6 stories cleared the bar for Sep 12.

Revolut handed over customer passports and Bitcoin transaction histories to a spoofed government email, and Ethereum broke a 7-month price high while decoupling from Bitcoin's ETF flows.

1. Revolut disclosed that a fraudulent email -- sent from an authentic government-agency domain and passing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC authentication checks -- tricked the company into handing over customer passports, verification selfies, addresses, IBANs, and complete Bitcoin transaction histories before anyone realized the request wasn't real. The targeted, limited dataset suggests attackers deliberately chose high-net-worth accounts; customer funds weren't touched, but Revolut has notified affected users, law enforcement, and regulators.

2. Ethereum broke above $2,600 for the first time in roughly seven months, briefly touching $2,665 before settling near $2,510, as spot Ether ETFs pulled in $216.4M in net inflows -- the strongest showing in two weeks -- while Bitcoin and Solana funds saw capital move the other way. For a stretch, Ethereum stood alone among major crypto ETF categories posting positive flows.

3. Canada's banking regulator, OSFI, confirmed that tokenized bank deposits carry the same legal status as traditional deposits -- a deposit doesn't become a new product just because it moves via distributed-ledger technology. The technology-neutral ruling clears federally regulated Canadian banks to launch on-chain settlement and programmable payment products, while keeping tokenized deposits explicitly distinct from stablecoins.

4. Bitcoin's 90-day correlation with gold has climbed to its highest level in roughly six years, alongside a record-high correlation to rate-sensitive assets like bonds -- a shift away from BTC trading like a risk-on tech proxy and toward something closer to a macro/monetary hedge, right as markets reposition ahead of next week's Fed decision.

5. Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis halted its Bitcoin bridge after an attacker exploited a faulty message-validation step to mint hundreds of billions in unbacked synthetic BTC across BNB Chain and Ethereum -- but only managed to actually cash out about 4.39 WBTC (~$336K) before the team caught it. Symbiosis recovered roughly 15 BTC and offered the attacker a 20% white-hat bounty; Bitcoin itself was never touched, but the bridge's other chains kept operating throughout.

6. UK-listed Smarter Web Company unveiled plans for what it's calling the UK's first Bitcoin-treasury-backed perpetual preferred share, targeting a GBP15-25M raise on the London Stock Exchange with a cumulative weekly dividend backed partly by the company's BTC holdings -- pending an FCA prospectus and a shareholder vote later this month.

Which is the more consequential shift: Ethereum's ETFs briefly standing alone as the only inflow-positive crypto category, or Bitcoin starting to trade more like gold than like a tech stock?

Not financial advice. DYOR.

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