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Revolut has begun rolling out EURR, its first euro-backed stablecoin, to selected customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, putting a branded onchain euro inside its app while Bridge Building S.A. serves as issuer and redemption counterparty. Bridge Building is the legal issuer; Revolut describes... Read the full story at The Defiant

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rewrite of custody rules for investment advisers and investment companies entered White House review on Aug. 25, placing a new crypto-focused framework into regulatory review after the agency withdrew a separate 2023 safeguarding proposal. The SEC’s... Read the full story at The Defiant

The two U.S. market regulators issued crypto exemptions within hours of each other on Thursday, the first concrete use of the existing authorities both chairmen invoked after the Senate refused to take up the market structure bill. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted temporary,... Read the full story at The Defiant

Almost every large crypto token fell through the overnight sessions and into Thursday's U.S. open, as an oil shock drove long-dated Treasury yields to multi-year highs and traders raised the odds of a Federal Reserve rate increase next week to 64%. Traders put a quarter-point September increase at... Read the full story at The Defiant

Zcash crossed $1,600 for the first time since 2016, extending a rally as 21Shares opened a new route for European brokerage customers to gain exposure to ZEC. The move followed a $1,383.30 intraday high recorded on Coinbase on Sept. 16. It returned ZEC to levels last seen during its 2016 launch... Read the full story at The Defiant

The Cosmos Hub resumed producing blocks at 8:06 a.m. ET on Wednesday, and the restart moved 1.23 million ATOM out of the wallet of the attacker who took control of 11 Neutron contracts through a governance vote. Validators coordinated the halt and the restart among themselves. The transfer is... Read the full story at The Defiant

21Shares listed Europe's first Zcash exchange-traded product on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam this week as ZEC continues its banner year.

KB Securities has signed a memorandum of understanding with Securitize and Optimism to explore tokenized securities for institutional investors in Korea, with OP Mainnet identified as the intended blockchain. The agreement remains exploratory, and Optimism’s official materials give different... Read the full story at The Defiant

MoonPay has agreed to acquire North Capital Investment Technology, a private-markets infrastructure company whose affiliates operate securities brokerage, advisory, transfer-agent and alternative-trading-system businesses. The all-stock deal is worth more than $60 million, sources familiar with the... Read the full story at The Defiant

Deribit's strike-by-strike data shows a book stacked with calls, and one price level drawing hedging pressure from both sides at once.

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.

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.

RBC, TD, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and National Bank are jointly exploring a Canadian-dollar tokenized deposit system, starting with transfers between the banks themselves.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Six Canadian banks — Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and TD Bank Group — are jointly exploring a shared Canadian-dollar tokenized-deposit system. Announcements published by Scotiabank and CIBC on Sept. 22 say the first... Read the full story at The Defiant

Brazil ranked first in Chainalysis's redesigned 2026 grassroots crypto adoption index, while Latin America's measured crypto economy grew 9.8% to $593.8 billion in the 12 months ending June 30. The region moved against the global trend during a bear market. Worldwide activity slipped 1.6% to $9.4... Read the full story at The Defiant

Ondo Finance has opened an in-kind creation and redemption route for Ondo Stocks, allowing approved institutions to exchange U.S. stocks and ETFs held at Alpaca for corresponding tokens on Ethereum or BNB Chain. The change, announced on Sept. 21, lets eligible institutions use existing share... Read the full story at The Defiant

Galaxy Digital has added $100 million of Sky Protocol’s sUSDS to its corporate treasury and approved it as collateral across its institutional trading business, Sky said. The collateral decision lets clients pledge sUSDS for a Galaxy loan while continuing to accrue the Sky Savings Rate on the full... Read the full story at The Defiant

Blockchain.com and NYSE Group announced an agreement on Sept. 23 to explore giving Blockchain.com customers 24/7 access to tokenized U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds through NYSE’s planned digital venue. The agreement covers joint product development rather than the launch of a finished... Read the full story at The Defiant

Crypto majors continue their climb while alt leaders hit new ATHs. What’s driving the recent run up?

A seven-agency advisory ties the WaterPlum hacking crew and Pyongyang's remote IT worker scheme to the same bureau.

