Crypto News

Bitcoin is entering its historically strongest month after a record-pace September, while a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike and 5.3% Treasury yields are presenting tests for bullish investors.

Illinois officials and cryptocurrency groups jointly requested a state court to delay implementation of the 0.2% Digital Asset Tax from Jan. 1 to July 1, 2027 while a legal challenge to the tax proceeds.

Co-author Jérôme de Tychey said he pulled the Ethereum proposal EIP-8363, which would have burned staking rewards, from the Hegota upgrade after industry participants and core contributors persuaded him that a scoping process was not the right forum for changing issuance.

New York and Wyoming regulators signed an agreement to share supervisory information, streamline licensing reviews and coordinate examinations and enforcement actions involving digital asset firms.

On Oct. 1 US bond yields dropped sharply around the Wall Street open, and Bitcoin’s price action was attempting to maintain a local uptrend marked by higher lows.

Near Intents froze its cross-chain swap service after a bug allowed an attacker to drain about $3.8 million, and the company said it will repay every user.

NEAR Intents said it was hacked for $3.8 million after a bug that affected deposits and withdrawals, and the platform said it will compensate users affected by the hack.

Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the merger with Evernorth, and the resulting XRP treasury company expects to hold about 473 million XRP.

Crypto security breaches generated $1.26 billion in losses during Q3 across 247 incidents, and roughly $769 million of that total occurred in September.

Stablecoins are highly liquid, settle 24/7 and can move funds out of banks and countries at lightning speed; whether they represent a risk or an opportunity depends on the observer’s perspective.

Researchers in a Latin American stablecoin ecosystem report warned that system fragility is concentrated in its thinnest layer, noting that just 16 of 494 companies focus primarily on wholesale liquidity, treasury and credit.

Crypto participants are reportedly turning attention away from Congress and toward specific senators, and a significant MetaMask security incident has caused concern among crypto users as more information emerges.

Citi has increased its 12-month price target for Bitcoin to $113,000 from $82,000, and set a 12-month target for Ethereum at $3,000; Citi noted the new Bitcoin target is still about 10% below Bitcoin's October 2025 record.

Bitcoin ETFs recorded $3 billion of inflows over a nine-day run that ended when $149 million flowed out, and U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs posted $59.6 million in net outflows on Sept. 30, with $26.6 million leaving Fidelity’s FETH fund.

Lloyds settled $750,000 of payment obligations using USDC with Visa during a seven-day live cross-border pilot.

Dune reported that tokenized markets exhibit different trading patterns compared with traditional markets, and that the value of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) reached $34.5 billion.

Bitcoin remained above $83,000 after it gave back gains that followed a lower-than-expected inflation reading; analysts warned that changes in methodology complicated the interpretation of that inflation result.

A judge dismissed 15 claims against Chainalysis but allowed an aiding-and-abetting allegation to proceed concerning Celsius’ disputed $3.3 billion audit.

EU regulators are investigating how Binance continued serving EU customers from Abu Dhabi months after the exchange lost its MiCA registrations and are reportedly examining Binance’s use of a MiCA exemption to serve customers while ESMA is seeking stronger enforcement powers.

Bitcoin rose 42.71% in Q3, its strongest third-quarter gain since 2017, while U.S. spot ETFs drew $6.34 billion in net inflows.

The Bitcoin Policy Institute argues that MSCI’s proposed “non-operating company” rule could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from MSCI indexes, and the paper suggests the rule may trace back to an earlier review of crypto treasuries.

September saw about $768 million lost to crypto hacks, with a $388 million breach at Bitget and a $320 million exploit of Liquid Network responsible for most of the total; more than $270 million of the Liquid Network losses was later returned.

MetaMask removed or is removing its validators and ETH from Lido following a security incident or infrastructure "security incident" while investigating and said it has found no immediate threat to user wallets; Lido warned those precautionary validator exits could cause lost rewards and downtime penalties, and MetaMask warned the withdrawn ETH could take 45 days to become available again.

Google's Gemini 4 Argon topped 12 of 18 benchmarks in Google's own comparison, can produce replies of up to one million tokens, and showed the strongest resistance to hijacking; cyber defenders are receiving early access with the model's guardrails removed.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said the defeat of Clarity left the crypto industry with fewer restrictions and enabled faster action by the SEC.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it obtained a court victory securing a judgment for more than $30 million against two defendants tied to the Fundsz crypto scheme, which the agency says the defendants later attempted to retract.

A Coinbase-backed advocacy group announced its first Senate endorsements for Republicans Jon Husted and Ashley Hinson and Democrat Chris Pappas, coming two weeks after the Clarity Act collapsed as the industry shifted focus to campaigns.

The attacker responsible for the $387.5 million Bitget theft placed about $3.8 million in ZEC into Zcash’s Ironwood pool after Near Intents rejected their swap attempts.

A crypto advocacy group announced endorsements for candidates running for both the House and the Senate, and those endorsements came as many polls showed Democrats favored to regain control of both chambers in 2027.