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  • Circle's USDC and Tether's USDT stablecoins. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Circle and Tether Freeze Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack—But Most Funds Slip Away

    Circle and Tether have frozen a wallet linked to the massive Bitget exchange hack, cutting off roughly $318,000 in stablecoins from the attacker, though the bulk of the stolen fortune moved beyond reach before issuers could act. Blockchain data shows Circle blacklisted the address, labeled "Bitget Exploiter 8" on Etherscan, at 05:00 UTC Friday, using the built-in freeze function in its USDC token contract. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. Roughly seven hours la...

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  • Strategy CEO Phong Le and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (from left). Image: Decrypt/Strategy

    Strategy Wants Its Preferred Stock Dividends to Accrue 365 Days a Year

    Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy wants to pay dividends on its four U.S. preferred shares every day, including weekends and public holidays, executive chairman Michael Saylor said on Thursday. The proposal covers STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD. Dividends would accrue every calendar day and pay the following business day, with the economics otherwise unchanged. A preliminary proxy was filed the same day, a definitive proxy is due on October 5, and shareholders vote on October 28. Strategy is proposing...

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  • Morgan Stanley. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Morgan Stanley Joins NEXTPredict as Prediction Markets Bet on 'More Institutional' Play

    Institutional interest in prediction markets has not been in doubt for a while. JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon told CBS in April that the bank was weighing an entry, while describing most of the activity as closer to gambling than investing and ruling out sports and politics outright. Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon had used the firm's January earnings call to disclose meetings with both of the largest operators. Thus far, however, there has been little in the way of concrete progress to spe...

  • Pete Hegseth. Image: U.S. Department of Defense/Decrypt

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase Wallet, Filing Shows

    U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase wallet, according to his latest annual financial disclosure, covering 2025 and released by the Office of Government Ethics. The Bitcoin appears under "other assets and income" as two separate entries inside a single Coinbase wallet, one valued at between $15,001 and $50,000 and the other at between $1,001 and $15,000. Disclosure forms report ranges rather than exact figures, so the combined holding sits somewhere between about $16,0...

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  • Judge's gavel. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    KelpDAO Developer Sues LayerZero Over $292M Bridge Exploit

    The company behind KelpDAO has sued LayerZero and its chief executive over the exploit that drained $292 million from the restaking protocol in April, alleging LayerZero endorsed in writing the exact bridge configuration it later blamed for the loss. Evercrest Technologies filed the notice of civil claim in the Supreme Court of British Columbia on Wednesday, naming LayerZero Labs Ltd., LayerZero Labs Canada Inc. and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino, who is sued personally over posts on Telegram and X...

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  • Bitcoin remains the largest crypto asset in the market. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Researchers Publish 'Zcash-Style' Design for Private Bitcoin Transfers

    Researchers at Bitcoin cryptography developer [[alloc] init] have published a design for "ZCash-style" private transfers that would hide the sender, recipient and amount of a payment while running on the existing Bitcoin network. The 56-page paper, dated September 24, 2026, is written by Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov and Aleksei Moskvin. The team has "put a lot of work into thinking carefully about the security of Shielded Bitcoin and about what information the protocol reveals," Shikhelman...

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    £10K Reward Offered After UK Couple Attacked in Crypto Home Invasion

    Three men forced their way into a West Midlands home and made a couple transfer a large sum of cryptocurrency while a fourth person relayed instructions over a video call, in an attack police believe was planned and targeted. Crimestoppers, an independent charity that takes anonymous crime tips across the UK, is offering a reward of up to £10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. The appeal went out on Wednesday, more than nine months after the attack. Our charity is offering...

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  • Solana is a smart contract blockchain network. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Solana Foundation Hires Binance's Former Global CMO for Institutional Push

    The Solana Foundation has hired Binance's former global chief marketing officer as its chief strategy officer, and a Polygon Labs executive to run payments, as the non-profit builds a senior team focused on institutional adoption and payments. Rachel Conlan spent three years as Binance's global CMO and previously held senior roles at OKX, the sports agency CAA Sports and the advertising group Havas. Her brief covers institutional partnerships, ecosystem growth and go-to-market, the Foundation sa...

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  • European flags in front of the Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Q-Day Could Arrive Before Quantum Computers Are Commercially Useful, EU Warns

    An advanced quantum computer could undermine some of the cryptography systems used to secure communications, transactions, databases and blockchains, the European Union's three financial supervisors said in their autumn assessment of risks to the bloc's financial system. The warning, from the joint committee of the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority, highlighted that the threat could materialise...

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  • Crime. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Brooklyn Man Who Bragged About $16M Coinbase Scam Gets Up to 12 Years

    A 23-year-old from Sheepshead Bay has been sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for stealing $16 million from nearly 100 Coinbase users, after posing as a representative of the exchange and persuading them to move their funds somewhere he controlled. Ronald Spektor contacted users claiming to work for Coinbase and telling them their assets were exposed to a hacker, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said. SENTENCING: Brooklyn Man Sentenced to up to 12 Years in Prison for Stealing Nearl...

