TLDR: Ethereum transaction fees dropped from $0.72 to $0.095 per transfer since April’s price peak. Fusaka’s higher blob throughput and a 60 million gas limit expanded Ethereum’s total capacity. Layer 2 networks now absorb execution that once competed for Ethereum’s mainnet blockspace. ETH trades near $2,441, with key support at $2,365–$2,380 and resistance near $2,520–$2,530. …
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Aave V4 went live on the Arc Layer-1 network on Sept. 16 and attracted USDC almost immediately. By Sept. 17, point-in-time Aavescan data showed roughly $76 million supplied, less than $100,000 borrowed, and utilization near 0.1%. Suppliers quickly filled the market’s initial capacity, but borrowers had put almost none of that liquidity to work. LlamaRisk …
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened a five-year pathway for regulated US stocks to trade on blockchain-native venues. The Innovation Exemption came two days after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, a broad crypto market-structure bill that sought to establish statutory rules for digital assets and clarify regulatory responsibilities. The …
Optimism approved Upgrade 20, moving its fault-proof system toward the architecture required for future Superchain interoperability. The Ethereum layer-2 network’s governance completed voting on Sept. 16, putting OP Sepolia, Ink Sepolia, Soneium Minato and Unichain Sepolia on course for a targeted Sept. 17 contract upgrade. Mainnet execution is scheduled for Sept. 24 if the new …
Stellar activated Protocol 28 as the blockchain hit a new sustained throughput record, adding tools designed for larger smart-contract deployments. The network ran Protocol 28 by Sept. 17 after a scheduled mainnet upgrade vote a day earlier. The release lets developers move groups of Soroban smart contracts to new code at once and introduces changes …
Crypto groups are pressing Congress to broaden tax relief after a House panel advanced the first digital-asset tax framework. The House Ways and Means Committee approved H.R. 10357, the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act, by 38-5 on Sept. 16, sending a package covering crypto payments, stablecoins, trading, lending, staking and mining toward the full House. …
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The Senate gave DeFi a policy setback on Sept. 15. Then Aave founder Stani Kulechov used it to frame a new product challenge. Aave is a decentralized-finance lending protocol surrounded by consumer and institutional products built by Aave Labs. At 2:19 p.m. Eastern time, senators rejected cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, …
Three days after Splash’s Cardano-based ADA/OADA StableSwap pool was drained, OADA holders still faced a problem that corrected code alone could not solve: the pool had lost the ADA that provided their meaningful route out of the token. Splash’s incident report said one actor used two transactions on Sept. 13 to remove 2,434,648 ADA and …
Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, officially began offering institutional custody for xU3O8 on September 16, 2026. The token represents physical uranium yellowcake stored in Cameco facilities under an English trust structure. With a modest market capitalization hovering just above $9 million, the move allows regulated funds …
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Revolut said it has received no direct ransom demands following a recent data breach. Certik analyst Jonathan Riss warned that mandatory know your customer (KYC) rules force platforms to store sensitive identity data, making them high-value targets for hackers. No Direct Demands Received, Revolut Says Revolut said it has not received direct contact from or …
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According to an announcement shared with Bitcoin.com News, Wisdomtree and Moonpay aim to put a tokenized Treasury money market fund in front of a very large crowd. Moonpay’s network has more than 35 million accounts, and Wisdomtree plans to use that reach to give eligible U.S. investors another route into WTGXX. The interesting twist on …
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It’s been 11 days since the so-called white hat hackers siphoned nearly 4,000 BTC from the Liquid Network. Since then, after the return of 3,400 BTC and a whole lot of onchain bickering, L-BTC to BTC peg-outs are still not functional on Liquid, and the hackers still hold 598.50 BTC valued at more than $45 …
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Just days before its closure, one of the oldest crypto exchanges, BitMEX, was hit with another lawsuit that repeats the same “God Access” theme. This time, it’s related to the collapsed crypto giant Celsius and is filled with accusations based “on information and belief.” In short, on Sept. 12, Blockchain Recovery Investment Consortium (BRIC), a …
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) just opened a regulatory side door for software developers, allowing some to market derivatives, collect trading fees and avoid registering as brokers. The agency’s Market Participants Division extended conditional no-action relief to providers of “passive software” on Sept. 17, taking a framework originally granted to Phantom Technologies in …
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The native token of AssangeDAO, JUSTICE, jumped fourfold in a couple of hours amid low trading volume as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange returned to X after two years of silence, prompting welcome messages from bitcoiners. “I’m back,” Assange posted on X on Thursday, sharing a post by Wikileaks with his picture and fueling the JUSTICE …
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