Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 16, 2026 @ 11:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lawmakers in the US House are advancing a package that would reduce everyday tax friction for certain digital asset activity while still producing a modest net gain for the Treasury. On September 16, 2026, the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to consider H.R…. Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Russia has begun the first nationwide stage of its digital ruble, a central bank digital currency that now sits alongside cash and ordinary bank money as a third official form of the national currency. The change took effect on 1 September 2026 after years of… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent working paper from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS argues that many of the headline figures used to describe cryptocurrency and decentralized finance activity can mislead more than they illuminate. Drawing on roughly 100 billion records from Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron, the researchers… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A Bank of England official has suggested that the rapid rise of dollar-linked digital tokens could support broader use of the US currency and add to demand for American government debt, while also introducing new vulnerabilities if large numbers of holders seek to cash out… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted their heaviest single-session withdrawals since late June of this yaer after a landmark digital asset market-structure bill (the CLARITY Act) notably failed to clear a Senate procedural vote. The 13 products listed in the United States recorded a… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 12:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has opened coverage of Sky, the DeFi protocol formerly known as MakerDAO, with a long-dated bullish view on its governance token. Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank’s global head of digital assets research, put an end-2028 target of $0.325 on SKY—about five times… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Latin America’s digital bank Nubank (NYSE:NU) has taken another step beyond its home markets. Nu, which already serves more than 140 million customers in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, has entered a strategic alliance with Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum to support the launch of Nu… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset insiders are disappointed by today’s Senate vote on the CLARITY Act, which landed with a thud.  The inability to advance crypto market infrastructure legislation is a significant loss for the industry, and most argue it is a loss for the United States. The vote… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic has signed a memorandum of understanding with blockchain security firm CertiK, creating a long-term framework for cooperation on the country’s planned central bank digital currency and on broader digital asset supervision. The Digital Som is Kyrgyzstan’s official CBDC… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 6:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana (SOL) came close to losing transaction finality on August 12 after a routing failure at infrastructure provider Teraswitch briefly took validators representing nearly 29 percent of staked SOL offline. Blocks kept being produced, and the offline share stayed several points below the level that… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH) and Base developers have ended a months-long attempt to merge two competing account abstraction designs into a single standard. The talks, which sought to reconcile Base-led EIP-8130 with Ethereum’s EIP-8141, known as Frame Transactions, collapsed last week. Both networks will now ship their… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency trading platform CoinEx is shutting down after nearly a decade in business, citing a long stretch of weak market conditions that made continued operations unsustainable. The company, which went live on December 22, 2017, said it reached the decision after reviewing the industry’s reduced… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 4:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) shares rallied. Today, the story is quite different, as shares of Coinbase are now down by over 10% following the disappointing vote on the CLARITY Act. While the vote was always expected to be close, in the end, supporters couldn’t even break the 50-vote… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 3:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

The cloture vote on the CLARITY Act failed in the Senate, as supporters fell short of the 60 votes needed to open debate on the legislation. The final tally was disappointing as several Republican senators, including Senators Hawley, Collins, and Moran, typically more supportive of… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 1:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zama is reportedly expanding confidential finance on Ethereum (ETH) by widening its Morpho vault lineup and launching private swaps between shielded assets. On September 15, 2026, the protocol opened deposits into 16 confidential Morpho vaults spanning USDC, USDT, AUSD, and TGBP, plus their encrypted counterparts…. Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

With a cloture vote scheduled for today and market participants hopeful the bill will move forward, the CLARITY Act, crypto market infrastructure legislation, continues to have a dim outlook on prediction markets that the bill will be approved. Kalshi currently has just a 33% expectation that… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 10:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wyoming’s Stable Token Commission on September 14 published its fullest account of why the state’s Frontier Stable Token left LayerZero and now uses Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol as its only approved path between blockchains. The statement came from Keith Lawhorn, the Commission’s chief information security… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, UK Finance and Oliver Wyman, a management consulting firm, partnered on a report on the developing digital asset ecosystem. The report said the UK is well positioned for the tokenization of securities, but it must “act with urgency” to remain globally competitive. The… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal prosecutors in New York have moved to confiscate about $61 million in cryptocurrency they describe as revenue from unsanctioned Iranian crude and petroleum sales. The civil forfeiture complaint, filed September 14, 2026 by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer, one of DeFi’s longest-running automated market makers, is asking token holders to approve an orderly wind-down of the protocol and a return of remaining DAO assets to BAL holders. The plan was posted on the project’s governance forum by treasury council member and former… Read More