September 28, 2026 @ 11:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Tether is touting its countermeasures against the rogue regime of Iran in line with the ongoing sanctions being applied by the US. According to a post by Tether, nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USD₮ has been frozen since the beginning of the year. Around $344… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 11:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NEAR Protocol’s native token has rallied sharply as Bitwise’s spot NEAR exchange-traded fund moves into the final stretch before a possible US listing. After NYSE Arca approved the listing application and the SEC declared the registration statement effective on September 24, 2026, the product—expected to… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FlawZano, a privacy-focused layer-1 network that hides amounts and transaction details by default, said on September 25, 2026 that a supply-integrity defect in its new Gateway Addresses feature had left developers with little option but to unwind roughly 24 hours of chain history. The team… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 11:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aero, the combined successor to Aerodrome and Velodrome, is scheduled to launch on October 21, 2026. The date was confirmed on September 25, 2026 after months of audits, public code review, and early “Aero Lite” deployments. The project is positioning itself as a single liquidity… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Citi (NYSE:C) and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) are partnering on digital assets, with one of the world’s largest banks choosing Coinbase to provide its technology for stablecoins as the world shifts from analog finance to digital. WSJ.com first reported that Coinbase will provide stablecoins payment rails that support the conversion… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut has secured a key regulatory milestone in Latin America after Argentina’s central bank approved its purchase of Banco Cetelem Argentina from BNP Paribas Personal Finance. The decision, announced by the London-based fintech on 24 September 2026, allows the company to complete a deal first… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave V4 has opened a dedicated Equities Hub on Base that lets eligible users outside the United States post Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) tokenized U.S. stocks as collateral and draw USDC loans against them. The first seven assets are AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc and… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 6:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

White-hat researchers moved tens of thousands of NFTs to safety after a long-dormant settlement contract was used to pull tokens from wallets that still carried old marketplace permissions. The issue involved Limit Break’s Payment Processor V2, a contract that once handled on-chain settlement for Magic… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 3:17 am By Michael Wong  |  

Global financial stability risks have increased as higher sovereign borrowing needs, an investment-intensive artificial intelligence cycle and geopolitical tensions push up the cost of capital, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said in its latest financial stability review. Long-term nominal and real sovereign yields have risen… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 2:20 am By Michael Wong  |  

Private equity major Warburg Pincus is hard‑wiring artificial intelligence into every stage of its investment process, treating AI as a mandatory lens for both new deals and portfolio value creation. Senior managing director Vishal Mahadevia, speaking at DealStreetAsia’s Asia PE-VC Summit in Singapore, said the… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 1:18 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Irregular study shows agents acting independently again Irregular looked at a self-hosted system where an open-weights model supported both a coding agent and an AI app that the agent was supposed to maintain. When given a software maintenance task, the agent altered and replaced the… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 1:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitget’s chief executive has publicly pressed THORChain to stop processing funds tied to last week’s exchange breach, arguing that a protocol’s architecture should not be treated as cover for moving assets already identified as stolen.On September 24, Bitget detected unauthorized outflows from hot and warm… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 12:14 am By Michael Wong  |  

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has set a minimum capital requirement of ₱1 billion (about $16 million) for thrift, rural and cooperative banks that shift to business models similar to digital banks, as the central bank moves to strengthen safeguards around digital transformation in… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued Cash FX Group S.A. and several associated individuals, alleging they ran a vast multilevel marketing operation that collected more than $950 million under the pretense of pooled retail foreign-exchange trading. The civil complaint, filed in the… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 9:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OG.com Markets has asked US commodity regulators to let it list a new class of equity derivatives that never mature: cash-settled perpetual futures on individual American stocks. The request, submitted last week to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), would allow the platform to offer… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 8:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale has submitted paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a new exchange-traded fund designed to generate recurring cash distributions tied to Zcash without holding the privacy-focused cryptocurrency itself. The proposed product, called The ZCSH High Income ETF, was filed on September… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 7:05 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Artificial intelligence is changing how private equity and venture capital firms assess investments and monitor portfolios, but human judgment, proprietary relationships, and data remain critical to investment decisions, investors said at the Asia PE-VC Summit in Singapore. AI is increasingly being used to speed up… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Washington and Beijing have opened a formal conversation on advanced computing while stretching their latest commercial ceasefire, a pairing that looks modest on paper and more consequential in practice. After a three-day leadership visit in the US capital, the two governments said they would keep… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A New York cryptography research group has outlined a way to hide Bitcoin payment details on the base chain itself, without asking miners or node operators to adopt a protocol upgrade. The design, called Shielded Bitcoin, comes from [alloc] init researchers Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov,… Read More