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Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Ethena’s ENA token on 30 September with a US$2 forecast for the end of 2028, about seven times the US$0.28 price cited in its note. The bank estimates the supply of Ethena’s USDe stablecoin could reach US$40 billion by end-2028. Ethena’s governance rules start ENA buybacks only once USDe supply hits US$7.5 billion, and CoinGecko showed about 4.87 billion USDe in circulation on Thursday. Standard Chartered began research coverage of Ethena (ENA) on Wednesday, forecasting the token will reach US$2 (AU$2.88) by the end of 2028. That target is about seven times the US$0.28 (AU$0.40)…

Japanese payment provider PayPay added Binance Pay on Sept. 30, letting eligible overseas visitors pay from their crypto balances at participating offline stores in Japan. Merchants receive the proceeds in Japanese yen.PayPay’s launch announcement says the integration runs through HIVEX, a cross-border payment network. For visiting Binance users, funds held in their crypto accounts can cover a yen-denominated purchase, with conversion handled during payment.Binance says the feature is exclusively for visitors who have completed its identity verification and is unavailable to Japan residents. Its launch blog sets out that restriction, while PayPay specifically excludes Binance Japan users residing in Japan.This…

Singapore’s crypto economy grew 55.4% to US$284 billion (AU$409 billion) in the year to 30 June, the largest in Central & Southeast Asia and Oceania, according to Chainalysis. Activity on institutional platforms in Singapore rose 94% to US$60 billion (AU$86.4 billion), with most of it concentrated among a small number of market makers, OTC desks and institutional brokerages. Australia ranked second at US$173.1 billion (AU$249.3 billion), with total activity down 5.6% and activity on institutional platforms up 33.3%. Singapore was the largest crypto economy in Central & Southeast Asia and Oceania in the year to 30 June, Chainalysis said on…

Base’s Cobalt upgrade, scheduled for mainnet Sept. 30 at 18:00 UTC, will let issuers of B20 tokens configure balance seizures separately from ordinary transfer restrictions. For a token that enables the feature, a holder could remain free to transfer while still being eligible for administrative reassignment.B20 is Base’s native ERC-20-compatible token standard, offered in Asset and Stablecoin variants. It already gives administrators control over roles and policies governing balance movements, and now it will also govern the administrative powers over those balances.Role assignments identify who can exercise a particular power, while policy settings determine which accounts an operation can affect.…

Ripple and CSD BR are bringing XRPL into Brazil’s regulated capital markets through a live fund-record mirroring project. CSD BR is using XRPL to mirror ownership records for selected BTG Pactual investment funds while retaining its existing legal records. The first phase will test the technology under real operating conditions, with access limited to approved corporate and banking clients. Future stages could include direct onchain asset issuance, trading by authorised participants and expansion beyond Brazil. Ripple is bringing the XRP Ledger (XRPL) into Brazil’s regulated capital markets through a new partnership with CSD BR, one of the country’s financial market…

Judge Rachel P. Kovner rejected claims by nine alleged fraud victims seeking to contest forfeiture of approximately 127,271 Bitcoin in a Sept. 25 order.Their filings did not plausibly connect their lost funds to the specific seized wallets, leaving them with a different potential recovery route if the government wins the forfeiture case.The Eastern District of New York judge struck the timely claims of Ath Leepinyo and Connie Wilson and denied seven other claimants permission to file late. All nine lacked Article III standing, the legal threshold for contesting the action.The case began with a civil forfeiture complaint filed on Oct.…

Uniswap’s StablePair fee hook is designed to keep more of the value from rebalancing stablecoin pools with liquidity providers.Yet the rule deciding which trade counts as a correction depends on a configured reference rate.StablePair is a Uniswap v4 hook, a contract that changes a pool’s behavior. Its fee logic compares a cached pool price with a reference stored in the hook’s configuration. The design prices trades around that benchmark, leaving providers exposed if a token’s economic value moves away.Uniswap Labs announced the two Ethereum pools, USDC/USDT and USDC/USDG, on Sept. 10. Its Sept. 16 explanation noted that Providers allocating capital…

Bitcoin is closing its strongest quarter since 2024 after leaving US stocks and gold far behind despite surging bond yields.The largest digital asset has gained about 43% in the third quarter, putting it on course for its second-best third-quarter since 2013 and its third-strongest quarterly advance since US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds began trading in January 2024, according to Bitfinex and CoinGlass.Bitcoin rebounded 43.88% in Q3 2026 after losing 22.2% in Q1 and 14.09% in Q2. Source: CoinGlassBitcoin entered July near $58,600 after three consecutive quarterly declines, then accelerated through August and September as institutional demand returned and sellers who…

Bitcoin improvement proposal BIP461 could make a hidden route for leaking wallet secrets easier to detect. The draft defines a common signing procedure for ECDSA, an existing Bitcoin signature scheme.Independent compliant signers should produce identical signatures for the same secret key and message hash, creating a benchmark for detecting departures that could conceal key leakage.Authored by Liam Gilligan, the proposal was merged into the BIPs repository on Sept. 16 and remains marked Draft. Its signatures work under existing Bitcoin consensus rules, so implementing this signing procedure requires no consensus change.Comparing signatures for deviationsECDSA allows a signer choices while creating a…

Bitcoin erased a brief rally above $85,000 on Sept. 30, slipping back below $84,000 after fresh US inflation data as government bond yields rebounded and stocks recovered.The move followed the release of August personal consumption expenditures inflation at 12:30 p.m. UTC. At 3:28 p.m. UTC, Bitcoin traded close to $84,000, leaving the initial jump without a sustained breakout.Bitcoin was still up 0.56% over 24 hours at that reading. That rolling gain coexisted with the release-time rally’s reversal, leaving a modest daily move after a sharp swing.The Bureau of Economic Analysis release put headline PCE inflation at 0.3% month over month…