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BitcoinWorldEDGE Markets Partners with Splash Sports to Bring 24/7 Banking to the $21 Million NFL Survivor Contest
Powered by EDGE Connect, Splash Sports players now have access to 24/7/365 fund movement, daily deposit limits of up to $1 million as they compete for Splash Sports’ $21 million guaranteed NFL Survivor contest
NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EDGE Markets, a financial services company purpose-built for prediction markets, gaming, and crypto, today announced a partnership with Splash Sports, the leading skill-based social sports gaming platform, to facilitate Splash’s marquee $21 million NFL survivor contest.
The agreement brings EDGE Connect, a private closed-loop settlement network, to the Splash Sports platform. This enables eligible EDGE Boost customers to fund their Splash Sports accounts with up to $1 million a day. Beyond its marquee $21 million NFL Survivor contest, Splash Sports runs contests at a range of price points, including a $3 million guaranteed contest and entries as low as $5, giving players multiple ways to compete.
Traditional account funding methods can involve lower transaction limits, processing delays and fees, which are particularly inconvenient for players moving money on nights, weekends and around Sunday kickoffs. EDGE Boost gives eligible Splash Sports users daily deposit limits of up to $1 million, real-time fund movement and a dedicated account that separates gaming capital from everyday finances. That speed matters most in Splash Sports’ 2026 NFL Survivor contest, which carries a $21 million guaranteed prize contest, a $1,000 fee per entry and up to 150 entries per player, with a new marketplace for buying and selling entry stakes and Team Entries for groups, both of which can require players to move money quickly all season.
“Capital should move on the player’s schedule, not the banks,” said Seni Thomas, Founder and CEO of EDGE Markets. “Splash Sports players are entering more lineups, trading stakes and racing Sunday deadlines, and EDGE gets them there with up to a million dollars a day, immediately.”
Splash Sports is seeing that same demand for speed from its own players. Entries are piling up ahead of the September 13 deadline. The new Marketplace and Team Entries features mean players are moving money in and out of the contest throughout the season, not just once at sign-up.
“Our players are managing more entries and more moving pieces than ever, especially with the Marketplace and Team Entries we launched this season,” said TJ Ross, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Splash Sports. “Our players shouldn’t have to wait on their bank to keep playing. EDGE Markets makes sure the money moves just as fast as everything else we’ve built.”
This partnership builds on momentum following EDGE Markets’ recently announced partnerships with Kalshi, Polymarket and ProphetX, making Splash Sports the latest platform to adopt EDGE Connect. EDGE Markets recently closed a $29 million Series A round led by CoinFund, with participation from Indicator Ventures, Mantis VC, Stepstone Group and Bullpen Capital, to accelerate its buildout across prediction markets and gaming. Since launching EDGE Boost, the company has processed more than $2 billion in transactions.
About EDGE MarketsEDGE Markets is a U.S. financial services company that empowers users with financial transparency, supporting emerging verticals such as betting, gaming and casinos. Its original product, EDGE Boost, is the first responsible financial platform for smart bettors. It is the first betting-only debit card account that is FDIC and/or NCUA deposit insurance up to $10,000,000 or more through Cross River Bank, Member FDIC, and Participating Institutions.1
About Splash SportsSplash Sports is the leading skill-based social sports gaming platform, enabling friends and communities to compete for real money. Founded in 2021, the company has since acquired and integrated RunYourPool and OfficeFootballPool. Splash Sports operates across 35-plus states and Canada with more than 2 million active users. The company is backed by Dream Ventures, Accomplice, Boston Seed Capital, Elysian Park Ventures and Velvet Sea Ventures.
Media ContactsJustine Sacco / justine@edgemarkets.ioEdgemarkets@greenbrier.partners Andrew Bard / splashsports@dkcnews.com
Deposit accounts are held at Cross River Bank, Member FDIC, and are insured up to $250,000 per depositor. Through our relationship with IntraFi® Network Deposits℠, funds may be eligible for additional FDIC insurance coverage by being distributed across participating network banks, up to $10,000,000 in aggregate for consumer accounts enrolled in the applicable program. FDIC insurance coverage is subject to applicable terms and conditions, including account structure, account ownership categories and regulatory requirements. The EDGE Boost Visa® Debit Card is issued by Cross River Bank, Member FDIC, pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc., and is not available to all residents of U.S. territories. Account limits and other applicable terms are described in our Terms of Service and Cardholder Agreement and CRB Account Agreement.
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BitcoinWorldAlarming Hyperliquid Hack: $738,600 USDC Drained From User Account
Key Takeaways
A Hyperliquid user account was compromised on September 9, drained of roughly 738,600 USDC, with 10,287 HYPE forcibly undelegated.
Tracing shows the stolen stablecoins moved through Circle’s CCTP bridge and split across at least five hops before touching a Bitget-linked deposit address.
The staked HYPE has not entered the withdrawal queue yet, meaning the theft is only partially complete.
Two comparable cases handled recently ended the same way, pushing cumulative losses in this pattern past $1.1 million.

The Real Story Is Not the Theft. It Is the Seven Days Nobody Can Use.
Account takeovers happen weekly in crypto. What makes this one worth your attention is the part that has not happened yet.
When the attacker took control of 0x5b6d236e39a4723a8f79db93cfd1af4d228f9c60, the liquid balance went first, as it always does. The 10,287 HYPE sitting in staking is a different problem. Hyperliquid’s unstaking flow imposes a seven-day waiting period before a cWithdraw releases funds. On paper, that is a full week of warning. In practice, the victim can do absolutely nothing with it. There is no user-triggered pause, no freeze, no recovery path. The owner watches a countdown they cannot stop.
Timeline
Compromise: Unauthorized access to the account, most likely through a leaked private key or an approved signing agent.
Immediate drain: ~738,600 USDC transferred out.
Undelegation: 10,287 HYPE pulled out of delegation, positioning it for withdrawal.
Laundering: Funds routed via Circle’s CCTP bridge, then fragmented into tranches of roughly 443K, 450K, 147.5K, 147.8K and 50K across a chain of intermediary wallets.
Off-ramp: A portion lands at an address attributed to Bitget.
Now: HYPE remains in the staking balance, withdrawal not yet initiated.

What an Analyst Sees Here
The CCTP hop is deliberate. Native burn-and-mint transfers produce cleaner, harder-to-cluster flows than wrapped bridge assets, and the rapid fan-out into unequal amounts is textbook peel-chain behaviour designed to defeat automated tracing thresholds. The speed to a centralised exchange also tells you something: the attacker is betting on beating the compliance desk’s response window, not on sophisticated obfuscation.
The structural issue is that Hyperliquid inherits self-custody’s absolutism while offering an exchange-grade product. Ethereum’s smart accounts have had social recovery and guardian modules for years. A perps venue holding delegated stake has no equivalent.

