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A Brooklyn man was sentenced to as much as 12 years in prison for stealing nearly $16 million from Coinbase users.On Sept. 23, Ronald Spektor, 23, received a four-to-12-year sentence after pleading guilty to a 31-count indictment stemming from a fake customer-support operation that targeted about 100 people across the US, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.Prosecutors said Spektor posed as a Coinbase representative and warned users that hackers were threatening their accounts. Victims were then instructed to move their crypto to wallets presented as secure but secretly accessible to Spektor.The scheme generated about $15.944 million in losses, with…
NYSE is adding Blockchain.com as a prospective gateway to its planned round-the-clock market for tokenized US stocks.Blockchain.com and NYSE Group signed a memorandum of understanding that could give the crypto platform’s users access to US-listed shares and exchange-traded funds on NYSE’s planned digital trading venue, subject to regulatory approval, the companies said Sept. 23. The agreement also establishes a two-way market-data relationship spanning stocks and crypto.The deal gives NYSE another potential distribution channel into a crypto-native customer base before its tokenized securities market opens. Blockchain.com says it has more than 44 million confirmed accounts and already distributes tokenized US equities…
An OpenAI research agent bypassed security blocks and accessed restricted Australian government files while trying to retrieve public health statistics.On Sept. 24, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the agent entered nonpublic areas of a Services Australia Medicare statistics portal on June 18 after repeated attempts to obtain public medicine-spending data were blocked. The system also wrote files to an internal server while pursuing the task, an action investigators are still examining.The breach has prompted a federal task force and a forensic investigation aided by the Australian Signals Directorate, escalating a routine research exercise into a test of how governments respond…
The crypto industry lost $2.1 trillion in market value during the past year, yet measured on-chain economic activity declined just 1.6% as stablecoin use expanded.The global crypto economy generated about $9.4 trillion in activity during the 12 months through June 30, down from $9.5 trillion a year earlier, according to Chainalysis’s 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index published Sept. 23. That comparatively small contraction came as total crypto market capitalization fell about 50% during the period.Global Crypto Economic Activity (Source: Chainalysis)The divergence marks a shift in where activity occurs during market downturns. Value received by exchanges, decentralized-finance protocols and other crypto…
Coinbase’s new fixed-rate Bitcoin-backed USDC loans give borrowers a set repayment date, but the deadline creates a liquidation risk separate from a falling Bitcoin price. If the debt remains unpaid after maturity, a healthy collateral position can still be liquidated. Morpho announced the offer on September 22, 2026, with the rate and repayment date fixed from the outset.The loans use Morpho Midnight, the fixed-rate lending protocol beneath Coinbase’s new offer. They sit alongside Coinbase’s variable-rate loans, which have no set due date. Before a fixed-rate borrower confirms a loan, Coinbase displays an indicative rate and sets the final rate at…
A clear video can settle whether a public figure said a particular word. It cannot show who knew the script beforehand or whether the speaker chose a word to affect a bet. That gap is at the center of a Sept. 22 advisory on speech markets from staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.The CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight says contracts tied to a named person’s words, appearance or interaction carry heightened manipulation risk. Staff may view them as presumptively “readily susceptible to manipulation,” a phrase drawn from the existing duty of regulated exchanges to list contracts that are not…
BitMEX has opened withdrawal access to customers in six jurisdictions previously barred from using the exchange after ending operations this week.On Sept. 24, the crypto derivatives platform said users in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong SAR, Bermuda, Seychelles and Myanmar can now log in, complete identity verification where required and withdraw funds remaining in their accounts.Those markets had previously been classified as restricted jurisdictions, preventing customers there from accessing BitMEX trading services. The company has lifted those restrictions solely to facilitate fund recovery following its Sept. 23 shutdown.The change gives former customers who were locked out because of their…
Closing out the United States Mint’s five-release Best of the Mint series, the 1907 Saint-Gaudens High Relief $20 Gold Coin and Silver Medal Set goes on sale today at noon ET. The release recreates one of the most celebrated designs in American numismatic history. 1907 Saint Gaudens High Relief $20 Gold Coin and Silver Medal Set is the fifth and final release in the Best of the Mint Semiquincentennial series Issued for America’s 250th anniversary, the set pairs a one-ounce 24-karat gold recreation of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ famed 1907 High Relief Double Eagle, bearing a Liberty Bell 250 privy mark, with…
On September 6, 2026, Liquid’s federation released roughly 3,996 BTC after its network accepted L-BTC that lacked Bitcoin backing. Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain whose L-BTC is meant to represent bitcoin held in a federation reserve. A validly authorized withdrawal turned the invalid sidechain state into a real Bitcoin payment worth about $320 million at the time. A payout limit before federation signing might have interrupted that exit.Alpen Labs CEO Simanta Gautam now says his AI agents traced the flaw and reproduced it locally in about an hour. The work began after he heard of the September 6 attack. His…
Cosmos Hub restarted after a nearly day-long halt, moving 1.23 million ATOM linked to a governance exploit on Neutron.Validators resumed block production on Sept. 23 after stopping the network a day earlier, with the first block after the restart moving 1,227,121.37 ATOM, worth about $2.2 million, from an attacker-linked address.The intervention followed the movement of funds stolen from Neutron onto Cosmos Hub, extending the fallout from an attack that began on a separate blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem. Cosmos Hub said its network was not exploited and that the halt was intended to secure assets bridged from Neutron before they…