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🔈🔈 BD Ventures is proud to be an official Media Partner of Founders & Funds: Paddle Cup!

💥 Hosted by Luvon Labs x SpedaxAI, this unique event brings founders, investors, and Web3 builders together through a curated padel tournament during TOKEN2049 week.

👑 About Founders & Funds: Paddle Cup
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🔈🔈 CRYPTO MARKET NEWS UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 29, 2026

💥 BTC is trading around $83,300 as crypto exchange shutdowns, security incidents, regulatory developments and major blockchain infrastructure updates dominate today’s headlines.

💎 Top News Today:
✔️ CoinEx begins shutting down after nine years — Crypto exchange CoinEx is winding down operations today, with most exchange services scheduled to cease on September 29. The exchange cited prolonged market challenges, declining trading volume and liquidity, as well as rising regulatory and compliance costs.
✔️ Bitget resumes ETH withdrawals following $388M exploit — Bitget is scheduled to reopen ETH withdrawals today at 08:00 UTC across Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum, Base and Optimism. The exchange is restoring services in stages after last week’s security breach.
✔️ Bitget hacker swaps another $6.3M into Bitcoin — A wallet linked to the Bitget attacker reportedly exchanged around $6.3M in ETH for BTC through THORChain after the network rejected Bitget’s request to block the hacker-linked addresses.
✔️ South Korea’s ruling party backs delay to crypto tax — Lawmakers from South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party have joined calls to postpone the country’s planned cryptocurrency taxation regime, currently scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2027. Supporters of the delay argue that the legal and tax infrastructure is not yet sufficiently prepared.
✔️ SEC expands guidance on crypto activities — The U.S. SEC has updated its guidance on when certain crypto activities may fall outside federal securities laws, addressing areas including token buybacks, network development and staking-receipt tokens.

📌 Today’s Focus:
Exchange security and regulatory developments remain at the center of today’s crypto news, with CoinEx beginning its shutdown, Bitget continuing its post-hack recovery, stolen funds moving through THORChain and South Korea reconsidering the timing of its crypto tax regime.

🔈🔈 Vitalik: Ethereum Will No Longer Be Just a Blockchain by 2030 💥 Vitalik Buterin has unveiled his “The Cryptographic World Computer” vision, where Ethereum combines blockchain technology with advanced cryptography to transform how the network processes and verifies data. ✔️ STARKs/SNARKs could allow nodes to verify results through cryptographic proofs instead of re-executing every computation. ✔️ Hegotá, targeted for Q2 2027, could be the last “normal” hard fork before Ethereum moves toward deeper upgrades involving recursive STARKs, formal verification, and quantum resistance. ✔️ FOCIL will distribute transaction selection across multiple validators, strengthening Ethereum’s censorship resistance. ✔️ By 2030, Vitalik envisions blocks being produced in 4–8 seconds, with finality reached in around 8–32 seconds. 💡 The ultimate goal is to transform Ethereum from a traditional blockchain into a “Cryptographic World Computer” — where computation can be distributed while results are verified through cryptography.

🔈🔈 CRYPTO MARKET NEWS UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 28, 2026

💥 BTC is trading around $84,100 as exchange security, crypto regulation, Bitcoin infrastructure and major blockchain developments dominate today’s headlines.

💎 Top News Today:
✔️ Bitget begins phased withdrawal reopening — Bitget is scheduled to resume BTC withdrawals today at 08:00 UTC, following last week’s major security incident. ETH withdrawals follow Sept. 29, USDT on Sept. 30, with other tokens and fiat scheduled for Oct. 2.
✔️ Bitget hacker moves another $83M in stolen XRP — The attacker behind the $387.5M Bitget breach has moved approximately $83M worth of stolen XRP, with around $75M still remaining across the original holding wallets.
✔️ CFTC targets alleged $950M crypto-linked fraud scheme — The U.S. CFTC filed a complaint against Cash FX Group and several individuals, alleging a $950M fraudulent forex/crypto-related scheme. The agency says participants lost at least $406M.
✔️ Block brings Bitcoin Lightning to AI payments — Jack Dorsey’s Block has joined the x402 Foundation and added Bitcoin Lightning support to the payment protocol, enabling AI agents and web services to make automated BTC payments for APIs and digital services.
✔️ Bitcoin could get Zcash-style private transfers without a soft fork — Researchers from Alloc Init proposed Shielded Bitcoin, a system using encrypted notes and zero-knowledge proofs to conceal transaction details while leaving Bitcoin’s consensus rules unchanged.

