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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