Aave’s live stock-token loans expose USDC lenders to a weekend price gap
Aave’s Base market has accepted seven Coinbase stock tokens as collateral for USDC loans since Sept. 25, giving the stablecoin suppliers who opt in exposure to a weekend pricing gap. Aave Labs said on Sept. 25 that its V4 Equities Hub was…
An $84 million US asset seizure just sparked a massive question for Tether
Tether has disclosed exposure to EQIBank as the bank fights a US seizure involving payment processor Capstone Limited, raising a question about access to assets that might back USDT. On Sept. 25, the stablecoin issuer told PYMNTS the exposure was less…
Solana’s plan for fairer trades stalls as block producers still choose which orders get in
A proposed Solana rule would let validators reject a block when transactions inside one entry batch are recorded out of fee-priority order. It would not decide which transactions make the block. The SIMD-0649 pull request closed on Sept. 25 without…
SEC clears regulatory hurdle as crypto token buybacks hit record $638 million
Crypto projects spent about $638 million with token buybacks through late August 2026, according to Allium Labs data. That is already a record, up from $545 million over the same stretch of 2025. Hyperliquid accounted for roughly $370 million and…
Fed proposed stablecoin rule could trigger a 48-hour liquidation run
The Federal Reserve’s proposed rules for the payment stablecoin issuers it supervises include a crisis clock measured in hours. An issuer whose reserves fall below the value of its outstanding tokens would have 24 hours to notify the Fed and submit…
Washington has $114 billion reasons to want Tether around
Not that long ago, Washington fined Tether for misleading people about the dollars behind its tokens. Today, the company’s insatiable appetite for American debt is the main argument for sending those tokens further around the world. The distance…
Balancer fork’s 6 million BAL ask could cut holders’ redemption value
MAXYZ, a group of former Balancer contributors, is asking for up to 6 million currently non-circulating BAL to seed a successor protocol. If the granted tokens reach other eligible holders before Balancer’s proposed wind-down redemption snapshot,…
Swiss bank shields Bitget institutions while retail funds freeze
Bitget says about $387.5 million in assets was transferred to attacker-controlled addresses during a Sept. 24 wallet breach. Its withdrawals remained suspended in notices issued through Sept. 25, even as deposits and trading continued. On the day of the…
IBM links 17 banks to the SWIFT ledger, but the cloud risk persists
IBM announced a beta connection between its Digital Asset Haven and SWIFT’s shared ledger for tokenized deposits on Sept. 24, using an ISO 20022 Messaging Adapter that lets participating institutions instruct ledger transactions through standard…
Dormant whale moves $380M Bitcoin, leaving the sale question unanswered
A Bitcoin address sent 4,499.99987779 BTC to a single destination in a transaction confirmed at 02:30:04 UTC on Sept. 25, 2026. The output was still unspent at a 13:33 UTC check, leaving nearly 4,500 BTC visible at one address after the move. At…