Crypto News Archive - September 2026

Every breaking-news story Cryptomat published in September 2026, ordered newest first.

Anza's SIMD-0675 Would Schedule Solana Validators By Geography To Cut Latency

Anza's SIMD-0675 proposes geography-aware leader scheduling on Solana, aiming to cut propagation latency but raising privacy and decentralization questions.

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RippleX Opens Validator Vote on XRPL Lending Protocol Upgrade

RippleX submitted the LendingProtocolV1_1 amendment to XRPL validators on Tuesday, pushing native on-chain lending closer to mainnet activation.

Anza's SIMD-0675 Would Schedule Solana Validators By Geography To Cut Latency

RippleX Opens Validator Vote on XRPL Lending Protocol Upgrade

Anthropic Ships Claude for Government to General Availability, Opening Federal AI Contest

AllUnity Launches MiCA-Compliant Dollar Stablecoin USDAU, Backed by European Banks

OpenAI Targets $1.4T Valuation In $30B Raise After Delaying IPO, releases Dots AI Agent

Valar Atomics Files Plans For 450-Reactor Nuclear Data Center In Utah To Power AI Buildout

Kalshi in Talks to Raise $1B at $40B Valuation as Sequoia, Wellington Circle

Robinhood Plans 10x Crypto Perps for U.S. Traders, Weekend Stock Push Pending Review

Robinhood releases Round-the-Clock AI Trading Agent and 10x Crypto Perps

California AB 2409 Puts Political Memecoins Under Scrutiny, GSN CEO Calls for Conflict Rules

Spark Finance Loans Hit $3B, Up 190% as DeFi Lending Contracts Elsewhere

Soluna, Bitdeer Add 7 MW to Project Kati 1, Booking K1BC Phase in Texas

Kalshi in Advanced Talks to Raise $1B at $40B Valuation With Tiger Global, Dragoneer

Bitwise's Andre Dragosch Pegs Bitcoin Fair Value at $197,000, Ties Thesis to Fed Pivot

Amaze Holdings Signs Binding LOI to Acquire BullionFX and Alchemy in $155M Gold-Backed DeFi Deal

Solana Hits 7,699 Monthly Active Programs in September as Wallet Growth Accelerates

TSMC Scouts Second US Fab Site in Texas as Washington Pushes Chip Onshoring

Coinbase Wins CFTC Nod, Now Owns Every Layer of Its Derivatives Stack

Greece Registers First MiCA Entrants as HCMC Pushes Back on Binance Claims

Coinbase Clearing Wins CFTC Nod to Settle Derivatives 24/7 in USDC

India Readies $25B Deep Tech Fund in Bid to Close Innovation Gap

Chainlink Teams With DTCC on 24/7 Collateral AppChain, Bringing Wall Street Plumbing On-Chain

Ro Khanna Backs AI Safety Bill Banning Recursive Self-Improving Systems

Bitcoin Enters October 9% Above Fed-Day Close as $4.35B Unlock Risk Looms Over 'Uptober' Rally

Circle's Chandhok Warns Stablecoin Curbs Could Cost US $1 Trillion in Dollar Demand

Anchorage Digital Adds Conditional Rules to Vault Policies in Custody Push

CoinTelegraph Flags Altseason Setup as Traders Rotate Into Revenue-Generating Protocols

Venus Protocol Lets Users Earn Yield on Stablecoin Deposits While Borrowing Against Them

Strategy Market Cap Passes First Abu Dhabi Bank as Bitcoin Treasury Bet Compounds

TakeMe2Space Books SpaceX Ride for India's First Orbital Computing Satellite

XRP Braces for Pivotal Week as Evernorth Nears Nasdaq Vote Under XRPN Ticker

Vitalik Says Next Year's Hegota Will Be Ethereum's Last 'Normal' Fork

Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer Pegs Bitcoin at $300,000 by 2029 in Long-Horizon Macro Call

China Weighs Green Light for ByteDance, Alibaba to Buy Nvidia Chips in Policy Shift

Zcash Co-Founder Calls $5,000 ZEC by End of 2026, Setting a High Bar for Privacy Coin Bulls

