Raw News Items
75 itemsSeptember 7, 2026
- CoinDesk
Metaplanet CEO breaks silence but shareholders say the hard questions remain unanswered
Simon Gerovich said Metaplanet had not adequately explained the structure, and denied involvement in MMXX Ventures’ trading decisions.
- CryptoSlate
A seven-year-old blockchain is permanently abandoning its own network to seek refuge on Ethereum
Harmony is proposing to shut down the blockchain it controversially restored through a rollback less than three weeks ago. The Sept. 6 plan would end Harmony’s independent network, move ONE to Ethereum, and preserve the token through a snapshot and airdrop, reversing the project’s position from Aug....
- The BlockScore: 85
Spot bitcoin ETFs pull in $987 million last week as institutional demand recovers
Spot bitcoin ETFs drew in $3.52 billion in net inflows in August, their largest monthly positive flows since September 2025.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
‘White hats’ take 4000 BTC from Liquid, ETFs see best inflows of 2026: Hodler’s Digest
Purported white hat hackers have taken 4000 Bitcoin from the Liquid sidechain in a major security breach. The Bitcoin ETFs see the best three weeks of inflows in 2026.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Bitcoin network used by exchanges hit by $320 million exploit. Hackers claim they're the 'good guys'
Liquid Network, a settlement layer used by exchanges, halted all transactions after losing $320 million worth of bitcoin in a security exploit.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Bitcoin sidechain Liquid pauses after purported ‘white hats’ withdraw $320M in BTC
The actors told Blockstream they would return most of the 4,000 BTC after the Elements vulnerability is patched across the network.
- The BlockScore: 85
South Korea’s Hanwha develops tokenized securities platform on Avalanche as local regulation takes shape: report
South Korea passed amendments that integrate tokenized securities into the existing financial system, coming into effect next February.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
A whitehat hacker is holding $320 million in drained Bitcoin until developers prove they patched a fatal network flaw
Liquid Network was effectively halted after nearly $320 million in Bitcoin left its federation reserve through an abnormal peg-out. The incident began Sept. 6 when a customer submitted 4,000 L-BTC to SideSwap’s peg-out service, which converts Bitcoin represented on Liquid back into BTC on the main n...
- DecryptScore: 85
'Purported White-Hat Hackers' Withdraw $320M in Bitcoin From Liquid
Blockstream and the hackers are engaging with each other through PGP-signed messages in Bitcoin transactions.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
A two-key breach could hand control of $91 billion in USDT to hackers, report finds
The rating agency's new framework combines Wall Street financial auditing with Web3 code reviews to evaluate both off-chain reserves and on-chain security.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Tokens created out of thin air may explain how $320 million in Bitcoin left the Liquid sidechain
Researchers examining the roughly $320 million Liquid Network incident have identified an alleged failure in the software’s transaction-validation cache, offering a more specific explanation for how unbacked tokens could be redeemed for real Bitcoin. Accounts also raise a deployment question. Monona...
- DecryptScore: 85
Liquid Hackers Return $270M in Bitcoin After Swiping $320 Million
Nearly 600 BTC remains outstanding after Blockstream told the actors in an on-chain message that Liquid’s bridge nodes had been patched.
- The BlockScore: 80
Liquid Network attacker says they will return most of 4,000 BTC after bug fix
The Liquid Network attacker said they would return most of the roughly 4,000 BTC once the software bug affecting the network is patched.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Harmony proposes shutting down layer 1, migrating ONE to Ethereum
Harmony proposed sunsetting its layer-1 blockchain and migrating ONE to Ethereum, weeks after an exploit led to plans to discard 109,000 transactions.
- The BlockScore: 75
Coldcard exploiter moves 45% of funds stolen from ‘Wave 3’ attacks, Galaxy says
As of mid-August, Galaxy said it had identified roughly 1,779 BTC stolen from 190 victims and more than 8,600 addresses.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Coldcard third-wave attacker moves 45% of stolen Bitcoin
Galaxy said 82% of Bitcoin stolen across all Coldcard attacks remains in the original addresses, with 18% moved in apparent laundering.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Citi, DBS complete first weekend tokenized cross-border deposit on Swift
Citi and DBS completed their first tokenized cross-border transfer over the weekend, using Swift’s blockchain-based ledger to circumvent the constraints of traditional banking hours.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
DBS and Citi complete weekend USD payment via Swift’s Digital Ledger using tokenized deposits
The transaction is the second confirmed live use of Swift's blockchain ledger, coming as the network races to prove it can compete with digital payment rails that never close.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Ethereum commits to letting users pay gas fees without having to hold ETH
The Frame Transactions feature was locked into the Hegotá upgrade last month, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the work has moved quickly since.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Australia cancels registration of crypto provider GetCoins following customer scam complaints
Australia’s financial intelligence regulator AUSTRAC said Sept. 7 that it canceled, suspended or refused to renew 45 remittance and virtual asset provider registrations over the past year, highlighting how failures under the registration regime can cost businesses permission to operate. The disclosu...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Ethereum Foundation names 2 ‘must ship’ EIPs for Hegotá upgrade
Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade will center on FOCIL and Frame Transactions as developers weigh dozens of other proposed changes for inclusion.
