Raw News Items
70 itemsSeptember 29, 2026
- CoinDesk
Robinhood adds AI agents, perps and weekend trading in push to win active traders
The brokerage is expanding its trading hours and adding leveraged crypto products and automated trading tools to attract more active investors.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Hut 8 locks in $1B credit line, but faces 40% liquidity rules
Bitcoin miner Hut 8 announced on Sept. 28 that it had closed a four-year, $1 billion senior secured credit line. The facility gives the parent company room to borrow during site development and to back construction obligations with letters of credit. Its securities filing says no amounts were outsta...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Coinbase powers Citi’s new stablecoin rails, and corporate banking faces a major shift
Citi institutional clients can now accept stablecoin payments through Spring by Citi using Coinbase's payments infrastructure, Coinbase said on Sept. 28. The exchange also said its Virtual Accounts can automatically convert incoming fiat into stablecoins using Citi's Virtual Account Wallet. The anno...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Crypto regulation at SEC, CFTC to come down to 3 commissioners following key resignation
Seven commissioner seats at the SEC and CFTC will be empty after Friday, leaving only a few leaders at financial regulators to oversee aspects of the $3 trillion crypto industry.
- The BlockScore: 85
Coinbase receives DCO approval from CFTC, completing full derivatives stack
This completes Coinbase's derivatives infrastructure, allowing it to list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Coinbase gets CFTC approval for US derivatives clearinghouse
Coinbase joins Kraken in bringing US derivatives infrastructure in-house, after Kraken’s parent acquired Bitnomial and its CFTC-regulated exchange, clearinghouse and brokerage in May.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
A $7 billion crypto ETF plumbing boom just ran into the IRS
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is scrutinizing a crypto-linked ETF tax strategy as Washington intensifies its campaign against structures designed to avoid taxable gains. The Treasury Department and IRS identified digital assets as one area where fund managers may be stretching tax provisions be...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Bitget CEO ‘not very optimistic’ on recovering funds from $388M breach
Gracy Chen said she saw the 2025 Bybit hack as a “good reference point” for Bitget’s security breach, noting that only a small percentage of funds had been frozen or recovered.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Tether claims $550 million in Iran freezes, but $35 million slipped past Senate
Tether says it helped freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT during 2026, while Democratic investigators on a Senate subcommittee allege that delays in blacklisting some identified wallets let tens of millions of dollars keep moving. A preliminary report released Sept. 28 by Democratic minor...
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Cboe, S&P Dow Jones may explore tokenized options contracts under extended licensing deal
The agreement opens the door to tokenized derivatives as some of Wall Street's biggest institutions, including Nasdaq, NYSE and DTCC, move traditional markets onchain.
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Tether says it helped freeze $550M in Iran-linked USDT this year
The disclosure came as Senate Democratic investigators alleged USDT had become a key part of Iran’s shadow banking network.
- DecryptScore: 80
Coinbase Now Owns Every Layer of Its Derivatives Stack After CFTC Approval
Coinbase Clearing will take USDC as collateral and settle around the clock, though margined products stay with partners.
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Blockchain.com targets $500 million IPO this year at up to $6 billion valuation
The London-based crypto services company confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year.