📌 Today’s Focus:
Exchange security and Bitcoin infrastructure remain at the center of the latest crypto developments, with Bitget’s withdrawal recovery, movement of stolen assets and new Bitcoin payment and privacy proposals among the key stories to watch.

🔈🔈 BITWISE NEAR ETF MOVES CLOSER TO U.S. LAUNCH

💥 Bitwise’s NEAR ETF has cleared key milestones toward trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker NRR.

👑 Key details:
✔️ The SEC confirmed the ETF’s registration statement became effective on September 24, 2026.
✔️ NYSE Arca approved the listing application for the ETF’s shares.
✔️ The fund is designed to hold NEAR directly, giving U.S. investors exposure through traditional brokerage accounts.
✔️ Bitwise set the management fee at 0.75% annually.
✔️ The fund also plans to stake its NEAR holdings. According to the filing, 33% of staking rewards will be used to cover staking-related costs, with the remaining portion retained by the Trust.
✔️ Coinbase Custody will provide custody for the fund’s NEAR holdings.
✔️ Bitwise expects to use an initial $500,000 seed investment to purchase NEAR before or at the time of listing.

🔴 Important:
Although the key regulatory and listing steps have been completed, the filing does not yet confirm the first trading date for NRR.

🔥 If launched, the product would provide U.S. investors with another regulated market route to gain exposure to NEAR Protocol.

🔈🔈 US Considers Global Push for USD Stablecoins to Strengthen the Dollar

💥 The Trump administration is considering initiatives to promote USD-pegged stablecoins in overseas markets, potentially through partnerships between the US government and private companies, Bloomberg reports.

🎯 Key goals:
✔️ Expand the global use of the US dollar
✔️ Create additional demand for US Treasury securities
✔️ Strengthen the dollar’s role in the global financial system

💎 Stablecoins are typically backed by cash and short-term assets such as US Treasuries. A Citizens and Allium study estimates that $295B in stablecoins currently in circulation could support around $170B in additional demand for US government debt.

🔴 The initiative is still under discussion, but it highlights how Washington increasingly views USD stablecoins as a potential tool for extending the dollar’s global reach.

🔈🔈 CRYPTO MARKET NEWS UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 24, 2026

💥 BTC is trading around $84,300 as fresh developments across crypto exchanges, tokenized assets, stablecoin payments and blockchain infrastructure headline today’s market.

💎 Top News Today:
✔️ Binance delists Pax Dollar (USDP) — Binance has officially removed USDP spot trading pairs on September 24 as part of its latest asset review. Deposits will stop on September 25, while withdrawals remain available until November 24.
✔️ Binance adds tokenized U.S. stocks as collateral — Binance announced support for three new bStocks tokenized securities as collateral, expanding the role of tokenized traditional assets within its platform.
✔️ NYSE and Blockchain.com move toward tokenized stocks and ETFs — The New York Stock Exchange and Blockchain.com signed an MoU that could give Blockchain.com users access to tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs through NYSE’s planned digital trading platform.
✔️ SoFi enables stablecoin settlement for its card business — SoFi has begun settling its card transactions using its own stablecoin through Mastercard’s payment infrastructure, bringing stablecoin settlement directly into a major card program.
✔️ XRP Ledger retries major upgrade for bank payments — XRPL has restarted testing of an upgrade designed to allow banks and financial institutions to separate payment processing from compliance functions on the network.
✔️ Solana tests major finality upgrade — Solana has begun testing an upgrade aimed at reducing network finality from around 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds, according to CoinDesk.

