Three DeFi projects face possible exclusion from future Arbitrum DAO programs
Arbitrum’s Watchdog Committee, a grant oversight body, has given three DeFi projects until a tentative Sept. 10 deadline to answer high-severity misuse findings and return funds it considers unresolved, or face separate votes on permanent exclusion…
Bitcoin’s faces a weird new macro reality as the Fed turns off the tap and Treasury opens the floodgates
Bitcoin’s current rally started when the Treasury Department announced on Aug. 19 that, beginning Sept. 9, it would at least double the maximum size of certain buyback operations for government bonds with 10 to 30 years left to maturity, raising…
How Bitmine could surpass its 5% Ethereum goal without buying more ETH
Bitmine is still buying Ethereum, even as staking may make further purchases unnecessary to reach its 5% ownership target. The Nasdaq-listed treasury company disclosed that it acquired 53,501 ETH in the week through Aug. 30, taking its holdings to 5.9…
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Is Shockingly Good at Almost Everything
Early testers spent OpenAI’s launch weekend pushing Astra through 3D cities, playable games, Bach chorales and research papers.
Bitcoin ETF inflows fall 76% entering Labor Day break as only BlackRock and Fidelity attract fresh money
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded net inflows of $174.6 million on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. Only funds from BlackRock and Fidelity attracted positive net flows, according to Farside Investors’ daily table, leaving the final US exchange…
XRP Gets Another Boost Through Ripple Deal With Florida Athletics
The multi-year deal will place the XRP logo on the field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium starting this season, extending Ripple’s push into college athletics.
Aave crypto lending proposal would let emergency tools freeze markets – but not unfreeze them
Aave DAO voters are deciding whether to delegate limited V4 risk controls on Ethereum and Avalanche to Risk Stewards, tools that let approved operators make constrained changes without taking every update through a full governance vote. The proposal…
Stablecoins Won’t Scale Without Banks
With a growing number of institutions exploring stablecoins, the bottleneck is regulated infrastructure they can trust.
This Crypto Project Just Funded 1,000 Student Loans Entirely On-Chain
The team behind Pencil Finance says the financing supported thousands of Southeast Asian students, but it did not disclose borrower costs, defaults, or investor returns.
Users exposed by Trezor breach grows sixfold after supposedly deleted shipping logs are found
Hardware wallet maker Trezor says a breach at logistics provider ShipMonk exposed contact and order data for another approximately 67,000 U.S. customers after years-old records remained in the vendor’s systems despite written deletion assurances.…