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  • Ethereum is the second biggest crypto asset by market cap. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Ethereum Gets Another Privacy Boost as Aztec Brings Back zk.money

    Three years after pulling the plug, Aztec Labs is bringing zk.money back from the dead. The privacy-focused Ethereum developer relaunched the self-custodial wallet Tuesday, letting users send and receive stablecoins without broadcasting balances, amounts, or recipients to the world. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. Users claim a tag such as bob.zk.money, which resolves through the Ethereum Name Service, or ENS, to a deposit address, according to Aztec's posts o...

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    Cboe's New S&P Deal Opens the Door to Tokenized Options

    Cboe Global Markets and S&P Dow Jones Indices are exploring whether to bring options contracts on-chain, tucking a tokenization ambition into a 25-year extension of their decades-old licensing partnership. The two firms said Monday they had renewed their exclusive licensing agreement through 2051, preserving Cboe's rights to offer options on the S&P 500 Index, or SPX, its flagship product. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. The partnership dates to 1983, when Cbo...

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  • Bitcoin and oil. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Hovers at $84K as Treasury Yields Hold Near Multi-Year Highs

    Bitcoin was trading at around $84,000 on Tuesday, up 0.9% over 24 hours but down 2% across the week, according to CoinGecko data, holding a range it has occupied for a fortnight while the assets around it move against it. The pressure is coming from outside crypto. Treasury yields are sitting near multi-year highs, driven largely by oil. The 10-year peaked at 5.274% on Monday, its highest since June 2007, and the 30-year at 5.583%, a level last seen in 2002. Both eased slightly on Tuesday, the W...

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    Canada's 'Crypto King' Aiden Pleterski to Represent Himself at Fraud Trial

    Aiden Pleterski, the 27-year-old who styled himself Canada's "Crypto King," will defend himself against fraud and money laundering charges at a Toronto jury trial starting Monday, after a judge refused to postpone it. Ontario Superior Court Justice Shaun Nakatsuru denied an adjournment application on Monday, CBC News reported, leaving Pleterski without counsel for a four-week trial whose dates were fixed in June 2025. "I want to assure you that even though this isn't your first choice, obviously...

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  • Coinbase. Image: Decrypt

    Coinbase Now Owns Every Layer of Its Derivatives Stack After CFTC Approval

    Coinbase has won approval to clear its own derivatives trades, completing a set of three federal registrations that lets the crypto exchange run a futures business end to end without renting any part of it. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission registered Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organization on Monday. The company already held the other two pieces: Coinbase Derivatives, LLC as a designated contract market, and Coinbase Financial Markets, Inc. as a futures commission me...

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    Citi Clients Can Now Take Stablecoin Payments Through Coinbase—Without Touching Crypto

    Big businesses banking with Citi can now let customers pay in stablecoins without ever holding the tokens themselves. Coinbase said Monday it has deepened its previously announced deal with the Wall Street bank on two fronts. First, Coinbase's payments infrastructure now plugs into Spring by Citi, the bank's merchant payment platform, so Citi's institutional clients can accept stablecoins at checkout. Coinbase converts the tokens into fiat, and Citi settles the funds as the bank of record. Myria...

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  • Bitcoin. Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Strive Buys $94.5 Million in Bitcoin, Pushing Holdings Past 27,000 BTC

    Strive kept its Bitcoin shopping streak alive last week, though its cart was a bit lighter. The Dallas-based asset manager bought 1,107 BTC for about $94.5 million between Sept. 21 and Sept. 25, paying an average of $85,396 per coin including fees, according to a Form 8-K filed Monday with the SEC. Its holdings now total 27,462 BTC, worth about $2.3 billion at Friday's closing price of $83,943, the company said. That's a step down from the prior week, when Strive's stash grew by 1,355 BTC, based...

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    Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum

    Ethereum's next upgrade will be the last one anyone from 2015 would recognize, its co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote in a post published on Saturday. Hegota, the fork scheduled for next year, is "likely to be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork," he said. What follows involves recursive STARKs, automated formal verification, heavily optimized consensus and making the lot quantum-safe. The cryptographic world computer:https://t.co/ueayODeUPo My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true mean...

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  • BitMine Chairman Tom Lee. Image: Fundstrat/Decrypt

    Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys Another $47M of ETH, Taking It to 4.9% of Ethereum Supply

    Bitmine Immersion Technologies' Ethereum holdings have reached has six million ETH, putting Tom Lee's treasury company within touching distance of the 5% of supply it has been chasing since mid-2025. The company purchased 17,362 ETH over the past week, worth just under $47 million at the $2,698 snapshot price used in its press release. It held 6,001,302 ETH as of Friday afternoon, worth about $16.2 billion, and equal to 4.9% of the 122.1 million tokens in circulation. Bitmine calls the target th...

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  • Michael Saylor, founder and chairman of Strategy. Image: Swan Bitcoin/YouTube/Decrypt

    Strategy Sets New BTC Holdings Record After $143M Bitcoin Purchase

    Strategy has added another 1,665 BTC to its holdings, pushing the company's stash to a new record as it continues to balance Bitcoin purchases with buybacks of its preferred stock. The company paid $142.7 million for the Bitcoin at an average price of $85,681 per coin, according to a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Its total holdings now stand at 847,666 BTC, acquired for $63.95 billion at an average price of $75,437 per Bitcoin. Strategy has acquired 1,665 $BTC and r...