🔈🔈 NYSE PARTNERS WITH BLOCKCHAIN.COM TO TOKENIZE U.S. STOCKS

💥 NYSE and Blockchain.com have signed an MoU to explore bringing tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs to users worldwide through NYSE’s Digital ATS.
✔️ Designed to support 24/7 trading, fractional shares, and stablecoin funding with on-chain settlement.
✔️ Blockchain.com has more than 44 million verified accounts across 70+ regions, providing a large potential user base for tokenized securities.
✔️ The partnership also covers market data, with ICE Data Services distributing Blockchain.com ’s crypto data while Blockchain.com integrates ICE/NYSE data into its app.

🔈🔈 BINANCE INVESTS $100M IN CIRCLE, LOCKS IN 5-YEAR USDC DEAL

💥 Binance has invested $100 million in Circle, acquiring 1.237 million Class A shares at $80.84 each through a private placement, according to an SEC filing.

🤝 At the same time, Binance and Circle have signed a new five-year commercial agreement to expand USDC adoption across Binance’s global platform, with a particular focus on emerging markets.

🎁 Under the deal, Circle will pay Binance monthly incentive fees tied to qualifying USDC balances, while Binance will promote and expand USDC usage across its ecosystem.

🔒 Binance’s Circle shares are subject to restrictions on selling, transferring or hedging for up to two years, while Binance retains voting rights.

📌 Why it matters: Binance is now not only a major distribution channel for USDC, but also a direct shareholder in Circle — deepening the strategic relationship between one of crypto’s largest exchanges and the issuer of USDC.

🔈🔈 CRYPTO MARKET NEWS UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 22, 2026

💥 BTC is trading around $85,600 as fresh blockchain launches, security developments and major crypto infrastructure updates headline today’s market.

💎 Top News Today:
✔️ Circle’s Bitcoin-backed cirBTC goes live on Arc — Circle has launched cirBTC on its Arc network, bringing Bitcoin-backed collateral into on-chain lending and DeFi markets.
✔️ $91B in fake DEX trades uncovered on Base — Bitquery reports that one wallet generated around $91 billion in artificial DEX volume on Base during August, highlighting a major wash-trading operation.
✔️ Bots dominate Optimism DEX activity — New blockchain research found bots accounted for roughly 86% of DEX trading activity on Optimism since July, with human trading representing less than $3M per day.
✔️ Moscow Exchange launches crypto perpetual futures — Russia’s largest exchange is launching ruble-settled perpetual futures linked to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and TRON for qualified investors.
✔️ Injective Meridian upgrade vote closes today — INJ stakers are voting on an upgrade covering regulated RWA issuance, unified tokenized perpetual markets and improvements to market and oracle infrastructure.
✔️ Binance adds new spot trading pairs — Binance announced ARB/US and ENA/USD1 spot pairs for September 22, alongside new trading-bot services and a fee campaign.

🔈🔈 Excited to be a Media Partner for the Global Innovation Showcase 2026!

💥 We’re excited to support the Global Innovation Showcase 2026, bringing together founders, investors, government leaders, technology pioneers, and innovators in San Francisco for a day of conversations around the technologies and ideas shaping what’s next.

💎 The showcase will explore AI and emerging technologies, Defense Tech, Smart Cities, GovTech, infrastructure, and cross-border innovation, bringing together perspectives from across industries and global ecosystems.

🗓 October 6, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
📍 San Francisco War Memorial

🔗 Register here: https://luma.com/tfot-globalinnovationshowcase2026?utm_source=bdventures

📣 Hosts: The Future of Tech (Orbis86, OffChain Global, BrandPR) | Silicon Valley PropTech Association
🔴 Media Partner: BD Ventures

🔈🔈 CRYPTO MARKET NEWS UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 21, 2026

💥 BTC is trading around $81,600 as fresh crypto security incidents, major blockchain decisions and new digital-asset products dominate today’s headlines.

