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White Hats Just Pulled 52 Bitcoin Back From a Coldcard Exploit

Sep 24, 2026

Britain's Banks Bet on Tokenized Deposits. The BoE Couldn't Be Happier

Sep 24, 2026

Circle Just Switched On 24/7 Stablecoin FX Settlement for a $10 Trillion Market

Sep 23, 2026

Bitcoin Slips to $84,357 as the 10-Year Treasury Yield Breaks 5% for the First Time in 19 Years

Sep 23, 2026

6,678 XRP Wallets Drained in Six Waves: Inside the $18.7M D'CENT Timeline

Sep 23, 2026

Visa Survey Says Bank-Like Stablecoin Rules Unlock US Adoption. There's a $250,000 Catch.

Sep 23, 2026

$1 Billion in Volume, $19.8 Million in Tokens: The Exit Problem Inside Coinbase's Stock Tokens

Sep 23, 2026

Raiffeisen Brings Bitcoin to 18.8 Million Customers, Just Not the Keys

Sep 23, 2026

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Balancer's $1.4M Recovery Is Real. The Payout Isn't.

2 days ago

Balancer's $1.4M Recovery Is Real. The Payout Isn't.

Balancer's proposal would split 296.401711 ETH across 120 legacy V1 pools hit by the Aug. 31 exploit, but no claim window is open and no address knows what it's owed. LPs are holding a paper claim with no way to price it.

Hester Peirce Says DeFi Doesn't Need an Exemption. She's Right.

2 days ago

Hester Peirce Says DeFi Doesn't Need an Exemption. She's Right.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce's Sept. 17 remarks reframe DeFi regulation around a single question: who controls the protocol? If nobody does, there's no intermediary to exempt. That's cleaner than it sounds, and harder to prove than builders think.

The Real TOKEN2049 Happens After Dark, and Zoomex Knows It

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2 days ago

The Real TOKEN2049 Happens After Dark, and Zoomex Knows It

Zoomex is throwing a Traders After Party at TOKEN2049 Singapore on October 7, complete with an F1 driver Q&A and MacBook Air prizes. It looks like fun. It's actually a strategy reveal for the derivatives platform's push into TradFi.

M&A Is Booming, Just Not Below $1 Billion

2 days ago

M&A Is Booming, Just Not Below $1 Billion

BCG says global M&A value ran 11% above its 10-year average in the first eight months of 2026, but nearly all the gain sits at the top of the market. Sub-$1 billion deal volume is still below normal, and that gap tells you more about this cycle than the headline number does.

Robinhood's $146M Tokenized-Stock Bet Hits Its First Real Test

3 days ago

Robinhood's $146M Tokenized-Stock Bet Hits Its First Real Test

Robinhood Chain pulled in $146 million in tokenized stocks while gas was free. On Sept. 29 the free ride ends, and the next seven days will tell us whether that number is a product or a promotion.

Zoomex Books Ollie Bearman and a 590-Pair Pitch for Oct 7 in Singapore

3 days ago

Zoomex Books Ollie Bearman and a 590-Pair Pitch for Oct 7 in Singapore

Zoomex is hosting the Traders After Party at TOKEN2049 Singapore on October 7, 2026, with an F1 driver Q&A, a derivatives panel, and a MacBook Air on the prize table. The party is the fun part. The positioning behind it's the actual story.

Bitcoin Cleared $80,000 While $148 Billion Drained Out of the Banking System

3 days ago

Bitcoin Cleared $80,000 While $148 Billion Drained Out of the Banking System

A $148.003 billion tax-date cash build drained bank reserves, the Fed hiked 25 basis points the same day, and the repo market shrugged it off. Bitcoin went from $76,147 to $82,000 anyway. The plumbing held, but that's not the same thing as liquidity getting loose.

Ethereum's $3,000 Bid and XRP's $3,300 Fantasy: Two Sides of the Same Trade

3 days ago

Ethereum's $3,000 Bid and XRP's $3,300 Fantasy: Two Sides of the Same Trade

Ethereum's six-day rally to $2,658 has traders eyeing $3,000, while XRP sits at $1.44 with a $3,300 collateral thesis gaining traction. Both bets depend on the same thing, and only one of them has math that holds up.

Bitcoin Cleared Its 50-Week Line After 45 Weeks. Now Comes the Test

3 days ago

Bitcoin Cleared Its 50-Week Line After 45 Weeks. Now Comes the Test

Bitcoin closed above its 50-week moving average for the first time since November 2025, ending a 45-week streak that had bulls frustrated. The signal has lined up with past cycle bottoms, but the next few weekly closes matter more than this one.

what's Sovereign AI? Wall Street's Next Big Trade Isn't a Chatbot

3 days ago

what's Sovereign AI? Wall Street's Next Big Trade Isn't a Chatbot

Sovereign AI, the idea that nations and institutions keep control of their own data and compute, is shaping up as Wall Street's next big trade. Analyst Dan Ives flagged Nvidia and Palantir as the first names to benefit. The real money isn't in which model wins. It's in who builds and owns the infrastructure underneath all of them.

