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68 stories that broke on 28 September 2026 (UTC), the best-sourced first.
ESMA responded to the European Commission's consultation on the MiCA review, recommending changes to simplify the framework while improving investor protection and addressing DeFi, staking and lending. The Defiant reports ESMA also wants to bar crypto firms from MiCA-licensable services involving noncompliant stablecoins.
NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference system design to strengthen AI security from agent testing to deployment. Community posts describe OpenShell software and the Sentry reference system design with hardware controls on BlueField-4 processors.
The Ethereum Foundation announced the Glamsterdam network upgrade, scheduled to activate on Sepolia, bringing enshrined proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists and gas pricing changes. Cointelegraph reported the Sepolia date as Oct. 6 while noting the mainnet date remains unset.
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Binance New Listings states that Binance Futures will launch multiple TradFi USDⓈ-margined perpetual contracts, in posts dated 2026-09-28 and 2026-09-29.
Binance announced it added 5 stocks on Binance Stock Trading and will add 7 bStocks tokenized securities as collateral assets, according to its listing announcements.
NVIDIA announced its board authorized an additional $150 billion for its share repurchase program, raising the total remaining authorization to $235 billion. The company said it expects to complete the remaining buyback program through fiscal year 2028.
OpenAI announced it is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.
Solana News reports that Solana is now producing slots with a 250ms target, down from 400ms, and that it studied the effects using direct on-chain measures.
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Senate Democrats published a report alleging Tether's USDT has become central to Iran's shadow banking system and sanctions evasion, referring findings to Treasury and the Justice Department. Tether said it helped freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT.
The Block reports that bitcoin ETFs' nine-day, $3 billion inflow streak ended with $149 million in net outflows, while US spot Ethereum ETFs saw $59.6 million in net outflows. Other posts describe the preceding streak, September and Q3 inflows, and early October flows.
Bitwise launched NRR, described as the first US spot NEAR ETF, which began trading on NYSE Arca and stakes its NEAR holdings with rewards flowing to shareholders. Posts report a 0.75% fee and a separate charge on staking rewards.
Multiple newswires report that Strategy purchased 1,665 bitcoin for $143 million, bringing its total holdings to 847,666 BTC. Cointelegraph adds that Strategy sold 1.47 million MSTR shares for $246.2 million to fund bitcoin purchases and STRC preferred stock repurchases.
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Bitmine, associated with Tom Lee, bought additional ether and now holds over 6 million ETH, about 4.9% of Ethereum's circulating supply, according to The Block and Decrypt. Cointelegraph reports Bitmine could reach its 5% supply target within weeks.
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CoinDesk, The Defiant and Cointelegraph report that Franklin Templeton's tokenized money market fund shares can be pledged as collateral for USDT or USDC credit lines on Bybit while continuing to earn yield. The Defiant adds that Franklin ran the same structure with Binance in February.
Coinbase and Citi expanded their existing partnership so Citi's institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments, with Coinbase business accounts running on Citi's banking rails. The firms' earlier October 2025 collaboration focused on fiat funding and withdrawals for Coinbase's on- and off-ramps.
Chainlink launched a new version of its CCIP crypto bridge technology, CCIP 2.0, which lets companies add custom security checks to cross-chain transfers. Coverage ties the launch to a prior $292 million hack of a rival bridge setup.
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said an attacker tested risk controls with small transfers before a $388 million theft that exploited a third-party security vulnerability. She said she is 'not very optimistic' about recovering funds, while a company protection fund reached $309 million.
A fake GIWA Layer 2 bridge was drained of 766 ETH after DYORSWAP mistook the network for the Upbit-backed project, according to The Defiant. Cointelegraph reports scammers stole $2M in ETH and that DYORSWAP paid over 200 ETH in compensation while Dunamu's GIWA warned its mainnet had not launched.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation barring public officials from issuing meme coins and exchanges from listing tokens tied to politicians, according to Decrypt. The Block reports Newsom also signed other bills, including one on restitution for crypto scam losses.
Bitget reopened Bitcoin withdrawals after a breach of roughly $387.5 million, according to The Defiant and Cointelegraph. Both posts report that ETH and USDT withdrawals remain paused or scheduled to resume later.
