CoinDesk

Global stocks fell to a one-week low as Brent rose for a second day and traders added to bets on more Federal Reserve rate hikes ahead of Wednesday’s PCE inflation data.

The bank is bringing its roughly $100 billion Treasury fund to institutional crypto firms without creating a tokenized version of it.

As restaking yields dried up and smart-contract risks mounted, Ethereum’s top liquid restaking protocol walked away from its core business to build a crypto neobank instead.

Democrats on the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence published a report alleging that USDT had become a key tool for the Iranian government.

AI agents could trigger a bank run by automatically moving household cash from low-interest checking accounts to higher-yield alternatives, Slok warns.

The new software lets companies add custom security checks so they do not fall victim to the same single-point-of-failure vulnerabilities that plagued rival bridges.

CoinDesk found 27 successful swaps moving about 2,390 ETH into 75.2 BTC, even as Bitget urged THORChain to stop serving addresses tied to the $387.5 million theft.

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 28, 2026

Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money market shares can be used as collateral for USDT or USDC trading credit lines on Bybit while earning yield on the underlying assets.

Bitcoin fell 1.7% to $83,000, though the CoinDesk 100 dropped 2.6% as Friday’s biggest gainers reversed and oil climbed back above $100.

ZEC led losses among major tokens as Brent pushed toward $108 and traders added to bets on another Fed rate increase ahead of this week’s inflation and jobs data.

Your look at what’s coming in the week starting Sept. 28.

Overall demand for leveraged exposure remains weak, marked by sliding futures open interest. The capital that’s still in the market appears skewed toward bearish positions.

The stablecoin payments company said the audit is part of its preparations to go public, disputing an August report that the listing had been put on hold.

The California Governor signed AB 2409 as part of an anti-corruption package, framing it as a response to President Trump’s $TRUMP fiasco.

All seven funds attracted money, while Friday’s $87 million intake set a daily record.

Trump on Sunday didn’t rule out additional strikes on Iran before the midterm elections, even as he said the war could end soon.

Buterin wants Ethereum to do far more work without forcing every computer on the network to repeat the same calculations.

Interviews with industry participants and legislative aides paint a picture of a blown bill-writing process, with sources pointing to nearly every facet of the bill’s development and the debate around it as contributing factors to this month’s failed vote.

Kraken parent Payward is unifying trading, payments, asset management and institutional services on common rails, co-CEO Arjun Sethi said.

The five-year deal could strengthen USDC’s reach in emerging markets, though Tether’s liquidity advantage remains hard to dislodge, analysts told CoinDesk.

Two wallets have been almost emptied and a third is being drained, with about $75 million remaining across the five original holding accounts.

Alpenglow is running on both public test networks, giving application teams a place to check their software before the live blockchain switches.

The feature would let users bundle up to eight transactions, including asset-and-payment transfers, but a brief drop below the network’s 80% support threshold restarted its two-week activation clock.

Researchers have mapped out private bitcoin-denominated transfers that run alongside Bitcoin, but the system still lacks a finished way to lock up real BTC and release it again.

The long-anticipated exit of the commissioner sometimes known as Crypto Mom is Oct. 2, announced as the agency was sending out its latest crypto work.

A Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that prediction markets’ sports-related events contracts are not swaps, and therefore aren’t subject to federal regulatory oversight.

The trade group will be run again by its original CEO, Kristin Smith, when Summer Mersinger leaves at the end of a long congressional tussle.

The stablecoin issuer blacklisted a wallet holding about $318,000 in USDT and USDC. Most of the stolen funds sit in ether, which can’t be frozen.

Regulatory clarity is not simply a legal or political issue, argues former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. It is an economic one.