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Monday started strongly with $160.04 million flowing into bitcoin funds. The mood deteriorated on Tuesday as $450.33 million exited following the Senate’s failed cloture vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Wednesday brought another $295.98 million withdrawal as the Fed raised rates by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4%, its first increase since July 2023. Thursday produced a $159.45 million rebound before Friday’s buying completed the turnaround. Two of the three weeks in Sept. have been green for bitcoin ETFs. Source: Sosovalue Blackrock Leads Bitcoin as Ether Loses its Streak Blackrock’s IBIT finished the week with $120.66 million in net…

Solana activated the txv1 feature gate on mainnet at the start of epoch 1035 on September 15, 2026 at approximately 01:00 UTC, raising the network’s maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes, according to an official upgrade note published by Solana. The change is defined in SIMD-0296 and delivered through the v1 transaction format introduced in SIMD-0385. Solana said the larger envelope is designed to unlock workloads that previously had to be split across several chained transactions, while the existing v0 and legacy formats continue to work unchanged. What the 4,096-Byte Limit Unlocks Solana framed the increase as…

Curtis also called for a similar probe into Hunter Biden for “substantial business with foreign entities” and instances in which either man’s relationship to the presidency was “invoked or understood to provide value.” President Biden issued a pardon for his son in December 2024 for crimes he “committed or may have committed or taken part in over the last decade,” and Curtis noted that Hunter had “denied involving his father in his business dealings.“ “The purpose of such an inquiry should be straightforward: establish the facts, determine whether existing ethics, disclosure, or anti-corruption laws apply, and identify reforms necessary to…

What the Data Shows Despite the absence of specific price metrics, the broader crypto market remains dynamic. The recent developments indicate a growing interest in tokenized assets, which could lead to increased trading volumes as users explore the new capabilities offered by OKX. Notably, the introduction of this app comes at a time when many exchanges are vying for user engagement through innovative trading solutions. OKX is a prominent cryptocurrency exchange known for its comprehensive trading services, including spot and derivatives trading. The New Money App is a response to the evolving landscape of capital markets, where demand for trading…

$BTC/USDT (4H, Binance): price loses $77,617 and tests support at $76,600. Chart by Alexander Stefanov. Losing $77,617, the 0.236 retracement of the prior move, is the event that matters. The current red bar broke it on roughly 5,900 $BTC of four-hour volume, so this is a move with participation behind it rather than a thin drift. A broken support does not disappear. It becomes the first obstacle overhead, which means any bounce now has to reclaim $77,617 before the picture improves at all. $76,600 is where the horizontal and the channel floor collide Directly below spot, two separate lines arrive…

A computer could process transactions and produce a short mathematical proof that it followed the rules. Other computers could check that proof much faster than they could repeat all the original work. Separate spot checks would help establish that the transaction records were still available for anyone who wanted to inspect them. That would allow different computers to tackle different jobs while still checking one another’s results. Ethereum’s developers wanted to distribute work this way a decade ago, Buterin wrote, but struggled to ensure every participant had done its part correctly. “Back then, this was not viable for one primary…

The SEC framework allows trading through automated market makers, or AMMs, rather than a traditional order book. An AMM holds pools of assets and uses preset rules to price trades. That could allow stock tokens to trade around the clock as long as a pool has enough assets. But round-the-clock trading does not necessarily mean better trading, according to Noch, as thin liquidity can produce poor prices. The SEC has also placed tight limits on its experiment. Tokens must represent NMS stocks and preserve the economic interest, dividends, voting rights and liquidation rights attached to the underlying shares. Third-party tokenizers…

Only $ZEC held in Ironwood, Zcash’s newest private transaction pool, could vote. “Shielded” simply means the blockchain can verify that the coins exist and are being spent correctly without publicly showing the wallet balance or the details of the transaction. That privacy carried over into the vote. In a normal token vote, a wallet casting 500,000 votes can effectively announce to the world that it controls 500,000 tokens and which side it backed. Zcash’s system let that economic weight count without publishing the holder’s balance or identity alongside the choice. Ballots were encrypted and split into 16 separate pieces before…

The European System of Central Banks [ESCB], which includes the European Central Bank [ECB] and the EU’s 27 national central banks, now wants that rule removed. In its response to a review of MiCA, the group warned that forcing issuers to hold large bank deposits could create another source of financial risk. If customers decide to cash their stablecoin holdings, the company will also need to withdraw billions from their banks. As a result of this, Banks might not be able to return the money immediately, especially if they have lent most of it out. The central banks want rules…

Kraken is opening the door through xStocks, a tokenized equities framework built by Payward, Kraken’s parent group. The mechanism lets everyday customers submit interest in an IPO the same way institutions do, rather than waiting for shares to hit the open market days or weeks later. Who Can Take Part Eligibility isn’t universal, but it’s broad. Kraken says customers across the EEA and many other global markets can submit a non-binding indication of interest via xStocks. The company frames this as a way to give retail users a seat at the table “alongside institutions rather than behind them.” Geographic restrictions…