- The BlockScore: 70
Capital B buys $29 million in bitcoin after raises, its largest BTC purchase in a year
This brought its total holdings to 3,521 BTC and marked the company's largest bitcoin purchase since September 2025.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Coldcard hacker moves $7.7 million in BTC, 45% of bitcoin stolen in third attack wave
The attacker has now drained the 11 largest vaults tied to the third wave of Coldcard thefts, Galaxy Research said.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Philippines eyes payment operator registration freeze, tighter VASP checks
A central bank proposal would pause new payment operator registrations while requiring enhanced monitoring and transaction limits for arrangements involving virtual asset firms.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin puts 60% odds on a cryptography breakthrough that could weaken Wall Street middlemen
Vitalik Buterin sees a 60% chance that advanced cryptography becomes cheap enough to reshape Ethereum privacy. On Sept. 6, the Ethereum co-founder said there is a 60% probability that SNARKs, fully homomorphic encryption and indistinguishability obfuscation will eventually operate at less than 10 ti...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Zcash hits highest price since 2016 as market cap tops $20B
ZEC gained 45% over the past week, extending its rally since Grayscale converted its Zcash Trust into an ETF that began trading Aug. 25.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Ethereum may have a simpler way to ease the computing burden of its growing rollup ecosystem
An Ethereum prototype that divides blob-recovery duties among nodes reported an 11–18× reduction in estimated reconstruction computing work across 1,000-node simulations. The results suggest operators could reduce duplicated work through a smaller change than the full RowDAS networking proposal. Res...
- DecryptScore: 70
Ethereum Proposal Would Let Users Pay Gas Without Holding ETH
EIP-8141 has been a draft since January, and its authors pitch it first as a defense against quantum computers.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Ethereum’s privacy push hits a numbers problem: one proof needs nearly twice the proposed gas allowance
A Sept. 5 proposal would let some Ethereum nodes accept privacy transactions that exceed a shared validation allowance, without ensuring those transactions travel across the public network. The proposed 100,000-gas guarantee remains below the proof-verification cost reported in a new privacy benchma...
- DecryptScore: 70
Malone Lam Faces Plea Hearing Over $245M Bitcoin Theft
A plea agreement hearing in Lam's case is set for Tuesday in Washington, nearly two years after his arrest in Miami.
- DecryptScore: 70
Middle East Crypto Activity Triples to $350 Billion Amid Ongoing Conflict, Report Finds
The Iran conflict has increased demand for digital assets to preserve and transfer wealth, while Gulf crypto businesses have kept operating through disruption, the Bitcoin Policy Institute says.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Solana beats Bitcoin on one key metric, but a single software bug could still take down the network
ARK Invest and Glassnode have put a new number on blockchain capture risk: the smallest group of block-production entities needed to cross a protocol-relevant control threshold. Their joint scorecard, published Sept. 1, put the threshold at three entities for Bitcoin and Ethereum and 19 for Solana. ...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
UK financial watchdog weighs lifting prediction markets ban: Report
Companies offering binary options for retail investors have been barred from selling, marketing and distributing products in the UK since 2019 following a directive from the FCA.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
A Coinbase-backed crypto bridge is shutting down after its business model stopped working
Router Protocol will shut down all remaining operations by Sept. 30 after failing to build a sustainable bridge business. The cross-chain infrastructure project said it spent the past year exploring commercialization, licensing, and acquisition opportunities, including talks with teams that could ta...
- DecryptScore: 65
Coldcard Hacker Moves $7.7M, Nearly Half of Third-Wave Bitcoin Haul
The attacker built 293 separate vaults for the stolen Bitcoin and is emptying them in order of size, largest first.
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Solana to triple transaction size as apps get room for more complex trades
A Transaction v1 feature activates Wednesday, allowing complex proofs and large multisig operations to fit in one transaction while forcing services that read Solana to update.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Solana’s “million-payments-a-second” AI system can leave sellers unpaid even after they deliver
A customer using a Solana payment channel can stop buying AI services before the channel has finished paying for them. If the operator goes silent in between, the customer needs a way to recover the remaining deposit, while the merchant needs its last bill to reach the blockchain before the recovery...
