Raw News Items
32 itemsSeptember 19, 2026
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Anthropic’s Claude helped 3 researchers breach OpenAI in under 72 hours
Anthropic’s Claude helped three security researchers breach OpenAI accounts and reach an internal code repository within 72 hours. Researchers at cybersecurity startup Hacktron chained an image-processing vulnerability with a flaw in OpenAI’s identity infrastructure in July to gain access to multipl...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Fidelity surge brings in $310M BTC saving Bitcoin ETFs from a disastrous week
U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds drew $433 million of net inflows on Friday, Sept. 18, according to Farside Investors. The session extended the market's rebound to a second day, but it did not fully repair the withdrawals recorded earlier in the week. In the Farside data, Fidelity's Wise Orig...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Brazil blocks stablecoins from key cross-border payment rail as $1.1 trillion market faces new limits
Brazil's central bank will bar virtual assets, including stablecoins, from settling one specific type of international payment flow starting Oct. 1. Resolution 561 targets the settlement leg between regulated foreign-exchange providers and their overseas counterparties, requiring that leg to run thr...
- DecryptScore: 85
How the Clarity Act's Defeat Handed the SEC and CFTC the Wheel on Crypto
The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, shifting the industry’s focus to a new wave of action from the SEC and CFTC.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Why Trump backed a crypto ethics rule that stopped at the family business
Washington came surprisingly close this week to writing a dollar amount into one of its thorniest crypto ethics rule debates. Under the final Senate draft of the CLARITY Act, senior federal officials holding equity worth at least $15,000 in certain businesses that issue or sponsor digital assets wou...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Bastion wins conditional OCC approval for national trust bank charter
Bastion Platforms National Trust Company will offer stablecoin custody and wallets, payment infrastructure and white-label issuance from a single federally regulated entity.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin faces an October 18 test as Trump prepares new Russia tariffs
President Donald Trump’s new Russia sanctions law gives Bitcoin traders another macro deadline to watch: Oct. 18. On Sept. 18, Trump signed H.R. 5334, starting a 30-day clock for his administration to determine tariffs that could disrupt Russian energy trade and potentially feed into inflation, Trea...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
ZEC’s 100% rally above $1500 sends Grayscale’s Zcash ETF within $85 million of $1 billion
Grayscale’s Zcash ETF is closing in on $1 billion in assets less than a month after its Wall Street debut. The fund, which trades as ZCSH on NYSE Arca, has accumulated $914.53 million in net assets and $270.95 million in cumulative net inflows, SoSoValue data shows. Its rapid expansion has coincided...
- DecryptScore: 75
Bitcoin's Sharpest Rally in Two Years Ran Almost Entirely on Short Liquidations
A Glassnode and Bybit report found Bitcoin climbed 24.6% in five August days even as active leverage fell, with short positions supplying 89% of every liquidated dollar.
- The BlockScore: 75
Bitcoin ETFs eke out positive week with $433 million Friday inflow as ether funds snap four-week inflow streak
Fidelity's FBTC accounted for $310.7 million of Friday’s overall $433 million net inflow, a notable sum that helped offset earlier withdrawals.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Bitcoin survived the Fed and CLARITY, and now faces the next major test at $82,000 this weekend
Bitcoin hit an intraday high of $81,400 on Friday, approaching the low-$82,000 zone that has capped every recovery attempt since late August. US spot Bitcoin ETF shares stop trading once American markets close for the weekend. Any further push through that ceiling over the next two days would occur ...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Hong Kong jails former banker over $1.6B false credit, cryptocurrency bribes: Report
Former banking official gets four years in prison over false letters of credit and accepting $470,000 in cryptocurrency bribes.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Dtcpay welcomes SBI Group as strategic investor extending Series A to $25M
Singapore-based payments company completes Series A funding round with Japanese investor SBI Group.
