Crypto news
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Onchain analyst links $18.4 million in Robinhood Chain memecoin extractions to single rug-pull operation
The creators of 10 Pons V2 launches exempted a set of wallets from Pons' anti-sniping tax; those wallets went on to buy most of each token's supply, per onchain data.
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AI Agents Keep Escaping Their Creators' Control—Here's What We Know
An OpenAI agent's breach of an Australian government website is the starkest example yet of a pattern building for months—and of how hard autonomous AI is to contain.
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Bitcoin's Quantum Problem: Three Ways Researchers Are Trying to Fix It
Three developments this week—a cost breakthrough, a new privacy design, and a custody playbook—show a field moving from theory to logistics, even as "Q-Day" remains hypotheti
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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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‘It’s really not just a blockchain anymore’: Vitalik Buterin maps Ethereum’s path to 2030
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum is "really not just a blockchain anymore" and laid out how its design will change by 2030 in a post.
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Vitalik Buterin maps Ethereum’s shift beyond a blockchain in sweeping 2030 vision
Buterin wants Ethereum to do far more work without forcing every computer on the network to repeat the same calculations.
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SEC Staff Says Token Buybacks Don't Make Crypto a Security—If the Network Works
New SEC staff guidance says announcing a token buyback on a functional network isn't a promise that turns the token into a security, a shift one attorney says makes securities laws look "opt-in."
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Australia asks OpenAI, Anthropic chiefs to Senate inquiry on health-data hack: Report
A rogue OpenAI research agent bypassed blocks on the Australian government health-data portal, accessing non-public files in June.
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How months of work on the Clarity Act all fell apart
Interviews with industry participants and legislative aides paint a picture of a blown bill-writing process, with sources pointing to nearly every facet of the bill's development and the debate around it as contributing factors to this month's failed vote.
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Riot Platforms repays $200M credit facility, releases collateral
The Bitcoin miner has continued to expand its data-center business as well.
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Saylor outlines ‘bill of digital rights’ to help build prosperity in future economy
Our ambition should be to “enable 10 million new companies to raise capital,” Strategy’s executive chairman Michael Saylor wrote in an essay.
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Bitcoin ETFs turn positive for 2026 with $2.4 billion weekly inflow, their largest since October
The inflows pushed bitcoin ETFs' year-to-date net flows back above zero, after the funds sat roughly $5.8 billion in the red just two months ago.
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Samourai Letter #7: Notes From The Inside
Bitcoin Magazine Samourai Letter #7: Notes From The Inside Dear Reader, It has been many months since I last wrote you. Part of the reason for that is because I spent most of June and part of July in transit from FPC Morgantown to FCI McKean – a four hour drive away. For most of that time I had no...
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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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Bitcoin ETFs Notch Seven-Day Winning Streak as 2026 Flows Turn Green
Bitcoin ETFs have drawn nearly $3 billion over seven straight sessions, erasing post-Clarity Act losses and pushing 2026 flows back into positive territory.
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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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How Crypto Stopped Waiting for Congress and Learned to Love the Regulators
After the Clarity Act failed in the Senate, the SEC, CFTC, and the Fed moved within days to write crypto's rules themselves. Will it be enough?
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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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An Austrian Economist Explains Why AI Will Make Everyone an Entrepreneur w/ Per Bylund
Bitcoin Magazine An Austrian Economist Explains Why AI Will Make Everyone an Entrepreneur w/ Per Bylund AI is changing how we work, but can it replace the human entrepreneur? Austrian economist Per Bylund, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, joins Spencer Nichols to explain why AI is a...
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: BTC to Cross Key Price Level Against Gold
Bitcoin Magazine TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: BTC to Cross Key Price Level Against Gold The 90-day correlation between Bitcoin and gold just hit a six-year high, and Bitcoin is now just 3% away from flipping positive against gold for 2026. In today's Chart of the Day, Sean breaks down the Bitcoin-to-gold...
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Katie Stockton: $93K BTC is the Key Price Level for the Bull Market
Bitcoin Magazine Katie Stockton: $93K BTC is the Key Price Level for the Bull Market Is the Bitcoin bear market officially over? Katie Stockton, founder of Fairlead Strategies, breaks down the technical signals behind Bitcoin's rally of more than 50% off its recent lows, including the break above...
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Grant Cardone: Real Estate “Armageddon” Is Here – Why BITCOIN is the Hedge
Bitcoin Magazine Grant Cardone: Real Estate “Armageddon” Is Here – Why BITCOIN is the Hedge Commercial real estate is facing a historic reset, and Grant Cardone is using it to stack Bitcoin. The Cardone Capital founder explains how high interest rates are pushing properties below replacement cost...
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Kalshi loses appeal over Ohio and Tennessee sports betting laws, widening circuit split
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that Kalshi has not adequately shown its sports event contracts are swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act.
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AI Agents Are Racing to Make Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Cheap—And Winning
An open competition run by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs drove the estimated cost of building a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction from about $320 to roughly $67, with AI models topping the leaderboards.
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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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Kraken’s parent Payward is betting billions on becoming financial infrastructure, not just a crypto exchange
Kraken parent Payward is unifying trading, payments, asset management and institutional services on common rails, co-CEO Arjun Sethi said.
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Kalshi loses appeal, setting up potential Supreme Court case
The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against prediction market Kalshi, siding with Ohio and Tennessee on regulating sports-event contracts under state laws.
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Google Just Made Free 1080p AI Video Generation Available to Anyone
Google Vids now lets any Google account holder generate free HD AI video using Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, with new scene, timing, and watermark controls.
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Binance deal gives Circle a boost in stablecoin race with Tether, analysts say
The five-year deal could strengthen USDC’s reach in emerging markets, though Tether’s liquidity advantage remains hard to dislodge, analysts told CoinDesk.