Latest from Jamie Crawley
ECB President Christine Lagarde intervened to block Binance’s EU MiCA license: WSJ
Although the ECB holds no formal licensing authority under MiCA, high-level intervention led Greece to stall an application that regulators had previously deemed complete, the Journal said.

Zcash targets November upgrade to make private payments up to three times faster
NU7 would reduce block times to 25 seconds while setting aside at least 60% of transaction fees to supplement mining rewards beginning in 2031.

XRP on the brink of a golden cross as focus switches to altcoins
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 18, 2026

The Ondo Finance succession crisis gets messier as Kathleen Allman’s daughter alleges ‘dementia’, alcoholism and reckless spending
The estranged daughter of 77-year-old Kathleen Allman has petitioned a Hawaiian court to establish a limited conservatorship to protect her parents’ share of her brother’s stake in Ondo.

How Circle’s institutional Arc blockchain got taken over by memecoins on day one
Circle blockchain Arc's first day was dominated by memecoins, and the traders behind them had already moved on by Thursday morning.

Optimism creeps back into crypto, with the 2022 test still to come
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 17, 2026

Blockchain finance platform Theo launches tokenized silver backed by $40 million in active leases
The onchain finance platform said thSLVR allows investors to retain exposure to silver while earning income from lending the metal to institutional borrowers.

A LatAm telecom operator is putting part of its finances on Avalanche
Led by former IBM Blockchain partner Jules Miller, Iris is helping Bolivia's VIVA use stablecoins for settlement, dollar reserves and new financial services without replacing its existing telecom systems.

Bitcoin Core 32 enters final testing with faster validation, fee changes and security fixes
The October update changes how nodes estimate transaction fees and process blocks, while fixing a wallet flaw that could let an authenticated user run commands on a node.

Bitcoin loses touch with the Dollar Index, U.S. stocks ahead of the Fed
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 16, 2026