Three weeks after fining a teleprompter operator who traded on speeches he had already read, regulators set out what exchanges must show.

Investigators are combing the site where the exchange's founder was last seen in 2022, using experts and forensic equipment.

DeepSeek will address the UN Security Council on AI risks this week, sharing a stage with Dario Amodei—who has spent a year calling China's government the industry's biggest threat.

Four ancient wallets moved 1,971 BTC between Sept. 6 and Sept. 22, including a 600 BTC transfer worth $51.9 million just hours ago, with three of the four carrying "Noah Doe" lawsuit tags.

The exchange operator is adding standard and micro contracts for BCH and UNI, extending a pattern of altcoin rollouts that already covers Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche, and Sui.

Bitcoin Cash was the day’s trade from the moment CME Group published its listing release, and the bid that took it there did not fade into the close. Bitcoin went the other way, slipping through New York hours after failing to reach Monday’s high at any point in the session. The rally that carried... Read the full story at The Defiant

Andreessen Horowitz and the DeFi Education Fund asked the SEC to define when decentralized exchanges and the apps that provide access to them fall outside the exchange registration requirements of the Securities Exchange Act, in a joint letter to Commissioner Hester Peirce published by the agency's... Read the full story at The Defiant

Head of cryptography Yehuda Lindell says the exchange is designing custody that can adapt to whatever post-quantum signing scheme Bitcoin adopts.

Galaxy Research says white-hat actors consolidated coins tied to the exploit into a fresh address tagged for a "Crypto Recovery Trust," though the funds represent just 2.8% of the total haul.

OpenAI cut prices 50% on its mid-tier models the same day Anthropic shipped a cheaper flagship, escalating a rivalry now measured in minutes.

A stretched but firmly bullish Bitcoin chart is riding the same tailwind lifting stocks: falling oil, a record Nasdaq, and a Fed that hiked rates while quietly pumping liquidity into the system.

Bernstein now projects prediction markets will handle $10 trillion a year by 2035, up from its own $1 trillion by 2030 forecast made just five months ago.

Anthropic's new flagship claims Fable 5.1-level performance at a fraction of the cost—but GPT-6 Astra still beats it on two published benchmarks.

Vitalik Buterin endorsed a prediction market by name on Monday, welcoming Trueo's plan to move its primary deployment from Base to Ethereum mainnet. Ethereum's base layer has no prediction market of scale. Polymarket settles on Polygon, and Kalshi is a CFTC-designated contract market with no... Read the full story at The Defiant

Dogecoin is rallying, and once again, Elon Musk may have something to do with it.

Kalshi denied faking its crypto trading volume in a response published Monday, attributing a repeating trade size in its ether perpetual futures to a single market maker it pays to keep orders resting on the book. Traders spent the weekend on X accusing the exchange of wash trading after the same... Read the full story at The Defiant

near.com began offering Ondo Finance’s tokenized U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), letting users buy them with crypto held across more than 30 networks. near.com, the app operated by Intents Technology Ltd. and built on NEAR Intents, announced the Ondo integration on Tuesday morning.... Read the full story at The Defiant

Kinetiq said the testnet for Elysium is live, opening the Hyperliquid layer 2 it unveiled in August to developers with a published chain ID, a public RPC endpoint, a block explorer, a bridge and a faucet. The post went up at 9:45 a.m. ET on Sept. 22. Mainnet has no date. Elysium is Kinetiq's bid to... Read the full story at The Defiant

CME Group will launch Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures on Oct. 19, pending regulatory review, the exchange said on Sept. 22. The pace of listings has accelerated. CME added Solana futures and XRP futures in 2025, its first single-token contracts beyond Bitcoin and Ether. It has added five more in... Read the full story at The Defiant

Binance bought $100 million of Circle stock and signed a five-year agreement to promote USDC across emerging markets, the companies said on Tuesday. Circle will pay Binance a monthly incentive fee set as a percentage of the USDC held through Circle's wallet infrastructure, according to a filing... Read the full story at The Defiant

The funds pulled in more on Monday than across the whole of last week, when they posted the weakest net inflow of their history.

