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The Standard Chartered Effect: Is bank research becoming crypto’s new short-term catalyst?
Standard Chartered initiated coverage on Arbitrum's ARB token on the morning of Sept. 15 with a $10 price target for 2030. That implies roughly 70 times upside from a token trading near $0.13 and down about 1% over the prior…
Bitcoin ETF exits erase Monday’s rebound as spot selling deepens before the Fed
Spot and perpetual selling deepened while futures positioning stayed large enough to amplify the next move.
Bitcoin drops below $76,000 as Senate rejects CLARITY Act motion
The 49-50 cloture defeat stalled the bill, while the crypto selloff and liquidations had already begun before the vote.
A $100 million launch balance doesn’t mean a crypto ETF has real investors
Sponsor-funded seed can swell opening assets before creations, redemptions and persistent capital reveal whether investors followed.
Brazil’s B3 gets DIGY11, a new ETF tracking Bitcoin treasury preferred stock
The real-hedged Brazilian fund packages Strategy and Strive preferred shares while leaving distributions and unit returns unguaranteed.
Solana nearly froze as a single routing error took 29% of the network stake offline
The newly detailed Teraswitch failure stayed below Solana’s finality-halt threshold, while independent telemetry showed delayed finality and sharply lower throughput.
Ripple’s university strategy is evolving from blockchain labs to XRP logos in packed stadiums
The 69-day rollout spans Kansas uniforms, Florida’s football field and Louisville basketball, but stops short of token adoption.
Congress wants to make crypto easier to use and still collect $500 million more in taxes
H.R. 10357 would ease payments, fees and qualifying loans while widening loss-deferral and trader-accounting rules.
Tether, Binance and a $1.5 billion Iran oil network converge in new US forfeiture case
The September 14 complaint targets ten Tron addresses frozen in 2025 and outlines a planned transfer into FBI custody.
CoinEx quits after 9 years as crypto trading activity concentrates at biggest exchanges
Trading rebounded in August, but the largest platforms kept an outsized grip on activity as CoinEx chose to exit.
7-day blockchain outage wipes out a full week of staking rewards after emergency aelf shutdown
Public nodes and key dapps are back after an August security incident, while a final review and uniform exchange transfers remain outstanding.