NEWS

September 16, 2026

After Clarity Act Stalls, SEC and CFTC Say They’ll Write Crypto Rules on Their Own

SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Michael Selig said Wednesday they will act under existing authority after the Clarity Act stalled. JPMorgan analysts noted agency rules can be repealed by later administrations or challenged in court.

PODCASTS

September 16, 2026

OpenAI Says It Cracked a Millennium Prize Problem. Why Is Anthropic Hitting the Brakes?

OpenAI says it solved a Millennium Prize problem as Anthropic calls for slowing AI down. Jordi Visser tells Austin, Ram, and Chris why it’s a midterm story. Plus, oil at $108.

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Bitcoin

September 16, 2026

Bitcoin Below $76,000 as Markets Price a 92% Chance of a Fed Rate Hike

Bitcoin slipped under $76,000 ahead of a Federal Reserve decision that could deliver the first US rate increase in more than three years.

September 11, 2026

Blockstream Says It Will Not Pay a Ransom for the Bitcoin Still Missing From Liquid

The company called the withheld coins theft rather than white-hat work as Liquid restarted block production with peg operations still frozen.

September 8, 2026

Liquid Attackers Return 3,400 BTC and Keep Nearly 600 as Blockstream Prepares a Restart

Most of the bitcoin is back in the federation wallet, but $47 million is not, and the sidechain is still frozen.

September 7, 2026

Liquid Sidechain Frozen After ‘White Hat’ Drains Bitcoin Reserve

An Elements software bug let someone mint unbacked L-BTC and peg out roughly 4,000 BTC, and the party holding it says they want the bug patched before it sends most of it back.

Business

September 16, 2026

Ondo Joins DTCC Network Handling Over 85% of US Mutual Fund Activity, a Tokenization First

Ondo Finance’s broker-dealer Oasis Pro Markets can now process fund trades through DTCC’s Fund/SERV, but neither company said which Ondo products will use it or when.

September 16, 2026

Group Claiming Revolut Breach Demands 6,000 Monero, Says It Hunted Big Crypto Holders

Reggio Calabria prosecutors have opened a probe into a prefecture’s certified email account that allegedly served to obtain records on about 680 Revolut customers, whom the group says it picked for their crypto holdings.

September 16, 2026

Deutsche Bank Confirms Bitcoin and Ether Custody Launch, Still Subject to Regulators

The bank will manage the wallets and private keys on clients’ behalf, and one of the stablecoins on its launch list comes from a venture part-owned by DWS, Deutsche Bank’s majority-owned asset manager.

September 15, 2026

Tonkeeper Rebrands to Keeper and Adds Bitcoin, Ethereum and Four More Chains

A self-custodial wallet with more than 77 million users on the Telegram-linked TON blockchain is expanding to Bitcoin, Ethereum and four other networks.

DeFi

September 15, 2026

A Bot Robbed the Hacker Who Drained $7.8 Million in rsETH From a Safe Wallet

An attacker drained about $7.8 million in rsETH from an Ethereum Safe through an over-permissioned module. A bot named Yoink beat him to the payout in the same block.

September 15, 2026

Guy Young on Why Ethena Launched a Neobank on Top of Its Stablecoin

Ethena’s Guy Young explains why the companybuilt a neobank that pays 6% in yield, 5% cash back, and never tells users they’re holding self-custodial stablecoins instead of dollars.

September 15, 2026

Balancer Proposes an Orderly Winddown and a Treasury Distribution to BAL Holders

A forum proposal would pause pools in October, cancel the approved buyback, and pay at least $9 million to BAL holders who burn their tokens starting in May 2027.

September 4, 2026

How Ampersend Is Making It Safer to Manage Multiple AI Agents

Rodrigo Coelho, CEO of Edge & Node and a founding member of Ampersend, says a wallet-level control layer can block an AI agent from overspending or acting on a hallucination. He also notes that banks like BNY Mellon are already testing agentic commerce even though real transaction volume has not caught up to the hype yet.

Ethereum

September 16, 2026

TheDAO Security Fund Opens $1.8 Million Round Two for ‘Ethereum’s Security To-Do List’

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.

September 15, 2026

Ethereum and Base Abandon a Shared Wallet Standard as Account-Abstraction Talks Break Down

The teams behind rival plans to build account abstraction into the base layer, Ethereum’s EIP-8141 and Base’s EIP-8130, have given up trying to converge, so wallet developers may end up supporting two transaction formats across the two networks.

