Raw News Items
75 itemsSeptember 11, 2026
- CoinDesk
Robinhood CEO says companies shouldn't get veto over stock tokens in AMC feud
In a post on Friday, Vlad Tenev said securities issuers should control shareholder rights, but not separate products that track their publicly traded shares.
- CryptoSlate
US Bank moves USBDC across borders on Stellar, but only inside its own walls
U.S. Bank has completed a live cross-border payment pilot using USBDC, its proprietary U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin. The transaction demonstrated in a limited test that the lender could move its own token between bank entities on a public blockchain while keeping established financial controls conn...
- DecryptScore: 90
Sam Bankman-Fried Asks Supreme Court to Overturn FTX Fraud Conviction
SBF’s lawyers say he was barred from arguing customers lost nothing, and call the $11 billion forfeiture an "crushing fine."
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Revised CLARITY Act targets ‘non-decentralized’ DeFi operators
The bill’s ethics section remained largely unchanged despite being one of the main points of contention ahead of a pivotal Senate vote.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Bitcoin tests critical $76,000 support cluster during macro energy shock
Bitcoin fell below $77,000 on Sept. 10 as oil rose above $100, and a global bond selloff pushed traders toward another Fed hike. BTC reached an intraday low of $76,676.07, Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.7%, and the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 4.93% while the 30-year touched 5.35%, its highest level...
- The BlockScore: 85
Sam Bankman-Fried asks Supreme Court to overturn fraud conviction and $11 billion forfeiture
Bankman-Fried says he was unfairly barred from providing evidence that FTX had more than enough assets to cover losses from the collapse.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
India starts tokenizing $620 billion corporate bond market with digital rupee settlement
SEBI’s Demat 2.0 pilot turns corporate bonds into digital tokens and settles payment through the RBI’s wholesale digital rupee, with secondary trading and retail access expected in later phases.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
SBF asks Supreme Court to overturn conviction, $11B forfeiture: Report
Bankman-Fried’s lawyers challenged the exclusion of evidence about customer losses and argued that his $11 billion forfeiture was excessive.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Blockstream rejects ransom as Liquid hackers hold nearly 600 BTC
Blockstream said it would work with law enforcement, exchanges and forensic specialists to recover the Bitcoin if the hackers do not return it.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
CLARITY Act’s biggest Senate vote could happen before the bill is actually finished
White House digital assets adviser Patrick Witt has reduced the Senate's immediate choice on the CLARITY Act to “get on the bill and let's keep talking.” The Sept. 15 vote is a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, scheduled to ripen at 2:15 p.m., according to the Senate floor sc...
- The BlockScore: 85
‘Return the bitcoin’: Blockstream refuses ransom demand for remaining 600 BTC from Liquid exploit
Liquid has resumed transactions following the exploit, though peg-outs remain disabled as recovery work continues.
- The BlockScore: 85
India’s SEBI Demat 2.0 pilot debuts with over $100 million in tokenized bonds
India's SEBI Demat 2.0 pilot saw three issuers raise over $100 million in tokenized corporate bonds, with settlement via wholesale CBDC.
- DecryptScore: 85
Blockstream Refuses Ransom for Return of $47M in Bitcoin from Liquid Hack: 'It Is Theft'
With 598.5 BTC still outstanding, the company says it will go to law enforcement should the funds not be returned.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Bitcoin spikes toward $80K as US CPI data delivers new 22-year high in bond yields
Bitcoin briefly rebounded past $79,000 and US stocks turned green as US CPI inflation data met expectations.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Nasdaq deepens Kraken ties with proposed $100 million Payward investment
Nasdaq has agreed to invest $100 million in Payward, the parent company of Kraken, while Payward plans to adopt Nasdaq market-surveillance technology across its trading businesses. The two moves add capital and market-integrity infrastructure to an existing partnership focused on tokenized equities....
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Bitcoin ETF outflows accelerate as investors pull $449M in three days
ARK 21Shares accounted for $164 million of Thursday’s Bitcoin ETF withdrawals, while Ether and Solana funds also recorded net outflows.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
BitMine’s staked ETH equals nearly 12% of Ethereum’s active stake, but who controls it?
BitMine Immersion Technologies has amassed a staked ETH position equivalent to almost 12% of Ethereum’s active stake, without disclosing who controls the validators behind it. The company reported 5.07 million ETH staked as of Sept. 7, representing about 85% of its 5.93 million ETH holdings and wort...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
This XRP project is shutting down after wallet flaw exposed 4,000 accounts and drained $450,000
XRP Healthcare, an healthcare platform build on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), is winding down operations after a wallet flaw exposed thousands of accounts and led to roughly $450,000 in losses. On Sept. 10, the project said the Sept. 3 XRPH Wallet incident added financial and operational pressure to a busi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Strategy erased nearly $8 billion of net debt in 11 months and put S&P’s junk rating on the clock
Strategy, the largest Bitcoin treasury firm, is making a case for an escape from its B- junk credit rating after building billions of dollars in liquidity and reducing debt. On Sept. 10, Strategy’s head of investor relations, Chaitanya Jain, said the Michael Saylor-led company has strengthened its b...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Brevo login flaw enabled phishing email targeting 347K Trezor subscribers
Trezor told Cointelegraph that the phishing email was sent to 347,000 subscribers and said it is treating every address as “known to the attacker and possibly reusable for phishing.”
