Crypto News Archive - September 2026

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

XRP Holds $1.35 as Top Wallets Control 64% of Supply, Setting Up Key Test

XRP trades near $1.35 on Thursday as the top holder cohort controls 64% of circulating supply, per CryptoNews, tightening the setup around support.

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PayPal Opens PYUSDx Rails, Letting Anyone Mint a Dollar Backed by PYUSD

PayPal launched PYUSDx on Thursday, a MoonPay-issued token backed by PYUSD, stacking a second layer on top of Paxos's dollar reserves and testing GENIUS Act…

XRP Holds $1.35 as Top Wallets Control 64% of Supply, Setting Up Key Test

PayPal Opens PYUSDx Rails, Letting Anyone Mint a Dollar Backed by PYUSD

Binance Pre-IPO Contract Prices Anthropic at $2.1 Trillion Implied Valuation

Sam Bankman-Fried Petitions Supreme Court to Review FTX Fraud Conviction

Senate Republicans Rewrite Clarity Act With New DeFi Rules Ahead of Sept. 15 Vote

Injective USDC Replaces Noble as Cosmos Stablecoin Standard

Nu Global Launches Multi-Currency Digital Account for International Customers

Fanatics CEO Unveils All-in-One Betting App Merging Sportsbook, Casino, and Prediction Markets

Hyperliquid Wires Up BitGo Self-Custody for Institutional Order Flow

Ripple Ex-CTO David Schwartz Says XRP Would Need 18x Surge to Flip Bitcoin

Zamanat Launches DIFC-Domiciled Tokenized Private Credit Fund on ZIGChain, Targeting GCC SME Gap

Arya.ag Puts $2B in Grain-Backed Loans Onchain via Avalanche

China Signals Willingness to Talk AI With US, Warns Retaliation if Restrictions Tighten

TRM Labs Doubles Valuation to $2B Ahead of AI Crime Platform Launch

NEAR Jumps 11% as Intents Volume Crosses $27B, Signaling Infrastructure Bid

Vals AI Debuts RSI Index Testing Whether Frontier Models Can Build Their Own Successors

Ledger Folds Tech and Security Under One Chief as AI-Driven Attacks on Hardware Wallets Escalate

Anthropic Rolls Out Economic-Impact AI Model, Weighs IPO Path

Bessent Dares FX Traders to Short a Stronger Yen: 'I Am the House'

AAVE Holds $130 as Top Traders Press Long, Open Interest Climbs Toward $140 Test

MicroStrategy Coils Near $140 as Traders Eye $145 Breakout Trigger

XRP Rallies Into September 15 CLARITY Act Vote as Ripple Camp Bets on Commodity Reclassification

UN Warns Hormuz Disruption Could Push 90% of Firms Out of Global Trade, With Crypto Rails in Focus

Block Files With OCC To Launch National Trust Bank For Bitcoin, Stablecoin Custody

Commerce Payments Protocol Volume Surges on Coinbase's Base as Shopify Integration Scales

ARK Files With SEC to Add Tokenized Share Class Across Its ETF Lineup

Polkadot Holders Open Vote on dotUSD Stablecoin Proposal Backed by $5M Treasury Commitment

Tether releases Working Demo of Peer-to-Peer Search Engine to Challenge Big Tech

BoE's Ramsden Warns Global Inflation Risks Are Rising, Reviving Hard-Money Bid for Bitcoin

US Piles New Sanctions On Iran In What Treasury Calls Its 'Greatest Economic Isolation' Campaign

Australia Strips 45 Crypto and Remittance Firms From AUSTRAC Registers, Refers Operators to Police

PwC, Merck and Hashgraph Launch Cocoa Provenance System, Signal Broader Supply-Chain Rollout

New Bitcoin Whales Sit on $9B in Unrealized Gains, Flagging Sell-Side Risk

US and Israel Strike Iran Nuclear Sites, Hormuz Closure Fears Rattle Global Oil

Mistral Raises Record €3B To Scale AI Models, Cementing Europe's Push For Tech Sovereignty

ChatGPT Model Floats Solana Rebound Past $295 by End of 2027 as SOL Trades Near $105

Tenor OTC Accepts AERO as Collateral for Fixed-Rate Loans on Base

HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank Buy India's First Tokenized Bond From REC in CBDC-Settled Deal

