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Payward intends to bring onchain perpetuals to US clients via Hyperliquid HIP-3 contracts, HYPE surges
Payward, Kraken’s parent company, said it plans to bring perpetual futures markets on Hyperliquid to U.S. clients, in a move that would make it the first U.S.-regulated venue to offer the product. The launch would give American traders access to a market that has largely been out of reach for years. Two Payward subsidiaries in...
Wed, Sep 16
Michael Saylor moves on from stalled CLARITY Act as SEC, CFTC set to take over
Michael Saylor has said that he expects the SEC, CFTC, and Treasury to write crypto rules under existing law now that the CLARITY Act has stalled in the Senate. Following the continuous stalling from Congress, Bitcoin holders and banks are now expecting agencies to sort crypto’s legal status. Will the CLARITY Act be passed anytime...
Wed, Sep 16
Nvidia, Google and Emerald AI launch alliance to make data centers more attractive
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), and the startup Emerald AI have launched a new coalition that wants regulators to hand faster grid connections to data centers that are willing to dial back their power use when supplies get tight. The coalition, called the AI Energy Management Alliance, was announced on Wednesday, September 16. The...
Wed, Sep 16
Huawei predicts AI agents will dominate AI traffic by 2035
Huawei expects autonomous AI agents to account for more than 90% of global AI token traffic within the next decade, pointing to a sharp increase in the computing and networking capacity needed to support an agent-driven AI economy. The Chinese telecom giant published the estimate in a research report released on September 16, 2026. The...
Wed, Sep 16
EU's von der Leyen supports slower AI development, to host talks with frontier labs
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to invite leading artificial intelligence companies to Brussels for talks on slowing the pace of AI development, as concerns grow among tech executives that the most powerful models are advancing faster than they can be effectively controlled. Speaking at her annual State of the European Union address...
Wed, Sep 16
Core Lightning warns to disable experimental features on nodes
Core Lightning developers have warned anyone running experimental features on their software to disable them or risk losing their funds while the team figures out a recently discovered issue. The mid-September warning is the second in a matter of weeks, following a late August patch to fix a separate wave of bugs that could have...
Wed, Sep 16
Circle Launches Arc Mainnet with BlackRock, DTCC, Visa and Mastercard Among Its Validators
Circle has announced that its Layer 1 blockchain, Arc, is now live on mainnet. The EVM-compatible layer 1 blockchain launches with BlackRock, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp., ICE, Visa, Mastercard, Moneygram, SBI Group, Standard Chartered, Sumitomo Corporation, Visa, and Worldpay (now Global Payments) named in its founding validator cohort. Arc is built for three...
Wed, Sep 16
Novo Nordisk and Anthropic collaborate to advance drug development with Claude
Novo Nordisk is turning to Anthropic’s Claude models in a bid to cut the time needed to develop new medicines and bring them to market. The pharmaceutical giant said Wednesday that the partnership will also put frontier AI to the test in the tightly regulated drug-development process. The Danish pharmaceutical company announced the collaboration with...
Wed, Sep 16
Uniswap expands into decentralized trading for tokenized assets
Uniswap emerged as the leading DEX venue for RWA trading, with rising volumes in the past month.
Wed, Sep 16
UK FCA unveils fresh crypto guidance as $676M task force targets money laundering
Crypto is high on the priority list of UK regulators this week as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) spelled out which crypto activities need authorization once the country’s regime takes effect in 2027, in the final guidance it put out on Wednesday, September 16. The guidance landed within a day of the Home Office and...
Wed, Sep 16
Bulgaria adopts law implementing Europe’s crypto tax reporting rules
Bulgaria is stiffening tax reporting requirements for crypto assets, users and platforms in accordance with the latest EU standards in the field, finally joining other member states that have already done so. Under updated legislation, the nation’s tax authority will be able to obtain detailed info about all kinds of coin-related transactions through service providers...
Wed, Sep 16
Naver's Dunamu takeover faces test in upcoming shareholder stake regulation
Korea’s National Assembly Research Service has pointed out a regulatory contradiction that could force a governance overhaul at Naver Financial if it completes its takeover of Dunamu, the operator of Upbit. The potential regulatory conflict is between two Fair Trade Act rules. One requires holding companies to maintain minimum subsidiary stakes, while the other proposes...
Wed, Sep 16
Betpanda Review: The Crypto Sportsbook Betting Without Limits, a $30,000 Weekly Tournament, and a 6,000-Game Casino Behind It
Regulated sportsbooks in 2026 routinely cut stake limits on profitable customers, sometimes to pennies, and they pair that with ID checks, affordability reviews, and source-of-funds requests that most often land exactly when a player tries to withdraw. For a bettor who wins, the regulated path gets narrower the better they get. Betpanda is a platform...
Wed, Sep 16
BitMart opens user feedback portal as action plan continues to frustrate users
BitMart has opened what it describes as a formal portal for affected users to send their questions, as customers continue to wait for an update about their funds one week after the exchange hired restructuring firm Alvarez & Marsal. Per the blog post, the channel will only collect concerns. It won’t process withdrawals, and it...
Wed, Sep 16
Justin Sun Establishes the Justin Sun Prize: “My Wealth Came from Mathematics and Will Return to Mathematics”
Geneva, Switzerland — September 16, 2026 — The Office of Justin Sun today announced the establishment of the Justin Sun Prize, a zero-trust, decentralized academic bounty mechanism based on a “problem list,” with breakthroughs in fundamental disciplines and machine formal verification as the criteria for awarding prizes, and a top prize of up to US$1...
Wed, Sep 16
Why are Intel and SK Hynix rallying today?
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and SK Hynix (NASDAQ: SKHY; KRX: 000660) are moving higher Wednesday after reports said the two chipmakers are discussing a U.S. production deal. Intel gained 5.2% before the market opened, while SK Hynix closed 4.1% higher in Seoul. Its Nasdaq shares were up around 3% before Wall Street trading began. SK Hynix...
Wed, Sep 16
LIVE: Why is Bitcoin crashing?
Bitcoin fell as much as 5% to $76,110 after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act. Ether dropped more than 8%, while smaller tokens also sold off hard. Fed rate fears are adding pressure, with markets pricing a 92% chance of a quarter-point hike. U.S. stock futures are slightly higher, while Asian markets are...
Wed, Sep 16
BabyDoge's 3 million members take charge of LimeWire and its 8 million monthly users
LimeWire's 8 million monthly users pass to BabyDoge, a meme coin project with more than 3 million members, in a deal with undisclosed terms.
Wed, Sep 16
Meta's CEO rejects a coordinated AI slowdown and says each lab can pace itself
Zuckerberg says every AI lab already has the incentive to train models safely, breaking with Amodei, Altman and Musk who want the industry to slow down.
Wed, Sep 16
FOMC Decision Today: Markets Price 92% Odds of a Hike to 3.75% – 4.00%
The United States Federal Reserve (Fed) is about to drop its interest rate decision today at 2 p.m. ET, and the market has already made up its mind. According to the CME FedWatch tool, the probability of a 25 basis point hike to 3.75% to 4.00% stands at 92.3%. A rate hike today would mark...
Wed, Sep 16
