Raw News Items
29 itemsSeptember 26, 2026
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Swiss bank shields Bitget institutions while retail funds freeze
Bitget says about $387.5 million in assets was transferred to attacker-controlled addresses during a Sept. 24 wallet breach. Its withdrawals remained suspended in notices issued through Sept. 25, even as deposits and trading continued. On the day of the breach, Sygnum announced that Bitget's institu...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
SEC clears regulatory hurdle as crypto token buybacks hit record $638 million
Crypto projects spent about $638 million with token buybacks through late August 2026, according to Allium Labs data. That is already a record, up from $545 million over the same stretch of 2025. Hyperliquid accounted for roughly $370 million and Pump.fun for about $200 million, together close to 90...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Nearly $15B is moving off LayerZero, now a $292M lawsuit puts its security model on trial
Evercrest Technologies, the company behind KelpDAO, has sued LayerZero Labs, its Canadian affiliate, and CEO Bryan Pellegrino in British Columbia over April's $292 million rsETH exploit. The claim alleges negligent misrepresentation, negligence and defamation, seeks aggravated and punitive damages, ...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
CFTC sues Cash FX, alleges $950M crypto-linked forex scheme
The CFTC claimed that Cash FX engaged in minimal forex trading and misappropriated most of the participant funds.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Bitget hacker moves $83 million in stolen XRP that Ripple cannot freeze
Two wallets have been almost emptied and a third is being drained, with about $75 million remaining across the five original holding accounts.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Fed stablecoin proposal would make circulation a capital cost for supervised issuers
A hypothetical payment stablecoin issuer within the Federal Reserve's proposed supervisory scope, with $1 billion in circulation and no revenue from activities outside its reserve assets, would start with a $20 million baseline operational-risk capital charge under the Fed's proposal announced Sept....
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Fed proposed stablecoin rule could trigger a 48-hour liquidation run
The Federal Reserve's proposed rules for the payment stablecoin issuers it supervises include a crisis clock measured in hours. An issuer whose reserves fall below the value of its outstanding tokens would have 24 hours to notify the Fed and submit a plan to restore full backing. Unless it closes th...
- DecryptScore: 80
How Crypto Stopped Waiting for Congress and Learned to Love the Regulators
After the Clarity Act failed in the Senate, the SEC, CFTC, and the Fed moved within days to write crypto's rules themselves. Will it be enough?
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Bitcoin could soon get Zcash-style 'shielded' privacy without changing its rules
Researchers have mapped out private bitcoin-denominated transfers that run alongside Bitcoin, but the system still lacks a finished way to lock up real BTC and release it again.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
EU faces September 30 clock to decide future of DeFi loans
The European Banking Authority has asked the European Commission to examine new MiCA rules for crypto firms that connect customers to DeFi loans. Its September 24 response calls for a cost-benefit analysis of possible duties for intermediated borrowing and lending, and for crypto-asset service provi...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Kraken’s parent Payward is betting billions on becoming financial infrastructure, not just a crypto exchange
Kraken parent Payward is unifying trading, payments, asset management and institutional services on common rails, co-CEO Arjun Sethi said.
- The BlockScore: 75
Bitcoin ETFs turn positive for 2026 with $2.4 billion weekly inflow, their largest since October
The inflows pushed bitcoin ETFs' year-to-date net flows back above zero, after the funds sat roughly $5.8 billion in the red just two months ago.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Binance deal gives Circle a boost in stablecoin race with Tether, analysts say
The five-year deal could strengthen USDC’s reach in emerging markets, though Tether’s liquidity advantage remains hard to dislodge, analysts told CoinDesk.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
ARK partners with Securitize to put a venture fund on Ethereum, but leaves exit doors locked
ARK Invest and Securitize announced on Sept. 24 that eligible investors would be able to hold tokenized interests in the ARK Venture Fund on Ethereum. This new ownership route puts an established interval fund on blockchain infrastructure, so investors still face the fund's limited exit options when...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to leave post on Oct. 2
Peirce, known as “Crypto Mom,” served on the SEC for about eight years, including as director of the Crypto Task Force.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Kalshi must lock out state users after major court loss
The Sixth Circuit ruled Sept. 25 that Ohio and Tennessee can apply their gambling laws to Kalshi's sports contracts. The court rejected Kalshi's argument that complying state by state would conflict with its duties as a federally regulated exchange, and it pointed to geofencing as a workable way to ...
