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BitMEX, the exchange co-founded by Arthur Hayes that helped popularise perpetual swaps, has ceased trading and deposits after 11 years. CoinDesk reports users can still log in and withdraw funds as the wind-down continues.
2026-09-24 · Source: CoinDesk
Crypto payments firm MoonPay has agreed to buy SEC-registered North Capital in a $60 million all-stock deal. CEO Ivan Soto-Wright said the acquisition will support MoonPay's aim of backing mass adoption of tokenized real-world assets.
After the Clarity Act stalled in the Senate, U.S. state and federal regulators are moving to fill the gap, with the SEC opening a temporary pathway for certain tokenized stocks and the CFTC sending a crypto rulemaking proposal to the White House.
2026-09-23 · Source: CNBC
CoinDesk reports privacy coin Zcash led major cryptocurrencies with a roughly 10% gain while bitcoin held near $87,000, as easing oil prices calmed inflation worries and a bill on the U.S. bitcoin stockpile advanced in Congress.
2026-09-23 · Source: CoinDesk
Cointelegraph's daily roundup reports Bitcoin trading above $86,000 at an eight-month high, the European Central Bank launching its Pontes system for settling tokenized assets in central bank money, and a North Korean-linked hacking campaign that stole at least $10.7 million.
2026-09-23 · Source: Cointelegraph
CoinDesk reports that the crypto industry's main super PAC intends to deploy roughly $30 million against Sherrod Brown's Senate campaign, making it the group's largest outlay of the 2026 cycle.
2026-09-22 · Source: CoinDesk
Michael Saylor's Strategy disclosed the purchase of 950 BTC for US$75.7 million in an 8-K filing, lifting its treasury to 846,000 bitcoin, as the broader crypto market rallied and short sellers were liquidated.
2026-09-21 · Source: Investing News Network
Crypto app Lemon is shutting down its Brazil business and closing roughly 15,000 local accounts after reviewing the country's new crypto regulations, crypto.news reported, as the day's market saw bitcoin rebound near $81,300.
2026-09-21 · Source: crypto.news
The CFTC has sent a package of crypto market rules to the White House for review while the Clarity Act remains stalled in Congress, CoinDesk reports, as the SEC separately opens a new path for tokenized stock trading.
2026-09-20 · Source: CoinDesk
CoinDesk reports that Haruko, a technology provider serving crypto trading and asset management firms, was hit by a cyberattack that affected 15 of its clients, with some funds lost in the incident.
CoinDesk reports Ripple says institutional asset managers are readying for the XRP Ledger's Batch V1.1 upgrade, which lets linked asset and payment transfers succeed or fail together. Ripple says commercial projects are already being built around it after a security review.
Bitcoin pushed above $80,000 and briefly touched $81,000 as digital assets rebounded from the Clarity Act's Senate defeat, with roughly $470 million in short positions liquidated and altcoins and crypto equities rallying sharply.
2026-09-19 · Source: CoinDesk
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Iranian cryptocurrency exchange BitBank, which reporting links to Bitcoin payments collected from commercial shipping vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.
2026-09-19 · Source: crypto.news
CoinDesk, citing Wall Street Journal reporting, says ECB President Christine Lagarde intervened over Binance's EU MiCA license bid, with Greece stalling an application regulators had already deemed complete despite the ECB having no formal licensing authority.
2026-09-18 · Source: CoinDesk
After the Senate rejected the Clarity Act this week, SEC Chair Paul Atkins said the agency is acting within its own authority to facilitate onchain trading of certain tokenized stocks through an "Innovation Exemption."
2026-09-18 · Source: The Hill
Bitcoin Core 32, slated for October, has entered its final testing phase, according to CoinDesk. The release changes how nodes estimate transaction fees and process blocks, and patches a wallet flaw that could let an authenticated user run commands on a node.
2026-09-17 · Source: CoinDesk
The U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act market structure bill, with CoinDesk reporting the loss effectively ends Senate work on the issue for 2026. Bitcoin fell to around $75,750, its lowest since Aug. 21, as crypto-linked stocks slid.
CoinMarketCap reports a broad crypto risk-off move after the US Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, with Aptos down about 8%, total market capitalisation lower and more than $500 million in liquidations.
2026-09-16 · Source: CoinMarketCap
XRP rallied roughly 5% in nine hours as traders positioned ahead of a U.S. Senate procedural vote on the CLARITY Act, the digital asset market structure bill whose treatment of XRP's legal status has become a focal point for the market.
2026-09-15 · Source: CoinMarketCap
CoinDesk reports that Reform UK received about $97 million from two crypto billionaires within 24 hours, a combined haul it says equals the largest individual political donations in UK history. A separate report says the sum faces a new legal test.
2026-09-14 · Source: CoinDesk
A hotter-than-expected August core CPI print has revived U.S. rate-hike expectations, with Goldman Sachs becoming the last major bank to drop its no-hike call. Bitcoin traded around $77,000-$78,000 as markets repriced.
Mexican authorities uncovered roughly 300 GPU crypto miners hidden deep in the mountains of Puebla, where the rigs were allegedly tapping hydropower without authorization. A persistent mechanical hum reportedly led police to the site.
2026-09-14 · Source: Bitcoin.com News
Revolut handed over customer identity documents and crypto account records after attackers impersonated a government agency, according to reports. No customer funds were lost in the incident.
2026-09-13 · Source: Bitcoin.com News
U.S. spot ether ETFs pulled in roughly $216 million while spot bitcoin ETFs extended a four-day run of net outflows, according to Bitcoin.com News, as BTC churned around the $77,000 area.
Bitcoin.com News reports that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is escalating his legal fight over roughly $11 billion to the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest court in the American judicial system.
2026-09-11 · Source: Bitcoin.com News
India has started tokenizing its roughly $620 billion corporate bond market through a SEBI pilot called Demat 2.0, with trades settled in the Reserve Bank of India's wholesale digital rupee. Secondary trading and retail access are slated for later phases.
2026-09-11 · Source: CoinDesk
Bitcoin.com News reports that Singapore has granted US crypto exchange Gemini a major crypto license, a step tied to the company's effort to expand its trading operations in the city-state.
The Singapore Exchange says U.S. institutions can now trade its bitcoin and ether perpetual futures, a step CoinDesk reports the exchange frames as a milestone bridging U.S. trading desks with Asian liquidity.
2026-09-10 · Source: CoinDesk
Bitcoin.com News reports Grayscale's Zcash ETF has crossed $500 million in assets, with roughly $100 million of that total traced to an affiliate of parent company Digital Currency Group, raising questions about the source of demand.
2026-09-10 · Source: Bitcoin.com News
Two Republican senators say the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act is heading for defeat in its Sept. 15 Senate cloture vote, with ethics language covering President Trump's family still the unresolved sticking point.