What Comes Next
The proposal now on the table is an opt-in Guardian: a pre-configured party that can temporarily halt cWithdraw, transfers, agent approvals and multisig changes, but can never move funds. Holds expire automatically. Replacement requires a timelock and validator-governed review, recorded on-chain.
Expect pushback on censorship grounds, and expect it to be raised anyway once the fourth victim appears.

Conclusion
This is not a protocol exploit. Hyperliquid’s code did exactly what it was written to do. That is precisely the problem: a week-long delay that only benefits the thief is a design gap, not a security feature. Until account-level recovery becomes standard, every staked balance on a high-value venue is a one-key-away loss.
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BitcoinWorldGermany’s Crypto Tax-Free Rule Is Coming to an End
Key Takeaways
Germany’s Finance Ministry has circulated a draft bill that would scrap the one-year tax-free holding rule and tax crypto gains as capital income from 2028.
The headline says 25%. The real number is 26.375% once the solidarity surcharge is added – closer to 28% with church tax.
The draft grandfathers anything bought on or before December 31, 2026. Buy before New Year’s Eve and the old rules still apply.
Expected revenue: €160 million in 2028, rising to about €350 million by 2031. Against a federal budget north of €555 billion.

For years, Germany had one line in its tax code that quietly made it one of the best places in the developed world to hold Bitcoin. Section 23 of the Income Tax Act treats crypto as a private asset, not a security. Hold it for more than twelve months, sell it, pay nothing. No cap, no tapering, no conditions.
That line is now on the chopping block.

What’s Actually in the Draft
Der Spiegel obtained a working draft from the Federal Ministry of Finance that would move crypto out of Section 23 and into Section 20 – the bucket that holds interest, dividends and stock gains. Once there, gains face the Abgeltungsteuer, Germany’s flat withholding tax on capital income.
The rate everyone is quoting is 25%. That’s the base. Add the 5.5% solidarity surcharge levied on the tax itself and you get 26.375%. Church tax, where applicable, pushes the effective burden toward 28% depending on the federal state.
Two things soften the blow. The €1,000 personal allowance survives. And – genuinely useful – crypto gains and losses could be offset against gains and losses from stocks and other securities. Under the current Section 23 regime, crypto losses can only be netted against other private disposals, which is a far narrower box. Anyone whose personal rate sits below 25% can also request a Günstigerprüfung, an assessment that applies the lower personal rate instead.
The cut-off matters most. As the draft stands, assets acquired on or before December 31, 2026 stay under the old rules. Hold twelve months, sell tax-free. Only crypto bought after that date falls into the new regime.

The Timeline
April 2025 – The SPD pushes to scrap the holding period during coalition negotiations, and wants the flat rate raised to 30%. CDU/CSU blocks it.
May 2025 – The proposal is dropped from the coalition agreement that brings the Merz government to power.
April 29, 2026 – Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil, now SPD chair, revives the plan under new framing, tied to a package meant to raise €2 billion and tighten enforcement against financial crime.
Early July 2026 – A budget draft includes removal of the holding period. Cabinet approves the key points paper.
July 13, 2026 – The working draft of the Annual Tax Act 2026 contains nothing on crypto. Nothing legally binding exists yet.
September 9, 2026 – Der Spiegel reports the ministerial draft bill. For the first time there are numbers, a rate, and a cut-off date. It enters interdepartmental consultation.
Ahead – Cabinet approval, three Bundestag readings, the Bundesrat, then the Federal Law Gazette. Any of those stages can change the rate, the cut-off, or kill it entirely.

The Number That Doesn’t Add Up
Here is the part worth sitting with. The ministry projects €160 million in 2028 from this measure. Germany’s federal budget runs past €555 billion.
That is roughly 0.03% of spending. Even at the 2031 figure of €350 million, it barely registers.
Germany is not doing this because it needs the money. €160 million doesn’t fix anything. It’s doing this because the exemption became politically awkward – a rule that let one asset class walk away untaxed while wage earners paid up to 45%. The SPD has framed it as parity, and on paper, parity is a fair argument. Crypto now gets treated exactly like stocks, with the same rate and the same loss-offsetting rights.
But parity cuts both ways. Germany’s holding period wasn’t an accident or an oversight. It was a genuine competitive differentiator, one of the few things that made German exchanges and German-resident traders distinct in Europe. Trading that for a rounding error is a choice, not a necessity.

Conclusion
Nothing is law yet. A ministerial draft in interdepartmental consultation is several long steps from the Federal Law Gazette, and this exact proposal has already died once, in 2025.
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BitcoinWorldPinGo Hit by Second Cyberattack – and Nobody Ever Explained the First One
Key Takeaways
PinGo, the AI + DePIN project on the TON network, has confirmed another cyberattack. Some stolen tokens have already been sold into the market by the attacker.
The team says it consolidated and isolated its remaining on-chain assets. It has not disclosed the loss size, the attack vector, or whether user funds were touched.
PINGO’s daily volume sits near $15,000. On a book that thin, even a small dump does real damage – the dollar figure may end up mattering less than the liquidity.

The most important word in PinGo’s statement is “another.”
On September 9, 2026, the project told its community it had suffered a fresh cyberattack. It said it moved fast, pulled the remaining on-chain assets together, and locked them away. Internal response procedures are running. Details on the scale of the losses, it said, are coming soon.
That is a reasonable first hour. It is not an answer.

A Second Hack Is a Different Kind of Problem
One breach can happen to anyone. A clever attacker, a missed bug, a bad afternoon. A second breach at the same project usually means one of two things: the original entry point was never closed, or the team never worked out how the attacker got in to begin with.
Here’s what makes it worse. There is no public record of PinGo’s first incident. No PeckShield log, no SlowMist entry, no detailed post-mortem you can pull up and read. The team’s own statement is the only acknowledgement that it happened at all.
If a project can be breached without the market noticing, the next breach isn’t a surprise. It’s a sequel.

The Timeline
2024–early 2025 – PinGo launches as the first AI + DePIN project on TON, pitching a marketplace that turns idle computing power into a resource for training AI models.
September 2025 – PINGO runs a pre-listing Kickstarter on MEXC, with 120,000 PINGO and 30,000 USDT in airdrops. The token reaches retail. Listings follow on Gate, CoinEx and Bitget Wallet.
April 2026 – PinGo announces a partnership with Manadia to add a distributed compute layer, pushing further into decentralised AI infrastructure.
First attack – date not publicly confirmed. No loss figure, no cause, no independent reporting. It exists only as a reference in PinGo’s own words.
September 9, 2026 – Second attack confirmed. Assets isolated. Attacker already selling. Full details promised.

