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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.
SafePal disclosed on 16 August that an authorisation flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, addresses, phone numbers and purchase details of about 39,798 customers. A seller advertised the data the same day.
The SEC pulled its 14 August open meeting the day before, cancelling a vote on proposing Regulation Crypto Assets. The tokenisation innovation exemption was reported delayed again on the same day.
The OCC gave World Liberty Trust Company preliminary conditional approval on 14 August. A White House meeting with crypto chief executives is expected on 19 August, and Bank Leumi signed Galaxy the same Friday.
Goldman Sachs agreed on 12 August to buy NEOS Investments for up to 2.25 billion dollars. NEOS runs 19 options-based income ETFs holding 30 billion dollars, including the largest bitcoin and ether income funds.
UBS's quarterly filing with the SEC, accepted on 13 August, shows 1.95 million IBIT call underlying shares at 30 June against 80,000 three months earlier, while its put line more than halved.
$ZAMA is now in the Revolut app, with a Learn and Earn campaign to follow. The token is a plain ERC-20 by default with an optional confidential mode, which is the feature the EU's 2027 money-laundering rulebook describes by name.
Futures, perpetuals and options across more than 170 contracts at up to 50x leverage, on the MiFID permission Coinbase won in July. The permission sits inside CB Payments Ltd, the entity the FCA fined £3.5m in 2024.
Mandatory signalling for BIP-110 opened at block 961,632 on Saturday evening. That block did not signal, so nodes enforcing the rule rejected it. Our own count of the chain puts miner support at 51 blocks in 2,016.
BTCPay Server shipped an emergency release on 7 August after confirming that an unauthenticated remote attacker could pull the .macaroon credential files for a connected LND node. The project says the flaw was exploited and funds were stolen.
Consensys opened its wallet for autonomous trading agents to everyone on 6 August, with a mandatory scanning pipeline and $10,000 of Transaction Protection in the headline. The cover is a subscription, Consensys says it is not insurance, and MetaMask's own British page will not sell it here.
4,444 pixel stockbrokers on Robinhood Chain minted free on 17 July and now trade for the price of a used car. Each one owns an on-chain wallet holding tokenised shares its buyer may not be permitted to hold directly.
A build flag set to zero in March 2021 replaced Coldcard's hardware random number generator with a software fallback. Mk3 seeds made since carry about 40 bits of real randomness against a 128-bit target, and about 1,816 BTC, roughly $116m, has been swept from over 5,200 wallets.
Fifteen days after an attacker took $23.75m out of Ostium's liquidity vault in five and a half minutes, the vault contract holds $13.4m of USDC against $34.3m of LP claims.
Emirates launched Crypto.com Pay on 28 July for eligible UAE residents. Every booking is still priced and settled in dirhams, and the licence that makes it work is a Central Bank payments licence, not a crypto one.
Zcash activated Ironwood today at block 3,428,143, sealing the Orchard shielded pool and metering every coin out through a turnstile. The counterfeiting flaw behind it sat undiscovered for years and was found in May by a researcher working with an AI model.
An attacker seized ownership of a WEMIX$ contract on 26 July and minted 5,225,525 tokens from nothing. WEMIX halted its bridges, CCIP, DEX and NFT market. The stablecoin now trades at about a penny.
Wallets belonging to payments firm Triple-A were drained of more than $9.7m across four chains on 25 July. The analyst who spotted it says deposits were still open and still being taken while the drain ran.
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