The popular privacy coin has once again emerged as a top performer, up double digits in the past 24 hours to briefly touch $1,400 before retracing to $1,330. ZEC’s bull run has triggered painful losses (albeit some on paper) for traders who previously opened short positions, while several analysts believe the rally is far from…
Stellar activated Protocol 28 as the blockchain hit a new sustained throughput record, adding tools designed for larger smart-contract deployments. The network ran Protocol 28 by Sept. 17 after a scheduled mainnet upgrade vote a day earlier. The release lets developers move groups of Soroban smart contracts to new code at once and introduces changes…
The Shark Tank investor says Congress will face pressure to revive crypto market structure legislation as it moves to establish tax rules for digital assets.
Bitcoin’s share of addresses sitting at a loss has dropped sharply, and on-chain analyst Crypto Dan says moves of that size have historically ended bear markets rather than just producing a short bounce. The call went out following two macro jolts that hit crypto: a Fed rate hike and a stalled Senate vote on the…
Crypto groups are pressing Congress to broaden tax relief after a House panel advanced the first digital-asset tax framework. The House Ways and Means Committee approved H.R. 10357, the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act, by 38-5 on Sept. 16, sending a package covering crypto payments, stablecoins, trading, lending, staking and mining toward the full House.…
The Senate gave DeFi a policy setback on Sept. 15. Then Aave founder Stani Kulechov used it to frame a new product challenge. Aave is a decentralized-finance lending protocol surrounded by consumer and institutional products built by Aave Labs. At 2:19 p.m. Eastern time, senators rejected cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633,…
Vitalik Buterin does not believe that the growing concern that AI-powered hacking could make cybersecurity increasingly difficult is warranted. In a recent post, the Ethereum co-founder said he disagrees with the idea that AI hacking means “cybersecurity is doomed.” He instead said that security could naturally favor protection once people build the right systems and…
Three days after Splash’s Cardano-based ADA/OADA StableSwap pool was drained, OADA holders still faced a problem that corrected code alone could not solve: the pool had lost the ADA that provided their meaningful route out of the token. Splash’s incident report said one actor used two transactions on Sept. 13 to remove 2,434,648 ADA and…
Increased enforcement coincides with detailed regulatory guidance issued to crypto firms ahead of the full framework taking effect in late 2027.
Houthi Polymarket odds have seen a surge in volume after the Houthis said on September 14, 2026, that they fired dozens of missiles and drones at King Khalid airbase in Khamis Mushait, southern Saudi Arabia. They said the targets included aircraft hangars, radar systems, runways, and ammunition depots, describing the attack as retaliation for Saudi…