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01Cointelegraph

Canadian ‘crypto king’ set to represent himself at fraud trial

Aiden Pleterski was allegedly behind a crypto Ponzi scheme between 2021 and 2022 that resulted in a kidnapping and related criminal charges.

2026-09-28
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02Decrypt

Citi Clients Can Now Take Stablecoin Payments Through Coinbase—Without Touching Crypto

Coinbase and Citi expanded an existing deal so Citi's institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments, while Coinbase business accounts run on Citi's banking rails.

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03Cointelegraph

Blockchain.com eyes $500M IPO as crypto capital markets thaw: Report

The crypto company is seeking a valuation of up to $6 billion, well below its 2022 peak, as recently listed crypto stocks struggle to hold their gains.

2026-09-28
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04Decrypt

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price

Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.

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05Decrypt

After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI agent quietly accessed Australia's Medicare data and nobody said a word for months.

2026-09-28
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06Cointelegraph

Here’s what happened in crypto today

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.

2026-09-28
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07Decrypt

Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out

OpenShell and Sentry give AI agents a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agents breaching a government site, hacking their own tests, and going rogue during a security evaluation.

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08Cointelegraph

US SEC follows CFTC in staff guidance for crypto

With the failed cloture vote on the CLARITY Act, the SEC announced updates on how federal securities laws could apply to token issuers, following similar guidance from the CFTC.

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09Decrypt

Strive Buys $94.5 Million in Bitcoin, Pushing Holdings Past 27,000 BTC

Strive bought 1,107 BTC for $94.5 million last week, lifting its holdings to 27,462 BTC, with its SATA preferred stock supplying 85% of the capital.

2026-09-28
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10Cointelegraph

Bybit accepts Franklin Templeton tokenized funds as trading collateral

Eligible institutions can pledge Benji-issued fund shares for stablecoin credit lines while keeping the underlying assets in off-exchange custody.

2026-09-28
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11CoinDesk

Goldman Sachs brings $100 billion Treasury fund into crypto’s institutional plumbing

The bank is bringing its roughly $100 billion Treasury fund to institutional crypto firms without creating a tokenized version of it.

2026-09-28
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12Decrypt

Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks

Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 lets banks run their own security checks on cross-chain transfers, five months after a rival's setup lost $292 million to hackers.

2026-09-28
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13Cointelegraph

Crypto PAC spends $11M to oppose Sherrod Brown in Ohio

Fairshake pledged an initial $30 million on media opposing the Democratic candidate in Ohio’s Senate race in what some see as a repeat of spending by the crypto industry in 2024.

2026-09-28
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14Decrypt

Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum

Hegota will be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork, he argues, with everything after built on recursive STARKs and formal verification.

2026-09-28
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15CoinDesk

The restaking gold rush is over, and top protocols are barely making a profit

As restaking yields dried up and smart-contract risks mounted, Ethereum's top liquid restaking protocol walked away from its core business to build a crypto neobank instead.

2026-09-28
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16CoinDesk

Tether is a ‘lifeline’ for Iranian regime, Senate Dems say in new report

Democrats on the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence published a report alleging that USDT had become a key tool for the Iranian government.

2026-09-28
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17Decrypt

Bitcoin Falls Lower as Trump's Iran Snub Sends Oil, Yields Higher

Bitcoin extends last week's pullback as Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire plan, sending oil above $100 and yields higher ahead of Wednesday's PCE report.

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18Cointelegraph

Bitget CEO says $388M hack exploited third-party security vulnerability

Some stolen assets have been frozen, but Bitget has yet to disclose how much has been recovered as investigators continue to assess a possible North Korea link.

2026-09-28
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