Archives for September 22, 2026

Applications keep executing transactions as they do today, and users will not need to change wallets or how they send funds. Alpenglow has spent more than four months running on a smaller network created specifically for the upgrade. Moving it to Solana’s established testnet checks whether the broader group of computers and services already running […]

Whether this year follows a similar path – a red October followed by a big bull run – or takes a different route entirely, isn’t something the 2012 precedent can settle on its own. The sample size is too small. Bitcoin has been trading from at least late 2010 and since then, this pattern has […]

“Technically, Bitcoin’s back above its 50 & 200 week moving averages, up ~29% in 35 days,” Tony Dicarlo, director of institutional propositions at RootstockLabs, said in an email to CoinDesk. “Legislatively, The SEC stepped up support of digital assets where Congress hasn’t with the Innovation Exemption filling the CLARITY gap within 24 hours, driving sharp […]

Popular betting on what an individual might say or do, known as “mention markets,” pose some special dangers in the eyes of the U.S. regulator overseeing prediction market firms such as Kalshi and Polymarket. An advisory issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Tuesday may narrow the window on event contracts that would […]

The bill itself was a bipartisan product which grew from some 300 pages to over 600, she said, after Democrats asked for provisions addressing issues like bankruptcy protections, among other items. “Every single Democrat voted no, every single one. I see some of the spin post-vote blaming it on Brian Armstrong … or blaming it […]

Meanwhile, GENIUS However, last year’s crypto legislative success in converting the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act into law is still an ongoing focus of the Treasury and banking regulators assigned to implement it. Pettit, who had a hand in creating the GENIUS Act as a Senate staffer, said the banking […]

Six of Canada’s largest banks are exploring a Canadian-dollar tokenized deposit system designed to move money faster between financial institutions and eventually connect with other digital asset initiatives, TD Bank announced Tuesday. Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and TD Bank Group form the […]

Once the idea is cleared by the Office of Management and Budget at the White House, the agency can formally propose it and take comment from the industry and public. Meanwhile, Lindman cited the agency’s staff statement in December that was meant as an interim approach to steer broker-dealers on how they should handle crypto […]

The European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Union’s national central banks want crypto platforms to be prevented from using lending, borrowing, staking and other products that offer indirect returns on stablecoin holdings. “Electronic money is intended to be used for making payments and not as a means of saving,” the European System of Central […]

That recurring $5,499 dollar target remained nearly stable even as the number of contracts required to reach it changed with ether’s price. Ether rose from around $1,700 to $2,500 between June and September, forcing the number of contracts in each trade to keep changing while the dollar target stayed almost fixed. A trade in the […]