September 2026 is turning out to be entirely different for Ethereum, as it appears to have bucked the “September Curse.” Since the start of the month, ETH is up by more than 9%. Fresh data also revealed that the asset may be approaching a major resistance zone before a potential bullish move. Real Test According […]
Stablecoin giant Tether said on Monday it has helped US authorities freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT so far this year. The company detailed two of those developments. The first, in April, locked more than $344 million in USDT across two TRON addresses. The company acted on information from the Treasury’s Office of Foreign […]
Charles Hoskinson has argued that Cardano’s Midnight network will eventually eclipse Zcash, citing developments including private agents, selective disclosure, and a DeFi kernel designed to work across major chains. His claim comes as Zcash trades far above its level from a year ago, while Midnight’s NIGHT token remains nearly 78% below its all-time high. Midnight’s […]
More than half of Americans would use stablecoins if they came with bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance, Visa said in a study released on Wednesday. The numbers were 36% without those safeguards and 56% with them. Those safeguards were hypothetical, and Visa’s release notes that no stablecoin carries deposit insurance today. The same scenario […]
The shareholders of Armada Acquisition Corp. II are set to vote on September 30 on the proposed business combination, on whether Evernorth will be the next cryptocurrency-related company to become public. A potential approval would clear the last major obstacle before the XRP-focused treasury company can begin trading publicly under the XRPN ticker. Will XRPN […]
The spot exchange-traded funds tracking the performance of Ripple’s cross-border token started the week quietly but built on by the end of it, reaching a new cumulative all-time high. At the same time, the products tracking Solana’s SOL are on a green-only streak since September 11, and the inflows peaked on Friday with more than […]
Researchers behind Alloc Init have proposed “Shielded Bitcoin,” a metaprotocol designed to hide BTC transfer amounts and counterparties without changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules or relying on trusted bridge operators. The design borrows the encrypted-note approach Zcash made known, but builds it directly on Bitcoin’s existing base layer, using cryptographic proofs instead of a trusted intermediary […]
The failure of the CLARITY Act in the US Senate on September 15 hasn’t deterred the two largest local regulators from trying to clear the air on crypto regulation in the country, with the Securities and Exchange Commission now issuing fresh staff guidance addressing several long-running questions. The new set of FAQs focuses heavily on […]
Institutional investors are keeping their crypto exposure steady despite the intense turmoil between Q4 2025 and Q2 2026, according to a survey by Bitwise. The firm interviewed 15 institutions and found that none cut their allocation during a period when the market fell by about 50%. Bitcoin Is the Institutional Favorite Crypto allocations remain relatively […]
The Federal Reserve has proposed two rules to help establish oversight for stablecoin issuers under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act. The proposals were announced by the central bank on Thursday and opened for public comment. Stricter Stablecoin Oversight The first proposal would require payment stablecoin issuers supervised by the […]