Polymarket Launches Crypto Perpetual Futures With Up to 20x Leverage
The prediction market platform’s new Perps product scaled from 10 markets to 67 on its first day—though the 20x leverage ceiling only applies to some of them, and none of it reaches U.S. traders.
Privacy coin flaw risks endless token creation, leaving node operators with a deadline in hours to fix it
The Firo hard fork was 153 blocks away from activation early Friday, leaving wallet users and network operators only hours to install software that repairs an August vulnerability in the privacy coin’s Spark transaction system. The chain reached block…
Crypto Traders Are Pairing Meme Coins With Stocks on Robinhood—And It’s Working (Sort Of)
A meme coin called BONER cornered half of Hims & Hers Health’s tokenized shares on Robinhood’s new blockchain. It started a new trend that’s spreading fast.
‘Send Your Lawyers’: Robinhood Isn’t Backing Down From AMC Over Stock Tokens
Lawyers question AMC’s grounds for a securities-law challenge, but say the tokens’ branding and marketing could leave room for a dispute.
Monad’s mainnet upgrade makes storing data together 98% cheaper
Monad, an EVM-compatible blockchain, activated its MonadTen revision on mainnet at 14:30 UTC on Sept. 2. The MIP-8 upgrade changes how the network charges contracts for reading storage, replacing slot-by-slot warming with groups of 128 consecutive slots.…
Scan reveals 96,000 fake-address outputs clogging Bitcoin’s unspent database
Blockchain data company Bitquery published a census on Sept. 2 of four ways text appears in Bitcoin, scanning 965,135 blocks and revealing that the same words can impose very different costs on nodes. Its study counted 13,062 OP_RETURN taunt transactions…
Parked Coldcard loot begins moving as attacker routes $1.6M in stolen Bitcoin to Ethereum
Bitcoin flagged by blockchain data provider Bitquery as linked to the 2026 Coldcard hardware-wallet theft crossed into Ethereum this week after a tracked 20.5 BTC stash began moving. The route shifted the case from a largely parked stash to an active…
Utah Becomes First State to Target VPNs in Age-Verification Crackdown
Privacy advocates say the law raises First Amendment questions the courts have yet to address.
Bitcoin Miner Ditches Site for AI Deal That Could Top $1.2 Billion
The projected revenue requires two contract extensions, while an option for more computing capacity could bring the total above $3 billion.
This Japanese company made money on Ethereum, Solana, and XRP, but sold them anyway to keep its $121 million Bitcoin holdings
Remixpoint sold all of its Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and Dogecoin holdings, leaving Bitcoin as its only cryptocurrency asset. The Japanese company generated ¥878.8 million, or about $5.5 million, from the Sept. 1 sales and booked a net gain of about ¥117.8…