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Every major but HYPE gained over 24 hours, capping a week that added 9% to bitcoin and 20% to solana.

Most replay failures need higher limits, while a smaller counterfactual cohort may require code changes or migration. The post Ethereum’s plan to triple network speed could silently break millions of existing smart contracts appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The SEC cleared the paperwork for Evernorth's merger with a shell company, setting up a Sept. 30 vote and a listing under the ticker XRPN.

Sheikh Tahnoon’s group reportedly backs a 49% stake in the holding company behind World Liberty’s conditionally approved US trust bank. An Abu Dhabi royal and his co-investors reportedly back the largest stake in the holding company behind World Liberty Financial’s proposed US trust bank.  Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported that Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s group is behind StringZ Holding RSC, which owns 49% of WLTC Holdings. An entity affiliated with US President Donald Trump’s family owns another 38%, one person told WSJ. If it receives final approval, the planned bank would bring the issuance, redemption and custody of World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin under the federally supervised venture.  Read more

Strong ETF demand is supporting the rally, but fading short covering and lingering macro risks could slow its momentum.

Paymasters and sponsors can keep native tokens out of sight, but Ethereum and Solana still require fees funded in ETH or SOL. The post Ethereum and Solana are hosting trillions in dollar volume, yet their native tokens risk losing direct consumer demand appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Genesis Bond avoids BTC lending and custody transfers while adding a 5% STX lock, managed parameters and variable payouts. The post HashKey Cloud backs Stacks’ Genesis Bond to prove institutional appetite for native Bitcoin yield appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A listed intermediary can trigger review, rejection, wallet restrictions, and possible suspension or termination. The post KuCoin can block your crypto transactions even if you never sent it to these 17 sanctioned platforms appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The transaction used Bitcoin’s existing rules to protect funds from a future quantum attack without requiring a network upgrade.

A mainnet QSB transaction passed consensus, yet nonstandard relay, high computation costs and exposed keys limit the escape route. The post Bitcoin now has a quantum computing escape route, but 7 million BTC may still be exposed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The ruling adds to Bithumb’s effort to recover funds after a February error gave hundreds of accounts vastly overstated Bitcoin balances.

Google's new privacy standard scrambles the one field of a web request that still travels in the clear: the name of the site being opened.

Developer Craig Raw said an AI-assisted review produced most of the fixes in version 2.5.4, though none appeared likely to put users’ funds at risk.

A 4.5 million-observation event study finds crisis-week inflows among ENS-tagged wallets, while its model shows how adoption can strain capital controls. The post The next currency crisis may be harder to contain because of stablecoins, New York Fed report shows appeared first on CryptoSlate.

OpenAI says the model never sees your password—but a signed-in session can persist across tasks, and you can step away while it works.

The transaction used the Marshall Islands-issued USDM1 bond as collateral and completed the full repo cycle on the Canton Network in under 10 minutes. Virtu Financial, M1X Global and Tradeweb completed an onchain repo transaction using a sovereign digital bond as collateral, with the full transaction settling on the Canton Network. The transaction used USDM1, a US dollar-denominated sovereign bond issued onchain by the Republic of the Marshall Islands and backed 1:1 by short-term US Treasurys. The bond pays a coupon while being used as collateral and is structured under New York law as a fully collateralized sovereign obligation. Both companies said it was the first repo to combine natively issued sovereign collateral with fully onchain atomic settlement. Executed between regulated counterparties on Tradeweb, the full repo and repurchase cycle was completed in under 10 minutes. Read more

Trading volume surged nearly 95,000% in 24 hours as traders rushed back into the dormant token, pushing its price up by over 1,600%.

BlackRock cut the minimum for converting privately held Bitcoin into IBIT shares from $25 million to $1 million, while Bitwise lowered its floor from $100 million to $3 million. While this might sound like a niche development for a small number of institutional users, it signals that custody is no longer just a slogan for […] The post It just got 25 times easier to move self-custody Bitcoin directly onto Wall Street, and $5 billion already has appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Deribit's Friday settlement covers nearly a fifth of the exchange's Bitcoin open interest, and max pain sits well below where BTC is trading right now.

While investors in World Liberty Financial‘s USD1 stablecoin “haven’t suffered major losses,” many lost billions of dollars in other Trump ventures, according to Public Citizen. The nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen reported that US President Donald Trump “left investors at least an estimated $4.7 billion underwater” since 2022 through his and his family’s digital asset ventures. According to Public Citizen, investors lost billions of dollars through the Trump family World Liberty Financial governance token, the president’s nonfungible token (NFT) trading cards launched in 2022, his memecoin Official Trump (TRUMP) and Trump Media’s digital asset treasury.  The bulk of the estimated losses, according to the organization, came from investors in the TRUMP memecoin, with $3.2 billion lost, while buyers of World Liberty Financial‘s USD1 stablecoin “haven’t suffered major losses.” Public Citizen said that in the case of the memecoin, the losses represented “wealth transferred to a small group ...