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  • USDC and USDT stablecoins. Image: Decrypt

    Americans Would Use Stablecoins—If They Came With Bank Protections, Visa Study Finds

    Most Americans still don't know what a stablecoin is. Offer them the safety net of a bank account, though, and a majority say they'd use one. That's the principal finding from Visa's Money Travels 2026 report, released Wednesday. In a hypothetical scenario where stablecoins came with bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance, the share of Americans willing to use them for international transfers jumped from 36% to 56%, the payments giant said. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click t...

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  • North Korea and hacking. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    North Korea's Fake Job Interviews Drained $11M From 7,000 Crypto Wallets

    A North Korean crew that poses as recruiters to compromise developers has taken funds or credentials from more than 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets and moved around $10.71 million to Pyongyang, seven agencies across four countries said in a joint advisory published on September 18. The group, which Japan's National Police Agency calls WaterPlum and the security industry knows as Contagious Interview, infected at least 30,000 devices in more than 100 countries between roughly December 2025 and July...

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  • CFTC. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    CFTC Staff Advisory Says Prediction Market 'Mention' Contracts Invite Manipulation

    Prediction market contracts that settle on whether a named individual says particular words, turns up somewhere or interacts with someone else should be treated as presumptively open to manipulation, staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Division of Market Oversight said on Tuesday. The category, which the industry calls mention markets, reaches well beyond speech, taking in contracts on attendance, handshakes, photographs and social media engagement. Most event contracts settle on...

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  • Judge's gavel. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Former Polish Police Officer Charged as Zondacrypto Probe Searches Fuel Depot

    Polish prosecutors have charged a former police officer over the collapsed Zondacrypto exchange, as investigators search the fuel depot where its founder was last seen before he disappeared four years ago. Officers from the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime, Poland's specialist cybercrime force, detained Artur K. on Tuesday on the orders of the National Prosecutor's Office organized crime department, which said he faces two counts. Dziś funkcjonariusze CBZC na polecenie Śląskiego Wydziału...

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  • Bitcoin ETF. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin ETFs Take Nearly $1B in a Day as Average Holder Returns to Profit

    U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $998.95 million on Monday, according to SoSoValue, one week after the same funds posted the smallest weekly net inflow of their history. BlackRock's IBIT drew in $381.37 million of it, with Ark & 21Shares' ARKB following at $289.12 million and Fidelity's FBTC at $238.84 million. Morgan Stanley's MSBT added $61.67 million and Bitwise's BITB $21.56 million. Grayscale's two funds took single-digit millions apiece, while VanEck's HODL and Valkyrie's BRRR recorded nothi...

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  • Source: Circle/Decrypt

    Binance Takes $100M Stake in Circle Under Five-Year USDC Promotion Deal

    Stablecoin issuer Circle sold Binance 1,237,011 Class A shares at $80.84 apiece, raising $100 million in a private placement that closed on September 17, according to an 8-K filed Tuesday. The placement closed immediately after an expanded commercial deal running the other way. Circle agreed to pay Binance a monthly incentive fee set as a percentage of the USDC held through its Modular Smart Contract Wallet infrastructure service, and Binance agreed to promote the stablecoin on its platform. The...

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  • Binance. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    US Probes Whether Binance 'Knowingly' Let Iran-Linked Trades Through: Report

    U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating whether Binance violated sanctions on Iran by not stopping certain trading on its platform, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office is handling the inquiry, the Justice Department's criminal division in Washington is also involved, and authorities are scrutinizing whether the exchange knowingly allowed the trading. The transactions under examination were not clear, and Justice Department...

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  • Strategy founder Michael Saylor, with eyes on Bitcoin. Source: Michael Saylor/Decrypt

    Strategy's Bitcoin Pile Nears June Record After $76M Purchase

    Michael Saylor's Bitcoin treasury company Strategy bought 950 BTC for $75.7 million in the week to September 20, paying an average of $79,670 a coin inclusive of fees, according to an 8-K filed Monday. That takes the company to 846,000 BTC, bought for $63.80 billion at an average of $75,416 a coin, and to within 1,363 coins of a record. Strategy held 847,363 BTC on June 22, the largest stack it has ever reported per BitcoinTreasuries, and is now 0.2% short of it. A fortnight of buying at this we...

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  • Bitcoin bull. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Tops $85K as $648M in Crypto Shorts Liquidated

    Bitcoin climbed to highs of $85,111 on Monday, up 5.7% over 24 hours and clear of a resistance band it had tested for a week, per CoinGecko data. In one week Bitcoin absorbed a Federal Reserve rate hike, a Bank of Japan hike to a 31-year high, and the Senate's rejection of the Clarity Act, and at no point traded meaningfully below $75,000, Nexo analyst Iliya Kalchev told Decrypt. External pressure has since eased. Middle Eastern crude exports held up better than forecast, sending Brent to a hal...

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    Crypto Worker's Children Held Hostage in Latest French ‘Wrench Attack,’ $46,000 Taken

    Four men broke into a family home in the northern French town of Vendin-le-Vieil in the early hours of Sunday, held a couple and their two children, and forced the father to transfer €40,000 in crypto, BFMTV reported. The four were hooded, according to the Béthune prosecutor's office, and entered at around 4a. They bound the family with black tape and stayed more than three hours, a police source told France Télévisions. The children are eight and twelve. The father, 40, works as a salaried IT s...

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