Ethereum schedules Glamsterdam upgrade on Sepolia for Oct. 6

Glamsterdam will bring proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists and new gas pricing, while its mainnet date remains unset. Source link

Greece Gets First MiCA Entrants, HCMC Denies Binance-Lagarde Claim

Greece has entered the European Union’s crypto regulatory register for the first time, with four providers added. Four Greek providers — BCash, Xenios Blockchain Group, Capital Wallet Greece and Piraeus Bank — appeared on the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) register updated Thursday. Six other crypto-asset service providers from Germany,…

Bitcoin beats gold, surge to $100,000 in play: Crypto Daily

BTC’s move above $80,000 has triggered a “double-bottom breakout,” a technical analysis pattern confirming a bullish trend and opening the door for a rally to $100,000, according to Jurrien Timmer, director of global macro at Fidelity Investments. “Bitcoin is looking particularly interesting here as it challenges key resistance at $80k. If it breaks it will…

Bitcoin ETF Inflows Leave Institutional Demand Unclear

Billions are flowing back into Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), but the figures alone do not reveal how much of the demand comes from institutions, according to CoinShares. US crypto investment products had attracted about $4.1 billion in September, with BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) accounting for more than 53% of those inflows, CoinShares head…

Crypto Industry Spending Kicks off in Ohio Senate Race, with $11M Oposing Sherrod Brown’s Return

Update (Sept. 28, 8:52 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a response from Jon Husted’s campaign. A political action committee (PAC) aligned with and largely funded by the cryptocurrency industry reported spending more than $11 million on ads supporting Republican Jon Husted and opposing Democrat Sherrod Brown in a race for one…

Bitcoin Order-Book Liquidity Games Return as Price Dips Under $83,000

Bitcoin (BTC) fell to weekly lows on Monday as upside momentum gave way to liquidity hunting on exchange order books. Key points: Bitcoin reversed downward after over $30 million in ask liquidity was added to exchange order books at around $85,700. Crypto and US stock-market futures dropped after US president Donald Trump refused to rule…

The restaking gold rush is over, and top protocols are barely making a profit

EigenLayer held $19.7 billion at its peak and liquid restaking tokens grew more than 1,000% in the first six weeks of 2024. But the services buying security never paid enough to cover both the base staking yield and a premium on top, so the second yield restaking promised never materialized. On Sept. 8, DefiLlama’s restaking…

NEAR Intents Blocked $50M Tied to Bitget Hackers

NEAR Intents said it blocked more than $50 million in attempted transfers linked to the Bitget hack.  Attackers stole $387.5 million from Bitget on Thursday. A significant portion of these funds moved across chains to Ethereum, according to Alex Shevchenko, general manager of NEAR Intents, a protocol that lets users swap crypto assets across blockchains. …

Aiden Pleterski Faces Trial Over Alleged $30M Crypto Fraud

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Bitget Restores Bitcoin Withdrawals After $388M Hack

Crypto exchange Bitget is resuming withdrawals after a security breach affecting nearly $388 million in assets, as the attacker continues moving stolen crypto through THORChain. Bitget said it resumed Bitcoin (BTC) withdrawals Monday after suspending them following last week’s security incident, with additional assets and networks set to follow over the coming days. The Sept….