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Nvidia Eyes $10B of Anthropic’s IPO While Polymarket Bets on a $2T Pop
Polymarket traders give Anthropic a 66% chance of closing its first trading day above a $2 trillion market cap, even though a second contract says its initial public offering (IPO) will most likely price below that line. Two Markets, One…
XRP Ledger Broke Its Transaction Record, and 20 Wallets Did Most of It
The XRP Ledger crammed a record 3,254 transactions into one ledger on Sept. 13, yet 2,000 of them were identical 1-drop payments fired by just 20 wallets. The Number on the Explorer The record belongs to ledger 106,965,249, which closed on…
Zamanat Targets GCC’s $250 Billion SME Financing Gap With Up to $100 Million Tokenized Private…
Dubai, UAE, September 14th, 2026, Chainwire. Zamanat Fund CEIC Limited is the company’s first live proof point for regulated fund tokenization on ZIGChain focused on GCC private credit. Zamanat today announced its sponsorship of Zamanat…
Another Bitcoin Bridge Broke, and This Time Billions Were Minted
Over the past week, the crypto community has been hearing about bizarre hacks involving bitcoin-backed tokens, and following the troubles tied to the Liquid Network’s L-BTC and Nomic’s nBTC, Symbiosis’s bitcoin bridge was exploited. Reports…
Cyprus Bank Panic: Frozen Savings Meet Bitcoin’s Explosive Rally
Bitcoin.com’s new documentary plunges viewers into the moment Cyprus’ banks locked their doors, froze transfers, rationed cash, and placed private savings in jeopardy. Panic engulfed the island while bitcoin surged from about…
Bitcoin’s Price Looks Shaky at $76K, but the Trend Says Otherwise
Bitcoin’s price is sitting between $76,400 to $76,700 per unit on Sunday morning, which sounds pretty uneventful until you look under the hood. Short-term momentum has gone sour, BTC has been turned away twice from roughly…
Your Bank Account Isn’t Your Property: Here’s Why
Events like the 2013 Cyprus crisis and recent government account freezes highlight the reality of third-party risk. As Graham Stone emphasizes, holding self-sovereign assets outside the traditional banking system, such as physical cash,…
Everyone Wants to Be the House — Week in Review
This editorial is from this week’s edition of the newsletter Week in Review, sent to subscribers on Friday. Subscribe to the newsletter to get this weekly editorial the second it’s finished. The newsletter also includes the biggest stories…
Crypto Moguls Pledge £72M to Fund Reform UK Election Campaign
Ben Delo, co-founder of the crypto exchange BitMEX, and Christopher Harborne, a Tether investor, have pledged to donate 72 million pounds ($97.44 million) to Reform UK as Parliament debates a ban on crypto-based political donations. Reform…
Strict Capital Rules Trigger Mass Exit of Brazil Crypto Firms
Out of the estimated 200 to 300 crypto companies now operating in Brazil, only 10 would have the structure and funding to satisfy the new rules established by the central bank, which establish capital requirements of up to 37.2 million…