Author: admin

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Roughly $15.6 billion of Bitcoin options expired on Deribit on September 25. Bitcoin traded around $83,600 after the settlement, below the week’s near-$87,000 high but still well above its earlier trading range. XRP and Solana continued outperforming Bitcoin over the week even as the large derivatives expiry passed. One of the largest Bitcoin options expiries of the year has passed without blowing up the spot market. Approximately $15.6 billion in BTC options reached settlement on September 25, clearing a huge concentration of derivatives positions while Bitcoin…

In brief Australia revealed an OpenAI agent breached a government website in June, apparently the first known case of an AI agent hacking a government site, and the latest in a string of incidents involving OpenAI, Google, Meta and China’s Kimi. Containment is hard because an agent’s usefulness and danger share a source: giving a model tools and goals lets it act in unanticipated ways, often during evaluations rather than through “malicious intent.” The stakes rise where AI meets crypto’s financial incentives, fueling an industry debate over slowing development—one the Cato Institute warns could entrench today’s leaders. The alarming AI…

In brief The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance said buyback announcements on functional crypto networks don’t count as promises of “essential managerial efforts” under the Howey test. For networks that aren’t yet functional, pitching buybacks as a source of yield or returns could still trigger securities laws. Attorney Gabriel Shapiro called the guidance a “loophole,” but noted it’s staff guidance without legal force that a future SEC could reverse. Crypto projects looking to buy back their own tokens just got a green light from the SEC’s staff, with one big condition.In new FAQs published Friday, the agency’s Division of Corporation…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Quant rose roughly 39% over 24 hours during a broad altcoin rally. 93 of the 100 assets in the CoinDesk 100 were trading higher during the move. Bitcoin remained near $84,000, suggesting the strongest momentum was rotating into altcoins rather than coming from another BTC breakout. Bitcoin may have stopped climbing for the moment, but the rest of the crypto market did not. Altcoins rallied broadly on September 25 as BTC consolidated near $84,000, with Quant emerging as one of the strongest large moves in the…

In brief Bitcoin trades near $84,490, down from Monday’s $87,397 high, as CME FedWatch data puts October rate-hike odds at roughly 75% and December odds near 59%. BNB and Solana are the only two of the top 10 cryptocurrencies posting 24-hour gains, up 2.75% and 2.31% respectively, while Ethereum, XRP, Zcash and Hyperliquid cool off. Crypto derivatives show $348.33 million in liquidations today, split between $270.89 million on the long side and $77.43 million on the short side. Bitcoin traded near $84,490 Thursday, down from the $87,397 high it touched Monday, as traders price in higher odds that the Federal…

In brief The Trump administration is reportedly weighing joint ventures with private firms to push dollar-pegged stablecoins into foreign markets, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The effort could involve the Treasury Department, the State Department, and the U.S. International Development Finance Corp., which is run by Ben Black, son of Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black. Stablecoin issuers already hold close to $200 billion in Treasury bills, a figure the plan is designed to grow as other countries build their own digital payment rails. Washington wants the rest of the world running on digital dollars. Now it’s reportedly willing to go into…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR The MOVE index of U.S. Treasury volatility rose to around 104, its highest level since March. Bitcoin’s 30-day implied volatility index remained near 37, close to its 2026 low, while the VIX was near 14. The split shows bond traders pricing substantially more uncertainty than Bitcoin and equity options markets. The supposedly volatile asset is looking unusually calm while the bond market gets nervous. U.S. Treasury volatility has risen sharply, with the MOVE index climbing from around 80 earlier in the week to approximately 104. That…

Sydney Sweeney is helping sell sports predictions, which is a pretty good indication that prediction markets have moved beyond the people who enjoy arguing about probability on the internet.Novig’s Sept. 9 campaign announcement introduced the actress as a partner and equity holder in its sports-focused exchange. The campaign, called “Just Sports,” runs across digital, social, video, and outdoor advertising through football season. It’s designed to get people to notice an app, recognize the brand, and give it a try, which is exactly what hiring someone as famous and popular as Sweeney is supposed to do.Without giving in to the controversy…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR BIX says its crypto-enabled Visa card is currently available to eligible users in 29 U.S. states. The company is targeting expansion to 49 states within six to eight months, subject to approvals and partner readiness. The card links spending to USDC or USDT held through a self-custody wallet, while merchants receive fiat. Crypto card provider BIX is planning a significant U.S. expansion, aiming to take its payment product from 29 supported states to 49. The company says it wants to reach that coverage within six to…

In brief Researchers from ETH Zurich, MATS, and Anthropic built an AI pipeline that matched anonymized Hacker News accounts to real LinkedIn profiles at 90% precision. The attack runs on nothing but web search, embeddings, and reasoning models like GPT-5.2, at a cost of roughly $1 to $4 per target—no hacking or data breach involved. The paper’s authors withheld their code, prompts, and every real identity they uncovered, and say the study passed through ETH Zurich’s ethics review board before publication. It’s the end of internet anonymity as we know it, according to loads of freaked out social media users…

In brief Meta unveiled Muse Charm as a surprise closer to its Connect 2026 keynote on September 23, a keychain-sized device for talking to its Muse AI agent without opening a phone. The device packs a roughly 2-inch touchscreen, a fingerprint sensor, front and rear cameras, and its own 5G connection, and Meta says it plans to ship it in December. The reveal landed days after Muse read a tech columnist’s private iMessages without permission, then invented an explanation for how it knew. Meta closed its Connect 2026 keynote on September 23 with a keychain that hooks you on AI.Mark…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Lido DAO Vote #214 has passed with 58.2 million LDO participating in favor. The vote implements Dual Governance V1 parameters, giving stETH holders a new mechanism to contest certain governance actions. The associated emergency governance delay has been extended to 14 days. Lido’s long-running effort to give stETH holders more influence over protocol governance has moved another step forward. Onchain Vote #214 has passed, implementing parameters associated with Lido’s Dual Governance system on Ethereum mainnet. The vote received support from 58.2 million LDO participating tokens. Dual…