DeFi & Markets
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Latest in DeFi & Markets
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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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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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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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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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Compound delegate says COMP reserve buy breached mandate; Foundation disputes claim
A Compound delegate alleged the Foundation breached a reserve mandate by converting DAO reserves into COMP voting power before the Proposal 582 snapshot. The Foundation says the move fit its governance-continuity purpose.
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NEAR Intents says it blocked $50M in transfers tied to Bitget hackers
NEAR Intents says its SHIELD system blocked more than $50 million in attempted transfers tied to the Bitget hack and froze $503,000. THORChain, asked to block attacker addresses, says it doesn't censor by design.
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Robinhood's average daily crypto volume rose 24% in September, Crypto Briefing reports
Robinhood's average daily notional crypto trading volume rose 24% in September versus August, Crypto Briefing reports, though the report gives no full-month total and volumes remain well below 2025 levels.
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SEC issues new crypto Howey FAQs as Bitget resumes Bitcoin withdrawals
The SEC issued new FAQs on how the Howey test applies to token buybacks, network development and staking receipt tokens, while Bitget resumed BTC withdrawals after a breach affecting nearly $388 million.
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USDT issuance grew on Ethereum without a sustained rise in contract holdings, BIS finds
A BIS working paper found more USDT was issued on Ethereum without a sustained rise in smart-contract holdings, with the contract-held share slipping to roughly 10% to 15% after late 2024, CryptoSlate reported.
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Senate finds Iran used $507M in Tether to evade sanctions
A US Senate investigation found that Iran's Central Bank accumulated at least $507 million in Tether's USDT stablecoin to evade international sanctions, prompting formal records demands and a broader government crackdown dubbed Operation Economic Fury.
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Bitcoin slips below $83,000 as Asia markets sell off
Bitcoin slipped below $83,000 during Monday's Asia session, breaking the lower edge of the range established late last week as oil and Treasury yields climbed in broader market moves.
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Venus Protocol Liquidity Hub Merges Yield and Collateral
Venus Protocol launched the Liquidity Hub around August 31, allowing users to earn yield on stablecoin deposits while using those deposits as collateral for loans, addressing a core DeFi capital efficiency challenge.
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Bitcoin drops below $83K as liquidations stall rally toward yearly open
Bitcoin fell to weekly lows Monday after liquidating $70 million in long positions as geopolitical risk from Trump's Iran comments weighed on risk assets alongside US stock futures weakness.
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Iran crypto mining drains 14% of summer grid deficit, Majlis warns
Iran's Majlis Research Center found that cryptocurrency mining operations consume 930–1,200 megawatts of electricity, representing roughly 14% of the country's power deficit during peak summer months and draining $1.5 billion annually in diesel fuel costs.
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Solana ETFs record $188.21M weekly inflow, largest since launch
Solana ETFs attracted $188.21 million in fresh capital during the week of September 21-25, 2026, marking the largest weekly inflow since their launch. All seven ETFs recorded positive inflows, with Bitwise's Solana Staking ETF capturing 68% of the total.
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Novig Hires Sydney Sweeney to Promote Sports Prediction Markets
Novig introduced actress Sydney Sweeney as a partner in its sports prediction exchange on September 9, signaling that prediction markets are moving beyond niche probability enthusiasts into mainstream entertainment and sports culture.
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Payward Builds Unified Crypto-Equities Infrastructure With $2.65B in Acquisitions
Payward, Kraken's parent company, is transforming itself into financial infrastructure through $2.65 billion in acquisitions and major investments from Nasdaq and Deutsche Börse, aiming to bridge crypto and traditional equity markets—but regulatory and integration risks remain steep.
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Nomic Foundation launches slang-solx compiler with 5x speed gains for Ethereum
The Nomic Foundation released slang-solx, an LLVM-based Solidity compiler backend, on September 7, 2026, achieving up to 5x faster compilation speeds in via-IR mode. The Solidity core team followed with version 0.8.37, adding security fixes and support for the SLOTNUM opcode tied to the Amsterdam EVM upgrade.
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Two XRPL AMM pools account for 97% of volume with just 185 trades
Two pools exchanging TIX for other issued tokens accounted for 97.24% of seven-day automated market maker volume on XRP Ledger, despite recording only 185 total trades and no activity in the latest 24 hours.
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Federal Reserve proposes reserve limits and capital standards for stablecoin issuers
The Federal Reserve proposed new reserve-asset limits and standardized capital requirements for stablecoin issuers, advancing implementation of the GENIUS Act signed into law last year with a January 2027 effective date.