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Visa is incorporating onchain credit into its stablecoin card business while combining VisaNet settlement data with blockchain lending. Cointelegraph reports that stablecoin payment volume on Visa’s network has risen nearly 200% year over year.
Castle is making its Bitcoin savings product available to individuals, offering a 12% STRC yield through personal accounts and allowing customers to route any portion of payouts directly into bitcoin, Bitcoin Magazine reports.
Strategy halted bitcoin purchases again last week, Bitcoin Magazine reported. The largest corporate bitcoin holder is instead focusing on share buybacks and building its cash reserves.
CrowdStrike says its Aug. 31 disruption blocked new malware payloads, but malware already installed can still replace copied crypto payment addresses, leaving users exposed to redirected transactions.
Visa wants blockchain lenders to use VisaNet data to extend credit to stablecoin issuers. Its stablecoin settlement volume has surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate, up 15 times year over year.
Cloud customers drove about 74% of a Bitcoin miner’s August production increase, while BTC holdings recovered only part of July’s decline after the company spent millions on compute capacity.
EF Protocol is seeking a wider debate on Ethereum issuance. The discussion weighs preserving validator income through unchanged staking rewards against potential dilution for holders who keep their ETH unstaked.
Cardano’s Leios upgrade is linked to a potential sixfold scaling improvement, while a conditional 2029 fee benchmark depends on sustained paying usage. CryptoSlate says the resulting adjustments could affect ADA delegators, pool operators and users differently.
Liquid recovered 3,400 BTC on Sept. 7 after a hacker reportedly took $47 million in Bitcoin. The federation wallet was replenished, but Blockstream still listed a public bridge outage the next morning.
Ethereum’s 2029 quantum-security deadline is influencing upgrade discussions. EF Protocol priorities keep shorter slots and node efficiencies conditional, while a proposal could delay mandatory execution proofs by one fork, CryptoSlate reports.
Bernstein analysts project that the Robinhood chain could produce $160 million in annual fees by 2028, citing rising demand for tokenized stock trading, Cointelegraph reports.
South Korea’s budget office says stablecoin adoption could save merchants up to $3.8 billion annually, but warns it may weaken banks’ credit-intermediation role and put token pegs under pressure during mass redemptions.
Cronos’s post-mortem said the Tectonic exploit affected $120.4 million in borrowing, with 7.6%, or about $9.2 million, transferred off-network before validators intervened and the rollback took place.
