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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 1h

Africa just got its first bank offering Bitcoin custody, and it's not holding a diversified basket. Absa's digital assets head confirmed Bitcoin alone makes up the largest share of what institutions are storing there, built on Ripple tech, live since Sept 21. #Absa #Bitcoin #Africa

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 1h

Jeeves just raised $110M to scale stablecoin banking across 35 countries, backed by a16z, Coinbase Ventures and Y Combinator. Same week, World quietly sold $49M in WLD tokens, locked for a year. One company's building rails, the other's cashing out slow. #Stablecoins #CryptoVC #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

MetaMask just exited its Lido validator positions after an infrastructure compromise, announced the same day KBW2026 wrapped. #MetaMask #CryptoSecurity

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bitget's hackers just moved $4 million of the stolen funds into Zcash's private pool. Once it hits Ironwood, senders, recipients and amounts disappear. Privacy tech, used exactly how critics warned it would be. #Zcash #CryptoHack

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

48 million Binance Pay users can now spend crypto at millions of PayPay merchants across Japan, restaurants, hotels, shops, no wallet setup needed at checkout. Merchants still get paid in yen. Travelers get to skip the currency exchange line. #Binance #Japan #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kalshi Could Hit $40B Valuation After New $1B Funding Round! web3newswire.substack.com/p/kalshi-is-...

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

$11B in early 2026. $22B in May. Now talks at $40B. Kalshi has nearly quadrupled its valuation this year, and Polymarket is chasing its own billion-dollar round right behind it. #Kalshi #PredictionMarkets #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HSBC just named its stablecoin. RedCoin. Hong Kong's largest bank, launching later this year through PayMe and its own app. 74% of its customers already know what they'd use it for. #HSBC #Stablecoins #HongKong

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One whale just pulled $20M worth of ZEC off exchanges in a month, right as everyone else was selling. ZEC dropped from $1,688 to $1,400 this week. Still up 70% in 30 days. Someone's clearly not worried. #Zcash #ZEC #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The dollar is having its best month since June. @bitcoin.bsky.social should be getting crushed right now. Instead it's up 6% in September, historically its worst month, and heading into October with the strongest median return of any month on record. #Bitcoin #Dollar #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Citi's institutional clients can now accept stablecoin payments, and Coinbase's fiat wallets auto-convert into stablecoins, both running on the same year-old partnership. No client names. No volumes. Just the rails going live. #Coinbase #Citi #Stablecoins

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Your tokens can be locked on one chain before Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 even checks if the destination will let them through. An issuer's own verifier can now gate delivery, and there's no built-in refund if it never signs off. #Chainlink #LINK #CCIP

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MoonPay just launched in South Korea, teaming with Woori, KB and KakaoBank to push won stablecoins overseas for remittances, tourists and trade. Moonpay is building the pipes anyway. #MoonPay #StableCoins #SouthKorea

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

$HBAR jumped 20%+ to $0.13 as an IBM Cloud listing for its identity platform IDTrust lit a fire under the token. RSI's already at 74, overbought territory. One analyst sees $0.15 next, another sees $0.07 if it breaks. #Hedera #HBAR #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Blockchain.com wants a $500M IPO at up to $6B, less than half its $14B peak from 2022. Gemini's down 89% since listing, BitGo 77%, Bullish 71%. Rough market to test the waters in. #IPO #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gold just had its rarest single-day crash in 20 years, down 3.4% as the 10-year yield hit 5.23%, its highest since 2007. Bitcoin's feeling the same squeeze, down to $83K. But ETFs still pulled in $2.39B last week. #Bitcoin #Gold #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bitget just confirmed $352 million exposed in a hack, hot wallets hit, cold wallets untouched. Withdrawals are paused. Deposits still open. This could be 2026's biggest hack so far, beating Liquid Network's $320M. #CryptoHack #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The CFTC just said blockchains are officially good enough for recordkeeping. Regulated firms can now invest customer funds in tokenized assets and use onchain records to satisfy compliance, no separate paper trail required. #CFTC #Tokenization #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Crypto market crash wipes out $100 billion as Treasury yields top 5%! $150 billion gone in 24 hours. $450 million in longs liquidated in a day. 10-year Treasury yield broke 5%, Iran's UN speech triggered a US walkout, and leverage did the rest. #Bitcoin #Crypto #MarketCrash

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UNI ripped 72%, from $5 to nearly $11, then got rejected hard. Binance reserves just hit their highest since June, a signal holders might be lining up to sell into the rally, not join it. #Uniswap #UNI #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump Crypto Portfolio Revealed: COIN, MSTR Trades Stand Out! 1,152 trades in one month, and the portfolio still found time to buy Coinbase and load up more Strategy stock. Same account sold MARA and CleanSpark days later. The White House says it's all "independent." #Trump #Bitcoin #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here’s a sentence that would have sounded absurd two years ago: this morning, Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays and HSBC moved real customer money between each other on a blockchain, and not one penny of it touched a stablecoin. web3newswire.substack.com/p/uk-banks-j...

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UK Banks Just Moved Money On-Chain Without Using Stablecoins.

Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays and HSBC completed the world's first interbank tokenized deposit transactions today.

