Raw News Items
35 itemsSeptember 12, 2026
- DecryptScore: 85
Revolut Leaks Passports, Bitcoin Transaction Histories to Fake Government Request
The fintech company fulfilled a fraudulent information request sent from a government agency's own email domain, exposing ID documents and full crypto transaction histories for a "limited" number of users.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Blockstream bets 600 Bitcoin by rejecting Liquid hacker’s $50 million bounty demand
Blockstream is refusing to pay the Liquid attacker nearly 600 Bitcoin (roughly $50 million), escalating a dispute over how the crypto industry should reward partial restitution. The standoff follows an unusual recovery from the Sept. 6 exploit, when a vulnerability allowed the attacker to create abo...
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Bitcoin activity, passports exposed after Revolut falls for fake government request
Passports, selfies and home addresses were also handed over after the digital bank treated a fraudulent request as legitimate, but no customer funds were lost.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Revolut tricked into handing hackers the passports and Bitcoin histories of wealthy customers
Revolut disclosed customers’ passports, verification selfies and Bitcoin transaction histories after treating a fraudulent government request as legitimate. Affected customers were told Friday that the disclosed information could include passport or driver’s license copies, verification selfies, nam...
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK lands $97 million donations from two crypto billionaires in 24 hours
The combined haul equals the largest individual political donations in U.K. history, sharply scaling up crypto industry backing.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Why Nasdaq surveillance cannot settle the fight over 24/7 tokenized markets
Nasdaq's agreement to invest $100 million in Payward, Kraken's parent company, adds a planned surveillance rollout to a push into tokenized and always-on markets. One day earlier, Citadel Securities asked U.S. regulators to keep products tied to public companies, including equity-linked event contra...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
XRP Ledger just quietly activated critical foundation for its upcoming new lending protocol
The XRP Ledger activated a package of fixes for transaction handling, AMMs, and newer protocol features, putting outdated servers at risk. The fixCleanup3_3_0 amendment went live Sept. 11 at 11:29 UTC in validated ledger 106,911,489, according to XRPSCAN. Ripple’s public XRP Ledger endpoint showed t...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
XRP’s 30% monthly rebound meets a $4.6 million liquidity trial inside XRPL’s $1.1 billion stablecoin boom
Stablecoins on the XRP Ledger swelled to $1.126 billion as XRP logged a 29.7% monthly rebound, putting the network's value-capture case under a sharper test. At a Sept. 11 snapshot, XRP traded near $1.32 after losing about 8.7% over seven days. Meanwhile, XRPL decentralized-exchange volume reached $...
- The BlockScore: 75
Revolut says customer KYC, Bitcoin transaction data exposed after fake request from gov’t domain
Onchain investigator ZachXBT speculated that the incident may have been targeting high-net-worth users.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Thailand’s stablecoin proposal would block transfers to other people’s wallets
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a same-owner requirement for stablecoin transfers that would sharply narrow how customers can move tokens such as USDT through licensed crypto firms. The measure remains at the consultation stage and is not yet an operative rule. Under the S...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Wall Street is building tokenized deposits to lock in customer balances
Imagine your company has enough money to pay a supplier, but the money is in its Singapore account and the bill must be paid from New York. If the transfer between those accounts has to wait until Monday, having enough cash overall doesn't solve the immediate problem. Businesses work around this by ...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Nvidia considers $10B investment in potential record Anthropic IPO: Reuters
Anthropic is said to be seeking to raise as much as $100 billion in the offering, which could value the AI company at about $2 trillion.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Metaplanet CEO surrenders $220 million in stock rights to rebuild trust with investors
Metaplanet is cutting executive rewards after concluding that later Bitcoin purchases created less value per share. On Sept. 11, the Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company announced it has reset its Series 10 stock acquisition rights, eliminating more than $220 million in warrant value. This also rem...
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Ripple stablecoin chief sees $13 trillion corporate treasury opportunity for RLUSD
Payments and capital markets are driving growth for Ripple's $2.4 billion digital dollar as it looks to bring RLUSD to Europe under MiCA, the firm's Jack McDonald said.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Bitcoin’s $80,000 ceiling looks fragile after stocks shrugged off near-5% Treasury yields
Bitcoin failed to break $80,000 on Sept. 11 as US stocks climbed about 1% and long-dated Treasury yields stayed near levels not seen in years. Bitcoin registered an intraday high of $79,890, still short of the $80,000-$82,000 resistance zone identified by digital asset trading firm QCP. The S&P 500 ...
