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Former White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez was fined after using advance access to Donald Trump’s speeches to trade presidential mention prediction-market contracts, earning more than $107,500 before the CFTC intervened.
Polygon quietly fixed denial-of-service and consensus-hardening flaws in the Austin and Kyoto hard forks before disclosure. The network said the vulnerabilities, patched in Bor and Heimdall clients, were never exploited.
Circle’s cirBTC held 40 BTC and was overcollateralized at its Aug. 27 snapshot, but remained thousands of times smaller than WBTC and cbBTC. Arc is set to become the product’s next distribution test.
Bitcoin’s rally to around $79,000 lifted Strategy’s 840,447 BTC holdings roughly $2.8 billion above cost. Michael Saylor’s “We’re Back” post prompted speculation that the company could resume buying, though no purchase was confirmed.
Stablecoin reserves under GENIUS cover debt maturing within 93 days, while the US Treasury expands liquidity buybacks for 10- to 30-year debt. CryptoSlate reports the short-term funding channel cannot resolve a $28 billion long-bond problem.
Michael Saylor’s “We’re Back” post suggests Strategy may resume Bitcoin purchases after a two-month pause aimed at strengthening its balance sheet. The message does not confirm a completed transaction or disclose timing.
BitGo is paying roughly $42.5 million upfront for institutional trading capabilities while NYDIG prioritizes a claimed power-and-compute footprint of more than 3 gigawatts. CryptoSlate said profitability remains unproven for both strategies.
CryptoSlate reports that a mid-tier Bitcoin treasury committed its entire BTC reserve to a 30-day reset structure. The Aug. 25 unwind was added to principal, while a one-time Sept. 24 test determines whether a $75,000 ceiling applies.
CoinDesk traces the evolution of money transfer from hawala to Swift, showing how efforts to remove friction and physical handling have improved efficiency while creating new opportunities for increasingly sophisticated exploits.
Luke Dashjr has left the OCEAN Bitcoin mining pool, with potential hash-power movement to a new pool still uncertain. OCEAN represented 2.45% of trailing-day blocks, while CONVOY reported no operational footprint.
A proposed Treasury change to the GENIUS framework would require US exchanges to conduct reasonable diligence before relying on foreign stablecoin issuers, with noncompliant platforms potentially facing delisting obligations. Comments remain open through Oct. 19.
More than 100 AI, cybersecurity, finance and technology organizations are urging governments and industry to improve defenses against attacks powered by increasingly capable AI models, following cases in which AI systems hacked real companies.
The CFTC imposed a $65,000 penalty and three-year ban on a former White House aide who reportedly used secret speech text to make $107,000 on prediction markets. The order credited KalshiEX for its assistance.
Crypto stock tokens barely moved over the weekend, while four Aerodrome pools displayed $6.07 million in liquidity. CryptoSlate said Aave V3 records listed no liquidity for the B20 assets examined.
The US Treasury plans to borrow $739 billion from July through September while buying back some older bonds. CryptoSlate says the new debt issuance could absorb liquidity before the impact of buybacks reaches Bitcoin and other risk assets.