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Capital B adds 376 Bitcoin in $29M purchase, boosting holdings to 3,521 BTC
Capital B’s latest Bitcoin purchase was its largest in nearly a year, pushing the French company ahead of H100 Group among publicly traded BTC holders.
- DecryptScore: 65
Brazilian Banks Expand Crypto Offerings as Regulation Takes Hold
Itaú, Nubank, and Banco do Brasil now sell more than a dozen tokens each to retail clients, even as none of them touch crypto with their own balance sheet.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Ethereum arbitrage study reveals builders receive $5 for every $1 burned by the network
Ethereum arbitrage generated about $5.24 in builder receipts for every $1 burned in a 30-day sample reported by blockchain data provider Bitquery. Its allocation puts 49.3% of measured surplus toward block assembly, 9.4% toward burned fees and 41.3% with trading operators. For ETH holders, the findi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Strong jobs just triggered a hawkish UBS reversal that could pressure Bitcoin through December
UBS's new forecast of two Federal Reserve rate hikes this year extends Bitcoin's potential macro headwind through December. The issue reaches beyond September's decision: investors may have to weigh the cost of holding a non-yielding asset against interest-bearing alternatives through the end of 202...
- The BlockScore: 60
Harmony to fully sunset Layer 1, proposes token migration to Ethereum for AI video initiative
Harmony said it would help validators transition to its proposed new initiative, a 'remix economy' with AI video creators.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Once-hyped Ethereum rival Harmony wants to shut its blockchain over AI threats
Developers want to voluntarily shut down the network, saying state actors and AI agents have made security too difficult, then redirect ONE emissions into an AI video business.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Bitcoin struggles at $83,000 sell wall as whales distribution flip into net selling
All wallet cohorts have shifted into net distribution for the first time since early June, but a potential golden cross offers bulls some hope.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
UK regulator weighs easing financial prediction market ban: Times
The FCA reportedly held talks with trading platforms as Britons turn to Polymarket and Kalshi, though its public position still supports the ban.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Yen intervention meets US inflation data: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
This week’s CPI and PPI prints, along with the Fed’s Sept. 16 rate decision, could determine whether Bitcoin can secure $80,000 as a support level.
- The BlockScore: 60
DBS, Citi say they completed first weekend USD payment between Singapore and US via tokenized deposits
DBS and Citi completed the first weekend cross-border USD settlement between Singapore and the U.S. using tokenized deposits.
- DecryptScore: 60
Bitcoin Starts the Week Flat, But Chainlink Is Flying—Here's Why
LINK hit an eight-month high after Bottomline, a top-three SWIFT services provider moving $16 trillion a year, tapped Chainlink to connect 600-plus banks to blockchain settlement.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin chips away at weekend upside as $80K hangs in the balance
Bitcoin price fell 2% in low-liquidity conditions as the US Labor Day holiday saw $80,000 once again slip from bulls’ grasp.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Polish prosecutors charge suspect in Zondacrypto probe, seek pretrial detention
Polish prosecutors charged Romana Ż. with organized crime and misappropriation offenses involving $2.1 million in Zondacrypto user funds.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
DeFi lender proposes bad-debt fix, but user USDC funds remain locked
Lending protocol Moonwell's proposed rate changes could cut monthly interest accruing on bad debt by about 85%, according to Anthias Labs' projection. Its Sept. 4 recovery update leaves access to USDC and a return to borrowing as separate hurdles. Moonwell said in the update that governance proposal...
- CoinDeskScore: 55
Live updates: Bitcoin holds $79,000 as hike odds climb, zcash runs 45% in a week
August payrolls came in three times above forecast and pushed September hike odds toward 58%. Equities sold it and crypto has not.
- The BlockScore: 50
Bitcoin holds near $80,000 despite renewed Fed rate hike fears as CPI test looms
The odds of a September Fed rate hike returned to around 60% following Friday's jobs report, with U.S. inflation data due later this week.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Stablecoin wallets challenge traditional bank accounts as main consumer money hub
Industry leaders debate whether digital dollar wallets will dismantle traditional bank accounts or simply modernize the underlying infrastructure.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Polish prosecutors charge fifth suspect in a massive crypto probe
BitBay became Zondacrypto in 2021. The exchange stopped trading in April after customers faced frozen withdrawals and estimated losses of at least $94 million.
- DecryptScore: 50
Harmony Cites AI Threats in Proposed Blockchain Shutdown
The team wants to move ONE to Ethereum and enter the AI-video business, urging users to exit smart contracts before September 10.