How Much Was Lost?
Nobody has said. No security firm has published a number.
What the market data tells us is arguably more useful for holders. PINGO’s market cap sits somewhere around $6 million to $7.5 million. The token trades roughly 93% below its all-time high of $0.4025. Daily volume is around $15,000–$16,000 on CoinGecko, and price feeds across trackers currently disagree – anywhere from $0.02 to $0.06 – which suggests stale or thin data.
That last point is the one that matters. When an attacker sells into a book this shallow, the dollar value of the theft becomes almost irrelevant. Even a modest dump moves the price hard. Retail holders absorb that regardless of what the team eventually recovers.

The Pattern Behind It
PinGo isn’t an outlier. It’s a symptom of how crypto security broke this year.
CertiK’s Hack3d report counted $1.31 billion stolen across 344 on-chain incidents in the first half of 2026. The two largest heists – KelpDAO at $291 million and Drift Protocol at $285 million, roughly $577 million combined – never touched a line of audited contract code. Compromised accounts now cause more than half of all DeFi attacks by incident count, overtaking smart contract exploits for the first time.
Across the industry’s entire history, about 40% of the $16.69 billion ever stolen traces back to compromised private keys, not clever code.
That reframes PinGo’s response. “We isolated the assets” only helps if the problem was where the money sat. If the entry point was a leaked deployment key or a phished developer, then moving funds to a fresh wallet fixes nothing. The vulnerability still has a laptop and a login.

Conclusion
PinGo did the right things in the first hour – move fast, contain, communicate. What it still hasn’t done is explain how this happened twice, or what happened the first time at all.
Until a proper post-mortem lands, “secure isolation” is a phrase, not a fix. And in a year where over a billion dollars walked out through stolen keys rather than broken code, the question isn’t whether the assets are somewhere safer. It’s whether the person holding them is.
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BitcoinWorldWhy September 16 Matters So Much to India’s Crypto Community
Key Takeaways
The Finance Ministry’s Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) will appear before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance on September 16, 2026, at 11 AM, Committee Room D, Parliament House Annexe.
About 91.5% of India’s crypto trading volume in FY2024-25 went to offshore exchanges. Only 8.5% stayed home.
No new law is coming out of this meeting. What we’re actually waiting for is a name – who regulates crypto, and what crypto legally is.
Everyone is calling September 16 a “big clarity moment.” Let’s be honest about what it really is. The DEA is going to sit in front of MPs and explain a tax system that has been running for four years – one that collected less money than expected and pushed most of the market somewhere the taxman can’t reach.
The numbers say it plainly. When 91.5% of trading happens abroad and only 8.5% stays on FIU-registered Indian exchanges, the 1% TDS didn’t fail. It worked too well as a deterrent. It was supposed to create a paper trail. Instead, people simply went where no trail gets created.
The Full Timeline
April 2018 – RBI tells banks to cut off crypto firms. Exchanges struggle to survive.
March 2020 – Supreme Court strikes down the RBI circular. Banking access returns.
July 1, 2022 – Section 115BBH (30% flat tax) and Section 194S (1% TDS) kick in. No loss set-off allowed.
March 2023 – VDA service providers brought under PMLA anti-money-laundering rules.
2024 – FIU acts against unregistered offshore platforms. Several later register and continue serving Indians.
August 14, 2024 – Standing Committee formally takes up “A Study on Virtual Digital Assets (VDAs) and Way Forward.”
Through 2025-26 – Exchanges (Binance, WazirX, ZebPay, CoinDCX, CoinSwitch, Coinbase), FIU, CBDT, MCA and IFSCA all depose. By mid-2026, 54 VDA providers are FIU-registered.
May 20, 2026 – Committee Chairman Bhartruhari Mahtab calls the outflow of thousands of crores “very alarming.”
July 2, 2026 – RBI and ICAI depose. RBI stays opposed to legal status. ICAI pushes for proper accounting and legal clarity.
August 20, 2026 – Lok Sabha Secretariat notice: the August 27 DEA sitting “stands CANCELLED.” No new date.
September 3, 2026 – Fresh notice fixes the DEA hearing for September 16.

What X Is Saying
The industry conversation is mostly happening on X, not in press releases. Worth following:
Bharat Web3 Association – the loudest voice asking for TDS to drop to 0.01% and loss set-off to be allowed.
Sumit Gupta, CoinDCX CEO – his post on India ranking #1 in grassroots adoption sums up the industry’s core argument: users are here, the rules aren’t.

The Part Nobody Wants To Own
The real problem isn’t tax. It’s turf. Until someone says clearly whether a token is a security, a commodity, or its own thing, no regulator has to take charge. SEBI, RBI and the ministry all quietly benefit from the confusion.
The committee’s own idea – an interim setup run through Self-Regulatory Organisations under a designated regulator – tells you everything. Governments suggest SROs when they want supervision without doing the hard work of writing a law. It’s a placeholder. And placeholders in Indian finance tend to stick around for years.

Conclusion
India built the enforcement machinery first and never got around to the definitions. The 91.5% figure is the receipt for that choice. September 16 won’t fix it. But it will tell us whether the government has finally accepted the bill.
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BitcoinWorldFIU-IND has served non-compliance notices on 15 offshore
Key takeaways
FIU-IND has served non-compliance notices on 15 offshore VDA service providers under Section 13 of the PMLA, alongside takedown notices under Section 79(3)(b) of the IT Act.
The list is unusual: alongside derivatives venues sit instant-swap and no-account conversion tools – ChangeNOW, SimpleSwap, FixedFloat, Guardarian.
India’s compliance test is activity-based. No office, no employees, no servers in India – still a reporting entity.
Expect app-store delistings and DNS-level blocks as the enforcement follow-through, as happened in 2024.

List Of Exchanges Are:
The previous sweeps read like a who’s-who of global exchanges. This one reads like a laundering-flow diagram.
Weex, Bitunix, Blofin, Toobit, XT.com, WOO X, Pionex and DigiFinex are recognisable trading venues, many of them high-leverage perpetuals platforms popular with Indian retail traders who found domestic options too slow or too taxed. But ChangeNOW, SimpleSwap, FixedFloat and Guardarian are not exchanges in the usual sense. They are conversion rails – swap one asset for another, often without an account, sometimes without meaningful KYC, and move on. Blockchain forensics firms have repeatedly traced funds from thefts and scam operations through exactly this category of service.
Reading the list that way, FIU-IND is no longer just policing where Indians trade. It is policing where stolen and defrauded rupees exit.


