Crypto Newsletter

  • UniCredit Explores Crypto Services

  • BTC post-quantum roadmap forms around BIP-360

  • Polymarket Issues Goodwill Credits After CLOB Downtime

  • Strategy buys $139M STRC, Strive adds $37M BTC

  • ETH ETFs used as CME futures collateral: Bitfinex

  • Six wallets holding World Liberty insider tokens entered a vesting contract in May, burning 10% on entry and setting a two-year cliff, giving the roughly $800 million stake matching Trump's disclosed allocation its first path sale

  • Ethereum L1, Base split on AA standards

  • Robinhood plans voting, redemptions for stock tokens

  • Pixelmon to discontinue all game development

  • CoinEx is winding down after nearly nine years, blaming thin volumes and rising compliance costs, with spot trading ending September 29 and withdrawals open through December 22

  • Revolut gave hackers data on 680 customers

  • Kraken and Veda Expand Earn to Tokenized Stocks

  • Etherscan launches Robinhood Chain explorer

  • Strategy repurchased $139.3 million of STRC and bought no Bitcoin for a second straight week, holding at 845,050 BTC while USD Cash fell to $1.30 billion from $1.44 billion

  • WLFI proposes rewards for token lockers

  • BabyDoge acquires LimeWire for creator push

  • Bitmine added $68 million in Ethereum as Tom Lee pointed to more upside catalysts, continuing its weekly accumulation toward a 5% supply target

  • Kraken adds DeFi yield to tokenised stocks, ETFs

  • Balancer wind-down proposed as revenue stalls

  • MetaMask rolled out new scam protections flagging lookalike addresses, first-time recipients, and investment or romance scams, plus an Added Protection feature that automatically reverts transactions not matching their previews

  • Kalshi launches gold, silver perps in US

  • DOJ seeks $61M Iran oil cash laundered via Binance

  • Strive bought 469 BTC for $36.6 million at an average of $77,954, reaching an even 25,000 coins

  • Poland lost $230M on Venezuela oil deal in USDT

  • UAE to put Avalanche in UAE PASS digital ID

  • The Bitcoin ETFs saw $160M in net inflows on Monday; the ETH ETFs saw $121M in inflows and continue to outpace on a market-cap-adjusted basis

  • Stock, crypto interest jumps 96% in South Korea

  • Argentina to share crypto user data under CARF

  • Ondo expands to Australian markets

  • Robinhood said in-kind redemption and voting are coming to its stock tokens after the AMC fight, with Armstrong saying voting is coming to Coinbase’s tokenized stocks too, which already support 1:1 redemption and dividends

AI & NFT

  • AI doomer predictions are 'made up’: Jensen

  • China rejects AI slowdown calls

  • Pump.fun Launches Ink Trading With USDC

  • Pudgy Penguins Partner With Kung Fu Tea

  • Microsoft agrees AI is getting dangerous

  • Microsoft unveils 'Humanist AI' code of conduct

  • OpenAI agents' top priority is automating research

  • NFT leaders were mixed; Punks -1% at 29.3 ETH, BAYC +2% at 6.8 ETH, Pudgy -2% at 3.36 ETH

  • Trump met Altman privately at GOP convention

  • DeepMind researcher quits, says AI 'could kill us all'

  • Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Advisors

  • Anthropic won't delay 2026 IPO: Axios

  • We’re 'highly profitable' excl. big costs: Anthropic

  • OCH Ringbearer (+70%) and OTC Desks (+60%) led top movers

  • Anthropic co-founder calls for AI 'kill switch'

  • Apple releases iOS 27 with Siri AI overhaul

  • iOS 27 lets users hide location from chosen people

  • X, SpaceXAI drop antitrust lawsuit against Apple

  • Amazon, Netflix, YouTube form streaming alliance

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