Author: John Smith

Aave has announced an Avalanche credit hub that will let institutions borrow USA₮ against tokenized assets as the RWA market exceeds $51 billion and Avalanche hosts more than $3.4 billion of the assets. Summary Aave’s planned RWA Hub will accept eligible tokenized financial assets as collateral. Institutions will be able to borrow USA₮ without selling their underlying positions. Each credit market will use separate collateral rules while drawing from shared liquidity. The first collateral assets and a launch date will be disclosed later. Aave RWA Hub will turn tokenized assets into collateral Aave Labs said in a Sep. 16 announcement…

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor has predicted that the CLARITY Act’s 49-50 Senate defeat could send more capital toward Bitcoin as U.S. regulators continue writing crypto rules under their existing powers. Summary The CLARITY Act fell 11 votes short of the 60 needed to advance. Saylor expects regulators to proceed without waiting for another congressional vote. Banks could expand Bitcoin custody and Bitcoin-backed lending, according to Saylor. Coinbase and Bernstein also expect the SEC and CFTC to keep developing crypto rules. Michael Saylor said in an X post that the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Treasury…

Bitcoin Core 32.0 has entered its final release-candidate testing cycle after developers tagged v32.0rc1 on Sept. 14, bringing fee estimation, block-validation performance and security fixes closer to a planned Oct. 10 release. Summary Bitcoin Core 32.0 entered release-candidate testing September 14, with final tagging targeted for October 10. New fee estimation combines block history with current mempool conditions and may recommend lower fees. Block validation now prefetches previous outputs across eight worker threads by default, reducing disk waits. A wallet notification flaw could let authenticated users execute commands on affected non-Windows node systems. Testing found sixteen unauthenticated REST connections could…

Binance has scheduled the removal of four USDC spot trading pairs involving BREV, COOKIE, LA and QNT for Sept. 18 at 03:00 UTC. Summary Binance will remove four USDC spot pairs on September 18 while keeping underlying tokens tradable. BREV, COOKIE, LA and QNT remain available through other Binance spot pairs after removal deadline. Spot Trading Bots tied to affected USDC pairs will terminate simultaneously at 03:00 UTC Friday. Binance cited periodic market reviews and factors including poor liquidity and trading volume levels. Binance says pair delistings do not remove assets; supported alternatives will remain available for trading. Binance’sofficial Sept.…

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has said cryptocurrency’s long-term development will not depend on passage of the CLARITY Act, even as he continues to support a federal market-structure law for digital assets. Summary Garlinghouse said superior crypto technology can endure CLARITY setback despite his support for federal legislation. Senate rejected cloture 49-50 on September 15, leaving H.R. 3633 short of required sixty votes. Ripple says XRP’s legal status remains unchanged after the failed Senate vote on CLARITY legislation. SEC and CFTC guidance currently identifies XRP as a digital commodity under their joint interpretation. Reuters reported Bitcoin fell more than 5% while…

Zcash holders have overwhelmingly backed faster blocks and the network’s existing halving schedule in a private governance poll involving nearly 2.4 million ZEC. Summary Nearly 2.4 million ZEC participated, representing roughly 66% of eligible Ironwood balances at snapshot time. About 99.9% of participating ZEC supported cutting block target spacing from 75 to 25 seconds. Roughly 98.9% of participating ZEC favored preserving scheduled halvings instead of adopting smoothed issuance mechanics. About 96.6% backed February 2031 for beginning NSM reissuance of ZEC previously removed from circulation. NU7 features unfinished by September 30 would be dropped under the option preferred by coinholders. The…

A Bank for International Settlements working paper has found that estimates of Bitcoin onchain transfer value can differ by as much as sixfold depending on how researchers treat transaction outputs. Summary BIS researchers found Bitcoin onchain transfer estimates can vary sixfold depending on transaction measurement methodology. Bitcoin market capitalization has at times measured four times realized capitalization during sharp price surges. Researchers classified 13 million Ethereum contracts while more than 54 million remained outside study categories. USDT smart-contract holdings exceeded 20% on Ethereum, while Tron remained near 1% most periods studied. Visa filters bots, bridge routing and exchange activity when…

The CLARITY Act has stalled after a Senate cloture motion received 50 votes to 49, falling 10 votes short of the 60 needed to begin debate on the crypto market structure bill. Summary The 50-49 result stopped the Senate from opening formal debate on the CLARITY Act. Polymarket odds of enactment in 2026 fell to 7% from 31% a day earlier. Bitget Wallet identified ETH as the token with the most regulatory uncertainty tied to the vote. Fireblocks expects crypto adoption to continue, though fewer institutions may move at scale. CLARITY Act falls 10 votes short in the Senate The…

Federal prosecutors have charged two Robinhood engineers with commodities fraud and wire fraud after each allegedly earned more than $50,000 by trading crypto perpetual futures with confidential listing information. Summary Two Robinhood engineers allegedly traded before the company announced new cryptocurrency listings. Each defendant allegedly earned more than $50,000 through perpetual futures positions on Hyperliquid. Commodities fraud carries a maximum 10-year sentence, while wire fraud carries up to 20 years. The criminal complaints remain allegations, and both engineers are presumed innocent unless convicted. Robinhood engineers allegedly traded before listings The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York…

BitBox has added a self-custody Lightning hot wallet to the BitBoxApp, letting hardware-wallet users make faster Bitcoin payments through their existing backup without recording another recovery phrase. Summary BitBox users can create a Lightning wallet from their existing hardware-wallet backup. The hot wallet supports Lightning invoices, addresses, and transfers to or from on-chain balances. Breez SDK and Spark remove the need to operate nodes, channels, or liquidity. Hardware-held savings and the Lightning spending balance remain separate within the BitBoxApp. BitBox Lightning wallet separates spending from savings BitBox announced the integration as part of its September 2026 Meggen update, adding Lightning…