SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce drew a sharp line around decentralized finance on Sept. 17. She said investors need no exemption to use permissionless smart contracts for peer-to-peer trading. The SEC and CFTC actions examined here set separate limits on intermediary control. The unresolved question is how much control a software provider can retain before it …
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Bitcoin’s $84K rally isn’t saving miners as difficulty signals already flash caution
Bitcoin’s post-retarget relief for miners was real, but narrow. Using a BTC price of $84,751, the completed difficulty increase and the latest gross hashprice is about $40.31 per petahash per second per day. That is roughly 2.65% above the prior modeled baseline. However, the next difficulty estimate is pointing 2.48% lower. The estimate came after …
This blockchain just voted to shut itself down for a Solana-powered AI pivot
ZetaChain’s on-chain governance has approved retiring the network’s standalone blockchain and moving ZETA to Solana as the project pivots toward private AI. Proposal 68 passed after voting ended Sept. 20, with about 99.44% of ballots supporting the plan. The on-chain tally showed 263.65 million ZETA voting in favor, 744,658 voting against, and 752,300 abstaining, giving …
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Massive Short Squeeze Sends Bitcoin Price Above $86,000
Bitcoin’s price rallied past $86,000, achieving a 6% daily gain and pushing its market capitalization to $1.72 trillion. The move brought the asset near its Jan. 1 opening price of $87,575, narrowing year-to-date losses to under 2%. Two Waves of Price Action Lead to $1.72T Market Cap Bitcoin’s price tapped $86,000 shortly after midmorning as …
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Trump Memecoin Team Sends 8.4M TRUMP to OKX as Bitcoin Price Nears $85K
Wallets tied to the Official Trump memecoin team have routed about 8.4 million TRUMP, worth roughly $18 million, into OKX deposit addresses since the token’s Sept. 18 unlock. The Transfers, in Order Last week, onchain sleuths reported that a TRUMP team address had moved out 11.25 million tokens, worth $26 million, on Sept. 7, and …
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X Files Lawsuit Targeting UK Crypto Influencers
Social media giant X has filed a lawsuit against crypto influencers Vivek Kumar Sen and Zamyang Sherpa, accusing them of fraudulently taking over $277,000 from the platform’s creator revenue-sharing program. Account Suspensions and the Pivot to Original Content Billionaire Elon Musk’s social media company X has sued two cryptocurrency influencers in the High Court of …
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Bitcoin ETFs Flip From $426M Outflow to $6M Weekly Inflow
U.S. crypto ETFs endured one of their most volatile weeks of September as policy shocks triggered heavy midweek selling before capital rushed back on Friday. Bitcoin funds finished with a slim $6.21 million inflow, while ether ETFs snapped a four-week winning streak with $140 million in net withdrawals. Crypto ETF Buyers Reverse Midweek Selloff The …
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Coinbase Adds IPO Shares to Its Expanding Everything Exchange
Coinbase is giving eligible U.S. retail investors access to IPO allocations through its app, beginning with Oura’s offering. The expansion adds primary-market shares to a platform already combining crypto, stocks, derivatives, and prediction markets. Coinbase Opens IPO Allocations to Retail Investors Eligible U.S. retail investors can now request shares at the IPO price before public …
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Bitmine Buys 27,562 ETH as Tom Lee Says Bull Market Is Underway
Bitmine Immersion Technologies has quietly accumulated nearly 6 million ETH, giving one public company control of roughly 4.9% of all ether in circulation. Its $16.1 billion ethereum pile is now just 121,000 ETH shy of Chairman Tom Lee’s “Alchemy of 5%” target. Records show that Bitmine has bought ETH every single week since June 30, …
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Ripple Brings Custody to Absa as XRP Price Jumps 6.7%: Here’s What Launched
South African lender Absa switched on Absa Digital Asset Custody on Sept. 21, putting Ripple’s custody technology live inside one of Africa’s largest banking groups 11 months after the two firms first announced the partnership. What Went Live Today? Absa’s corporate and investment banking arm announced the offering via X on Monday morning, calling the …
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Bitcoin hits $85,000 after $648M wipeout forces mass buying
Bitcoin surged above $85,000 as a wave of short liquidations accelerated the cryptocurrency’s strongest advance since January. Data from CryptoSlate showed BTC gained more than 5% over the past 24 hours to reach $85,193, extending its advance over the past 35 days to about 29%. The asset had eased to $84,545 as of press time …
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A Bitcoin Lightning flaw could send a node’s entire balance straight to miners
A flaw in Bitcoin Lightning software Eclair could let malicious peers wipe out a node’s local channel balance through fees. ACINQ released Eclair 0.14.3 on Sept. 14 to patch three peer-triggered vulnerabilities that could cause operators to lose or lock funds during channel closures, splicing, and on-the-fly funding. The Bitcoin technology company, a contributor to …
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Bitcoin shattered $80,000 after a $148 billion US liquidity shock failed to break markets
Bitcoin climbed above $80,000 after a $148 billion US Treasury cash build failed to destabilize overnight funding markets. The Treasury General Account rose by $148.003 billion through Sept. 16 to $991.708 billion, Federal Reserve data showed, as tax payments shifted cash into the government’s account at the central bank. Deposits held by commercial banks at …
2 key economic reports threaten Bitcoin’s $80k rally as BTC price model predicts $95k incoming
Bitcoin entered this week (Sept. 21–27) above $80,000, but Friday’s update on Americans’ inflation expectations could test whether its rebound can withstand tighter monetary policy. The Bitcoin price stood at $80,323 in CryptoSlate’s Sept. 20 snapshot, up 4.82% over seven days and 3.82% over 30 days. That recovery leaves two questions for the coming week: …
BLAKE2b Bitcoin Fork Wants Miners to Wait 45 Days to Touch Their Coins
The developers who maintain the minority chain that forked away from Bitcoin on Aug. 8, 2026, plan to make it so miners cannot unlock newly mined coins for 45 days. The news comes as BTCB2, also labeled Bitcoin BLAKE2b, Bitcoin BIP-110, or XBT on some trading venues, has dropped 84% below its all-time high. From …
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