Unchained

Bitget lost $388 million — and days later, CEO Gracy Chen says scammers posing as a major investment team targeted her.

A trader’s $1.2 million complaint, a public reply from Coinbase’s Cobie and the BlockTower founder’s unproven claims have put Coinbase’s support under scrutiny; the exchange denies hiding a series of hacks.

The 25-year extension keeps SPX options exclusive to Cboe, and the two firms said they may work together on new products such as tokenized options, without naming a product or timeline.

The brokerage will route the perps through Bitstamp at 0.01% per trade through year-end and also plans weekend stock trading, pending regulatory review.

Bitget lost $388 million — and days later, CEO Gracy Chen says scammers posing as a major investment team targeted her.

A Snapshot vote closing Wednesday would liquidate most of the lending protocol’s remaining collateral into ether after its team found about $21 million of bad debt.

More than 99% of BAL cast backed the plan, which ends bug bounty coverage on Oct. 30 and opens treasury claims in May 2027.

NEAR Intents says attackers tried to move more than $50 million through it and it froze $503,000 mid-trade, days after THORChain refused Bitget’s request to cut off the hacker’s wallets.

The relaunched zk.money hides balances and recipients for stablecoin payments, and it goes live before a fix for a critical proving-system flaw Aztec disclosed in August.

Tom Lee’s Ethereum treasury company added 17,362 ETH last week, its smallest purchase since its Aug. 17 update, leaving it about 104,000 ETH short of its goal of owning 5% of ether’s supply.

In a new essay, the Ethereum co-founder says upgrades after next year’s fork will turn the network into a hybrid of blockchain and advanced cryptography, with 4- to 8-second slots by 2030.

The endowment built from unclaimed 2016 DAO money is asking the companies that benefit from Ethereum security work to help pay for it, in a year whose first half already set a record for the number of crypto hacks.

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

A proposed rule and a companion interim final rule reached OMB on Sept. 28, days after an appeals court ruled Kalshi hadn’t shown its sports contracts were swaps.

Crypto firms that want to keep serving UK customers when the new regime starts in October 2027 must win the regulator’s approval, and it says authorization won’t be automatic.

Two SEC complaints allege fake AI trading tips, impersonated well-known finance professionals and phony SEC paperwork steered retail investors’ crypto onto platforms where no trading took place.

A CFTC filing moves the program’s end date up to Oct. 13 from Oct. 1, 2027, and gives no reason for the change.

Coinbase’s layer-2 network also lets traders attach conditions to transactions, which Base says keeps those transactions private until they are included.

With CCIP 2.0, institutions can run or hire verifiers that must approve each transfer alongside Chainlink’s 16-operator committee, and can build KYC and sanctions screening into the flow.

Misha Komarov, founder of [[alloc] init] and co-founder of =nil; Foundation, tells Laura Shin how the team is working to bring Zcash-style shielded transactions to Bitcoin, using a cryptographic primitive called PIPEs.

Zcash and NEAR are both ripping this week, and Illia Polosukhin and Mert Mumtaz say privacy is the reason why. Is this how the “Bitcoin DeFi” vision comes true?