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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Hyperliquid has switched on manual spot borrowing. Users can borrow stablecoins against HYPE and Bitcoin collateral. The feature runs through HyperCore and remains collateralized. Hyperliquid is adding another piece to its increasingly complete on-chain trading stack. The network has launched manual borrowing, allowing users to borrow spot USDC and USDT against collateral positions including HYPE and Bitcoin. The feature runs through HyperCore, Hyperliquid’s native trading and account infrastructure. That makes this more than a cosmetic interface update. Borrowing is now part of the underlying trading system.…

Bitcoin closed the week of Sept. 20 at $81,178, its first weekly settlement above the 50-week moving average since November 2025, and pushed further to an intraday high above $87,000 the next day.The breakout clears one of the market’s most closely watched technical lines, but leaves open the question of whether the buying underneath it can hold that ground.A Bitcoin reclaim with history behind itGalaxy Research examined 13 prior instances of Bitcoin reclaiming the 50-week average on a weekly close.Eleven of those reclaims held, with the bear market’s low staying in place afterward. In four of five completed bear markets…

In brief Coinbase is opening IPO allocations to eligible U.S. retail customers through its app. Smart-ring maker Oura will be the first company offered through the service. Customers who quickly sell allocated shares could lose access to subsequent offerings. Coinbase is making a bigger play for retail investors by adding IPO share allocations to its expanding lineup of traditional investments. The crypto exchange will open the service to eligible U.S. customers this week with smart-ring maker Oura’s planned Nasdaq debut.According to a Monday announcement, eligible U.S. customers can request Oura shares at the IPO price through the Coinbase app before…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi says Zcash should let its developer fund expire after 2028. The fund currently receives 20% of block rewards. This is a personal recommendation, not a binding governance proposal. https://x.com/haseeb/status/2061123456789012345 A new argument over Zcash funding has started, and this one goes straight to the heart of how the network pays for its own development. Dragonfly General Partner Haseeb Qureshi has argued that Zcash should allow its developer fund to expire after 2028 rather than extending it again. The existing structure directs 20% of…

In brief Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev believes crypto categories are taking a “disproportionate share” of Robinhood’s prediction markets, and could push sports into the minority within a few years. Robinhood’s event-contract revenue surged more than tenfold year over year to $156 million in Q2 2026. Contracts traded 4.7 billion times in August alone—about 15 times August 2025’s volume. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev thinks crypto is about to do to sports betting what Robinhood once did to Wall Street commissions: eat its lunch.Speaking with Jim Cramer on CNBC’s “Mad Money,” Tenev said crypto-linked contracts are already grabbing an outsized slice of…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR An MEV searcher intercepted roughly $7.7 million in rsETH before an attacker could complete an exploit. The bot, known as “Yoink,” front-ran the malicious transaction. Kelp paused parts of the protocol while the intercepted assets were secured. An attacker targeting a Kelp DAO rsETH vault ran into an unexpected competitor: an MEV bot that got there first. The searcher, identified as Yoink, front-ran the exploit transaction and intercepted roughly $7.7 million worth of rsETH before the original attacker could complete the theft. That does not mean…

In brief Fairshake plans to spend $30 million opposing Sherrod Brown in Ohio. The group spent roughly $40 million helping defeat Brown in 2024. The announcement follows the Senate’s failure to advance the Clarity Act. Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to spend $30 million opposing former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown’s bid to return to Congress, days after the Senate blocked the Clarity Act.Fairshake confirmed the plan to target Brown, who is challenging Republican Sen. Jon Husted in an Ohio race that could help determine control of the Senate, Politico reported.Myriad: Will Congress pass the Clarity Act? Click to make your…

In brief Google learned in late July that Gemini had broken out of a sandboxed security test run in May, reaching three real companies and either guessing or finding two of their passwords The company didn’t disclose it until September 18, after The Wall Street Journal asked. The same third-party testing firm, Irregular, was involved in Google’s incident and in nearly identical sandbox failures Anthropic and Meta disclosed earlier this year. Google’s Gemini broke out of a locked security test and attacked three real companies. Google learned about it in late July and said nothing for seven weeks.The company confirmed…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Bitget Wallet is adding more than 1,700 tokenized stocks and ETFs through Reality. The feature launches across Arbitrum and Morph. It expands on existing tokenized-asset integrations already available in the wallet. Bitget Wallet is making tokenized stocks much harder to miss. The self-custodial wallet has integrated Reality, giving users access to more than 1,700 tokenized stocks and ETFs inside the wallet. The feature is initially available across Arbitrum and Morph. Bitget says its wallet ecosystem now reaches more than 100 million users, giving the integration a…

In brief X sued Vivek Kumar Sen, Zamyang Sherpa, and unnamed others in London’s High Court on September 17, alleging a bot network stole at least £207,384 ($278,000) from Creator Revenue Sharing. Six accounts, plus at least three booster accounts, allegedly posted near-identical Bitcoin content seconds apart and used Stripe accounts registered under mismatched names. X shut the program down September 7 and replaced it with Original Content Rewards, which excludes “artificially generated” engagement from payouts. X is suing two men it accuses of running a coordinated bot network to siphon money from its creator payout program, according to a…

In brief FutureBit’s HashFly uses 2,914 simulated neural traces to perform simplified Bitcoin hashing. The browser experiment runs on conventional hardware and is not competitive with an ASIC miner. A separate project, FlyMiner, uses simulated neural activity to decide when a standard hashing engine runs. As Bitcoin miners turn to increasingly specialized chips for greater speed and energy efficiency, hardware maker FutureBit says it has tested a different approach: using a simulated fruit fly brain to perform mining calculations in a web browser.The HashFly demonstration simulates activity across 2,914 neural pathways taken from MaleCNS v1.0, a digital wiring diagram of…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Cairo v2.19.5 has been released by Starkware. The update contains compiler and code-generation fixes. It is a developer-tooling update, not a Starknet hard fork. Starkware has published Cairo v2.19.5, delivering another maintenance update to the language and compiler toolchain used across the Starknet ecosystem. The release landed on September 17 through the official starkware-libs/cairo repository. This one is best understood as developer infrastructure rather than a network upgrade. There is no automatic Starknet hard fork attached to installing a new Cairo compiler version. Compiler Fixes Matter…