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89 itemsSeptember 23, 2026
- CryptoSlate
Bitcoin slips below $85,000 as 5% Treasury yield returns to haunt risk assets
Bitcoin fell below $85,000 on Sept. 23 after stronger-than-expected US business activity sent Treasury yields higher and flushed leveraged longs. The reversal broke the momentum behind a rebound that had accelerated as Bitcoin pushed through a large concentration of short positions earlier this week...
- CoinDeskScore: 90
BitMEX shuts down: perpetuals pioneer officially closes it doors after 11 years
The exchange, co-founded by Arthur Hayes, stopped trading and deposits, but says users can still log in and withdraw funds as its wind-down continues.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Circle pays millions for Binance distribution while its margins collapse
Circle is doubling down on Binance after USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin customer balances on the exchange nearly quintupled since their first agreement. On Sept. 22, the companies announced a new five-year commercial agreement alongside Binance’s $100 million equity investment in Circle, extending a rel...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Bitcoin ETFs take in $1.7B in 2 days as BTC tops holder cost basis
US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded more than $1.7 billion in net inflows over two days as Bitcoin rose above investors’ estimated average cost basis.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
EU central banks attack MiCA rules and stablecoin runs are blamed
Europe’s central banks want the European Union to rethink a rule designed to make stablecoins safer, but that can also link a token run directly to the banking system. For reserve amounts tied to official currencies, MiCA currently requires issuers of non-significant tokens to keep at least 30% as d...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Bitcoin faces $16 billion options expiry Friday, then two more tests hit the rally
Bitcoin options carrying roughly $16 billion in notional value expire on Deribit at 08:00 UTC on Friday, Sept. 25. Calls account for about $9.6 billion of that open interest and puts for about $6.4 billion. Bitcoin trades near $86,300 heading into the settlement, after climbing above $85,000 this we...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Coinbase traced $1.1 million crypto trail behind AI phishing service EvilTokens
Microsoft and Coinbase helped dismantle EvilTokens, an AI phishing service tied to more than 12,000 compromised inboxes worldwide. The operation had reached more than 10,000 organizations within months of launching, spanning financial services, real estate, healthcare, construction and other industr...
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Live updates: Bitcoin slips under $86,000 as money rotates into BCH and ZEC
Bitcoin matched Monday's high near $87,300 before running into selling, while citcoin cash surged 28% on a CME futures listing and ZEC added 9%.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Bitcoin's $16 billion quarterly options settlement arrives with a 'call-heavy' book
Nearly $18 billion in bitcoin and ether options will expire on Friday, potentially reshaping dealer hedging flows and short-term volatility.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Bitcoin ETFs just erased a $5.7 billion hole, but profit-taking is swallowing the new demand
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have erased their 2026 flow deficit after a sharp buying revival, even as the top crypto struggles to hold its latest gains. Data from SoSoValue shows that the US-listed funds have attracted more than $1.7 billion in fresh capital this week, with the products dra...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Nearly $20 million in XRP drained from 6,678 wallets across six attack waves
Nearly $20 million of XRP was drained from thousands of hardware wallets in six waves spanning nearly a week. Blockchain analysis firm XRPL.to traced 11.75 million XRP leaving 6,678 distinct wallets between Sept. 15 and Sept. 20, including several collection waves after DCENT warned users of unautho...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Ex-SEC acting chair: Agency dropped crypto cases to avoid issues with credibility
SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda said that the agency dropped many cases against crypto companies in early 2025 to avoid potential credibility problems in court.
- DecryptScore: 85
An AI Agent Just Hacked a Government Website for the First Time, Australia PM Says
Anthony Albanese said the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June, calling OpenAI's three-month delay in disclosing the breach "unacceptable."
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Malicious iOS app FomoPeek linked to $580K crypto theft, SlowMist says
SlowMist said malicious FomoPeek versions distributed through Apple’s App Store used iOS kernel exploits to escape the sandbox and access sensitive data from other apps.
- CointelegraphScore: 80
BitMEX ends crypto trading, keeps withdrawals open after closure
BitMEX officially ended exchange operations after more than 11 years, while withdrawals remain open as the crypto derivatives platform urges users to remove their funds.
- DecryptScore: 80
North Korea's Fake Job Interviews Drained $11M From 7,000 Crypto Wallets
A seven-agency advisory ties the WaterPlum hacking crew and Pyongyang's remote IT worker scheme to the same bureau.
