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$ETH might be making one of its biggest UX improvements yet.

You can have $1,000 in USDC sitting in your wallet and still be unable to send it because you have zero $ETH for gas.

That makes little sense to a normal user.

EIP-8141 could change this by letting apps or wallets pay the gas on your behalf and charge you in stablecoins instead.

So you could hold USDC, pay the fee in USDC, and never need to keep a small amount of ETH around just to make a transaction.

But the interesting part goes beyond gas.

Frame Transactions could let wallets bundle things like approvals and swaps into a single transaction, while also making it easier to upgrade wallet security without forcing users to move their funds to a new address.

That is the kind of abstraction crypto needs.

Users shouldn't have to understand which token pays gas, approve one transaction, sign another, then move funds just because they upgraded their wallet.

If Ethereum gets this right, the blockchain becomes less visible to the user.

And honestly, that's probably how it should be, don’t you think?

18 people have been charged in what prosecutors describe as the first $BTC RICO case, involving the alleged theft of $263M in crypto from a single victim.

At the center is 22-year-old Malone Lam, who allegedly posed as Google and Gemini staff to convince a Washington, D.C. resident to surrender access to 4,100 BTC.

The money allegedly funded an absurd lifestyle. The group reportedly spent $4M at LA clubs in just one month, while Lam allegedly dropped $569K in a single night.

And the operation allegedly didn’t stop behind bars. Prosecutors say Lam continued giving orders, including having Hermès Birkin bags delivered to his girlfriend in Miami.

A $263M Bitcoin theft, a RICO case, and a fortune allegedly spent like pocket change. Damn!

Liquid Network’s attackers have returned $268M worth of Bitcoin.

About 3,400 $BTC has been sent back to the Federation wallet, while roughly 598.5 $BTC remains with the attackers as an unofficial $47M bounty.

Blockstream responded onchain with a PGP-signed “Yes, thank you.”

No public bounty agreement has been announced, and Liquid remains paused.

Privacy is emerging as crypto’s strongest sector, according to Glassnode.

While $BTC is still 36% below its October 2025 peak and the median top-200 asset is down 58%, privacy coins are up 213%.

The privacy sector has grown from $7.1B to $33.6B in a year, with nearly half of that growth coming in the past month.

$ZEC is leading the move, but it isn’t just ZEC. All eight privacy coins with at least a year of history are up.

Even excluding ZEC, the privacy basket is still up 85%.

Privacy might be the market’s biggest trade right now.

Hanwha Investment & Securities, part of South Korea’s $200B Hanwha Group, is building its new tokenization platform on @avalanche

The move puts traditional assets onchain and gives institutional finance a path into global blockchain markets.

Korea is also pushing toward broader tokenized capital markets, with regulators working on plans to bring different types of securities onchain.

If this rollout scales, Avalanche could become part of the infrastructure behind Korea’s next wave of financial markets.

Stay on the lookout fam!

$BTC OGs are becoming more active.

According to CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost, the 90-day average of BTC moved by these long-term holders has climbed to around 1,500 BTC.

UPDATE: The purported Liquid Network white-hat hacker is offering to return most of the BTC.

After withdrawing roughly 4,000 $BTC worth around $320M from Liquid’s Federation wallet, the hacker sent an onchain message to Blockstream asking:

> “Sending most back to [federation address], is that ok?”

They also warned that the chain remains vulnerable and told operators to patch every node.

> “Please fix the bug first.”

If most of the $BTC comes back, this might be the most expensive bug bounty ever.

26 wins in a row, then one trade wipes away millions.

Trader 0x362a shorted 15,785 $ZEC worth roughly $18.95M three days ago. With ZEC moving against the position, the trade is now sitting at an unrealized loss of about $5.27M.

A perfect reminder that even a strong track record doesn’t make the next trade predictable.

One bad position can erase months of good ones… damn!

StonkFun’s ( $STONK ) numbers are getting interesting.

Dune data from Adam Tehc shows the platform generated $1.51M in revenue on Sept. 6, up from just $186K the day before.

That’s a massive jump in one day.

Revenue: $1.51M
Buybacks: $904.5K
$STONK burned: 6.8M

Worth watching? Heheheheeeee…. DYOR!

Roughly 4,000 $BTC just left Liquid Network’s Federation wallet.

That’s around $320M worth of Bitcoin, with Liquid saying the withdrawals were carried out by purported white-hat hackers.

The sidechain has now been paused while the team investigates the incident.

Криптобіржа Orionx, забезпечена Tether, остаточно припиняє роботу після того, як судовий аудит виявив нестачу в кастодіальному зберіганні на понад $7M.

Аудит виявив розбіжність між тим, що внутрішні записи Orionx стверджували, ніби компанія зберігала, і тим, що фактично знаходилося в її кастодіальних гаманцях у $BTC - $ETH - $XRP та $POL

Компанія звинуватила двох колишніх співзасновників у причетності, стверджуючи, що мільйони в криптовалюті були виведені у період між 2018 і 2021 роками. Обидва заперечують будь-які порушення, і причина нестачі досі залишається незрозумілою.

Наразі виведення коштів призупинено, оскільки Orionx працює над поверненням активів клієнтів.

Ще одне болісне нагадування: баланс біржі на екрані — це, найімовірніше, не те саме, що активи, які ви можете перевірити onchain. DYOR!

After 16 years of dormancy, 600 $BTC suddenly moves…

12 Bitcoin addresses containing coins mined in March 2010 became active again, with the stash now worth around $48M… damn!

Of course, the move sparked speculation that the coins could be connected to Satoshi.

But notable onlines sources says none of the 12 mining rewards can be linked to Satoshi.

Still fam, seeing BTC that old wake up is crazy…

BitMine is just 200,000 $ETH away from reaching its target.

They’ve already built a massive ETH position JSYK, and the final stretch is getting interesting.

Altcoin open interest has now moved above Bitcoin’s.

More leverage is piling into alts while $BTC takes a back seat.

Could this be an early sign of altseason?

$AMC memecoin is down more than 30% in 24 hours.

One day you’re watching the chart go vertical, the next you’re watching half your position disappear.

ETF на $BTC вже зафіксували чистий притік протягом 3 тижнів поспіль.

Три тижні стабільного купівельного тиску.

Чи дійдемо ми до 4 тижнів поспіль?

$ETH bros chilling while an L2 is robbin’ the hood with fees 💀

$MARSCOIN getting listed on Binance Spot and already pushing toward a $200M market cap is wild.

Crazy so far, and I’m genuinely curious how far the market takes this one.

Crypto really doesn’t need much to go completely insane.

After risking my $12.1M $SOL for 2 cup of coffee 😂😂

Profit is profit huh?

$BTC щойно впав нижче $80,000 після даних щодо зайнятості в США, які виявилися кращими, ніж очікувалося.

Bitcoin упав на 2.6%, стерши понад $40B ринкової капіталізації лише за 30 хвилин.

Один звіт про зайнятість — і мільярди зникають.

Макрофактори й далі задають тон.