BVNK has added native support for the Stellar network to its stablecoin payments platform, giving customers in more than 130 markets another settlement route seven weeks after Mastercard completed its acquisition of the company. Mastercard agreed to pay up to $1.8 billion for infrastructure... Read the full story at The Defiant

Built on Ethereum with DigiFT, Midas and Hastra Prime integrations, the vaults give platforms a single operational connection to real-world asset yield that would otherwise take a separate issuer onboarding for each asset. MAJURO, September 22, 2026 — Kamui Finance today announced bringing its... Read the full story at The Defiant

Crypto is interesting again and that means attention is flowing back to the sector. And it’s starting to show in the data.

The two sides closed an equity placement and a five-year commercial deal on the same day, with money moving in both directions.

Binance says it has a "zero-tolerance policy" for sanctions violations. Prosecutors are asking whether its 2023 compliance fixes held.

Google learned in late July that Gemini had breached three real companies during a May security test, but said nothing publicly for seven weeks.

The Ohio spending comes days after the Senate blocked the crypto industry’s Clarity Act.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says crypto event contracts are already outpacing sports bets, and could become the platform's dominant category within a few years.

ZetaChain governance has approved winding down the project's Layer 1 and replacing ZETA native to that network with a Solana SPL token at a 1:1 ratio. Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% of votes in favor. Participation reached 58%, exceeding the 40% quorum. The vote approves the direction of the... Read the full story at The Defiant

Coinbase has opened access to initial public offering allocations for eligible U.S. retail customers, beginning with Oura’s IPO this week. The product extends Coinbase’s equities business from trading listed stocks into primary-market share distribution. Coinbase said customers can request Oura... Read the full story at The Defiant

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted Catena Labs preliminary conditional approval to organize Catena Trust Bank, N.A. The Sept. 18 decision moves Catena from applicant to bank organizer, but does not authorize the proposed institution to open. Catena says the proposed bank is... Read the full story at The Defiant

Circle has opened bitcoin-backed borrowing to institutional customers of Circle Mint, and the loans run on Morpho. Customers deposit bitcoin, mint Circle's wrapped bitcoin token cirBTC, post it as collateral and receive USDC in their Mint account, Morpho said on X on Monday. The product routes... Read the full story at The Defiant

A lawsuit accuses UK users of running six coordinated accounts to pull at least $278,000 from X's now-defunct Creator Revenue Sharing Program.

Eligible customers can request shares at the offering price, but allocations are not guaranteed.

The central bank plans to buy euro-denominated public-sector debt and settle the transactions through its new Pontes service.

Most of the dollar volume in Kalshi's ether perpetual futures market comes from trades carrying one repeating dollar value, according to data The Defiant pulled directly from the exchange's public perpetuals API. The pattern is the basis of wash-trading allegations made against the exchange this... Read the full story at The Defiant

Venice (VVV) has clawed back from under a dollar to a record $34, and the pitch behind it is simple: an AI chatbot that promises to forget you the moment you close the tab.

Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to spend $30 million on advertising against former Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, its largest announced expenditure of 2026, after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act in a 49-50 cloture vote. The New York Times first reported the plan, saying Fairshake told... Read the full story at The Defiant

World Liberty Financial opened a governance vote Monday on a program that would reward WLFI holders who lock tokens and participate regularly in protocol votes. Holders would have to lock WLFI for at least 180 days and vote at least once every 90 days to earn rewards. Payouts would have no fixed... Read the full story at The Defiant

The HashFly browser experiment uses a digital neural model for Bitcoin hashing and projects greater efficiency from a hypothetical biological version.

xAI says the new model is a "notable improvement" over Grok 4.6 at the same price. The benchmarks say it's still in second place.

Crypto advocates argue that NFTs can deliver real digital ownership, but privacy gaps and integration hurdles have held the tech back.

The senior roles cover Apple’s consumer payment products and Google Cloud’s institutional blockchain business in Asia.

