Crypto

Crypto coverage across every StreamSage desk, filed under Crypto: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Altcoins, Stablecoins, DeFi, Exchanges, Networks, Tokenization Page 15.

• UK Regulators Weigh Easing Ban on Prediction Markets

  Regulators have discussed possibly easing the 7-year-old ban as consumers increasingly use US-based prediction sites like Kalshi and Polymarket.

• EIP-8141 gas cap blocks Ethereum privacy proofs

  New benchmarks show optimized privacy proofs require nearly twice the proposed 100,000-gas validation allowance in the current draft.

• Orionx Halts Withdrawals and Winds Down After Alleged $7M Asset Transfers

  Orionx is shutting down, and the math in its legal filings does not quite match its public headline.

• Capital B Buys 376 Bitcoin in $29M Acquisition

  Capital B increased its Bitcoin holdings to 3,521 BTC following the purchase, according to CoinTelegraph.

• Bottomline Deal Has No Go-Live Date and No Pilot Bank

  The Bottomline-Chainlink deal processes $16 trillion in annual payments, yet neither firm has disclosed a launch date or named a pilot bank.

• Solana’s “million-payments-a-second” AI system can leave sellers unpaid even after they deliver

  The headline says a million payments a second.

• Bitcoin’s 90-day correlation with gold hits nine-year high

  Protos reports that BTC's 90-day correlation with gold reached +0.56, while its link to the Nasdaq 100 fell to a one-year low of +0.30.

• DBS and Citi complete first weekend USD payment via tokenized deposits

  The transaction used Swift's Digital Ledger to move US dollars between Singapore and the U.S. outside traditional banking hours, per the banks.

• DBS and Citi complete weekend USD payment on Swift ledger

  The Singapore-to-New York transfer settled in minutes using tokenized deposits, according to a joint announcement from the two banks.

• Tether faces $91B exposure from dual-key vulnerability

  Hacken's report identifies a gap in USDT's authorization process that could expose $91 billion in reserves.

• Hanwha Builds Tokenized Securities Platform on Avalanche

  The development arrives months before South Korea legally recognizes distributed ledgers as securities registers in February 2027.

• Tether and Circle Stablecoin Supply Shrinks Amid Crypto Downturn

  USDT and USDC circulations both declined by nearly $3 billion in the first half of the year.

• Liquid Network pauses after purported ‘white-hat’ hackers withdraw $320 million in bitcoin

  Liquid halted operations after a SideSwap PAK withdrawal, yet the company has not identified the vulnerability that authorized the transfer.

• Bitmine's 5% goal is a retention problem, not a buying one

  Staking yields can close the gap to 5% without new purchases, but only if Bitmine stops converting rewards to cash for dividends.

• Better mortgage locks bitcoin for decades via rehypothecation

  The desk verified the 250% collateral ratio and found the collateral cannot be recovered until the underlying 30-year mortgage is fully repaid.

• GRNY’s top holdings are crypto. The mandate didn’t change.

  MSTR and HOOD lead the fund’s Sept. 4 snapshot, but the shift stems from price appreciation and active management discretion, not a passive index drift.

• Solana v1 upgrade bug risks silent fee limit failures

  Unpatched RPC readers and indexers face hard failures or non-binding fee caps when the Solana v1 transaction format activates on mainnet.

• Hargreaves Lansdown Rolls Out Bitcoin Trading to Two Million Clients

  The UK platform now sells Bitcoin exchange-traded notes to two million clients after previously stating the asset was too volatile.

• Bitwise XRP fund holds 14.57% implied yield in futures position

  CryptoSlate reports the fund paired 10.8 million XRP in custody with a 10.5 million short, leaving a small residual exposure.

• Polymarket launches crypto perpetual futures with 20x leverage

  The new Perps product spans crypto, indices and commodities, offering leverage up to 20x and no contract expiration.