Mayan Crosses $20B in Cross-Chain Swaps on Wormhole, Cementing Cross-VM Aggregator Lead

Singaporean Pleads Guilty in $240M Bitcoin Theft That Started With a Fake Gemini Call

White House Crypto Advisor Witt Says Clarity Act Skeptics Will Be Proven Wrong

Cardano Maps Out Multi-Month Roadmap Push as Hoskinson Team Signals Network Milestones Ahead

Ethereum Locks In Frame Transactions, Letting Users Pay Gas Without Holding ETH

Coldcard Attacker Launders 45% of Stolen Bitcoin Through THORChain and CoinJoin, Galaxy Says

'White-Hat' Hackers Pull $320M in Bitcoin From Blockstream's Liquid Sidechain

Vitalik Buterin Rejects Claim AI Could Crash Bitcoin 50%, Backs Cryptographic Defenses

Sunrise Brings Arbitrum's ARB Token to Solana Via Wormhole NTT Bridge

Bitcoin Holds $80,000 Into a Week Loaded With US Data That Could Set the Next Leg

BlackRock Quietly Pulls Bitcoin Whales Into Its Wall Street Client Book

MENA Crypto Volumes Hit $350B as Saudi Arabia Posts 154% Annual Growth

USDC Adds $584M in a Week, Leading Stablecoin Market-Cap Growth

JPMorgan, BlackRock Rotate Into Emerging-Market Debt as Treasury Selloff Deepens

Zcash Tops $1,200 as ZEC Rockets 370% in Three Months, Market Cap Passes $20B

SUI Coils at $0.80 as Taker Sell Flow Diverges From Bullish Crowd, Setting Up $0.81 Break

Vitalik Buterin Teases New Ethereum Transaction Formats to Unlock Scaling Gains

Russian Gold Floods Hong Kong as Sanctions Redraw Bullion Trade Routes

Robinhood's Layer 2 DEX Volume Hits $10B Weekly, Climbing DeFi Rankings

Uniswap v4 Crosses 90,000 Hooks Linked to Live Pools, Signaling Deeper Customization in DeFi

IRGC Navy Fires Missiles at US Warships in Strait of Hormuz, US Retaliates Against Iranian Tankers

Polymarket Signs LeBron James as First Athlete Partner, Pushing Prediction Markets Deeper Into Sports

DAOs Face Governance Reckoning as Compound Attack Forces Protocols to Weigh Code Against Kill Switches

Tokenized Stocks Market Cap Hits Record $3.1B as BNB Chain Takes the Lead

Trump Envoys Land in Moscow for Ukraine Peace Talks With Putin, FT Reports

Foxconn Says Q3 Will Beat the Market as AI Server Orders Rewrite Its Book

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Slams $11B Gold Shipment, Says Banks Still Move Value 'Like It's 1940'

Apple Tokenized Stock Stalls at $321 With Longs Crowded and $316 the Line to Defend

Microsoft Tokenized Stock Pinned at $500.16 as Short Book Swells to 60% Ahead of September Test

Southeast Asia Crypto Funding Rebounds to $680M in 2025 as Deal Count Shrinks

ByteDance Lines Up $30B Unsecured Loan From 30 Banks to Fund AI Chip and Data Center Push

Anthropic Preps IPO Filing, Testing Wall Street's Appetite for AI Bets

Umia Finance And Ethos Network Pull In $14M On Base Through Community Auctions

Coatue Nears Multibillion-Dollar JV With MatX to Bankroll AI Chip Buys, Challenging Nvidia

Fidelity International Says Bitcoin Could Rally as Macro Risks Build

Aster Tops Perp DEX Tokens With 256,000 Holders, Five Times Nearest Rival

US and UK Launch Joint Alliance Targeting Crypto Scam Compounds

US and UK Sign First Joint Pact to Disrupt Crypto Scam Centers

US State Department Puts $10M Bounty on Iranian Cyber Operative Amir Yaryab

Polymarket Launches Perpetual Futures on Oil, Taking the Fight Directly to Kalshi

Polymarket Launches 20x Perps on Crypto, Stocks and Gold in Bid to Rival Hyperliquid

OpenAI Unveils GPT-6 Astra After Model Cracks Ten Open Math Problems for $2,000 Bounty