Wallets holding 10 to 10,000 BTC bought more than 41,000 coins in 10 days, per Santiment, lifting whale balances to a six-week high while spot BTC trades near $83,000.

House Oversight Chair James Comer sent records demands to Crypto.com, Hyperliquid, and PredictIt owner Aristotle Exchange over prediction market insider trading.

Illinois published draft rules explaining how its proposed 0.2% digital asset transaction tax would apply to stablecoin transfers, DeFi swaps, and other onchain activity.

Payy's post-mortem pins its September 24 bridge exploit on a flaw in Aztec's Noir/Barretenberg verifier that accepted an invalid burn proof, draining ~1.92M USDC.

SlowMist says suspected North Korean hackers moved stolen Bitget assets through Chainflip and CoW, exposing the cross-chain laundering playbook behind the hack.

Binance Pay now works at PayPay-accepting merchants across Japan, connecting crypto balances to one of the country's largest QR payment networks for retail spending.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins told CNBC the agency is proceeding to clarify how to raise money onchain even after the CLARITY Act failed in Congress.

The ECB is inviting fintechs and payment firms to test digital euro features, with 2027 workshops on AI-enabled and machine-to-machine payments.

Tether says it helped authorities freeze nearly $550M in Iran-linked USDT in 2026, showing how centralized stablecoin issuers act as compliance agents.

CleanSpark subsidiary CSDC Finance closed a $2.276B private offering of senior secured notes, one of the largest debt raises tied to a listed Bitcoin miner.