Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has officially joined the elite club of companies with a market capitalization exceeding $1 trillion. On Monday, September 21, 2026, AMD shares surged nearly 10%, reaching a new all-time high of $615.52 per share. This phenomenal jump made the chipmaker the 14th U.S. company to surpass the trillion-dollar mark.
In France, a Family Was Held Hostage for €40,000 in Cryptocurrency
In the French commune of Vendin-le-Vieil, four assailants attacked a family and forced the father to transfer €40,000 to them in cryptocurrency. The incident took place on the night of September 19–20, 2026. This was reported by local media. At around 04:00, four men wearing masks and gloves entered the house, where the couple and their children, aged 8 and 12, were inside. The adults were tied up, after which the assailants searched the premises. The father works in the tech sector and, according to French media, has ties to the cryptocurrency industry. The attackers isolated the man in a separate room, used violence against him, and demanded information to access his crypto assets. As a result, he transferred €40,000 to the assailants. The family was held for about three hours. After the criminals left, the man was able to call for help. All four family members were in shock. The 12-year-old girl also suffered a minor head injury. The Bethune prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into the unlawful detention of multiple people and extortion committed by an organized group. The investigation is being handled by the Pas-de-Calais and Nord criminal police units, with support from France’s cybercrime unit. These crimes carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison. Investigators are also trying to determine how the attackers obtained information about the man’s connection to cryptocurrencies. The four suspects remain at large. Previously, we covered a Chainalysis report stating that in the first six months of the year, losses from physical attacks on crypto industry participants exceeded $30 million.
Strategy (MSTR) officially purchased 950 bitcoins for $75.7 million between September 14 and September 20, 2026.
Current status of Strategy assets (as of September 20, 2026): Total Bitcoin on balance: 846,000 BTC. Total investment value: $63.80 billion. Average purchase price for all time: $75,416 per BTC (including fees and expenses)
ECB launches “Digital Euro” for banks as Pontes begins tokenized finance pilot.
President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde announces The ECB is launching Pontes today, a platform that will connect private blockchain networks with the TARGET system, allowing banks to settle tokenized assets directly in central bank money.
“It's digital euro made available for banks,” the ECB says, allowing institutions to transact using tokenized assets and DLT “faster, without friction," she adds.
Pontes is the first step toward the ECB’s broader Appia ecosystem for tokenized financial markets, while consumer-facing digital euro testing is planned for mid-2027.
Fetch.ai and NuNet reportedly hit by nearly $2 million exploit @cryptodotnews reports that the attacker drained FET, minted NTX and then swapped the stolen funds for 546.36 ETH, worth roughly $1.44 million.
Bitcoin's source code is buried in the Arctic World Archive, a vault designed to survive for 1,000 years.
In 2020, GitHub archived Bitcoin's entire codebase onto 186 reels of archival film and deposited them in a decommissioned coal mine beneath the permafrost in Svalbard, Norway.
The archive holds 21 terabytes of open-source code including Bitcoin, Linux and Python.
FIFA Collect surpasses 1 million users on Avalanche
FIFA chose Avalanche to power its digital collectibles platform, bringing one of the world’s biggest sports brands and its global fanbase further onchain.
The market is looking promising with new activities emerging; notably, Binance has announced a new format in collaboration with PancakeSwap that will allow us to participate in the pre-IPO rounds of new projects.
While full details haven't been disclosed yet, we know that participation will require "Alpha Points," so it is worth starting to accumulate them if you had previously stopped doing so.
It is highly likely there will be a minimum point threshold for entry or a tiered system—for instance, the more points you have, the larger the investment amount you can make.
The inaugural event is almost certain to be profitable, so it is worth preparing seriously and generating some volume.
It is also possible there will be a multiplier or a requirement to hold $BNB , given that Binance often uses such methods to boost its native token.
Tether’s USDT generates $19.6B in yield, outpacing Circle’s USDC
Since May 2021, Tether has generated roughly $19.6 billion in yield from assets backing USDT, compared with Circle’s $7.4 billion from USDC since July 2022, according to DeFiLlama data.