South Korea’s FSC weighs legalizing crypto market makers after JPYC spiked on Upbit
South Korea's FSC is reviewing a crypto market-making system after JPYC traded far above its peg on Upbit, leaving thousands...
CFTC updates crypto FAQs, allowing tokenized customer funds and blockchain recordkeeping
CFTC staff guidance lets registered firms invest customer funds in tokenized assets and satisfy recordkeeping obligations with onchain records.
THORChain Refuses to Block Bitget Hacker Wallets After $387.5M Hack
THORChain has refused Bitget's formal request to block wallets tied to the $387.5 million hack of the exchange, telling the...
Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum’s 2027 Hegota fork may be its last ‘normal’ one
Vitalik Buterin says the 2027 Hegota fork is likely to be Ethereum's last 'normal' upgrade before a shift to proof-based,...
Bitget pauses withdrawals after confirming $351.6M hot wallet breach
Bitget says unauthorized transfers of about $351.6 million were detected from its hot wallets on September 24. Withdrawals are paused...
Hut 8 wins bankruptcy auction for Poolin’s Texas data centers with $140 million bid
Hut 8 won a bankruptcy auction for Poolin's Pyote and Tarbush Texas data centers with a $140 million bid, pending...
White hats move 52.37 BTC from Coldcard hack into Wyoming recovery trust
White-hat operators consolidated 52.37 BTC tied to the Coldcard exploit into a Crypto Recovery Trust address, and victims can search...
ECB Seeks to Scrap MiCA’s Stablecoin Bank-Deposit Reserve Rule
The ESCB asked the European Commission on September 22 to delete MiCA's rule requiring stablecoin issuers to hold up to...
Canada’s Big Six Banks Explore a Tokenized Canadian Dollar Deposit System
The six banks will explore a shared tokenized Canadian-dollar deposit system for interbank payments, 12 days after the banking regulator...
Binance buys $100 million Circle stake in five-year USDC promotion deal
Binance bought 1,237,011 Circle Class A shares for $100 million and signed a five-year USDC promotion deal, per an SEC...
Strategy buys 950 bitcoin for $75.7 million, holdings reach 846,000 BTC
Strategy bought 950 BTC for about $75.7 million between Sept. 14 and 20, taking total holdings to 846,000 BTC, its...
ECB to invest part of its own funds in tokenised securities
The ECB will invest a small portion of its own-funds portfolio in tokenised securities, settled in central bank money through...
Hyperliquid launches native borrowing and lending, $269M borrowed on day one
Hyperliquid turned on native borrowing and lending on HyperCore, with $269 million borrowed across the infrastructure on day one and...
ZetaChain Proposes Shutting Down Its Layer-1 and Migrating ZETA to Solana
ZetaChain's governance proposal asks ZETA holders to approve shutting down its Layer-1 and swapping ZETA 1:1 for a Solana SPL...
Visa Moves to End Memecoin Credit Card Rewards Loophole Tied to Crossmint
Visa is directing payment processors to stop coding memecoin purchases as digital goods, closing a rewards loophole tied to Crossmint,...
S&P Global agrees to acquire smart-contract security firm OpenZeppelin
S&P Global has agreed to acquire smart-contract security firm OpenZeppelin, whose code has carried over $37 trillion, the company says....
WaterPlum Malware Hid Inside Job Interviews to Drain Crypto Wallets
A fake-recruiter malware campaign attributed to North Korea's 313 General Bureau hit 30,000+ devices and stole data from 7,000+ crypto...
CFTC sends crypto market structure rulemaking to White House after CLARITY Act fails
The CFTC filed its crypto market structure rulemaking with the White House for review on Sept. 17, pressing ahead with...
Balancer DAO proposes orderly wind-down and treasury distribution to BAL holders
Balancer DAO has proposed shutting down the protocol and distributing a treasury of at least $9 million to BAL holders,...
Circle launches Arc blockchain mainnet with BlackRock, Visa among validators
Circle launched the public mainnet of Arc, its USDC-gas layer-1 blockchain, with BlackRock, Visa and DTCC among founding validators and...
