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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 are green after FOMC’s rate hike; BTC at $76.4k Alts soar double digits led by ZEC, NEAR, LIT and VVV House advances the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill Circle’s Arc chain sees $400M+ volume in debut Robinhood Chain and Stonk eco leaders rebound along with alts BitcoinBTC · USD$80,366+4.65%24H7D1M1YYTDSep 13Sep 15Sep 17Sep 18Sep 20$81.8k$79.7k$77.6k$75.5k24h HighHigh$81,86424h LowLow$80,155VolVol$966.1MMarket…

In brief Days after the Clarity Act stalled in the Senate, the SEC rolled out an “Innovation Exemption” letting qualifying “Tokenized Securities Venues” trade tokenized U.S. stocks via automated market makers on permissionless blockchains without registering as national exchanges; it takes effect immediately for up to five years. The exemption covers only genuine tokenized stocks carrying full rights like dividends and voting—not offshore-popular “synthetics”—and lets issuers object within 30 days to third-party tokenization of their shares. Officials framed it as a temporary bridge toward permanent rulemaking; observers say it could push DeFi platforms into direct competition with traditional exchanges. The…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR AvalancheGo v1.15.0 schedules the Helicon upgrade for September 22. Mainnet activation is set for 15:00 UTC. Node operators need to upgrade before activation. Avalanche has put a date on its next mainnet upgrade. AvalancheGo v1.15.0 schedules the Helicon network upgrade for September 22 at 15:00 UTC, with mainnet node operators being told to update before the activation time. That gives validators only a short window to make sure their software is ready. Helicon packages a new set of Avalanche Community Proposals into the network and also…

SpaceX (SPCX) shares have fallen about 33% from their post-IPO peak, even as Morgan Stanley still sees room for the stock to almost double. Elon Musk’s space and artificial intelligence company went public on June 12th of, 2026, selling shares at $135 each and raising about $85.7 billion after costs. Its valuation climbed from an initial public offering (IPO) mark near $1.77 trillion to nearly $2.8 trillion before the pullback. Shares recently traded near $152.71 with a market cap of about $2.1 trillion. On September 15th, Morgan Stanley reaffirmed its buy rating and $300 price target, implying about 100% upside…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR NEAR has released nearcore 2.14.0-rc.1. The release is marked as both a protocol and database upgrade. It remains a release candidate rather than the final stable build. NEAR developers have published the first release candidate for nearcore 2.14.0, bringing a fresh set of protocol changes into testing. The release, 2.14.0-rc.1, is explicitly marked as both a protocol upgrade and a database upgrade. That makes it more consequential for node operators than a routine bug-fix release. It is still an RC, though, so this is not the…

Crypto Twitter (now X) has always been a place where someone with an illustrated animal for a profile picture can explain why your financial future depends on a token you just learned about. Now X’s Cashtag links are shortening the route from that conversation to a crypto exchange.Kraken joined X’s US Cashtag partner program on Sept. 16, giving users another route from tickers such as $BTC to its exchange. Tapping a Cashtag can bring up posts and a price chart on X, while the trading link sends users to Kraken’s app or website, where they sign in or register and…

In brief The Fed raised its benchmark rate 25 basis points to 3.75%-4% on a unanimous 12-0 vote Wednesday, its first hike since July 2023, after traders priced in a 93% chance of the move. Bitcoin briefly touched $76,499 after the announcement before settling near $76,300, roughly flat on the day as the broader crypto market held above $2.6 trillion. Zcash surged as much as 23% toward $1,425 after Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang disclosed his firm’s ZEC stake, calling the token “a private complement to Bitcoin.” Bitcoin traded near $76,300 on Thursday, largely unmoved a day after the Federal Reserve…

In brief King Charles III hosted representatives from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind at Dumfries House in Scotland on September 17, urging them to keep AI “firmly in the service of humanity.” The summit, organized by the Ditchley Foundation, came days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essay calling on AI labs to deliberately slow capability gains, a call OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk both endorsed. The gathering produced no binding agreements — delegates only discussed whether a shared set of guiding principles could be established. King Charles III spent Thursday playing AI safety diplomat.The monarch hosted senior…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Optimism has released op-batcher v1.17.0. The project labels it a required upgrade for batcher operators. It adds Glamsterdam compatibility, security updates and configurable AltDA limits. Optimism has published a new batcher release, and this is not one operators can casually ignore. op-batcher v1.17.0 is marked as a required release for operators running the batching infrastructure used by OP Stack chains. The update includes compatibility work for Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade, security changes and configurable limits around alternative data availability. It also removes one structured-log field. Why The…

In brief OFAC has designated BitBank, an Iranian exchange controlled by financier Babak Zanjani. Treasury says Zanjani used it to move hundreds of millions in Bitcoin to the IRGC between June and July. The Hormuz toll authority has been routing its payments through the exchange since June. The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned BitBank, naming the Iranian exchange it says carried the Bitcoin that shipping companies paid for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.Since June, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said, the Hormuz Safe Marine Services Authority has used BitBank to pass the payments it collects on to the…

In brief Solana’s target slot time—the window a validator gets to produce a block—dropped from 300 milliseconds to 250 on Friday, the network’s third speed cut since August. The change makes blocks arrive nearly 17% faster but doesn’t raise how many transactions the network can process, since each shorter slot now carries proportionally less computation. A further cut to 200 milliseconds has no mainnet date and will only proceed if block-skip rates—how often a validator misses its turn—stay in check. Solana’s internal clock just ticked faster. Earlier Friday, the network’s target slot time dropped from 300 milliseconds to 250, a…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Aave V4 is now operational on Circle’s Arc network. The initial market supports USDC, EURC, cirBTC and WETH. It uses Aave V4’s hub-and-spoke architecture. Aave V4 is now live on another network, this time Circle’s newly launched Arc blockchain. Aave Labs confirmed that the Arc deployment has been activated and is fully operational, with USDC, EURC, cirBTC and WETH available from launch. It is an interesting fit. Arc is designed around institutional finance, stablecoins and tokenized assets, while Aave V4 has been rebuilt around a more…