September 30, 2026 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian lawmakers have formally invited the leaders of two major artificial intelligence companies to appear before a Senate inquiry, following revelations that an autonomous OpenAI system gained unauthorised access to government websites. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who chairs the inquiry examining artificial intelligence and data… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin is pressing into a densely packed band of long-term holder supply just as derivatives leverage has been stripped from the market. Glassnode’s latest on-chain maps show that more coins held by addresses inactive for months sit between $84,000 and $85,000 than in any other… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s regulated capital markets have taken a notable step toward integrating public blockchain infrastructure. CSD BR, a licensed registrar, central securities depository and settlement system, has launched the first stage of a partnership with Ripple that places selected ownership records on the XRP Ledger while… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) is preparing to give US retail traders two capabilities that have long been more common in crypto markets than in traditional brokerage apps: perpetual futures and weekend trading in selected stocks and ETFs. The company outlined the plans at its HOOD Summit…. Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 4:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross-chain bridges remain one of crypto’s most expensive weak points. They move value from one network to another, but they typically have no cryptographic way to confirm that the destination address is controlled by the same person who made the deposit. A substituted payout address… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 3:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a detailed essay arguing that the network is rapidly outgrowing the conventional idea of a blockchain. In “The Cryptographic World Computer,” he describes a hybrid system that fuses classic blockchain consensus with modern cryptographic tools and large-scale off-chain computation…. Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 3:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paris-based Marble, which builds infrastructure for real-time fraud detection and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) programs, has reportedly closed a €6.5 million funding round. The raise would add fuel to a company that has spent the past several years trying to give banks, fintechs,… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 2:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has taken on an expanded role within institutional blockchain infrastructure after being named a Super Validator on the Canton Network. The appointment, disclosed on 28 September 2026, builds on work already under way through LSEG’s Digital Settlement House, or DiSH,… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 1:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A federal appeals court has sided with the US Department of Defense in its high-stakes dispute with Anthropic, allowing the Pentagon to keep the artificial-intelligence company off its military supply chain even as the startup prepares for what could become one of the largest initial… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 12:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

An on-chain investigator has tied a long run of memecoin launches on Robinhood Chain to what he describes as one repeating extraction operation. On September 27, 2026, the analyst known as Wazz published a thread arguing that the same crew could be linked to 53… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A federal court in California has cleared the way for a large group of U.S. card issuers to pursue antitrust claims against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) over fees tied to Apple Pay. On September 23, 2026, US District Judge Jeffrey S. White certified a class of… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

California Governor Gavin Newsom has approved a package of ethics and consumer protection measures that includes a first-of-its-kind state ban on public officials issuing memecoins. The announcement from his office on September 27, 2026, was framed in blunt political terms as “THE OPPOSITE OF TRUMP,”… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Blockchain Association, one of Washington’s most prominent digital-asset advocacy groups, is preparing for a leadership change. Current chief executive Summer Mersinger will leave the role on October 16, 2026. Founding leader Kristin Smith is expected to return the next day as interim CEO while… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 7:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana’s planned consensus rewrite has moved from a closed rehearsal environment onto the network’s public test clusters, a step core engineers have treated as the start of the formal activation path. Anza, the firm that maintains the Agave validator client, said Alpenglow completed its testnet… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR), the Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy, is asking common shareholders to approve a shift to daily dividend accruals on four of its Nasdaq-listed preferred securities: STRC, STRD, STRF, and STRK. The board backed the plan on September 24, 2026,… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aiden Pleterski, the Ontario man who branded himself a “crypto king” on social media, is scheduled to stand trial next week on fraud and money-laundering charges without a lawyer. An Ontario Superior Court judge rejected his last-minute bid for more time to hire counsel, meaning… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Swift and a coalition of banks, payment schemes, and technology firms have begun work on linking popular domestic instant-payment systems so that consumers can send money abroad using the same simple identifiers they already use at home. The initiative, announced on 28 September 2026, focuses… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 1:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNY (NYSE: BNY) has rolled out a new Pay-to-Wallet capability that lets banking institutions send international payments from traditional accounts straight into participating retail digital wallets. Announced on September 28, 2026, the feature is designed to work through the correspondent banking system banks already use,… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 12:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Meta (NASDAQ: META) has taken a step beyond advertising and consumer products, launching a dedicated unit aimed at selling artificial intelligence tools directly to companies. On September 28, 2026, founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Enterprise Platform and named Chirantan “CJ” Desai, who… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 9:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A federal appellate panel has cleared the way for Ohio and Tennessee to apply their sports-wagering statutes to Kalshi, a prediction markets operator that lists contracts tied to sporting outcomes. On September 25, 2026, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the… Read More