September 9, 2026

Lubin Will Run MetaMask as Consensys Moves Its Protocol Work Into a New Company

The company behind much of Ethereum’s tooling will carry on as MetaMask under Joe Lubin, while its protocol and institutional infrastructure work, including Linea and Besu, moves into a newly formed company that takes the Consensys name.

September 8, 2026

Ethereum Foundation Targets a Quantum-Resistant Base Layer by December 2029

The EF’s Protocol cluster set a hard date for post-quantum Ethereum and graded 62 proposals for the fork that decides whether it holds.

NFTs

September 1, 2026

StonkBrokers Are Popular on Robinhood Chain. But Is the NFT a Security or Collectible?

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.

August 4, 2026

POAP Winds Down After Five Years and Nearly 7.6 Million Onchain Badges

Co-founder Isabel Gonzalez said POAP could not build a sustainable business without undermining what made the project matter, ending a protocol used by Coinbase, Amex, and Warner Music Group.

July 2, 2026

Melania Trump Raked in Over $6 Million From NFTs and Collectibles in 2025

The first lady's annual financial disclosure shows nearly $17 million in total earnings, driven by her Amazon documentary, memoir, and a booming NFT business.

March 17, 2026

OpenSea Shelves Token Launch as Its Quiet Pivot Away From NFTs Stalls

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.

Regulation

September 16, 2026

After Clarity Act Stalls, SEC and CFTC Say They’ll Write Crypto Rules on Their Own

SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Michael Selig said Wednesday they will act under existing authority after the Clarity Act stalled. JPMorgan analysts noted agency rules can be repealed by later administrations or challenged in court.

September 16, 2026

UK Sets Crypto Licensing Rules as Treasury Plans to Exempt Some Stablecoin Payments

The Financial Conduct Authority published final guidance on which crypto activities need its authorization, and said it will consult on changes after Treasury drafted exemptions for UK stablecoin payments and some DeFi interfaces.

September 16, 2026

House Panel Advances Crypto Tax Bill That Would Limit Certain Loss Write-Offs

The Ways and Means Committee voted 38-5 for a bill that would limit crypto investors’ ability to claim a loss if they buy the same asset within 30 days before or after the sale, covering sales after Sept. 14.

September 15, 2026

DOJ Says Two Robinhood Engineers Used Perpetual Futures to Trade Ahead of Its Crypto Listings

Hefu Chai and Huaisong Xiang bought perpetual futures on Hyperliquid just before Robinhood announced the same tokens would list on its platform, prosecutors allege, and each cleared more than $50,000.

Tech

September 16, 2026

Zcash Holders Back 25-Second Blocks and Keep Bitcoin-Style Halvings in NU7 Vote

Nearly 2.4 million ZEC, about two-thirds of the eligible supply, voted to speed up blocks, preserve halvings and ship NU7 as soon as possible.

September 11, 2026

Researchers Cut the Estimated Quantum Cost of a Key Step in Attacking Bitcoin and Ethereum by More Than Half

A crowdsourced challenge of more than 100 researchers and AI agents drove a quantum benchmark down 86% in two months, well below Google’s March figure.

September 10, 2026

Trezor Says Third-Party Email Breach Let Attackers Send Phishing From Its Own Domain

BitBox reported a matching campaign the same day, weeks after a shipping provider breach exposed tens of thousands of Trezor customer records.

September 7, 2026

How GenLayer Is Building a Court System for Disputes Between AI Agents

Albert Castellana and Arthur Hayes walk through how GenLayer resolves an AI agent’s dispute in minutes, for cents, without a single human judge involved.

In Case You Missed it

September 10, 2026

The Chopping Block: FOMO’s Co-Founder Defends the Memecoin Trenches, Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP, and AMC vs Robinhood

FOMO co-founder Paul Erlanger joins Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun to answer last week’s unc takes on memecoins: why a fully transparent social graph beats copy trading, how FOMO became the biggest app on Robinhood Chain, Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP token, the three-way launchpad war, AMC’s fight with Robinhood over tokenized stock, and the AI race to solve Navier-Stokes.

September 3, 2026

The Chopping Block: Robinhood Chain’s Memecoin Mania and Tokenized Stocks

Laura joins Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun to unpack Robinhood Chain’s surge, the strange fusion of stock tokens and memecoins, the damage speculative entertainment can do to retail, Solana’s competitive position, and why regulated onchain markets will still look different across jurisdictions.

For Beginners

wbtc alternatives

September 16, 2024

Top Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) Alternatives You Should Know About

Several WBTC alternatives have emerged to bring Bitcoin liquidity to DeFi ecosystems across the cryptoverse. Discover the most prominent ones in this guide.

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