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Winners and losers of the SEC’s new tokenized stocks rules
The SEC has opened a five-year path for tokenized stocks, but only some products and venues fit the model. Will Uniswap, Robinhood, Coinbase or Kraken come out on top?
- CointelegraphScore: 80
NYSE, Blockchain.com in tie-up to bring tokenized US stocks to crypto users
Blockchain.com users could gain access to tokenized US stocks and ETFs through NYSE’s planned digital trading platform under a new partnership, as bourses rush to deliver new trading.
- The BlockScore: 80
‘BTC still has room to catch up’: Bitcoin’s $80,000 breakout draws institutional demand as analysts weigh durability
K33, Nexo and 21shares weigh in on bitcoin's breakout as ETF inflows hit their highest since Nov. 2024. Key levels: $87K–88K resistance.
- DecryptScore: 80
Crypto Exchange That Invented 100x Leverage Is No More: Here’s What BitMEX Users Need to Know
BitMEX ended trading at 04:00 UTC Wednesday and is urging users to withdraw their remaining funds, as fees now apply to balances left on the exchange.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Solana moves Alpenglow into testnet as SOL nears January highs
Solana has begun rolling out Alpenglow on testnet, moving its planned blockchain consensus overhaul into a public testing environment. The upgrade targets finality of about 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds under TowerBFT, the system Solana validators currently use to agree on blocks....
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
XRP volume explodes to $7.4B, and a massive CME short squeeze is blamed
XRP registered an intraday high of $1.60 on Sept. 22, with roughly $7.4 billion in reported volume. The move was strong, but the latest public data on regulated futures showed different positioning shifts across venues. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Sept. 15 snapshot showed leveraged fu...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
XRPL fixes critical pre-mainnet flaw, but client apps remain at risk
XRP Ledger (XRPL) validators have put BatchV1_1 on a conditional path to activate at 14:06:41 UTC on Sept. 29, turning a security near-miss into a live test of the network's amendment process and its surrounding software. On Sept. 22, xrpldashboard showed 30 of 35 trusted validators supporting the a...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Zcash leads crypto majors with a 10% gain as bitcoin holds near $87,000
Falling oil eased inflation worries through the Asian session, while a bill to make the government's bitcoin stockpile permanent moved further through Congress than any before it.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Solana starts testing upgrade that could cut finality from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds
Alpenglow would let exchanges, bridges and merchants treat payments as irreversible almost immediately.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Raiffeisen to offer crypto trading across 11 European markets via Bitpanda
Bitpanda will provide crypto infrastructure to Raiffeisen network banks, potentially extending digital asset access to about 18 million customers.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
CFTC chair pushes tokenization as SEC opens door to onchain stocks
Michael Selig said tokenization could reshape financial markets as the CFTC and SEC continue advancing onchain initiatives despite the CLARITY Act setback.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Europe’s central banks want to scrap this stablecoin reserve safeguard
EU rules require stablecoins issued by electronic-money institutions to keep at least 30% of their reserves in commercial-bank deposits, rising to 60% for significant tokens. Britain's policy for systemic sterling stablecoin reserves excludes those deposits from coin backing. European central banks ...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
EU watchdogs warn quantum computers could pick crypto’s locks
EU supervisors warn quantum computing could weaken blockchain security as Bitcoin developers weigh a draft migration plan and Ethereum targets 2029.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
MoonPay to buy North Capital in all-stock deal worth over $60M
MoonPay’s North Capital acquisition adds US broker-dealer, trading and investment infrastructure as it expands into tokenized securities.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
MoonPay to acquire SEC-registered North Capital in $60 million all-stock deal
The acquisition will support MoonPay’s aim of supporting mass adoption of tokenized real-world assets, CEO Ivan Soto-Wright said.
- The BlockScore: 75
Blockchain.com, NYSE plan access to tokenized US stocks and ETFs
Blockchain.com and NYSE have signed an agreement to explore tokenized stocks and ETFs, subject to regulatory approvals.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Bitcoin long liquidations hit $280M as BTC price dips under $84K
Bitcoin long liquidations mounted as BTC/USD briefly traded below $84,000, while analysis flagged key support to hold.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Stablecoins hold nearly $200 billion in US debt, but money funds bought the surge
Money-market mutual funds absorbed approximately 85% of the US government's latest Treasury-bill surge, giving traditional cash managers the clearest claim to the marginal demand behind the summer issuance wave. The Treasury Department said net bill supply grew by more than $550 billion in July and ...
