Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 29, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

China’s top intelligence agency has recently issued yet another pointed reminder that cryptocurrency does not place users beyond legal scrutiny. In a public warning released on September 28, 2026, the Ministry of State Security argued that digital assets have been adopted by offenders seeking to… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) has recently secured registration from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organization, a step that closes a long-running gap in the company’s regulated US derivatives business. The CFTC recorded the status as registered… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Risk assets started the week on weaker footing after President Donald Trump declined to close off the chance of further US military action against Iran before November’s midterm elections. Speaking Sunday, he said he expected the conflict to be won “very soon” and that oil… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 3:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany’s draft crypto-tax reform has drawn a pointed warning from Circle’s (NYSE:CRCL) Patrick Hansen, who says one overlooked clause could overtax ordinary retail holders who cannot reconstruct clean purchase records. Hansen, Circle’s senior director for EU strategy and policy, focused on a planned 50 percent… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 2:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal prosecutors in California have moved to keep tens of millions of dollars taken from accounts and digital wallets tied to Capstone Ltd., a Montana-registered payments company that authorities say handled large transfers connected to crypto clients. The action, laid out in a civil forfeiture… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 2:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates has added his voice to a growing push for government oversight of artificial intelligence, arguing that companies cannot be left to police themselves as the technology becomes more powerful. In a recorded conversation with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” later… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 1:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance-owned CoinMarketCap has taken over Coinglass, a widely used platform that tracks cryptocurrency derivatives activity, according to an official announcement dated September 25, 2026. The deal is already closed. Neither company revealed the purchase price. CoinMarketCap is one of the most frequently cited sites for… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 5:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US spot Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) took in about $188 million in net new money last week, the strongest weekly result since the products began trading. The official Solana account highlighted the figure on September 27, calling it the biggest week since launch. All seven… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 3:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset firm tZERO is partnering with the Goldman Sachs Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund (FTIXX). The relationship will enable tZERO to support the regulated distribution of an existing Treasury money-market fund on a crypto institutional settlement network. FTIXX is a $100 billion government money-market fund… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 2:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW), a boutique investment firm owned by Stifel, has issued a bullish outperform rating on Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) and set a $237 price target. According to the report viewed by CI, KBW views Coinbase as the preeminent franchise and a cycle call given the… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has extinguished a $200 million secured credit line with Coinbase Credit and regained control of the assets that had been pledged against it. The company disclosed the transaction in a Form 8-K dated September 25, 2026, reporting that it completed a… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Corporate digital asset treasury firms kept expanding their positions even as bitcoin and the wider crypto market opened the week with a modest pullback. The buying underscores a structural trend that has persisted through 2026: publicly listed companies treating bitcoin and ether as core balance-sheet… Read More

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 @ 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 @ 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