Crypto news
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Elon Musk's X brings crypto and stock trading via Coinbase, Kraken and Interactive Brokers partnership
Elon Musk’s X lets U.S. users tap cashtags such as $BTC to view live charts and access Coinbase, Kraken and other trading platforms.
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Dogecoin leads market rebound with 15% pump, bitcoin steady above $85,000
A wave of forced buying that cost short sellers $844 million has run its course, leaving the largest cryptocurrency flat over the past hour and ZEC the only major token in the red.
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Cardano joins Solana, XRP Ledger in race to power AI agent payments
The official x402 kit now includes Cardano tools for apps and AI agents to pay with ADA and other network tokens, though the facilitator has so far only been tested on pre-production.
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Trueo prediction market moves from Base to Ethereum
Trueo said Base was the right choice when it launched, as Ethereum gas fees were higher, but said mainnet now offers greater integration potential.
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Kakao Pay, KakaoBank to explore stablecoin opportunities with Fireblocks
Kakao Pay and KakaoBank are exploring digital asset opportunities with Fireblocks, including infrastructure for stablecoins.
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Animoca Brands suspends merger deal that would have taken it public
Animoca Chairman Yat Siu says that the 'corporate agility must take precedence' over pursuing the Currenc merger.
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Manhattan US Attorney leading probe into Binance’s Iran compliance: Bloomberg
The investigation is reportedly examining whether Binance knowingly allowed trading that violated US sanctions on Iran, months after reports first revealed a Justice Department probe.
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Google Admits Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies—It Stayed Silent for 7 Weeks
Google learned in late July that Gemini had breached three real companies during a May security test, but said nothing publicly for seven weeks.
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After Clarity Act Fails, Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Targets Sherrod Brown With $30 Million
The Ohio spending comes days after the Senate blocked the crypto industry’s Clarity Act.
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Bitcoin Bull Market Engaged? 50-Week Moving Average Flips Bullish
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Bull Market Engaged? 50-Week Moving Average Flips Bullish Bitcoin just closed a weekly candle above its 50-week simple moving average for the first time this cycle, and Sean Hagan puts roughly 80% confidence on this being a genuine regime change. In this Chart of the Day,...
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Robinhood CEO Says Crypto Will Beat Sports at Prediction Markets' Own Game
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says crypto event contracts are already outpacing sports bets, and could become the platform's dominant category within a few years.
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ZetaChain Votes to Wind Down Layer 1 and Move ZETA to Solana
ZetaChain governance has approved winding down the project's Layer 1 and replacing ZETA native to that network with a Solana SPL token at a 1:1 ratio. Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% of votes in favor. Participation reached 58%, exceeding the 40% quorum. The vote approves the direction of the... Read...
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Coinbase Opens IPO Allocations to US Retail Investors With Oura
Coinbase has opened access to initial public offering allocations for eligible U.S. retail customers, beginning with Oura’s IPO this week. The product extends Coinbase’s equities business from trading listed stocks into primary-market share distribution. Coinbase said customers can request Oura......
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OCC Gives Catena Preliminary Conditional Approval for National Trust Bank
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted Catena Labs preliminary conditional approval to organize Catena Trust Bank, N.A. The Sept. 18 decision moves Catena from applicant to bank organizer, but does not authorize the proposed institution to open. Catena says the proposed bank is......
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Bitcoin could test $90,000 after shorts get squeezed, but traders warn leverage is building
Bitcoin has broken out to $86,000, but analysts say the next leg depends on whether spot buyers continue to show up as leverage builds.
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Saudi Arabia exits China-backed mBridge CBDC project: FT
Saudi Arabia has left mBridge, a cross-border CBDC platform that has drawn scrutiny from US policymakers, according to the Financial Times.
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Bitcoin ETF Holders Back in the Black as Price Barrels Towards $87,000
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin ETF Holders Back in the Black as Price Barrels Towards $87,000 Bitcoin exchange-traded fund holders are back in profit after the cryptocurrency's latest surge. Posted on X on Monday, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart wrote that the rally on Monday morning in New York...
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Circle Opens Bitcoin-Backed USDC Borrowing To Mint Clients, Routed Through Morpho
Circle has opened bitcoin-backed borrowing to institutional customers of Circle Mint, and the loans run on Morpho. Customers deposit bitcoin, mint Circle's wrapped bitcoin token cirBTC, post it as collateral and receive USDC in their Mint account, Morpho said on X on Monday. The product routes......
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X Sues Two Bitcoin Influencers Over Bot Army That Milked Creator Payouts
A lawsuit accuses UK users of running six coordinated accounts to pull at least $278,000 from X's now-defunct Creator Revenue Sharing Program.
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Coinbase Brings IPO Shares to US Retail Traders, With Oura Up First
Eligible customers can request shares at the offering price, but allocations are not guaranteed.
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Why this investment bank expects little demand for tokenized stocks despite SEC’s new trading rules
TD Securities expects limited demand for tokenized stocks despite new SEC rules opening a path for trading outside traditional markets.
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Europe’s Central Bank Prepares to Invest Own Funds in Tokenized Securities
The central bank plans to buy euro-denominated public-sector debt and settle the transactions through its new Pontes service.
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One Size Dominates Kalshi's ETH Perp Volume
Most of the dollar volume in Kalshi's ether perpetual futures market comes from trades carrying one repeating dollar value, according to data The Defiant pulled directly from the exchange's public perpetuals API. The pattern is the basis of wash-trading allegations made against the exchange this......
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Ondo lets institutions convert stocks directly into tokenized shares
Ondo’s new in-kind conversion system allows approved institutions to mint and redeem tokenized stocks and ETFs using the underlying securities instead of cash.
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What Is VVV? The Privacy-Obsessed AI Token That’s Up 3,000% in 2026
Venice (VVV) has clawed back from under a dollar to a record $34, and the pitch behind it is simple: an AI chatbot that promises to forget you the moment you close the tab.
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Fairshake Plans $30 Million Ad Blitz Against Sherrod Brown in Ohio
Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to spend $30 million on advertising against former Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, its largest announced expenditure of 2026, after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act in a 49-50 cloture vote. The New York Times first reported the plan, saying Fairshake told......
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World Liberty Opens WLFI Vote on 180-Day Governance Rewards
World Liberty Financial opened a governance vote Monday on a program that would reward WLFI holders who lock tokens and participate regularly in protocol votes. Holders would have to lock WLFI for at least 180 days and vote at least once every 90 days to earn rewards. Payouts would have no fixed......
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Crypto PAC to spend $30M opposing Sherrod Brown in Ohio, again
The digital asset-aligned PAC joined other groups to spend more than a combined $300 million in the 2024 Ohio Senate race, resulting in Sherrod Brown’s loss to Bernie Moreno.
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Can a Fruit Fly Brain Mine Bitcoin? These Companies Are Testing It
The HashFly browser experiment uses a digital neural model for Bitcoin hashing and projects greater efficiency from a hypothetical biological version.
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xAI Launches Grok 4.7. It's Bigger, But Late to the AI Frontier Party
xAI says the new model is a "notable improvement" over Grok 4.6 at the same price. The benchmarks say it's still in second place.