Governance
DeFi
Solana DEX volume spike hides circular trades, and automated bots are blamed
Bitquery's indexed-pool screen finds repeated round trips, but the depth available to independent traders has not been measured.
Stablecoins
Payy bridge exploit freezes crypto cards, and no balances remain safe
Payy halted transfers, withdrawals and card payments after a bridge exploit moved about $1.83 million in USDC from its Ethereum contract.
Investments
Ondo unlocks BlackRock portfolio strategies, but only non-US traders benefit
Ondo’s new on-chain portfolios package BlackRock-designed strategies into tokenized securities available for direct redemption by eligible non-US investors.
DeFi
Two obscure pools fuel 2.8B XRPL volume, but only 185 trades caused it
Two newly created token pools dominated XRPL.to’s seven-day AMM tally, raising questions about what headline volume figures actually measure.
Payments
Lightning Labs discloses critical bug marking canceled invoices paid, risking free product delivery
Older Lightning Terminal versions could mark canceled Bitcoin payments as paid, putting merchants at risk of releasing value without receiving funds.
Lending
Coinbase’s fixed-rate Bitcoin loans can put healthy collateral at risk after maturity
An unpaid balance can make a position eligible for liquidation even without a Bitcoin price drop.
Featured
CFTC staff presses exchanges on political speech prediction market bets, asks how to prevent manipulation
The Sept. 22 advisory asks exchanges to explain contract-specific safeguards while Kalshi continues to list speech markets.
AI
Alpen says AI identified Liquid’s $320M BTC exploit in an hour. Could a payout limit have stopped it?
Alpen’s post-attack replay explains the cache flaw, while SideSwap says a 4,000 L-BTC order faced no size or velocity hold.
Crypto
Why Zcash soared to $1,600 as Europe unlocks new ETP access
21Shares listed ZCASH in Paris and Amsterdam as ZEC briefly topped $1,600 and ZODL reported elevated privacy use.
Governance
Neutron DAO passes a new proposal, and $9.3M in crypto disappears
Neutron voters approved 11 contract admin changes as Astroport and Drop suffered an estimated $9.3 million in losses, putting governance control and fund recovery in focus.
Deals
MoonPay targets $8.7B trading venue, but the features remain unrevealed
MoonPay’s deal to acquire North Capital would bring a regulated private-securities trading venue into its crypto payments business, pending regulatory approval.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Galaxy adds $100M Sky token and institutional adoption is tested
Clients can pledge the savings token, though the companies disclosed no sUSDS-backed client loan volume.