- DecryptScore: 80
Crypto ETFs Surge as Bitcoin Funds Add $2.95 Billion in 30 Days
Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to eight straight days on Monday, bouncing back from the Clarity Act sell-off in a big way.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Robinhood Chain’s $1.5 billion boom is attracting memecoin rug factories
A second suspected memecoin rug factory has surfaced on Robinhood Chain as the fast-growing network attracts increasingly coordinated scam activity. On Sept. 28, blockchain security firm GoPlus said it identified a high-risk operation behind hundreds of memecoins that routed more than $9 million thr...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Near Intents blocks $50 million in Bitget hacker swaps, here's what happened
The swap service identified more than $50 million in attempted transfers, although most rejected funds subsequently moved through other providers.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
NEAR Intents says it blocked $50M tied to Bitget hackers
The cross-chain protocol said it actively prevents stolen funds from being laundered, drawing a contrast with THORChain’s position that it does not selectively censor transactions.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Ethereum schedules Glamsterdam upgrade on Sepolia for Oct. 6
Glamsterdam will bring proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists and new gas pricing, while its mainnet date remains unset.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Ethereum users get another way to pay privately as zk.money returns after three years
The relaunched wallet hides payments made on the Aztec Network, while deposits from Ethereum remain visible.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Bitwise launches first US spot NEAR ETF after token’s recent surge
Bitwise’s NEAR ETF begins trading on NYSE Arca as the token rallies more than 160% over the past month and activity on NEAR Intents grows.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
El Salvador targets $9 billion in transfers, but chooses stablecoins
El Salvador is turning to stablecoins for remittances, further separating everyday payments from the country's pioneering Bitcoin experiment. Sivar, a new national community and payments app developed by Modveon, will use Coinbase infrastructure to settle transfers in stablecoins on Base, according ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Fed guarantees 2-day stablecoin payouts, but $76B remains blocked
The Federal Reserve's stablecoin proposal would put a general two-business-day limit on redemption by issuers it supervises. For a customer holding stablecoins at an exchange, the first step is getting that venue to release or convert the balance. In a July 28 snapshot, researchers located $76 billi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin drops to $82,000 on US data, and inflation fear is blamed
US job openings cooled modestly in August, but September households grew more worried about inflation and interest rates. That split left Bitcoin investors with only part of the case for easier financial conditions after Sept. 29 releases. Bitcoin registered an intraday low of $82,775.94 on Tuesday,...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Chainlink CCIP 2.0 exposes bridge risk, and issuer gates trigger stalls
Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 lets a token issuer require an additional verifier before tokens finish moving from one blockchain to another. A sending pool may already have locked or burned the tokens when that check becomes decisive: without the verifier's attestation, the receiving chain cannot release or ...
- DecryptScore: 70
Cboe's New S&P Deal Opens the Door to Tokenized Options
The renewed agreement preserves Cboe's exclusive rights to S&P 500 index options through 2051 while opening the door to pairing the flagship benchmark with blockchain infrastructure.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Compound DAO used protocol reserves to buy $52 million worth of COMP, and delegates call it a mandate breach
A new on-chain reconstruction says COMP acquired, through Compound DAO reserves, a majority of all delegated voting power at a May snapshot. That position did not change the recorded result that Proposal 582 passed with zero votes against. Bitquery says 344,780 COMP arrived in a DAO reserve wallet a...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
US bank group taps Quant for tokenized deposits, but QNT’s role is left in doubt
Bank-owned US payments operator The Clearing House has chosen Quant to supply software for a planned network for tokenized bank deposits. The September 24 deal gives Quant a role in moving digital representations of bank deposits between institutions, but it doesn't address whether those transaction...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Bitcoin’s $85,000 test comes as Wall Street gets two different inflation stories
Bitcoin hit an intraday low of $82,563 on Sept. 28, just below a concentration of long-term holders' purchase prices that Glassnode identified last week. Three US data releases now threaten to send different signals about the inflation and labor outlook that drives interest-rate expectations. On Sep...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Bitcoin bounces to $84K after US 30-year bond yield sets 24-year high
Bitcoin price action consolidated after early-week losses while protecting a “trend-defining” support zone.
- DecryptScore: 70
Morning Minute: Citi and Coinbase Just Made Stablecoins Invisible
Plus, crypto majors rebound as oil and yields fall and Saylor’s Strategy returns to buying Bitcoin.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Zano rolls back a month of transactions as team plans to use personal funds for recovery
Zano’s team says it will draw on the blockchain network’s developer fund, team members’ personal funds and committed contributors to finance recovery from an emergency rollback. The rollback removed roughly a month of previously confirmed transactions from the recovered Zano chain. The team update g...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Bitcoin’s $84,000 wall gets harder to break as ETF inflows sink to $31 million
US Bitcoin exchange-traded funds drew just $31 million in inflows on Sept. 28 as institutional demand weakened while BTC stalled below a major supply barrier. According to SoSoValue data, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) led the session with $54.84 million in inflows, adding about 657 Bitcoi...
- The BlockScore: 70
Bitcoin tests long-term holder supply cluster as leverage clears, analysts say
Bitcoin traded near $84,000 on Tuesday, near Glassnode's largest long-term holder cost-basis cluster price range.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Anthropic lost $42 billion, warned AI could resist shutdowns, but traders still price it at $2 trillion
Anthropic is preparing one of the largest IPOs on record, asking investors to finance an unusually expensive race for artificial intelligence dominance. The Claude developer has confidentially filed for an initial public offering that could value it at more than $2 trillion, according to a prospectu...
