The US sanctioned Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, widening its campaign against digital-asset infrastructure allegedly used to finance the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). On Sept. 17, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that the sanctioned Iranian financier Babak Zanjani used BitBank between June and July to facilitate hundreds of millions of …
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Why Bitcoin hit $80k today hours before bad US data even landed
Bitcoin’s rebound above $80,000 on Sept. 18 extended a technology-led relief rally. The move coincided with yen weakness and followed a return to Bitcoin ETF inflows the previous day. The advance was already underway in European trading, hours before weak US economic figures offered a possible argument against further monetary tightening. At press time, Bitcoin …
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XRPL tries to mathematically prove its new lending market cannot be drained
XRP Ledger (XRPL) developers are using mathematical proofs to test whether the network’s forthcoming lending market can be drained or become insolvent. On Sept. 17, protocol research firm Common Prefix said it is formally verifying XRPL’s Lending Protocol with Lean 4, a theorem-proving language designed to establish whether software satisfies defined mathematical properties across possible system …
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Hyperliquid opens native lending as HYPE hits new ATH above $90
Hyperliquid has launched native manual borrowing, extending its trading infrastructure into credit as HYPE climbed to a fresh all-time high above $90. The Sept. 18 rollout lets users pledge HYPE or Bitcoin as collateral to borrow USDC or USDT directly through HyperCore. Hyperliquid said $269 million in assets were borrowed Friday, giving the new product …
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Zcash holders vote to preserve halvings and defer recycled ZEC until 2031
Participating Zcash coinholders have overwhelmingly favored keeping scheduled halvings and waiting until February 2031 to begin returning ZEC collected by the Network Sustainability Mechanism to future block rewards. The choices were part of a five-question poll on NU7, Zcash’s next network upgrade. Between 2.399 million and 2.404 million ZEC participated in each question. All five …
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SEC and CFTC bypass Congress to open crypto access after CLARITY fails – with a catch
Two days after the US Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, federal regulators opened two narrower routes for crypto-linked market access under existing law. The Securities and Exchange Commission created a five-year path for permissioned venues to trade tokenized US stocks through automated market makers. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission broadened staff no-action relief …
Bitcoin Price Hits $81K on Renewed Spot Demand, Leverage Reset
Bitcoin surged past $81,000 on Friday, hitting an intraday high of $81,238, before settling around $80,800 with a $1.62 trillion market cap. CFTC Draft Rules Spark Rally Beyond $81,000 Bitcoin’s price breezed past $81,000 Friday amid reports that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sent crypto market rules to the White House for review. The …
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Bitcoin Returns to Inflows With $159M as Zcash ETF Draws $46.6M
U.S. bitcoin ETFs returned to inflows on Thursday with $159.45 million, led by a sharp rebound in Blackrock’s IBIT. Ether and XRP funds remained under pressure, while the recently launched Zcash ETF drew $46.56 million in fresh capital. Blackrock Drives Bitcoin Rebound Institutional demand returned to bitcoin on Thursday, offering some relief after a bruising …
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Bitcoin’s Price Rips Past $80K as Short Sellers Get Steamrolled
Bitcoin’s price ripped from the mid-$76,000s to nearly $81,000 on Friday at 10:45 a.m. ET, after traders spent the week absorbing a failed U.S. Senate crypto vote and two central-bank rate hikes. The final leg wasn’t simply buyers charging in. Roughly $192 million in leveraged crypto positions vanished in one hour, including more than $183 …
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SBI, Kyobo Complete Japan-Korea Stablecoin Test With No Dollar Leg
SBI Digital Practice and Kyobo Life completed a cross-border pilot that directly converted yen-linked test tokens into won-linked tokens. The trial examined whether stablecoin infrastructure could reduce delays, conversion steps, and costs in institutional transfers. SBI and Kyobo Test Direct Yen-Won Settlement Cross-border institutions could eventually move funds between Japan and South Korea without routing …
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Visa and Mastercard Paying $167,500,000 To Settle ATM Surcharge Lawsuit – Here’s the Deadline for Submitting a Claim
Visa and Mastercard are paying $167.5 million to settle claims they blocked independent ATMs from offering lower fees. ClassAction.org reports the deal covers U.S. consumers who paid unreimbursed surcharges at non-bank ATMs from October 24th of 2007 through August 14th of 2026. The lawsuit said the networks’ rules stopped independent ATM operators from discounting access …
Bitcoin hits $81K as US bond yields rebound on global oil woes
Bitcoin price action made swift gains at the start of Friday’s Wall Street trading session as US 30-year bond yields began rising again. Bitcoin (BTC) jumped past $80,000 around Friday’s Wall Street open as fuel-crisis woes spread through global markets. Key points: Read more Go to Source
Banks double on EU MiCA crypto provider list as share hits 23%
Banks now represent nearly one in four providers on ESMA’s MiCA register after roughly doubling their presence since late June. Banks are rapidly expanding their presence in Europe’s regulated crypto market, with traditional lenders now accounting for nearly one in four providers listed under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework (MiCA). The number of …
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Bank Insider Responsible for Stopping Fraud Steals $1,000,000+ From Elderly Customers Aged Between 90 to 103: Report
A former bank employee hired to stop financial crime has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing more than $1 million from elderly customers. The sentence was handed down in federal court in Cleveland and covers roughly that loss figure after prosecutors had cited about $2 million at trial, reports Cleveland.com. U.S. District …
Connecticut Woman Admits to Evading Taxes on $3,000,000 in OnlyFans Earnings
Federal prosecutors have obtained a guilty plea from a Connecticut content creator accused of evading taxes on more than $3 million. Seathra Zmeena Orr, 39, of Stamford waived indictment and entered the plea on September 15, 2026, before U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford, says the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of …
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