Wednesday, 16 September 2026
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South Korean crypto exchange Upbit has announced the listing of six new tokens: CYS, ICNT, XAN, EDEN, AIOZ, and ALLO. Trading is scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m. KST on August 10, 2026, after being pushed back from the p…
Bitcoin Red Team has now found 1,288 critical and high-level vulnerabilities in the Bitcoin ecosystem as of Saturday.
This week brings a heavy mix of inflation, consumer and energy data that could influence risk assets and crypto prices. Bitcoin is approaching a key resistance zone, while XRP and Ethereum analysts are watching differen…
Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, its a national security one.
The CLARITY Act, the bipartisan US crypto market structure bill, faces another delay as the Senateâs crowded schedule and upcoming midterm elections make passage in 2026 increasingly difficult.
BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The odds say that vote will be a No.
Australia’s financial watchdog has suspended Cryptolink’s registration for three months, adding to a crackdown that previously saw the Bitcoin ATM operator fined $56,340.
Senate Majority Leader John announced late last Thursday that the Senate would not hold even a procedural vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before the August recess, dimming the chances that the bill can beco…
The long-simmering fight over a controversial Bitcoin network proposal finally produced a chain split over the weekend, but the breakaway Bitcoin fork sputtered almost immediately, grinding out just two blocks in roughl…
Bitcoin crossed $65,000 for the first time in weeks on Wednesday after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics delivered a second consecutive inflation shock, reporting June producer prices fell 0.3% month-over-month agains…
Hyperliquid has never traded more contracts, and it has never kept a smaller share of the money those contracts earn
The enforcing fork remains stuck at Bitcoin’s full mining difficulty as mandatory signaling proceeds with little hashpower support.
The rules, effective Jan. 1, 2027, cover transactions above $10,000 sent to overseas providers or self-custody wallets, along with other transfers flagged for review.
Foundation and Citadel21 reported drained Lightning nodes, but the total amount stolen and number of affected operators remain unknown.
A new, minority chain created when BIP-110 supporters split from Bitcoin on Saturday has produced just two blocks roughly eight hours after going live, with no sign that any miner intends to keep it moving.
Bitcoin has reached block 961,632, triggering the long-awaited mandatory signaling period for BIP-110, a controversial proposal designed to temporarily curb non-financial data from being embedded on the network.
A volunteer security initiative says it used frontier AI models to scan 150 Bitcoin repositories and found more than a dozen vulnerabilities as developers increasingly use artificial intelligence to audit blockchains.
The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback.
Early-August active addresses spiked as Gate Layer added another potential catalyst.
Will crypto explode is the question sitting on every trader’s screen right now, and Bitcoin just answered the first part by posting a 7% gain through July while absorbing every crisis the market threw at it. The asset h…
The procedural move puts crypto market structure legislation back on track as lawmakers continue negotiations over ethics and stablecoin provisions.
Bitcoin will draw trillions of dollars from institutional investors over the next decade as financial advisers, family offices, pension plans and sovereign wealth funds begin to view it as a mainstream financial asset, …
Russian consumers’ demand for hardware crypto wallets more than doubled in the first half of 2026, according to data from two major retailers, as the country prepares to introduce new crypto rules.
Meanwhile, the $1.78 aligned with 200-day EMA band remains the key resistance for RENDER price.