Unchained

Hunter Biden walks through the $LAPTOP launch, when thin liquidity sent the token to a $317 billion market cap in a minute, and why he says it isn’t a scam.

On Unchained, Biden called the accusations against him “a speed bump” next to the Trump family’s dealings, including World Liberty Financial, and said the TRUMP memecoin took money from Trump’s own supporters.

The winding-down exchange says the 2021 hack took about $319.5 million from its reserves and plans to ask courts to approve the plan by early 2027.

The MyDoge team’s zero-knowledge rollup uses DOGE for fees, but for now it relies on a permissioned sequencer while a proposed Dogecoin upgrade sits unimplemented.

Arcus, which counts Robinhood Crypto as an investor, has market makers compete to quote each trade in more than 190 Stock Tokens.

The cross-chain protocol says the contract-side flaw is patched, and blockchain data shows about 3.87 million USDT left a contract it uses on BNB Chain in about six hours.

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.

MetaMask says it has found no immediate threat to its wallets, and Lido says stETH holders don’t need to do anything while the validators exit over the next week.

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.

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.

Hunter Biden walks through the $LAPTOP launch, when thin liquidity sent the token to a $317 billion market cap in a minute, and why he says it isn’t a scam.

EU regulators are questioning Binance’s use of the reverse solicitation exemption after it failed to win a MiCA license, the Financial Times reported.

Biden said on Unchained that the crypto market-structure bill failed because the Trump administration “refused to bend on the ethics laws” as they applied to “Trump’s family personally,” and predicted a hard road for the bill over the next two years.

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.

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?