
QR codes have emerged as a global interface for digital payments, gaining ground from Asia to the U.S. for their simplicity, low cost, and security. As countries move toward unified standards, the shape of money is shifting—from coins and cards to scannable squares.
Alex Harutunian
Decentralized exchanges just hit a record high, with DEX-to-CEX spot volumes reaching parity for the first time. The middle-tier altcoin sector, once central to CEX activity, is losing ground. Meanwhile, a new generation of CLOB-based DEXs is preparing to reshape the landscape of crypto trading.
Alexander Mardar
The GBBC’s 2025 Handbook captures a new phase of blockchain adoption: from renegade roots to institutional alignment. With compliant infrastructure and regulated tokenization, blockchain is no longer an outsider—it’s becoming the backbone.
Alex Harutunian
EigenLayer has launched EigenCloud, a decentralized platform combining off-chain compute, verification, and data availability. Built on its restaking model, EigenCloud enables developers to build trust-minimized apps using services like EigenCompute, EigenVerify, and EigenDA.
Alexander Mardar
A controversial change in Bitcoin Core will remove relay limits on the OP_RETURN field, allowing larger data payloads to spread across the network. Critics fear spam and bloat; supporters say it's already happening—and making it visible will improve fee markets and mempool consistency.
Alexander Mardar
QR codes have emerged as a global interface for digital payments, gaining ground from Asia to the U.S. for their simplicity, low cost, and security. As countries move toward unified standards, the shape of money is shifting—from coins and cards to scannable squares.
Alex HarutunianKULR gets $20M credit line from Coinbase to boost Bitcoin holdings. CoreWeave to acquire Bitcoin miner Core Scientific in $9B all-stock deal. Bit Digital swaps entire 280 BTC reserve ($172M) into ETH. Murano starts $500M Bitcoin treasury strategy with initial 21 BTC buy. Dubai approves first tokenized money market fund

The platform brings real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain by offering tokenized U.S. Treasury Bills and a stablecoin with a novel yield distribution design. This gives crypto investors access to low-risk returns from T-Bills without leaving the DeFi ecosystem.

The U.S. Senate has passed the GENIUS Act, a sweeping bill to regulate dollar-backed stablecoins while promoting private-sector leadership in digital finance. Backed by the Trump administration, the bill now heads to the House—marking a pivotal moment in the future of digital dollars.

The spike in activity is primarily attributed to the rapid growth of Avalanche’s Coqnet subnet, which has seen an unusual surge in volume. However, other subnets, including the main Avalanche C-Chain, have also experienced significant increases in activity.

Switzerland will adopt the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework in 2026, automatically sharing crypto data with 74 partner countries. While tough on foreign tax evasion, Swiss residents continue to enjoy tax-free capital gains and a clear, favorable crypto policy.

The new safety module significantly enhances the Aave Protocol’s protection against potential shortfall events, representing a major upgrade over the original safety module introduced in 2020.
US Supreme Court denies Coinbase request to block IRS access to user data. Robinhood launches crypto staking for Ethereum and Solana. Germany’s Sparkassen to launch crypto trading for retail clients in summer 2026. REX-Osprey’s staked Solana ETF to start trading Wednesday. Kazakhstan’s National Bank to launch state

Worldcoin’s new Layer 2 network, Worldchain, is built to prioritize real users, with features like free gas and priority blockspace for verified humans. While still early, the network is showing steady growth and has started to attract meaningful onchain activity.

x402 is a new open-source protocol from Coinbase that enables on-chain payments directly over HTTP using the long-unused 402 status code. It allows apps, APIs, and autonomous agents to pay per request without accounts or third-party gateways, aiming to power the machine-payable internet.

Binance announced that from September 29, USDC, USDP and TUSD stablecoins balances on their platform will be automatically converted into…
Alex Harutunian
Venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) recently introduced a series of “Can’t Be Evil” licences that let creators grant NFT…
Observers
CoinDesk published a new market index based on the company’s classification standard DACS. The index is to become an analogue of S&P500 in the crypto industry.
Sasha MarkevichChainalysis, a crypto analytics company, announced in a blog post on September 8 that it has helped the US government recover around $30 million stolen from a play-to-earn crypto game Axie Infinity earlier this year. Erin Plante, senior director of investigations at Chainalysis, said in the post that this event
Observers
This year has been a wash with bear crypto market cautions and alerts, with prices of the most popular cryptocurrencies crashing dramatically. However, the Crypto market is not just about the price of Bitcoin, there are way more significant events to monitor.
Observers
The Bybit crypto exchange has entered into cooperation with the Circle Internet Financial company, which owns the USDC stablecoin. The…
Observers
In February 2022, Apple introduced the Tap to Pay feature, which allows you to use the iPhone as a payment terminal, also it can be used to…
Observers
After the Terra collapse, South Korean authorities have to act carefully and put more and more pressure on exchanges. Exchanges proactively…
Sasha MarkevichKULR gets $20M credit line from Coinbase to boost Bitcoin holdings. CoreWeave to acquire Bitcoin miner Core Scientific in $9B all-stock deal. Bit Digital swaps entire 280 BTC reserve ($172M) into ETH. Murano starts $500M Bitcoin treasury strategy with initial 21 BTC buy. Dubai approves first tokenized money market fund

The platform brings real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain by offering tokenized U.S. Treasury Bills and a stablecoin with a novel yield distribution design. This gives crypto investors access to low-risk returns from T-Bills without leaving the DeFi ecosystem.

The U.S. Senate has passed the GENIUS Act, a sweeping bill to regulate dollar-backed stablecoins while promoting private-sector leadership in digital finance. Backed by the Trump administration, the bill now heads to the House—marking a pivotal moment in the future of digital dollars.

The spike in activity is primarily attributed to the rapid growth of Avalanche’s Coqnet subnet, which has seen an unusual surge in volume. However, other subnets, including the main Avalanche C-Chain, have also experienced significant increases in activity.

Switzerland will adopt the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework in 2026, automatically sharing crypto data with 74 partner countries. While tough on foreign tax evasion, Swiss residents continue to enjoy tax-free capital gains and a clear, favorable crypto policy.

The new safety module significantly enhances the Aave Protocol’s protection against potential shortfall events, representing a major upgrade over the original safety module introduced in 2020.
US Supreme Court denies Coinbase request to block IRS access to user data. Robinhood launches crypto staking for Ethereum and Solana. Germany’s Sparkassen to launch crypto trading for retail clients in summer 2026. REX-Osprey’s staked Solana ETF to start trading Wednesday. Kazakhstan’s National Bank to launch state

Worldcoin’s new Layer 2 network, Worldchain, is built to prioritize real users, with features like free gas and priority blockspace for verified humans. While still early, the network is showing steady growth and has started to attract meaningful onchain activity.

