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Bitcoin trended lower with US stocks on Iran escalation while US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent contributed to fears of a yen carry-trade unwind.

The project’s disclosures say LAPTOP has no utility, lock founder tokens for six months and reserve 2% for wallets that lost money on TRUMP.

Following on their earlier lawsuit, CCI and the Blockchain Association seek to block Illinois’ 0.2% crypto tax, arguing it is unconstitutional and would impose costly compliance burdens.

The evergreen fund will use USDT infrastructure to support asset-backed lending through fintech platforms in more than 60 countries.

The German Ministry of Finance is reportedly seeking to impose a 25% tax on cryptocurrencies, departing from current laws that make crypto gains tax-free after one year of holding.

From the whereabouts of the CryptoQueen to a mysterious death involving a DeFi builder paranoid about the “pedo elite,” here are 10 crypto mysteries that still have no good answer.

BitMart provided no asset figures or withdrawal timetable and will launch a feedback portal within five working days during a financial adviser review.

Banca d’Italia ordered crypto service providers to implement internal controls to screen for crypto transfers tied to sanctioned entities.

The US Senate has a limited window to pass a crypto market structure bill, but if it were to fail, the legislation could be completely remade or scrapped under Democrats in 2027.

Metaplanet’s executive stock pool continues to draw backlash over dilution concerns, as investors urged the company to freeze the exercise rights tied to 273 million shares.

Bitcoin aggregate onchain profit entered its fourth week, but a popular analyst warned that BTC price “downside risk” remained in place.

Alan Lane said a “coordinated attack” by the Biden administration made Silvergate’s continued operation untenable and prompted its liquidation.

Exporters can now fund imports with overseas earnings without first selling their foreign currency at official rates, the Financial Times reported.

The proposed Builders Bank would offer federally supervised digital asset custody but would not accept deposits or issue loans.

Gemini’s local entity is authorized to provide digital payment token and cross-border money transfer services without standard transaction-volume limits.

US prosecutors said Lam organized an international network that targeted cryptocurrency holders through social engineering and home break-ins.

One of the first towns in the US to ban Bitcoin mining for 18 months is considering another temporary moratorium extending to data centers and other crypto mining operations.

Former Franklin Templeton digital asset executive Christopher Jensen will lead StablecoinX, the largest corporate holder of Ethena’s ENA token.

Bybit added USDT-settled perpetuals tracking EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/JPY, with 24/7 trading and leverage of up to 100x.

Robinhood will route event contracts through OG.com’s CFTC-regulated infrastructure as it expands its prediction markets business.

Visa is combining VisaNet settlement data with blockchain lending as stablecoin payment volume on its network jumps nearly 200% year over year.

Bitcoin fell with US stocks on the opening of Tuesday’s Wall Street trading session as analysis warns that BTC price support at $78,300 must hold.

While Bitmine’s completed 97% of its goal to acquire 5% of Ether’s supply, Tom Lee’s team faces a $5.1 billion unrealized loss on its main treasury asset.

Bitcoin believers see it as an almost certain long-term investment, but retirement demands a different approach. How much crypto exposure is too much for your retirement account?

Strategy repurchased $176 million worth of its STRC preferred stock and doubled the size of its digital securities repurchase program to $2 billion, while pausing on new Bitcoin buys.

Ryan Connor of RockawayX writes that the dollar leads the euro about 3 to 1 across the offchain economy and more than 300 to 1 onchain. Euro-pegged stablecoins total €711 million, under 1% of supply. He traces the gap to path dependency and missing euro DeFi infrastructure, and argues MiCA-regulated issuance and euro vault rails are changing it.

The expansion gives institutional and automated traders access to full-depth political prediction-market order books ahead of the U.S. midterms.

The PYUSDx stablecoin developer platform, backed by PayPal USD (PYUSD), is built with the help of M0 and MoonPay.

LAPTOP swung from $190 to under $4 within minutes of opening on Base. Onchain records show tokens had been distributed to market makers for a week before trading began.

Privacy-preserving identity verification systems could allow individuals to prove only what a service needs to know while keeping the underlying information under their control, writes Coin Center’s Laz Pieper.

The former Chainlink and Curv executive will lead the blockchain organization’s push into institutional finance and quantum-resistant security.

Existing holdings would keep the current tax treatment, which can allow tax-free sales after a 12-month holding period.

The motion for a preliminary injunction comes a few weeks after the Crypto Council for Innovation and Blockchain Association sued to block the law.

The fifth-largest U.S. commercial bank said it is exploring USBDC stablecoin for treasury payments, liquidity management and collateral after completing a live transaction.

An internal model more powerful than GPT-6 Astra produced a proposed solution to one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize Problems, though questions are emerging over how independently it got there.

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Bitcoin advanced to as high as $79,700 while Brent crude topped $100 and European shares fell, leaving crypto tracking gold rather than equities.

Exporters can use overseas earnings to fund imports directly, bypassing the official foreign-exchange system, the FT reported.

Malone Lam, a Miami resident charged with stealing 4,100 bitcoin, led a ring of fraudsters who stole crypto via online scams and home invasions.

The Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) issued non-compliance notices to what it calls virtual digital asset service providers.

The Japanese yen extended its rally against the greenback, briefly strengthening past 153 per dollar.

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade, Coxon said on X, explaining his resignation.

Biden says the token is about “resilience, redemption and recovery” and will give coins to nearly one million wallets that lost money on TRUMP.

Moonshot, whose Kimi model rattled markets earlier this year, is among six Chinese AI firms accused of systematically extracting capabilities from U.S. models.