How we got here
March 2023 – VDA service providers are pulled into the PMLA’s AML/CFT perimeter. Registration becomes mandatory for exchange, transfer and custody activity.
December 2023 – Show-cause notices go to nine offshore exchanges, including Binance and KuCoin.
January 2024 – Apple and Google pull the non-compliant apps in India; URLs get blocked.
2024–25 – Binance and KuCoin pay penalties and register. Compliance, it turns out, is cheaper than exclusion.
September–October 2025 – A second wave hits 25 offshore platforms.
September 2026 – This round of 15, with takedown notices issued in parallel rather than months later.

The expert read
Two things stand out. First, the takedown notice arriving at the same time as the Section 13 notice is a procedural tightening – the 2024 gap gave platforms months to warn users and migrate them. Second, the registered-entity count keeps climbing, which is the actual policy objective. India is not trying to end offshore access; it is converting offshore operators into reporting entities that file suspicious transaction reports.

What comes next
Blocking is porous. VPN usage will absorb some of this, and peer-to-peer and self-custodial routes absorb the rest. The real consequence is liquidity migration toward registered platforms and a thinner, riskier grey market for everyone who stays offshore.

Conclusion
India has settled into a pattern: no ban, no embrace, just relentless perimeter enforcement. For platforms, the calculation is now simple – register, or get delisted and watch a competitor take the users. For traders, the finance ministry’s warning stands unchanged. Unregulated means no recourse.
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BitcoinWorldGemini’s Singapore unit now holds a full Major Payment Institution (MPI) licence
Key Takeaways
Gemini’s Singapore unit now holds a full Major Payment Institution (MPI) licence, roughly 23 months after receiving in-principle approval.
The licence removes transaction-volume caps but pulls Gemini into a heavier supervisory regime covering AML, tech risk and reporting.
Singapore’s approval queue is slow by design — and that slowness is becoming the region’s competitive filter.

The Real Story Isn’t the Licence. It’s the Wait.
Most coverage of Gemini’s Singapore approval will read like a press release. The more interesting number is the calendar.
MAS issued in-principle approval in October 2024. Final authorisation arrived this week. Nearly two years passed between “yes, in principle” and “yes.” For an exchange with a US public listing, an established institutional book and a decade of operating history, that is a long time to sit in a regulatory waiting room – and it tells you more about Singapore’s posture than any policy speech.

Timeline
2020 – Gemini begins serving Singapore customers, initially through its US entity under an exemption.
October 2024 – MAS grants in-principle approval for an MPI licence covering digital payment tokens and cross-border transfers.
April 2025 – Customers are migrated from Gemini Trust Company into the locally incorporated Gemini Digital Payments Singapore while the application matures.
September 9, 2026 – Full MPI licence granted.

What Changes Operationally
The headline benefit is structural. MPI holders operate without the transaction-volume ceilings that constrain standard payment institutions – which matters enormously for an exchange whose Singapore business skews institutional. Volume caps are a ceiling on ambition; removing them turns Singapore from a compliance outpost into a viable booking centre.
The trade-off is supervisory weight. MAS applies broader obligations to MPIs precisely because scale creates larger risk, with continuing requirements around anti-money laundering, customer due diligence, technology risk and regulatory reporting. This is not a licence you win once. It is one you re-earn quarterly.

Why It Matters Beyond Gemini
Singapore has quietly assembled a short, curated list. Coinbase, Crypto.com, OKX, Bitstamp and Cumberland already hold MPI authorisation – and the roster is notable for who isn’t on it. MAS has been deliberate about the distinction between locally licensed firms and offshore platforms that merely happen to be reachable from a Singapore IP address.
That distinction is the strategic point. Global scale confers nothing locally. For years, exchanges arbitraged jurisdictional ambiguity across Asia. Singapore has made that arbitrage expensive by making the licence slow, costly and revocable.

Looking Forward
Expect the licensed cohort to consolidate rather than expand. Approvals of this weight function as moats – each one raises the credible-entry cost for the next applicant, and Hong Kong, Japan and the UAE are converging on similar architecture.

Conclusion
Gemini’s licence is a milestone, but the durable signal is Singapore’s willingness to make firms wait two years for legitimacy. In a sector built on speed, the jurisdictions setting the terms are the ones refusing to hurry.
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BitcoinWorldPolkadot Tries Again: Why dotUSD Is a Second Chance, Not a New Idea
Key takeaways
Referendum 1944 proposes dotUSD, a protocol-owned stablecoin, and is running at roughly 97.5% approval on OpenGov’s Root track.
This is Polkadot’s third attempt at native stable liquidity, following Acala’s aUSD collapse in 2022 and the stalled pUSD proposal in 2025.
The rollout is deliberately staged: USDT-backed issuance first, DOT collateral vaults and liquidations only in phase two.
Treasury commitment is $5 million, split between minting reserves and a dotUSD pair on Asset Hub.
DOT gained 42.5% on the week, but the real test is adoption after the vote, not the vote itself.

Polkadot is not launching a stablecoin because stablecoins are fashionable. It is launching one because the last attempt in its orbit failed badly enough to leave a scar – and the network has spent four years living with the consequences.
Referendum 1944, titled “dotUSD: A Native Stablecoin for Polkadot,” went on-chain Monday at 11:49 a.m. ET and sits on OpenGov’s Root track, reserved for decisions that touch the protocol itself. Support is close to unanimous: roughly 2.3 million DOT in favor against under 60,000 opposed, about 97.5% approval. DOT responded with a 16.7% single-day move and a 42.5% weekly gain, the strongest among the fifty largest tokens.

The part most coverage skips
This is Polkadot’s third pass at the problem. Acala’s aUSD collapsed in 2022 after an exploit minted billions of unbacked tokens, and the fallout effectively removed native stable liquidity from the ecosystem. In 2025, a proposal called pUSD – built on Acala’s Honzon stack – cleared 75% support but stalled amid community objections about who would build it and who would supervise risk. Gavin Wood had already laid out his conditions publicly: full DOT collateralization, governance control by Polkadot itself, and DAI-grade security assumptions.
dotUSD reads as a direct answer to those objections. The design borrows from Liquity v2 rather than Honzon, and the rollout is deliberately staged. Phase one issues dotUSD against a capped USDT-backed buffer – no oracles, no liquidation engine, no DOT price dependency. Only in phase two do DOT vaults, real-time price feeds, and liquidations arrive. The treasury commitment is modest by design: $2.5 million in USDT for minting and $2.5 million in DOT seeding a dotUSD pair on Asset Hub.

