In a major development confirmed on SEPTEMBER 29, 2026, Confirmed announcement/filing for House Oversight Chair Comer Probes Crypto.com, Hyperliquid & PredictIt Over Identity Checks. This operational move highlights expanding activity across the digital asset ecosystem and underscores key developments for market participants. Key Operational Milestones & Context According t
House Oversight Chair Comer Probes Crypto.com, Hyperliquid & PredictIt Over Identity Checks
Open USD has launched on four blockchains with more than $1 billion in liquidity commitments from five founding partners, introducing a stablecoin model that ties company rewards and ownership to token supply and use. According to a report, Open Standard’s…
Open USD launches with over $1B in liquidity commitments
Only 104,105 BTC, worth about $8.7 billion, is currently deployed in productive onchain strategies, according to a joint report from Yield Basis and Valueverse. That represents just under 0.52% of the circulating bitcoin supply, leaving the vast majority of BTC outside the growing bitcoin DeFi (or BTCFi) economy. Bitcoin’s $8.4B Yield Market Leaves 99% of […]
Only 0.52% of Bitcoin Is Working Onchain—Here’s Why
Soneium has adopted OP Enterprise’s fully managed service to support its tokenized intellectual property plans, with OP Labs providing chain operations under a 99.9% monthly uptime target. Soneium announced the agreement in a Sept. 30 statement, saying it had joined…
Soneium adopts OP Enterprise to support tokenized IP plans
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said that a protection fund created by the company in 2022 “absorbed the financial impact of the incident“ that resulted in $388 million in user losses.
Bitget ‘gradually back to usual’ as protection fund reaches $309M
PEPE price has held above $0.000004 as its September rally cools, with improving weekly momentum facing a bearish short-term setup near $0.0000041. TradingView’s Binance PEPE/USDT daily chart showed the token at $0.00000433 on Sep. 30, up 1.64% from the daily…
PEPE price tests $0.0000041 support as bearish pennant forms
Brazilian state-owned energy firm Petrobras is testing Cardano’s blockchain to track the environmental benefits of renewable fuels, expanding an experiment aimed at making emissions claims easier to verify. Putting Energy Evidence on Cardano The state-controlled oil company is working with the Cardano Foundation and researchers at PUC-Rio on two applications built on the Cardano bl
Brazilian State Energy Giant Petrobras Taps Cardano for Tracing Fuel
In a major development confirmed on SEPTEMBER 30, 2026, Confirmed announcement/filing for HANetf Teams Up With HSBC To Launch First GBP & EUR-Hedged Bitcoin Products. This operational move highlights expanding activity across the digital asset ecosystem and underscores key developments for market participants. Key Operational Milestones & Context According to primary regula
HANetf Teams Up With HSBC To Launch First GBP & EUR-Hedged Bitcoin Products
The “overwhelming majority” of Open Standard’s equity will be distributed over time to partners based on how much they help grow the stablecoin, CEO Zach Abrams said.
Open USD takes on Tether, Circle with a different stablecoin model that's 'building money'
El Salvador’s National Bitcoin Office has dismissed reports that the country is pivoting to stablecoins, calling it “fake news,” and confirmed it has no plans to launch or run any crypto or stablecoin wallets. Government Denies Stablecoin Pivot El Salvador has dismissed a Bloomberg report that the country is turning to stablecoins nearly five years […]
‘Fake News’: El Salvador Denies Stablecoin Pivot as Bitcoin Treasury Grows
Key Takeaways Crypto testing takes place outside core banking systems. DeFi vaults are a focus for the bank. Investment returns depend on the underlying strategy. Withdrawal rules matter for any future product. Bloomberg reported on September 29 that the Digital Asset Lab forms part of Morgan Stanley’s existing innovation-lab network. Megan Brewer, who leads market innovation a
Morgan Stanley Sets Up Crypto Lab for Stablecoins and DeFi
XRP price has traded near $1.50 on Sep. 30 as weaker futures positioning and slower U.S. ETF inflows accompany a pullback from September’s highs, while its 4-hour chart shows buyers struggling to reclaim short-term resistance. TradingView’s Binance XRP/USDT charts put…
XRP price needs $1.56 breakout to retest $1.65
As it battles with states over prediction markets, the CFTC sent two related rules on swaps definitions for White House review.
U.S. CFTC seeks event contract definitions that may defy states' gambling claims
The Cardano Foundation’s case study describes a collaboration involving Petrobras, PUC-Rio University’s Ledger Labs and the Foundation. Called CS-SAF, the platform represents fuel sustainability attributes as digital tokens with metadata aligned with the aviation emissions framework CORSIA. Key Takeaways Petrobras developed the platform through a research collaboration. Fuel attr