💎 Top News Today:
✔️ ZetaChain to shut down its Layer 1 — The ZetaChain community approved a proposal to wind down its native L1 and migrate ZETA to Solana as an SPL token.
✔️ Polymarket faces reported $10M fraud attempt — A Wall Street Journal report detailed an alleged $10 million fraud attempt involving the prediction-market platform, raising fresh compliance concerns.
✔️ Visa moves against memecoin rewards loophole — Visa is reportedly moving to close a payment loophole that allowed some memecoin purchases to qualify for traditional credit-card rewards.
✔️ Fetch.ai and NuNet hit in $2M exploit — Security researchers linked attacks on both projects to the same wallet, with roughly $2 million in crypto assets reportedly drained.
✔️ Coinbase and Kalshi target U.S. stock perpetuals — Both companies have filed for products that would bring crypto-style perpetual futures tied to individual U.S. stocks into the American market.
✔️ Hong Kong ex-banker jailed over crypto-linked bribery case — A former banker was sentenced in a case involving alleged cryptocurrency bribes connected to a major financial fraud scheme.

🔈🔈 Solana Raises Transaction Size Limit to 4,096 Bytes 💥 Solana has activated Transaction V1 on mainnet, increasing the maximum transaction size from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes — roughly 3.3x larger. 📣 More room for complex transactions The previous limit forced some complex operations to be split across multiple transactions. Transaction V1 allows more data and instructions to be processed within a single transaction, benefiting use cases such as: ✔️ Zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) ✔️ Multisig and BLS signatures ✔️ Confidential Transfers ✔️ Complex DeFi and cross-chain transactions 🔴 However, this does not mean Solana's TPS increases 3.3x. The upgrade mainly expands the amount of data and complexity that can fit into a single transaction. Legacy and V0 transactions remain supported, while applications looking to use the 4,096-byte limit will need to adopt Transaction V1. 📌 The bigger picture: This upgrade removes an important technical limitation and gives developers more room to build increasingly complex on-chain applications on Solana.

🔈🔈 CRYPTO MARKET NEWS UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 19, 2026

💥 BTC is trading around $81,100 as fresh security incidents, major blockchain upgrades and institutional adoption developments dominate today’s crypto headlines.

💎 Top News Today:
✔️ Haruko hit by cyberattack — 15 crypto clients were reportedly affected, with some funds lost.
✔️ North Korea-linked crypto theft campaign exposed — Authorities from four countries attributed a major malware campaign targeting crypto wallets to the WaterPlum group.
✔️ Ethereum sets Glamsterdam testnet date — The Sepolia testnet activation is scheduled for October 6.
✔️ Solana speeds up block production — Network upgrades reduced target block time from 300ms to 250ms.
✔️ SBI invests $25M in dtcpay — The Japanese financial group backed the stablecoin payments firm as it expands globally.
✔️ Bastion gets conditional U.S. bank approval — The stablecoin infrastructure company received conditional approval for a national trust bank charter.

🔈🔈 SEC & CFTC Open the Door for Onchain Finance 💥 U.S. regulators are taking fresh steps to bring traditional financial markets on-chain, just days after the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate. 💎 Key Developments: ✔️ SEC launches Innovation Exemption — Certain Tokenized Securities Venues (TSVs) can facilitate trading of tokenized U.S. stocks through permissioned AMM liquidity pools without being treated as traditional exchanges. ✔️ Five-year framework — The exemption is temporary and conditional, allowing regulators to observe real-world market activity before developing longer-term rules. ✔️ Real ownership required — Eligible tokenized stocks must provide holders with the same core rights as the underlying securities, including dividends and voting rights. Synthetic stock tokens are excluded. ✔️ CFTC expands no-action relief — Qualifying developers of passive trading software can avoid introducing-broker registration requirements when connecting users with registered derivatives firms and markets, subject to conditions. 📌 Why it matters: The moves create clearer regulatory pathways for tokenized securities, AMM-based trading venues and crypto trading infrastructure in the U.S., while keeping the framework limited and conditional.