- DecryptScore: 75
Canada's Six Biggest Banks Team Up on a Shared Digital-Dollar Network
RBC, TD, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and National Bank are jointly exploring a Canadian-dollar tokenized deposit system, starting with transfers between the banks themselves.
- DecryptScore: 75
$15.6 Billion in Bitcoin Options Expire Friday—Here's What It Means
Deribit's strike-by-strike data shows a book stacked with calls, and one price level drawing hedging pressure from both sides at once.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Circle launches 24/7 stablecoin FX engine as it chases a slice of the $10 trillion currency market
Circle has switched on 24-hour stablecoin foreign-exchange settlement on Arc, targeting a global FX market that moves nearly $10 trillion daily. The service, called StableFX, allows screened businesses to request competing quotes from multiple liquidity providers and settle both sides of a stablecoi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
BlackRock sees a new $5 trillion AI trade emerging for stablecoins
BlackRock says AI could create a new class of stablecoin customer: machines that spend continuously without human approval. The world’s largest asset manager sees increasingly autonomous AI systems purchasing data, accessing software, and acquiring computing resources on their own, potentially addin...
- The BlockScore: 70
Canada’s big six banks explore tokenized deposit system to modernize payments
The banks said the first phase of the project involves moving tokenized deposits efficiently across financial institutions.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Bitcoin's on a streak it hasn't hit since 2012
Bitcoin’s 10% September gain puts it on track for a rare three-month winning streak last seen in 2012.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
XRP Ledger retries upgrade that lets banks split payment and compliance duties
The upgrade could activate Oct. 5, letting businesses give another account limited powers such as making payments or approving customers without handing over full control.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Zcash’s November upgrade could freeze funds in legacy Sprout pool
The proposed NU7 change would disable version 4 transactions, leaving ZEC in Zcash’s legacy Sprout shielded pool unspendable.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
FTX, Alameda-linked wallets send $75 million in ether to Wintermute, onchain data shows
Onchain analysts PeckShield and EmberCN say the funds moved to a Wintermute wallet, but neither a sale nor the purpose of the transfer have been confirmed.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Bitcoin consolidates near $86,000 as rally narrows and Brent slips below $100
Thirty-eight of the 100 CoinDesk 100 constituents were lower on the day, with bitcoin cash up 32% over 24 hours on a CME futures listing.
- DecryptScore: 70
Morning Minute: Bitcoin Hits $86,000 as Oil Slides and ETFs Bid
Crypto majors continue their climb while alt leaders hit new ATHs. What’s driving the recent run up?
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Stablecoin cross-border flows surge 78%, defying crypto bear market
Cross-border stablecoin transfers surged as the wider crypto market shrank 37%, with Chainalysis pointing to growing use for trade, remittances and savings.
- DecryptScore: 70
Bitcoin Dips, But Its Forks Are Flying Again
A CME futures listing and a fresh Grayscale ETF filing sent Bitcoin's two biggest forks soaring, even as the flagship coin cooled off its seven-month high.
- DecryptScore: 70
NYSE Taps Blockchain.com to Reach Crypto Investors With Tokenized Stocks
Blockchain.com and NYSE Group signed a preliminary agreement to give the crypto exchange's users access to tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, pending regulatory approval.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
$1 billion in trading volume masks hidden liquidity risks for Coinbase stock token holders
More than $1 billion in reported trading makes Coinbase's stock tokens look active. For a holder looking to sell, the question is how much the market can absorb now, and at what price, particularly outside US equity hours. A Sept. 23 premarket check found indicative buy and sell routes for about $10...
- The BlockScore: 70
Hut 8 wins bidding for Poolin’s Texas data centers with $140 million offer
The proposed acquisition would add two Texas sites to Hut 8’s expanding AI infrastructure portfolio.
