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SEC’s Office of Corporate Finance updated its FAQ on crypto assets. According to the document, token buybacks, the development of an already functioning network, and promoting its features by themselves do not make a coin a security. Liquid-staking assets in some cases may also be considered digital commodities. At the same time, everything depends on the circumstances of a particular project, and the regulator emphasized that the clarifications do not have the force of law.

Coinbase (COIN): CEO Brian Armstrong met with President Trump in the White House and said that the Clarity Act could move forward after Senator John Thune scheduled a Senate vote for mid-September.
At Coinbase Global (COIN), July spot trading turnover fell 26.4% year over year, contributing to a reduction in volumes; total July spot trading turnover across 14 exchanges dropped 21.7% to $429.0 billion.

NEAR Intents said it blocked more than $50 million as part of attempts to transfer funds related to the Bitget hack.
On Thursday, attackers stole $387.5 million from Bitget. A significant portion of these funds was moved through different blockchains to Ethereum, according to Alex Shevchenko, General Manager of NEAR Intents — a protocol that allows users to swap crypto assets between blockchains.

Cardano has entered into a multi-year partnership with the venture accelerator of the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. Cardano Academy materials will be included in the blockchain education program, and five Cardano scholarships will provide funding and mentorship to selected young companies in the UCLA Accelerate program.

The trading volume of perpetual contracts on Binance exceeds spot turnover by about 6 times—this is the lowest figure in the past three months. CryptoQuant analyst Arab Chain attributes the decline to weakening speculative activity while BTC trades near $83,000.
The metric compares the turnover of two segments of the exchange and reflects how strongly the market relies on leverage. A drop means that derivatives are losing their previous advantage over regular coin buying.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a post titled “Cryptographic World Computer” (The cryptographic world computer). In the message, he assessed the progress of blockchain technology from the first ideas of Satoshi Nakamoto to the next “evolutionary stage” in Ethereum, which he defined for 2030. His main conclusion is that the current Ethereum network has moved so far away from its original architecture that calling it a blockchain is possible only for historical reasons.

Celo will hold the «Onchain FX» meeting in Singapore on October 7 at 08:00 UTC. Tether, Textile FX, IDRX Stablecoin, and Tribeca Park Capital will also take part.
For more detailed information, you can read the official CELO tweet.
Celo was developed to create a new universe of financial solutions accessible to mobile users, and to build a global financial ecosystem in which a user can join the ecosystem using only a mobile number.

A political action committee (PAC) associated with the cryptocurrency industry and primarily funded by it reported spending more than $11 million on advertising in support of Republican John Husted and against Democrat Sherrod Brown in the race for one of Ohio’s U.S. Senate seats.
In a statement filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), PAC Defend American Jobs, affiliated with the group Fairshake, backed by Coinbase and Ripple Labs, reported $11.4 million in advertising spend in support of Husted and against the possible return of Brown to the Senate. The ad buys appear to be part of Fairshake’s pledge to initially spend $30 million in the Ohio race, trying to prevent the election of Brown, who previously served as chair of the Senate Banking Committee and was one of Congress’s most outspoken critics of legislation and policies favorable to cryptocurrencies.

For 2026, the company Tether blocked about $550 million in USDT at addresses that U.S. authorities linked to Iran.
According to the statement, in April the issuer helped freeze more than $344 million at two addresses following information from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and U.S. law enforcement.

Injective интегрировался с Jupiter: users can exchange any assets on the Solana network for INJ in one step.
For more detailed information, you can read in the official INJ tweet.
https://ru.tradingview.com/news/coindar:f8f97112f67b8:0/
INJ information
Injective Protocol is a decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol built on Cosmos SDK, offering advanced cross-chain trading features.

The Solana team deployed the Alpenglow protocol on the developer test network — devnet. On September 22, the update was enabled on the public testnet.
The upgrade is aimed at reducing transaction finalization time on Solana from about 12.8 seconds to 150 ms. So far, application developers have been able to test the software before launching it on mainnet. The activation date for Alpenglow on the main network has not yet been announced.

XRPUSD is trading around $1.55 after rising by about 28% from $1.25; the local high is about $1.58. An inverted “head and shoulders” pattern has formed on the chart; the neckline is around $1.60, and the target is about $2.00. Support: $1.53, $1.50.
For spot CFD traders on XRPUSD: spot XRP ETFs in the US for the week ending September 25 attracted $75.6 million, including $22.7 million on September 25; Bitwise — $18.4 million, Franklin — $4.3 million; the ETFs hold about 1.80% in XRP.

Compound, together with the G-20 Group, will hold a closed-door meeting in Singapore during TOKEN2049 on October 6 at 10:30 UTC. Founders, investors, and executives will discuss institutional yield, tokenized real-world assets, and stablecoins.
You can find more detailed information in the official tweet by COMP.

In the Tezos ecosystem, on September 29, an auction of generative art titled “Searching for Balance” will take place, featuring works by 15 artists. The curators will be Shendrik and Anton Dubrovrin.
For more detailed information, you can read the official XTZ tweet.
https://x.com/tezos/status/2103485035299156358
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Since June 1, the stockpiles indicator has decreased by 1.16%. This summer, exchange ETH balances have already fallen to levels comparable to the early years of Ethereum’s existence, experts at Santiment noted.
According to analysts, around 35% of the total Ethereum supply is currently in staking. The volume of locked funds in the decentralized finance ecosystem is approximately $53 billion. Santiment experts also see a clear imbalance between those who want to place coins in staking. About 1.68 million ETH are waiting to be deposited, while withdrawals are about 154,000 ETH.

What is an yield stablecoin
In general, a stablecoin is a crypto asset whose value, in one way or another, is linked to the price of another asset—most often a fiat currency (e.g., the U.S. dollar or the euro). Many such products are backed by real instruments held by the issuer: securities, money, and their equivalents. The collateral can be used to generate income.

The issuer of the stablecoin Tether said it had limited exposure through assets held at a bank that, according to reports, instructed the payments company to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars on its behalf.
In response to messages linking Tether and Bitfinex to a payments company based in Montana mentioned in a civil forfeiture lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, a company representative told Cointelegraph that it was “unaware” of any alleged activities. Tether confirmed that it was a client of EQIBank—the bank, according to the Department of Justice’s claim, that instructed the payment company Capstone to send and receive funds—but the amount held at the bank was 0.034% of the group’s total assets.

Co-founder of Zcash Eli Ben-Sasson supported the Shielded Bitcoin initiative — a proposal to implement private transfers in Bitcoin’s base layer. He also believes that by the end of the year the price of Zcash (ZEC) will reach $5000.
Ben-Sasson, one of the founders of StarkWare, participated in writing the Zerocash paper, which formed the basis of Zcash. According to him, the original authors wanted to provide the same level of privacy to Bitcoin itself.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) updated guidance on tokenized assets and the use of blockchain technology for recordkeeping.
In a notice published Thursday, the CFTC said it updated information in the frequently asked questions section for registered organizations related to cryptocurrencies.

Tezos developers launched Quantumnet — an experimental test network for validating the blockchain’s post-quantum architecture. It includes changes to user signatures, the mechanism for distributing rights to create blocks, consensus, and the data availability layer (DAL).
The project was developed by engineers from Nomadic Labs, Trilitech, and other ecosystem participants. The network is open for public testing.