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Visa Says Stablecoin Settlement Now Runs at $20 Billion a Year

Settlement through Visa's network now runs above $20 billion a year, more than 15 times the rate of a year ago. Card issuers get a stablecoin credit line.

· 8 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

White Hats Return 3,400 BTC to Liquid and Keep 598.5 for Themselves

The group that emptied Liquid's federation wallet sent back 3,400 BTC and kept 598.5. Four accounts value the remainder at $47 million and one at $48 million.

· 8 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Metaplanet CEO Answers Shareholders Over a 319M-Share Option Pool

Simon Gerovich said Metaplanet had not explained its Series 10 rights clearly enough. Shareholders want 273 million shares cancelled and MMXX's owners named.

· 8 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

CoinGecko Logs 20.2M Tokens Since 2021 as Count Estimates Diverge

CoinGecko counted 20.2 million tokens launched between mid-2021 and the end of 2025, and 53.2% were no longer actively traded. Public trackers put the current total anywhere from 8,949 to 59.08 million. The counts do not reconcile.

· 8 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Dimon Still Calls Bitcoin a Pet Rock as JPMorgan Widens Crypto Access

A social post pairing Jamie Dimon's harshest bitcoin lines with JPMorgan's growing crypto offering is circulating again. The quotes check out. So does the gap between them and what the bank now lets clients do.

· 8 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

DBS and Citi Settle a Weekend Dollar Payment on Swift's Ledger

The transfer between Singapore and New York settled on Saturday in minutes. How many live transactions the ledger has carried so far is counted two different ways.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Philippine Central Bank Proposes a One-Year Payment License Freeze

The BSP would stop taking new payment operator applications for 12 months and route regulated crypto firms into direct merchant deals under high-risk controls.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Better Can Reuse the Bitcoin Pledged Against Its Coinbase Mortgages

Better told CoinDesk it may reuse pledged bitcoin as long as it keeps an equivalent amount to return. Pre-applications since launch stand at $360 million.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Mastercard Won Its New York BitLicense in May, Aimed at Stablecoins

New York's financial regulator granted Mastercard Transaction Services (U.S.) LLC a BitLicense on 27 May 2026, and a social post revived the news this week as if it were fresh. Mastercard's own statement ties the approval to stablecoins and tokenized deposits, not bitcoin.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

The $8 Bitcoin Anniversary Post Cites Nakamoto Eight Months Too Late

An Instagram slide says Bitcoin was $8 exactly 15 years ago today, pinned to a BitcoinTalk post dated 18 August 2011. Satoshi Nakamoto's last public post on that forum was 12 December 2010. The date on the slide is also three weeks past.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

BlackRock Cuts IBIT's Bitcoin Swap Minimum From $25M to $1M

BlackRock has cut the in-kind minimum on its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, opening direct bitcoin-for-shares swaps to smaller institutions. Robbie Mitchnick told Bloomberg the fund keeps growing because access keeps widening.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Harmony Proposes Shutting Down Its Layer 1 and Moving ONE to Ethereum

Harmony wants to end its seven-year-old chain and reissue ONE on Ethereum. Validators can start shutting down on 10 September, and the vote is non-binding.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read