Bitcoin Stalls Below $87.3K Resistance as Liquidity Pools Stack on Both Sides

Saylor Pitches 'Bill of Digital Rights,' Sketches a $100T Crypto Industry

Payy, Duelbits and Meter Hit in Same-Day Attacks, Losses Top $11M

Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Is Turning Into a Cryptographic World Computer

Saylor Pitches 'Digital Rights' Bill To Loosen Grip Of IPO Gatekeepers On Capital Markets

Altcoin Market Cap Adds $371B Since June as 87% of Binance Tokens Clear 200-Day Averages

Quant (QNT) Surges 75% in a Day, Extends Weekly Rally to 180% on Banking Catalyst

Ethena Extends USDe Basis Trade Into Tokenized US Equities via Binance bStocks

AMD Crosses $1 Trillion Market Cap After Nearly 300% Rally, Reshaping AI Chip Race

Anthropic Opens Door to AI Model Welfare, Weighs Rights Framework for Advanced Systems

Saylor Pushes Banks to Hold Bitcoin, Sees Digital Assets as $100 Trillion Industry

US Charges Vietnamese National Over $53M Crypto 'Pig Butchering' Laundering Network

Researchers Pitch Zcash-Style Privacy for Bitcoin Without a Soft Fork

XRP Whales Scoop Up $742M in Five Days as Spot ETF Inflows Extend Streak

SEC Publishes Fresh Crypto Guidance on Staking, Buybacks, and Howey Test Application

Bitcoin ETFs Pull Record $2.39B Weekly Inflow as Traders Test Whether Demand Is Real

Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer Pegs Bitcoin at $300K by 2029, Citing Adoption Curve

Kalshi Loses Sixth Circuit Appeal, Deepening State Fight Over Prediction Markets

US Spot Solana ETFs Pull Record $80M in Single-Day Inflows

Tether Ships Self-Custodial Wallet Tools For AI Agents Via MCP Interface

Bitget Confirms $351.6M Hot Wallet Breach, Halts Withdrawals as Protection Fund Absorbs Loss

Pi Network Completes Protocol v23 Upgrade, Flags October Follow-Up for Pioneers

DeepSeek Hits $1B Annual Revenue, Targets $7.5B Raise at $75B Valuation

Meta's Muse AI Agent Taps Plaid to Reach 12,000 Financial Institutions

EU Opens Regulatory Push on $54B DeFi Lending as Aave Calls Morpho Vault Plan 'Self-Serving'

Travala Creates Permanent AVA Reserve, Doubles Monthly Buybacks

CoinMarketCap Buys Coinglass to Fold Derivatives Data Into Binance-Owned Analytics Stack

XRP Whales Absorb 1.54 Billion Tokens in 96 Hours as Price Recovery Extends

Akamai Lands $12B Anthropic Cloud Deal, Shares Surge on AI Capacity Play

KelpDAO Sues LayerZero and CEO Bryan Pellegrino Over $292M rsETH Bridge Exploit

North Korea 'Very Likely' Behind $350M Bitget Hack, CEO Gracy Chen Says

Senate Banking Democrats Demand Public Hearing on Prediction Markets After Kalshi Meeting

Slipstream Launches on Aero With Protocol-Level MEV Capture, Dynamic Fees

Microsoft Copilot Calls Q4 2026 Bitcoin Setup an 'Asymmetric' Bet, Sees $140K-$250K Range

Federal Reserve Opens GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rules For Comment, Sets Reserve And Capital Bar

Nscale Files For IPO, Revealing Neocloud AI Compute Economics And Concentration Risk

Trust Wallet Adds MoonPay Trade for Cross-Chain Swaps in Self-Custody Push

Denmark's Military Intelligence Warns Russia Could Attack NATO Within Two Years, Citing Higher Risk Tolerance

Solari Capital Exits Stealth With $350M Deployed Across AI, Biotech, and Crypto

Ondo Launches Intelligent Portfolios With BlackRock, Bringing Model Strategies Onchain

Traders Eye $16B Bitcoin Options Expiry Friday for Rally Clues

Brookings Sees $10.3T Poured Into AI Infrastructure by 2032, Reshaping Capital Flows

Bitget Wallet Passes 40 Million Downloads as Self-Custody Push Widens

Chainlink Ships Node v2.65.0, Splits Confidential Workflow Failure Alerts

FBI Crypto Crime Forum Zeroes In on DPRK Hackers, Exchange Scams as Losses Mount