- The BlockScore: 60
Crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each donate £36 million to Farage’s Reform UK
Meanwhile, the House of Lords is considering a bill which would halt crypto donations and cap overseas giving at £100,000 a year.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Why Bitcoin initially held its gain as rate traders put September hike odds at 85%
August’s inflation report left the Federal Reserve with a mixed signal: gasoline drove much of the headline increase, but monthly core inflation accelerated. That combination kept Governor Christopher Waller’s conditional case for a rate hike in play even as Bitcoin held its daily gain. CryptoSlate'...
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Bitcoin Suisse plans to cut up to half its Swiss jobs as it shifts work abroad
The company is closing its Copenhagen IT site while maintaining Bratislava and opening a new hub in Vietnam to reduce costs.
- DecryptScore: 50
Crypto Billionaires Hand Reform UK $97M in Record Donations
Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave £36 million, and between them beat what every UK party raised last year.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
North Korea using foreign talent to help infiltrate US companies: Report
The DPRK has turned to third-country IT workers to pass job interviews, after which, the positions are usually taken over by North Korean operatives.
- CryptoSlateScore: 45
L-BTC resumes trading with reserves covering just 85% of supply
SideSwap reopened its markets on Liquid while the network’s route back to Bitcoin remained closed. The split gives Liquid Bitcoin a market price before holders regain the process that converts L-BTC into BTC. At 22:55 UTC on Sept. 10, a Blockstream explorer endpoint showed 4,229 L-BTC outstanding. A...
- CryptoSlateScore: 45
Bitwise is closing the lowest-fee Dogecoin ETF after rivals captured nearly all the capital
Bitwise is closing its Dogecoin ETF after investors largely bypassed the fund in favor of competing products. On Sept. 10, the asset manager said the Bitwise Dogecoin ETF, or BWOW, will stop trading on NYSE Arca on Oct. 14 and be liquidated the following week, less than 11 months after launch. Bitwi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
The biggest vulnerability in your Bitcoin wallet might be the shipping label
Hardware wallets might be able to protect your keys, but the paperwork from buying them could expose your identity. To buy a hardware wallet, you give a company your name and address so it can send you a device designed to put you in control of your money. Once you've unpacked the box and set it up,...
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Farage’s Reform UK gets biggest donation ever from crypto billionaire: Reports
Ben Delo, co-founder of BitMEX, donated almost $50 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Ditching bonds for bitcoin: How crypto can tackle the AI-heavy portfolio dilemma
Bitcoin Suisse says rising AI investment, government debt and weakening stock-bond diversification strengthen the case for adding bitcoin to traditional portfolios.
- The BlockScore: 40
CryptoQuant says bitcoin must clear resistance at $81,700 to confirm new bull market
Bitcoin's outlook remains bullish, but it needs to clear a significant range of resistance levels stretching to $88,700, CryptoQuant said.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
Stablecoins make sending money easy until someone needs to spend it
When you send money to someone abroad, the confirmation on your phone is only your half of the transaction: the other half belongs to the person who has to use it. Their rent may be due in local currency. Their nearest cash collection point may be across town. They may want to spend some of the mone...
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
The dilution trap where Bitcoin holdings rise while shareholder value stalls
Buying shares in a Bitcoin treasury company gives ownership in a business that holds Bitcoin, and management decides how to pay for the coins and when to buy or sell them. The company also has bills to pay and may owe money to lenders, so the shares' value depends on those decisions and Bitcoin's pr...
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Staked ether should be seen as the benchmark of the decentralized economy
The yield-generating asset has a special place in the digital asset investor’s portfolio, argues GlobalStake’s Ryan Haczynski.
- DecryptScore: 30
GPT-6 Astra Users Say OpenAI's Newest Model Got Dumber. It Happened Before, Too
A week after launch, complaints are rolling in from users that GPT-6 Astra has been nerfed. OpenAI's last model went through the same cycle in July.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Anthropic CEO calls for AI race to slow down. Musk and OpenAI's Altman agrees
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk have agreed on an unusual position: frontier AI development may need to slow as systems become capable of helping build their own successors.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
OpenAI IPO won't happen this year, says Sam Altman
"Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune.
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
The challenge for AI agents is deciding who pays for automated errors
Imagine asking an AI assistant to book a decent hotel for a weekend away. You give it a budget and say you’d like somewhere near the center, then it finds a room, pays, and sends you the confirmation. The hotel is within budget and in a solid location, but the room has no window, breakfast costs ext...
- DecryptScore: 10
ChatGPT Images 2.5 vs Nano Banana 2: Which One is Better?
OpenAI's new image model promises sharper detail and more precise editing. We ran it against Google's Nano Banana 2 across six categories to see how it compares.
- DecryptScore: 10
GTA Mod Adds Flock Cameras—And Lets Players Destroy Them
The surveillance mod on GTA V brings the privacy fight to Los Santos, where players can demolish the cameras tracking them.