Bitcoin reached its highest level in almost eight months on Monday, climbing through the London morning and holding the gain into New York, as crude oil fell more than 8% and U.S. equities opened higher. Spot buying and short covering are carrying the move. Perpetual funding rates on OKX and... Read the full story at The Defiant

Polygon is preparing a permissionless contract that would let anyone permanently burn 100 million POL, or about 83% of a base-fee collector that Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal said holds 121 million tokens. Nailwal said the contracts are on testnet and would move to mainnet after the final... Read the full story at The Defiant

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sent a crypto market structure rulemaking to the White House on Thursday, two days after the Senate refused to take up the bill that would have written one into law. It is the only CFTC action pending White House review. Chairman Michael Selig said in August... Read the full story at The Defiant

Neutrl has opened a redemption program whose Ethereum contract pays 0.51 USDC per NUSD, giving holders an exit at a 49% shortfall to the token’s $1 reference value. The rate is directly visible in Neutrl’s redemption contract: its `redemptionRate()` function returns 510000000000000000, an... Read the full story at The Defiant

Coinbase Derivatives has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to approve a suite of cash-settled perpetual futures tied to individual U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds, extending its domestic perpetual-futures push from equity indexes to single securities. U.S. customers cannot... Read the full story at The Defiant

Fake YouTube tutorials promising AI-built crypto arbitrage bots led 224 victims to deploy and fund their own malicious smart contracts, draining 274.60 ETH between Feb. 12 and Aug. 11, TRM Labs said in a Sept. 14 analysis. The blockchain intelligence firm said it found 234 victim-deployed contracts... Read the full story at The Defiant

Blockchain dead drop attacks — campaigns that use public chains to hide malware instructions — increased 420% over the past 12 months, Chainalysis said, as state-linked groups came to account for roughly two-thirds of new activity in the second quarter of 2026. Chainalysis described the 420% figure... Read the full story at The Defiant

Bitcoin reached $81,000 on Friday and NEAR Protocol gained 32% over 24 hours, as DeFi and tokenization tokens led a rally that started in the Asia session and extended through the first 90 minutes of U.S. trading. Equities did not follow. The S&P 500 was at 7,630, 0.1% below Thursday's 7,638 close,... Read the full story at The Defiant

Lending and borrowing against Coinbase's tokenized stocks is live on Base, Morpho said in a post on X. Holders can pledge the tokens and draw USDC at variable or fixed rates. The markets make Coinbase's stock tokens collateral. Coinbase began issuing them in August for users outside the United... Read the full story at The Defiant

WisdomTree and MoonPay will build an access point letting U.S. investors buy shares of WisdomTree's tokenized government money market fund inside MoonPay's platform, and MoonPay will use the fund in the reserve management behind its stablecoin business, the two firms said on Thursday. The... Read the full story at The Defiant

Polymarket has hired former Zora CEO Jacob Horne to work on product with an emphasis on its DeFi offering, as CEO Shayne Coplan acknowledged that the performance of the prediction market’s onchain product has “waned” while the company scaled. Coplan said some longtime users believed Polymarket had... Read the full story at The Defiant

🎧 Listen to Interview 💻 Watch Video How JitoSOL Swung Solana's Governance Vote Jito Foundation's head of governance says a liquid-staking override mechanism decided Solana's closest on-chain vote, as validators confront an 87% revenue decline and rising competition from Robinhood Chain. Solana's... Read the full story at The Defiant

X launched a U.S. Cashtag Partner Program on Sept. 15 that connects supported stock, ETF and cryptocurrency pages to Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Interactive Brokers and Moomoo. The new “Trade” option does not execute a transaction on X. A user taps a Cashtag to see its price chart and related posts,... Read the full story at The Defiant

World has begun rolling out World Money in more than 150 countries, bringing stablecoin balances, global payments, virtual accounts, trading, yield programs and Mini Apps into a self-custodial financial app. Existing World App and World ID App users can carry their credentials into World Money. The... Read the full story at The Defiant

S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, bringing a provider of smart contract audits and open-source developer libraries into the financial-data company’s digital asset risk business. The companies said OpenZeppelin will retain its name and operate as a separate business unit. CEO Demian... Read the full story at The Defiant

Blockworks will let crypto exchanges and banks take compliance alerts directly from AI agents, without waiting for a human analyst to sign off. Analyst verification took roughly five minutes per development, the company said. A proprietary model trained on years of Messari analyst work now... Read the full story at The Defiant

