Crypto news
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Brooklyn man sent to prison for 12 years for stealing $16M in a Coinbase phishing scheme
The fraudster managed to scam about 100 people across the United States, convincing them of transferring funds to him, claiming their accounts had been hacked.
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Litecoin token has its moment as network activity booms
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 24, 2026
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Era of pure crypto exchanges is ending, Bybit CEO says
Bybit’s global campaign positions it as a broader financial platform, though its stock, gold and forex derivatives were already available.
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Live updates: Bitcoin continues lower as bond yields take center stage
U.S. bond yields are little changed early Thursday after yesterday's surge higher sent risk markets sharply lower.
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Q-Day Could Arrive Before Quantum Computers Are Commercially Useful, EU Warns
The threat could arrive before quantum computers are commercially useful, and member states have until the end of 2026 to plan for it.
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Bitcoin slides to $83,300 as bond yields hit highest level since 2007
The 10-year Treasury yield reached its highest since 2007, sending U.S. stocks and crypto lower before Asian and European traders bought the dip.
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EU banking watchdog calls for crypto lending rules under MiCA
The EBA outlined potential rules for crypto lending and firms providing access to DeFi protocols as part of the European Commission’s MiCA review.
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Bitcoin falls below $84K as 10-year Treasury yield hits 19-year high
Bitcoin traded near $83,200 as Fed hike odds reached about 75% and Treasury prepared a $6 billion buyback of long-dated bonds.
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Traders price in 4 Fed rate hikes by June 2027 as bitcoin slides below $83,000
The four-hike path is the most likely outcome, while rising bond yields and a stronger dollar weigh on bitcoin and gold.
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IBM connects Digital Asset Haven to Swift blockchain ledger for tokenized deposit transactions
IBM Digital Asset Haven clients can now connect to Swift's shared ledger and instruct tokenized deposit transactions.
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The data proves it: Bitcoin doesn't care about rising bond yields over long-term
Long-term, BTC ignores rising bond yields. In the short term, however, surging bond volatility could easily dampen crypto's animal spirits.
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EU financial watchdogs warn quantum computing poses imminent threat to blockchain encryption
The warning brings renewed urgency to the debate over how bitcoin should deal with legacy addresses whose public keys are already exposed onchain.
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Bitcoin ETFs add $347M as BTC falls below $84K after topping $87K
US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows slowed to $347 million on Wednesday as Bitcoin fell below $84,000, while five-day inflows reached $2.65 billion.
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Institutions held crypto through 50% drawdown, Bitwise finds
Every institution interviewed that owned crypto held Bitcoin, usually as its largest asset; some set exit conditions for Ether and Solana.
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Brooklyn Man Who Bragged About $16M Coinbase Scam Gets Up to 12 Years
He posed as support staff, emptied about 100 accounts, then lost $6 million of the proceeds gambling, according to his own messages.
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Australia says OpenAI agent hacked government site before Altman warning
OpenAI notified Australia nearly three months after its agent breached a government portal while gathering public medicine-spending data.
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Brooklyn man gets up to 12 years over $16 million Coinbase social engineering scheme
A court sentenced 23-year-old Ronald Spektor to four to 12 years in prison for a $15.9 million Coinbase phishing scheme.
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Trump administration weighs a global stablecoin plan to cement dollar's dominance
Washington is a mulling plan to actively promote USD-backed stablecoins worldwide in a bid to cement the greenback's global reserve status.
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A week of AI coding cut a quantum-safe bitcoin transaction estimate from $320 to $66
StarkWare, which conducted the research, says contest participants using AI tools made the computation about five times faster, though the $66 figure has not yet been demonstrated in another transaction mined on Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin’s ‘last resort’ quantum-safe solution just got 79% cheaper: StarkWare
A weeklong optimization challenge cut the estimated GPU cost of preparing an experimental quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction to under $67, potentially making the “last-resort measure” a little easier on the wallet.
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US weighs overseas push for dollar-backed stablecoins: Bloomberg
The reported initiative could involve private-sector companies and several US agencies as Washington looks to expand the international use of dollar-backed stablecoins.
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Dogecoin down 8%, bitcoin under $84,000 as Treasury yields hit highest level since 2007
A rebound in oil, the strongest U.S. business survey in five years and a poorly received five-year note sale pushed borrowing costs higher, with DOGE leading token losses.
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Trump Administration Weighs Overseas Stablecoin Push: Report
The Trump administration is considering promoting dollar-denominated stablecoins overseas through joint ventures with private firms, seeking to reinforce the dollar’s global role and boost demand for U.S. Treasuries, Bloomberg reported Sept. 23, citing people familiar with the plans. The effort......
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Variational Sets Q4 VAR Launch With 32% Airdrop
Variational, the onchain derivatives protocol behind Omni, plans to launch its VAR token in the fourth quarter of 2026 and airdrop 32% of total supply to points holders, with the entire airdrop unlocked at launch, according to its Sept. 23 announcement. The project will continue distributing......
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Kalshi says CFTC hasn’t contacted it over ‘unusual’ $5B trading activity
Kalshi said nearly $5 billion in similarly sized Ether perpetual trades reflected its liquidity incentive programs and rejected allegations that the activity was wash trading.
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Anthropic Says Claude Found Something Big in DNA. It Just Doesn't Know What
Anthropic says Claude autonomously found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system. Even Dario Amodei admits nobody knows what it actually does.
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An AI Agent Just Hacked a Government Website for the First Time, Australia PM Says
Anthony Albanese said the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June, calling OpenAI's three-month delay in disclosing the breach "unacceptable."
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OpenAI Gives Ukraine Access to Daybreak AI Cyber-Defense Tool
OpenAI is giving Ukraine's government access to Daybreak, its AI vulnerability-hunting system, as the country's cyber defenders face a record wave of attacks on hospitals, power grids, and government networks.
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Ex-SEC acting chair: Agency dropped crypto cases to avoid issues with credibility
SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda said that the agency dropped many cases against crypto companies in early 2025 to avoid potential credibility problems in court.
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China Probes DeepSeek and Moonshot Over Alleged Data Leaks to Anthropic's Claude
China's internet regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic accused both of secretly routing millions of user exchanges through Claude to train their own models.