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Unless Republicans negotiate with Democrats and sign off on a bipartisan funding bill, the US government will shut down at midnight on Tuesday, likely delaying any consideration of a digital asset market structure bill in the Senate. On Monday, the US House of Representatives and Senate leaders are scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump to negotiate terms to avoid a government shutdown. Though in the majority of both chambers of Congress, Republicans need additional support to pass a temporary funding bill to keep the government open, leading to Democrats asking for a reversal in many of the healthcare cuts…

Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, announced that it will support two important network upgrades. Binance to Support Kusama and Polkadot Networks’ Migration to Asset Hub According to the exchange’s statement, Kusama (KSM) and Polkadot (DOT) networks are preparing for the transition to Asset Hub structures. Binance will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals on certain dates to prevent users from experiencing inconvenience during the transition period. Accordingly, token deposits and withdrawals on the Kusama network will be suspended at 10:00 AM on October 7, 2025. The network will transition to Asset Hub Kusama at 8:00 AM on the…

Trikon, a prominent Web3 platform for chain abstraction, has partnered with LERAX, an EVM-compatible L1 blockchain for RWA tokenization. The partnership aims to merge chain abstraction with real-world asset (RWA) tokenization to advance accessibility for worldwide participants. As the platform revealed in its official social media announcement, the development focuses on tokenization of commodities, real estate, and other tangible assets. Hence, the move is anticipated to foster a relatively efficient, inclusive, and secure ecosystem for ownership on-chain. 📣 Trikon × LERAX 🤝We’re thrilled to team up with @lerax_rwa , an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain revolutionizing ownership through fractionalization and secure…

An OTC whale who accumulated more than 60,000 ETH in the past week. It is now sitting on steep losses after Ethereum slipped below $4,000. On-chain data from Lookonchain shows the whale bought 60,333 ETH worth $238.7 million at an average cost of $4,230 per ETH. With ETH now trading below that level, the unrealized losses exceed $16 million. This OTC whale bought 60,333 $ETH($238.7M) at ~$4,230 avg in the past 7 days, and is now sitting on a loss of over $16M!Address:0xd8d041705735cd770408AD31F883448851F2C39d0xC4de1a0F88b5E10bdeF769830699c4F6191b49330x2aAF355c820676C104bd00Ee6c506FA05998dDa2 pic.twitter.com/SDbyFN9MXM — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 26, 2025 Large Buys Across Coinbase and Wintermute The whale spread purchases…

Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt, that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. Sharpening the Stake Ethereum treasury firm SharpLink Gaming is planning to stake a portion of its $3.6 billion ETH stash on the Linea network once it hits mainnet. The company had been staking almost all of its holdings through its custodians, Anchorage and Coinbase. But now it’s eyeing higher-yield opportunities. “When you hold billions of dollars of ETH and you’re looking at a portfolio of staking, there is going to be an ability to deploy that through staking opportunities on Linea,” SharpLink co-CEO Joseph…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday that Adrienne Harris will step down as Superintendent of the state’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) after four years of service. Kaitlin Asrow, currently Executive Deputy Superintendent of Research & Innovation, will assume the role of Acting Superintendent effective Oct. 18, 2025. Hochul credited Harris with strengthening DFS’s consumer protections and regulatory framework, including recovering more than $725 million in restitution for New Yorkers and establishing DFS as a global leader in digital asset oversight. Harris, appointed in August 2021, reshaped DFS into a more assertive financial regulator. She expanded consumer protections…

The perpetual DEXs trend is shifting to Solana, with Pacifica emerging as an up-and-coming market. The DEX, launched by former FTX executives, is now growing its trading volumes. On Solana, perpetual DEXs activity mostly relied on the Jupiter and Drift protocols. However, a new star is emerging, one that may be linked to the bankrupt FTX centralized exchange. Pacifica has been making the rounds on social media a few months after launching. The perpetual futures DEX uses the Solana stack, and has been gaining on the general hype around Hyperliquid and Aster. But what pushed Pacifica to the forefront was…

A history-making collaboration between XRPL, ZNS, and Layer3 is reconsidering how digital identities function across Web3. ZNS Connect has joined forces with Layer3 to initiate an attractive quest that puts .XRPL domain identities are at the Ripple ecosystem’s heart: first-order speed, interoperability, and user ownership. 🔗 XRPL + ZNS + @layer3xyz = A New Era of Decentralized IdentityWe’re teaming up with @layer3xyz to launch a quest that places .XRPL at the heart of identity on XRPL—fast, scalable, and built for the future.🌀.XRPL isn’t just a name—it’s your blockchain fingerprint.… pic.twitter.com/mFzvRnUHtY — ZNS CONNECT (@ZNSConnect) September 27, 2025 In the middle…

On the 26th of September 2025, at 06:48 UTC, Ethereum client Nimbus released version v25.9.1 according to blockchain news outlet Wu Blockchain (@wublockchain12). On the mainnet, the update has low urgency but on Hoodi, Sepolia, and Holesky testnets, it has high urgency. This is because the next Fusaka fork is imminent, and it will be activated in testnets in the following month. 吴说获悉，以太坊客户端 Nimbus 发布 v25.9.1 版本。该版本在主网上属于低紧急度更新，但在 Hoodi、Sepolia 和 Holesky 测试网属于高紧急度更新，原因是这些网络即将进行 Fusaka 分叉。https://t.co/i3FypWA6gV — 吴说区块链 (@wublockchain12) September 26, 2025 Status.im created Nimbus, which has a reputation of being lightweight and concentrating on the efficiency of the validator. It now serves…

The crypto market may be on the verge of a strong bullish breakout after weak nonfarm payrolls data boosted calls for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and as the deadline for ETF approvals nears. Summary The crypto market may rebound after the latest non-farm payrolls data. Economists now expect the Fed to cut interest rates in September. The cuts will coincide with the upcoming altcoin ETF approvals. Crypto market to benefit from Fed cuts The U.S. government published a weak jobs report that confirmed the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates at its upcoming meeting. This report showed…