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tron just crossed $30 trillion in total transaction volume, with daily volume now topping $30 billion. More than half of all circulating USDT settles here. #USDT #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Washington might start pushing private dollar stablecoins into countries with weak currencies. No program yet, just a Bloomberg report and a Treasury Secretary who's clearly into the idea. #Stablecoins #Dollar #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Bank of England just got its proof of concept. Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays completed two mortgage transactions using tokenized deposits, digital bank money with escrow that releases automatically when a property deal closes. #UKFinance #Blockchain #Fintech

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Option 4 (numbers-first) $159.5M. $433M. $999M. $714.7M. $32.4M. Five days, five green candles for Bitcoin ETFs, and a price chart moving the opposite direction the entire time. #Bitcoin #ETF #CryptoNews

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Before you get excited about Zcash's "four-year high" in shielded transactions, know this: the 2022 record it just beat was partly inflated by a spam attack. One strong week doesn't prove a trend yet. October will tell the real story. #Zcash #ZEC #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump bought up to $100K in Strategy stock on July 27, right near its 2026 low. Since then MSTR is up 83%. Filed under: interesting timing. #Trump #Bitcoin #Strategy #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brazil just beat the US in #cryptoadoption without winning a single category, it ranked top-4 everywhere while the US aced two metrics and cratered to 20th in another. #Brazil #crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bitcoin ETFs just posted their best single day of 2026, $999M in one session, with Ether ETFs adding $270M alongside. BTC broke above $86,000 for the first time since January. #Bitcoin #Ethereum #ETF #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

CryptoQuant's Ki Young Ju: don't expect another 10x Bitcoin cycle. Expect 3-5x, and a much milder crash after it. Bitcoin is getting bigger, and boring is the upgrade. #Bitcoin #CryptoQuant #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Brian Armstrong's (@coinbase.bsky.social) take: stablecoin rewards aren't banking just because they pay yield, clear disclosure and reserve transparency should be the real regulatory bar, not a bank charter. #Coinbase #Stablecoins #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Victim wallets weren't picked by balance. They were picked by creation date. Most compromised DCENT WALLETS date back to 2021-2023, pointing to a list of already-weak keys, not a random attack. #XRP #CryptoHack #Security

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anza just confirmed Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade is "pending testnet activation." No epoch published yet. When it lands, finality could drop from 12.8 seconds to ~150ms. #Solana #Crypto #Web3

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

REX just launched a 2x leveraged ETF, ticker ASSX, tracking Strive Funds stock. Strive holds 26,355 BTC. This isn't a Bitcoin ETF, it's double the daily swings of the company that owns it. #Bitcoin #Strive #ETF

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Apple and Google just posted job listings asking for stablecoin and tokenized-deposit expertise. No product announced. But when Big Tech starts hiring for it, it's not a crypto question anymore. #Google #Stablecoins #Web3

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Switchboard is shutting down. The oracle network raised $7.5M, now telling every protocol relying on it to migrate by Sept 25. Meanwhile an a16z-backed L1 just failed to ship mainnet after 4 years of trying. #DeFi #Web3 #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hyperliquid leads 2026 crypto revenue with $429M, beating Pumpfun $322M by over $106M. $HYPE now trades near $94, up 18% in a week. #HYPE #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Vietnam expects its first licensed crypto exchanges live in 2026. 5 companies already passed screening. Zero licenses actually issued yet. $383M minimum capital required just to apply. #Vietnam #Crypto #Regulation

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bank of Russia just capped bank crypto exposure at 1% of capital, with a 1,250% risk weight on top. Banks can touch crypto now, just barely, and it'll cost them dearly on paper. #Russia #Crypto #Regulation

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Anthropic's IPO just slipped from October to November. Target: $2T valuation, up to $100B raised, which would beat SpaceX's record round. The delay coincides with AI safety debates intensifying industry-wide, though advisors say it was reportedly planned before that controversy broke. #AI #IPO

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ETH jumped 6.5% right after CLARITY failed and the Fed hiked rates. Should've dropped. Didn't. 40M+ $ETH staked, off the market. ETF outflow streak just flipped to $143M in. #Ethereum #ETH #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

$BTC failed CLARITY. Absorbed a Fed hike. Fell below $75K. Then it ripped straight to $81,000, up nearly 6% in 24 hours. Bad week. Bigger bounce. #Bitcoin #Crypto #BTC

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI-powered attacks using blockchains just surged 440%. Hackers are automating faster than defenders can patch. #AI #CryptoSecurity #Blockchain

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

$BTC ripped from $75K to $81K in hours, a $238M short squeeze wiped out leveraged bears overnight. Bad week, brutal bounce. #Bitcoin #Crypto #BTC

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Solana's leader control window just shrank from 1.2 seconds to 1 second. Fresher prices for oracles and AMMs, fewer failed swaps, but the network's total processing ceiling stays exactly where it was. @solana.com #DeFi #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Avalanche just cut validator lockups from 14 days to 48 hours. Trade-off: uptime requirement jumps from 80% to 90%, or you lose the entire cycle's reward. All or nothing, no partial credit. Flexibility for validators, less room for error. #Avalanche #AVAX #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Column just launched 4 products: stablecoins, card issuing, global banking, multicurrency accounts, all on one platform. USDC and USDT now convert instantly to USD, moving through Ramp, Brex, Mercury and more. #Stablecoins #Fintech #Crypto

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Web3 News Wire @web3newswire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hackers found Revolut's crypto-holding customers using blockchain analysis, not luck. 680 accounts breached. Passports, KYC photos, transaction histories, all exposed. Demand: $3M in Monero within 24 hours, or the data goes to other criminal groups. #Revolut #Crypto #DataBreach

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