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ARK Invest and Glassnode have put a new number on blockchain capture risk: the smallest group of block-production entities needed to cross a protocol-relevant control threshold. Their joint scorecard, published Sept. 1, put the threshold at three entities for Bitcoin and Ethereum and 19 for Solana. The same framework placed Bitcoin first in its composite decentralization ranking. The apparent tension reflects different forms of network exposure. The coalition needed to disrupt consensus is one risk measure; ownership, infrastructure, software, auditability and exit speed describe other routes to pressure a network. Institutions considering a blockchain as settlement infrastructure must define the…

Bitcoin price has fallen 1.4% from an intraday high of $66,300 to $65,368 as rising oil prices, renewed U.S.-Iran tensions, and regulatory uncertainty have pushed traders toward a more defensive stance. The decline erased part of Bitcoin’s recent recovery and brought the $65,000 support level back into focus. Selling accelerated after $BTC failed to hold above $66,000, while the Fear and Greed Index remained in neutral territory as traders weighed institutional inflows against fresh macroeconomic risks. Political uncertainty added to the pressure after Senate Democrats objected to parts of the latest Digital Asset Market Clarity Act proposal. Polymarket traders had…

Sui Network has recently announced that agents can now hold their own wallets, fund them with tokens, and run liquidity positions for fees. This new capability allows agents to manage their own operational efficiency while abstracting away gas fees. The insight comes from a tweet by the CryptoTwitter commentator @SuiNetwork, emphasizing the innovative strides Sui is making in the crypto space. The Latest The broader cryptocurrency market is currently displaying mixed signals, reflecting varying momentum across major assets. Sui’s introduction of agent wallet functionality marks a strategic enhancement for users, allowing for greater flexibility in managing liquidity positions. This move…

Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, expanding the chipmaker’s reach into the software that developers use to build and deploy artificial intelligence. Hugging Face operates an open-source AI platform for sharing models, datasets and development tools. More than 18 million developers, researchers and creators use it to share over 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million applications, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an announcement on Thursday. “Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem,” Huang said, adding that developers will remain free to choose their models, frameworks, cloud providers and…

Two Thai businessmen sued Tether on Aug. 31 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the issuer’s authority to freeze approximately 42.4 million $USDT before authorities secured a seizure warrant. Nutthawat Rukthammachalern and Natthawat Kasamvilas allege in their complaint that Tether blacklisted ten Ethereum addresses containing precisely 42,417,785.62 $USDT on Oct. 30, 2025. The allegations have not been adjudicated, and Tether had not filed a public response as of Sept. 2. UPDATE – It appears that the $42.4M Tether freeze in this suit stems from a North Carolina pig-butchering case.HSI Raleigh opened it from…

Binance has continued serving and onboarding some European Union customers more than two months after missing the bloc’s MiCA licensing deadline, using regulatory provisions and offshore routing while it seeks authorization elsewhere. According to a Bloomberg report, the world’s largest crypto exchange has remained active in parts of the 27-member bloc despite withdrawing its Greek Markets in Crypto-Assets application in June and entering July without the authorization required for EU-wide operations. People familiar with the matter said Binance has relied partly on MiCA’s “reverse solicitation” provision, which permits certain services when customers approach an unlicensed crypto company on their own…

Vitalik Buterin sees a 60% chance that advanced cryptography becomes cheap enough to reshape Ethereum privacy. On Sept. 6, the Ethereum co-founder said there is a 60% probability that SNARKs, fully homomorphic encryption and indistinguishability obfuscation will eventually operate at less than 10 times the cost of ordinary computation. He put the odds at 33% that all three could approach near-zero additional overhead at sufficient scale. The forecast reaches well beyond hiding transactions. Cheap SNARKs could make private proofs easier to generate. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) could let applications compute directly on encrypted data. Indistinguishability obfuscation (iO) aims to let…

Investor Lawrence Lepard says the current fear surrounding Bitcoin and MicroStrategy could be creating a major buying opportunity rather than signaling the end of the bull case. Speaking with Michaël van de Poppe, Lepard argued that investors often irrationally dislike falling prices. However, cheaper valuations are usually what long-term buyers want. He believes Bitcoin could reach new highs within the next 18 months and move toward $180,000. Its power-law median value is estimated around $134,000. In his view, Bitcoin’s limited supply and growing demand could eventually trigger another sharp move. This would be similar to 2020, when the asset remained…

Decentralized finance has an accounting problem, and the company running one of its biggest trade routers is happy to say it out loud. By 1inch’s own account, over $800 billion worth of token swaps have run through its contracts since a hackathon in 2019. The firm behind them has never made a profit, and its co-founder says it’s the right outcome for now. “We were never profitable, I would say,” Sergej Kunz, 1inch’s co-founder, said on the On The Margin podcast. “We were lucky that we got funded by a lot of backers and are still capable to just focus…

Small-cap Bitcoin treasury stock B HODL has turned into one of the more surprising winners of this cycle, with its shares climbing 67% over the past month and 29% in just the last week. The catalyst behind the latest leg of that rally is simple: on Thursday, the company bought another Bitcoin, pushing its total treasury to 167.487 coins. It is a modest purchase in dollar terms, but it fits a pattern that has come to define this entire corner of the market — buy Bitcoin, sell shares, repeat, and hope the math keeps working in shareholders’ favor. Key takeaways…