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House Panel Advances First US Crypto Tax Bill
House panel advanced crypto tax bill, passing the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act 38-5, the first federal framework for taxing digital assets in the US.
The bill, led by Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith, would exempt de minimis on-chain fees under $10 from tax, expand wash-sale rules to cover digital assets, and clarify how mining and staking rewards are treated. Users making more than 5,000 transfers a year would not qualify for the fee exemption. It cleared committee a day after the Senate's CLARITY Act failed a cloture vote, and the two measures are seen as complementary: one sets tax rules, the other market structure.
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VeChain Ships Interstellar Upgrade, Bringing Greater EVM Compatibility to Mainnet
VeChain's Interstellar upgrade is now live, delivering greater EVM compatibility, modern tooling for builders, and stronger foundations to scale.
The release lands new EVM opcodes and cryptographic precompiles via VIP-255, alongside core protocol improvements including EIP-2935. Together they cut the infrastructure friction developers face when building on the network.
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Kraken Parent Payward Plans US Onchain Perpetual Futures
Payward, Kraken's parent company, plans to bring compliant onchain perpetual futures to US clients, using builder-deployed markets on the Hyperliquid blockchain through its CFTC-regulated entities.
Rather than build a venue from scratch, Payward will tap Hyperliquid's builder-deployed markets, a model that lets outside teams spin up perp markets on the network while routing through Kraken's regulated US wrappers. Hyperliquid has grown into one of the largest onchain perpetuals venues by volume, and the tie-up gives US traders a compliant path to that liquidity. Payward is pursuing the rollout through CFTC-regulated entities, positioning the offering inside existing US derivatives rules.
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Circle's Arc L1 hit mainnet. Behind it: 10 months of testnet.
Since October 2025, Arc's testnet ran a full economy: 3.43M real wallets, 48.3M contracts deployed, 10.9M tokens created, 42.2M stablecoin transfers.
The throughput held: 740.9M transactions across 62.4M blocks, 95.2% successful, at a $0.0038 average fee. On Arc, USDC isn't a token, it's the gas. 4.89M holders proved the model before mainnet.
Deutsche Bank Launches Institutional Crypto Custody
Deutsche Bank went live with a crypto custody service for institutional clients, offering banks and asset managers secure, regulated storage for cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum.
The German lender built the platform with Bitpanda's technology unit and continues to work with Swiss custodian Taurus, in which Deutsche Bank is both an investor and a client. The move fits a broader strategy to grow fee income from digital assets, mirroring similar efforts at its asset-management arm DWS. It marks one of Europe's largest banks stepping directly into crypto custody as institutional demand for regulated infrastructure keeps building.
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Liquid Compute Exits Stealth With $15M Seed Round
Liquid Compute emerged from stealth with a $15 million seed round, unveiling plans to build the first CFTC-regulated orderbook for trading compute.
The startup has pending applications before the CFTC for Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) status, aiming to run a regulated venue for both cash and physically settled compute contracts. Its thesis is that compute behaves like electricity rather than oil, heterogeneous and impossible to store, so it is building a short-term spot market to underpin a cash-settled derivatives layer, modeled on power grids like PJM and ERCOT. It has already worked with Susquehanna International Group, BGC Group and Wintermute to seed OTC trading for AI startups, neocloud providers and lenders.
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AlphaNode is live: an app that mines crypto trading formulas
Our friends built the trading tool we always wished existed. AlphaNode doesn't sell you a dream, it breeds thousands of trading formulas, then tries to break them on data they've never seen before you risk a cent.
How it works:
1. Mine: evolutionary search breeds formulas in a sim that charges real fees & funding
2. Validate: graded on locked, out-of-sample data. Read-only
3. Forward: survivors go to append-only paper trading. No do-overs
4. Trade: deploy target weights via local API into your own bots
Сryptomarket Check-In. Major Events & Headlines
A split-screen day: four names called it quits — CoinEx, Balancer, Cascade, Pixelmon — while Anthropic lined up a $965B IPO and BitMine's ETH stack crossed $15B.
Five that actually mattered:
— Balancer proposes winding down, returns its treasury to holders
— Coinbase reverts the rebranded Base App back to Coinbase Wallet
— CoinEx shuts down after nine years, most services stop Sep 29
— Pump.fun launches a Holder Rewards program
— Zama launches 16 confidential yield vaults on Morpho
Fin.com Raises $20M Seed to Build Global Stablecoin Rails
Emerging from stealth, Fin.com raises a $20M seed led by Expa, building white-label infrastructure that turns stablecoins into payouts to local bank accounts and wallets.