- The BlockScore: 70
Comer presses Crypto.com, Hyperliquid and PredictIt on identity checks and suspicious trades
Comer’s expanded probe seeks records on government insiders, employee trades and suspicious activity referrals.
- The BlockScore: 70
CryptoQuant says bitcoin correction could be near as traders’ unrealized profit hits 21-month high
Bitcoin could face a near-term correction as short-term traders' onchain unrealized profit margin has reached its highest level in 21 months, according to CryptoQuant.
- DecryptScore: 70
Bitwise Launches First US Spot Near ETF After Token Nearly Triples Since August
Bitwise's NRR began trading on NYSE Arca Tuesday, giving brokerage accounts NEAR exposure and staking rewards as the AI-focused token soars.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
BitMine could hit its 5% Ether supply target within weeks — then what?
BitMine could reach 5% of Ether’s supply by early November, while Tom Lee has left open whether it would continue buying beyond that level.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Greece gets first MiCA entrants as watchdog denies Binance-Lagarde claim
Greece joined the EU MiCA register with four providers as HCMC expanded its denial of remarks attributed to officials in a report on Binance.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Altcoin spot volume nears 4x Bitcoin’s as ETF inflows shrink across five sessions
Altcoin spot volume has climbed to nearly four times Bitcoin's, the highest ratio since September 2025, according to Glassnode. Wintermute says retail clients on its OTC desk sold BTC last week to fund that rotation, while US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in nearly $2.4 billion over the same five sessions....
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Live updates: Bitcoin rebounds above $84,000 as ETFs draw in $30 million
Ether led a modest recovery among major tokens, while ZEC extended its slide and its U.S. fund posted the only outflow among crypto ETFs on Monday.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
ECB puts AI agent payments on the digital euro drawing board
The ECB is seeking firms to explore AI agents and machine-to-machine interactions as it prepares a separate digital euro pilot for 2027.
- DecryptScore: 65
Is the Red September Curse Over? Bitcoin Set for Best September on Record
Bitcoin is up 7.33% in September, edging past 2024 as the best September on record, with one day left before the monthly candle closes.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Bitcoin holds $83,000 as ZEC drops 12% and oil climbs again
Global stocks fell to a one-week low as Brent rose for a second day and traders added to bets on more Federal Reserve rate hikes ahead of Wednesday's PCE inflation data.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Bitcoin is on track to shatter a major decade-long streak as September gains surge
Bitcoin is on track for a third straight monthly gain, but higher yields, oil prices and two major November events could test its Q4 momentum.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
US crypto ETF inflows cool after $3.3B week but streaks hold
US spot crypto ETF inflows fell about 80% from Friday as Bitcoin, Ether, Solana and XRP funds attracted $64.8 million combined on Monday.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Aave leads DeFi higher as crypto shrugs off surging bond market
Aave jumped 11% on speculation over a token burn, with 72 of 100 CoinDesk 100 constituents higher even as the 10-year Treasury yield sat at 5.234%.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin ETF inflows leave institutional demand unclear: CoinShares
CoinShares says IBIT offers clues to institutional buying, but basis trades mean inflows are not necessarily bets on rising Bitcoin prices.
- The BlockScore: 60
Bitwise launches first US spot NEAR ETF with staking rewards
Bitwise's NRR is the first U.S. NEAR ETP, charging a 0.75% fee and staking its NEAR in-house, with rewards flowing to shareholders via NAV.
- The BlockScore: 60
Aztec relaunches zk.money privacy wallet on its Ethereum Layer 2
Aztec Labs has relaunched zk.money, a self-custodial privacy wallet, on Aztec Network after discontinuing the original product in 2023.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin gives back gains as long-term holder supply keeps $85K out of reach
Bitcoin failed to make another run at $85,000 as sellers held the line above current levels, while surging US bond yields weighed on stocks and precious metals.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Kakaopay partners with Dinari, Ondo to explore tokenized Korean stocks
Kakaopay Securities is working with Dinari and Ondo Finance to explore tokenizing Korean-listed equities and expanding their availability to investors in international markets.
