Crypto news
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Morning Minute: BlackRock Leans Deeper Into Tokenization with Ondo
The biggest financial institutions in the world are bringing more products onchain, and the pace is accelerating.
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CoinMarketCap buys CoinGlass to expand crypto derivatives data
CoinGlass will retain its brand and team, while its website, app, free tools, API and pricing will remain unchanged following the acquisition.
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SlowMist has yet to confirm crypto theft from iPhone Safari attack
The analyzed Safari sample targets iOS 18.4–18.6.2 using previously patched flaws, while its effectiveness on iOS 26.5 remains unverified.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase Wallet, Filing Shows
Two entries in his annual disclosure put the holding somewhere between $16,000 and $65,000, alongside more than $1 million in cash.
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Bond volatility surges while bitcoin and Wall Street stay calm
Bond volatility is at its highest since March, while the bitcoin VIX, BVIV and Wall Street's VIX remain near its yearly low.
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DeFi hack attack: Three exploits snatch $11M in a single day
Crypto and DeFi projects continue to be hacked at a dizzying pace, and few days in recent weeks have been incident-free. That said, Thursday was a particularly busy day, with three projects hit for a total of more than $11 million worth of crypto. By the end of play, Payy Network had lost $1.8...
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Bitcoin holders are cashing out, just not the way they did at prior market tops
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 25, 2026
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IBIT options price trading more calmly after Bitcoin rebound
IBIT’s expected volatility sits near the bottom of its 12-month range, according to Saxo Bank’s analysis of options data from Sept. 23.
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KelpDAO Developer Sues LayerZero Over $292M Bridge Exploit
Evercrest says LayerZero approved the single-verifier configuration in writing multiple times, then warned a different developer about it.
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Ethena expands USDe backing strategy into bStocks and equity perpetuals on Binance
Ethena is adding Binance bStocks and equity perpetuals to the basis trade used for USDe's backing strategy.
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Altcoins rally across the board as bitcoin consolidates near $84,000
Quant jumped 39% over 24 hours and 93 of 100 CoinDesk 100 constituents rose, with the altcoin season index at its highest in more than three months.
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Are US Treasuries now a better investment than rental property?
It would be more profitable for the average investor to buy a 10 year US government bond than to become a typical landlord. Indeed, this relative profitability is at its highest level since July 2007. Negative housing spreads occur when the interest rate “spread” between low-risk US Treasuries are...
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Researchers Publish 'Zcash-Style' Design for Private Bitcoin Transfers
The Shielded Bitcoin spec hides senders, receivers and amounts, but leaves how BTC enters and exits the system to a later paper.
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Magic Eden scare puts 3,832 NFTs in whitehat protective custody
Yuga Labs’ 0xQuit said the NFTs are safe and will be returned once the risk passes, while holders were urged to revoke NFT permissions.
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KelpDAO sues LayerZero, claims it endorsed setup used in $292 million rsETH exploit
KelpDAO sued LayerZero and Bryan Pellegrino over the April 18 rsETH exploit, alleging the bridge setup was endorsed in writing.
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Bitcoin ETFs have erased a $5.8 billion hole
At one point in July, ETFs were down $5.8 billion in net outflows for the year. Now, that’s turned into $800 million in net inflows.
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KelpDAO sues LayerZero for the largest exploit 2026 has seen so far
The cross-chain lending protocol accused LayerZero and its co-founder Brian Pellegrino of failing to disclose weaknesses in their protocol, which led to the $292 million hack.
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KelpDAO sues LayerZero, CEO over $292M rsETH bridge exploit
KelpDAO says LayerZero endorsed its bridge setup before the attack, while CEO Bryan Pellegrino has dismissed the lawsuit as meritless.
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Bitcoin ETF inflows slow to $191M as six-day streak reaches $2.8B
US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $191 million Thursday as daily inflows slowed for a third day, lifting year-to-date net flows to $787 million.
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Samourai Wallet co-founder faces new transfer after 30-day ordeal
Keonne Rodriguez says he and 70 others face another move after their treatment program was deactivated. His previous transfer took 30 days.
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Live updates: Bitcoin steadies near $84,000 as the bond selloff pauses
Treasury yields eased from multi-decade highs and oil slipped on reports of a phased U.S.-Iran deal, with roughly $14 billion in bitcoin options set to expire on Deribit on Friday.
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Australian PM warns of AI’s ‘furious pace’ after agent breached government site
Anthony Albanese said governments must help shape AI’s development, after revealing earlier that an OpenAI agent accessed non-public files on an Australian Medicare data portal.
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Researchers propose Zcash-style private Bitcoin transfers without a soft fork
Shielded Bitcoin would use zero-knowledge proofs and encrypted notes to hide transaction details without changing Bitcoin consensus, but researchers have raised questions about anonymity and quantum resistance.
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Bitget's $352 million hack happened via spoofed transfers, not private keys, CEO Gray Chen says
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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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Block brings Bitcoin Lightning payments to x402 for AI agents
Block joins Google, Microsoft, AWS and Coinbase in backing x402, an open payment standard enabling agentic AI commerce.
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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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Bitget CEO suspects North Korea behind $352M hack, citing IP clues
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said a preliminary investigation found IP addresses matching VPN choices associated with a DPRK hacking group.
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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...