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Binance pre-IPO contract pushes Anthropic to a $2.1 trillion implied valuation
On Sept. 9, Binance's pre-IPO perpetual contract for Anthropic traded above $2,100, reaching an implied value that exceeds $2.1 trillion based on Binance's estimated one-billion-share denominator. Real traders are pricing exposure to Anthropic on Binance, but both the mark and the share-count conven...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
India launches tokenized bond pilot with $107M issued
SEBI said later phases of Demat 2.0 will introduce secondary trading and open the tokenized bonds to retail investors.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Live updates: Bitcoin sinks below $77,000 ahead of U.S. CPI report
Every major is red ahead of the August inflation print. Bitcoin is down 5% on the week and zcash fell 10% on the day.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Circle’s Noble shutdown leaves Cosmos racing to move $92 million in USDC
Circle is pulling its USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin from Noble, forcing Cosmos to migrate its main digital dollar rail to Injective before January. The wind-down puts roughly $92 million of USDC on a deadline and requires exchanges, decentralized-finance protocols, and more than 50 Cosmos-linked chains...
- DecryptScore: 75
Bitwise to Close Dogecoin ETF Before Its First Anniversary
BWOW will stop trading October 14, with cash payments to remaining shareholders expected October 22.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Crypto exchange recovery rules split NES holders into winners and losers after $286M exploit fallout
Nesa’s NES token returned to trading on Binance Alpha and regained Ethereum funding on Kraken on Sept. 10 after venue-specific interruptions tied to an Aug. 24 token-contract security incident. The restorations are not a network-wide relaunch or a single recovery plan. Binance Alpha is using two sna...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Why Circle is spending $400M to fix the last mile holding stablecoins back from real-world payouts
Circle is offering $400 million in stock for Tazapay because a stablecoin can cross a blockchain in seconds and still fail as a payment if the recipient cannot receive usable local money. The proposed acquisition, announced Sept. 8, would bring a cross-border payments operator inside the company tha...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Banks get cross-exchange crypto hedge relief under Canada’s new 2027 capital rule
Canada’s banking regulator has finalized a narrow change to its crypto capital rules that should reduce capital overstatement for some market-neutral positions without broadly easing how banks must treat digital-asset risk. The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions’ 2027 guideline, ...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Bitcoin below $77,000, Zcash leads losses as traders bet on a Fed rate hike
Ninety-five of the CoinDesk 100 fell over the past 24 hours, and bitcoin has shed more than 5% on the week.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Kalshi wants 24/7 Tesla and Nvidia perps as Wall Street fights over who regulates them
The prediction-market operator plans to seek U.S. approval for about 60 stock and ETF perps, taking one of crypto's biggest trading products into equities.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Attackers exploit fake STM32 vulnerability alert to target Trezor and BitBox holders
Hardware-wallet makers Trezor and BitBox warned users on Sept. 9 about phishing emails impersonating their brands, urging recipients to avoid the messages' links and instructions. Trezor said its third-party email provider had been breached and reiterated on Sept. 10 that its wallets remained safe. ...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Anthropic says Claude used for cyberattacks and surveillance
A Russian-speaking operator targeted more than 20 organizations, while a Mali consultant used Claude to build a mass-surveillance platform.
- DecryptScore: 70
Albuquerque Bans Bitcoin ATMs, Giving Operators 45 Days to Remove Them
A councilor said 90% of crypto kiosk transactions in the city are tied to fraud, calling the machines a conduit for crime.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Your Bitcoin trade can now get liquidated because a stock crashed
Monthly volume on real-world-asset perpetual futures grew from $85 billion in January to an August record of $799.5 billion, with stocks accounting for 62.3% of that total on both DeFi and centralized venues, according to CoinMarketCap. Trading venues are moving away from single-asset margin toward ...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Core CPI rose a faster-than-forecast 0.3% in August, setting up possible Fed rate hike
The August CPI report had taken on outsized importance after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh two weeks ago suggested the central bank may have to act if inflation doesn't soon slow.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
CPI and PPI climb, crushing hopes for cheap money and leaving Bitcoin traders with an expensive dilemma
US consumer prices increased faster in August, giving the Federal Reserve another reason to be cautious about lowering interest rates and leaving Bitcoin investors exposed to a prolonged period of expensive borrowing. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4% from July, when it increased 0.1%, while ...