Why the sequencing matters more than the peg
Overcollateralized CDP stablecoins fail in a predictable way. Collateral drops, liquidations queue up, thin exchange liquidity turns orderly unwinding into a cascade, and the peg breaks before the mechanism can respond. By deferring DOT collateral until liquidity exists and the machinery has been tested, Polkadot avoids the exact failure mode that killed its predecessor. A stability pool absorbs liquidated positions instead of dumping collateral into open markets.
There is a reflexive economic story too, and traders clearly noticed it. Every dollar of dotUSD minted in phase two locks up more than a dollar of DOT, converting stablecoin demand into structural demand for the collateral asset. That mechanism is real, but it only activates in phase two – and only if anyone actually wants to hold dotUSD.

The harder question
Sovereignty is the strategic case: if Tether or Circle ever restricted access on Polkadot, the ecosystem currently has no fallback. That argument is sound. Adoption is the unsolved part. Native stablecoins do not win on ideology; they win on liquidity depth, integrations, and yield. Polkadot’s DeFi footprint remains small, and $5 million buys a beginning, not a market.

Conclusion
The vote will pass. The interesting period starts afterward, when dotUSD has to earn usage rather than approval – and when phase two decides whether Polkadot learned the right lesson from aUSD or merely rewrote it.
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BitcoinWorldWant to Buy a Private Jet? Now You Can Pay in Bitcoin
There’s a small but meaningful difference between accepting Bitcoin and pricing in Bitcoin. Almost every “we take crypto” headline of the past decade has been the first thing wearing the costume of the second. A dealership, a developer, a luxury broker announces BTC payments, then quietly routes the coins through a payment processor that converts to dollars before the wire clears. The dollar stayed the unit of account. Bitcoin was just a rail.
Grant Cardone’s private jet listing is interesting because it flips that arrangement, at least on paper. The asking price is 1,025 BTC. Not “$80 million, payable in Bitcoin.” The coin count is the number. The dollar figure is whatever the market says it is on the day someone signs. That distinction is the entire story, and it’s worth more attention than the aircraft itself.

Let’s do a math
Start with the math. Bitcoin has been trading around $78,500 at the time of wrtiting this article, which puts 1,025 coins at roughly $80.5 million. The aircraft is a 2024 Bombardier Global 7500, an ultra-long-range machine that seats up to 17 and sits at the top of the business jet food chain. When this same tail number surfaced earlier in the year, it was being described as a $75 million jet, listed on Controller with a low airframe time and light usage history.
So the BTC-denominated ask lands above where the cash conversation was sitting seven months ago. On a lightly used but no longer new airframe, in a preowned large-cabin market that has cooled considerably from its 2022 frenzy, that is an ambitious number. Global 7500 inventory has loosened. Buyers at this tier have options, brokers, and appraisers who do not care what asset class the seller is emotionally attached to.
Which tells you something: the coin count is not a discount mechanism. It’s a positioning statement.

The backstory matters more than the listing
This jet has been on and off the market before, and the circumstances were not subtle. In February, minutes after Bitcoin slipped below $70,000, Cardone posted that he had to say goodbye to “the love of my life,” describing the aircraft in listing-copy detail and pointing followers to Controller. Bitcoin had shed more than 20% in a month at that point, well off its October 2025 peak above $126,000.
Critics read that as forced selling. The counter-reading, which Cardone’s camp pushed hard, was capital reallocation: dump a depreciating, maintenance-heavy asset and redirect the capital toward a scarce one.
The second reading has some support in the record. Cardone Capital has been buying through the drawdown, crossing 2,700 BTC with Bitcoin near $59,000, funded through rental cash flow rather than debt or equity raises, with a stated goal of 3,000 BTC this year and 10,000 long term. He has also attached himself to an oddly precise year-end target of $189,425, defending the specificity on the grounds that Bitcoin never lands on round numbers.
Whatever you make of the price target, the balance sheet behavior is consistent. A man converting hard assets into BTC on a schedule pricing his last big toy in BTC is at least internally coherent.

Can someone buy Jet with Bitcoin in todays world?
Here’s where enthusiasm meets the aviation transaction stack, and the aviation transaction stack usually wins.
A jet sale of this size is not a checkout page. There’s a letter of intent, a deposit into escrow, a pre-purchase inspection at an authorized service center that can take two to four weeks and routinely surfaces six-figure discrepancies, delivery conditions, engine and airframe program transfers, and a closing coordinated through the FAA registry in Oklahoma City. On aircraft with international exposure there’s a Cape Town Convention filing and an IDERA to unwind. Title and lien searches take days. Nothing about this moves at block speed.
Now overlay Bitcoin. Escrow agents in aviation are set up to hold dollars in segregated accounts under state trust rules. Very few are equipped to custody eight figures of BTC through a 45-day close with price volatility running. Someone has to eat the delta. If BTC drops 15% during inspection, does the buyer top up the coins or does the seller absorb it? That single clause is where most crypto-denominated deals collapse, and it’s why “priced in BTC, settled in dollars at signing” is the compromise nearly everyone lands on.
Then there’s tax. In the United States, spending Bitcoin is a disposal. A buyer sending 1,025 coins acquired at a lower basis realizes capital gains on the full spread, immediately, in a year with no offsetting loss harvest unless they’ve planned for it. For an early holder, the tax bill on the transaction could exceed what a comparable financed purchase would cost in interest. On the sell side, an aircraft that has been depreciated aggressively carries recapture exposure, so the seller has his own reasons to care about how proceeds are characterized.
Add AML. Compliance officers at title companies and banks are not thrilled by an eight-figure inbound crypto transfer. Source-of-funds documentation, Travel Rule data, and chain analytics screening are all now standard for transfers of this size through any regulated venue.
None of this makes the deal impossible. It makes it slow, lawyered, and far more likely to settle in fiat than the headline suggests.

What comes next
The more consequential trend sitting behind this story isn’t jets. It’s the slow migration of high-value asset settlement toward digital rails, and the growing likelihood that stablecoins rather than Bitcoin end up doing that work. A tokenized dollar settles instantly, doesn’t move 8% during due diligence, and doesn’t trigger a taxable disposal. If aircraft, yachts, and commercial real estate start closing on-chain over the next few years, they will almost certainly close in USDC and its regulated cousins, with Bitcoin remaining the reserve asset people hold rather than the medium they spend.
That’s the quiet irony. Listings like this one are framed as proof that Bitcoin is becoming money, but the friction they expose is exactly the argument for why it probably won’t be the transactional layer. Good collateral and good currency are different jobs.