- DecryptScore: 70
Grayscale Is Making Its Red-Hot Zcash ETF More Affordable
The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto's hottest privacy trade.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO is fueling an $80 million crypto trade
Anthropic’s prospective $2 trillion IPO has already spawned nearly $80 million in crypto derivatives bets before its public debut. Open interest in futures linked to the Claude developer has climbed to about $79.27 million, close to a record $80 million, as traders position around what could become ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
XRP ETFs hit a speed bump, but big investors aren’t dumping their tokens yet
A roughly $5.15 million outflow from US spot XRP exchange-traded products on Sept. 17 interrupted a $192 million inflow month. The reversal creates the first clean test of whether recent demand is cooling, yet the broader flow pattern still favors the buyers. Maketo's five-fund series remained about...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argues that local AI can protect your privacy without losing speed
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says laptop AI is approaching a practical turning point. Wallet software still needs a much higher bar before it can hand an AI control over crypto assets. He said on Sept. 17 that Qwen 3.8 Flash and recent improvements in llama.cpp had brought local models close ...
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Ripple says asset managers are preparing for XRP Ledger’s next payments upgrade
The upcoming Batch V1.1 can make linked asset and payment transfers succeed together or fail together, and Ripple says commercial projects are already being built around the feature after an extensive security review.
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Clarity Act, we hardly knew ye: We look at what was in the bill and what's replacing it
U.S. agencies are racing to substitute their regulations for the law that was meant to set crypto markets in governmental bedrock, but will the stand-ins last?
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Why Wall Street giants build tokenization money for institutions, not regular consumers
JPMorgan and Citi move billions in tokenized deposits, but only among their branches. A U.K. challenger bank is about to do something neither has done.
- DecryptScore: 60
Solana's Heartbeat Quickens: Block Times Fall 17% in Latest Speed Upgrade
The network's clock just sped up again, but the extra speed goes to freshness, not capacity.
- The BlockScore: 60
Visa to close Crossmint memecoin rewards loophole following The Block investigation: report
Though the Crossmint-powered memecoin sales are still live on both apps, Visa's grace period is expected to end next week, per the report.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Kalshi joins Coinbase with filing for US stock perpetual futures
Kalshi’s proposal would bring perpetual futures tied to individual stocks to US traders, as Coinbase and Bitnomial pursue similar products.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Robinhood Chain fees collapse 97% even as transactions stay near record highs
Seven-day average fees fell 82% while transaction counts slipped 6%, with about $1.5 billion a day still changing hands.
- CryptoSlateScore: 45
Did RWA futures really overtake crypto? Only if you ignore 90% of the market
A new report from OKX and Token Terminal says real-world-asset (RWA) futures on trade.xyz edged past crypto futures on Hyperliquid in July. The headline numbers were $107.6 billion of RWA-contract volume against $105.7 billion of crypto-contract volume. That was a selected-venue crossover, not an in...
- CoinDeskScore: 40
'We have lost control': Crypto pioneer warns AI could trigger systemic banking and infrastructure shocks
Marc van der Chijs sold much of his bitcoin to invest in AI. Now, growing concerns about the technology accompany a move to put some profits back into crypto.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
AI was supposed to take scammers’ jobs, but it gave them superpowers instead
For anyone worried that AI would eliminate every profession except the one sending messages about your frozen crypto account, there's unwelcome news for that last bastion of human enterprise. Fraud has found an automation budget. Scamming has always required a surprising amount of manual labor. Roma...
- CointelegraphScore: 40
REX launches 2x leveraged ETF tied to Bitcoin treasury firm Strive
The new ASSX fund offers 2x daily exposure to Strive shares, giving traders a leveraged way to bet on the Bitcoin treasury company.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
'The orange tie stays': Michael Saylor responds to venture capitalist's bitcoin obituary
"Bitcoin feels like the CD in the age of Spotify, the DVD in the age of Netflix," wrote Jason Calacanis.
- CointelegraphScore: 30
VanEck criticizes Metaplanet over executive dilution despite compensation cuts
VanEck said Metaplanet’s executive equity exposure remains well above its digital asset treasury peers, even after the company cut its potential share pool by 41%.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
Circle wants you to love USDC a little like you love Chelsea
Chelsea has found a cool new shirt sponsor whose main product is…a stablecoin? USDC is designed to be worth one dollar. Today, tomorrow, next Tuesday: one dollar. If everything is working properly, absolutely nothing should happen to its price, so there is not much room for a victory parade. A...
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
Gen Z are investing like Boomers – with some surprising portfolio decisions
Like fashion, investing eventually finds something embarrassing in the back of the wardrobe and puts it on again. Millennial-era crypto gave us yield-bearing dog coins and all kinds of food-themed financial contraptions. Now Gen Z has entered the market in JNCO jeans, carrying an ironic digicam and,...