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Bitcoin is trading at $80,000. This after the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tehran-based cryptocurrency exchange BitBank on Sept. 17, alleging the platform moved hundreds of millions of…

Ripple (XRP) has expanded its XRPL developer kit to support Stripe and Tempo’s Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), a standard that lets autonomous AI agents pay for data, computing and other digital services without a human clicking…

Following today’s Solana news, the network cut its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds on Friday, according to Solana blockchain data, pushing the network’s block cadence up by nearly 17%. That takes…

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US midterms Polymarket odds now price a 60% chance that Democrats take control of the US Senate, according to CNBC’s review of prediction-market data published September 16, 2026. Kalshi, the other major regulated prediction-market…

In breaking SEC crypto news today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has granted temporary, conditional relief allowing permissioned Tokenized Securities Venues to trade tokenized U.S. National Market System stocks through…

Rep. Nicholas J. Begich (R-AK) introduced H.R. 8957, the American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026, on May 21, 2026. The proposal would establish a Treasury-managed Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and impose a minimum 20-year holding period on…

Circle opened the public mainnet for Arc, its USDC-centered Layer 1 blockchain, on September 16, 2026, with 11 founding validators drawn almost entirely from traditional finance, creating a talking point about the firms involvement with…

The U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act on September 15, falling short 49-50 in a procedural cloture vote, and the crypto market’s leveraged bulls paid almost immediately, especially in BTC USD and Ethereum. Exchanges…

OpenAI’s global policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed on Tuesday that OpenAI has spent several weeks discussing AI safety with rivals Anthropic and Google DeepMind, according to reporting first published by Bloomberg, as AI prediction…