🔈🔈 U.S. HOUSE COMMITTEE ADVANCES TRUMP’S STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE BILL 💥 The U.S. House Financial Services Committee has advanced the American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026 (H.R. 8957), taking a major legislative step toward putting Donald Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into federal law. 💎 Key Developments: ✔️ 28–21 committee vote — The bill was reported favorably by the House Financial Services Committee on September 16, moving it toward consideration by the full House. ✔️ 20-year BTC holding period — Bitcoin placed into the proposed Strategic Bitcoin Reserve would be subject to a minimum 20-year holding period, restricting its sale, exchange or disposal during that period. ✔️ Treasury to manage the reserve — The bill would establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a separate Digital Asset Stockpile under the U.S. Treasury for other federally held digital assets. ✔️ Federal crypto holdings to be consolidated — Federal agencies would be required to account for the digital assets under their control, with the legislation establishing a centralized framework for custody and reporting. ✔️ No direct Bitcoin-buying mandate — The amended version does not authorize a large taxpayer-funded BTC purchase program. Instead, Treasury and Commerce would study potential budget-neutral ways to acquire additional Bitcoin. 🔴 Important: H.R. 8957 has not become law yet. It still needs to pass the full House, clear the Senate and receive presidential approval. 📌 If enacted, the legislation would give the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve a statutory foundation rather than relying solely on an executive order.

🔈🔈 CRYPTO MARKET NEWS UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 18, 2026

💥 BTC is trading around $76,500 as major regulatory moves, institutional crypto developments and new blockchain infrastructure dominate today’s headlines.

💎 Top News Today:
✔️ SEC opens the door to tokenized stock trading — The SEC introduced a temporary “Innovation Exemption” allowing qualifying venues to trade tokenized U.S. stocks on-chain under specific conditions.
✔️ CFTC expands relief for crypto software developers — The CFTC issued a new no-action position covering software developers that connect users with regulated derivatives markets, provided they meet specified conditions.
✔️ U.S. sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank — The Treasury Department sanctioned BitBank and entities linked to Iranian financier Babak Zanjani, alleging the exchange processed hundreds of millions of dollars connected to sanctions-evasion activities.
✔️ Crypto.com expands into U.S. stock derivatives — Crypto.com 's regulated Nadex exchange registered with the SEC to offer security futures, while the company is also seeking approval for single-stock perpetual futures.
✔️ Circle launches Arc mainnet — Circle has launched Arc, a new Layer-1 blockchain designed around stablecoin-based payments and financial applications, with more than 100 institutional and crypto partners involved.
✔️ S&P Global moves deeper into blockchain security — S&P Global agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, a major blockchain security company, in a deal aimed at expanding infrastructure and security capabilities for on-chain markets.
✔️ UK targets illegal crypto trading operations — The FCA took enforcement action against three London locations suspected of operating unregistered peer-to-peer crypto businesses as part of its latest AML crackdown.

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🔈🔈 Fed hikes rates for the first time in 3 years, Bitcoin remains stable

💥 The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 bps to 3.75%–4.00%, marking its first rate hike since July 2023. The decision was unanimously approved by all 12 voting FOMC members.

👑 Top News:
✔️ Fed hikes rates amid persistent inflation — The Fed said inflation remains elevated and reaffirmed its goal of bringing inflation back to 2%.
✔️ Another rate hike remains possible — The latest projections show that 16 of 18 officials expect at least one more 25-bps rate hike before the end of 2026.
✔️ Bitcoin shows limited reaction — BTC traded around $75,000–$76,500 following the Fed's decision, as the move had already been widely anticipated by the market.
✔️ Altcoins show mixed reactions — Most large-cap cryptocurrencies remained relatively flat or posted modest gains, while tokens such as SOL and ZEC recorded more notable moves.
✔️ More than $150 million in derivatives liquidated — According to CoinGlass data recorded around the Fed announcement, liquidations surged during the period, with short positions accounting for the majority of losses.
✔️ CLARITY Act remains a key regulatory focus — The U.S. Senate's failure to advance the CLARITY Act this week adds another significant regulatory development for the crypto market.
✔️ Monetary policy remains a key factor — With another rate hike still possible in 2026, the Fed's upcoming policy decisions will continue to be closely watched by the crypto market.