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A coalition of corporate Bitcoin (BTC) holders announced the first members of the Treasury Council on Sept. 16, positioning themselves as advocates for federal Bitcoin adoption.
The Treasury Council includes nine chief executives from companies holding Bitcoin in their corporate treasuries, led by Strategy CEO Phong Le, MARA Chairman Fred Thiel, and Riot CEO Jason Les.
The group sent a formal...
Bitwise filed a prospectus on Sept. 16 for a stablecoin and tokenization exchange-traded fund (ETF) structured as a 40 Act fund, positioning for potential launch around Thanksgiving.
The proposed fund tracks the Bitwise Stablecoin and Tokenization Index through two equally weighted sleeves targeting companies and assets poised to benefit from stablecoin adoption and asset tokenization growth.
The...
The DeFi market is stabilizing at $160.56 billion in TVL, but data shows a liquidity split between spot and derivatives, while collateral remains clustered in just a few major venues. Meanwhile, spot, perpetuals, and stablecoin bases are expanding in parallel, suggesting that order flow and collateral are recycled across fewer but more efficient protocols.
The past week saw the market cap of...
Binance is approaching a potential agreement with federal prosecutors to eliminate the requirement that it hire an outside compliance monitor from its $4.3 billion money laundering settlement.
Bloomberg News reported on Sept. 16 that the Justice Department (DOJ) is considering removing the oversight mechanism as part of a broader policy shift under the Trump administration, according to people...
Circle has rolled out native USDC and its upgraded Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP v2) on Hyperliquid’s HyperEVM network.
Announced on Sept. 16, the integration allows HyperEVM users to transfer USDC across over a dozen supported networks. The move also lowers the barriers for developers, traders, and service providers seeking smoother cross-chain movement of digital dollars.
Circle explained...
Crypto prediction platform Polymarket has become the subject of a token launch speculation after its parent company Blockratize’s latest filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
In the document, the company disclosed that it had sought to raise $257 million, of which $135 million was sold. The firm still has about $122 million of its offering left.
According to the firm,...
PayPal has taken a decisive step toward merging conversations with transactions, unveiling a peer-to-peer program that turns messages into payment channels.
On Sept. 15, the financial payment giant unveiled PayPal Links, a new service that lets users create a one-time personalized link that can be dropped into text threads, DMs, or emails to send or request money.
According to the firm, the...
The Ethereum Foundation has unveiled a $2 million security contest designed to strengthen its upcoming Fusaka upgrade.
Announced on Sept. 15, the initiative invites researchers worldwide to audit the upgrade’s codebase. Rewards will be distributed to participants who uncover vulnerabilities before the upgrade goes live.
EF explained that the competition is structured as a four-week event hosted...
Bitcoin keeps trading in a relatively tight range in what looks more like a standoff than a directional move. Despite drops below “psychologically important” levels, BTC price has objectively been relatively flat over the past month, but leverage stayed parked, and the cost of carrying it has only gone up.
This left the market in an interesting state: price is relatively flat, cash demand is...
Strategy, the largest public holder of Bitcoin, has expanded its reserves even as the premium on its stock continues to fade.
The company revealed on Sept. 15 that it purchased 525 BTC for about $60.2 million, paying an average price of $114,562 per coin.
The latest buy pushed Strategy’s 2025 Bitcoin yield to 25.9% and lifted its total holdings to 638,985 BTC. The stash, acquired for $47.23...