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In brief Strategy repurchased 1,810,885 STRC shares for $176.3 million in the week to September 7. Its board doubled the digital credit securities repurchase program to $2 billion. It bought no BTC and sold no shares under its at-the-market program, a week after a $370 million purchase. Strategy bought no Bitcoin in the week to September 7, a week after ending a two-month BTC purchasing drought, and spent $176.3 million buying back its own preferred stock instead, the Bitcoin treasury company said in a filing on Tuesday.All of it went on STRC, the variable rate perpetual stretch preferred, at 1,810,885…
Crypto trading activity across the Middle East and North Africa is skyrocketing amid the ongoing regional conflict. The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) says in a new report that investors in the Middle East are shifting capital into digital assets to protect wealth during disruptions rather than fleeing the region, which has emerged as one of the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency areas. Annual on-chain transactions have climbed from approximately $100 billion in 2022 to an estimated $350 billion by 2025–2026, despite the fact that regional conflicts tend to accelerate capital outflows, according to the report. Says BPI, “The Iran conflict displayed a…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure NEAR Protocol’s chain abstraction infrastructure has crossed 50 million lifetime operations, giving the network a fresh milestone in its push to make multi-chain crypto feel less complicated. The idea behind chain abstraction is easy to like because the user problem is obvious. Crypto is too fragmented. People have wallets on different chains, assets in different places, and apps that often require them to think about bridges, gas tokens, networks, and signing flows. NEAR’s pitch is that users should not have to care so much about the chain…
In brief LAPTOP is a meme coin created by Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, launching September 9, 2026 on Base. Founders hold 30% of the one billion tokens, locked for six months and vesting fully over two years, according to the Wall Street Journal. A further 20% is reserved for airdrops, with one tranche going to wallets that lost money on TRUMP, President Donald Trump’s own meme coin. LAPTOP is a meme coin named after the personal computer that has trailed Hunter Biden through American politics since 2020. A Delaware repair shop handed the machine over…
In brief Hunter Biden is launching a meme coin called LAPTOP on Sept. 9 on Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Founders keep 30% of the supply, vested over two years, while 20% funds a two-round airdrop specifically targeting wallets that lost money on President Trump’s TRUMP token. A burn mechanism tied to 30 preset events—including Bitcoin hitting a new all-time high or a Democrat winning the 2028 election—could destroy up to 30% of the supply, with tokens tied to unmet conditions donated to charity instead. Hunter Biden is getting into crypto, and he’s…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TON Foundation says Telegram Web3 mini-apps have passed 100 million monthly active users, marking another major distribution milestone for one of crypto’s most consumer-facing ecosystems. That number is big enough to grab attention, but it needs a careful read. Monthly active users in Telegram mini-apps can include off-chain bot interactions, app sessions, and wallet-adjacent activity. It should not be treated as the same thing as 100 million on-chain TON wallets all making direct transactions. Still, even with that caveat, the scale is impressive. TON has something most…
In brief Malone Lam, 22, is due in federal court in Washington on Tuesday for a plea agreement hearing. Prosecutors say callers posing as Google and Gemini staff talked a Washington investor out of more than 4,100 BTC. The same indictment describes a racketeering group that also burgled homes to steal hardware wallets. Malone Lam, the 22-year-old Singaporean whom prosecutors identify as an organizer of the crew that took $245 million in Bitcoin from a single investor, is due in federal court in Washington on Tuesday for a plea agreement hearing.A man named in court filings only as Victim-7 was…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ava Labs has released Avalanche Teleporter v1.4.0, an upgrade to the network’s cross-subnet messaging infrastructure. This is another one of those stories that sounds very developer-heavy at first. But the idea underneath is simple: Avalanche wants its many subnets and L1s to feel less isolated from each other. If messages, assets, and app logic can move more smoothly between Avalanche environments, builders can create products that use multiple chains without making users feel like they are bouncing between separate worlds. That is the point of Teleporter. For…
In brief The actors behind Liquid’s 4,000 BTC security incident returned 3,400 BTC to the federation wallet. The transfer followed a signed message from Blockstream saying Liquid’s bridge nodes had been patched. Nearly 600 BTC remains outstanding, and Liquid has not announced when normal operations will resume. The self-proclaimed “white hat hackers” behind the withdrawal of roughly 4,000 BTC from Liquid Network returned 3,400 BTC, worth around $269.2 million, to the sidechain’s federation wallet Monday, recovering about 85% of the funds.Despite the return, approximately 598.5 BTC, worth about $47 million, remains in the address linked to the withdrawal.Myriad: Bitcoin’s next…
In brief Hunter Biden confirmed today he is releasing his own meme coin called LAPTOP on Wednesday. Biden drew loads of attention within crypto circles, but much of it was not positive. Will traders show up for the LAPTOP meme coin, and how will the coin perform? That might depend on your time horizon. Hunter Biden officially made his first foray into crypto today, posting the LAPTOP ticker today on X alongside a 31-second Fox News clip about the computer, just minutes after a Wall Street Journal report on the meme coin landed Monday.Biden’s post pulled more than 250,000 views…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A new Arbitrum governance proposal is seeking to disqualify three DeFi protocols from future DAO grant allocations over alleged reporting failures and misuse of prior incentives. The proposal is still at the community discussion stage, so this is not a final DAO ruling. No one should read this as those protocols already being formally banned from all Arbitrum funding. But it does matter. Grant programs are one of the main ways Layer-2 ecosystems compete for builders, liquidity, and attention. If a DAO starts tightening eligibility around reporting…