Author: NBTC

A week ago, it felt as if the world was about to fall apart for bitcoin and the wider crypto market. Most participants expected a Fed rate hike and the Clarity Act’s failure in the Senate to trigger a sharp sell-off. But it didn’t—even though the Fed hiked rates and the Clarity Act failed in the Senate. Market participants are split on what drove the resilience and what it means for the near-term outlook. Explaining the resilience Ahead of the Senate vote on the night of Sept. 14, bitcoin fell as pre-vote jitters grew and rumors circulated about partisan gridlock…

The company is targeting a market where TRON has become one of the largest settlement networks for Tether’s $USDT. TRON processed $2.1 trillion in $USDT transfers during the second quarter of 2026, crypto.news previously reported, citing Messari data. $USDT supply on the blockchain stood at $87.9 billion at the end of the quarter, accounting for 98.5% of its stablecoin supply. MeshWallet removes the $TRX requirement for $USDT transfers MeshWallet said its product was built around TRC20 $USDT transfers, with users able to hold, receive and send the stablecoin without acquiring $TRX specifically to pay transaction fees. Gasless transactions do not…

LayerZero blamed Kelp for using one verifier instead of several, while Kelp said LayerZero staff had reviewed its setup and never objected. CoinGecko data showed nearly half of active LayerZero apps used the same one-verifier arrangement, and Kelp said it would move rsETH to Chainlink. CCIP 2.0 offers a similar menu of verifiers, which lets companies run their own or hire outside providers such as Infosys and Nethermind. Chainlink’s own network of 16 independent node operators still checks every transfer, regardless of what else a user adds. Users shouldn’t have to be “cross-chain security infrastructure experts,” the company told CoinDesk.…

That differs from the risk-provider-led parameter process outlined in V4’s Ethereum activation plan. V4, which launched on Ethereum in March, pools liquidity in Hubs while Spokes define separate borrowing environments. Sentora’s proposed Ethereum Hub would serve its own Spokes, with no credit lines to or from other Aave Hubs authorized by this proposal. Sentora, formed through the merger of IntoTheBlock and Trident Digital, says the arrangement would consolidate lending strategies it currently operates across separate venues. Risk Changes on a 48-Hour Clock Sentora could immediately pause or freeze markets and make risk-reducing changes, such as lowering caps or collateral factors.…

The FCR-specific rollout is described differently by the two teams: Ethlabs says CCIP can use it now, while Chainlink’s launch post describes support for the rule “when it launches.” The 12–24-second figure refers to Ethereum confirmation, not a guaranteed end-to-end bridge delivery time. An Earlier Signal, Not Faster Finality FCR counts validator votes, known as attestations, to assess whether a block has enough support to be confirmed. Ethereum nodes run the rule locally, so it requires no hard fork, according to the project’s interoperability guide. The Defiant covered the proposed rule in March, when it targeted shorter bridge and exchange-deposit…

“When you think about what you’re using as cash for payments and settlement, you look at what’s the claim, what’s the backing, what’s the form, what’s the access,” Sharma said. His comments addressed how privately issued stablecoins, commercial-bank deposits and central-bank money could operate within one financial system. A user paying with a dollar stablecoin, for example, would need the recipient’s bank to recognize the asset and convert it into a deposit liability without creating uncertainty over its value. “In tangible terms: I could pay through a stablecoin, and the banking infrastructure needs to accept that, transform it into a…

Source: CoinGecko Lisk stands out after gaining 16.0% in the past 24 hours and roughly 764.7% over seven days. This is mainly caused by a violent short squeeze. Derivatives data show $35–41 million in liquidations on September 13, the largest of any token that day, with the vast majority ($33–36 million) coming from short positions. The liquidated shorts forced buying into a self-reinforcing rally on relatively thin liquidity. Meanwhile, $LIT, the native token of a high-performance decentralized perpetual futures exchange built as an application-specific zk-rollup on Ethereum, is also ranking high in trending searches. At press time, $LIT was trading…

There isn’t a proposed staking license, a new capital requirement, or an agreed position in Brussels that any of those things should exist. The European Commission’s MiCA review consultation remains open until Sept. 30 at 23:59 CEST and could eventually feed into legislation that amends MiCA, but the Commission says explicitly that the document isn’t a final policy position. Even so, the question tells us a lot about where European crypto regulation is heading. MiCA already governs much of what a centralized staking provider does when it takes custody of customer assets, and Brussels is now asking whether staking has…

RWA perp DEX volume grew despite two monthly declines Trading activity entered Q3 from a strong base. CryptoRank said July RWA perpetual volume reached a record $141 billion, following a rise from only $23.1 billion at the start of 2026. August then became the first monthly contraction since January. Volume fell 13.5% to $122 billion, ending the uninterrupted expansion seen during the preceding months. CryptoRank attributed the pullback to renewed demand for crypto assets after Bitcoin and other major tokens posted stronger price moves during August. September volume declined again, according to CryptoRank’s Sept. 24 update, yet the full quarterly…

As crypto.news previously reported, the bank introduced the UAE service more than a year after launching the same trading model through its UK branch in July 2025. Standard Chartered had already begun offering regulated digital asset custody in the UAE in September 2024, initially supporting Bitcoin and Ether with Brevan Howard Digital as its first client. Wojciech Kaszycki, founder and chairman of Mobilum and a strategy advisor to Warsaw-listed BTCS S.A., told crypto.news that placing digital assets on a bank’s foreign exchange interface only removes one small obstacle for institutions. According to Kaszycki, treasury teams care more about the identity…