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A stablecoin transfer can arrive in seconds while the recipient waits a day to turn it into local money.
Conversion fees, exchange rates and withdrawal options determine how much they can spend—and when. The blockchain fee covers only one step.

An AI agent can book a hotel within budget and still choose a room you would reject.
Spending limits alone don’t cover cancellation terms or duplicate charges. Agent payments also need clear purchase permissions and a way to resolve mistakes.

XRPL’s stablecoin supply reached $1.126B as monthly DEX volume more than doubled to $253M.
That growth doesn’t establish sustained XRP demand. Trades can bypass XRP, and the data doesn’t show how much volume uses it or how long market makers hold it.

🗞 Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Sat, Sep 12 (24H)
📈 Biggest Gainers
龙虾 (Lobster) +140.06%
Lisk (LSK) +113.80%
NOCK Nockchain (NOCK) +23.45%
📉 Biggest Losers

Ape and Pepe (APEPE) -19.86%
Hunter Biden’s Laptop (LAPTOP) -15.07%
Quack AI (Q) -9.99%

Revolut handed over customer records after accepting a fake government request sent from a genuine agency’s email infrastructure.
The data could include passports, selfies and Bitcoin histories. The number affected remains undisclosed.

XRP Ledger activated fixCleanup3_3_0 on Sept. 11, making transaction and AMM fixes part of its live rules.
Servers without support risk losing transaction and consensus functions. The separate Lending Protocol amendment remains disabled.

Capital B’s Bitcoin holdings rose roughly 12% from Aug. 17 to Sept. 7. Its reported BTC per diluted share barely changed: 736.4 to 736.6 satoshis.
The diluted share count grew almost as fast as the treasury.

DBS says it completed a dollar payment to Citi in New York from Singapore in minutes using tokenized deposits.
Faster transfers could reduce cash companies park ahead of payments—and help banks retain their balances, FX fees and lending business.

Bitwise is closing BWOW, the lowest-fee US Dogecoin ETF, with just $700K in assets and $1.23M in net outflows.
Trading ends Oct. 14. Remaining holders are expected to receive cash around Oct. 22, based on the fund’s Oct. 21 net asset value.

Blockstream rejected the Liquid attacker’s bounty demand after 3,400 BTC was returned. About 600 BTC remains withheld.
Adam Back says L-BTC will regain full backing, but funding details and a redemption restart date remain undisclosed.

Metaplanet is canceling 131.3M potential executive shares, eliminating over $220M in warrant value.
The company says the cut raises Bitcoin per fully diluted share by 8.8% without adding BTC, after later capital raises delivered smaller per-share gains.

SideSwap says its Liquid markets have reopened, but L-BTC redemption into Bitcoin remains suspended.
A Sept. 10 snapshot showed reserves covering about 85% of L-BTC supply. Reopened trading does not restore holders’ ability to redeem at par.

U.S. Bank moved its USBDC stablecoin between its North American and European entities in a live Stellar pilot.
The test included freezing and clawback controls. No customers were involved, and no commercial rollout date was announced.

Canada’s OSFI will let banks offset qualifying crypto hedges across regulated exchanges when the asset and maturity match.
The change can reduce capital requirements for those positions. High risk weights and the 5% Group 2 exposure cap remain.

🎾 PREDICTION MARKET: New York's title race has a new leader.
Alexander Zverev now leads the prediction market at 51%, with Ben Shelton at 36% as the final rounds test whether Zverev's surge can hold.

.@brian_armstrong thinks Bitcoin has bottomed and calls $400K by 2030 a “reasonable target.”
$BTC remains near $77K. Galaxy says a weekly close above its 50-week average, around $81.5K, would strengthen the case that the bear market is over.

A Philadelphia Fed paper found Bitcoin wallets were more likely to trade in a whale’s direction within 15 minutes of an alert. Ethereum activity changed little.
The researchers could not establish that alerts caused the response.

Circle agreed to buy Tazapay for $400M in stock, adding local-currency payout routes across 100+ markets if the deal closes.
The purchase would help turn stablecoin transfers into money recipients can use. Closing is expected in 2027, pending approvals.