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Blockchain security firm Hacken found that $91.3 billion in USDT on Tron is governed by a 2-of-3 multisig with no timelock or reversal window. Bluechip upgraded Tether's corporate…
Nick Shirley and America First Legal filed a federal lawsuit Sept. 4 challenging AB 2624, a California law that lets immigration nonprofit workers issue written demands blocking on…
Tehran threatened to treat South Korea as an enemy and destroy its economic and military assets across five Gulf states if Seoul joins the US-led Hormuz freedom-of-navigation missi…
BlackRock's IBIT has processed more than $5 billion in in-kind Bitcoin-to-ETF conversions as of August 26, 2026, up from roughly $3 billion in October 2025, after the fund cut its…
Nearly 3,998.5 BTC left Blockstream's Liquid federation wallet on September 6, dropping the reserve from ~4,200 BTC to 207.275 BTC. An unidentified party left an onchain message cl…
Chile's Orionx exchange has halted withdrawals and is winding down after a forensic audit found over $7M in customer assets moved to external wallets, allegedly by its own founding…
Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) shut off every Bitcoin miner at its Dowagiac, Michigan campus on September 1, 2026, pivoting the 617,000 sq ft site to a $1.2 billion AI colocation agr…
Geyser rejected Cuba Bitcoin's fundraising initiative over U.S. sanctions compliance, exposing a critical gap between 'non-custodial' and genuinely permissionless infrastructure fo…
PwC's Global Data Centre Outlook, modeled by Oxford Economics across 46 countries, projects $31.6 trillion in cumulative global data center capex through 2050. Power availability i…
DeepSeek is ordering at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips for a gigawatt-scale data center in Inner Mongolia, per Bloomberg. NVIDIA's China AI share is forecast to crater fro…
The IMF confirmed on September 3 that all Bitcoin added to El Salvador's reserve since June 2025 came from private donations, with zero public funds used, and explicitly stated it…
Rabobank's Michael Every is citing a Dutch government advisory council's declaration that the post-WWII order 'no longer exists' and arguing central banks are secondary to the geop…
The National Sheriffs' Association dropped its opposition to the CLARITY Act on September 3, citing the bill's complexity. A Senate cloture vote requiring 60 votes is set for Septe…
Chicago rice futures have surged more than 50% in 2026, on pace for the largest annual gain since 2003, as Strait of Hormuz disruptions collapse fertilizer supply chains and monsoo…
De Nederlandsche Bank transferred 86 metric tonnes of gold from New York and Ottawa to London between March and August 2026, citing geopolitical unrest and crisis preparedness, a q…
Nvidia signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Jensen Huang promises the platform stays open. There is currently no binding governance mechanism t…
Galaxy Research's Alex Thorn confirmed the first on-chain movement from the original Coldcard attacker addresses: ~10% of Wave 3 funds routed through THORChain and landed on a new…
VentureBeat's July 2026 VB Pulse survey of 170 enterprise AI infrastructure buyers finds non-Nvidia accelerators outpacing Blackwell on evaluation intent by 14 percentage points. I…
MISO filed interconnection reliability requirements with FERC on Aug. 28, 2026, covering ramp rates, ride-through performance, and real-time monitoring for any load above 50 MW, a…
A complaint filed in the Southern District of New York on August 31, 2026 alleges Tether froze $42.4 million in USDT across 10 Ethereum addresses after an informal Homeland Securit…
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