- DecryptScore: 70
Robinhood Crypto Trading Volume Jumps 61% in August
Fresh operating data shows crypto trading bouncing back, but the company's fastest-growing business these days isn't traditional trading at all.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Philadelphia Fed finds Bitcoin traders follow whale signals faster than Ethereum users
A Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia working paper published this month found that public notifications of large crypto transfers were followed by sharply different trading activity on Bitcoin and Ethereum. Non-whale Bitcoin wallets became active and traded in the alerted whale's direction most st...
- The BlockScore: 65
ESMA says major prediction platforms lack EU authorization, questions Polymarket and Kalshi’s partial geo-blocks
ESMA says major prediction platforms lack EU authorization, while questioning Polymarket and Kalshi's geographic restrictions.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
UniCredit seeks infrastructure partner for crypto trading, custody: Report
The Italian bank is reportedly seeking assistance in launching access to crypto trading, custody and tokenized investment products.
- DecryptScore: 65
EU Regulator Says Prediction Markets Are 'Rife With Inside Trading'
ESMA also asks why Kalshi and Polymarket block some EU countries but not others, and notes VPNs get around the blocks.
- DecryptScore: 65
Bitcoin Rises as Markets Digest Inflation Data Ahead of Fed Rate Decision
Inflation held at 3.4% and core cooled annually, but a hot monthly core reading kept Fed hike odds near 62% while crypto markets rallied broadly.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Rising Aave borrow rates threaten to flip Ethena’s USDe yield loops into negative carry
LlamaRisk has proposed increasing borrowing costs for Ethena’s USDe across five Aave V3 markets, tightening the economics for positions that borrow the stablecoin and recycle it into yield-bearing sUSDe. The Sept. 9 recommendation would increase USDe’s base variable borrow rate from 5% to 6% on Core...
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Ripple puts AI agents inside its $1 billion corporate treasury bet
The software can monitor cash, risk and forecasts and suggest financial moves, but humans still have to approve every action.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitwise to put down Dogecoin ETF less than a year after launch
BWOW held about $688,000 in net assets as of Sept. 9. Trading is expected to end Oct. 14, with cash payouts to follow around Oct. 22.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Crypto institutions are chasing a 3% return on Bitcoin, but the entire payout machine collapses if miners stop burning cash
A 3% return on Bitcoin can look like a single number on an allocation sheet, even when the economic bargain underneath it is completely different. Stacks said its first institutional Bitcoin Staking bond went live on Sept. 10 with roughly 250 BTC committed by 21Shares, digital-asset manager HashKey ...
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin buyers wary of July sub-$58K floor amid onchain data ‘anomaly’
Bitcoin HODL waves data revealed an unusually muted reaction to Bitcoin’s drop below $58,000, raising questions over its status as a bear-market floor.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Bitcoin’s $2.24 billion Friday options expiry teased a reversal then fell to $76k again
Bitcoin fell into Deribit’s Sept. 11 options expiry, rebounded during the first hour after settlement, then surrendered the move before a two-hour post-expiry window ended. The sequence resembled only part of a pattern documented in a recent peer-reviewed study. Friday’s price path did not complete ...
- CoinDeskScore: 60
India's richest state is exploring tokenizing its own assets to fund new infrastructure
Maharashtra is drafting a policy to tokenize the state's assets, including the electricity transmission infrastructure.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Anchorage Digital adds institutional access to Frgmnt’s fUSD stablecoin
The US federally chartered crypto bank will allow institutional clients to hold, mint, redeem and stake Frgmnt’s fUSD stablecoin through its custody platform.
- The BlockScore: 60
Bitcoin, ether rise as inflation data does little to alter Fed interest rate outlook
Bitget analyst Lewis Huang noted the divergence between headline inflation accelerating on energy while core inflation continues to ease.
- DecryptScore: 60
Bitcoin Golden Cross Flickers Off as Rate-Hike Bets Firm Up
A rapidly changing interest rates market has changed the near-term outlook on the Bitcoin chart. Here’s why.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Coinbase CEO sees Bitcoin at $400,000, but first it has to clear $81,000
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says Bitcoin’s latest bottom is already in, even as the cryptocurrency remains below a level that historically confirmed recoveries. Armstrong said in Sept. 10 interviews with Bloomberg and CNBC that he expects Bitcoin to trend higher over the next one to two years as th...
- CointelegraphScore: 55
Robinhood’s crypto volume increases 61% in August, still down 38% YoY
Bitstamp accounted for $10.1 billion of Robinhood’s August crypto volume, while trading on the Robinhood app fell 46% from a year earlier.
