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Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez faces another prison transfer after the drug treatment program at FCI McKean was deactivated, he said Wednesday. Rodriguez said on X that McKean’s warden told program participants that Rodriguez and 70 others would be moved to facilities where treatment remains available. He entered the program because completing it could reduce his sentence by up to a year. In a letter published by The Rage, Rodriguez called his earlier journey from FPC Morgantown to McKean the “absolute worst 30 days” of his life. He said his request to make the roughly four-hour trip himself was denied.…

Months after the European Union’s hard deadline for crypto licensing passed, Binance is still opening accounts and processing trades for customers across the bloc, according to a Bloomberg report. The gap between what regulators intended and what the world’s largest crypto exchange is actually doing has turned Binance EU MiCA licensing compliance into one of the more awkward test cases for Europe’s new crypto rulebook. Key takeaways Binance missed the EU’s MiCA licensing deadline on July 1, 2026, after withdrawing its Greek application on June 24, 2026. The exchange keeps serving EU users through the reverse solicitation exemption and by…

Solana is now the leading blockchain when it comes to handling tokenized commodities trading on decentralized exchanges. Latest data from Blockworks shows that the network now holds a 36% market share of tokenized commodities spot DEX volume, ahead of Robinhood Chain at 26%. Three weeks ago, Solana’s share was just around 1%. Canton came in third with 19%, followed by Ethereum at 13% and $BNB chain at 4%. HyperCore picked up about 1% and the rest of the chains like Base, Polygon, Avalanche and Monad barely registered. The current composition here is drastically different from a market Ethereum led almost…

Morpho co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot said early on Sept. 26 that a third-party artificial intelligence (AI) marketing tool wrote and published a post from Morpho’s official X account describing curator businesses on the protocol as dependent on private distribution deals rather than onchain vault fees. Morpho removed the post and revoked the tool’s access to the account, Frambot said. Aave founder Stani Kulechov had already called it the most bearish take for $MORPHO holders. The post attached figures to arrangements Morpho’s documentation describes only in general terms. Curators allocate depositor funds across Morpho’s lending markets and set vault risk…

In Russia, which continues to regulate Bitcoin and altcoins, new data released regarding the cryptocurrency market reveals that the use of digital assets in the country has reached a significant level. The latest statement on this matter came from Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov. Crypto Assets in Russia Reach $44 Billion! Speaking to the Russian local news agency TASS, Ivan Chebeskov shared current estimates regarding the size of the cryptocurrency market in the country. According to Chebeskov, approximately 20 million people in Russia use cryptocurrencies, and citizens’ total investments in digital assets and related financial products amount to 3.7…

Avalanche’s Helicon upgrade is scheduled to give validators shorter, auto-renewing commitments while raising the uptime cutoff for rewards and reducing returns at the shortest durations. The network upgrade is set to activate on Avalanche Mainnet on Sept. 22 at 15:00 UTC. Validators must install AvalancheGo v1.15.0 beforehand to remain compatible with the upgraded chain. Infographic shows Helicon reducing validator commitments from 14 days to 48 hours, raising reward uptime to 90%, and lowering short-duration ARR by 1.3 points. What changes for validators Helicon will cut the minimum Primary Network validation period from 336 hours to 48 hours. It will also…

The debate is no longer whether blockchain technology might someday reach traditional capital markets. The question is how existing markets will incorporate it and what rules will govern that transition. Andrew Cuomo is the former Governor of New York, and a board member of OKX. Tokenization does not eliminate financial risk, nor does it make the basic responsibilities of regulators obsolete. Quite the opposite. Markets ultimately function on trust, and new technology succeeds only when investors have confidence that ownership is real, transactions are reliable, markets are fair and bad actors will be held accountable. I learned that lesson from…

Circle Foundation has unveiled two initiatives with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to explore digital payments and regulated stablecoin infrastructure for development and humanitarian operations. The support is expected to help international organizations improve the speed, cost and transparency of payments while expanding access to digital financial services, Circle Foundation said Friday. The team noted that UNDP will use a Circle Foundation grant to establish the Digital Asset Innovation Pool, which will provide a structured framework for using regulated payment stablecoins in development programs. The pool, which will complement existing banking channels, is…

Bitcoin is trading at $76,992.66, up 1.1% over 24 hours but roughly flat for the week, as experts weigh whether today’s CPI print could push price below $75,000 ahead of next week’s Clarity Act vote and Fed decision. Why CPI Matters Today Wednesday’s hotter-than-expected PPI reading triggered a brief selloff, with Bitcoin down about 1%, Solana down 1% to 2%, and XRP down roughly 4%, though those losses have since fully retraced. Core CPI year-over-year is expected at 2.4%, down slightly from 2.5%. Analysts say they don’t expect that decline to materialize, predicting CPI comes in hotter and could reignite…

Cryptocurrency payments company MoonPay is set to acquire private-markets investment platform North Capital to support its tokenization efforts, according to an emailed announcement Wednesday. Salt Lake City, Utah-based North Capital, whose platform boasts around $9 billion in primary and secondary transaction volume, will become a wholly owned subsidiary of MoonPay after the transaction closes, subject to regulatory approval. The all-stock deal is worth over $60 million, sources familiar with the matter told CoinDesk. The acquisition will support MoonPay’s aim of “building the regulatory foundation to support mass adoption of tokenized real-world assets,” according to CEO and founder Ivan Soto-Wright. “We…