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George Town, British Virgin Islands, September 28th, 2026, Chainwire Aster, the privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, today announced the launch of its Liquidity Pool Mining campaign, a four-week incentive campaign featuring a total reward pool of up to 140,000 $ASTER and running from September 28 to October 25, 2026 (UTC). To celebrate the launch of Perpetual Grid 2.0, the program is open to all Aster users running Perpetual Grid strategies on eligible trading pairs. Rewards will be distributed hourly based on each eligible Grid’s share of trading volume. The base reward pool is set at 10,000 $ASTER…

Senate Democrats found 84% of more than 800 sanctioned Iran-linked crypto wallets used Tether’s USDT exclusively or predominantly. The same day, Tether said it has helped freeze about $550 million in Iran-linked USDT this year. USDT is a stablecoin, a digital token pegged one-to-one to the US dollar. Tether, the company that issues it, can lock any wallet holding it. What Senate Democrats Say About Tether and Iran The findings come from Democrats on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), led by ranking member Sen. Richard Blumenthal. The Wall Street Journal first reported them. A Senate investigation has found…

Some hardware wallets aim to create air-gapped devices that can be assembled by hand by end users, or tailored to industry professionals in a free and open-source ethos. Others close the source and aspire to become the Apple or Macintosh of hardware wallets, leading through their design of user guardrails. Trezor seems to have found a middle ground with the Safe 7. The device feels like what you might expect from a modern iPhone, metal exterior, a wide screen that reaches the border of the device, and tactile feedback clearly designed to deliver satisfaction to the user. The Safe 7 manages…

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will focus its coordination of national crypto supervision in 2027 on operational resilience, outsourcing and firms maintaining sufficient operations inside the bloc as implementation deepens under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).ESMA Chair Verena Ross said Monday that the regulator’s focus under MiCA had shifted “from rulemaking towards supervision and convergence.”“We want innovation to flourish within a framework that provides clarity for firms, safeguards for investors and confidence in the markets,” Ross said during a meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.ESMA set out the priorities in its 2027…

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said the crypto exchange’s recent $388 million exploit stemmed from a vulnerability in a third-party security product that allowed the attacker to obtain “high-level internal credentials.”In comments to Cointelegraph, Chen said the attacker used those credentials to issue fraudulent withdrawal commands. Bitget’s private keys were not compromised, and its cold wallets were not affected, she said.Bitget said it has since addressed the security flaw and tightened its withdrawal controls, including restricting internal access, adding independent verification for withdrawals and increasing monitoring for unusual activity.The attack occurred on Sept. 24, when Bitget detected unauthorized transfers from several…

“If every household used AI agents to optimize the return on their cash balances, banks could lose a large share of the cheap deposits they rely on to make loans, which would be a problem for the entire financial system,” he noted.Agentic finance refers to AI that acts rather than just answers. These agents can monitor balances in real time, compare returns across institutions, move idle cash into higher-yield accounts and move it back in time for bills.Estimates of the market’s size vary widely. Mordor Intelligence puts agentic AI in financial services at $7.78 billion in 2026 and projects $43.52…

In brief Bitmine holds 6,001,302 ETH, worth about $16.2 billion, or 4.9% of the circulating supply. It has bought Ethereum every week since June 30, 2025, adding 17,362 tokens worth about $47 million last week. More than five million of those tokens are staked, generating a 7-day annualized yield of 2.62%. Bitmine Immersion Technologies’ Ethereum holdings have reached has six million ETH, putting Tom Lee’s treasury company within touching distance of the 5% of supply it has been chasing since mid-2025.The company purchased 17,362 ETH over the past week, worth just under $47 million at the $2,698 snapshot price used…

Chicago, United States, September 28th, 2026, Chainwire AlgoQuant will deploy Liquid Mercury’s institutional-grade trading technology to scale its multi-strategy investment platform and enhance execution capabilities across global digital asset markets. Liquid Mercury, a leading technology provider for digital asset marketplaces and crypto trading, announced today that it has been engaged by AlgoQuant Asset Management, an investment manager focused on solving inefficiencies in fast-evolving markets, to provide trading technology and infrastructure services. The engagement will enable AlgoQuant to leverage Liquid Mercury’s institutional-grade trading technology and infrastructure to enhance its multi-strategy investment platform. AlgoQuant will gain access to deep liquidity, advanced execution…

Bitmine owns 4.9% of the total ETH coin supply of 122.1 million Bitmine is 98% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 15 months ETH is the best performing macro asset in Q3 of 2026 to date, outperforming the S&P 500 by 6,728bp Tom Lee to deliver the keynote at KBW on September 30, 2026 Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 5,067,309 staked ETH, representing $13.7 billion at $2,698 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR The MOVE index of U.S. Treasury volatility rose to around 104, its highest level since March. Bitcoin’s 30-day implied volatility index remained near 37, close to its 2026 low, while the VIX was near 14. The split shows bond traders pricing substantially more uncertainty than Bitcoin and equity options markets. The supposedly volatile asset is looking unusually calm while the bond market gets nervous. U.S. Treasury volatility has risen sharply, with the MOVE index climbing from around 80 earlier in the week to approximately 104. That…