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three.ws and USC partner to build an on-campus agent economy on Solana with IBM security
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ZachXBT says he may reject crypto victim cases from Nigeria, Canada, UK, India and other “low quality” jurisdictions based on past case-handling experiences
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Ledger ad warns against regional service restrictions, pitches touchscreen signer as self-custody alternative.
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Verus launches copytrading, letting users mirror any Fomo trader by pasting their handle and execute trades as soon as their favorite creator does
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Rialo launches points system with 20-point sign-up reward and retroactive incentives for early contributors
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Kraken test DEX activates U.S. style compliance controls on Hyperliquid. Observers link it to regulatory progress, though skeptics note anyone can name a testnet deployer.
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Trezor adds HyperEVM support, enabling offline storage of HYPE and HyperEVM assets on its hardware wallets.
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Backpack launches Graphs tool for comparing stocks across hundreds of financial and market metrics.
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Extended announces regulated framework push for Europe ahead of TGE. Traders reacted with a mix of frustration over perceived delays for TGE in 2026.
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Hyperliquid Policy Center released report: Perpetual futures as complements to dated futures, raising an important question: do they compete with traditional futures markets, or complement them ?
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BitMart explores restructuring as an alternative to a full wind-down, with plans for phased operations and creditor distributions under White & Case
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FedNow offramps are now in beta mode. Bridge now supports instant, 24/7/365 USD offramps to FedNow-eligible accounts.
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peaq integrates World ID for private human verification in robots.
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BounceBit will shut down its standalone Layer 1 and migrate to BNB Chain after a $3M exploit stole 286.5M BB tokens through an authorization flaw
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Nomura-backed Laser Digital wins Japan's first crypto approval in four years, and will offer liquidity to domestic crypto providers, with institutional trading services planned to follow.
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ZIGChain co-founder & CCO Abdul Rafay Gadit teases with video post saying that a man is on a mission to tokenise everything.
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MegaRouter expands AI routing infrastructure for multi-model agent coordination and cost controls
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Delpho published USDV Liquidity Event Report detailing market activity, protocol performance, and next steps as its USDV stablecoin experienced a depeg on August 21 but later returned to $1 peg.
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BNB trenching season goes live with 200,000 USDT in rewards on Flap and Four.meme.
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Aligned launches $ALIGN token for Ethereum financial infrastructure stack
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Why Bitcoin is Surging after the Treasury’s Market intervention: CAITLIN LONG
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XRP leads broad crypto rally with 39% weekly gain as Bitcoin posts its biggest weekly jump in two years and briefly tops $79,000
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Coldcard ships new firmware after a $114M Bitcoin theft, with a three-week review uncovering additional bugs that were unrelated to the original flaw
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STS Digital CEO says crypto is in a price “winter” but an “institutional summer,” as institutions adopt blockchain despite weaker token prices
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Agent-run companies face a new challenge: firing workers is easy, but their obligations endure.
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Sandbox SAND token faces large-scale minting exploit on Base. Blockaid and PeckShield detected hackers using LayerZero permissions to create roughly 14.9B SAND tokens across hundreds of transactions.
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Base Dollar is officially live on Base.
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