Ethereum, layer-two networks, DeFi, stablecoins and protocol development.
New USDC minting on Noble will stop October 13, with a contract pause scheduled for January. The transition puts transfer routes and trading collateral arrangements in focus across Cosmos.
Stacks says its first institutional Bitcoin Staking cohort began bonding BTC on September 10. The launch tests a new distribution of miner-funded rewards, with different custody arrangements for direct participants and pooled users.
The existing company will adopt the MetaMask name, while institutional infrastructure moves into a new Consensys business. The plan separates consumer finance from protocol development but leaves potential listing plans unresolved.
BitMine reported holding 5.90 million ETH after its largest weekly addition in more than two months. Its staked balance did not increase, leaving about 833,803 ETH outside the company’s reported staking total.
Cumberland DRW and Nonco would handle most NEAR purchases and sales under the proposed fund’s preferred execution model. A Bitwise affiliate expects to seed the product with $500,000, but the registration statement remains preliminary.
A transaction using StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy’s hash-based QSB construction was confirmed in Bitcoin block 964,199. The test demonstrates a narrow emergency spending path, not quantum protection for Bitcoin generally.
Two on-chain proposal executions removed 2,841.7435 WETH and 1,679,639.29 USDC, an estimated $8.46 million at the contemporaneous ETH price used in the reconstruction.
Michael Selig directed staff to explore a federal registration framework for crypto exchanges and compliant paths for onchain protocols, while emphasizing that legislation remained the preferred outcome.
The proposal sought comment on pathways between capital formation, decentralization and a mature network.
A single BNB Chain transaction used flash liquidity and Fox Market’s LP-bond accounting to extract at least 112,976 USDT, according to a later reproducible trace.
The network said its patch had blocked further unauthorized ONE creation, but the disputed supply, exchange freezes and potential rewriting of chain history remained unresolved.
A conditional no-action position opened a path for Franklin Templeton funds to hold shares of an affiliated onchain government money-market fund while replacing physical-custody procedures with recordkeeping, reconciliation and oversight controls.
The proposed restrictions on arbitrary transaction data produced a minority branch that had advanced only two blocks by August 9, exposing the gap between node enforcement and network-wide consensus.
First Data was assigned the issuer and primary-market roles, while BKN301 would connect Tether’s tokenization platform to banking, payments and compliance infrastructure. No asset, issuance value, blockchain, regulator or launch date was disclosed.
BlackRock, DTCC, Mastercard, Visa and other financial institutions joined Arc’s founding validator cohort as Circle targeted September 16 for public launch.
The payment network brought BVNK’s fiat and on-chain payment infrastructure in-house after agreeing to pay $1.5 billion plus as much as $300 million in contingent consideration.
Blocks mined on August 1 left the controversial Bitcoin proposal unable to reach 55% during its current voluntary period, although a separate mandatory phase remained ahead.
A July 25 data check found growing use of Robinhood’s new layer-two network for stock-linked tokens, although memecoins and stablecoins still accounted for most trading.
The scheduled step-down reduced daily unlocks from about 5.1 million WLD to 2.9 million without changing the token’s maximum supply or creating a one-time cliff.
The Nasdaq-listed crypto index fund authorized staking of eligible assets, with common shareholders receiving 60% of net income above a sponsor allocation threshold.
The statement examined structures that combine custody, strategy execution and yield-like products.
The program paired developer grants with research and expert review, turning a long-horizon cryptographic risk into a funded Bitcoin engineering effort. It did not change Bitcoin’s protocol or establish that a quantum attack was imminent.
Coinbase prices and U.S. spot-product flows pointed in the same direction, though venue, cutoff and flow-data limitations kept the signal narrow.
More than 30 financial and digital-asset firms participated as tokenized DTC-held securities moved through collateral, repo, equity and margin workflows.