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Revolut Starts EURR Rollout With Bridge as Regulated Issuer
Revolut opens EURR to selected customers in three countries; Bridge reported €374 outstanding, compared with €394.5 million of Circle’s EURC.
1m ago
SEC Crypto Custody Rewrite Enters White House Review
The planned rule would cover advisers and investment companies and clarify digital-asset custody, following the withdrawal of a separate 2023 proposal.
1m ago
Pump.fun Lets Creators Launch Coins Priced In Tokenized Stocks
Pump.fun opened token launches to quote assets beyond SOL and USDC on Wednesday afternoon, putting the count at 93 pairs including tokenized Nvidia, Tesla and the S&P 500. Half the revenue from the ne…
8h ago
Zora Co-Founder Dee Goens Replaces Jacob Horne as CEO
Goens said Zora is now under 10 people after a headcount reduction this year and named ZORA buybacks among his first priorities. Fees from the protocol’s Base deployment are down 99% from a year ago.
8h ago
Tenev Says Robinhood Stock Tokens Should Not Automatically Require Issuer Consent
The Robinhood CEO acknowledged that token holders lack voting rights, reflecting a structure that provides economic exposure through Jersey-issued debt securities rather than share ownership.
8h ago
Report Links $2.08M in LAPTOP Sales to Wintermute-Tagged Wallet
Lookonchain traced a 2.5 million-token team allocation to the address; separately, one trader reported nearly empty launch pools and a 98% early drop.
9h ago
Block Seeks OCC Charter for Uninsured Bitcoin and Stablecoin Custody Bank
Builders Bank would operate under direct federal supervision without taking deposits or making loans, but the application still requires OCC approval.
12h ago
Circle to Acquire Tazapay in $400 Million All-Stock Payments Deal
The Singapore-based target would add more than 60 banking and fintech partners and local payout rails across over 100 markets to Circle’s network.
12h ago
Bitcoin Gives Back Its Overnight Gain As Brent Tops $100
Bitcoin reached $79,701.36 overnight and had round-tripped the move by midday in New York, leaving it flat over 24 hours. Ninety-three of the 123 largest non-stablecoin tokens are lower. Zcash holds a…
12h ago
Arbitrum Watchdog Seeks Permanent Bans For Three Grant Recipients
The committee behind Arbitrum's grant-misuse bounty program wants Good Entry, Limitless and APX Finance barred from all future DAO programs. None has replied to the forum thread, and three Snapshot vo…
12h ago
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP Falls 99% In Three Hours To TRUMP's Valuation
The token opened on Base at 12:00 UTC Wednesday, closed its first five minutes at $247.55 and traded at $1.90 three hours later. Both tokens carry a one billion supply, so both now sit near a $2 billi…
13h ago
Consensys Software Inc. Splits In Two, Rebrands As MetaMask
The company behind the MetaMask wallet will keep the wallet and rename itself MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO. Linea, Besu and the institutional infrastructure business move into a newly formed compan…
14h ago
Polkadot Leads A Rotation Into Old Layer-1s As Hike Odds Widen
Polkadot rose 16.7% on the day and 42.5% on the week, with Cosmos Hub, Decred and Ethereum Classic all up more than 8%, while bitcoin ended the first U.S. session since Labor Day down 0.83% at $78,539…
1d ago
ARK Asks SEC To Approve Tokenized Share Class of Venture Fund
A pending exemptive application would let ARK Venture Fund record ownership of a new share class using distributed ledger technology and trade it on registered ATS venues. Hearing requests are due Sep…
1d ago
Tokenized Stocks Traded $1 Billion While The Stock Market Was Shut
The 42 largest tokenized equities turned over $1.01 billion on Saturday and Sunday, roughly matching Friday's session, and another $398.3 million on Labor Day. Robinhood Chain handled $572.8 million o…
1d ago
Compound Opens Institutional Market With 87% LTV
The market takes ETH, wstETH, WBTC and cbBTC as collateral against USDC at loan-to-value ratios of up to 87%. Compound says borrowing is open to anyone, with approval required only for the 200,000 USD…
1d ago
DBS and Citi Complete Weekend Dollar Payment on Swift Ledger
The Singapore-US transfer took minutes, but Swift says final settlement still occurs through existing banking systems.
1d ago
Ethereum Foundation Sets 2029 Quantum Target and Narrows Hegotá Scope
FOCIL and Frame Transactions are the two must-ship proposals. A tapered issuance burn and a mandatory burn of execution rewards were declined because the cluster said issuance and reward policy belong…
1d ago
Harmony Proposes Sunsetting Network and Moving ONE to Ethereum for AI Video Pivot
The plan would snapshot ONE at the final block and redirect emissions to an AI video business, but Harmony urged users to exit smart contracts before Sept. 10 because onchain apps and liquidity pools…
1d ago
BitMine Adds 28,086 ETH as Treasury Nears 5% of Supply
The company valued its 5.93 million ETH at about $14.79 billion, while aggregate reported holdings rose to $15.7 billion from $15.6 billion a week earlier.
1d ago
Morpho Expands Fixed-Rate Midnight Markets to Ethereum
USDC markets backed by WBTC and cbBTC are live, while roughly $5 billion held in Morpho Vaults remains unable to enter Midnight pending DAO action.
1d ago
Robinhood Takes Stakes In Crypto.com And OG.com, Routes Football Contracts To Their Exchange
Robinhood began sending a selection of football event contracts to Crypto.com's CFTC-regulated exchange on Tuesday and will hold stakes in both Crypto.com and OG.com, the prediction-market venue being…
1d ago
Merck KGaA Pilots Cocoa Traceability On Hedera
The Hashgraph Group, Merck KGaA and PwC Germany said they are testing a system that records Merck's physical authentication scans on Hedera to document cocoa origin, timed to an EU deforestation law t…
1d ago
Orionx Halts Withdrawals and Winds Down After Alleged $7M Asset Transfers
Chile’s financial regulator says it does not oversee the exchange’s closure or have the power to order customer repayments.
2d ago
Liquid Attacker Broadcasts Return Of 3,400 BTC, Keeps 598
The transaction pays 3,400 BTC back to the Liquid federation wallet and 598.50 BTC to the attacker’s own address. It is unconfirmed and flagged replaceable, and neither side has published anything abo…
2d ago
Hunter Biden Confirms LAPTOP Memecoin Launch On Sept. 9
The token deploys on Coinbase's Base network, with a fifth of a 1 billion supply set aside for airdrops that include wallets that lost money on TRUMP, according to The Wall Street Journal. At least 14…
2d ago
Arkham Links Wintermute to $2.4 Million PONS Position
Arkham said Wintermute appeared to be buying PONS gradually; its dashboard separately listed 3.43 million tokens worth $2.4 million.
2d ago
Router Protocol Plans Sept. 30 Shutdown and 303 Million ROUTE Burn
DefiLlama shows $9,879.92 locked and no bridge volume over 30 completed days; Router’s notice only instructs centralized-exchange holders to withdraw by venue deadlines.
2d ago
Liquid Sidechain Paused After 3,998 BTC Leaves Federation Wallet
Blockstream's Liquid disabled its bridge nodes on Sunday after almost the entire bitcoin reserve backing L-BTC was withdrawn to a single address, whose owner wrote “we are whitehats” into a bitcoin tr…
3d ago
The AMC Fight Turned Into An Industry Argument Over Which Tokenized Stock Model Wins
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams compared Robinhood's and Ondo's stock tokens to early stablecoins on Friday, hours after Dinari co-founder Gabriel Otte called the same instruments "indisputably worse for…
4d ago