- DecryptScore: 70
Zcash's Wall Street Moment Reaches Europe With Its First ETP Listing
21Shares listed Europe's first Zcash exchange-traded product on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam this week as ZEC continues its banner year.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
CFTC issues warning over risky prediction market ‘mention’ contracts
The warning comes weeks after the CFTC fined a former White House teleprompter operator who made more than $107,000 trading prediction contracts tied to President Trump’s speeches.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Solana flips Ethereum in fees, while ETH holds the burn lead
Solana generated more user fees than Ethereum in data provider DefiLlama's Sept. 22 dashboard snapshot, while Ethereum burned more fees. The split shows that users' spending can reach validators and applications without producing an equivalent benefit for someone simply holding the network's coin. T...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Why Mastercard’s $25 billion crypto expansion isn’t what it seems
SoFi Bank and Mastercard have announced SoFiUSD settlement is live for the bank's debit and credit card program, moving their March plan into production. The rollout puts a token-based settlement route behind familiar card payments and, according to SoFi, gives participating merchants a way to recei...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Altcoin demand meets $18B threat as flows move into RWA perps as just 19% of traders keep alts
In the markets Talos tracked, daily volume in RWA perpetual futures tied to equities, commodities and indices rose from less than $1 billion in January to $18.8 billion during Sept. 3-9. That represented 18.5% of futures volume across those venues. Crypto exchanges built their derivatives businesses...
- DecryptScore: 65
BlackRock: AI Agents Could Drive Crypto's Next Demand Wave
The world's largest asset manager argues that autonomous AI agents buying data, paying for services, and renting computing power could quietly become one of the biggest forces pushing money into crypto.
- DecryptScore: 65
Borrow Against Your Bitcoin at a Fixed Rate: Coinbase Expands Morpho Loans
The product lets users lock in their rate and repayment date when borrowing USDC against Bitcoin, marking the first enterprise-scale deployment of Morpho Midnight and a shift away from on-chain lending's variable-rate norm.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
U.S. regulator warns about cheating risks in 'mention markets' on prediction platforms
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a new advisory to flag the unique dangers of markets based on individuals' behavior.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
OpenAI, Anthropic to brief UN Security Council on AI risks: Reports
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are expected to brief the UN Security Council as it examines AI risks and global security.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
AI potential to drive crypto demand remains ‘underappreciated’: BlackRock
BlackRock says AI agents could drive demand for stablecoins and programmable payment rails, while tokenized computing capacity could create another opportunity for digital assets.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Coinbase users can now borrow USDC against bitcoin at a fixed rate
Coinbase now allows users to borrow the USDC stablecoin against their bitcoin at a fixed interest rate and repayment date.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin bull market ‘confirmed’ but $90K presents profit-taking risk: Analysis
BTC price analysis concluded that onchain signals had “confirmed” the new Bitcoin bull market.
- The BlockScore: 60
Galaxy adds $100 million in Sky’s sUSDS to treasury, buys SKY token as firms deepen lending ties
Galaxy added $100 million in sUSDS to its treasury and approved the Sky savings token as institutional loan collateral.
- The BlockScore: 60
Stablecoin adoption intent rises from 36% to 56% with bank-level protections, Visa says
A Visa study shows U.S. stablecoin adoption intent jumps to 56% when paired with hypothetical bank-level consumer protections.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
ESMA to prioritize EU-wide AI and tokenization supervision in 2027
National regulators will map client-facing uses of the technologies, check a subset of firms and develop common approaches to oversight.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Coin Metrics revises 19 months of ETF wallet data but by how much?
Coin Metrics corrected more than 19 months of Bitcoin ETF-related on-chain data, leaving users of its identified-wallet series to reassess any analysis built on the affected history. The Sept. 22 status notice says the correction covers Bitcoin data from Feb. 7, 2025 through Sept. 17, 2026. Coin Met...
- DecryptScore: 60
Americans Would Use Stablecoins—If They Came With Bank Protections, Visa Study Finds
A Visa survey found U.S. willingness to use stablecoins for cross-border transfers rises from 36% to 56% when paired with hypothetical bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
US stablecoin adoption could surge with bank-like protections: Visa survey
The survey released by Visa posited that bank-like protections for stablecoins could increase adoption in the US as companies are preparing for the enactment of the GENIUS Act.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Treasury’s cash balance nears $1 trillion while Bitcoin awaits a crucial market signal
At a New York Fed conference on Sept. 22, Treasury officials and market participants discussed whether the government should lend excess cash into the overnight repo market, which finances Treasury trades. Such a move could raise bank reserves. Treasury announced no repo-lending program, amount or t...
- CointelegraphScore: 60
US lawmakers from gaming states urge SCOTUS to take up Kalshi case
The case between New Jersey authorities and a prediction market company, if accepted by the Supreme Court, could result in clarity for state and federal officials over sports bets.
