Singapore's dtcpay completed a $25M Series A with Japan's SBI Group as a strategic investor, funding merchant network expansion and new consumer features.

Avalanche Treasury Co. CEO Bart Smith says AI agent activity in financial markets could push blockchain capacity to its limit, making L1 differences matter more.

The CFTC issued a no-action position shielding crypto software developers from introducing-broker registration, expanding earlier relief given to wallet provider Phantom.

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says AI will make formal verification practical across entire software systems, turning it into a tool for defense rather than purely attacks.

Kevin O'Leary says the CLARITY Act will return after midterms as Congress advances the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act, creating pressure to resolve crypto market structure.

S&P Global agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, whose open-source library supported $37T in on-chain transfers and 900+ security audits, expanding its digital asset risk coverage.

Crypto.com's Nadex filed Form 1-N with the SEC on Sept. 14 and won clearance to list single-stock futures via OG.com, while pursuing single-stock perps with both the SEC and CFTC.

Grayscale Research head Zach Pandl says BTC bottomed at ~$58K on June 30 and the firm is now advising clients to allocate to crypto—here's the framework behind that call.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Brian Selig say their agencies will use existing authority to regulate crypto after the Senate rejected the CLARITY Act 49-50 on Sept. 15.

Seven Democratic senators pledged Sept. 16 to keep pushing the CLARITY Act after it failed a procedural vote, but StoneX analysts say the bill is likely dead for this Congress.

A House committee advanced a bill Sept. 16 to make Trump's Bitcoin reserve permanent, requiring a 20-year hold on federally seized BTC and quarterly proof-of-reserve audits.

Circle's Arc is a new blockchain that charges gas in USDC, not ETH. Here's what Arc is, who's building on it (like BlackRock and Visa), and how to bridge in.

The House Ways and Means Committee voted 38-5 to advance the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act, setting a $10 de minimis threshold and ordinary income rules for mining and staking.

Anchorage Digital Bank has added custody support for Etherlink and 7 assets including xU3O8, a tokenized uranium token with a $9M market cap, per CoinMarketCap data.

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ZEC holders voted 99.9% to cut block times from 75 to 25 seconds for NU7, while 97% backed delaying t.he Network Sustainability Mechanism until February 2031

Deutsche Bank plans to launch regulated BTC, ETH, and stablecoin custody for European institutions by end-2026, pending a MiCA license approval expected in October.