- CoinDeskScore: 55
The legal drama of imprisoned Sam Bankman-Fried is waiting on its last act
The fallen leader of the former top exchange FTX is looking for answers from the U.S. Supreme Court.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Bitcoin recovers toward $77,300 as zcash leverage unwinds
Bitcoin rose 0.7% since midnight UTC to around $77,200, and 68 of the CoinDesk 100 constituents gained, though the index remains 1.4% lower over 24 hours.
- DecryptScore: 50
Morning Minute: AI Agents Cut BTC Quantum Attack Benchmark by 86%
Crypto majors are shaky ahead of this morning’s CPI print, but onchain is heating up for another big potential weekend.
- CryptoSlateScore: 50
Crypto never closes, but Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Solana now move on Wall Street time
Bitcoin trades nonstop, but a decade of data shows its volatility increasingly follows Wall Street’s clock. A recent study found that the nine hours from 13:00 to 21:59 UTC accounted for 50.6% of Bitcoin’s daily realized variance between 2022 and 2025, up from 38.4% in 2016-2018. Those hours represe...
- CoinDeskScore: 50
With Fed rate hike all but assured, here's how markets might react
Traders could look past an expected Fed hike and weigh what higher rates are signaling about the economy.
- The BlockScore: 50
‘DeFi’s federal bank’: Standard Chartered sees SKY token rising fivefold by end-2028
Standard Chartered Bank has initiated coverage of Sky, calling it "DeFi's federal bank," and expects SKY to rise $0.325 by 2028.
- DecryptScore: 50
Cyberattacks on Law Firms Nearly Double as Stolen Documents Hit the Dark Web
Greenberg Traurig said documents were posted to the dark web, while BakerHostetler recorded a near-doubling of law-firm incidents in 2025.
- CoinDeskScore: 45
Bitcoin pulls back as another golden cross fails to deliver
Bitcoin’s golden cross may support the longer-term outlook, but history suggests much of the upside often occurs before the signal appears.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Bitcoin mining supplies 90% of HIVE’s $1 million daily revenue despite ongoing AI expansion
HIVE Digital Technologies said its Bitcoin-mining and GPU-cloud businesses generated more than $1 million in combined average daily revenue from Aug. 21 through Sept. 10, quantifying how much its AI pivot contributes to current operations. GPU cloud produced about $100,000 a day over the period, acc...
- The BlockScore: 40
Metaplanet reverses course on executive options with 41% cut to potential shares, scraps employee warrant plan
The changes come amid a bruising stretch for Metaplanet shares, as stock fell about 17% over two trading sessions this week.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Standard Chartered forecasts SKY rising fivefold to $0.325 by 2028
The bank expects Sky to pass five times as much value to token holders by 2028 as USDS adoption and borrowing capacity continue to expand.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Rising yields, oil prices leave bitcoin vulnerable ahead of U.S. inflation report
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 11, 2026
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Metaplanet cuts Series 10 stock pool by 41%, plans Hong Kong subsidiary
Metaplanet will cut 131.3 million potential shares and form a $1 million Hong Kong subsidiary for trading in Bitcoin, equities and credit products.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Treasury buys $5.2 billion of bonds as Bitcoin ETF flows stay negative
The U.S. Treasury bought $5.187 billion of long-dated government bonds on Sept. 10, completing the first operation under its expanded program as Bitcoin investors watched for evidence of easier liquidity. The immediate cross-market readout moved the other way. Treasury’s daily nominal yield curve sh...
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Hyperliquid’s biggest risk is regulation, says Ran Neuner
The Crypto Banter founder said Hyperliquid’s network effects give it a strong competitive moat, but regulatory uncertainty remains its biggest threat.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Bitcoin Suisse to shift up to half of Swiss jobs abroad
The Swiss crypto financial services firm plans to move back-office functions to lower-cost international hubs as it expands its global wealth and asset management business, according to Finews.
- CoinDeskScore: 35
Metaplanet cuts executive reward pool by 41%, extinguishes $220 million in value
The bitcoin treasury firm cut the potential Series 10 share pool to 188.2 million.
- CointelegraphScore: 30
Trading stocks against BONER is the latest trend for DeFi degens
Why would anyone want to trade a healthcare stock for a memecoin like BONER? Why wouldn’t they, ask the degens on Robinhood Chain who are building a strange new corner of DeFi.
- DecryptScore: 30
OpenAI Asks Congress Whether an AI Slowdown Would Be Legal
The company is seeking clarity on antitrust rules as researchers call for restraint and experts warn that competition encourages companies to overlook risks.
- CoinDeskScore: 20
Zodia Custody CEO Julian Sawyer steps down, becomes adviser
Sawyer will become a strategic adviser rather than take the helm of Zodia Solutions, as previously announced.
- The BlockScore: 20
Former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison joins nonprofit charity Manifund
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison has a new gig at the charity Manifund, its cofounder Austin Chen said Friday.