The CLARITY Act Fallout Dominates Digital Assets Thoughts of the Week

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  Unsurprisingly, digital asset insiders were focused on the CLARITY Act this week. Not completely, however. Read on to find some interesting takes on several other topics. The CLARITY Act “The nation’s banks continue to support creating a strong, durable regulatory framework for digital assets… Read More

 

 




Zcash (ZEC) Price Cools Near $1,440 as Digital Asset Investors Clash Over Ending the Dev Fund in 2028

Zcash (ZEC) price has cooled somewhat after a sharp September advance, slipping from a year-to-date peak near $1,590 to about $1,430. Buyers defended the area above $1,440, so the move looked more like a pause after a multi-day rally than a full reversal. Even after… Read More

Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google Face Antitrust Suit Over Alleged Pact to Slow AI Development

Four of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence developers now face a federal antitrust complaint accusing them of working together to hold back the pace of model improvement. The proposed class action, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, names… Read More

Hong Kong SFC Chair Urges Boards to Keep Human Accountability at Centre of AI Adoption

Hong Kong companies need to treat artificial intelligence governance as a board-level responsibility rather than an information technology project, with directors maintaining human accountability for AI-assisted decisions, Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) Chairman Kelvin Wong said. Speaking at the Corporate Governance Conference 2026, Wong said… Read More

Bank of Korea Starts 24-Hour Won Settlement Pilot for Overseas Investors

South Korea’s central bank has begun testing a new around-the-clock settlement system designed to make the won easier for overseas investors to use. The Bank of Korea started the trial of its international won wire network on Monday morning, working with four major domestic lenders:… Read More

Bastion Obtains Conditional OCC Approval to Convert New York Trust Charter Into National Trust Bank

Bastion Platforms has taken a step toward federal banking oversight after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted preliminary conditional approval for the conversion of its New York state trust company into a national trust bank. The decision, issued on September 18, 2026,… Read More

Ex- Hong Kong Banker Jailed Over $470K Crypto Bribes and $1.6B in Fake Credit Documents

A Hong Kong court has imposed a four-year prison sentence on a former retail banker who accepted more than US$470,000 in Tether (USDT) to lend the appearance of legitimacy to forged standby letters of credit and related documents with a combined face value exceeding US$1.6… Read More

$2 Million AI-Crypto Exploit : 8.72M FET Drained, 408.5M NTX Minted

A single on-chain actor appears to have struck two related artificial-intelligence crypto projects within minutes of each other on September 19, 2026, emptying a Fetch.ai conversion contract and inflating NuNet’s token supply in one coordinated burst. Security firms tracking the wallets say the same cluster… Read More

President Donald Trump Announces Plans for “AI Force” and New Czar, Rejecting Calls to Slow AI Development

President Donald Trump said over the weekend that the United States will stand up a new “AI Force” and soon name an artificial intelligence czar, framing the move as a way to nurture the industry rather than restrain it. In a Saturday post on Truth… Read More

Polymarket Hit by $10M Stolen-Card Scheme while CEO Prioritized Expansion Over Compliance Measures

Prediction market operator Polymarket came under fresh scrutiny after a reported wave of stolen-card activity on its US platform coincided with leadership pressure to keep expanding, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal. In February 2026, shortly after the regulated U.S. venue began… Read More

Gemini Space Station’s ($GEMI) Stock Slide Revives Takeover Questions as Coinbase, Kraken Pull Ahead

Shares of Gemini Space Station (NASDAQ: GEMI) have lost most of the value they carried at the company’s public debut, and that slide has revived a familiar question among crypto industry professionals: whether the platform could become a takeover candidate if its core exchange does… Read More



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    ZetaChain Token Holders Approve Plan to Retire L1 and Move ZETA to Solana

    ZetaChain token holders have approved a major strategic shift that will eventually retire the project’s independent Layer 1 blockchain and relocate the ZETA token to Solana. Proposal 68 passed on September 20, 2026, with 99.4 percent support, 0.3 percent opposition, and 0.3 percent abstentions. Turnout… Read More

    Notre Dame Professor Conducts Research on Reg CF Crowdfunding Offerings and Investor Decisions

    John Aland, an accounting professor at the University of Notre Dame, is currently conducting research on crowdfunding offerings and investor decisions. Aland, a contributor at Kingscrowd, is partnering with the firm to promote the effort to better understand investors who are considering or have participated… Read More

    Nansen Sees Bitcoin at $90,000

    Bitcoin has caught a bid, trading around $86,000 after jumping over 6% today. Analysts at Nansen expect Bitcoin to move even higher in the coming days. According to Nicolai Sondergaard, Senior Research Analyst at Nansen, there is room for another leg higher as under-positioned traders… Read More

    Ex- PayPal and Intuit CEO Introduces Evergreen.ai for Personal Finance and Money Management

    Former PayPal and Intuit chief executive Bill Harris has rolled out Evergreen.ai, a consumer-facing application that uses artificial intelligence to deliver financial planning guidance built around a user’s actual accounts, goals, and tax situation. The product is now in public beta and is being positioned… Read More

    Kalshi Rejects Wash Trading Allegations as Ether Perp Volume-to-OI Ratio Hits 174x

    Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated prediction-market platform, is facing public accusations that its crypto perpetual-futures activity is inflated. The claims originated with Beni, a former quant and co-founder of Stealth Neolab, who published a detailed thread on X after a heated exchange with Kalshi’s crypto product lead…. Read More

    What? No CLARITY? Bitcoin Rockets Higher, Crypto Adjacent Firms Join Rally

    Bitcoin bulls are celebrating today as the world’s most popular crypto moves higher. Currently, $BTC is up by over 5%, topping $85,000 for the first time since last January. Last week, the CLARITY Act, crypto market infrastructure legislation, failed in the Senate on a cloture… Read More

    Data and Security Breaches in France Lead to Surge in Fake Crypto Support Calls : Analysis

    French data breaches have coincided with a noticeable increase in phone-based cryptocurrency fraud, according to entrepreneur Owen Simonin, better known as Hasheur. The founder and chief executive of the French platform Meria says he has received multiple reports in recent days of callers posing as… Read More

    $433M Bitcoin ETF Surge from Friday Leaves Funds with Slim $6.2M Weekly Inflow

    US spot bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) closed the week of September 14–18, 2026, barely in positive territory after a late surge in demand. Data compiled by SoSoValue showed that investors allocated $433 million to these listed bitcoin funds on Friday, September 18, 2026. That single session… Read More

    UK Fintech Sprive Completes Funding Round for Mortgage Overpayment App

    UK mortgage overpayment app Sprive has completed a £5.5 million funding round as it seeks to help more homeowners cut interest costs and finish their loans sooner. The London company described itself as the United Kingdom’s independent mortgage overpayment app. The round was led by… Read More

    Fintech Firm Skalar Emerges From Stealth with Revenue based Financing for Startups

    Skalar, a New York fintech building an alternative way to fund customer growth at later-stage technology companies, has come out of stealth. The firm began operating in January and went public last week after lining up an undisclosed seed round led by Brazilian venture firm… Read More

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