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In brief Brent passed $100 for the first time in six weeks after Houthi strikes on Saudi facilities and U.S. attacks on Iranian tankers. On Myriad, the $120 side of a crude oil market has led $55 since the start of September. Polymarket puts WTI reaching $100 this month at 59%, up nine points. Brent crude traded at $101.09 on Wednesday morning, up 3.2% on the day and above $100 for the first time in six weeks, with West Texas Intermediate at $96.27. Prediction market traders have moved with it, and hard.The trigger was a weekend and a half of…

September 9th, 2026 – New York, NY, USA class=”ql-align-center”>As stablecoin issuance and usage accelerate, the PYUSD ecosystem is expanding alongside it. PayPal becomes one of the first global consumer payments brands to transform its stablecoin into a developer platform: PYUSDx, built by M0 with reserve operations from MoonPay, makes PYUSD the backbone for a new generation of custom stablecoins. Saturn, Concrete, and Cap are live at launch, with approximately $100 million in processed volume on the platform. Stablecoin circulation crossed $300 billion for the first time last October and has held above it since, while global monthly transfer volume topped…

In brief The NECC says criminals are making innovative use of crypto products to move illicit value at scale. Cryptoassets rank third among nine priorities the agency agreed with the FCA and the Treasury. A RUSI paper from a roundtable the NECC convened argues against banning crypto privacy tools. Criminals are making “innovative use of crypto asset products to evade detection and move illicit value at scale,” Britain’s National Economic Crime Centre, a National Crime Agency unit coordinating the country’s response to economic crime, said in its annual report, published this week.The line sits in a threat assessment describing laundering…

A German cybersecurity and brand protection startup is exposing the largest known network of fake online shops that steal sensitive personal and financial information from customers. Nebty says the network, known as DoppelCart, accounts for 2.72% of all .shop domains in its September 2026 snapshot. According to the firm, DoppelCart runs roughly 119,000 domains, linked by shared infrastructure and recurring features in their shop software. Nebty CEO Benedikt Scheungraber says 96% of confirmed sites share identical build files and resolve to just 27 commerce backends. He adds that the shops mimic 44,182 brands by copying product catalogs, descriptions, branding and…

In brief Mexican federal prosecutors, the Navy and Puebla state police raided a property in Tlaola, in the state’s remote Sierra Norte. Some 300 crypto mining rigs were seized in the operation. The operation drew power illegally from a complex fed by the Nuevo Necaxa dam. Mexican federal prosecutors, the Navy and Puebla state police have seized 300 mining machines from a property in the Sierra Norte that was drawing electricity illegally from a federal hydroelectric complex, the state security ministry said on Sunday.Alongside the rigs, officers took transformers, medium-voltage terminals and working satellite internet antennas from the site in…

Renewed Houthi strikes on Saudi energy sites and US-Iran clashes over the Strait of Hormuz are lifting Brent crude (BRENT) near $100 a barrel, prompting Goldman Sachs to raise its year-end forecasts. Oil prices climbed toward $100 a barrel on Tuesday as renewed attacks on Middle Eastern energy infrastructure and shipping intensified concerns about global supply, reports IBTimes. The immediate catalyst was a wave of Houthi attacks on southern Saudi Arabia, with reported strikes on energy and civilian facilities in several cities, including Jazan, Abha, Najran and Khamis Mushait. The attacks injured 73 people and caused fires and temporary shutdowns…

A Pennsylvania man is going to federal prison for four years after using the name Mr. Satan to post violent threats on YouTube against President Trump and others. Shawn Monper, 33, of Butler County posted the messages between January 15th and April 5th of 2025, reports PennLive. He pleaded guilty in April of 2026 to two counts of threatening federal officials and law enforcement officers. He accepted responsibility for additional counts as part of the plea. He got a gun permit after the January 2025 inauguration and posted about buying guns and ammunition. He also wrote that he planned a mass shooting.…

In brief Robinhood and Crypto.com’s OG.com, announced a multi-year deal Tuesday making OG.com an infrastructure and clearing provider for Robinhood’s Prediction Markets platform. Robinhood is taking minority equity stakes in both Crypto.com and OG.com HOOD shares climbed roughly 3.4% in premarket trading to around $126, and Crypto.com’s CRO token jumped toward a weekly high near $0.063 on the news. Robinhood is buying its way into the machinery behind its own prediction markets business. The trading app announced Tuesday it will take minority equity stakes in both Crypto.com and OG.com, the prediction markets platform Crypto.com launched as a standalone app back…

In brief An NYPD counterterrorism memo told officers to inspect all eyewear permitted into inmate cells. Maine’s fusion center warned that facial recognition in smart glasses could be used to dox officers. ICE has barred its own staff from wearing the glasses in federal workspaces. Police forces across the U.S. are warning each other that Meta’s camera-equipped glasses are being used to record inside jails and police facilities, according to a dozen previously unreported memos obtained under freedom of information and reported by the Guardian.The New York Police Department’s counterterrorism bureau, which works with the FBI, circulated the first of…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Router Protocol has announced a deprecation plan that will shut down the cross-chain messaging network and permanently burn 303 million ROUTE tokens. The team said users will have a grace period to move assets back to origin chains before relayer nodes are disconnected. That makes this a user-action story as much as a tokenomics story. Anyone still relying on Router needs to pay attention to the timeline. The most important thing is not to invent a cause. The shutdown has not been framed as a hack or…

In brief Strive bought 1,375 BTC for about $109 million between Aug. 31 and Sept. 4 at an average price of $79,281 per coin, according to CEO Matt Cole, lifting its total stack to 24,531 BTC. Cole said 70% of the capital raised last week came from SATA, Strive’s preferred stock, which now has $999 million in notional value outstanding. Chief Risk Officer Jeff Walton said it’s Strive’s third straight week of 5%-plus Bitcoin growth, with holdings up 21.1% over the past three weeks. Strive bought another 1,375 Bitcoin last week, paying $109 million and pushing the fundraising machine behind…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Aave governance is considering an emergency Guardian powers proposal that would allow vulnerable lending pools to be frozen quickly during active security threats, without requiring immediate public write-ups. It is a slightly uncomfortable proposal, and that is exactly why it matters. On one hand, DeFi users want transparency. On the other hand, publishing too much detail during an active exploit can hand attackers a roadmap. Aave contributors are trying to solve that tension: how do you act fast enough to protect users without making governance feel opaque?…