CoinDCX is suspected of losing about $16M in USDT from its hot wallets, with funds routed to Binance, OKX and Gate, after a $44M hack in July 2025 — ChainCatcher
South Korea's Digital Asset Basic Act, covering exchange licensing and stablecoin issuance, is nearing completion, while officials review whether to keep the January 2027 crypto tax start — The Block
Over 93.5% of Starknet voters, across 2,800+ wallets, backed researching a move from Ethereum L2 to an independent post-quantum Layer 1, with a whitepaper due in November — The Block
Spot bitcoin ETFs took in $528M in a day, led by IBIT at $235M and FBTC at $212.7M, while ether funds snapped a five-day outflow streak with $14.9M — The Block
Italian police arrested 30 people and seized about $24M from a mafia-linked "secret bank" near Milan that moved roughly €68M abroad via crypto exchanges for 'Ndrangheta and Camorra groups — Decrypt
a16z is reportedly dropping "crypto" from the name of its flagship blockchain fund and widening its focus to other investments, while one of the fund's founding members is also leaving — The Information
SoFi launched SOFIE, an FDIC-insured tokenized deposit paying 4.4% APY that converts 1:1 into its SoFiUSD stablecoin 24/7, the first such retail product from a US national bank — The Block
Dune launched real-time trading data feeds for hedge funds and market makers, streaming trades from 200+ onchain venues across 12 networks, including Hyperliquid and Lighter perps, about one second after execution — The Block
Ethereum researchers led by Ben Edgington filed draft EIP-12566 to cut finality from about 16 minutes to roughly 4 by splitting validator votes for block choice and finality — CoinDesk
Ethereum holds over 40% of tokenized RWA market cap, but its share fell nearly 30 points in a year as Solana, BNB, Stellar and Avalanche gained about 6 points each — The Block
Visa is reportedly in late-stage talks to buy crypto custody firm Fireblocks for about $2.5B, less than a third of its $8B 2022 valuation, in its first stablecoin-sector acquisition — Crypto Briefing
Organic stablecoin transfers averaged over $400M per hour in Q3 2026, and about 73% of screened transfer volume in the 12 months to July 31 happened outside US banking hours — The Block
Major US banks including JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley are finding unvetted third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, some acting without user instructions — Axios
Uniswap launched aggregator hooks on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain, routing trades through Fluid, Curve and PancakeSwap liquidity, with protocol fees from those swaps feeding UNI burns — The Block
Fireblocks denied being in $2.5B acquisition talks with Visa, calling the reports news to the company and not true at present, while Visa declined to comment — ChainCatcher
Coinbase Ireland was fined $3.6M over failures to properly segregate customer funds and weaknesses in its oversight controls — The Block
Morpho now lets non-US holders of Robinhood Stock Tokens like NVDA, SPY and SPCX borrow USDG stablecoins against them on Robinhood Chain — Morpho
Donald Trump and a crypto firm have been sued over allegations that they improperly profited from a foreign government — Bloomberg
Senator Richard Blumenthal is probing reported Tether payments to Nxum, the consulting firm of Tether US CEO Bo Hines, made while Hines was still a White House crypto adviser — CoinDesk
Polymarket reportedly fired CMO Matthew Modabber after an internal probe into his team's alleged fake trading-profit promos, which also triggered a still-ongoing CFTC investigation — Crypto Briefing