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News

Two Former Robinhood Engineers Charged Over Hyperliquid Trades

Prosecutors in Manhattan say the pair traded perpetual futures on tokens Robinhood was about to list. Each allegedly cleared more than $50,000.

· 16 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Willy Woo's Table Puts India First With 68 Million Bitcoin Owners

An on-chain table published on 1 September puts India ahead of every other country on bitcoin ownership, with 68 million holders and 4.6% of the population. The United States is second at about 50 million. By ownership rate India sits twelfth.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

BlackRock's IBIT Tops 784,000 BTC as Two Trackers Give Two Counts

An Instagram post puts BlackRock's IBIT at well over 765,000 BTC. Two independent trackers put it higher, and they disagree with each other by about 1,700 coins. The quote driving the post dates to August, not last week.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

ECB Asks EU Online Merchants to Join Its Digital Euro Pilot by 27 October

Applications close at 17:00 CET on 27 October. Selected merchants take beta digital euro payments from central bank staff, for no fee and no remuneration.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

CoinEx Winds Down and Gives Users Until 22 December to Withdraw

Haipo Yang said the security and compliance risks had become hard to contain. Spot trading stops on 29 September and the withdrawal window shuts on 22 December.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

S&P Global Leads Kaiko's Series B Extension to $110 Million

Ten institutions joined the round, among them Nasdaq Ventures, BNP Paribas and Coinbase Ventures. Kaiko disclosed no valuation.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

XRP Ledger's Batch Amendment Sits One Validator Short of 80%

Twenty-seven of 35 validators back BatchV1_1, the rebuilt version of an upgrade pulled in February. Accounts differ on whether 28 or 29 votes starts the clock.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Aave Plan Would Put DAO Money Before Stakers in Three V4 Markets

TokenLogic's proposal covers Core WETH, USDC and USDT with DAO offsets of 33 ETH and 15,000 each. Umbrella stakers absorb whatever is left over.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Robinhood Puts Voting and 1:1 Share Redemption on Its Token Roadmap

Vlad Tenev said in-kind redemption and voting are coming for Stock Tokens. No date was given, and the product disclosure still denies holders any ownership.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Bitcoin at $1.6T Is 1% of Global Money, a Conference Slide Says

A pie chart from a Bitcoin conference account splits $157 trillion of global money into eight wedges and gives Bitcoin 1% of it. The dollar wedge matches the Fed's July M2 print exactly. The gold wedge does not match the tracker this desk checked.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

BitMine Adds 27,180 ETH and Nears 5% of the Ethereum Supply

BitMine Immersion bought 27,180 ETH in the week to 13 September, taking its holdings to 5,956,378 tokens, about 4.9% of the supply. The company values the position at $14.96 billion and has 85% of it staked.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Bitcoin Holds Near $78,000 as an AI Warning Hits Chip Stocks

Nasdaq 100 futures fell more than 1.5% after a weekend essay argued for slower AI development. Bitcoin traded around $78,200 and 94 of the CoinDesk 100 rose.

· 14 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read