Regulation
CBDCs
Russia opens central bank digital currency to millions as 12 major banks and top retailers face rollout rules
All 12 systemically significant banks are ready, while the first retailer mandate applies only above a revenue threshold and with a qualifying bank agreement.
DeFi
Cross-chain oracle compromise triggers liquidations and frozen vaults across multiple DeFi networks
Full Sail confirmed vault losses, Virtue reported 47 liquidations and Volo paused withdrawals while Sui and IOTA remained online.
Hacks
Cronos validators erase transaction history to contain massive $75 million lending protocol exploit
Cronos restored the chain to a pre-exploit state and resumed block production, while some connected services remain in recovery and a postmortem is still pending.
Digital Asset Treasuries
How Saylor’s $2 billion capital loop is quietly rewriting the rules of Bitcoin ownership
His essay preserves self-custody while legitimizing the layered claims that now finance Strategy’s balance sheet.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Strategy splits $603 million share sale between Bitcoin purchases and STRC support
One week of common-stock sales funded a $369.7 million Bitcoin purchase, $202.5 million of STRC buybacks and dividends, and a $30 million cash increase.
DeFi
Ontology halts mainnet transactions as technical team investigates potential security issue
The project said no incident or asset loss had been confirmed, while a public node remained at block 20,770,893 and no restart time was disclosed.
Exchanges
Phemex puts 82 tokens on notice over liquidity and project compliance concerns
Each market met at least one risk criterion, but Phemex did not disclose which issue applied to each pair.
Market
Bitcoin gains 24% as CryptoSlate price prediction model maps a volatile September
The median forecast points to $81,319 by Sep. 29, with $80,000 resistance and a break in ETF inflows testing the rally.
Featured
Why Bitcoin’s $2B corporate treasuries are a ticking time bomb of hidden conditional supply
PowerCompute and USBC show how collars, options and secured loans can turn passive holdings into contractual obligations.
Derivatives
Massive Bitcoin derivatives gap between CME and Coinbase threatens violent position shakeout
CME's Bitcoin short position is now 272 times larger than Coinbase's long, setting up a massive forced unwind risk.
Regulation
Why the SEC’s $75 million crypto path is not the same deal Congress is offering
The SEC proposal and Congress’s unfinished ancillary-asset framework diverge on who qualifies, what investors can enforce and how overlapping rules would interact.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Bitcoin treasury company registers 93% of shares for resale and puts third of its crypto into options
The shares are already issued and may never be sold, while loan, treasury and cash risks remain.
