India moves to block 15 crypto apps, leaving users facing sudden account lockout
App and URL takedown notices raise disruption risks, but completed blocks and withdrawal limits remain unconfirmed.
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XRP Ledger crossed 5 billion transactions, but 92% of August activity came from just 767 bots
Bitquery’s audit says a 767-account machine subset generated 92%, separating ledger throughput from durable XRP demand.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo10 Sept
US hit on $24 billion crypto black market sends rival money launderers running for exits
DOJ seized Telegram channels and two wallets while OFAC sanctioned Xinbi and the developers behind SafeW and XinbiPay.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo10 Sept
SEC gives Bitcoin-heavy trusts a new 15% window to venture beyond existing listing rules
Qualifying trusts can use a faster generic route while derivatives measured at gross notional can quickly exhaust the flexible sleeve.
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac10 Sept
Memecoin degens are providing the spark for Wall Street to turn stock tokens into real capital
Speculative trading may seed inventory for lending and vaults, but the full adoption flywheel remains unproven.
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos10 Sept
Bitcoin holds near $78K as markets confront the macro shocks they may have underpriced this week
The baseline is already hostile. A CPI, central-bank or oil deviation could decide whether Bitcoin breaks its current range.
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos10 Sept
Paolo Ardoino says 650 million people decentralized US debt, but Tether still controls the T-bills
USDT spreads dollar claims and Treasury funding demand while Tether keeps reserve ownership, portfolio control and gains above face value.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright10 Sept
Osmosis freezes 22.65 BTC after Nomic forwarding bug compromises Bitcoin reserves
Even full recovery of the frozen funds would leave roughly 17.19 BTC for the community pool to replace.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright10 Sept
Tether is pushing USDT into a cracking $3 trillion Wall Street debt machine as defaults hit five-year highs at major funds
The USDT issuer will originate and advise on deals while Fasanara manages the $400 million-backed fund, which targets up to $3 billion from outside institutions.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo10 Sept
Treasury’s $6 billion bond intervention creates a stealth test for Bitcoin’s next move
The September 10 operation triples the prior limit, but accepted purchases and funding conditions will matter more than capacity alone.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright10 Sept
Bitcoin sell pressure reaches one-month low as long-term holders slow down profit taking
Glassnode’s seven-day measure fell to 7 basis points from 16 at August’s peak, while overhead holdings barely moved.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright10 Sept
Hunter Biden launched LAPTOP to cure memecoin grift and created a whole new batch of losers
Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP token left nearly 80% of traders underwater within hours despite being pitched as an answer to memecoin grift. Hunter Biden is the son of former US President Joe Biden. Data from Bubblemaps showed that 12,151 of the token’s 15,206 traders lost money, while only 3,026 were profitable and 29 were at break-even […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo10 Sept
OpenAI just showed why one of its former researchers thinks AI could kill everyone
OpenAI says its latest AI system solved a 90-year-old math problem in 88 hours, reigniting fears over runaway intelligence. On Sept. 8, the company said that an internal model significantly more capable than its recently released GPT-6 Astra coordinated roughly 10,000 AI agents to solve the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. This is one of […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo9 Sept
Solana’s 300ms speed boost to outrun trading bots might come with a hidden cost
Fee-charging pools have the clearest modeled benefit, while proprietary market makers and validators face different trade-offs.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright9 Sept
It looks like a stock and trades like a stock, but it isn’t actually a stock – what is it?
Tokenized stocks promise cheaper trading and wider access, while some products make speculation easier without passing shareholder rights to the buyer. Two people can open their investment apps, see the same company name beside a similar price, and still own different things. One holds shares in the company, and the other holds a token designed […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac9 Sept
How 4,100 stolen Bitcoin bankrolled a life of private jets and supercars
Prosecutors say the group stole and laundered more than $245 million in crypto, spending proceeds on club parties, private jets and exotic cars.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo9 Sept
How Tether’s $45 million crackdown drove Southeast Asian scam compounds into an ‘unfreezable’ decentralized stablecoin
Bitrace puts targeted Xinbi-linked holdings above $45 million as the sanctioned marketplace announces a USDD-only plan.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo9 Sept
Ethereum’s institutional staking boom is growing, but Lido’s share is shrinking
Lido captured just 5.7% of H1 staking growth, while a negative NEST budget shows why deposits alone cannot fund purchases.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright9 Sept
Bitcoin miner manufacturer Canaan sells crypto to buy back shares after $97 million loss
Revenue fell below its $35 million guidance floor, while later crypto sales funded part of its share buybacks.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright9 Sept
Bitcoin traders bet borrowed money on a rally as oil surges ahead of Friday’s inflation test
Bitcoin is holding above $78,000 as Brent crude breached $100 and rising Treasury yields revived inflation fears. Data from CryptoSlate showed the flagship cryptocurrency trading around $78,451 at press time, with little sign of the pressure spreading across bond and energy markets after an escalation in the Middle East pushed Brent above the threshold for […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo9 Sept