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The US Federal Reserve Board proposed two GENIUS Act rules on 24 September 2026. One sets reserve, capital and redemption standards for the stablecoin issuers it supervises; the other sets how its member banks apply to issue one. Comments run for 60 days.
The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance published nine staff answers on crypto on 25 September 2026. On a working network, announcing a buyback or paying for upgrades sits outside the managerial effort the Howey test looks for; before launch, a buyback sold as a return could count.
Solana's devnet switched from TowerBFT to the Alpenglow consensus protocol on 25 September 2026, a day after testnet, Anza confirmed. Validators now send votes directly to each other, and Solana targets finality of about 150 milliseconds against 12.8 seconds under TowerBFT.
Three CFTC staff divisions updated their crypto FAQ on 24 September 2026. Futures brokers and clearing houses may invest customer funds in tokenised versions of assets they can already hold, and registered firms may keep required records on a blockchain.
Bitget's tracker counts $390.05 million taken from the exchange on 24 September 2026. Most of the stolen XRP has since been swapped into Bitcoin, 68,923 ETH sits in eight untouched wallets, and the Zcash and TIA trails end at exchanges.
Ondo Finance launched Ondo Intelligent Portfolios on 24 September 2026: three tokens, each holding a basket of tokenised stocks and ETFs weighted to a model portfolio BlackRock developed for Ondo. They are open to eligible investors outside the United States.
Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays paid out two real remortgages in tokenised sterling deposits, and HSBC led a marketplace payment, UK Finance said on 24 September 2026. Seven banks share the platform, which Quant built.
Timestamps in Bitcoin's first release and in 144 of Satoshi Nakamoto's emails show a computer set to British time. The hours Satoshi slept, the mining rig switched off in those hours and a Los Angeles home connection all point to North America.
When Telegram shut Huione's channels and the US froze Xinbi, their trade reappeared on rival markets and a different stablecoin within days. Cartel cash brokers and Iran's Revolutionary Guard move money in crypto too, and US courts are testing how it gets frozen.
Someone holding the keys to Duelbits' hot wallets emptied them on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Tron, Solana and Bitcoin on 24 September 2026, turned the lot into ether and parked 2,234.60 ETH, about $6.02 million, in one wallet.
The Eurosystem switched on Pontes on 21 September 2026, linking market blockchain platforms to TARGET so tokenised asset trades settle in central bank money. Thirteen banks and four DLT operators were connected on day one.
An unauthorised party reached SingularityNET's cloud systems on 19 September 2026 and minted 895.96 million AGIX. Selling that and other tokens put about $2.23 million into two wallets, and part of it became bitcoin and then wrapped Monero on one Hyperliquid account.
Seven agencies across Japan, the United States, Australia and Germany have named WaterPlum, the group running fake developer job interviews, and counted 30,000 infected PCs and ¥1.7bn in stolen crypto.
Circle raised $222 million selling ARC at a $3 billion network valuation, announced on 11 May 2026, with a16z crypto leading and BlackRock, Apollo and Intercontinental Exchange among the buyers. Arc opened to the public four months later, on 16 September.
The Senate rejected cloture on the CLARITY Act 49 to 50 on 15 September 2026. Within a day the SEC chairman said the agency would act with or without legislation, and the CFTC chairman had already said the same thing nearly four weeks earlier.
The FCA published PS26/18, its final cryptoasset perimeter guidance, on 16 September 2026. Applications open on 30 September and close on 28 February 2027, with the regime commencing 25 October 2027.
Circle opened its Arc blockchain to the public on 16 September 2026. The network had already been running privately since May, and every transaction fee on it is paid in USDC rather than a separate crypto token.
The Senate rejected cloture on H.R. 3633 by 49 to 50 on 15 September 2026. All 49 yeas were Republican, four Republicans voted nay, and Senator Tillis entered a motion to reconsider one minute later.
A 14 September DOJ complaint targets $61m in USDT and alleges Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale used Binance accounts to move Iranian oil proceeds.
A 635-page CLARITY Act draft adds state enforcement of crypto ethics rules and a stablecoin deposit safeguard before the Senate's 15 September vote.
Revolut's customer notice describes a fraudulent request from a mailbox inside a government domain, with identity documents and transaction records potentially disclosed.
Blockstream has refused a ransom after 3,400 BTC were returned. The transaction trail links the message wallet to an earlier withdrawal and preserves a smaller tracing lead.
Nasdaq's agreement to invest in Kraken parent Payward deepens their tokenised-equities partnership, with Nasdaq Equity Tokens targeted for the second quarter of 2027.
Visa reports a more than fifteenfold annual increase in stablecoin settlement, while daily credit facilities help smaller card programmes finance their payment obligations.
Brevo confirms access to 120 accounts, closed at 09:30 UTC on 10 September. YFarmX’s later checks found the shared public DKIM key still published.
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token is trading on Base. Its launch combines a Substack airdrop, founder vesting and supply burns tied to real-world events.
The 3,400 BTC return is confirmed on Bitcoin. About 598.5 BTC remains with the actor, while Liquid's bridge incident is still active.
Hyperscale Data turned off every bitcoin miner at its Michigan data centre on 1 September to make room for an AI customer. The signed contract covers 20MW of a campus the company says will eventually run to about 340MW.
USDT on Tron has reached $94.27bn against $88.31bn on Ethereum. We read both figures off the contracts themselves rather than taking Tether's word. The lead has changed hands more than once, and the fee gap normally used to explain it has inverted.
tZERO said on 31 August 2026 that ICE will invest in its current funding round and license its blockchain patents for the NYSE-affiliated Digital Trading Platform. ICE signed a near-identical arrangement with Securitize in March.
The SEC proposed a rewrite of its transfer agent rules on 1 September 2026. The amended definition of the master securityholder file would permit a blockchain to hold it, on one condition the proposal then asks the public how to enforce.
Twenty-one financial institutions said on 1 September 2026 that they have committed to establish a company to issue a dollar stablecoin. The release names no company, no chain and no executive, and two of the ten founding banks are missing from it.
A methods paper from a live investigation. Nine techniques run against a real Tornado Cash cash-out, what each one returned, and the one that named the wallet feeding the pool while the operator drained it.
Venus Protocol named its attacker in March. Those proceeds went to the wallet that five months later funded the Cronos drain. Every hop across three chains, graded by evidence.
Cosmos Labs patched a balance underflow in public in May, judged it harmless on production chains, and backported it on 19 August. A downstream developer described the exploit path the next morning. Six chains were drained by it, and TAC has not produced a block since.
Term Finance's vaults were drained on 23 August after an attacker bought governance votes rather than breaking any code. We read the chain: on seven of the eight vault DAOs the attacker held 100% of the vote, and one of them cost 50 cents.
HM Treasury announced a secondary innovation objective for the Bank of England on 27 August. The legal text was tabled the next day, and it amends the Bank of England Act 1998 with one word changed from the objective it is said to copy.
The USDC kit debuted at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. Chelsea and Circle published the same announcement copy, but Circle's carries a financial-promotions disclaimer and two caveats that the club's version leaves out.
A cloture motion on the CLARITY Act ripens at 2.15pm on 15 September, the day after the Senate returns from recess. The SEC proposed its own crypto rulebook on 18 August, and the CFTC seats 43 industry figures on a new advisory committee on 20 August.
Regulation Crypto Assets runs to 402 pages and was approved three votes to nil on 18 August by the only three commissioners the SEC currently has, with no open meeting on the calendar.
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