Crypto news
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NEAR jumps nearly 80% in a week as Intents volume nears $30B
Near expanded privacy features for traders as NEAR Intents recorded $29.3 billion in cumulative volume, including swaps involving Zcash.
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BTC price nears eight-month high above $85K: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin hit $85,000 for the first time since January as markets focused on cooling oil prices.
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Crypto Worker's Children Held Hostage in Latest French ‘Wrench Attack,’ $46,000 Taken
France is the worst-hit country in the world for these attacks, with more than 70 logged in the first eight months of 2026.
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X sues UK duo over alleged $277K crypto account payout fraud
X alleges two UK users manipulated crypto-focused accounts to obtain $277,000 through its creator revenue-sharing program.
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Threat Intelligence | PolinRider Poisons Nova, Using On-Chain Transactions as a C2 Manager
Background The sample comes from a development branch of the Laravel Nova extension package visanduma/nova-two-factor, associated with the PolinRider campaign. This is a PHP package published on Packagist, with more than 700,000 cumulative downloads as of the time of this analysis. The delivery...
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ZetaChain votes to shut down Layer 1 network and move ZETA to Solana
The team plans to focus instead on Anuma, its private AI app, though the migration will still take one more vote.
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Polymarket faced $10 million fraud attempt as its CEO pushed growth over compliance concerns: WSJ
In a separate attack, hackers compromised nearly 500 users' accounts using stolen personal information, according to the report.
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Visa Moves to Close Meme Coin Credit Card Rewards Loophole: Source
After banks lost their push for tighter stablecoin rules in the failed Clarity Act, JP Morgan scored a narrower win as Visa moves to stop meme coin purchases from being coded as ordinary "digital media" and earning card rewards.
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Why Holding Anything But Bitcoin Has Been a Losing Bet for Two Years
A Glassnode and Bybit report frames the divergence as the defining feature of this cycle, with froth pooling in the market's riskiest corners even as Bitcoin does the heavy lifting.
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Threat Intelligence | Analysis of FomoPeek App Store Poisoning and iOS Kernel Exploitation
Recently, the SlowMist security team received multiple reports of user assets being stolen. Upon verification, all of the incidents involved private key exposure, and some of the affected users had previously downloaded and used FomoPeek App versions 1.1–1.2. Through a joint analysis with the OKX...
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Bitcoin ETFs eke out positive week with $433 million Friday inflow as ether funds snap four-week inflow streak
Fidelity's FBTC accounted for $310.7 million of Friday’s overall $433 million net inflow, a notable sum that helped offset earlier withdrawals.
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How the Clarity Act's Defeat Handed the SEC and CFTC the Wheel on Crypto
The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, shifting the industry’s focus to a new wave of action from the SEC and CFTC.
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Bitcoin's Sharpest Rally in Two Years Ran Almost Entirely on Short Liquidations
A Glassnode and Bybit report found Bitcoin climbed 24.6% in five August days even as active leverage fell, with short positions supplying 89% of every liquidated dollar.
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Grayscale Is Making Its Red-Hot Zcash ETF More Affordable
The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto's hottest privacy trade.
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Solana's Heartbeat Quickens: Block Times Fall 17% in Latest Speed Upgrade
The network's clock just sped up again, but the extra speed goes to freshness, not capacity.
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Coinbase Files to List Single-Stock Perps on Apple, Tesla and Nvidia
The filing seeks CFTC approval for contracts giving US traders 24/5 leveraged exposure to individual stocks without ownership.
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Polygon Prepares Permissionless Burn of 100 Million POL
Polygon is preparing a permissionless contract that would let anyone permanently burn 100 million POL, or about 83% of a base-fee collector that Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal said holds 121 million tokens. Nailwal said the contracts are on testnet and would move to mainnet after the...
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CFTC Files Crypto Market Rulemaking With White House at Prerule Stage
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sent a crypto market structure rulemaking to the White House on Thursday, two days after the Senate refused to take up the bill that would have written one into law. It is the only CFTC action pending White House review. Chairman Michael Selig said in...
