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Katana CEO Matt Fisher has said a dollar stablecoin planned by 21 financial institutions for the first half of 2027 could generate yield through independent DeFi protocols, although holders would assume risks not covered by its issuing banks. Katana CEO…
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MoonPay issues the token. It is backed by PYUSD. PYUSD is issued by Paxos and backed by actual dollars and Treasuries. Count the layers: there are two, and the law Congress passed last year describes one.
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Senate Republicans have revised the Clarity Act with new protocol rules before a Sept. 15 vote, while ethics and banking disputes remain.
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ESMA says tokenized equities, DeFi exploits and prediction markets are creating new links between crypto and traditional finance.
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The September 15 upgrade brings smart contracts, an AMM DEX, and RPC infrastructure to a chain that has never processed a single swap. Seven years of mobile mining come down to whether anyone builds on the other side. The most…
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Arbitrum’s Watchdog Committee has proposed permanently excluding three DeFi projects from future DAO programs after flagging cases involving 457,553 ARB, valued at roughly $76,000. Arbitrum grant cases involve three different findings The Sep. 3 governance proposal said Good Entry, Limitless,…
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A range-proof cache bug in the Elements codebase let an unknown actor mint unbacked L-BTC, drain 95% of the federation reserve through SideSwap, then negotiate its return on-chain via OP_RETURN messages. The network remains frozen, 598.5 BTC sits in the…
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Nansen has integrated Outcome.xyz’s HIP-4 markets into its trading platform, becoming the first front end to support the venue as Hyperliquid opens its outcome-market infrastructure to outside builders. According to a press release shared with crypto.news, the integration is live…
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The cloture vote, the CPI print, the FOMC decision, and the SEC’s 24-hour trading roundtable all fall in the same 10-day window. The outcome will shape crypto regulation for the rest of the decade. The United States Senate has 14…
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Every HYPE unlock triggers the same panic cycle. Every time, the sellers never show up. The September batch will probably be no different, and the data from previous unlocks explains exactly why. Crypto Twitter lit up on September 6. The…
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The brokerage that brought zero-fee trading to millions just did the same thing to Layer 2. In 60 days, Robinhood Chain has gone from launch to $791 million in TVL, flipped Base in daily active users, and is now generating…
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A memecoin launchpad on Robinhood Chain is quietly outearning Solana’s biggest token factory. The fees are real, the volume is accelerating, and the gap is widening every day. A memecoin launchpad nobody outside of onchain circles talks about is printing…
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Connecticut has issued a warning about unregulated offshore DeFi exchanges after a resident lost access to $200,000 deposited following a deceptive solicitation. The Connecticut Attorney General’s Office said on Sept. 3 that a person claiming to know the resident persuaded…
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Compromised keys, not broken code, now drive the majority of crypto theft, and North Korea is cashing the checks. Eight months into the year, and the crypto industry has already replayed the same failure mode enough times to fill a…
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A two-month-old Layer 2 chain is out-earning every blockchain on Earth, powered by a memecoin casino and a gas subsidy that expires at the end of September. Two months ago, Robinhood launched a blockchain. The pitch was regulated, 24/7 tokenized…
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A two-month-old Layer 2 built by a stock brokerage is now processing more daily decentralized exchange volume than chains that have existed for years, and the market is only beginning to pay attention. Robinhood Chain processed roughly $945 million in…