Consensys said on 9 September 2026 that it will split into two independent companies. Its flagship MetaMask wallet becomes a standalone consumer-finance firm, while the protocols and institutional infrastructure business keeps the Consensys name.
PayPal, M0, and MoonPay launched PYUSDx on 9 September 2026, a platform that lets any business issue custom stablecoins backed by PayPal USD. Three partners — Saturn, Concrete, and Cap — went live with more than $100 million in combined processed volume.
Tether and Fasanara Capital launched StableFund, an evergreen private credit fund anchored by $400 million in co-investment. The vehicle targets up to $3 billion from institutional investors to finance small businesses through USDT settlement rails in more than 60 countries.
Germany's Finance Ministry has drafted a bill to tax crypto gains as capital income, ending a rule that lets investors sell Bitcoin tax-free after one year. The change would apply to assets bought after 31 December 2026 and take effect in January 2027.
U.S. Bank completed a live pilot transaction using USBDC, its own dollar-backed stablecoin, to send a cross-border payment between its North American and European entities. The transaction settled on the public Stellar blockchain.
Block has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish Builders Bank & Trust, an uninsured national trust bank. The proposed bank would custody Bitcoin and stablecoins but take no deposits and make no loans.
The Canary Staked TRX ETF begins trading on the Cboe BZX exchange Wednesday under the ticker TRXS. It is the first US fund to offer exposure to Tron's TRX token while staking the underlying coins for extra yield.
South Korea's budget office estimates won-denominated stablecoins could cut merchants' annual card fees by up to 5.15 trillion won, about 3.8 billion dollars. The savings depend on how much card spending shifts to stablecoins, which the country has yet to launch.
Cronos validators rolled back nearly two hours of blockchain history to recover $111.2 million after an Aug. 30 exploit of lending protocol Tectonic. About $9.19 million had already left the network and remains unrecovered.
Circle to Buy Tazapay in Push to Make USDC a Cross-Border Default
Circle has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tazapay, a Singapore-based cross-border payments company, in a deal expected to close in 2027. Tazapay processes more than $25 billion in annualised payment volume across over 100 markets, with stablecoins in about 60% of transactions.
Visa's stablecoin settlement volume has surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate, more than 15 times higher than a year earlier. The company reported that over 160 stablecoin-linked card programs were live globally in its fiscal second quarter.
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster set December 2029 as its target for making Ethereum's base layer resistant to quantum computers. It published its first unified tier list, grading 62 upgrade proposals and naming two as must-ship.
White-hat hackers returned 3,400 of the 4,000 bitcoin drained from Liquid Network's federation wallet during a 6 September 2026 breach. About 598 BTC, worth roughly $47 million, remains outstanding as Blockstream keeps talking with the group.
Solana plans to raise its maximum transaction size from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes on Wednesday, September 9, more than tripling the space for a single operation. The Transaction v1 upgrade lets large cryptographic proofs and multisignature approvals settle in one transaction.
Ethereum core developers scheduled EIP-8141, called Frame Transactions, for inclusion in the Hegotá upgrade planned for 2027. The change would let apps or accounts pay a user's gas fee in ether, so people can transact without holding ETH.