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BlackRock and Ondo Finance have created three tokenized investment portfolios, offering a glimpse of how blockchain could eventually handle complete strategies rather than individual assets. The model could simplify rebalancing, broaden access and support more automated portfolio management.
NEAR Intents says it has identified the person behind a $3.8 million exploit and has given the suspected attacker 48 hours to return the funds. The protocol paused services, promised full compensation for affected users and said the breach involved its Omni infrastructure and smart contract.
Sazmining has introduced the Wild Sats Club, a loyalty program that lowers Bitcoin mining management fees as customers expand their hashrate. Discounts begin at 1.0 PH and reach 6% at 5.0 PH, applying across qualifying customers’ full Sazmining fleets.
President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin is promoting a November 22 dinner for its top 185 registered investors at his Washington-area club. Trump is expected to attend, but private meet-and-greet sessions will not be offered, as the event again draws political criticism.
Metaplanet’s independent directors defended a revised executive stock-rights plan after shareholder backlash, citing management’s early financial risk and restructuring role. The letter cuts the potential pool to 188.2 million shares but leaves questions about CEO Simon Gerovich’s exercised shares and MMXX Ventures unresolved.
HANetf has listed bitcoin ETCs hedged against sterling and euro movements, giving European investors access to bitcoin while reducing the effect of dollar exchange-rate changes. GBTC trades in London, while EBTC is listed on Xetra and Euronext Paris, with HSBC providing the hedges.
Donald Trump and executives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and xAI signed a voluntary White House accord placing responsibility for frontier AI safety largely on developers through controls, audits and board oversight.
Citigroup and Coinbase are partnering to help businesses move between fiat currency and stablecoins through regulated banking and crypto infrastructure. The arrangement will support account-like payment services and stablecoin checkout while allowing merchants to avoid directly holding digital assets.
Kraken parent Payward is broadening its focus beyond cryptocurrency exchange services. Co-CEO Arjun Sethi said trading, payments, asset management and institutional offerings are being unified on common infrastructure rails.
Bitcoin slipped below $85,000 on Sept. 23 as stronger US business activity lifted Treasury yields and pressured risk assets. The move flushed leveraged longs and halted a rebound that had accelerated after Bitcoin passed a large concentration of short positions.
BlackRock says AI agents could support wider stablecoin and crypto adoption, with payments viewed as the nearer-term opportunity. Markets for computing capacity remain at an early stage, according to the asset manager.
Donald Trump reportedly said the US will establish an “AI Force” and appoint an AI czar. He said the initiative would manage the expanding sector while avoiding regulations that could slow innovation, according to Cointelegraph.
Ripple says asset managers and commercial projects are preparing for the XRP Ledger’s Batch V1.1 upgrade, which links asset and payment transfers so they succeed together or fail together after an extensive security review.
VanEck’s Matthew Sigel said the Bitcoin community recognizes the potential risk from quantum computing and is working on solutions. Bitcoin Magazine reported the comments on September 18, 2026.
S&P Global acquired OpenZeppelin to target technology risks affecting banks and asset managers operating onchain. The deal follows its recent investment in market-data provider Kaiko and broadens its tokenized-finance focus.
The Fed has kept its reserve-plumbing authority, but its current schedule shows no net reserve-management purchases, according to CryptoSlate. The update offers no confirmed signal or forecast for Bitcoin’s next rally.
