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A recent auction of 30-year Treasury bonds, sold at a yield of 5.06%, has brought rising long-term US borrowing costs back into focus. Specifically, it has revived concern among certain market observers about how tighter monetary conditions could impact Bitcoin ($BTC) and other risky assets, just as investors are getting ready for the Fed’s next policy meeting. Treasury Yields Hit a Post-2007 High That 5.06% print is the highest 30-year auction yield since 2007, and it reflects how expensive it has become for the US government to finance its growing debt. Furthermore, the 30-year Treasury yield has also climbed back…

Pendle recently launched on the Robinhood Chain, a move that enables onchain yield markets for tokenized stock dividends. As reported by the CryptoTwitter commentator @pendle_fi, this includes live markets for NVDA (OCT2026) and PFE (DEC2026) stocks. This expansion could attract more institutional interest in Pendle’s offerings, particularly among those looking to leverage onchain yield opportunities. What Happened In a significant development for the decentralized finance space, Pendle has gone live on the Robinhood Chain. This launch allows for the trading of tokenized stock dividends, notably for NVDA and PFE stocks. Moreover, the Saturn USDat markets on Pendle are now receiving…

Interior Minister Ulan Niyazbekov told a state blockchain council on September 5 that Kyrgyzstan’s police have opened 90 criminal cases involving cryptocurrency since the start of 2026. Kyrgyzstan has drawn repeated Western sanctions over allegations that its banks and crypto platforms help Russia evade financial restrictions. How are virtual assets showing up in crime? Kyrgyzstan’s interior minister Ulan Niyazbekov disclosed at the third meeting of the National Council for the Development of Virtual Assets and Blockchain Technologies, held in the lakeside town of Cholpon-Ata, that the country’s police have opened 90 criminal cases that involve cryptocurrencies since 2026 began. Niyazbekov…

Wallets linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group have sold more than $30 million in Bitcoin through Hyperliquid over three weeks as U.S. officials and Payward explore regulated access to the platform. Lazarus-linked wallets convert Bitcoin into ETH and SOL Arkham blockchain data, wallets associated with the North Korean state-sponsored Lazarus Group sold more than $30 million in Bitcoin on Hyperliquid during the past three weeks. The wallets used proceeds from the Bitcoin sales to purchase Ethereum and Solana before sending the assets to centralized exchanges, including Kraken, LBank, and KuCoin, according to the blockchain analysis. Crypto investigator ZachXBT first identified…

Oman has moved to stop the sale of cryptocurrency mining equipment to unlicensed operators, with the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion warning companies and individuals against supplying hardware to buyers who have not secured the required permits, according to Gulf News. The ministry said it had detected cases in which mining equipment was sold or supplied to individuals and entities that lacked the licences, permits and approvals needed to run mining operations, and it issued a formal notice to close that gap and tighten the rules. New Restrictions on Equipment Sales Under the notice, sellers are prohibited from…

Bitcoin Reserve Becomes a Key Measure of Strategy’s Financial Strength Investors in Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) are increasingly focused on the company’s ability to support its growing preferred-share obligations alongside its bitcoin accumulation strategy. The latest treasury update presents two possible outcomes: stronger liquidity could prepare the company for future bitcoin purchases, or it may reflect a longer period of balance-sheet discipline. Management’s claim of 31 years of dividend coverage through bitcoin has become the central measure of that financial flexibility. On July 20, Chaitanya Jain, head of bitcoin product & investor at Strategy, said on X that the company’s…

It took less than 40 minutes for more than $56 million in $USDC to move into a single Spark vault on Sunday, offering a striking example of how quickly stablecoin capital can move when DeFi investors find somewhere attractive to park it. The money poured into Spark Finance’s spUSDC V2, a savings vault that lets users deposit $USDC and earn yield without converting into another stablecoin. The vault currently offers a net yield of around 3.5% to 3.6%, with the underlying capital deployed through Spark’s broader liquidity infrastructure. The $56 million rush is significant for its speed, but it is…

India’s crypto economy is often described through Bitcoin ownership. Yet 2026 platform data points to a second force: stablecoins. $USDT/$USDC provides dollar-linked liquidity that users can trade, transfer, or hold without taking direct exposure to Bitcoin’s price. WazirX reported that stablecoins generated 38.5% of its H1 2026 trading volume. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other Layer-1 assets contributed 28.4%. Those figures cover WazirX alone, but they show how heavily one Indian platform uses dollar-linked assets. CoinSwitch found that Bitcoin was the preferred asset in nine of its ten largest state markets in Q2. Together, the reports show a contrast. Bitcoin can lead…

The Hyperliquid Policy Center has asked a federal court to dismiss CME Group’s lawsuit against the CFTC, arguing that the derivatives exchange lacks standing and cannot rely on the Commodity Exchange Act provisions cited in its complaint. Hyperliquid policy group disputes CME’s standing The Hyperliquid Policy Center said in a Tuesday X announcement that it had submitted an amicus brief supporting the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in its legal fight with CME. An amicus filing allows a person or group outside a case to offer arguments that may help the court consider the dispute. HPC, an advocacy group with ties…

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed allowing intermediaries to facilitate retail access to certain digital asset derivatives traded overseas. Under the proposal, eligible products would need to resemble crypto derivatives traded in Thailand, including their underlying assets, maturity, leverage and settlement methods. The products must also trade on an exchange that uses a central counterparty for clearing and is overseen by a regulator belonging to specified international regulatory or exchange groups. The consultation marks Thailand’s latest step toward bringing crypto-linked products into its regulated capital markets. The SEC formally designated cryptocurrencies and digital tokens as permissible derivatives underlyings…