Conclusion
A 1,025 BTC price tag on a Global 7500 is a well-constructed piece of theater with a real question buried inside it. The listing costs nothing to make and delivers enormous attention. The close is where the claim gets tested, and the close involves escrow agents, tax counsel, an inspection facility, and a compliance department, none of which are ideologically motivated.
Watch for three things: whether the transaction documents denominate in BTC or dollars, whether an escrow agent takes custody of actual coins, and whether the settled price at closing matches the 1,025 figure or gets renegotiated against a dollar benchmark. If all three land on the Bitcoin side, that’s a genuine milestone worth writing about. If they don’t, this was a very effective advertisement for a fund that buys Bitcoin with rent money, and the dollar remains the language everyone still thinks in.
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ගෙවීම් Rain හි දැනට පවතින මුදල් චලනය කිරීමේ තාක්ෂණය මත ගොඩනැගී ඇති අතර, එය හවුල්කරුවන්ට අතථ්‍ය ගිණුම්, ඔන්රැම්ප්ස් සහ ოფ්රැම්ප්ස් ලබාදීමටත්, පරිශීලකයන්ට ස්ටේබල්කොයින් වියදම් කිරීමට තවත් ක්‍රම ලබාදීමටත් හැකියාව දෙයි
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Rain యొక్క පුළුල් කරන ලද ගෝලීය ගෙවීම් හැකියාව මුදල් චලනය කිරීමේ තාක්ෂණය පුළුල් කරයි.
Rain හි හවුල්කරුවන්ට දැන් ස්ටේබල්කොයින් වලින් රටවල් 80කට වඩා සහ මුදල් වර්ග 50ක් තුළ ගෙවීම් සඳහා සහය දැක්විය හැකි අතර, වසර අවසානය වන විට රටවල් 95කට සහ මුදල් වර්ග 60කට වඩා දක්වා ව්‍යාප්ත වීමට නියමිතය.

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Pitch Fest Bali 2026 සාරාංශය: ObsessionDB ජයගනී; ප්‍රධාන VC රැසක් ඉදිරියේ ස්ටාර්ට්අප් 13ක් ඉදිරිපත් කරයි
DeltaV විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද, ආරාධනා මත පමණක් සහභාගී විය හැකි Web3 ඩෙමෝ දවසක් SC Ventures, TBV, Ape Ventures, Yellow, Cicada, සහ Kosmos Ventures ආවරණය කරමින් VC පැනලයක් පැවතිණි; $100K+ ත් ත්‍යාග, ණය (credits), සහ සහාය ප්‍රදානය වෙනුවෙන් අදාළව. අගෝස්තු 19දා, Bali හි Jimbaran හිදී පැවැත්වුණු මෙම දවස Coinfest Asia ට පෙර දිනයයි.
BALI, ඉන්දුනීසියාව. [ නිකුත් කරන දිනය ]. Luvon Labs සහ SpedaxAI විසින් Pitch Fest Bali 2026 අගෝස්තු 19දා, DeltaV විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද සහ Coinfest Asia ට පෙර දිනයක් වන Jimbaran හි Dewata Padel හිදී පැවැත්වූ ආරාධනා මත පමණක් සහභාගී විය හැකි Web3 ඩෙමෝ දිනයක් ලෙස සම්පුර්ණ කර තිබේ. තෝරාගත් ස්ටාර්ට්අප් 13ක් ජීවීව ලෙස ප්‍රධාන වෙනත් වෙන්චර් ආයෝජකයින්ගේ පැනලයක් ඉදිරියේ ඉදිරිපත් කළ අතර, ඩොලර් $100,000කට වඩා වැඩි ත්‍යාග, ණය (credits), සහ සහාය ඇතුළත් ත්‍යාග අරමුදලක් සඳහා තරඟ කළහ.

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ස්පාඤ්ඤයේ විශාලතම ක්‍රිප්ටෝ හුවමාරුව රජයට මෙහෙම කිව්වා: අපි තව දුරටත් වෙළඳාමේ යෙදුමක් විතරක් නෙවෙයි
මෙම කතාවේ එක් අනුවාදයක් සුළු මට්ටමේ ආයතනික නිවේදනයක් වගේ කියවෙනවා—ස්පාඤ්ඤයේ එක් හුවමාරුවක් එය දැනටමත් කරමින් තිබූ යම් අනුකූලතා කටයුත්තකට නමක් දී එය විධිමත් කර, පුවත් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරනවා. තාක්ෂණිකවම සිදු වූයේ ඒකයි. නමුත් පසුගිය වසර තුළ Bit2Me හි පුළුල් ගමන් මග දිහා බලන විටත්, Bit2Shield දියත් කිරීම අනුකූලතා කුඩා සටහනකට වඩා යුරෝපයේ වඩාත් සාර්ථක සිල්ලර ක්‍රිප්ටෝ වේදිකා ඇත්තටම යන්න උත්සාහ කරන්නේ කොතැනටද යන්න පිළිබඳ මීට පෙර කිසිදා පැහැදිලිම ලකුණක් ලෙස පෙනෙන්නේ: බිට්කොයින් මිලදී ගැනීමට භාවිත කරන යෙදුමක් වීමට වඩා, බැංකු, අධිකරණ, හා පොලිස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුන් අලූත්ම රහසින්ම යැපෙන යටිතල පහසුකම බවට පත්වීමයි.

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වෘත්තිකයන් සඳහා සැප්තැම්බර් 17 සහ 18; සැප්තැම්බර් 19 සිට සියල්ලන්ටම විවෘත
2026 සැප්තැම්බර් 7, පැරිස් /PRNewswire/ — ප්‍රසිද්ධියට විවෘත වීමට පෙර දින දහඅටක් ඉතිරිව තිබියදී, 18 වැනි ලියෝන් බයිනාලි – සමකාලීන කලාව, 2026 සැප්තැම්බර් 17 (බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා) සහ 18 (සිකුරාදා) යන දිනයන්හි පැවැත්වෙන වෘත්තීය පෙරදසුන් දින දෙක සඳහා, කලාකරුවන්, සමකාලීන කලාව පිළිබඳ වෘත්තීය පුද්ගලයින්, එකතුකරන්නන්, ආයතන සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර කලා ප්‍රජාවේ සාමාජිකයින්ව පිළිගැනීමට සූදානම් වෙමින් සිටී.
එතැන් සිට 2026 සැප්තැම්බර් 19 (සෙනසුරාදා) සිට, බයිනාලි ආයතනය සෑම දෙනාටම දොර විවෘත කරයි; ලියෝන් නගරයේ හා එහි අධි නගර ප්‍රදේශයේ පවතින ස්ථාන 11ක් පුරා ප්‍රදර්ශන මංගල්‍යයන් සඳහා මාස තුනකට ආසන්න කාලයක්, 2026 දෙසැම්බර් 13 දක්වා.

