Crypto Newsletter

  • Kraken parent uses Claude for vulnerability scans

  • Devs warn Glamsterdam may break ETH tools

  • Cosmostation Wallet announces service shutdown

  • Strategy adds $150M reserve, buys back STRC

  • Neynar is seeking a new team to take over operations for Farcaster and its launchpad Clanker, less than 7 months after its acquisition

  • ETH weighs privacy pools for 2027 upgrade

  • Pumpfun revenue 2x Hyperliquid last week

  • Ethereum Foundation researchers pushed privacy to the front of the 2027 Hegotá upgrade, prioritizing Frame Transactions and FOCIL so privacy pools can pay their own fees without intermediaries

  • Robinhood Chain TVL surges 45% in Aug

  • Kraken parent taps Claude to hunt security flaws

  • The Compound Foundation launched a $52M development program, the largest in its history, alongside a new leadership team to push institutional credit onchain

  • Farcaster seeks new operator again

  • EU opens door to country-wide crypto bans

  • World Liberty partners with Hong Kong AI venture

  • Binance plans UK return with FCA licence bid

  • Uniswap set to deploy on Arc Mainnet

  • Ansem launched ansem.io and its z500 index, where teams airdrop token supply to $ANSEM holders and buy and burn $ANSEM to climb a public leaderboard, built on top of Pump Fun as a curation layer rather than a rival launchpad

  • Bitpanda becomes first firm fined under MiCA

  • South Korea blocks Polymarket over gambling

  • Ripple collabs with Jeonbuk on payments

  • Monad Foundation closed a $60 million buyback program that offered to purchase locked MON from early investors

  • The SEC halted its crypto fundraising framework after Wall Street trade group SIFMA raised the prospect of legal action

  • Jupiter ships Portfolio v2 for active DeFi

  • SafePal flags order-tracking plug-in flaw

  • Coinbase launches S&P 500 perpetual contract

  • Deel stablecoin wallet goes live in 80+

AI & NFT

  • CFTC seeks input on AI Compute futures

  • Anthropic annualised revenue hits $65B

  • YEET airdrop season ends September 30

  • OpenAI loses $1.22 for every dollar earned

  • Big Tech’s off-book liabilities top $3T

  • Nvidia sends mixed signals on chip life

  • AI accelerator shipments to hit 16.3M in 2026

  • Minnesota sues xAI over Grok image abuse

  • Reddit AI turns posts into podcasts

  • Video hints at AirPods that can "see"

  • Google buys Spirit Airlines’ data for $10M

  • Record Apple users got spyware alerts

  • YouTube changing how it counts views

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