The round closed in August and was led by Expa, the venture studio of Uber cofounder Garrett Camp, with Coinbase Ventures, Tenet Fund, Second Sight Ventures, the founders of Figure, Mesh founder Bam Azizi, and sovereign and royal family offices across the Gulf and Africa.
Fin.com was founded by Nabeel Alamgir, who previously built restaurant-tech firm Lunchbox, and Mustafa Dar. Its clients already reach a combined 800 million-plus users, and the team is targeting the last-mile problem of moving money across borders.
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Zama Expands Confidential Vaults on Morpho, Launches Private Swaps
Confidential-DeFi builder Zama expands confidential vaults on Morpho, opening deposits into 16 vaults that let users earn yield while hiding their balances, positions and strategies.
Twelve of the vaults route confidential access into existing Morpho vaults, while four were built exclusively for private deposits across assets including USDC, USDT, AUSD and TGBP. Strategies are overseen by curators Steakhouse Financial, Armitage by Wintermute, Flowdesk, RockawayX and Bitwise.
Zama's first vault, launched in June with Morpho and Steakhouse, pulled in $40M within seven weeks. Alongside it, the new Zama Swap Protocol lets users trade confidential assets on Ethereum without revealing transaction size or intent.
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Balancer Proposes Shutting Down and Paying Out Its Treasury to BAL Holders
A treasury council member moved to wind down Balancer, return treasury to BAL holders, capping five years of the veteran DeFi protocol.
The plan, put forward by council member and former Balancer Labs CEO Marcus Hardt, would halt business development, sunset the protocol in phases and legally close the DAO. Holders who burn BAL would receive a pro-rata, in-kind share of the treasury, which holds at least $9M in tokens.
A Snapshot vote runs September 25 to 29. If it passes, pools move to withdrawals-only by October 30, the first redemption window opens in late May 2027, and a final distribution follows roughly six months later.
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DOJ Moves to Seize $61M in Iranian Oil Crypto Laundered on Binance
US prosecutors moved to seize $61M laundered through Binance, cryptocurrency tied to sanctioned Iranian oil sales, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said.
The complaint alleges two China-based firms, Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale, used trading accounts on the UAE-based exchange to move oil proceeds. Blessed Trust posed as a digital-asset custody firm and Hexa Whale as a commodities broker, while their clients spanned China's oil and petroleum sector.
A cluster of wallets prosecutors call "Entity A" is said to have received and distributed more than $1.5 billion in illicit oil revenue, routing funds to money handlers tied to Iran's IRGC, other crypto addresses, and an Iran-based exchange.
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Just Launched: 6 Activities Worth Your Time
Hundreds of "early" plays flood your feed every week. We kept only the ones with real backers. Six live right now:
— Antarctic: Perp DEX · Arbitrum
— N1: Layer 1 · Points
— Melee Markets: Prediction Markets · Solana
— 4Dlabs: Physical AI · YZi Labs
— Minara.Fun: Launchpad · Testnet
— Jumper: DEX Aggregator · RWA raffle
Full step-by-step breakdown for each 👇
cryptodiffer.com/feed/other/we-filtered-the-noise-6-activities-worth-your-time
Kaiko Raises $110M Round Led by S&P Global
Crypto market-data provider Kaiko expanded its latest round to $110M in a strategic investment led by S&P Global, a sign of how far traditional finance is leaning into round-the-clock onchain markets.
The round drew a heavyweight backer list alongside S&P Global: DRW, Susquehanna, Royal Bank of Canada, Nasdaq, BNP Paribas, Broadridge, Coinbase Ventures and Stellar. Kaiko, founded in Paris and now serving 200+ institutional clients from offices in New York, London and Singapore, supplies crypto market data, analytics and indices. The raise follows the September 1 launch of the co-branded S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices, a 4,000-plus index suite built for asset managers seeking structured exposure to digital assets, with Kaiko providing the data, calculations and market connectivity.
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Race to $50B Volume: which chain got there fastest?
We measured every chain from Day 0 (launch) to $50B in cumulative spot DEX volume. Same start line, same finish.
