Digital assets, networks, policy and the stories behind the markets.
A Glassnode–Bybit report says Bitcoin's August 24.6% five-day surge happened while open interest fell 12.6%—shorts supplied 89% of liquidated dollars. This week's $80K+ reclaim echoed the pattern with $230M+ in BTC short
Blockaid and PeckShield say one attacker hit Fetch.ai and NuNet on Sep 19—draining ~8.7M FET (~$1.53M) then minting ~408.5M unauthorized NTX (~$463K)—before converting a large chunk into ~546 ETH.
Bitcoin printed an intraday high near $81,400 on Friday after surviving a failed Senate Clarity Act vote and the Fed’s first hike since 2023, with spot ETF inflows returning—and $82,000–$82,200 still capping the breakout
Days after Arc’s public mainnet, Circle launched Arc Studio—an AI coding agent that generates frontend, backend, and smart contracts from natural language, with USDC-native hooks and test paths across nine chains.
Coinbase Derivatives filed with the CFTC on Sep 18 for cash-settled, no-expiry perpetual futures tied to individual U.S. stocks—Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, Nvidia and roughly 50–60 contracts planned—approval still pending.
TRM Labs traced nine lookalike YouTube tutorials that walked 224 victims into deploying self-funded Ethereum drainers marketed as Claude-built arbitrage bots—about 274.6 ETH stolen with no classic phishing prompt.
The Wall Street Journal says ECB President Christine Lagarde intervened to delay Binance’s Greece MiCA bid—despite the ECB having no formal CASP licensing role—over fears dollar stablecoins could undercut the digital eur
After the Senate stalled the CLARITY Act, the CFTC sent a crypto markets proposal to OMB for White House review—details thin—while issuing wallet-friendly no-action relief and the SEC pushes a five-year tokenized-stock i
Bitcoin cleared $78K in the European morning as L2s and DeFi led a near-sweep of the CoinDesk 100—STRK +18%, ARB +17%, UNI +13%—after yields slipped back under 5% and Brent eased under $103.
U.S. spot ether ETFs saw ~$39M outflows Thursday (third session), XRP funds lost ~$5M, while bitcoin ETFs took in ~$159M and the lone Zcash ETF added ~$47M as BTC printed ~$77,216.
The House Financial Services Committee reported H.R. 8957 favorably 28–21 on party lines. Steil’s substitute kills Fed/gold purchase paths, slows proof-of-reserve to annual, and still authorizes zero new BTC buys.
Arc logged 7.83M transactions in 24 hours and ~$82M DEX volume, but USDC payments barely showed up. Memecoins filled the blocks, a Circle VP boosted a dog token, and early bags already cratered 56–77%.
