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SEC's five-year tokenized-stock exemption opens permissioned AMM trading, with analysts seeing potential benefits for Coinbase, Robinhood and Circle.

Toyosa now accepts Bitcoin for Toyota purchases in Bolivia, with Towerbank processing transactions and BitGo providing wallet infrastructure.

ZetaChain holders are voting on a 1:1 ZETA migration to Solana, with 99.4% support and a second vote required before any L1 shutdown.

Ethereum targets quantum-resistant Layer 1 by December 2029 as Hegotá advances Frames, execution proofs, privacy and faster finality.

Binance Wallet has launched Pre-Access via PancakeSwap, giving eligible users indirect tokenized exposure to private companies before possible IPOs.

Grayscale’s Zcash ETF plans a 3-for-1 share split on Sept. 30, tripling ZCSH shares while leaving each investor’s total value unchanged.

Hong Kong jailed ex-CCB Asia manager Lam Chun-yin for four years over $470,000 in USDT bribes tied to false $1.6B bank instruments.

Kalshi filed for U.S. stock and ETF perpetual futures with 23-hour weekday trading as CFTC approval and a Nov. 2 start remain pending.

Onchain RWA assets reached $34.18B as of Sept. 15, up 85.2% YTD, while Binance Research says only around 12% is deployed in DeFi applications.

Robinhood Chain collected $4.5 million in fees on Sept. 3 while Ethereum settlement costs totaled about $398, according to Bitquery.

HotShort has joined the Feixiaohao × GWDC 2026 Innovation Forum as a co-organizer and will present its model for turning short-drama content and related revenue into blockchain-based assets at the Sep. 29 event in Seoul. Feixiaohao said the forum will…

Lemon has decided to close its Brazilian operations and terminate about 15,000 local accounts after finding the country’s new crypto licensing capital requirements too costly for its business. Lemon said Brazil’s new capital requirements were “disproportionate” to the size of…

Bitcoin price rebounded about 6% over the past 24 hours to trade near $81,300, with a short squeeze and improving technical momentum carrying the price to its highest level in two weeks. Bitcoin price action today Bitcoin (BTC) price traded…

U.S. spot crypto exchange-traded products recorded about $70.7 million in combined net outflows during the Sep. 14–18 trading week, as withdrawals from Ether funds outweighed demand for Bitcoin, Solana, and Hyperliquid products. According to data from Farside Investors, the four…

Global NFT sales volume fell 15.28% to $37.54 million over the latest seven-day period, even as the number of buyer and seller addresses more than doubled. According to data from CryptoSlam, captured on Sep. 19 with the “7 Days” setting…

Crypto and blockchain companies announced at least $180.25 million in disclosed financing across nine deals from Sep. 12 to Sep. 18. Crypto market data provider Kaiko led the week with a $110 million round backed by several major financial institutions.…

In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2023, the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate, and the SEC opened a five-year pathway for tokenized U.S. stock trading. Fed…

Anthropic has moved its planned initial public offering to November as investors discuss a deal that could value the Claude developer at roughly $2 trillion and raise up to $100 billion. Anthropic IPO could become one of the largest listings…

Banks have doubled their presence on the European Union’s MiCA register to about 80 institutions in less than three months, raising their share of listed crypto providers to nearly 23%. According to an analysis of European Securities and Markets Authority…

Binance has expanded its derivatives platform into the $9.6 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market with a 24/7 US dollar-Brazilian real perpetual contract offering up to 100x leverage. Binance said in a Friday announcement that the USDBRLUSDT contract will begin trading on…

Fake YouTube tutorials promoting AI-powered crypto arbitrage bots have tricked 224 victims into deploying malicious smart contracts that stole 274.6 ETH worth about $517,000. TRM Labs said in a Sep. 14 report that the operation disguised malicious Ethereum contracts as…

The SEC has opened a five-year pathway for tokenized U.S. stocks that requires each approved token to carry the economic, voting, dividend, and liquidation rights attached to the underlying share. Bitget Wallet COO Alvin Kan told crypto.news that the legal…

The SEC has opened permissioned onchain trading to fully backed U.S. stock tokens, but the 32.5-hour trading week on NYSE and Nasdaq leaves automated markets without a live reference price for most of each 168-hour week. The SEC’s temporary exemption…

A BaFin official has warned that centralized EU crypto supervision could place extra burdens on firms while reducing flexibility in applying MiCA rules. Centralized MiCA supervision could reduce flexibility The European Blockchain Convention’s Day 2 briefing attributed the warning to…