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Zcash Is Running—Devs Want to Make It Faster
A new upgrade would cut Zcash block time from 75 seconds to 25, while quietly rewriting how the network pays for its own security after 2031.
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Bitcoin Will Hit $1 Million, Says Kevin O’Leary—But There’s a Quantum Catch
Kevin O'Leary believes Bitcoin could hit $1 million if crypto beats its quantum computing problem, and explained why he's ditching Ethereum.
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Neutrl Opens NUSD Redemptions at 51 Cents as Strata Junior Tranche Faces Wipeout
Neutrl has opened a redemption program whose Ethereum contract pays 0.51 USDC per NUSD, giving holders an exit at a 49% shortfall to the token’s $1 reference value. The rate is directly visible in Neutrl’s redemption contract: its `redemptionRate()` function returns 510000000000000000, an... Read...
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Coinbase Seeks CFTC Approval for US Single-Stock Perpetual Futures
Coinbase Derivatives has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to approve a suite of cash-settled perpetual futures tied to individual U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds, extending its domestic perpetual-futures push from equity indexes to single securities. U.S. customers...
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Fake AI Bot Tutorials Tricked 224 Victims Into Deploying Their Own Drainers
Fake YouTube tutorials promising AI-built crypto arbitrage bots led 224 victims to deploy and fund their own malicious smart contracts, draining 274.60 ETH between Feb. 12 and Aug. 11, TRM Labs said in a Sept. 14 analysis. The blockchain intelligence firm said it found 234 victim-deployed...
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Blockchain Dead Drop Attacks Jump 420% as State Hackers Expand
Blockchain dead drop attacks — campaigns that use public chains to hide malware instructions — increased 420% over the past 12 months, Chainalysis said, as state-linked groups came to account for roughly two-thirds of new activity in the second quarter of 2026. Chainalysis described the 420%...
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Bitcoin Runs to $81,000 and NEAR Adds 32% as Tokenization Tokens Lead
Bitcoin reached $81,000 on Friday and NEAR Protocol gained 32% over 24 hours, as DeFi and tokenization tokens led a rally that started in the Asia session and extended through the first 90 minutes of U.S. trading. Equities did not follow. The S&P 500 was at 7,630, 0.1% below Thursday's 7,638...
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Morpho Opens Borrowing Against Coinbase's Tokenized Stocks
Lending and borrowing against Coinbase's tokenized stocks is live on Base, Morpho said in a post on X. Holders can pledge the tokens and draw USDC at variable or fixed rates. The markets make Coinbase's stock tokens collateral. Coinbase began issuing them in August for users outside the United......
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WisdomTree Opens Tokenized Treasury Fund To MoonPay's 35 Million Accounts
WisdomTree and MoonPay will build an access point letting U.S. investors buy shares of WisdomTree's tokenized government money market fund inside MoonPay's platform, and MoonPay will use the fund in the reserve management behind its stablecoin business, the two firms said on Thursday. The... Read...
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Polymarket Hires Ex-Zora CEO for Onchain Product Push
Polymarket has hired former Zora CEO Jacob Horne to work on product with an emphasis on its DeFi offering, as CEO Shayne Coplan acknowledged that the performance of the prediction market’s onchain product has “waned” while the company scaled. Coplan said some longtime users believed Polymarket...
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Solana's Historic Governance Vote — While Robinhood Invades Its Meme Coin Turf
🎧 Listen to Interview 💻 Watch Video How JitoSOL Swung Solana's Governance Vote Jito Foundation's head of governance says a liquid-staking override mechanism decided Solana's closest on-chain vote, as validators confront an 87% revenue decline and rising competition from Robinhood Chain....
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X Adds US 'Trade' Button to Cashtags With Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini
X launched a U.S. Cashtag Partner Program on Sept. 15 that connects supported stock, ETF and cryptocurrency pages to Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Interactive Brokers and Moomoo. The new “Trade” option does not execute a transaction on X. A user taps a Cashtag to see its price chart and related...