Archives for September 16, 2026

Privacy token Zcash surged 23% over the past 24 hours as bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies rose overnight into Asian morning hours Thursday, alongside a recovery in stock futures following the Federal Reserve’s first interest-rate increase since 2023. ZEC traded near $1,369, while bitcoin edged up less than 1% to about $76,258. Solana gained nearly […]

Goldman Sachs now expects the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark interest rate again in October, a 180-degree pivot from its earlier call for a September hike followed by a pause. The shift comes after the Fed on Wednesday lifted rates by 25 basis points to a 3.75%–4.00% target range. The central bank’s updated rate […]

The hackers behind a data breach at Revolut are demanding $3 million worth of monero (XMR) within 24 hours, threatening to sell the stolen customer data to other criminal groups if the bank refuses to pay, according to the Financial Times. The group, which calls itself “iamnotavillain,” posted the demand Wednesday alongside a countdown clock, […]

The U.S. Federal Reserve tightened monetary policy for the first time in more than three years on Wednesday. In a nearly-universally anticipated move, the central bank lifted its benchmark fed funds rate range by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4%. The vote to hike rates was unanimous, and the “dots” signal an expectation for one more […]

Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network’s estate has sued BitMEX over forced liquidations during the March 2020 Covid crash, seeking the return of 6,360 BTC now worth roughly $495 million. The complaint was filed Sept. 12 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York by Blockchain Recovery Investment Consortium, the litigation administrator […]

Less than 24 hours after the collapse of the crypto industry’s market structure bill, the tax committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has advanced another important industry effort that would clarify crypto tax treatment and ease burdens on casual transactions. At a Wednesday hearing known as a markup, in which a committee evaluates a […]

The newspaper subsequently reported that the Treasury is “investigating $165 million in cryptocurrency-linked transactions that may have helped finance Hamas” prior to the October 2023 attacks. While the documents suggested that Binance may have improved its KYC and AML protocols, it’s unclear whether the Hamas overture is a response to this. “When terrorist groups tell […]

5) Thermocap multiple: The thermocap multiple is a measure like price to book that compares bitcoin’s market capitalization to the cumulative dollar value ever paid to miners, with each coin valued at its market price when it was mined. Prior crypto winters ended at single-digit multiples, but this cycle it only declined to 13 times, […]

The central point of the deal is Payward is trying to bring a popular offshore and onchain trading product into a regulated U.S. structure while keeping trade matching and recordkeeping on Hyperliquid. “A U.S. client would open a futures account with Payward’s registered broker and trade new perpetual futures contracts on Hyperliquid, cleared through the […]

The product launches with more than $40 million of leases committed, the firm said. Initially available in beta, thSLVR will be offered to institutions and whitelisted investors, with broader access planned later. Tokenized silver remains a considerably smaller market than tokenized gold, which has grown to several billion dollars across multiple products. Existing silver tokens […]