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Bitget freezes XRP withdrawals as 27M stolen tokens move
XRP withdrawals remained disabled on Sept. 26, while Bitquery's dated trace shows tokens moving onward without a measured spot-market sale.
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Fed stablecoin proposal would make circulation a capital cost for supervised issuers
At $1 billion outstanding with no non-reserve revenue, the proposed operating-risk baseline would be $20 million before adjustments.
DeFi
EU faces September 30 clock to decide future of DeFi loans
Its MiCA review response points to crypto firms’ access routes while any new lending duties remain a future legislative choice.
Hacks
Swiss bank shields Bitget institutions while retail funds freeze
Sygnum offers bank-held trading collateral to institutional clients, while Bitget's withdrawal pause leaves ordinary balances dependent on its own controls and fund.
KYC
SEC’s Hester Peirce wants to end crypto’s KYC honeypots before stablecoin rules create more of them
Proposed GENIUS Act rules could require issuers to retain identifying records for five years despite a string of damaging data breaches.
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.
Stablecoins
Why TRON’s $30 trillion lifetime volume could become a trap
TRON’s USDT dominance has made it a global settlement rail, but the same liquidity has also drawn illicit flows and raised the cost of winning regulated finance.
Stablecoins
Crypto’s bear market wiped out over $2 trillion, yet on-chain activity held above $9 trillion
Stablecoin transfers, retail-sized flows and direct wallet activity kept growing even as market capitalization fell roughly 50%.
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.
Exchanges
BitMEX opens fund recovery to customers it previously barred from the platform
The shuttered exchange is letting customers in the US, Canada, Hong Kong and three other jurisdictions recover remaining funds.
Stablecoins
Circle launches 24/7 stablecoin FX engine as it chases a slice of the $10 trillion currency market
StableFX allows vetted counterparties to quote, trade and settle supported pairs on Arc at any hour.
