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Bitcoin’s price traded at $82,816 on Saturday, Oct. 10, as the market continued consolidating following its retreat from the $87,000 region. While the hourly chart shows signs of recovery, the four-hour and daily charts remain range-bound, with bulls defending support near $82,200. Technical indicators offer a mixed picture, with neutral oscillators, stronger, longer-term moving averages, […]View the full article

Strive’s SATA preferred stock generated an estimated $55 million this week, enough to buy about 638 BTC, even though the shares spent three of five trading days below the price at which new issuance stops. How the 638 BTC Was Acquired The number comes from a weekly dashboard snapshot which shows three figures for the […]View the full article

The XRP Ledger quietly patched a 2015-era payment engine flaw that could have let an attacker create spendable XRP beyond the network’s fixed supply for just a few hundred XRP in reserves. What Was Actually Broken? The problem sat inside the code that settles payments across the XRP Ledger’s built-in decentralized exchange (DEX). According to […]View the full article

A Hyperliquid trader is sitting on a $32.36 million bitcoin short exactly one year after the 10/10 crash that erased over $19.1 billion in leveraged bets. The Nitty Gritty Of The Matter The position surfaced earlier today, with the account holding $7.19 million in equity and one open perpetual futures (perps) position, a short on […]View the full article

Lithuania’s tax authority has issued updated procedures clarifying user reporting requirements for crypto asset service providers to align national rules with the EU’s DAC8 and OECD tax transparency standards. Customer Data and Due-Diligence Criteria Lithuania’s tax authority, the State Tax Inspectorate, has issued updated procedures clarifying user reporting requirements for crypto asset service providers as […]View the full article

A crypto scam courier was sentenced after Alabama officers arrested him in a sting involving a supposed $300,000 payment. The case also details how an older resident kept sending money to strangers despite authorities’ intervention. A Grocery Store Pickup Became a Police Sting Kuan Tsou’s sentence and restitution order were announced Oct. 7 by Alabama […]View the full article

Credit unions involved with stablecoins could face 26 new federal reporting fields covering custody, issuer exposure, and their own holdings. The proposal seeks more detailed supervision as community institutions explore digital dollar services. Stablecoin Custody and Holdings Face Closer Oversight Federally insured credit unions could have to disclose more about their stablecoin businesses through 26 […]View the full article

Franklin Templeton is exploring whether regulatory exemptions could allow tokenized money market funds and ETFs to trade through blockchain venues. Its Oct. 9 meeting with SEC Crypto Task Force staff addressed legal questions about pricing, fees, and pooled assets. Tokenized Fund Trades Put Pricing Rules in Focus Trading tokenized money market funds and exchange-traded funds […]View the full article

Kishu Inu grew into a billion-dollar cryptocurrency, and its creator allegedly collected millions from undisclosed token sales. Federal prosecutors now accuse him of misleading investors while selling holdings secretly allocated before the public could buy. Kishu Inu Creator Charged Over Alleged $9 Million Rug Pull Investors in Kishu Inu allegedly received false assurances about its […]View the full article

On Friday, the crypto community finds itself confronting yet another security controversy, this time involving hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger. Although preliminary reports placed the alleged theft at $86 million, suspected losses may have reached $93.4 million, and with Ledger yet to provide an official account, a supply chain attack has emerged as the most credible […]View the full article

SBI Digital Practice and Kyobo Life completed a cross-border pilot that directly converted yen-linked test tokens into won-linked tokens. The trial examined whether stablecoin infrastructure could reduce delays, conversion steps, and costs in institutional transfers. SBI and Kyobo Test Direct Yen-Won Settlement Cross-border institutions could eventually move funds between Japan and South Korea without routing […]View the full article

Binance traders now hold more XRP in futures contracts than they did before the Senate sank the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, even with XRP still about 65% below its all-time high. The Number That Came Back Open interest, i.e. the total amount of futures contracts still open, is the cleanest read on how much […]View the full article

