Crypto news
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Ondas investors blame short-sellers, fails-to-deliver
Ondas, a stock at the center of a heated short-selling and manipulation debate , became Wall Street’s most failed-to-deliver security during the most recent SEC reporting period. A failure to deliver occurs when a party responsible for delivering shares to complete a trade doesn't deliver them....
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Crypto PAC spends $11M to oppose Sherrod Brown in Ohio
Fairshake pledged an initial $30 million on media opposing the Democratic candidate in Ohio’s Senate race in what some see as a repeat of spending by the crypto industry in 2024.
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce reflects on her time at the agency, what she still wanted to get done: ‘There’s no good time to leave’
After nearly a decade at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Hester Peirce is wrapping up her last week at the agency.
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Strategy and Strive Continue To Load up on Bitcoin, Buying a Combined 2,773 Coins
Bitcoin Magazine Strategy and Strive Continue To Load up on Bitcoin, Buying a Combined 2,773 Coins Bitcoin treasuries are loading up again. Strategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, announced Monday that it had bought 1,665 coins last week for $142.7 million — its second buy in a row after...
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Dune Flags Yield Shortfall at Tokenized Money Funds
Dune’s Arno said on Sept. 28 that the 12 largest tokenized money funds yielded less than the Treasury bills behind them, extending the data company’s examination of how much government-debt income reaches onchain investors. An issuer disclosure provides a concrete example of a benchmark gap. The......
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Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum
Hegota will be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork, he argues, with everything after built on recursive STARKs and formal verification.
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The restaking gold rush is over, and top protocols are barely making a profit
As restaking yields dried up and smart-contract risks mounted, Ethereum's top liquid restaking protocol walked away from its core business to build a crypto neobank instead.
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Tether is a ‘lifeline’ for Iranian regime, Senate Dems say in new report
Democrats on the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence published a report alleging that USDT had become a key tool for the Iranian government.
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Ondo Perps Adds Spot Trading for 12 Tokenized Stocks and ETFs
Ondo Perps launched spot trading for 12 Ondo tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds on Sept. 28, allowing eligible traders outside the U.S. to buy tokens and use them as collateral for perpetual futures positions on the same platform. Ondo Finance confirmed the launch, describing a... Read the...
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Strive pushes bitcoin holdings above 27,400 BTC with latest $94.5 million purchase
SATA supplied 85% of Strive’s latest capital as its bitcoin holdings climbed to 27,462 BTC.
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Bitget attacker tested risk controls with small transfers before $388 million theft, CEO says
Bitget's attacker ran two small test transfers half an hour before draining $388 million, CEO Gracy Chen says.
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Bitcoin Falls Lower as Trump's Iran Snub Sends Oil, Yields Higher
Bitcoin extends last week's pullback as Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire plan, sending oil above $100 and yields higher ahead of Wednesday's PCE report.
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Dollars In, Bitcoin Out: Breez SDK Debuts New Stablecoin Feature
Bitcoin Magazine Dollars In, Bitcoin Out: Breez SDK Debuts New Stablecoin Feature Despite being so-called digital dollars, stablecoins aren’t always simple to use. They run on various crypto networks that need different digital wallets — the type of thing that can put crypto newbies and seasoned...
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Bitget CEO says $388M hack exploited third-party security vulnerability
Some stolen assets have been frozen, but Bitget has yet to disclose how much has been recovered as investigators continue to assess a possible North Korea link.
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Trezor Safe 7 Review: The FOSS Self Custody Hardware Wallet
Bitcoin Magazine Trezor Safe 7 Review: The FOSS Self Custody Hardware Wallet Some hardware wallets aim to create air-gapped devices that can be assembled by hand by end users, or tailored to industry professionals in a free and open-source ethos. Others close the source and aspire to become the...
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MiCA focus shifts from rulemaking to supervision, ESMA chair says
ESMA will focus on CASP resilience, outsourcing and reverse solicitation while pursuing harmonized reporting across national regulators.
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Tom Lee’s Bitmine tops 6 million ETH after buying another 17,362 ether
Bitmine's total crypto, cash and other investments currently stand at $17.2B, and the company owns over 4.9% of ether's circulating supply.
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UsePaid suspends X Money payments after volume spike
Solana-based DeFi protocol UsePaid, which uses X's integrated digital banking service X Money to share token creator fees with users, has paused payments after experiencing “issues” following a spike in volume. UsePaid noted , “Existing balances remain safe and fees will continue to accrue.” It...
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Altseason is coming — and traders are more discerning this time
Altseason is almost here and early signs suggest traders are becoming more selective, with capital flowing into revenue-generating protocols across a number of different narratives.
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Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys Another $47M of ETH, Taking It to 4.9% of Ethereum Supply
Bitmine has staked 84% of its tokens, a position it projects will generate some $358 million a year in staking rewards.
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DYORSWAP users tricked into sending 767 ETH to fake bridge contract
Crypto scammers managed to trick DYORSWAP, a multi-chain decentralized exchange, into integrating a spoofed version of upcoming blockchain GIWA over the weekend, leading to losses of $2 million. Over one thousand users eager to be early to a new chain sent a total of 767 ETH to the fake bridge...
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AI agents could drain cheap bank deposits, Apollo's Torsten Slok warns
AI agents could trigger a bank run by automatically moving household cash from low-interest checking accounts to higher-yield alternatives, Slok warns.
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Strategy Sets New BTC Holdings Record After $143M Bitcoin Purchase
Michael Saylor's Bitcoin treasury firm bought 1,665 BTC last week, taking its holdings above its previous record to 847,666 BTC.
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Strategy buys 1,665 Bitcoin for $143M as BTC stack hits 847,666
Strategy sold 1.47 million MSTR shares for $246.2 million, using the proceeds for Bitcoin purchases and STRC preferred stock repurchases.
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Chainlink updates its crypto bridge tech months after a $292 million hack at a rival exposed risks
The new software lets companies add custom security checks so they do not fall victim to the same single-point-of-failure vulnerabilities that plagued rival bridges.
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Citi Taps Coinbase for Corporate Stablecoin Payments: WSJ
Citi has tapped Coinbase to help its large corporate clients accept stablecoin payments from customers, The Wall Street Journal reported. Coinbase will provide the digital payment infrastructure, according to the report. The customer-payment use case builds on a collaboration that Citi and...
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BTC price eyes best Q3 in nine years: Three things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin fell below $83,000 to start the week amid US-Iran war developments but remains up more than 40% for Q3 ahead of key inflation and jobs data.
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Bitget Reopens Bitcoin Withdrawals After $387.5 Million Breach
Bitget said it resumed bitcoin withdrawals at 4 a.m. ET on Sept. 28, four days after a wallet breach the exchange estimates involved approximately $387.5 million in unauthorized transfers. The exchange's public API listed BTC withdrawals on Bitcoin and BSC as enabled when checked on Sept. 28,...
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Bitcoin ETFs Draw Nearly $3 Billion in Seven Sessions as 2026 Flows Turn Positive
U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds attracted nearly $3 billion over seven consecutive trading sessions through Sept. 25, lifting their net flows for 2026 back into positive territory. The funds took in $2.98 billion from Sept. 17 through Sept. 25, according to Farside Investors' daily flow......
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Fake GIWA Layer 2 Bridge Drained of 766 ETH
A fake Layer 2 impersonating Upbit-backed GIWA had 766.25 ETH, roughly $2 million, drained from its Ethereum bridge on Sept. 27 after decentralized exchange DYORSWAP mistook it for the genuine network. An Ethereum transaction records the transfer from the bridge at `0xbA9938…435ab2` to... Read the...