Tenka has closed its pre-seed round to build the market infrastructure that connects the origination of asset-backed finance with a secondary market, giving investors a credible route to liquidity before maturity without changing the terms of the underlying loans. London, England, September 17,... Read the full story at The Defiant

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate on Wednesday for the first time since July 2023, and bitcoin traded through the decision little changed. The vote was unanimous, against three dissents for an increase at the July meeting, and the committee's own projections now point to one more this... Read the full story at The Defiant

If you used Uniswap just once before September 2020, even for a failed transaction, you woke up exactly six years ago today to 400 UNI sitting in your wallet, worth about $1,200. Fourteen months after that $450 million airdrop, total crypto market capitalization had surged from roughly $350 billion... Read the full story at The Defiant

The heads of both U.S. market regulators said Wednesday they will write crypto rules without the CLARITY Act, a day after the Senate refused to take up the bill. The SEC has a crypto asset offering rule in the Federal Register with comments open until Oct. 20 and two more proposals behind it. The... Read the full story at The Defiant

Ondo Finance’s broker-dealer subsidiary Oasis Pro Markets has joined DTCC’s Fund/SERV platform, becoming the network’s first tokenization-company participant, according to a joint announcement published Sept. 16. DTCC said the membership gives Oasis a standardized connection to fund companies,... Read the full story at The Defiant

The crypto industry responded to the Senate blocking its market structure bill by arguing that the rules are coming anyway, and that the SEC and the CFTC will write them. The argument running through the statements issued since Tuesday's vote is that the agencies keep writing crypto rules either... Read the full story at The Defiant

Payward, Kraken’s parent company, plans to offer U.S. clients perpetual futures whose trades would be matched and recorded on Hyperliquid, with access running through Payward’s regulated derivatives structure and restricted to approved accounts. The proposal concerns new permissioned markets.... Read the full story at The Defiant

Aave Labs said it plans to build a dedicated credit market for tokenized real-world assets on Avalanche, with USA₮, the dollar stablecoin Tether brands and Anchorage Digital Bank issues, as the first asset institutions could borrow against that collateral. Tokenization has moved treasuries, money... Read the full story at The Defiant

Circle opened the public mainnet of Arc on Wednesday, a Layer 1 blockchain where transaction fees are paid in USDC and blocks are produced by a fixed set of regulated financial institutions rather than an open validator market. The chain puts block production in the hands of the firms that clear... Read the full story at The Defiant

The Senate voted 49-50 on Tuesday afternoon against taking up the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, blocking the crypto market structure bill a day after Republicans released what they called its final text. Cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 needed 60 votes under a unanimous consent... Read the full story at The Defiant

DEX aggregator 0x published research on Sept. 14 under the headline "Uniswap v4 hooks were a mistake," arguing that most v4 hooks it has analyzed are built to quote one price and settle another. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams replied early on Sept. 15 that it was a "skill issue." The question the... Read the full story at The Defiant

An MEV bot known as Yoink front-ran an exploit targeting a Safe wallet on Ethereum on Tuesday. PeckShield described the incident as an approximately $7.81 million rsETH exploit. Onchain records show the Yoink transaction received 2,900 rsETH and sent 2,882.37 rsETH to... Read the full story at The Defiant

Kamino appointed Michael Weisz as chief executive on Sept. 15, tasking him with leading the Solana lending protocol's institutional growth and expansion into the U.S. market. The appointment puts Weisz in charge of a protocol with $1.352 billion in total value locked and $1.022 billion in active... Read the full story at The Defiant

Bitcoin gave back Monday's advance through the overnight Asia and Europe sessions and fell further in the first 90 minutes of U.S. trading on Tuesday, as traders cut the odds that the Senate takes up the CLARITY Act at a vote this afternoon. Two dated federal events fall inside the same 28 hours.... Read the full story at The Defiant

Crypto exchange CoinEx will end spot trading on Sept. 29, stop withdrawals at 2:00 UTC on Dec. 22 and close the platform on Dec. 22, exactly nine years after its launch. In an announcement, CoinEx blamed a prolonged crypto-market downturn, a contraction in trading volume and liquidity, and rising... Read the full story at The Defiant

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