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Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our daily news show ‘FOMO HOUR’ covering all of the top stories and market action.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors chop ahead of economic data; BTC at $83.9k Robinhood makes slew of announcements at Summit, including perps, weekend stock trading, agentic trading, social app and more CBOE may work on tokenized options contracts Blockchain dot com targeting $500M IPO; Kalshi raising again at $40B Pump leads onchain protocols in revenue again with $2.26M BitcoinBTC · USD$83,859−1.93%24H7D1M1YYTDSep…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Tether and Shiga are launching self-custodial financial products across Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council. The products will use Tether’s Wallet Development Kit and support USDT, Bitcoin and Tether Gold. Shiga is building one product for end users and another infrastructure layer for banks and fintech companies. Tether is moving its Wallet Development Kit from developer tooling into financial products aimed at users and institutions across Africa and the Gulf. The company announced a collaboration with Shiga on September 28 to build self-custodial services supporting USDT,…

Coinbase, the largest US-based crypto exchange, has secured Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approval for its own derivatives clearinghouse, completing a vertically integrated US trading stack.On Sept. 28, the CFTC registered Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organization, authorizing it to clear fully collateralized futures, options on futures, and swaps. The approval gives Coinbase control over a function that has previously depended on outside clearing partners.Coinbase now operates across the three main layers of the regulated US derivatives market: Coinbase Financial Markets as a futures commission merchant, Coinbase Derivatives as a designated contract market and Coinbase Clearing as a…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Sony-backed Ethereum Layer 2 Soneium has partnered with South Korean entertainment group DayOneDream. The companies plan to develop tokenized K-pop intellectual property and revenue products through the WAVIST platform. Future offerings could provide eligible investors with exposure to cash flows from concerts, streaming and music rights, subject to regulatory requirements. K-pop royalties and concert revenue are becoming the latest real-world assets targeted for tokenization. Soneium, the Ethereum Layer 2 developed by Sony Block Solutions Labs, has partnered with South Korean entertainment company DayOneDream to bring K-pop…

In brief The Relapse exploit chain, published on GitHub under an MIT license, runs custom code on PS5 consoles with firmware 7.00 through 13.60. It is not persistent: users must rerun it after every restart, and consoles updated on September 16 or later are not compatible. Sony told a federal court on August 21 that reasonable consumers would not be misled into thinking they own the digital games they pay for. Someone finally did it. A public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, works on firmware 7.00 through 13.60 and all it takes to achieve is a DNS change and…

A former Georgia banker has been charged with helping siphon $931,500 from customer accounts into cryptocurrency wallets. Federal prosecutors say Mercedes Henry, 35, of Stone Mountain, was arrested Friday after a grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment last week. Prosecutors say Henry worked as a universal banker at multiple Ameris Bank locations in the Atlanta area in 2021. Ameris is a regional bank based in Georgia with $27.5 billion in assets under management. On at least six occasions between September of 2021 and November of 2021, she allegedly took account numbers and identifiers from six customers and used that…

In brief Anthropic posted a net loss of nearly $42 billion in 2025 on $4.6 billion in revenue, though about $34 billion of it was a non-cash charge tied to convertible financing. Its operating loss topped $8 billion, and the company plans about $518 billion in cloud and computing spending in coming years, against $20.28 billion in cash at the end of 2025. The prospectus warns its AI models could pose existential risks to humanity, while backers eye a valuation above $2 trillion for an IPO expected after November’s midterms. Anthropic lost nearly $42 billion in 2025, according to a…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Digital Commodities has bought approximately C$100,000 of SOL, equal to about 5% of its estimated net asset value. The Solana purchase was funded by selling part of the company’s physical gold position. Bitcoin remains the foundation of its reserve strategy, with the company continuing to hold 11 BTC alongside cash. A Canadian public company has made an unusual treasury trade: sell some physical gold and put the proceeds into Solana. Digital Commodities announced on September 28 that it acquired approximately C$100,000 of SOL. The position represents…

In brief Bitwise’s Near ETF began trading Tuesday on NYSE Arca under the ticker NRR, with a 0.75% annual fee. Bitwise calls it the first spot NEAR product in the U.S. Near traded around $5.09 on Binance on Tuesday, roughly triple its August lows around $1.60. The fund plans to stake its Near to chase average rewards of about 5%, which Bitwise says are not guaranteed. Bitwise began trading its Near ETF on Tuesday, giving U.S. investors a way to bet on the AI-focused Near blockchain from an ordinary brokerage account. The fund trades on NYSE Arca under the ticker…

In brief Cboe Global Markets and S&P Dow Jones Indices extended their exclusive licensing agreement through 2051, and said they may collaborate on new products “beyond traditional index derivatives,” including tokenized options contracts. The tokenization plan is exploratory, not a launch—any tokenized contract would be separate from the SPX options trading today, a market that hit a record 970.6 million contracts in 2025; Cboe shares rose more than 6%. The move follows a wave of institutional tokenization, from NYSE and BlackRock to a new SEC “innovation exemption” for tokenized stocks. Cboe Global Markets and S&P Dow Jones Indices are exploring…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Binance has begun migrating non-stock crypto assets from Funding Accounts into Spot Accounts. The migration starts September 29 and is expected to continue in stages through January 2027. Funding Accounts will eventually be renamed Stocks Accounts and used primarily for stock and stock-option settlement. Binance has started reorganizing how user balances are stored as it separates ordinary crypto activity from its growing stock-trading infrastructure. Beginning September 29, non-stock crypto assets held in Funding Accounts are being migrated into Spot Accounts. The process will happen gradually rather…