SBF Paid Seven Figures for Uniswap.com, Then Handed It Back for Free

3 days ago

SBF Paid Seven Figures for Uniswap.com, Then Handed It Back for Free

Hayden Adams just revealed that Sam Bankman-Fried once dropped seven figures on the Uniswap.com domain and pointed it at a fork. Uniswap got it back without paying a dime. It's a wild window into how crypto's 2020 brand wars actually worked.

S&P Global Just Bought Crypto's Most Trusted Security Firm. Here's What That Actually Signals.

3 days ago

S&P Global Just Bought Crypto's Most Trusted Security Firm. Here's What That Actually Signals.

S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the smart contract security firm behind the code libraries securing billions in onchain value. The deal is undisclosed in price and hasn't closed, but it says something loud about where institutional finance thinks crypto's risk layer lives.

Jensen Huang Is Winning Trump's AI Circle, and Nvidia's Stock Is Paying Attention

3 days ago

Jensen Huang Is Winning Trump's AI Circle, and Nvidia's Stock Is Paying Attention

Nvidia's Jensen Huang has quietly become President Trump's most trusted voice on AI policy, outflanking Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. The stock keeps climbing, but the real test for investors isn't the photo op, it's export policy.

Four Men, Black Tape, and a €40,000 Crypto Transfer

3 days ago

Four Men, Black Tape, and a €40,000 Crypto Transfer

A crypto worker in northern France was forced to hand over €40,000 in digital assets after four hooded men tied up his family. This is the latest in a growing wave of physical attacks targeting crypto holders. And it should scare every anon with a public face.

Wall Street Ate a 30% Oil Spike and a 5% Yield. Strategists Call That Healthy

3 days ago

Wall Street Ate a 30% Oil Spike and a 5% Yield. Strategists Call That Healthy

Oil surged roughly 30% and the 10-year Treasury yield pushed through 5% in a month, yet the S&P 500 barely moved. Strategists say that wall of worry is exactly what a strong market looks like, not a red flag.

FCA Hits Three London Crypto Desks: Why Physical P2P Is the Next Enforcement Target

3 days ago

FCA Hits Three London Crypto Desks: Why Physical P2P Is the Next Enforcement Target

The FCA, HMRC and the Met walked into three London commercial premises on September 10 looking for unregistered crypto trading. Cease-and-desist notices followed. This isn't a crackdown on Coinbase or Kraken. It's something narrower, and more interesting, than that.

DTCC Opens Fund/SERV to Tokenized Funds: 85% of Mutual Fund Orders Just Got an On-Chain Door

3 days ago

DTCC Opens Fund/SERV to Tokenized Funds: 85% of Mutual Fund Orders Just Got an On-Chain Door

Oasis Pro Markets and Ondo Finance became the first tokenization-focused members of DTCC's Fund/SERV, the network that processes more than 85% of U.S. mutual fund order transactions. It's the least flashy news in crypto this month, and probably the most consequential. Here's why the back office matters more than the token launch.

World Money Wants to Be Your Wallet. The Stripe Hook Is the Real Story.

3 days ago

World Money Wants to Be Your Wallet. The Stripe Hook Is the Real Story.

Tools for Humanity just launched World Money, a self-custodial app that pairs stablecoins with Stripe-powered fiat onboarding. The identity-first pitch finally gets a financial layer, and some features stay locked by region. Here's what actually matters.

North Korea's Fake Recruiters Stole $10.7M and Hit 30,000 Devices: Your Job Offer Could Be the Exploit

3 days ago

North Korea's Fake Recruiters Stole $10.7M and Hit 30,000 Devices: Your Job Offer Could Be the Exploit

WaterPlum impersonated hiring managers at crypto, AI and NFT companies, planting malware on 30,000 devices across more than 100 countries and draining $10.7 million. The real lesson isn't about code, it's about the humans running it.

WisdomTree Taps MoonPay: 30 Million Accounts Get a Tokenized Fund On-Ramp

3 days ago

WisdomTree Taps MoonPay: 30 Million Accounts Get a Tokenized Fund On-Ramp

WisdomTree is plugging MoonPay's payment rails into WisdomTree Prime, giving the processor's 30 million-plus registered accounts a path into the WTGXX tokenized government money market fund. The engineering was never the hard part. Distribution is.