CryptoSlate

Circle is ending USDC support on Noble, forcing roughly $92M to move across more than 50 Cosmos-linked chains.
Minting stops Oct. 13, and legacy cross-chain burn limits start tightening Oct. 31. Cosmos is moving its main USDC route to Injective.

Treasury bought $5.187B of long-dated bonds, but the signals Bitcoin traders were watching moved the other way.
The 10-year real yield rose to 2.55%, while spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $282.7M in net outflows. Treasury was buying its own older debt—not injecting liquidity like the Fed.

Bitcoin trades around the clock, but its biggest moves increasingly happen during US market hours.
From 2022 to 2025, just nine US-session hours accounted for 50.6% of daily realized variance. On NYSE holidays, that share fell to about 41.9%.

Bitcoin gained ~0.2% after Friday’s $2.24B options expiry, then erased the bounce within two hours.
The move fell short of a reversal seen in past research. Public data couldn’t establish whether the same options positioning was present this time.

BitMine reports 5.07M ETH staked, equivalent to 11.8% of Ethereum’s active stake.
It hasn’t disclosed how validator signing keys are split among operators. Without that breakdown, the ETH total alone cannot establish its control over consensus.

A profitable Bitcoin trade can still get liquidated if the stock collateral backing it falls far enough.
Trading venues now let equities and crypto share one margin account, tying a position’s survival to assets beyond the trade itself.

🤖 PREDICTION MARKET: Anthropic has IPO scale, but does it need public money?
An IPO by year-end leads the prediction market at 88.5%, while its $65B private raise may reduce the urgency to list.

Trezor and BitBox warn of phishing emails impersonating them. A fake Trezor alert claims an “STM32 Entropy Vulnerability.”
Trezor says its email provider was breached and wallets remain safe. Ignore the links and never share recovery words.

LlamaRisk proposes higher USDe borrowing costs across five Aave markets.
Borrow rates already exceed sUSDe’s reported 4.72% APY, leaving simple borrow-and-stake loops losing money before incentives and costs. The changes would widen that gap.

HIVE says it averaged over $1M in daily revenue from Aug. 21 to Sept. 10. Bitcoin mining supplied more than 90%; GPU cloud brought in about $100K a day.
Its $600M+ cloud pipeline includes letters of intent, with future revenue not guaranteed.

Bitcoin fell below $77K as Brent topped $105 and the US 10-year yield hit 4.93%.
Buyers are defending support near $76K ahead of Sept. 11 CPI. The report will capture only part of the latest oil surge, leaving further inflation pressure unresolved.

Strategy says net debt fell from $8.16B to $174M, largely through a bigger dollar cash cushion.
It still carries $6.71B in convertible debt plus preferred dividend commitments. S&P has left its B- junk rating unchanged.

XRP Healthcare is winding down after a wallet flaw led to roughly $450K being stolen from 4,010 wallets.
Affected users need new keys. Importing an exposed seed into another wallet app does not fix the flaw.

OpenAI says AI agents produced a Navier-Stokes proof and verified it in Lean.
For smart contracts, automated proofs could cut verification work. But they only check specified rules. An omitted withdrawal safeguard can still leave funds exposed.

Consensys plans to separate MetaMask from its infrastructure business by year-end.
MetaMask’s Money Account runs on Monad. Growth in the wallet doesn’t automatically mean more Ethereum transactions or demand for ETH.

Visa says Credit Coop’s stablecoin loans have financed $2.5B in card settlements since 2023, covering the gap before cardholder payments arrive.
That’s cumulative volume through reusable credit lines. Current loan exposure remains undisclosed.

ETH, XRP and Solana ETFs drew nearly $59M on Sept. 9 as Bitcoin funds lost $120M.
Over 30 days, those four assets captured roughly 99% of net crypto ETF inflows. The altseason index stood at 37, below its 75 threshold.

A Superfluid bug let an attacker drain over $100K from GoodDollar’s reserves.
The UBI protocol has recorded 963,000+ unique claimants. Claiming has resumed on Celo, but reserve operations on Celo and XDC remain paused, with bridging suspended.

🏆 PREDICTION MARKET: The Ballon d’Or favorite flipped.
Harry Kane now leads the prediction market at 62.6%, far ahead of Lamine Yamal at 15.9%, as voters weigh individual output against team success.