Here's the leaderboard:
🥇 Robinhood Chain: 84 days
🥈 Unichain: 195 days
🥉 BSC: 197 days
Early Projects Radar: 9 Fresh Names This Week
9 fresh projects we caught on the radar this week. Not memecoins, not hype — early-stage with real products: from tokenized shares in private space companies, to a bot that arbitrages sportsbooks against Polymarket.
Save this; you haven't heard of half of them yet. Breakdown of each 👉 cryptodiffer.com/feed/project-updates/early-projects-radar-9-fresh-names-this-week-sep-16
Plume Vaults Go Cross-Protocol as RWA Collateral Lands on Pendle and Morpho
Plume Vaults' institutional yield tokens are moving cross-protocol, plugging RWA collateral into two of DeFi's largest venues within a single week.
Strata Markets is now tranching nOPAL, backed by a $600B+ credit card transaction market via BlackOpal. Senior nOPAL (srnOPAL) is live on Pendle, letting users fix or trade protected yield from short-term Brazilian credit card receivables, with added rewards from Strata and Plume.
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Justin Sun Launches His Own $1M Math Prize
Tron founder Justin Sun unveiled the Justin Sun Prize, a Nobel-style award that pays up to $1 million for each major mathematics problem that is solved and formally verified.
Unlike the Nobel, which has no mathematics category, the prize is awarded per problem rather than once a year. Each award is split between whoever solves a given problem and whoever converts the proof into machine-verifiable code, and a winner can be a person, a team, an AI, or all of them together. The program launched with 66 recognized problems, a list Sun says will keep expanding over time.
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Circle's Arc Stablecoin L1 Goes Live on Mainnet
Arc, the stablecoin-native Layer-1 built by Circle, launched its public mainnet, positioning itself as an "Economic OS for the internet" with USDC as the native gas token and deterministic sub-second finality.
Arc arrives as a full-stack financial platform rather than a bare chain, shipping assets, applications, interoperability, and Circle platform services from day one. It is EVM-compatible and provides infrastructure for lending and borrowing, trading and liquidity, onchain FX, payments and settlement, tokenized assets, and agentic economic workflows, tied together with CCTP, Gateway, CPN, and StableFX. Eleven founding validators, including BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, DTCC, and ICE, secure the network.
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X Adds a Trade Button to Cashtags in the US
X launched its Cashtag Partner Program in the US, adding a Trade option to Cashtags for stocks, ETFs, and crypto. Tapping a supported Cashtag now surfaces price charts and related posts, with a Trade button that routes users to a partner platform to execute.
Transactions are not settled natively on X. Selecting Trade opens the chosen partner's mobile app or web interface, where the user logs in or registers to complete the order. The first batch of partners spans both brokerages and crypto exchanges: Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Moomoo, and Interactive Brokers. X frames the program as a way to connect market discussion and discovery with the ability to act on it, without forcing users to leave the conversation to hunt for a broker.
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DOJ Charges Robinhood Engineers Over Alleged Crypto Listing Front-Running
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two Robinhood engineers with commodities fraud and wire fraud, alleging they misappropriated confidential information about upcoming crypto listings on Robinhood Crypto and used it to trade perpetual futures on Hyperliquid.
Prosecutors allege the two repeatedly opened positions ahead of Robinhood's public listing announcements between 2025 and 2026, with each making more than $50,000 in alleged profits.
According to the DOJ, Hefu Chai and Huaisong Xiang used advance knowledge of planned token listings to trade the corresponding assets on Hyperliquid before the information became public. Each faces one count under the Commodity Exchange Act and one count of wire fraud, carrying maximum sentences of 10 and 20 years, respectively.
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CLARITY Act Stalls in Senate, Short of 60 Votes
The CLARITY Act failed to clear the Senate's 60-vote cloture threshold on September 15, stalling the crypto market-structure bill the industry had spent the year pushing.
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act needed 60 votes to advance to full floor debate. Republicans hold just 53 Senate seats, so supporters needed at least seven Democrats to cross over, but unresolved fights over stablecoin rewards, ethics rules and illicit-finance provisions kept those votes out of reach. The House had passed the bill in July 2025 by a 294-134 margin, yet Senate negotiations never closed the gap, and Galaxy Research had already cut its odds of the bill becoming law in 2026 to around 10% heading into the vote.
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Binance Cuts Commodity Perpetuals to a 24/5 Trading Schedule
Starting today, Binance cuts commodity perps to 24/5, moving its commodity TradFi perpetual contracts off around-the-clock trading to match traditional market hours.
