Balancer proposed winding down the protocol and returning its remaining treasury pro-rata to BAL holders who burn tokens, with a Snapshot vote set for Sep 25-29 — The Block

CoinEx is shutting down after nine years, halting most services on Sep 29 over a market slump and rising compliance costs, with withdrawals open until Dec 22 — The Block

Zama opened 16 confidential vaults on Morpho, letting users earn yield while keeping balances private, and launched a Swap Protocol for private trades on Ethereum — The Block

Binance is moving its commodity TradFi perpetuals from 24/7 to a 24/5 schedule at 21:00 UTC on Sep 15, dropping the daily maintenance pause; crypto and equity perps stay 24/7 — Binance

Fin​.com emerged from stealth with a $20M seed led by Expa to build white-label rails turning stablecoins into local bank and wallet payouts — Fortune

Axis Robotics, a Physical-AI data engine, opens a community public sale on Echo from Sep 21-28, offering 1% of AXIS for $1M at a $100M FDV (proportional), with pre-registration live now — Axis Robotics

❗️BREAKING: Republicans reject Democrats' Crypto Clarity Act counter-offer as negotiations remain deadlocked

X launched a US Cashtag Partner Program, adding a Trade button that sends stock, ETF, and crypto tickers to partners like Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini — CryptoBriefing

Deutsche Bank launched an institutional crypto custody service for assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum, built with Bitpanda tech unit and Swiss custodian Taurus — Bloomberg

Circle launched Arc, its stablecoin-native L1, on mainnet, with USDC as gas and founding validators including BlackRock, Visa, and Mastercard — Arc

Justin Sun launched a Nobel-style math prize paying up to $1M per solved and machine-verified problem, with the first $1M going to an OpenAI team — Justin Sun

Kraken parent Payward plans compliant onchain perps for US clients, via builder-deployed markets on Hyperliquid through its CFTC-regulated entities — Payward

Celsius' estate sued BitMEX for about $495M, alleging fraud and wrongful liquidations of 6,360 BTC in the March 2020 crash, days before BitMEX halts trading — WuBlockchain

US House Ways and Means advanced a crypto tax bill 38-5, exempting sub-$10 on-chain fees and clarifying mining and staking taxes, a day after CLARITY stalled — CoinDesk

Ritual detailed its RITUAL tokenomics ahead of TGE: 10B fixed supply, 18% unlocked at launch, a 0.5% community airdrop, contributors and investors leading allocations — Ritual

Genius launched genius.fun, a BNB Chain RWA launchpad where tokenized shares can be split and pooled to acquire real, publicly listed companies onchain — PANews

Ostium defaulted on a roughly $15M crypto loan from a Hong Kong lender; a US federal court froze its assets and set a hearing, weeks after a $23.75M July oracle exploit — PANews

S&P Global agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the onchain-security firm whose audited contracts secure over $37T in value transferred, pushing the ratings giant deeper into digital assets — PR Newswire

The SEC issued an innovation exemption allowing limited onchain trading of tokenized NMS stocks, giving crypto platforms a temporary, conditional path to list share tokens without full registration — SEC

Crypto.com registered with the SEC for single-stock futures via its Nadex exchange, and is working with the SEC and CFTC to launch US single-stock perps, days after Coinbase filed for equity perps — The Block

World launched World Money, a stablecoin super app for getting paid, holding balances, earning, investing and free cross-border transfers, now rolling out across 150+ countries — World