- DecryptScore: 60
China Probes DeepSeek and Moonshot Over Alleged Data Leaks to Anthropic's Claude
China's internet regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic accused both of secretly routing millions of user exchanges through Claude to train their own models.
- DecryptScore: 60
OpenAI Gives Ukraine Access to Daybreak AI Cyber-Defense Tool
OpenAI is giving Ukraine's government access to Daybreak, its AI vulnerability-hunting system, as the country's cyber defenders face a record wave of attacks on hospitals, power grids, and government networks.
- CoinDeskScore: 55
Crypto Long & Short: Inside the chain settling $150 billion of stablecoins a week
Tron launched as a content-distribution project and has become the settlement layer for a large share of the world's USDT, processing roughly $150 billion to $190 billion of stablecoin transfers a week. Josh Olszewicz of Canary Capital breaks down how the network's economics work and what stablecoin...
- CoinDeskScore: 50
AI agents will soon buy their own computing power and data using stablecoins, according to BlackRock
The asset manager sees payments as the nearer-term opportunity, while markets for computing capacity remain at an early stage
- DecryptScore: 50
CFTC Staff Advisory Says Prediction Market 'Mention' Contracts Invite Manipulation
Three weeks after fining a teleprompter operator who traded on speeches he had already read, regulators set out what exchanges must show.
- The BlockScore: 50
Crypto economy fell just 1.6% in 12 months despite $2.1 trillion market cap rout, Chainalysis says
Global crypto activity fell 1.6% to $9.4 trillion despite a massive $2.1 trillion market cap contraction, Chainalysis says.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Inside the FBI’s little-known annual crypto crime gathering
The Virtual Asset Technical Exchange brings together investigators, law enforcement officials, and crypto-security specialists to exchange intelligence on a wide range of crimes involving digital assets.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Bitwise launches first Lighter ETP amid Hyperliquid rivalry
The product gives European investors brokerage access to the LIT token as Bitwise expands its lineup of products tied to decentralized derivatives platforms.
- The BlockScore: 50
‘Not behind closed doors’: Senate Banking Democrats call for prediction markets hearing as GOP meets privately with Kalshi
Every Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee is urging its chair, Sen. Tim Scott, to hold a congressional hearing on prediction markets.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Former Hack VC partner Hsin-Ju Chuang found dead following public dispute with the firm
The crypto community is seeking answers after 37-year-old growth executive Hsin-Ju Chuang was found dead in a remote California desert vehicle.
- DecryptScore: 50
Meta's Muse AI Agent Read a User's Private iMessages. Then It Lied About How
A tech columnist declined to give Meta's new AI agent access to his messages. It read them anyway, then invented an explanation for how it knew.
- DecryptScore: 50
Anthropic Says Claude Found Something Big in DNA. It Just Doesn't Know What
Anthropic says Claude autonomously found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system. Even Dario Amodei admits nobody knows what it actually does.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
US Treasury secretary emerges as frontrunner for Trump’s AI czar role: Report
US President Donald Trump previously tapped David Sacks as his AI and crypto czar before Sacks stepped down from the role earlier this year after reaching his service limit as a special government employee.
- DecryptScore: 40
Former Polish Police Officer Charged as Zondacrypto Probe Searches Fuel Depot
Investigators are combing the site where the exchange's founder was last seen in 2022, using experts and forensic equipment.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
White House adviser defends President Trump's crypto ties in wake of Clarity Act defeat
President Donald Trump's crypto adviser, Patrick Witt, accused Democrats of unfairly amplifying Trump's crypto ties as a political weapon.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Kalshi says it is not being investigated by the CFTC over trading activity
The prediction market says unusual patterns in its ether perpetual market are the result of liquidity incentives.
- CointelegraphScore: 30
Trump reveals up to $100K Strategy stock purchase in ethics filing
President Donald Trump disclosed a July purchase of Strategy shares as his administration continues to advance crypto policy through federal regulators and Congress.
- CointelegraphScore: 30
Former Hack VC partner Hsin-Ju Chuang found dead at 37
The crypto executive and Dystopia Labs founder previously held senior roles at Stellar and Solana before joining venture capital firm Hack VC.
- CoinDeskScore: 20
The S&P 500 has a 'breadth' problem. Crypto doesn’t.
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 22, 2026