The switch takes effect at 21:00 UTC on September 15 and covers commodity-based contracts spanning gold, silver, WTI and Brent crude, natural gas, platinum, palladium and copper. These pairs previously traded through weekends with a daily one-hour maintenance pause, which is now being removed.
Crypto perpetuals are unaffected, and equity-based TradFi perpetuals such as TSLAUSDT and INTCUSDT keep their 24/7 availability.
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Axis Robotics Opens a $1M AXIS Community Public Sale on Echo
Physical-AI project Axis Robotics opens its AXIS sale, offering 1% of the token supply for $1M at a $100M FDV through a proportional community round on Echo.
Pre-registration is live now, with the subscription window running from September 21 to 28 and settlement expected around September 30. Because the sale is proportional, each participant's final allocation depends on total demand across the round.
Tokens vest 10% at TGE, followed by a six-month cliff, with the remaining 90% released linearly over the following six months. Axis earlier closed a $12M seed led by Hack VC, with Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures and 10K Ventures joining.
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CoinEx Exchange Is Shutting Down After Nine Years
After nine years, CoinEx will wind down the exchange, blaming a prolonged market slump, thinning volume and rising compliance costs.
The platform stops new registrations today and will halt most services on September 29. Withdrawals stay open until December 22, after which unclaimed balances may be converted to USDT.
Any remaining USDT then moves to independent custody carrying a 5% monthly fee on the original balance, with a custody-claims deadline of August 22, 2028. Founder Haipo Yang said the exchange will ensure users can withdraw their assets in full.
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Inside IMD: tokenomics, agent seats and the self-burning model
Most meme tokens do nothing. IMD tries to do the opposite: every sell burns its own supply, stakers earn from those burns, and the whole thing is meant to bankroll 2,000 AI agents running on-chain. It's Fren Pet, the old Base tamagotchi, reborn on Ethereum with a self-funding economy bolted on.
Current footprint: ~$10.5M diluted valuation, $1.5M liquidity, $240K daily volume, $3.05 per token.
Standard Reserve Launches Onchain ETH Reserve
The Standard Reserve went live today, an onchain reserve protocol built around ETH flows, using an OlympusDAO-style design with a hard-capped 1B STANDARD supply.
The protocol routes ETH fees into vaults, protocol-owned liquidity and the team, and pairs STANDARD against ETH in a hooked Uniswap v4 pool. Access runs through Charters: only 1,000 Genesis Charters exist, minted free to the allowlist at launch, with further Charters and expansion licenses sold later through daily ETH Dutch auctions. Launch day is timed: the allowlist mint at 5:30 PM EST, a public Dutch auction at 8:30, then liquidity and Charter emissions from 9:00 PM. Post-mint trading opens with an anti-snipe tax that starts at 90% and decays on a five-minute half-life back to normal fees.
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Lisk Burns 100M LSK, Cutting Supply by 25%
Lisk burned 100M LSK tokens after a DAO vote passed, cutting the max supply from 400M to 300M in a single move.
The 100M tokens were drawn from the DAO treasury's 2027-2033 allocation, so the burn removes a full quarter of Lisk's 400M max supply at once. The proposal cleared a community governance vote before execution. It also lands as Lisk winds down its original chain, scheduled to shut on October 31, and shifts toward a new enterprise focus meant to tighten tokenomics and support the LSK price.
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Arc Launchpad Ecosytem. Mainnet Goes Live Sep 16
We mapped every Arc launchpad we could verify, sorted alphabetically, with a clickable X handle for each and flags on the ones still on waitlist, testnet, or running repurposed old accounts. This is Part 1 of the Arc Ecosystem series.
Full breakdown 👉 cryptodiffer.com/feed/other/arc-launchpad-ecosystem-every-launchpad-before-the-sep-16-mainnet
EU Gives Wallet Makers 24 Hours to Report Flaws
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act now requires in-scope wallet makers to report exploited flaws within 24 hours, a rule that took effect on September 11.
The requirement covers commercial makers of connected hardware wallets and downloadable wallet software placed on the EU market. Beyond the 24-hour alert for an actively exploited vulnerability or serious security incident, manufacturers owe a fuller notification within 72 hours, a final vulnerability report no later than 14 days after a corrective or mitigating measure becomes available, and a final incident report one month after the 72-hour notice. Makers must also inform affected users, and where appropriate all users, about the steps they can take.
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