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Solana hits 7,699 monthly active programs as funded wallets climb 38.5%
Solana recorded 7,699 monthly active programs in September, Crypto Briefing reported, while Solscan data showed funded wallets rose 38.5% month over month to 16.10 million.
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State Street, Galaxy launch SWEEP tokenized liquidity fund on Solana first
State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management launched SWEEP, a tokenized fund for stablecoin holders backed mainly by short-duration Treasuries, starting on Solana with Stellar and Ethereum planned.
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Cboe, S&P DJI to explore tokenized options in 25-year licensing extension
Cboe Global Markets and S&P Dow Jones Indices said Tuesday they will explore tokenized options contracts as part of a 25-year extension of their exclusive licensing deal, which runs through 2051.
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Citi and Coinbase link banking rails for two-way stablecoin payments, newsletter says
Large Citi corporate clients can accept stablecoin payments without holding tokens, with Coinbase converting them to dollars, according to Tyler Warner's Morning Minute newsletter published by Decrypt.
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Zcash developers move Tachyon's Udon code into Zakura Common library
Zcash developers released Udon, a component first built for Project Tachyon, into the Zakura Common cryptography library, one step toward a long-term target of more than 50,000 private payments a second.
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EliseAI raises $350 million led by a16z and Bessemer at $4 billion valuation
EliseAI, which builds AI software for administrative work in housing and healthcare, raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer, per a Tuesday release.
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PQ's St-Pierre Plamondon at 93% for Quebec premier in unnamed market: Crypto Briefing
An unnamed prediction market priced Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon at 93% to become Quebec's next premier after the 2026 election, Crypto Briefing reported, adding that a PQ return could create challenges for PM Mark Carney.
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Bitcoin holds $82,500 support as US 30-year Treasury yield hits 2002 high
Bitcoin held above $82,500 into Tuesday, trading below $84,300, after the US 30-year Treasury yield touched 5.58%, its highest since June 2002, per TradingView data cited by Cointelegraph, while Glassnode warned profit-taking is building.
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Bitcoin rebounds above $84,000 as ether leads; ZEC fund posts only ETF outflow
Bitcoin rose 1% to just above $84,200 on Tuesday per CoinDesk data. Ether gained 2%, ZEC fell 9%, and the lone U.S. ZEC fund posted Monday's only crypto ETF outflow, SoSoValue data show.
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Bitcoin nears third straight monthly gain, threatening a September pattern since 2013
Bitcoin was up about 7% in September after a 25% August, CoinDesk reported, putting it on course to break a pattern since 2013 in which every positive August was followed by a negative September.
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Nvidia, AMD ramp up White House lobbying over China AI chip export controls
Nvidia and AMD have stepped up White House lobbying over US export controls on AI chips to China, with Nvidia's spending rising from $640,000 in 2024 to nearly $3.5 million in 2025's first three quarters, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Altcoin spot volume hits nearly 4x Bitcoin's, highest ratio since September 2025
Altcoin spot trading volume climbed to nearly four times Bitcoin's, the highest ratio since September 2025, according to Glassnode data reported by Crypto Briefing, as altcoin exchange deposits also rose.
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Chainlink CCIP 2.0 lets issuers require extra verifiers; analysis flags stall risk
Chainlink's CCIP 2.0, announced Sept. 28, lets token issuers require an extra verifier before cross-chain delivery. CryptoSlate's analysis says an unresponsive verifier could stall tokens already locked or burned at the source.
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Tether says it helped freeze nearly $550M in Iran-linked USDT in 2026
Tether said Monday it helped authorities freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT this year, as Senate Democratic investigators alleged the stablecoin had become a key channel for Iranian sanctions evasion.
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NEAR Intents says it blocked most of $50M in Bitget hacker swap attempts
Attackers behind the $388 million Bitget breach tried to move over $50 million through NEAR Intents, CoinDesk reported. GM Alex Shevchenko says most was blocked, but rejected funds later went to other providers.
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Tom Lee's BitMine tops 6 million ETH after 17,362 ETH weekly buy
BitMine Immersion Technologies, chaired by Tom Lee, bought 17,362 ETH worth $46.82 million over the prior week, per Lookonchain data, pushing its holdings past 6 million ETH, U.Today reported.
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Cardano's ADA down 68% in a year as October record shows two gains in eight
Cardano's ADA was down 68% on a one-year basis, according to CoinGecko data cited by U.Today. U.Today's figures show the token has closed only two of eight Octobers in positive territory since 2018.
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Stellar sets 217.4 TPS throughput record, per Chainspect data
Stellar's network hit a record 217.4 transactions per second on September 26, according to Chainspect data reported by U.Today, less than two weeks after its previous peak of about 211 TPS.
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Bitcoin exchange outflows hit $2.8 billion as Strategy adds 1,666 BTC before macro week
Investors withdrew 34,123 BTC (about $2.8 billion) from exchanges over seven days, per Coinglass data cited by U.Today. Strategy filed for another 1,666 BTC buy ahead of a crowded U.S. data week.
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U.Today analysis: XRP trades near $1.537 as GRAM tests its 200-day average
A U.Today price analysis from September 28 put XRP near $1.537 with support at $1.45 to $1.50, and also covered GRAM's rebound, NEAR's month-long run and Bitcoin near $84,900.
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Vitalik Buterin calls Ethereum a 'cryptographic world computer' and names roadmap upgrades
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said the network is becoming a hybrid of blockchain and modern cryptography, according to U.Today, and named FOCIL, EIP-8288 and Lean consensus among proposed upgrades.
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Shiba Inu exchange reserve nears 88 trillion SHIB as price rally stalls
Shiba Inu's exchange reserve reached about 87.79 trillion SHIB as of Sept. 27, according to CryptoQuant data reported by U.Today, as the meme token's recent price rally stalled.
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India lines up roughly $25B for deep tech startups, Crypto Briefing reports
India is marshaling roughly $25 billion in combined public and private money for deep tech startups, according to a Crypto Briefing estimate, with a ₹1 lakh crore research scheme at its centre.
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XRP Seoul lineup lists Kyobo Securities, Woori Bank and Kakao Bank for Oct. 3
XRP Seoul is scheduled for October 3 at the Grand Hyatt Seoul, with sessions featuring Kyobo Securities, Woori Bank and Kakao Bank on tokenization, crypto-rail payments and DeFi, per XRPL Foundation's Hussein Zangana.