September 7, 2026 @ 6:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A long-quiet Bitcoin address that first received coins in mid-2016 moved more than a thousand coins in a single transaction, while holders of early physical Bitcoin collectibles also began unlocking a cluster of coins after years of inactivity. The sending wallet used the older P2PKH… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 4:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockstream’s Liquid Network, a federated Bitcoin sidechain used by exchanges and institutions for faster settlement and confidential transfers, temporarily halted new activity after nearly the entire bitcoin reserve backing its L-BTC token left the federation wallet. On September 6, 2026, two transactions moved approximately 3,998… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 1:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) is examining a possible connection between its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement platform, known as TIPS, and Brazil’s Pix system. If the work advances, the link would be the first major cross-border expansion of Pix and one of several corridors the… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The first public look at institutional ownership of US Hyperliquid exchange-traded funds arrived with the latest round of 13F filings. Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst James Seyffart compiled the reports and found that 30 firms disclosed combined holdings of about $74.9 million as of June 30…. Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wallets tied to North Korea’s sanctioned Lazarus Group have been routing tens of millions of dollars through Hyperliquid, according to on-chain work first published by Arkham analyst Emmett Gallic. The finding lands just as the Trump administration is trying to pull the same derivatives venue… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 10:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) absorbed a substantial wave of new money last week, drawing approximately $987 million in net creations and extending a rebound in regulated demand for the leading digital asset. The figure, compiled from issuer flow data, marked the third week… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 9:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has expanded its digital-asset services in the United Arab Emirates, introducing institutional spot trading in Bitcoin and Ethereum through its Dubai International Financial Centre unit. The bank said the offering makes it the first global systemically important bank to provide this… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

StonkFun’s latest announcement seemingly served as the starting point for the weekend rally in STONK tokens. On Saturday the project posted that the launchpad is live on Raydium LaunchLab and that every new token will now be issued through that rail. The team listed three… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Russian investors behind a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) platform have started international arbitration against Uzbekistan, arguing that a commercial joint venture with a state-owned bank collapsed into coercion, expropriation and the detention of a local executive. Counsel for Solfy RUS LLC and its shareholder Maksim Poletaev say… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 3:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV), the firm that has built its balance sheet around accumulating Solana, has outlined plans for a new preferred-stock raise aimed at expanding that treasury. The company said it intends to offer up to $20 million of Variable Rate Series C… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 2:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management’s spot XRP exchange-traded fund has crossed a notable threshold, reaching more than $500 million in assets under management only nine months after it started trading. The firm shared the update on August 31, 2026, highlighting how quickly the product has drawn capital… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 1:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperliquid is expanding its builder-deployed perpetual market framework with an optional add-on known as HIP-3*. The change, discussed by co-founder Jeffrey Yan on September 3, 2026, is meant to let independent market operators restrict access to selected venues without rewriting the protocol’s open core. HIP-3… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 1:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenPayd has taken a step forward into the United States by folding MSB USA Inc. into its group, bringing 43 state money transmitter licenses under one corporate structure. The London-based financial infrastructure firm said the deal, completed after the necessary regulatory approvals, gives it a… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 1:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

X Money just widened its gates. The official account posted that the in-app payments product is now open to every Premium and Premium+ subscriber whose X account is marked as American. Users are told to tap the Money tab in the sidebar and begin. That… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 12:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Chain processed about $875 million in decentralized exchange volume on August 30, alongside a record 5.52 million transactions. The session put the two-month-old Layer 2 among the busiest venues in crypto that day and arrived as tokenized stocks, the products the network was designed… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 12:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hardware wallet maker Trezor has confirmed that a data incident at its fulfillment partner ShipMonk reached far more people than first announced. In a September 4, 2026 update to its official notice, the company said ShipMonk contacted it on September 2 with word that stolen… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Informal money-transfer systems such as hawala have grown more organised and now lean heavily on digital tools to hide criminal proceeds, a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report concludes. Drawing on information from about 45 countries and organisations, including Pakistan and India, the Paris-based body… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, recently reduced the crypto market to three themes he thinks investors should own for years: Bitcoin as a hedge against currency debasement, Zcash as a privacy asset, and a long tokenization cycle involving Ethereum, Solana, Uniswap… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 3:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A heated public argument between AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) CEO Adam Aron and Robinhood’s (NASDAQ:HOOD) leadership has turned a niche product—tokenized stock exposure—into a test of who controls a company’s name, capital, and investor rights. On September 3, 2026, Aron said Robinhood had listed a… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thailand’s securities regulator has finalized a long-anticipated framework that will require licensed digital-asset businesses to treat cryptocurrency transfers more like traditional wire payments. Announced on 2 September 2026, the Travel Rule for Digital Assets will take effect on 27 February 2027, giving firms roughly six… Read More