions
Base has launched Cobalt, adding conditional transactions and new functions for assets issued under its B20 standard.
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Base completes Cobalt upgrade, adds new tools for tokenized assets
Base’s Cobalt lets traders set transaction conditions while giving issuers tools for compliance checks, stock splits and forced token transfers.
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Bitcoin Is More Than Just an Asset, Says TD Cowen
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Is More Than Just an Asset, Says TD Cowen Investment bank TD Cowen has said that Bitcoin is more than an asset — and will be increasingly used as financial infrastructure to underpin institutional products. Writing in a Tuesday note, TD Cowen said that after attending a...
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Arc Packages USDC Funding and Morpho Lending for Apps
Circle's Arc blockchain has packaged stablecoin purchases, lending and bitcoin-backed borrowing into three developer kits for apps on its mainnet. Arc's Sept. 30 announcement brings together Onramp Kit, Earn Kit and Borrow Kit. The software lets developers put those functions inside their own......
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Bloomberg brings onchain stablecoin data to its Terminal
Bloomberg’s Allium-powered dashboard gives Terminal users hourly data on stablecoin supply, issuance, transfers and activity across blockchain networks.
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CFTC Sends White House New Rules to Cement Its Grip on Prediction Markets
The two proposals would define event contracts as "swaps" while excluding "casino-style gambling products"—a bid to cement the agency's exclusive jurisdiction as states sue prediction-market operators over gambling claims.
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PIMCO US Treasury bond ETF hits all-time low
ZROZ, a PIMCO ETF allocated to US Treasury bond repayments guaranteed by the US government, has lost 16% of its share price this year. It also lost 21% over the past 12 months, 63% over the past five years, and is down 73% from its March 2020 peak. The terrible results for investors are...
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Chainlink Unveils Fulcrum for Cross-Chain Institutional Repo
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DogeOS launches testnet to bring EVM smart contracts to Dogecoin
DogeOS launched a public testnet for its zero-knowledge rollup bringing EVM smart contracts to Dogecoin, with DOGE used for gas fees.
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Open USD Launches as Stripe's Default Stablecoin
Open Standard launched Open USD (OUSD) on Sept. 30, opening business access through Stripe, BVNK and a limited Visa rollout, with Coinbase access scheduled to begin Oct. 1. Stripe said OUSD on Tempo is now its default stablecoin configuration. Businesses can use the token across its payments,......
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Lloyds and Visa Settle $750,000 in USDC in Cross-Border Pilot
Lloyds Banking Group settled $750,000 of payment obligations with Visa using USDC in a seven-day live pilot, the companies announced Sept. 30, testing cross-border settlement outside banking hours. The U.S. dollar obligations were booked through Lloyds' Corporate Markets branch in Jersey and......
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White House weighs new CFTC event contract rules in growing prediction market power struggle
The White House is weighing two proposed rules from the CFTC tied to prediction markets as the agency seeks to assert its jurisdiction.
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Aave V4 TVL Climbs 82% in September as Arc Reaches $181 Million
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Standard Chartered Initiates ENA Coverage With $2 Target
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Bitcoin ETFs Extend Win Streak to 9 Days, Matching August Rally
Bitcoin ETFs added $66 million Tuesday, matching August's nine-day run and topping it in dollars. How long will the streak stay alive?
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ESMA Proposes MiCA Rules for DeFi Gateways, Staking and Lending
The European Securities and Markets Authority has proposed a new regulated category for crypto firms that connect clients to DeFi, alongside targeted staking and lending requirements under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, or MiCA. In its response to the European Commission’s MiCA......
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Brazil’s Petrobras uses Cardano to track sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel
Petrobras developed two Cardano-based applications to track sustainability claims tied to aviation fuel and renewable diesel as part of an ongoing research collaboration.
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Crypto industry gave $8 million to Clarity Act lobbyists who didn't close the deal
In the first half of this year, the sector poured millions into lobbying, with most of it tied to pushing the U.S. market structure bill to a goal it never reached.
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Bitcoin’s Price Jumps Above $85,000 on Lighter-Than-Expected Inflation Data
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin’s Price Jumps Above $85,000 on Lighter-Than-Expected Inflation Data Bitcoin’s price rose — albeit slightly — on data Wednesday showing that inflation had risen slower than expected. The Fed’s main inflation gauge, the personal consumption expenditures price index, increased...
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Abracadabra blames hacks for shutdown amid ‘looting’ claims
Embattled DeFi project Abracadabra has proposed “an orderly wind down,” blaming a string of security incidents which leave its stablecoin MIM with “no viable path back to parity.” The vote , set to close Wednesday evening, has received just two votes at the time of writing: 100 million SPELL votes...
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Introducing The Information Exchange on Solana, Powered by Decrypt and MYR
Decrypt is the destination, Myriad is the infrastructure and MYR is the token for a connected media ecosystem.
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Bitget ‘gradually back to usual’ as protection fund reaches $309M
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said that a protection fund created by the company in 2022 “absorbed the financial impact of the incident“ that resulted in $388 million in user losses.
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Bitcoin steadies as soft PCE cools October Fed rate hike bets
Core PCE rose just 0.2% in August, easing pressure for an October Fed hike. Bitcoin trades near $83,700 as rising Treasury yields cap gains.