- DecryptScore: 60
Ethereum Gets Another Privacy Boost as Aztec Brings Back zk.money
Aztec Labs relaunched its self-custodial zk.money wallet on Aztec Network, letting users make private stablecoin payments using readable tags.
- CryptoSlateScore: 55
BitMine nears 5% Ethereum threshold, yet stock valuation rules dictate its next move
Ethereum treasury company BitMine Immersion Technologies said on Sept. 28 that it held 6,001,302 ETH, leaving it 103,698 tokens short of its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum's supply, based on the company's latest supply estimate. Buying that remainder at BitMine's Sept. 27 reference price would cost a...
- The BlockScore: 55
Ondo Perps CEO sees ‘huge opportunity’ for perps in US market, under different model
The CEO's comment comes at a time when U.S. regulators and several firms are testing how perpetual futures could enter domestic markets.
- CryptoSlateScore: 55
Solana’s 250ms data shows lower-stake validators lost a larger share of reward-linked vote credits
Solana's faster clock has not, so far, brought a network-wide jump in skipped slots. But a Solana Foundation study published Sept. 28 found a less even result underneath that stable headline: vote latency rose as the network moved through shorter slot targets, and validators with less stake lost a l...
- CointelegraphScore: 50
OpenAI valuation could hit $1.4T in new funding round: Report
OpenAI is reportedly seeking another $30 billion from investors as the ChatGPT developer pushes its long-awaited public market debut into 2027.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Nvidia unveils AI safety platform to rein in ‘rogue’ AI agents
The launch comes after several AI agents breached their testing environments this year, adding to calls for companies to slow the development of autonomous AI systems.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Analysts see 10-year Treasury yield hitting 6%. Bitcoin bulls shouldn't panic
Why yields are rising matters more for bitcoin than how high they go.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Zcash developers begin moving Tachyon code into faster private-payment software
Developers are starting to fold Project Tachyon into Zakura Common as they work toward a long-term target of more than 50,000 private payments a second.
- DecryptScore: 50
Bitcoin Hovers at $84K as Treasury Yields Hold Near Multi-Year Highs
Analysts point to crude prices capping non-yielding assets, while spot ETFs have taken money in for eight sessions running.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Bitcoin beats gold, surge to $100,000 in play
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 29, 2026
- DecryptScore: 40
Anthropic Lost $42 Billion Last Year. It Wants to Go Public at $2 Trillion
The company's IPO prospectus shows revenue up twelvefold, a $518 billion spending plan, and a risk section warning that its own AI could pose existential risks to humanity.
- DecryptScore: 40
Canada's 'Crypto King' Aiden Pleterski to Represent Himself at Fraud Trial
The judge has told Pleterski he will raise objections on his behalf, to keep inadmissible evidence away from the jury.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Peter Brandt says Bitcoin may hit $600K by 2029, calls XRP a ‘fool coin’
An October pullback could offer a buying opportunity before Bitcoin’s next cycle peak, which Brandt expects between $300,000 and $600,000. He’s not sold on “fool coin” XRP.
- DecryptScore: 40
OpenAI Gave AI Agents Their Own Computers at DevDay 2026. Here's Everything It Announced
OpenAI's DevDay launched dots, always-on AI agents with their own computers, plus a cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol and a $500 speed tier. Here's every announcement, explained for people who don't speak AI.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Anthropic plans to spend $518 billion on AI infrastructure. Pre-IPO perps barely blink.
Anthropic's prospectus seen by Reuters shows big spending plans despite heavy losses. Still, pre-IPO perps barely moved on cryptocurrency exchanges.
- DecryptScore: 30
Someone Finally Jailbroke the PS5—Just After Sony Said Players Don’t Own Their Games
Linear Fox founder Nathan Fargo released a public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, while Sony argues in court that players don't own their digital games.
- CoinDeskScore: 20
Democrats killed the Clarity Act
Democrats should remember the people they represent and do what's best for them, not what's best for their political calculus, consultants, and special interests, writes Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.).
- DecryptScore: 20
BBC Director-General Deems AI-Generated Doctor Who Episode 'Pretty Good'
Matt Brittin, who joined the BBC from Google, argued that "not all creativity is bad," while noting that the technology won't replace humans.