- DecryptScore: 70
AI Agents Are Racing to Make Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Cheap—And Winning
An open competition run by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs drove the estimated cost of building a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction from about $320 to roughly $67, with AI models topping the leaderboards.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Washington has $114 billion reasons to want Tether around
Not that long ago, Washington fined Tether for misleading people about the dollars behind its tokens. Today, the company's insatiable appetite for American debt is the main argument for sending those tokens further around the world. The distance between those two positions tells us a great deal abou...
- DecryptScore: 70
Bitcoin ETFs Notch Seven-Day Winning Streak as 2026 Flows Turn Green
Bitcoin ETFs have drawn nearly $3 billion over seven straight sessions, erasing post-Clarity Act losses and pushing 2026 flows back into positive territory.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
IBM links 17 banks to the SWIFT ledger, but the cloud risk persists
IBM announced a beta connection between its Digital Asset Haven and SWIFT's shared ledger for tokenized deposits on Sept. 24, using an ISO 20022 Messaging Adapter that lets participating institutions instruct ledger transactions through standard payment messages. The route brings IBM’s digital-asset...
- CoinDeskScore: 60
XRP Ledger’s Batch upgrade slips to Oct. 9 after validator support resets
The feature would let users bundle up to eight transactions, including asset-and-payment transfers, but a brief drop below the network’s 80% support threshold restarted its two-week activation clock.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Solana’s 150-millisecond settlement upgrade reaches second public test network
Alpenglow is running on both public test networks, giving application teams a place to check their software before the live blockchain switches.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Kalshi loses appeal, setting up potential Supreme Court case
The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against prediction market Kalshi, siding with Ohio and Tennessee on regulating sports-event contracts under state laws.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Balancer fork’s 6 million BAL ask could cut holders’ redemption value
MAXYZ, a group of former Balancer contributors, is asking for up to 6 million currently non-circulating BAL to seed a successor protocol. If the granted tokens reach other eligible holders before Balancer's proposed wind-down redemption snapshot, the same treasury would be divided among more BAL. In...
- The BlockScore: 50
Kalshi loses appeal over Ohio and Tennessee sports betting laws, widening circuit split
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that Kalshi has not adequately shown its sports event contracts are swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
The NFT party is over and everybody now owes storage rent
In 2021, Christie's sold a Beeple NFT for $69.35 million, and Sotheby's took another $24.40 million for 101 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, giving cartoon primates the kind of auction-house treatment usually reserved for Fabergé eggs. But now, not five years later, one of the marketplaces that helped sel...
- DecryptScore: 40
Google Just Made Free 1080p AI Video Generation Available to Anyone
Google Vids now lets any Google account holder generate free HD AI video using Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, with new scene, timing, and watermark controls.
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
Why cash hoarding in the UK proves the world still craves permissionless money
You can spend weeks paying for everything with your phone and still feel better knowing there's some cash at home. That might sound old-fashioned until your bank's app stops working, your card gets declined for reasons nobody can explain, or the power goes out while you need groceries. In those mome...
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
Bitcoin posts on X can pay even when Bitcoin doesn’t
You don't have to own Bitcoin to make money from people getting excited about it. On X, just posting about it can be a business in itself, and the company now wants £207,384 back from people it alleges took that business a bit too far. In its Sept. 17 lawsuit, X accuses Vivek Kumar Sen, Zamyang Sher...