- CoinDeskScore: 45
No, Friday's jobs report hasn't materially boosted Fed rate hike odds
BTC fell on Friday and Treasury yields rose, but the hawkish market reaction looks overdone when compared to the largely steady Fed rate hike odds.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
This cat memecoin has paid holders $2.8 million in Zcash as ZEC tops $1,200
A brand new ZCAT token charges a 3% tax whenever the token moves and uses the proceeds to distribute ZEC to holders, creating an unusual link to one of crypto's hottest assets.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Fomo overtakes Pump.fun in daily revenue on Solana
Fomo generated $1.76 million on Friday, beating Pump.fun’s $1.1 million, though the memecoin launchpad remains ahead over 30 days.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
U.S. inflation, Coinbase’s Deribit switch: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what's coming in the week starting Sept. 7.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
CZ’s Kyrgyzstan visit highlights why state backing cannot guarantee a stablecoin exit
Changpeng Zhao’s September 5 visit to Kyrgyzstan’s crypto council came as President Sadyr Japarov set a three-month deadline for new regulations and officials discussed the risks posed by international sanctions. The decisions put the limits of domestic crypto policy in focus: approval at home does ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Hyperliquid tests allowlists that let operators restrict access to their own markets
In a Sept. 3 developer update, Hyperliquid API Announcements said the onchain derivatives exchange was adding optional wallet allowlists to builder-run perpetual markets. The testnet-only extension, called HIP-3*, would let a market deployer decide which wallets may trade on its venue without imposi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
XRP lending model leaves depositors with 90% of a bad loan’s loss despite reserves twice its size
The value backing depositors' shares in a modeled XRP Ledger loan book falls by 90,000 tokens when one loan defaults, compared with 4,500 when the same 100,000 tokens of bad debt sits in ten smaller loans. Both books start with 1 million tokens of debt, a 200,000-token reserve and identical protecti...
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Bitcoin fund flows show investors trading Fed rate path, not exiting market: CoinShares
Bitcoin’s struggle to break $80,000 comes as markets price in a growing chance of a September rate hike, putting monetary conditions back in focus.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Weekend altcoin rally runs out of road as bitcoin slips
Bitcoin fell 1.1% since midnight UTC as Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.3%, while the weekend's double-digit altcoin gains stalled.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Bitcoin blinks less than gold when Treasury yields move
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 7, 2026
- DecryptScore: 30
Irish Gangs Are Renting Private Vaults to Hide Crypto Keys
Keys are going into rented boxes alongside cash, watches and passports, Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau says.
- DecryptScore: 30
Hunter Biden to Airdrop LAPTOP Meme Coin to TRUMP’s Biggest Losers
Hunter Biden is launching a meme coin called LAPTOP on Sept. 9 on Base, and airdropping traders who lost money on TRUMP.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
Vitalik Buterin now confident AI won’t break crypto, betting 90% of his net worth
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has pushed back against predictions that artificial intelligence could trigger a 50% Bitcoin crash within two years. The debate began after Silicon Valley investor and AI-risk commentator Liron Shapiro said he sees a 50% probability that Bitcoin will fall more tha...
- DecryptScore: 30
OpenAI Chief Scientist Warns AI Labs May Need to Slow Down
Jakub Pachocki is calling for mandatory safety standards as OpenAI finds it harder to monitor advanced AI models’ reasoning.
- CoinDeskScore: 20
Oil up, bitcoin down as U.S. strikes Iranian crude carriers
Bitcoin trades lower by nearly 1% as escalating U.S.-Iran hostilities push oil higher.
- CoinDeskScore: 20
Hunter Biden debuts 'LAPTOP' memecoin targeting TRUMP holders
LAPTOP debuts Wednesday on Base, with nearly a third of the supply set to be burned if a slate of political and market outcomes — including a Democratic win in 2028 — comes good.
- CointelegraphScore: 20
Joe Biden’s son to launch memecoin, will send to TRUMP holders: WSJ
Hunter Biden will reportedly distribute 200 million of the LAPTOP token to his substack subscribers, members of a mailing list and investors in President Donald Trump’s memecoin.
- DecryptScore: 20
Your LG TV Might Still Be Listening to You—Even When It Looks Like It’s Off
A Gamers Nexus investigation found LG sets scanning every device on a home network and capturing microphone audio with the screen off, four months after LG promised Texas regulators it had cleaned up its tracking.
- DecryptScore: 15
Will the Crypto Trenches Show Up for Hunter Biden's Meme Coin?
Biden's LAPTOP meme coin drops this week. Most crypto traders out there so far don't seem too enthused.