
Coinbase Traces $1.1M in Crypto Payments to Help Take Down EvilTokens
Microsoft and Coinbase helped dismantle EvilTokens, an AI phishing service tied to 12,000 mailboxes. Coinbase traced $1.1M across four Tron addresses.

Microsoft and Coinbase helped dismantle EvilTokens, an AI phishing service tied to 12,000 mailboxes. Coinbase traced $1.1M across four Tron addresses.

CryptoQuant calls Bitcoin's bull market confirmed at $86K spot, but flags a $90,300 upper profit-taking band as the next real test.

EU central banks want MiCA's 30% stablecoin deposit rule replaced with liquidity tests, citing USDC's 2023 SVB exposure as evidence.

Bitcoin held $86,379 with daily volume down 36% as CoinDesk 100 breadth narrowed sharply and Brent crude slipped below $100 for the first time since Sept. 9.

Circle's Arc adds Matrixdock's XAUm as its first tokenized gold. Each token backs one ounce held by Brink's or Malca-Amit, traceable to a numbered bar.

27,373 ETH, worth about $75M, moved from FTX and Alameda-labeled wallets to market maker Wintermute on Wednesday.

BitMEX stopped all trading at 4:00 UTC on Sept. 23, 2026. Users can still withdraw via the website, but API withdrawals close on Sept. 28.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled $1.7B over Monday and Tuesday while BTC cleared the average ETF holder's $81,722 cost basis for the first time since January.

Bitcoin trades near $86,300 ahead of Friday's $16B Deribit expiry, with US data and CME futures behind it. The gamma map and the invalidation levels.

Zcash's NU7 upgrade would stop nodes from accepting the older Sprout transaction format, with a Nov. 5 mainnet target.

CFTC Chair Michael Selig told regulators to prepare U.S. markets for mass tokenization, recapping agency moves on 24/7 trading and stablecoin collateral.

Trueo will move its primary prediction-market deployment from Base L2 to Ethereum mainnet.

Arch Lending will lend against tokenized equities 'pretty soon,' co-founder Himanshu Sahay said, as tokenized-stock value climbed to $3.15 billion from $630

Circle renewed its USDC deal with Binance for five years. Distribution costs already absorb 61% of reserve income, and the new fee rate is undisclosed.

The CFTC's Division of Market Oversight warned Tuesday that mention-market contracts carry heightened manipulation risk, with Kalshi and Polymarket in scope.

Strategy sold 6,948 BTC at $62,150 in summer, then rebought 5,553 at $80,207 this autumn. The roundtrip cost $100M+; 1,363 coins remain missing.

Crypto VC Hashed has anchored a new $300M private credit fund that lends dollar stablecoins to digital asset firms, run by Thoro Capital.

Solana's Alpenglow upgrade moved to public testnet, targeting 150ms finality against the current 12.8 seconds. The shift runs through Agave 4.3.

Zcash jumps 10% as 21Shares launches Europe’s first ZEC ETP, adding another regulated investment route as institutional demand and renewed interest in privacy coins fuel the rally.

CLARITY Act failed a 49-50 Senate vote on Sept. 15. Fairshake plans to spend $30M opposing Sherrod Brown in Ohio, while a lame-duck revival remains possible.

21Shares listed Europe's first Zcash ETP on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam, after Grayscale's ZCSH ETF debuted in the US. The product carries a 2.5% annual fee.

The ECB and EU national central banks want MiCA's stablecoin interest ban extended to crypto lending, staking and borrowing, citing risks of indirect yield

SEC crypto counsel Taylor Lindman said a custody proposal would let broker-dealers carry non-security crypto and clarify adviser custody. The rule sits at OMB.

Coinbase has added fixed-rate bitcoin-backed loans through Morpho Midnight, sitting next to its existing variable-rate Morpho Blue loans. Rates are set onchain.