Strive purchased bitcoin, lifting its holdings to 27,462 BTC, with SATA preferred stock supplying 85% of the capital, according to The Block and Decrypt.
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CoinDesk and Cointelegraph report that Blockchain.com is targeting a $500 million IPO at a valuation of up to $6 billion, with CoinDesk noting a confidential SEC filing earlier this year.
Posts report that Aiden Pleterski, described as Canada's 'Crypto King', will represent himself at his fraud trial, with the judge saying he will raise objections on his behalf. One post also states he was allegedly behind a crypto Ponzi scheme between 2021 and 2022 that resulted in a kidnapping and related criminal charges.
CoinDesk reports Bitcoin trading near $83,000 across three days while altcoins such as ZEC and lighter fell and macro pressures including oil and Treasury yields rose.
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RedotPay said it completed a financial audit as part of preparations to go public, disputing an August report that the listing had been put on hold.
The Block reports that Bitget has started a phased resumption of withdrawals following a $388 million exploit, saying the vulnerability was patched and losses will be covered by a user protection fund.
Cointelegraph reports that Bitcoin dropped below $83K on Monday, joining US stock futures, after US president Donald Trump did not commit to permanently halting strikes on Iran.
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CoinDesk reports that caution is building in the bitcoin market even as prices remain well above summer lows, with weak demand for leveraged exposure and capital skewed toward bearish positions.
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The SFC and AFRC signed a new MoU extending financial reporting, audit and compliance cooperation to licensed virtual asset service providers, according to Cointelegraph.
CoinDesk reports that Bitcoin remains under pressure while Iran denies a report of peace progress, and notes the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield rising to a new cycle high above 5.27%.
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Cointelegraph reports Bitcoin dropped below $83,000 to start the week amid US-Iran war developments, while still being up more than 40% for Q3 ahead of key inflation and jobs data.
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Apollo's Torsten Slok warns that AI agents could trigger a bank run by automatically moving household cash from low-interest checking accounts to higher-yield alternatives.
Cointelegraph reports that altseason is almost here and that early signs suggest traders are becoming more selective, with capital flowing into revenue-generating protocols across several narratives.
Decrypt reports that Bitcoin extended its pullback after Trump rejected Iran's ceasefire plan, sending oil above $100 and yields higher ahead of Wednesday's PCE report.
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The Defiant reports that Ondo Perps has added spot trading for 12 tokenized stocks and ETFs, allowing purchased tokens to be used as collateral for short perpetual positions and waiving spot trading fees for the first 30 days.
CoinDesk reports that restaking yields have dried up and smart-contract risks mounted, and that Ethereum's top liquid restaking protocol abandoned its core business to build a crypto neobank.
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Vitalik Buterin outlined a 'Cryptographic World Computer' plan for Ethereum, arguing that Hegota will be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork, with everything after built on recursive STARKs and formal verification.
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The Defiant reports that WisdomTree's Treasury money fund trailed its T-bill benchmark by 15 basis points over a year, with issuer disclosures showing how expenses and liquidity terms affect returns.
The Block reports that SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is wrapping up her last week at the agency after nearly a decade and reflected on what she still wanted to get done.
Cointelegraph reports that the crypto PAC Fairshake is spending on media opposing the Democratic candidate in Ohio's Senate race, with an initial $30 million pledge. The spending is described as a possible repeat of crypto industry spending in 2024.
CoinDesk reports that Goldman Sachs is bringing its roughly $100 billion Treasury fund to institutional crypto firms without creating a tokenized version of it.
The Defiant reports that the Compound Foundation denies an allegation of V2 reserve misuse, citing records showing 344,780 COMP shifted delegated voting power from 45.1% to 50.1% before a $52 million V4 budget vote that passed with no opposition.
The Defiant reports that Polygon plans a two-month, fee-funded increase to a 7.7% gross POL staking rate, compared with a roughly 3% baseline, rewarding stake held during the window rather than when the fees accrued.
Cointelegraph reports that the SEC announced updates on how federal securities laws could apply to token issuers, following similar guidance from the CFTC, after a failed cloture vote on the CLARITY Act.
