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‘White hats’ take 4000 BTC from Liquid, ETFs see best inflows of 2026: Hodler’s Digest
Purported white hat hackers have taken 4000 Bitcoin from the Liquid sidechain in a major security breach. The Bitcoin ETFs see the best three weeks of inflows in 2026.
Prediction markets inch closer to the Supreme Court: State of Crypto
New Jersey petitioned for a writ of certiorari in Kalshi's case against it last week, finally throwing the ball to the high court.
XRP Gets Another Boost Through Ripple Deal With Florida Athletics
The multi-year deal will place the XRP logo on the field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium starting this season, extending Ripple's push into college athletics.
Ukrainian police took down a crypto scam that stole up to $1 million a month
Investigators have identified 62 victims and say more than 46 Ukrainians took part in the alleged operation.
Better and Coinbase’s bitcoin-backed mortgages can reuse borrowers’ collateral
Better Mortgage can reuse the pledged bitcoin, and borrowers cannot recover their crypto until the main conventional mortgage is fully repaid or refinanced.
Tether-backed Orionx to shut down after audit flags $7M custody gap
Tether-backed Orionx is permanently closing after an audit found more than $7 million in customer assets had moved to wallets outside its custody.
Ancient Bitcoin Wallet That Turned $120 Into $3 Million Wakes Up
At least four more decade-old wallets moved a combined $15.7 million between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4, with one batch of coins sent to Coinbase in a likely sign of a sale.
Dollar-backed stablecoins can push local currencies lower, Bank of Korea study finds
Buying pressure in Binance-paired currencies correlates with local currency depreciation as market makers balance positions.
What Is Robinhood Chain? The Ethereum Layer-2 Network for Tokenized Stocks and Meme Coins
Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum layer-2 network built with Arbitrum technology for tokenized assets, crypto apps, and on-chain financial products.
Update Your Browser: Google Patches Chrome Flaw Hackers Were Already Using
The update fixes a high-severity flaw in Chrome’s V8 engine, but Google has not revealed who is using it or whom they targeted.
AI Just Solved a 350-Year-Old Math Problem By Writing the Longest Proof Ever
Anthropic says Claude spent 11 days turning Fermat's Last Theorem into 13 million lines of code a computer can check itself, no human trust required
British investor thought he lost $2,000 in bitcoin in 2012. He just recovered $4.5 million
CEL Solicitors says it has identified a wallet holding more than 5,500 BTC linked to former Intersango users.
Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $3.8B in strongest three-week stretch of 2026
US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew nearly $1 billion in the latest week as Friday inflows stayed positive despite Bitcoin briefly falling below $79,000.
Southeast Asia’s crypto funding rebounds to $680 million as investors focus on mature firms
Blockchain investment in Southeast Asia in 2026 has been led by crypto financial services, though funding remains heavily concentrated in Singapore and a handful of companies.
TikTok's Parent Company Just Borrowed $30 Billion to Go All-In on AI
Nearly 30 banks backed the rare unsecured facility as TikTok’s parent company spends heavily on AI chips, models, and overseas data centers.
G7 Warns Quantum Threat Demands Action as Crypto Industry Weighs Fixes
The group is urging organizations to adopt post-quantum security before powerful computers can compromise today’s encryption and digital signatures.
Polymarket Launches Crypto Perpetual Futures With Up to 20x Leverage
The prediction market platform's new Perps product scaled from 10 markets to 67 on its first day—though the 20x leverage ceiling only applies to some of them, and none of it reaches U.S. traders.
Surprise nonfarm payrolls print sends Bitcoin back below 80K
The US economy added far more jobs than expected in August, pressuring Bitcoin lower as traders repriced the odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut this month.
Crypto Traders Are Pairing Meme Coins With Stocks on Robinhood—And It's Working (Sort Of)
A meme coin called BONER cornered half of Hims & Hers Health's tokenized shares on Robinhood's new blockchain. It started a new trend that's spreading fast.
'Send Your Lawyers': Robinhood Isn't Backing Down From AMC Over Stock Tokens
Lawyers question AMC’s grounds for a securities-law challenge, but say the tokens’ branding and marketing could leave room for a dispute.
Crypto Biz: AI took a back seat when Bitcoin started climbing
Corporate crypto bets are getting bigger as rising markets reward direct exposure, putting balance-sheet strategies and institutional adoption back in focus.
A16z-Backed OpenReserve Gets Approval for Full-Service National Bank
The a16z-backed startup chose a full national charter over the trust-bank route most crypto firms have taken, clearing a path toward insured deposits and conventional lending alongside stablecoin issuance.
QuFi launches post-quantum verification platform with Bitcoin testnet proof
QuFi’s new platform uses post-quantum cryptography to verify digital asset transactions without requiring changes to existing blockchain settlement networks.
US law enforcement group moves to ‘neutral’ position on CLARITY Act
Despite earlier opposition to the CLARITY Act over consumer protection, the National Sheriffs’ Association says it will now “step back and allow the legislative process to proceed.“