Markets

Bitcoin Blasts Past $80K and a Fresh Short Squeeze Is On

Bitcoin just ripped 5.88% higher in a single session, tearing back toward its 2026 highs. The charts say the move is real, but they also say it’s gotten ahead of itself. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
Sep 18, 2026 • Editorial Desk
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Payments

Morpho Opens Borrowing Against Coinbase's Tokenized Stocks

Holders of five Coinbase stock tokens can pledge them for USDC loans on Base. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io →
Sep 18, 2026
Markets

Banks double on EU MiCA crypto provider list as share hits 23%

Banks now represent nearly one in four providers on ESMA’s MiCA register after roughly doubling their presence since late June.…
Sep 18, 2026
Infrastructure

Zcash holders vote to preserve halvings and defer recycled ZEC until 2031

The advisory poll also favored Sprout transaction deprecation, faster blocks and shipping the upgrade without features that miss its deadline.…
Sep 18, 2026
Markets

DHS’s predictive policing is unconstitutional, un-American and should be stopped

Targeting Americans based on what their spending habits can tell us about their politics is an abuse of our financial…
Sep 18, 2026
Markets

ECB President Christine Lagarde intervened to block Binance’s EU MiCA license: WSJ

Although the ECB holds no formal licensing authority under MiCA, high-level intervention led Greece to stall an application that regulators…
Sep 18, 2026
AI

Microsoft Staff Asked If AI Scraping Was 'Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'

Internal memos warned of a “doom loop” threatening the quality of the very models it was building with OpenAI. Read…
Sep 18, 2026
Infrastructure

Zcash targets November upgrade to make private payments up to three times faster

NU7 would reduce block times to 25 seconds while setting aside at least 60% of transaction fees to supplement mining…
Sep 18, 2026
Regulation

SEC and CFTC bypass Congress to open crypto access after CLARITY fails – with a catch

Tokenized stocks and wallet-linked derivatives can launch under new relief, while durable rights and jurisdiction remain unresolved. The post SEC…
Sep 18, 2026
Infrastructure

Ethereum Institutional signals support for Ethlabs’ motion to reduce Ethereum block times

The non-profit signaled support for reducing Ethereum block times, citing increasing institutional activity moving onto the smart-contract network. Read Full…
Sep 18, 2026