Stablecoins make sending money easy until someone needs to spend it
When you send money to someone abroad, the confirmation on your phone is only your half of the transaction: the other half belongs to the person who has to use it. Their rent may be due in local currency. Their nearest cash collection point may be across…
Why Nasdaq surveillance cannot settle the fight over 24/7 tokenized markets
Nasdaq’s agreement to invest $100 million in Payward, Kraken’s parent company, adds a planned surveillance rollout to a push into tokenized and always-on markets. One day earlier, Citadel Securities asked U.S. regulators to keep products tied…
L-BTC resumes trading with reserves covering just 85% of supply
SideSwap reopened its markets on Liquid while the network’s route back to Bitcoin remained closed. The split gives Liquid Bitcoin a market price before holders regain the process that converts L-BTC into BTC. At 22:55 UTC on Sept. 10, a Blockstream…
US Bank moves USBDC across borders on Stellar, but only inside its own walls
U.S. Bank has completed a live cross-border payment pilot using USBDC, its proprietary U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin. The transaction demonstrated in a limited test that the lender could move its own token between bank entities on a public blockchain…
Banks get cross-exchange crypto hedge relief under Canada’s new 2027 capital rule
Canada’s banking regulator has finalized a narrow change to its crypto capital rules that should reduce capital overstatement for some market-neutral positions without broadly easing how banks must treat digital-asset risk. The Office of the…
Coinbase CEO sees Bitcoin at $400,000, but first it has to clear $81,000
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says Bitcoin’s latest bottom is already in, even as the cryptocurrency remains below a level that historically confirmed recoveries. Armstrong said in Sept. 10 interviews with Bloomberg and CNBC that he expects Bitcoin to…
Bitcoin tests critical $76,000 support cluster during macro energy shock
Bitcoin fell below $77,000 on Sept. 10 as oil rose above $100, and a global bond selloff pushed traders toward another Fed hike. BTC reached an intraday low of $76,676.07, Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.7%, and the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 4.93%…
Strategy erased nearly $8 billion of net debt in 11 months and put S&P’s junk rating on the clock
Strategy, the largest Bitcoin treasury firm, is making a case for an escape from its B- junk credit rating after building billions of dollars in liquidity and reducing debt. On Sept. 10, Strategy’s head of investor relations, Chaitanya Jain, said the…
This XRP project is shutting down after wallet flaw exposed 4,000 accounts and drained $450,000
XRP Healthcare, an healthcare platform build on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), is winding down operations after a wallet flaw exposed thousands of accounts and led to roughly $450,000 in losses. On Sept. 10, the project said the Sept. 3 XRPH Wallet incident…
OpenAI’s math breakthrough exposes the next weak link in crypto security
OpenAI’s latest mathematics breakthrough could bring automated theorem proving closer to smart-contract security workflows. On Sept. 8, the AI company said that roughly 10,000 concurrent AI agents produced a solution addressing the Navier-Stokes…