A small team of researchers chained three bugs with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and ended up inside OpenAI’s private code repository. The whole job took under 72 hours, and OpenAI paid $6,500 for it. The Chain, Link by Link A vulnerable ‘libheif’ library inside Discourse, the forum software, allowed remote code execution (RCE) on the […]View the full article

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde personally intervened to keep Binance out of the European Union. Three months after the bid collapsed, the world’s largest exchange is still locked out of the bloc. The Announcement That Never Shipped By late May, Binance’s paperwork was effectively done, so much […]View the full article

Michael Saylor says the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new innovation exemption clears tokenized MSTR and STRC to trade onchain around the clock. It is the first live test of the digital credit pitch he has spent a year selling. A Reaction, Not a Rule Saylor did not wait long to make the proclamation […]View the full article

Five XRP Ledger addresses that didn’t exist until about a day earlier now hold 100 million XRP each, and every one was created by the same Uphold wallet that filled it. The Alert That Lit up XRP Twitter A burst of posts on Sept. 17 flagged half a billion XRP leaving Uphold, the multi-asset trading […]View the full article

Crypto venture funding rebounded sharply in the second quarter of 2026, with investors deploying about $5.7 billion across 384 deals. The recovery was driven by larger, later-stage financings, while fundraising for new crypto venture funds remained unusually weak. Crypto VC Firms Deploy Funds Across 384 Q2 Deals Crypto venture capital is showing signs of life […]View the full article

A cross-party House of Lords committee has told the UK government to ban almost all gambling advertising as soon as it is “practicable” to do so, and to abandon its objective of growing the sector along the way. The industry’s lobby group, the Betting and Gaming Council, immediately called the report “deeply misguided.” A Ban […]View the full article

Heritage Auctions in Dallas traced a rare video-game hoard in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and sent partner Cris Bierrenbach to meet the seller without knowing what he would find. About 90% of the games in the Dallas-Fort Worth Collection were sealed, including early prints of The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Contra alongside dozens of […]View the full article

Growing concerns over AI safety have sparked an intense debate on regulation. While Andrew Yang warns that rogue self-replicating code is already corrupting web training data, Sentient Labs argues that simply slowing down AI development is ineffective without dynamic evaluation and independent verification infrastructure. Rogue Code Forces Tech Firms Into ‘Synthetic Internets’ Days after Anthropic […]View the full article

At 8:40 a.m., bitcoin’s price is hovering around $75,879 on Sept. 16, 2026, after a sharp intraday washout tested $74,913 and buyers managed to pull the price back into the mid-$75,000s. The bigger picture is far less tidy. Short-term momentum remains weak, longer-term moving averages still lean positive, and bitcoin is sitting between nearby support […]View the full article

Circle has opened Arc’s public mainnet with 11 founding validators drawn almost entirely from traditional finance. At least two of them are also among Ripple’s closest commercial partners. The Validator List Reads Like a Bank Directory Arc’s genesis validator cohort is Blackrock, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Galaxy, Global Payments, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), […]View the full article

Washington, D.C., September 16, 2026 — The Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing clear and ethical public policy, research, and education related to emerging technologies, today announced the conclusion of Managing Director Adrian Wall’s participation in The Digital Chamber’s Convergence Forum, held September 14, 2026, in New York City. The forum […]View the full article

A trader sold 866 bitcoin and bought 26,924 ether on Sept. 15, hours before the U.S. Senate blocked the CLARITY Act, resulting in bitcoin’s price falling under $75,000 shortly afterward. The Trade Onchain analytics firm Lookonchain flagged the wallet, labeled 0x4553, and the accounting turned out to be unusually clean, with the whale swapping 512 […]View the full article

Kalshi now moves $40B+ in monthly volume while handling roughly 80% of U.S. prediction market volume. The figures lie in stark contrast to recent developments, the most pertinent being the Senate’s decision to quash the highly awaited crypto market structure bill, à la CLARITY. A Regulated Winner on a Losing Night Bitcoin historian Pete Rizzo […]View the full article