The Federal Reserve raised its target range by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00% on Sept. 16, pushing the one-year Treasury yield to 4.45% the same day and pressuring crypto lending yields. That move lifts the return available to anyone willing to hold nothing riskier than government debt, setting a fresh benchmark for crypto lending yields …
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Wall Street gains direct oversight of Web3 security as S&P Global buys OpenZeppelin
S&P Global has agreed to acquire smart contract security company OpenZeppelin in a transaction that would put the crypto company inside the group that includes S&P Global Ratings. The transaction remains subject to closing conditions, S&P Global’s announcement said. Financial terms were not disclosed, and S&P said it does not expect the deal to materially affect …
XRP Open Interest Is Back Above Pre-CLARITY Levels
Binance traders now hold more XRP in futures contracts than they did before the Senate sank the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, even with XRP still about 65% below its all-time high. The Number That Came Back Open interest, i.e. the total amount of futures contracts still open, is the cleanest read on how much …
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White Hats Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAI in 72 Hours
A small team of researchers chained three bugs with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and ended up inside OpenAI’s private code repository. The whole job took under 72 hours, and OpenAI paid $6,500 for it. The Chain, Link by Link A vulnerable ‘libheif’ library inside Discourse, the forum software, allowed remote code execution (RCE) on the …
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WSJ: Lagarde Blocked Binance’s EU License and Left It Locked Out
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde personally intervened to keep Binance out of the European Union. Three months after the bid collapsed, the world’s largest exchange is still locked out of the bloc. The Announcement That Never Shipped By late May, Binance’s paperwork was effectively done, so much …
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Saylor Says SEC Exemption Puts Tokenized MSTR and STRC Onchain 24/7
Michael Saylor says the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new innovation exemption clears tokenized MSTR and STRC to trade onchain around the clock. It is the first live test of the digital credit pitch he has spent a year selling. A Reaction, Not a Rule Saylor did not wait long to make the proclamation …
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500 Million XRP Worth $649M Left Uphold for Five Wallets Yesterday
Five XRP Ledger addresses that didn’t exist until about a day earlier now hold 100 million XRP each, and every one was created by the same Uphold wallet that filled it. The Alert That Lit up XRP Twitter A burst of posts on Sept. 17 flagged half a billion XRP leaving Uphold, the multi-asset trading …
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Crypto VC Funding Jumps 31% to $5.7 Billion in Q2 2026
Crypto venture funding rebounded sharply in the second quarter of 2026, with investors deploying about $5.7 billion across 384 deals. The recovery was driven by larger, later-stage financings, while fundraising for new crypto venture funds remained unusually weak. Crypto VC Firms Deploy Funds Across 384 Q2 Deals Crypto venture capital is showing signs of life …
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Fake AI crypto software is secretly replacing browser wallet extensions
HP Wolf Security, the company’s threat-research team, said a fake AI crypto-trading assistant distributed malware that could replace browser crypto wallet extensions on an infected Windows computer and turn the familiar wallet interface into a credential trap. The campaign appeared in HP’s September threat report, published Sept. 17 and based on threats observed from April …
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XRPL’s new lending tool could lock up your XRP from minutes to decades
XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) newest server release defines a future lending market in which depositors could commit assets to a vault for a fixed term and wait until a set redemption date to withdraw. For XRP holders, the design introduces a possible liquidity lock that can last from minutes to years. The XRP Ledger Foundation released …
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From Kaiko to OpenZeppelin, S&P Global is quietly preparing for markets that never close
S&P Global agreed to acquire smart contract security firm OpenZeppelin, expanding its digital asset business into the technology underpinning tokenized finance. On Sept. 17, the financial data and ratings company said that OpenZeppelin will continue operating under its own name as a separate business unit. Chief Executive Demian Brener will remain in charge and report …
UK Lords Want Gambling Ads Banned, Sector Growth Goal Dropped
A cross-party House of Lords committee has told the UK government to ban almost all gambling advertising as soon as it is “practicable” to do so, and to abandon its objective of growing the sector along the way. The industry’s lobby group, the Betting and Gaming Council, immediately called the report “deeply misguided.” A Ban …
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A Family Found a Trove of Sealed 1980s Nintendo Games in a Closet. It Could Be Worth a Fortune
Heritage Auctions in Dallas traced a rare video-game hoard in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and sent partner Cris Bierrenbach to meet the seller without knowing what he would find. About 90% of the games in the Dallas-Fort Worth Collection were sealed, including early prints of The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Contra alongside dozens of …
The Real AI Safety Threat Isn’t Speed—It’s Centralized Control
Growing concerns over AI safety have sparked an intense debate on regulation. While Andrew Yang warns that rogue self-replicating code is already corrupting web training data, Sentient Labs argues that simply slowing down AI development is ineffective without dynamic evaluation and independent verification infrastructure. Rogue Code Forces Tech Firms Into ‘Synthetic Internets’ Days after Anthropic …
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Ex-SEC Chief Claims Agency Overreaches Authority on Crypto Rules
John Reed Stark argues that the SEC’s new regulatory pretensions run counter to a decade of litigation and conflict with the major questions doctrine, stressing that Congress should discuss and regulate matters of such significance. Reed Stark Claims SEC Usurps Congressional Authority On Crypto Rulemaking After the CLARITY Act failed to pass cloture on Tuesday …
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