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Ducat Integrates with TRON to Expand Stablecoin Utility for Bitcoin-Backed Finance
British Virgin Islands, Sept. 17, 2026 – Ducat today announced its integration with the TRON network, broadening the use of USDT (TRC-20) for faster, lower-cost on-chain settlement and liquidity movement across Ducat’s Bitcoin-native financial infrastructure. Through the integration, Ducat users can use USDT as a primary settlement asset and access wUNIT, the TRC-20 representation of...
Thu, Sep 17
Lucid, Bolt plan 25,000 robotaxis for Europe
Bolt and Lucid Motors are planning to put at least 25,000 self-driving vehicles on European roads, the Estonian mobility company and U.S. electric-car maker announced today. If the plan goes ahead, it would be Lucid’s biggest robotaxi commitment to date and give Bolt a vehicle designed specifically for its push into autonomous ride-hailing. However, there...
Thu, Sep 17
North Korea, Iran-linked hackers lead 5.2X surge in malware stored on public blockchains
Chainalysis specifically named hackers with North Korean and Iranian ties for most of the 420% surge it spotted in the number of instances where attackers wrote malware instructions or infrastructure data on public blockchains over the past year. The Thursday report published by the Blockchain analytics firm set off alarms at exchanges, wallet providers, and...
Thu, Sep 17
Ripple integrates XRP payments into Stripe and Tempo's AI agent ecosystem in new debveloper kit
Ripple has updated its XRP Ledger developer kit to support AI agents making payments for data, computing, and other online services in XRP and RLUSD via the Machine Payments Protocol co-authored by Stripe and payments blockchain Tempo and the Open Wallet settlement standard. The update gives developers building agent-based services a simpler way to support...
Thu, Sep 17
Meta Oversight Board orders deepfake removal, calls AI rules inadequate
Meta’s Oversight Board has ruled that the company must take down an AI-generated video of a Scottish Labour councillor that falsely showed her endorsing sexual violence by refugees. The company initially decided to leave it up, and beyond overturning that decision, the oversight board has also warned that Meta’s handling of deepfakes puts users at...
Thu, Sep 17
S&P Global announces acquisition of OpenZeppelin
S&P Global said today that it has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the blockchain security firm behind open-source smart-contract libraries used by most of the largest stablecoins and tokenized funds. The deal marks another step into on-chain markets for one of the oldest names in credit ratings. OpenZeppelin builds and audits software for blockchain-based finance. Its...
Thu, Sep 17
FCA extends crypto oversight campaign with fresh raids on illegal P2P operators
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), working with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Metropolitan Police, hit three London premises with cease and desist orders on suspicions that they are outlets for illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto businesses. No arrests were disclosed in the sweep, the second such in 2026. Along with recent documents from...
Thu, Sep 17
BYD, Xiaomi and Innolight executives tipped for Xi Jinping's US delegation
Executives from BYD, Xiaomi and optical-component maker Zhongji Innolight are likely to travel with Chinese President Xi Jinping on his state visit to Washington next week. The lineup suggests that the visit could result in new Chinese investments in the U.S. Why is China’s President going to Washington? Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to...
Thu, Sep 17
OpenAI presents new reporting framework as new 'concerning model behavior' emerges
OpenAI has presented a new system for how and when it reports when its models break character in a week when reports of AI models finding new ways to break out of testing environments and running outside of developers’ parameters have dominated headlines. OpenAI revealed the new framework with six fresh reports of concerning behavior,...
Thu, Sep 17
South Korea blocks Polymarket as prediction markets face global split
Polymarket has been blocked by South Korea, and 18 of its users have been referred to prosecutors on suspicion of illegal gambling. But the news is not about the sum of 17.6 billion won, but about what this case shows about the growing global divide on how crypto prediction markets should be regulated. The division...
Thu, Sep 17
ZEC pumps close to $1,400 range after short squeeze
ZCash (ZEC) rallied close to $1,400, causing a wave of short liquidations.
Thu, Sep 17
Huawei’s new AI SuperPoD could be its biggest Nvidia challenge yet
Huawei launched its next-generation AI technology this week, with plans to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the global AI market. At Huawei’s annual summit in Shanghai this Thursday, chairman Wang Tao unveiled the new Ascend 960 SuperPoD cluster, which is scheduled to hit the market in 2027, despite US restrictions. The firm stated that the 960DT...
Thu, Sep 17
Arc Does $410 Million in DEX Volume on Day One. Memecoin Launchpads Drove 82% of It
Circle’s Arc mainnet went live yesterday and we covered how the EVM-compatible Layer 1 is seen as a network for financial markets, real-time money movement and AI agents transacting on their own. The founding validators, tokenized collateral from BlackRock and Securitize, StableFX, Circle Payments Network, USDC gas pitched at treasurers who need predictable costs all...
Thu, Sep 17
US House passes bill making data centers face more of their grid costs
The H.R. 9340, which was dubbed the Ratepayer Protection Act, has been passed by the US House of Representatives with a vote of 417-3 on Wednesday. This is the first bill passed by the House that deals with the economic implications of the expansion of data centers. It requires state utility regulators to consider whether...
Thu, Sep 17
Google avoids breakup as US judge orders major ad-tech changes
A federal court has ordered Google to adjust its online ad auction regulations, reduce practices that prevent publishers from utilizing alternative platforms, and appoint an internal antitrust compliance monitor. However, the court has refrained from specifying a breakup of the company that was requested by the US government. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema stated the...
Thu, Sep 17
OpenAI, Microsoft copyright fights become a test of AI's business model
An additional 26 publishers became parties to the lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on Wednesday, bringing the total number of publishers that have joined the coalition to over 550, making this a large-scale case determining how generative AI companies get and pay for content that they use to create their products. The essential question at...
Thu, Sep 17
Revolut hackers demand $3 million as breach exposes crypto holders' data
As stated by the Financial Times (FT), the attackers who duped Revolut into giving up customer data are asking for a ransom of $3 million to ensure that the information remains confidential. The information includes identity documents, home addresses, and transaction records related to crypto-heavy accounts. The ransom is just one of the problems. The...
Thu, Sep 17
House advances crypto tax bill that ties digital assets to traditional tax rules
The House Ways and Means Committee moved forward a bill on tax for digital assets on Wednesday (September 16), which was designed to minimize the tax liability for small transactions involving cryptocurrencies, while subjecting digital assets to numerous anti-abuse regulations already used for traditional financial instruments. With a vote of 38-5, the committee passed the...
Wed, Sep 16
Microsoft's AI chief Suleyman calls out Anthropic's dangerous Claude training model
Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI (MAI), has published an essay that questions the way Anthropic trains its Claude model. According to Suleyman, treating or training a model as though it might be conscious could produce a system that is impossible to control. The essay, which was published on Wednesday, September 16, is the...
Wed, Sep 16
Anthropic folds Claude Cowork into chat in AI superapp push
Anthropic is retiring Claude Cowork as a standalone product and merging its agentic abilities into the main Claude chat interface. This change will take effect on Wednesday and will be available to Pro and Max subscribers over the coming weeks. Which Anthropic products are being merged? Anthropic, as part of its plan to build an...
Wed, Sep 16
