Wallets tied to the US government moved 12,267 seized Bitfinex bitcoin, worth about $1 billion, to new unlabeled addresses. No exchange deposit was recorded, CoinDesk reported. Whether Washington is selling turns on the smaller sums it sent to Coinbase Prime.
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About 100 bitcoin mined in July 2010 moved for the first time in more than 16 years, a stake now worth roughly $8.5 million. Whoever moved them can now sell them, though no sale shows on the record and both new wallets sat untouched a day later.
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US government sends $770m of seized bitcoin to Coinbase Prime in its biggest outflow since 2024
The US government moved 9,261 bitcoin worth about $770 million to Coinbase Prime, its largest outflow since December 2024, Galaxy Research data showed. The venue is the US Marshals Service's custody desk, so a deposit there does not confirm a sale.
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US government wallets sent 9,261 bitcoin worth $770 million to Coinbase Prime in two days, according to Galaxy Research. With half from the Bitfinex hack and a 2025 order barring sales, custody or restitution fits the record better than a sale.
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Morton family breaks up crypto investor Deus X Capital to start separate AI and fintech vehicles
Deus X Capital's Morton family backers are winding up the crypto investor by Jan. 31, 2027, to set up separate AI and fintech vehicles. Only one of the three Mortons named is backing AI, and Deus X declined to give its capital, so the size of the AI side cannot be measured.
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CFTC lets exchanges drop expiry dates from index futures that already trade as perpetuals
CFTC staff will let Coinbase Derivatives and other exchanges drop expiry dates from broad-based security index futures under relief that lapses October 20. Coinbase's contracts already priced like perpetuals, so the letter mainly rewrites their legal terms, and the open question is whether any other exchange uses it.
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Compound's COMP holders are voting to stretch treasury delays from two days to ten and give governance a cancel over treasury transactions. That moves treasury control to the token vote, the subject of a September dispute over the Compound Foundation's use of DAO reserves.
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- Evidence64
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After a $23.75 million oracle-credential drain, Ostium rebuilds its trading stack around Gateway
Ostium is rebuilding its trading stack around Gateway, three months after an attacker holding legitimate oracle-signer credentials drained $23.75 million. The new system has to keep execution fast enough for institutional hedging and also show that stolen credentials can no longer push a false price through.
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- Evidence55
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Thirty people and a book of institutional trading relationships changed hands on terms nobody disclosed, which leaves the $4.329bn of quarterly revenue BitGo is now trying to put a spread on as the number to read.
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Bitcoin's $81,159 weekly close sits $2,371 above its 50-week moving average. Galaxy Research counts that line as right in four of five completed bear markets, and wrong in two of thirteen crossings.
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Celestia asks for $1.5 million to fix a blob business that earned 6,500 TIA last month
Celestia's revised blob economy package puts paid capacity commitments and bonded services to TIA holders, and its own definition of revenue concedes that the cheapest data availability in the market is not yet paying validators.
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- Evidence52
- Adoption40
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- Incentives70
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DeFi borrowers unwound $7.79bn of the $11.33bn drop in crypto lending
Galaxy Research puts outstanding crypto-collateralized loans at $56.16 billion after a third straight quarterly decline. Its own dollar figures make that 28.6% below the Q3 2025 peak, against a stated 40.13%.
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Kamino recruits a Yieldstreet founder to turn Solana's $4bn of tokenized assets into collateral
Solana holds 12% of tokenized-asset market value but handled 32% of the dollars traded in the year to August 18, at a median trade size of $29. Michael Weisz's job in New York is to turn that into loan demand.
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- Evidence52
- Adoption24
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Transaction V1 went live on Solana mainnet at epoch 1035 with a 4,096-byte ceiling. Senders opt in and the older formats keep working, so the required updates fall on RPC providers, indexers and explorers.
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Trezor's spoofed alert reused the language of the $112.7m Coldcard exploit
The email telling Trezor owners their recovery phrases might lack entropy came from a real trezor.io address and passed DKIM, SPF and DMARC, and it described a defect close to the one that took 1,778.84 BTC from Coldcard users.
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- Evidence42
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- Confidence45
Dee Goens takes over a Zora protocol that cleared $6,165 of revenue last month
Four straight quarterly declines took Zora Coins from $5.64m to something like a $74,000 annual run rate, and the recovery plan now rests on custom pairs, expansion to three chains, and holder rewards whose size has not been disclosed.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption12
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Hyperscale Data reprices Dowagiac's power at $3 million a megawatt-year
Dowagiac's bitcoin miners went dark on September 1 so that 20 megawatts could be leased to an unnamed California neocloud at roughly $3 million per megawatt-year. The customer's cash in the door so far is $10.6 million.
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Strive's 13% preferred funds a ninth straight day of buying at 29% of last week's pace
Nine days of purchases paid for by a security that disburses cash every business day is a demand read on the preferred rather than on bitcoin. The coins Strive bought last week at $79,431 are marked at $77,100.
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- Evidence58
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ETF buying outruns the oldest bitcoin wallets by roughly ninety to one
Decade-dormant coins are moving at an unusual clip while Warsh talks the Fed hawkish, so the tempting read is old supply against ETF demand. Divide the two flows and one side is ninety-six times the other.
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Hyperliquid clears close to 30% of perp DEX volume. Machi's $12.7M week is just the receipt.
One account's 84-fold three days on Hyperliquid is a curiosity. The venue clearing close to 30% of all perp DEX volume, by its reporter's own totals, is not.
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- Confidence40