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စျေးပေါတဲ့ ရေပိုအား လျှပ်စစ်ဖြင့် ဆွီဒင်က အစိမ်းရောင် Bitcoin Hub ကိုတည်ဆောက်ခဲ့တယ်။ အခုတော့ အဲဒါကိုဖြတ်သန်းပြီး စာရင်းစစ်သွားနေပြီ။
Boden ဟာ ခရစ်ပတိုလုပ်ငန်းအပြင်က လူအများစုက မြေပုံပေါ်မှာ ဘယ်မှာဆိုတာ ခန့်မှန်းလို့ရအောင် မသိနိုင်တဲ့နေရာတစ်ခုဖြစ်ပေမယ့်၊ ဆယ်စုနှစ်တစ်ခုလောက်အကြာကတည်းကတော့ ဒါဟာ အဲဒီလုပ်ငန်းအတွက် တိတ်တဆိတ် အရေးပါခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ဆွီဒင်နိုင်ငံ အရှေ့မြောက်ပိုင်းအစွန်အဖျားမှာရှိတဲ့ သေးငယ်တဲ့မြို့တစ်မြို့ဖြစ်ပြီး၊ ဥရောပမှာ ရှားရှားပါးပါး စျေးအလွန်သက်သာပြီး သန့်ရှင်းတဲ့ ရေဘေးလျှပ်စစ် (hydropower) အချို့နားမှာတည်ရှိပါတယ်။ Boden ဟာ စက်မှုအဆင့် Bitcoin တူးဖော်မှုကို ဆွဲဆောင်နိုင်ခဲ့ပါတယ်—အဘယ်ကြောင့်လဲဆိုတော့ အဲဒီမှာ ပေးနိုင်တာတွေကြောင့်ပါပဲ– အမြောက်အမြား ပြန်လည်အသုံးပြုနိုင်တဲ့ လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အား၊ အေးမြတဲ့ရာသီဥတုကြောင့် အအေးပေးစရိတ်တွေကို လျော့ကျစေတဲ့အချက်၊ ပြီးတော့—မကြာသေးခင်အထိ—ဒေတာစင်တာတွေကို အကျိုးခံစားခွင့်တွေ ပေးထားတဲ့ အခွန်စနစ်တစ်ရပ်ရှိခဲ့ပါတယ်။ နောက်ဆုံးအဲဒီပါဝင်ပစ္စည်းကတော့ အခု အဲဒီမှာ သူတို့လုပ်ငန်းကိုတည်ဆောက်ခဲ့တဲ့ ကုမ္ပဏီအများအပြားပတ်ဝန်းကျင်မှာ ချိတ်ဆက်နေပြီး ပြိုလဲသွားစေတဲ့ အရာဖြစ်လာနေပြီ။

බිට්කොයින්වර්ල්ඩ්
අදට ඉන්නාවත් අනුමත නොකළ ඩොලර් මිලියන 1.3ක Burn එක—එය තමාම ක්‍රියාත්මක වන්නේ නිසා
ක්‍රිප්ටෝවේ බොහෝ ටෝකන් පිළිස්සීම් (burns) සිදුවීම් (events) වශයෙන් සිදුවේ. එක් කණ්ඩායමක් ඒවක් ප්‍රකාශ කරයි, එය කාලසටහන් කරයි, ගනුදෙනුව සජීවීව (live-stream) විකාශනය කරයි, සහ එය ප්‍රචාරණ අවස්ථාවක් ලෙස සලකයි—ශීර්ෂ පාඨයක් (headline) සහ තාවකාලික මිල ඉහළ යාමක් උත්පාදනය කිරීමට අදහස් කරමින්. Hyperliquid හි නවතම burn එක—දැන්වා ඇති 15,350 HYPE, දළ වශයෙන් ඩොලර් මිලියන 1.32ක් වටිනා—පසුගිය පැය 24 තුළ විනාශ වූ එක—ඒ වර්ගයේ සිදුවීමක්ම නොවෙයි. Hyperliquid හි කිසිවෙක් අදහස් කරලා ඊයේ මෙය කරන්න තීරණය කළේ නැහැ. හෙට නැවතත් එය කරන්න කිසිවෙක් තීරණය කරන්නේත් නැහැ. එය ස්වයංක්‍රීයව, අඛණ්ඩව, සෑම දවසකම සිදුවෙනවා—කවුරුන් හෝ අවධානය දෙමින්ද නැද්ද කියලා තැකීමක් නැතිව. මේ යාන්ත්‍රික, බෝරින් (boring) ලෙස ස්ථාවරව පැවතීමමයි—දැන් ක්‍රිප්ටෝව තුළ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන වඩාත් රසවත් ටෝකනොමික්ස් (tokenomics) පරීක්ෂණයක් අතරට එකක් ලෙස එය පත් කරන්නේ.

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အပတ်ကုန် ဘဏ်ငွေလွှဲမှု ဖြစ်သွားပါပြီ။ ဒါပဲ အဓိကအချက်ပါ။
ဘဏ်လုပ်ငန်းသမိုင်းအများစုမှာ “အပတ်ကုန်” က ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ ကုန်သွယ်ရေးအပေါ် မမြင်ရတဲ့ အခွန်တစ်မျိုးလို လုပ်ဆောင်နေခဲ့ပါတယ်—ငွေစာရင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက်မှာ မည်သူမှ မမြင်ရတဲ့ အခကြေးငွေမဟုတ်ပေမယ့် အမှန်တကယ် ငွေကျပ်တန်ဖိုးကို idle ဖြစ်နေအောင် ထိန်းထားရခြင်း၊ ပို့ဆောင်မှုတွေ နှောင့်နှေးရခြင်း၊ နဲ့ သောကြာနေ့မွန်းလွဲပိုင်းမှာ ငွေပေးချေမှုက တနင်္လာမနက်မတိုင်မီ ရှင်းလင်းမလား ဒါမှမဟုတ် နောက်တစ်ပတ်အထိ အေးခဲနေရမလားကို မျက်နှာပြင်ကို စိုက်ကြည့်နေတဲ့ ဘဏ္ဍာရေးတာဝန်ခံတွေရဲ့ အချိန်ကုန်မှုကနေ ပေးဆောင်ရတဲ့ အကုန်အကျပါ။ စက်တင်ဘာ ၅ ရက်နေ့မှာ DBS နဲ့ Citi တို့က ထိုအခွန်ကို မဖြစ်မနေလျော့နည်းစေဖို့ တိတ်တဆိတ် လုပ်ဆောင်ခဲ့ပါတယ်—စင်ကာပူနဲ့ နယူးယောက်ကြားမှာ အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာတွေကို စနေနေ့တစ်ရက်မှာ လွှဲပြောင်းပြီး မိနစ်ပိုင်းအတွင်း ရှင်းလင်းလိုက်ကာ၊ လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ ၁၈ လအတွင်းက မရှိခဲ့တဲ့ စနစ်တစ်ခုကို အသုံးပြုခဲ့ပါတယ်။