Bitcoin fell to nearly $77,600 on Tuesday before clawing most of it back, leaving it little changed on the day while zcash gained roughly 43% on the week and Grayscale's new fund crossed half a billion dollars.

The LAPTOP token launched on Base in September 2026, peaked two minutes later, and shed almost all of its value the same day.

Mexican prosecutors allege suspects targeted Camilo Séptimo keyboardist Jonathan Meléndez and his family while searching for a cold wallet they believed contained millions in Bitcoin.

LAPTOP hit a $190.81 peak within minutes of launching on Base, then shed roughly 99% as thin liquidity met a wave of selling.

Myriad's $120 side overtook $55 at the start of September, while Polymarket puts WTI reaching $100 this month at 59%.

Consensys Software Inc. will become MetaMask, while a newly formed Consensys will take over the firm's Ethereum protocols and institutional blockchain infrastructure business.

Anything bought before 2027 keeps the twelve-month exemption, so the change lands only on Germany's future crypto buyers.

Concerns over frontier AI labs stealing user data has driven demand for private inference (or at least tokens tied to private inference).

The agency ranks cryptoassets third among nine economic crime priorities, and says it wants to generate its own targets.

Forensic accountants are tracing who paid for the mining hardware, and money laundering has not been ruled out.

Builders Bank would consolidate custody work Block now runs under more than 50 state money transmitter licenses.

NYU's Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck of racing to claim credit for a Navier-Stokes proof after learning about his unpublished work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge.

The hackers have returned 3,400 of the roughly 4,000 BTC drained from the sidechain, but about 600 BTC remains outstanding—and some doubt the actors' "white hat" claims.

Bitcoin is defending its golden zone support while the S&P 500 grinds inside its tightest range yet, both waiting on Friday's inflation report before the Fed's September 16 rate call.

The payment processor giant is pairing payment settlement data with blockchain lending tools to help fintechs and stablecoin-linked card programs access working capital.

The Vivek Ramaswamy-founded asset manager added 1,375 BTC last week, its third straight week of 5%-plus growth.

The rollback reversed legitimate activity alongside the attack, while $9.19 million remains unrecovered, according to Cronos.

Memos from the NYPD to Homeland Security warn the devices could be used for covert filming inside jails and police facilities.

The multi-year deal makes OG.com the infrastructure and clearing engine behind Robinhood's fastest-growing business.

The company says it holds roughly 4.9% of Ethereum’s supply, with most of its tokens staked to earn rewards.

The Bitcoin treasury firm spent $176.3 million on its own preferred stock, and doubled the buyback program's authorization to $2 billion.

Is it a warning sign for a local top? Or is the onchain party just getting started?

Two chief executives of the exchange have now vanished, four years apart, leaving 1.3 million clients locked out.

A Gamers Nexus investigation found LG sets scanning every device on a home network and capturing microphone audio with the screen off, four months after LG promised Texas regulators it had cleaned up its tracking.

Jakub Pachocki is calling for mandatory safety standards as OpenAI finds it harder to monitor advanced AI models’ reasoning.

Itaú, Nubank, and Banco do Brasil now sell more than a dozen tokens each to retail clients, even as none of them touch crypto with their own balance sheet.

Biden's LAPTOP meme coin drops this week. Most crypto traders out there so far don't seem too enthused.

Nearly 600 BTC remains outstanding after Blockstream told the actors in an on-chain message that Liquid’s bridge nodes had been patched.

The Iran conflict has increased demand for digital assets to preserve and transfer wealth, while Gulf crypto businesses have kept operating through disruption, the Bitcoin Policy Institute says.

A plea agreement hearing in Lam's case is set for Tuesday in Washington, nearly two years after his arrest in Miami.

Hunter Biden is launching a meme coin called LAPTOP on Sept. 9 on Base, and airdropping traders who lost money on TRUMP.

The team wants to move ONE to Ethereum and enter the AI-video business, urging users to exit smart contracts before September 10.

LINK hit an eight-month high after Bottomline, a top-three SWIFT services provider moving $16 trillion a year, tapped Chainlink to connect 600-plus banks to blockchain settlement.

EIP-8141 has been a draft since January, and its authors pitch it first as a defense against quantum computers.

ATOM rallied 12% as trading activity, leveraged participation, and whale-sized orders strengthened around its breakout.

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MARA shares briefly moved against Bitcoin as attention shifted towards the miner’s AI infrastructure plans, although resistance near $12 remains.

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DOT’s dotUSD catalyst fueled an 11.35% rally before Futures selling intensified near $1.282 resistance.

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Every list of the best crypto prop firms leans on the same inputs: profit splits, account sizes, payout speed. The problem is where those numbers come from. Almost all of them are marketing claims, and in a market where most evaluation buyers never see a payout, the difference between a firm’s claims and a firm’s Continue reading "Best Crypto Prop Firms in 2026: Ranked by What You Can Verify"

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Solana’s network strength is making whale accumulation look more fundamental than speculative.

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Flare is burning more tokens while its chart burns through support. Which trend wins first?

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Circle’s Tazapay deal brings established stablecoin flows and local payment rails into its network, setting the stage for faster USDC adoption.

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HYPE faces $27.78 million in large-holder selling as spot outflows and bullish structure counter supply pressure.

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Iran’s growing crypto trade shows how sanctions are reshaping cross-border payments as enforcement targets alternative settlement channels.

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Does Onyxcoin need another catalyst, or simply evidence that OIP-4 works?

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Pi now gives developers staking data. Can applications turn community commitment into measurable token demand?

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