Decrypt reports that Nvidia built a kill switch for AI agents, with OpenShell and Sentry providing a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agent incidents.
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, following an OpenAI agent's access to Australia's Medicare data that went undisclosed for months.
Decrypt reports that Anthropic's mid-tier Claude Sonnet 5.5 tops its own flagship Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at half the cost per token, while an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model measured.
Coinbase teased Pokémon card packs backed by physical collectibles, with collectors able to keep pulls in a vault or have them shipped. Coinbase has not set a launch date in its teaser.
The Defiant reports that SEC staff revised a Sept. 25 FAQ answer on token buybacks to make the absence of centralized control an explicit condition.
A UC San Diego-led team impersonated a hardware security module without extracting its key, according to Decrypt. The report frames the RSA attack as relevant to crypto.
OpenAI says its agents keep landing on government websites because they treat them as reliable sources, and it is pausing training while it adds safeguards.
A Reddit user on r/CryptoCurrency claims the Trump family's "stable" coin operation is losing dominance on major exchanges and predicts their grift will fade. The post offers no named asset, exchange, or verifiable data.
A Reddit user describes their financial situation as a 65-year-old Canadian retiree, including monthly income, expenses, debt, and crypto holdings. They state they own 2 BTC and hold a TFSA mostly in IBIT.
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A post reports that Bubblemaps CEO is pushing transparency amid scrutiny following a drop in the LAPTOP token, which rebounded nearly 10% to $0.24 but remains down 99% from its September 9 peak.
A Reddit post on r/Bitcoin claims bitcoin is in an aggressive uptrend when priced in gold and notes a prior peak of 41 ounces of gold per bitcoin. It states a repeat of that peak would imply a $170,000 BTC price.
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A Reddit post cites a new IonQ paper claiming its trapped-ion architecture could run Shor's algorithm against 256-bit ECDSA signatures with only 20,000 qubits in under a month, with such a machine projected before 2030.
A CryptoTicker post claims Hedera's HBAR price jumped 27 percent and outperformed the market following an IBM listing.
A post on r/Bitcoin claims that EMM secured the return of $1.725 million in Bitcoin from a ColdCard vulnerability through ethical hackers.
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A r/solana post claims onchain card payments on Solana set new records, with Q3 volume reaching $262.7M before the quarter finished, up 17.5% on Q2, citing a Birdeye report.
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Meta Platforms is hiring MongoDB CEO CJ Desai as chief enterprise platform officer to lead a new Meta Enterprise Platform, according to a release cited by the post. The post states the news sent MongoDB shares down 25% and that the MongoDB board named Dev Ittycheria interim president and CEO.
A Reddit user on r/stocks states they sold their portfolio at the bottom in March/April and, after waiting months for a drop that did not come, is buying back in today. They describe accepting they cannot time the market.
A post citing Ben Carlson's article claims most stocks underperform the S&P 500, and that index investing succeeds because of the few good stocks plus constant index adjustments. It adds that picking an outperforming stock requires getting both the buy and the sell right.
A r/solana community post claims Solana processed more than 800M successful non-vote transactions last week, a new weekly all-time high for the second consecutive week.
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A retired Reddit user describes a Fidelity advisor recommending a fixed single premium annuity for 20 percent of assets, and questions whether the payout is just returning his own money.
A Reddit user posted a 15-minute visual history of NVIDIA's market cap from 1999 to 2026, citing SEC filings, press releases and year-end market-cap data, and asked for corrections. The post lists drawdowns, rebounds, revenue mix and valuation multiples.
A Reddit user on r/solana claims PUMP's market cap rose from near $450m in late June to over $2b by September, while cumulative Callout rewards in the Pump.fun app climbed to almost $13m from $15k. The user says the timing suggests the market cap move brought more activity back into the app, without asserting direct causation.
A Reddit user on r/stocks describes Uber's improving financial metrics and says they are considering adding to an existing position, while noting the Waymo threat. The post cites revenue, operating income, free cash flow, leverage and Bill Ackman's investment as supporting points.
A Reddit user on r/stocks says investment-grade preferred stocks and bonds are becoming interesting amid high interest rates, naming BAC.PRQ and AGM.PRG as opportunities they are watching.