බිට්කොයින්වර්ල්ඩ්
එකම රට, වෙනස් නීති පොත්: කොරියානු ක්‍රිප්ටෝ හුවමාරු සමාගම්වලට භාණ්ඩාගාර සමාගම්වලට වගේ අලෙවිකරණයෙන් තරඟ කළ නොහැක්කේ ඇයි
කොරියානු කොටස් සමාගමකට ප්‍රවර්ධනයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන්නැයි ඉල්ලුවොත්, ප්ලේබුක් එක බොහෝ දුරට හුරුපුරුදුයි: මුහුණට නොවූ ගිණුමක් විවෘත කිරීම සඳහා මුදල් ප්‍රසාද, සීමිත කාලයක් සඳහා අඩු කළ වෙළඳ ගාස්තු, සහ මිතුරන්ව ගෙන එවීමට ගනුදෙනුකරුවන්ට පෙලඹවන යොමුකිරීමේ ප්‍රසාද. කොරියානු ක්‍රිප්ටෝ හුවමාරුවකට ඒම දෙයම කරන්නැයි ඉල්ලුවොත්, ක්‍රියාවලිය කිසිසේත්ම ඒ වගේ නොපෙනේ — දැන්වීම් ම නැවත පිරික්සීම් හරහාම පෙරඅනුමැතිය ලබාගැනීම, ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිලාභ ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නේ කෙසේදැයි විශේෂයෙන් පාලනය කරන අභ්‍යන්තර පාලන ක්‍රම, සහ යම් ප්‍රතිලාභ වටිනාකමක් ඉක්මවූ පසු අනිවාර්යයෙන් පෙර දැනුම්දීම. එකම රට, එකම නියාමකයා—ඒත් එක් කර්මාන්තය දෙකටම විවිධ භූමිකාවන්ට අනුව නිරීක්ෂණය කරමින්; මතුපිටින් එකම මූලික ව්‍යාපාර ක්‍රියාවක් වගේ පෙනෙන දෙයට, නීති දෙකක්ම මුලික වශයෙන් වෙනස්ය: ගනුදෙනුකරුවන් දොර ළඟට ගෙන ඒම.

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සැබෑ අවසන් දිනය සැප්තැම්බර් 15 නොවේ. එය දින දර්ශනයමයි.
වොෂින්ටනය ගණිතය නාට්‍යයක් බවට පත් කිරීමේ ක්‍රමයක් ඇත—සෙන්ටර් සින්තියා ලුමිස් ඒක හරියටම CLARITY පනත සමඟින්ම කරලා තිබෙනවා. පරාජිත ඡන්දයකින් හේතුවෙන් 2030 දක්වා පුළුල් ක්‍රිප්ටෝ වෙළඳපොල-ව්‍යුහගත කිරීම් පිළිබඳ නීති සලකලයෙන් ඉවතට යා හැකි බවට ඇය දුන් අනතුරු ඇඟවීම, මුල් බැල්මට, නියමිත කාල සීමාවක් සෙමින් ගෙලට එබෙනවා වගේ හැඟවීමට මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් තම සගයන්ට බලපෑම් කිරීමට අත්හදා බලන “ඉක්මන් බව” නිර්මාණය කිරීමක් වගේ පෙනෙන්න පුළුවන්. නමුත් වචනවලින් එහාට ගිහින් බලද්දි, ගණිතය ඇත්තටම ගැළපෙනවා—ඒකයි මේ මොහොත අවබෝධ කරගැනීමට වටිනා වෙන්නේ, ඒකට හුදෙක් ප්‍රතිචාර දක්වමින් ඉවත්වෙන්න හේතුවක් නෙවෙයි.

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‘අවදානමක් නැති’ බව මන්දගාමීව මිය යාම: වෝල් ස්ට්‍රීට් බිට්කോയින් බුල්වරුන් මිල ගැන කතා කිරීම නතර කර ඇත්තේ ඇයි
බිට්කോയින්ගේ ඉතිහාසයේ බොහෝ කාලයක් සඳහා, එයට පක්ෂව ඇති ශක්තිමත්ම තර්කයන් තිබුණේ මිල පිළිබඳවයි — එය කොතරම් ඉහළට යා හැකිද, එය රන් වලින් කොපමණ ගුණයක් අත්පත් කර ගත හැකිද, සහ ඔබ තවමත් කොතරම් ඉක්මනින් සිටිනවාද. පසුගිය වසරේ වෙනස් වූයේ කුමක්ද? සහ මේ සතිය අගදී Bitwise ප්‍රධාන විධායක (CEO) Hunter Horsley විසින් දැමූ අදහස්වලදී නැවත මතු වූයේ කුමක්ද? එනම් ක්‍රිප්ටෝවේ ආයතනික අංශයෙන් ඉස්මතු වන වඩාත් රසවත් තර්කය මිල වර්ධනය (price appreciation) ගැන කිසිසේත්ම නොවේ. ඒ ගැන වන්නේ පළමුවෙන්ම කිසිදු අවදානමක් නැති බව කියන එම වත්කමට සිදුවන්නේ කුමක්ද යන්නයි: එක්සත් ජනපද භාණ්ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කරය (U.S. Treasury bond).

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“White Hat” $320 මිලියනය හමුවන විට: Liquid Network Drain එක බිට්කොයින්ගේ පාලම් ගැටලුව ගැන අපට කියන සැබෑ දේ
පාලමක් නිහඬ වීමත් සමඟ ක්‍රිප්ටෝ ලෝකය තුළ ව්‍යාප්ත වන විශේෂ ආකාරයක නොසන්සුන්කමක් තිබේ. සාම්ප්‍රදායික හැක් කිරීමක් නොවේ—ෆිෂිං ලින්ක් එකක් නැහැ, හොරකම් කරගත් බීජ වාක්‍යයක් (seed phrase) දෝෂාරෝපණයක් නැහැ—නමුත් සරලවම පද්ධතිය වැඩ කිරීම නතර වීමයි; එවිට සියල්ලෝම මුදල් සම්බන්ධයෙන් හරියටම මොකද වුණේ කියලා හොයාගන්න උත්සාහ කරන අතරේ. මේ තත්ත්වයට මේ සතියේ අන්තයේ Blockstream සහ එහි Liquid Network පත්වුණා—ආසන්න වශයෙන් බිට්කොයින් 4,000ක් (ඩොලර් මිලියන 320ක් පමණ) එකම ගනුදෙනුවකින් එහි federated reserves වලින් ඉවත් වීමත් සමඟ. ඒ නිසා sidechain එක නවත්වී ගිය අතර එහි පරිශීලකයන්ට කැටිවූ ශේෂයන් දෙස බලා සිටීමට සිදුවුණා.