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Smarter Web’s MORE rally is the digital credit win Saylor says he wants
Base Ships Cobalt Hard Fork With Validity Transactions and B20 Upgrades
FTC Opens Sweeping Probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and Other Frontier AI Labs
JUST IN: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins says they are working to provide clarity for crypto markets. "This represents more than a regulatory shift—it is a generational opportunity to advance American leadership in the digital finance revolution." 🇺🇸
Coinbase Leads SHIB Supply Cut Amid 154% Burn Spike
STATE STREET WENT LIVE ON STELLAR TODAY... but look at the history, this has been in the works for years! If we look at Nadine Chakar who now leads digital assets at DTCC (one of Stellar’s biggest institutional partnerships). What was she doing before the DTCC? She ran State
ICYMI: we broke down how digital twins can help test tokenomics before launch, where spreadsheet models fall short and what happens once a token goes live. Watch the full AMA with @KenomicAI and @raycotarrida here.
️ JUST IN: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick disclosed over $250 million in income and other proceeds for 2025, including a $192 million distribution from Cantor Fitzgerald.
Only 12 days left... InterLink's first 10M users can still claim 1 $ITL, two NFTs, and an early-Linker badge. The window shuts on October 12 at 23:59 UTC.
Base completes Cobalt upgrade, adds new tools for tokenized assets
Base activated its Cobalt upgrade Wednesday, adding conditional transactions and new issuer controls for tokenized assets as the Ethereum layer-2 network deepens its push into onchain finance.
White House weighs new CFTC event contract rules in growing prediction market power struggle
Bloomberg brings onchain stablecoin data to its Terminal
Bloomberg has launched a stablecoin dashboard on its Terminal, giving financial professionals access to onchain data tracking stablecoin supply, issuance and transaction activity.
How Bitget Is Chasing $388 Million in Stolen Funds After a Zero-Day Hack Unchained
53,000 Michigan Kids Lose SNAP Benefits as Schools and Food Pantries Feel the Strain: Report
Avalanche block verification is now 100x faster Avalanche (@avax) now verifies its C-Chain blocks in about 2 milliseconds, down from roughly 210 milliseconds before last week's Helicon upgrade. The jump comes from a change called Continuous Execution, which lets validators
Bitcoin, XRP Have Utility but One Privacy Token Is Gaining Market Share
Stripe's Bridge Launches OUSD, the Stablecoin That Pays Its Distributors
CFTC Sends White House New Rules to Cement Its Grip on Prediction Markets
The CFTC sent the White House's OIRA two rules on Sept. 28 that would redraw the "swap" definition around event contracts: a proposed rule including them as swaps, and an interim final rule excluding "casino-style gambling products."
Zcash (ZEC) Gains 1,000% and Still Has Room to Grow, Grayscale Research Says
ZCash has been on a wild ride in the past year or so. The privacy-centric crypto asset has rallied by more than 1,000% within this timeframe, while most other alts have stalled.