Institutional
US prosecutors alleged that a payments business illegally transferred hundreds of millions of dollars at the direction of EQIBank, where…
Sep 25, 2026
Payments
The two stablecoin issuers blacklisted a wallet labeled “Bitget Exploiter 8,” locking about $318,000 in USDC and USDT—but the attacker…
Sep 25, 2026
Payments
A federal court order lists $79.1 million seized. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io →
Sep 25, 2026
DeFi
Seven stock tokens back USDC loans in a dedicated V4 market with a 21 million USDC borrowing cap. Access is…
Sep 25, 2026
Payments
The stablecoin issuer blacklisted a wallet holding about $318,000 in USDT and USDC. Most of the stolen funds sit in…
Sep 25, 2026
Payments
While Tether’s stated ceiling places its maximum exposure under $64 million, the incident underscores lingering counterparty risks in fiat gateway…
Sep 25, 2026
Payments
Covered direct issuer customers would still provide identifying fields, while reliance on another institution remains conditional. The post SEC’s Hester…
Sep 25, 2026
DeFi
The Federal Reserve’s GENIUS Act proposals would set reserve and capital rules for the stablecoin issuers it supervises and an…
Sep 25, 2026
Infrastructure
The Lightning payment specification has been merged into x402’s repository, while a Python implementation still awaits review and real-node testing.…
Sep 25, 2026
AI
Block joins Google, Microsoft, AWS and Coinbase in backing x402, an open payment standard enabling agentic AI commerce. Read Full…
Sep 25, 2026