Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 21, 2026 @ 11:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 9:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 5:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 4:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 11:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 10:44 am By JD Alois  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 21, 2026 @ 4:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU) has named Sarah Wilson, previously a senior legal leader at Circle Internet Group, as its new chief legal officer. In the role, she will oversee the digital bank’s worldwide legal organization and report directly to founder and chief executive David Vélez. Wilson… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 3:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has opened formal research coverage of Arbitrum with a long-dated bullish call on its ARB token. In a note issued on 15 September 2026, the bank said ARB could reach $10 by the end of 2030. The token was then trading… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam and Austria are deepening practical cooperation on financial-market supervision, with digital assets at the center of the conversation. On September 15 in Vienna, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Nguyen Duc Chi met Mariana Kühnel, the newly appointed executive director of Austria’s Financial Market Authority… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 9:13 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Grab nabs majority Atome share for $1.49B The consumer finance play helps Grab access Atome’s lending and BNPL presence in Southeast Asia. Kaiko extends $110M Series B Kaiko provides data services for on-chain finance. The extension was led by S&P Global and included participation from… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 7:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arthur Hayes, the BitMEX co-founder who now leads Flop Labs and serves as chief investment officer at Maelstrom, used Bitcoin’s rebound above $81,000 to argue that Washington’s latest market-structure bill was never the real catalyst. In his telling, crypto did not need the Digital Asset… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 3:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale Investments has announced plans for a three-for-one forward share split of its Zcash exchange-traded fund, a move intended to lower the trading price of each share while leaving the overall value of any investor’s position unchanged. The product, which trades on NYSE Arca under… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  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