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Blockchain

Solana Cuts Slot Time to 250ms at Epoch 1037, Capacity Flat

The third of four staged cuts under SIMD-0525 landed Friday morning. Each slot carries proportionally less compute, so throughput does not move.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Events

Blockchain Life 2026 Returns to Dubai on December 1–2

Blockchain Life comes back to Dubai on December 1–2 for its seventeenth edition, with 15,000+ attendees expected from more than 130 countries and the debut of the AI Future Forum. Here is what is on the programme and what tickets cost.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 2 min read

Market

Corporate Treasuries Bought 5,900 Bitcoin in Three Months

One company accounted for most of it. Glassnode puts the group's average entry at $80,500, about 6% above where bitcoin traded on Friday morning.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

S&P Global Agrees to Buy OpenZeppelin, the Code Behind $37 Trillion

Terms were not disclosed and neither side gave a closing date. The security firm keeps its name, its team and its open-source libraries under S&P Global Ratings.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

SEC Gives Tokenized Stock Venues a Five-Year Exchange Exemption

Permissioned automated market makers may trade tokenized NMS stock without registering as exchanges. The caps on symbols and volume carry no published figures.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

A Paper Bitcoin Prototype Puts 1,000 Satoshis on a Banknote

A prototype circulating under the CryptoAxe name renders bitcoin as a paper banknote with a 1,000-satoshi face value, a printed serial number and portraits of Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney. At Thursday's price that denomination came to about 77 cents.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

CZ Says a $1 Million Bitcoin Will Not Take 25 Years to Arrive

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao told Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong on 27 August that bitcoin will reach $1 million and that it will not take 25 years. He put payments at scale and pension money ahead of price.

· 17 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Bitwise's Hougan Says Bitcoin Could Reach 25% of Gold's Market by 2035

Bitwise's Matt Hougan says it is reasonable to expect bitcoin to reach a quarter of gold's market by 2035, the base case behind the firm's $1.3 million price target for that year. Bitcoin sits a little over 5% of gold today.

· 17 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Hong Kong Clears Regulated Stablecoins to Trade on Licensed Venues

The 2026 policy address also puts tokenized gold in front of the SFC and sets the monetary authority a year-end test of tokenized Exchange Fund Bills.

· 17 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Reserve Bill Clears Committee 28-21 to Lock 324,527 BTC

A bill approved 28-21 would move roughly 324,527 bitcoin already in federal hands into one reserve and bar any sale for at least 20 years. It now goes to the full House.

· 17 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Two-Thirds of Bitcoin Sits With Individuals at 13.98 Million BTC

A conference pie chart puts 13.98 million BTC, or 66.6% of the 21 million cap, in individual hands. Treasury trackers match its fund and corporate slices almost exactly. Its government figure is the one that will not settle.

· 17 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Bitcoin Barely Moves as the Fed Raises Rates 25 Basis Points

The federal funds target moved a quarter point on Wednesday, its first increase since July 2023. Three accounts of the same evening give three bitcoin prices.

· 17 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read