Raw News Items
22 itemsSeptember 20, 2026
- Cointelegraph
Who needs CLARITY anyway? ARB could see 70X increase: Hodler’s Digest
Crypto missed out CLARITY, but tokenized stocks were legalized and the Bitcoin Reserve advanced. Meanwhile Standard Chartered says Arbitrum’s price could increase 70 times by 2030.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
EU staking review threatens crypto yields and network security could pay the price
Some of the most consequential financial rules begin with surprisingly little text. For example, on page 36 of the European Commission's current MiCA review, item 66 asks whether Europe's treatment of staking is adequate and, if it isn't, what requirements should apply to companies providing staking...
- The BlockScore: 85
Polymarket faced $10 million fraud attempt as its CEO pushed growth over compliance concerns: WSJ
In a separate attack, hackers compromised nearly 500 users' accounts using stolen personal information, according to the report.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Why keeping your private keys safe won’t always stop crypto theft
Almost 4,000 Bitcoin left Liquid's reserve on Sept. 6 through a withdrawal the network approved, even though the private keys used to authorize it hadn't been stolen. Software had accepted a withdrawal that should never have qualified. Liquid lets people move a Bitcoin-backed token on a separate blo...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Why Bitcoin’s rally above $80,000 isn’t backed by institutional conviction
Bitcoin held above $80,000 this weekend while three institutional indicators pointed in different directions. The Sept. 15 snapshot from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed leveraged funds becoming less net short across four regulated Bitcoin futures products. Their aggregate net-short e...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Coinbase, Robinhood, Circle could be early winners of SEC's tokenized-stock push, analysts say
Goldman Sachs and Citizens analysts said the agency's move create new opportunities in custody, tokenization infrastructure and stablecoin settlement, while giving brokers room to expand onchain products.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Why Russia’s harsh 1% crypto cap actually protects bank customer assets
The Bank of Russia has proposed a 1% crypto capital cap, limiting covered crypto and foreign-digital-instrument risk to a bank’s own funds while leaving some client custody positions outside the new calculation. The Sept. 18 proposal would create N31 for individual credit institutions and N32 for ba...
- DecryptScore: 70
Visa Moves to Close Meme Coin Credit Card Rewards Loophole
After banks lost their push for tighter stablecoin rules in the failed Clarity Act, JP Morgan scored a narrower win as Visa moves to stop meme coin purchases from being coded as ordinary "digital media" and earning card rewards.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
X brings crypto trading closer to your social feed
Crypto Twitter (now X) has always been a place where someone with an illustrated animal for a profile picture can explain why your financial future depends on a token you just learned about. Now X’s Cashtag links are shortening the route from that conversation to a crypto exchange. Kraken joined X's...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Offshore Bitcoin futures crash 97% as traders abandon traditional risk
A strange thing has happened to Bitcoin's derivatives market over the past five years. The market is larger, institutions play a much bigger role, exchanges offer more sophisticated products, and traders have become far better at moving risk around. At the same time, one of the products that helped ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Why Solana’s new 250ms speed boost could actually trigger network instability
Solana validator coordination now operates on a 250-millisecond target slot time. A slot is the network's target interval for a validator to produce a block, so the change gives users more frequent opportunities for transactions to land while giving validators less time to pass production from one l...
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Crypto traders braced for a total wipeout this week but Bitcoin had other plans
Market experts view bitcoin’s price stability as evidence of its fundamental independence from Washington, maintaining that global liquidity and adoption cycles remain the primary growth drivers.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Crypto platform Gemini’s stock is down 80% from its IPO. That’s reviving takeover speculation
The crypto platform’s market value has fallen to about $753 million, putting fresh attention on the licenses, custody infrastructure and customer relationships a buyer could inherit.
- The BlockScore: 60
ZetaChain votes to shut down Layer 1 network and move ZETA to Solana
The team plans to focus instead on Anuma, its private AI app, though the migration will still take one more vote.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Trump says US will form ‘AI Force’ and appoint AI czar: Reports
Trump posted on Truth Social that his new project would manage the fast-growing sector without adding regulations that could slow innovation.
- CryptoSlateScore: 45
Charles Hoskinson says Cardano no longer comes first – its treasury vote explains why
Cardano's delegated governance voters let a 12.29 million ADA request for Pogun expire without ratification, showing that Input Output's history as a founding builder does not guarantee access to the network's treasury. Pogun is an Input Output-backed credit and liquidity product designed to bring B...
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Grayscale’s Zcash ETF files for 3-for-1 forward share split
At the close of trading on Sept. 28, shareholders will receive two extra shares for each one they hold.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Stablecoin salaries can leave workers paying to access their wages
Every paycheck eventually has to pay for something: rent, groceries, transport, or bills. Stablecoins can move between wallets in seconds. But that does not mean an employee can spend the money immediately. They may still need to convert the stablecoins into local currency, move the money to a bank ...
- DecryptScore: 40
Why Holding Anything But Bitcoin Has Been a Losing Bet for Two Years
A Glassnode and Bybit report frames the divergence as the defining feature of this cycle, with froth pooling in the market's riskiest corners even as Bitcoin does the heavy lifting.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
Why Bitcoin’s 63% HODL wave isn’t the mega bull signal everyone thinks it is
Bitcoin’s share of supply last moved at least one year ago reached 63.3% on Sept. 18, up 0.98 percentage points from 62.32% on Aug. 18, according to Maketo’s HODL-wave data. HODL waves group Bitcoin’s unspent transaction outputs into age bands based on their last on-chain movement. The rising one-ye...
- CointelegraphScore: 30
Anthropic tabs Accenture as embedded evaluator to help with AI slowdown proposal
The partnership is non-exclusive, and Anthropic expects to announce other evaluators in forthcoming weeks with which it will also work.
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
Why real-time election odds are misleading prediction market crypto traders
You can be right about who will win an election and still pay too much to bet on it. On prediction markets, the price available when you open the app may be gone by the time you try to buy, especially when news sends other traders rushing toward the same outcome. It took very little time for the mar...