Zcash November Upgrade Could Freeze Old Sprout Funds
Zcash's NU7 upgrade would stop nodes from accepting the older Sprout transaction format, with a Nov. 5 mainnet target.
ZECZcash's NU7 upgrade would stop nodes from accepting the older Sprout transaction format, with a Nov. 5 mainnet target.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Binance withdrawal transactions crossed a 90,000 monthly average, about double start-2026 levels, as ETH traded above $2,700 on a 6% daily gain.
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BVNK's Stellar integration is live for enterprise customers across 130+ countries, after Mastercard closed its up-to-$1.8B acquisition of BVNK last month.
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Kalshi filed Sept. 18 with the SEC (SR-KALSHIEX-2026-02) and the CFTC to list perpetual security futures on 58 US stocks and ETFs. CFTC approval pending.
CME adds Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures on October 19, giving institutions restricted from offshore crypto venues a regulated route to both tokens.
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SlowMist found FOMO, a crypto-draining app, on Apple's App Store for 8 days. It exploited a WebKit flaw to steal seed phrases and private keys from iPhones.
SoFi has migrated its card program to SoFiUSD settlement on Mastercard's network, expected to process more than $25 billion in annualized volume.
Binance paid $80.84 a share for 1.24M Circle shares, about 14% below the Monday close, with a two-year lockup and a five-year USDC promotion deal.
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Spot bitcoin ETFs took in $998.95M on Monday, the largest single-day inflow in 11 months. BlackRock's IBIT led with $381.4M as bitcoin briefly cleared $87,000.
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White hats moved 52.37 BTC tied to the Coldcard entropy flaw into a Wyoming recovery trust. About 1,816 BTC remains in attacker wallets across four theft waves.
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