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  • California Governor Gavin Newsom. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    California Bans Public Officials From Issuing Meme Coins Under New Newsom Law

    California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill barring public officials in the state from issuing meme coins, adding new restrictions on political figures' involvement in the crypto market. Assembly Bill 2409, authored by Assemblymember Avelino Valencia (D-Anaheim), prohibits California public officers and employees from issuing meme coins. It also bars digital asset service providers from listing certain meme coins issued after January 1, 2027, if they are offered by or in partnership with...

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  • Circle's USDC and Tether's USDT stablecoins. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Circle and Tether Freeze Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack—But Most Funds Slip Away

    Circle and Tether have frozen a wallet linked to the massive Bitget exchange hack, cutting off roughly $318,000 in stablecoins from the attacker, though the bulk of the stolen fortune moved beyond reach before issuers could act. Blockchain data shows Circle blacklisted the address, labeled "Bitget Exploiter 8" on Etherscan, at 05:00 UTC Friday, using the built-in freeze function in its USDC token contract. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. Roughly seven hours la...

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  • Strategy CEO Phong Le and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (from left). Image: Decrypt/Strategy

    Strategy Wants Its Preferred Stock Dividends to Accrue 365 Days a Year

    Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy wants to pay dividends on its four U.S. preferred shares every day, including weekends and public holidays, executive chairman Michael Saylor said on Thursday. The proposal covers STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD. Dividends would accrue every calendar day and pay the following business day, with the economics otherwise unchanged. A preliminary proxy was filed the same day, a definitive proxy is due on October 5, and shareholders vote on October 28. Strategy is proposing...

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  • Morgan Stanley. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Morgan Stanley Joins NEXTPredict as Prediction Markets Bet on 'More Institutional' Play

    Institutional interest in prediction markets has not been in doubt for a while. JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon told CBS in April that the bank was weighing an entry, while describing most of the activity as closer to gambling than investing and ruling out sports and politics outright. Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon had used the firm's January earnings call to disclose meetings with both of the largest operators. Thus far, however, there has been little in the way of concrete progress to spe...

  • Pete Hegseth. Image: U.S. Department of Defense/Decrypt

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase Wallet, Filing Shows

    U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase wallet, according to his latest annual financial disclosure, covering 2025 and released by the Office of Government Ethics. The Bitcoin appears under "other assets and income" as two separate entries inside a single Coinbase wallet, one valued at between $15,001 and $50,000 and the other at between $1,001 and $15,000. Disclosure forms report ranges rather than exact figures, so the combined holding sits somewhere between about $16,0...

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  • Judge's gavel. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    KelpDAO Developer Sues LayerZero Over $292M Bridge Exploit

    The company behind KelpDAO has sued LayerZero and its chief executive over the exploit that drained $292 million from the restaking protocol in April, alleging LayerZero endorsed in writing the exact bridge configuration it later blamed for the loss. Evercrest Technologies filed the notice of civil claim in the Supreme Court of British Columbia on Wednesday, naming LayerZero Labs Ltd., LayerZero Labs Canada Inc. and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino, who is sued personally over posts on Telegram and X...

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  • Bitcoin remains the largest crypto asset in the market. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Researchers Publish 'Zcash-Style' Design for Private Bitcoin Transfers

    Researchers at Bitcoin cryptography developer [[alloc] init] have published a design for "ZCash-style" private transfers that would hide the sender, recipient and amount of a payment while running on the existing Bitcoin network. The 56-page paper, dated September 24, 2026, is written by Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov and Aleksei Moskvin. The team has "put a lot of work into thinking carefully about the security of Shielded Bitcoin and about what information the protocol reveals," Shikhelman...

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    £10K Reward Offered After UK Couple Attacked in Crypto Home Invasion

    Three men forced their way into a West Midlands home and made a couple transfer a large sum of cryptocurrency while a fourth person relayed instructions over a video call, in an attack police believe was planned and targeted. Crimestoppers, an independent charity that takes anonymous crime tips across the UK, is offering a reward of up to £10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. The appeal went out on Wednesday, more than nine months after the attack. Our charity is offering...

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  • Solana is a smart contract blockchain network. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Solana Foundation Hires Binance's Former Global CMO for Institutional Push

    The Solana Foundation has hired Binance's former global chief marketing officer as its chief strategy officer, and a Polygon Labs executive to run payments, as the non-profit builds a senior team focused on institutional adoption and payments. Rachel Conlan spent three years as Binance's global CMO and previously held senior roles at OKX, the sports agency CAA Sports and the advertising group Havas. Her brief covers institutional partnerships, ecosystem growth and go-to-market, the Foundation sa...

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  • European flags in front of the Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Q-Day Could Arrive Before Quantum Computers Are Commercially Useful, EU Warns

    An advanced quantum computer could undermine some of the cryptography systems used to secure communications, transactions, databases and blockchains, the European Union's three financial supervisors said in their autumn assessment of risks to the bloc's financial system. The warning, from the joint committee of the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority, highlighted that the threat could materialise...

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