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Tehran-backed Houthis in Yemen this week hit Saudi Arabian assets, also pushing the price of oil up. War in the Middle East pushes oil prices higher and makes the chances of interest rate cuts lower because of inflation. Bitcoin has typically performed well in a low interest rate environment and has experienced sell-offs when the Federal Reserve pivots to hawkishness. The U.S. is currently in the grips of an affordability crisis and rising oil prices are a hot topic ahead of the midterm elections. U.S. President Donald Trump has reassured voters that prices will get under control. Federal Reserve Chair…

Wahrstätter went further, suggesting that Glamsterdam will rank among the largest forks the network has ever undergone. He acknowledged the long development timeline but argued the eventual payoff will justify the wait. Key Dates for Testnet and Mainnet Launch Developers now have a concrete date to watch. The Sepolia testnet fork for Glamsterdam is scheduled for October 6, 2026, marking the upgrade’s first real public trial after extensive devnet testing. Sepolia will serve as the proving ground where developers, validators, and infrastructure teams can stress-test the new code before it touches real value. The mainnet launch, by contrast, remains less…

Central Asia fund will target companies ready to scale The new fund will invest in Central Asian startups from Series A onward, focusing on companies that already have proven business models and are preparing to expand outside their home markets. While the investment mandate is sector agnostic, SparkLabs said AI native businesses will be a focus, covering companies where artificial intelligence sits at the center of the product and business model. Separate details released around the agreement put the fund’s initial capital at $2 million, with scope to increase it to $10 million. IT Park Ventures is considering participation as…

Routine transit-provider maintenance activated that route, while transposed values in a routing policy applied a “no-export” instruction toward Europe and Asia-Pacific. In practical terms, the bad route spread across Teraswitch’s network and prevented affected data centers from reaching the Internet through healthy local routers. Twelve sites across Europe and Asia-Pacific lost Internet and inter-site connectivity, including infrastructure hosting Solana validator and RPC nodes. Independent blockchain-risk monitoring firm Metrika broadly corroborated both the scale of the disruption and continuous block production. Its data showed skipped slots rising above 32% and non-vote transaction throughput dropping below 300 per second from a typical…

Popular betting on what an individual might say or do, known as “mention markets,” pose some special dangers in the eyes of the U.S. regulator overseeing prediction market firms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, according to an advisory issued on Tuesday that may narrow the window on event contracts that would easily clear the agency’s supervisory hurdles. This category of wagering isn’t like other markets featuring “independently generated, externally verifiable outcomes that are outside the control of any single person,” said the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s staff advisory. Instead, the agency noted, the outcome pivots on “the discrete conduct of…

Before this change, the requirements were rigid. Moving funds on $BNB Smart Chain generally required $BNB in the wallet. Ethereum transactions needed $ETH, Solana needed $SOL, and TRON needed $TRX. If a wallet lacked the correct native token, a user could be stuck holding the exact asset they wanted to send but unable to actually send it — a scenario that has frustrated crypto users for years. Binance said the wallet calculates the network fee based on live blockchain conditions and that additional networks will get support later, though it hasn’t given a timeline for that expansion. This matters because…

The FAQ then distinguishes two possible classifications under the SEC’s March crypto-asset interpretation. A receipt for a digital commodity that is not subject to an investment contract can be a digital tool because its function is to evidence ownership. A receipt issued by a protocol-based liquid-staking provider may itself be a digital commodity when its value is linked to a functioning crypto system and market supply and demand. The word “may” matters: neither answer assigns a status to an individual product merely because it is called a staking token. An earlier August 2025 staff statement described liquid-staking tokens as transferable…

에버노스, NH투자증권 수탁 펀드서 400억 조달…$XRP(리플) 산다https://t.co/uYmikyEvEK — 상혁 Jaden Park (@fkemgod) September 21, 2026 Evernorth plans to direct funding toward $XRP Evernorth told the SEC that the approximately $30 million of proceeds, before company transaction expenses, can be used for general corporate purposes, including acquiring $XRP and funding other activities tied to the $XRP ecosystem. The language gives Evernorth flexibility over how much of the financing ultimately goes into direct $XRP purchases. The filing does not commit the entire $30 million exclusively to buying the token, so describing the agreement as a fixed $30 million $XRP purchase would go…

A toaster is a wedding gift. A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. ‘Trust us’ was not enough then, and it… pic.twitter.com/dcWqUO6e2X — Senator John Curtis (@SenJohnCurtis) September 22, 2026 The senator, who was elected to the Senate for the first time and doesn’t have any election dates until 2030, stated that it would help “to establish the facts, determine if there are relevant ethics, disclosure, or anti-corruption laws applicable, and identify what steps are needed to…

Bitget later revised the stolen amount from $351.6 million to $387.5 million after accounting for additional transfers on Zcash and Tron. Ether and $USDT withdrawals next as security checks progress $BTC withdrawals on the Bitcoin network and the $BNB Smart Chain resumed first, Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said during a Monday ask-me-anything session. “We restored $BTC first because the withdrawal pipeline is the first to be completed,” Chen said, adding that Ether ($ETH) and Tether’s USDt ($USDT) would follow as security checks progress. Under Bitget’s announced schedule, $ETH withdrawals are set to resume Tuesday across Ethereum, $BNB Smart Chain, Arbitrum,…