Crypto Newsletter

  • NEAR highlights its post-quantum signing rollout

  • Strive buys $81.5m BTC

  • ETH devs propose post-quantum deposit contract

  • Hayes sees yield control if 10yr tops 5%

  • CleanCore sells all DOGE, pivots to AI

  • CME Group adds ENA to benchmarks

  • IBIT call options hit record daily volume

  • Stand With Crypto backs 32 midterm candidates

  • Phantom sunsets Sui support on September 24

  • Strive bought 1,110 Bitcoin for $81.5 million at an average of $73,409, lifting holdings 5.5% to 21,356 BTC

  • Blockchain Assoc backs GENIUS Act rules

  • Crypto groups sue over Illinois’ 0.2% tax

  • Base launches Coinbase tokenised stocks

  • Cosmos Labs advised validators on Cosmos EVM chains to halt their networks as it works through an ongoing security incident affecting users

  • FT tokenised fund expands to HashKey

  • CFTC, Soldier spar on Polymarket bet

  • BitMine nears 5% of total ETH supply

  • Strategy raised $2.01 billion selling MSTR shares last week and created USD Cash, a $1.59 billion pool it said may be spent on Bitcoin, its holdings unchanged at 840,447 BTC

  • 659 Stripe merchants' API keys leaked

  • Bitcoin IRA and iTrustCapital hit by data breach

  • Block Bits founder convicted of $1m crypto fraud

  • Stand With Crypto endorsed 32 House incumbents for the midterms, a bipartisan slate including Tom Emmer, Glenn Thompson, Bryan Steil, and Democrats Jim Costa and Ritchie Torres

  • Las Vegas man faces 280yrs over $24m Ponzi

  • US expands Iran sanctions to crypto, gold

  • US has seized ~$1b crypto from Iran since

  • OFAC designated Iran's crypto sector as sanctionable alongside gold, technology, aviation, and shipping, letting Treasury target anyone determined to operate in those sectors regardless of location

    AI & NFT

    • WikiHow sues OpenAI over 11,000 articles

    • AI is far from going mainstream: Altman

    • Firms shun Fable 5 for cheaper models

    • Quotrons (+190%), Cash Cats (+57%) and KYC (+45%) led top movers

    • Hugging Face explores a $13b sale

    • Trump wants 1,000 rocket launches a year

    • FWAIR PFPs dropped on FWA, leading to a massive surge in spinning and the NFTs debuted at a 3.25 ETH floor (FWA at $30M)

    • Trump bought SpaceX shares after its IPO

    • Waymo builds its own 1,000+ TOPS chip

    • Tesla finally sets a Cybercab launch date

    • Australia bans AI tracks from charts

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