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US Seeks to Forfeit $61M in Crypto Tied to Sanctioned Iranian Oil Sales
U.S. prosecutors seek to forfeit $61 million in crypto allegedly linked to sanctioned Iranian oil sales and funds sent to…

BitMine Adds 27,180 ETH, Pushing its Holdings Near 6 Million
The company now holds $15.8 billion in crypto, cash, marketable securities and other assets as it continues its Ethereum accumulation…

Crypto Week Ahead: CLARITY Act Cloture, FOMC Dot Plot, BoJ Hike & VeChain Interstellar
CLARITY Act faces a 60-vote cloture test Tuesday, followed by the Fed’s rate decision and dot plot Wednesday as markets…

MSTR, COIN, CRCL End Week Lower as Bitcoin Miners CLSK, HUT, MARA Rally
Circle was the weakest performer, falling 11.22% for the week, while Strategy dropped 8.28% and Coinbase 5.08% despite all three…

Justin Sun’s TRX ETF Debuts on Cboe With Zero Inflows, Just $16,700 in First-Day Volume
TRXS recorded zero net inflows and $16,700 in volume on its first measured session, despite launching with about $50 million…

Zcash Holder Says $589K USDT Stuck on NEAR Intents 50 Days After Zodl Swap
NEAR Intents initially cleared the compliance review on July 23 and approved the release of the $589,000 USDT, but the…

Metaplanet Shares Fall 3.86% as Firm Proposes ¥27.8B Capital Cut & Hong Kong Unit
Metaplanet proposes cutting its ¥27.8 billion capital stock to ¥1, with shareholder approval scheduled for December 18.

Nasdaq Bets $100M on Payward’s xStocks Pipeline as Valuation Divergence Widens
Nasdaq and Payward’s partnership is expanding as the exchange reportedly invests $100 million at a $21 billion valuation, well above…

India Favors Bilateral CBDC Payments Over a Unified BRICS Payment System
India supports linking BRICS central bank digital currencies for cross-border payments but is unlikely to back a single payment network…

DOJ Seizes Xinbi Telegram Channels as OFAC Designates It a Criminal Organization
Roughly $52 million in cryptocurrency was restrained in a single day, taking the Strike Force total to about $938 million.

Hunter Biden Denies $LAPTOP Profit as Memecoin Crashes 95%, Foundation’s X Account Suspended
Pre-launch transfers involved 42.5M tokens, including 15.5M sent to GSR and 14.5M to an unlabeled wallet, while about 80% of…

Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP Turns a $200,000 Wallet Into $3,000 in an Hour as Token Crashes 96% on Launch Day
One $LAPTOP buyer lost about 98.5% of a $200,000 position, while another wallet reportedly made over $1 million within minutes…

Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP Token Goes Live: Crashes From $316 to $6 in Minutes
The launch fits a pattern of celebrity and political meme coins that treat notoriety as marketing.

Maestro Disables Auto Snipe for Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP Meme Coin: Analyst Warns of High Volatility
Maestro cited scam tokens and pools; the analyst said public sniping tools cannot beat insider execution.

Polkadot OpenGov Votes on Native dotUSD Stablecoin Proposal
Polkadot’s OpenGov community is voting on dotUSD, a proposed native stablecoin that would initially use USDT reserves before introducing a…

Gemini Secures Singapore MPI License for Crypto Services
Gemini has received a Major Payment Institution license from Singapore’s financial regulator, allowing its local entity to provide digital payment…

Iran Relaxes Crypto Rules as Exporters Settle Trade in Tether, FT Reports
The central bank has stopped asking how repatriated funds were transferred, businesses told the newspaper.

Hunter Biden Defends $LAPTOP as ‘Resilience,’ Calls Trump’s Token a ‘Grift’
Hunter Biden defended $LAPTOP as a symbol of “resilience, redemption, and recovery” while criticizing Donald Trump’s $TRUMP token. The meme…

Circle Agrees to Acquire Tazapay in $400M Stock Deal
Tazapay processes more than $25 billion in annualized payment volume and serves over 60 banking and fintech partners across more…

Visa’s Stablecoin Card Volume Surges 200% as Settlement Tops $20B
The company details a Credit Coop facility that funds daily settlement obligations and is repaid automatically by smart contract.

UBS Tests CHF Stablecoin With Swiss Banks for Payments and Settlement
UBS and eight other Swiss firms are testing the CHF-pegged CHFD stablecoin for payments, settlement, and other blockchain-based applications.

BDACS Taps LayerZero to Expand Korean Won Stablecoin
BDACS is adopting LayerZero’s OFT standard for KRW1 to support transfers across blockchain networks while maintaining the stablecoin’s 1:1 backing…

Binance Founder CZ Predicts IPOs Will Eventually Move On-Chain
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao says IPOs could eventually move on-chain as tokenized stocks grow and financial firms build infrastructure for…

US Judge Seizes One Crypto Wallet, Rejects 7 Others Over Forfeiture Notice
The government's forfeiture notice named only one address, and the judge denied the rest without prejudice.

BTC, ETH, XRP Prices Consolidate Ahead of U.S. CPI and PPI
The July PPI for final demand was unchanged on the month and up 4.7% over the year. Goods prices fell…

BNB Chain DEX Router Reportedly Drained of 62 WBNB in Exploit
A security researcher said a BNB Chain DEX router may have used existing token approvals to drain about 62 WBNB…

XRP Healthcare Says About $452,000 Taken From 4,011 Wallets
XRP Healthcare said unauthorized transactions that began on 3 September 2026 affected about 4,011 XRPH Wallet accounts and resulted in…

Crypto Hacks Cross $322M in September’s First Week as Liquid Network Alone Loses $320M
Beyond Liquid, Notional, XRPH Wallet, Dream Health Chain and RedSonic Vault added around $2.3M to September’s crypto losses.

South Korea’s Hanwha Builds Avalanche-Based Tokenized Securities Platform
Hanwha’s new platform supports Avalanche and Hyperledger Besu as South Korea prepares to bring tokenized securities into its regulated financial…

Crypto Week Ahead: US CPI, ECB Decision, Solana & MultiversX Updates
A holiday-shortened US week brings August inflation data and an ECB rate decision, while the crypto calendar features Solana’s Transaction…