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US prosecutors have filed a civil forfeiture case seeking roughly US$61 million in crypto allegedly linked to sanctioned Iranian oil sales. Prosecutors allege Chinese firms and crypto wallets helped move and launder more than US$1.5 billion in illicit Iranian oil proceeds. The funds allegedly flowed to Iran and IRGC-linked entities through a network designed to obscure their origin and ownership. The case remains at the allegation stage, with a court ultimately deciding whether the US government can keep the funds. Prosecutors in New York have launched a civil forfeiture case involving roughly US$61 million (AU$85.6 million) in cryptocurrency, alleging the…

When a stablecoin holder receives spendable bank dollars before the issuer redeems the token, a buyer or conversion provider has funded the early exit. If that party keeps the token, it must wait until resale or redemption to get its cash back.The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s proposed redemption framework could give an issuer time to sell reserves in an orderly way while allowing secondary-market trading to continue.A Sept. 4 Federal Reserve staff analysis clarifies the issue by separating round-the-clock blockchain payment functionality from conversion into bank dollars. Its authors describe redemption timeframes as unsettled.The practical question for…

Bitmine Immersion Technologies acquired 27,180 ETH over the past week, lifting its Ethereum treasury to 5,956,378 tokens, about 4.9% of the coin’s supply, Chairman Tom Lee said on 14 September. The company projects annualised staking revenue of about US$334 million (AU$467.6 million), with 5.1 million ETH, or 85% of its holdings, currently staked at a 2.62% yield. Total crypto, cash and other holdings reached US$15.8 billion (AU$22.12 billion), keeping Bitmine the largest corporate Ether holder as it nears its goal of owning 5% of all ETH. Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought another 27,180 ETH over the past week and now holds…

Strategy’s latest $139.3 million repurchase of STRC variable-rate preferred shares has brought its spending on buybacks to about $950.8 million since July 20, more than twice what it spent acquiring Bitcoin over the same period.The company’s Sept. 14 filing disclosed purchases of 1,420,467 STRC shares between Sept. 8 and Sept. 13, funded entirely from its USD Cash balance. Strategy neither bought nor sold Bitcoin and sold no shares through its at-the-market program during that reporting period.Across eight reporting periods spanning July 20 to Sept. 13, Strategy repurchased approximately 9.96 million STRC shares. Its reported Bitcoin purchases were confined to Aug.…

Strive purchased 469 Bitcoin between 8 September and 11 September at an average of about US$77,954 each, lifting its treasury to 25,000 BTC, chief executive Matt Cole said on 14 September. Cole said the US$36.6 million purchase was funded entirely through sales of SATA, the company’s perpetual preferred stock, which now has more than US$1 billion in notional value outstanding. Strive’s amplification ratio, a measure of the preferred stock and debt it carries against its Bitcoin, rose to 53.5%. Strive crossed 25,000 Bitcoin last week after buying 469 coins between 8 September and 11 September, funding the purchase entirely through…

Ethereum and Coinbase-backed layer-2 network Base have abandoned an effort to agree on how the next generation of crypto wallets should work.On Sept. 14, Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang said collaboration between developers working on Ethereum’s EIP-8141 Frame Transactions and Base’s EIP-8130 broke down last week after attempts to produce a shared account-abstraction standard failed to reconcile the chains’ different requirements.The split leaves Ethereum advancing Frames while Base pursues a separate design for native account abstraction, potentially forcing wallets to accommodate different transaction architectures across networks that have historically shared much of the same account and transaction experience.Both proposals seek to make…

In a Sept. 8-11 Lido discussion, Commit-Boost contributor Jason Vranek argued that builders funding protocol-backed payments face costs from idle Ethereum, failed delivery, and offers they wanted to cancel.Those costs could make trusted connections more competitive. Meanwhile, Titan Builder said it expects validators to continue reaching it through relays that organize auctions and handle publication.An operator’s configuration helps determine which block-payment opportunities its validators can consider. For builders, the same settings help determine access to those validators.As of Sept. 13, Ethereum.org lists Glamsterdam as testing on devnets, with mainnet expected in the fourth quarter of 2026 and no confirmed date.…

Aave’s USDT0 stablecoin lending pool on the Monad network displayed a 6.10% annual percentage rate over the weekend, but only about $4.4 million of its $55.9 million supplied balance was unborrowed. For a lender weighing a large withdrawal, that smaller number mattered more than the headline yield.Aavescan snapshot showed $51.5 million borrowed from the reserve. It followed a Sept. 11 analysis in which Aave service provider TokenLogic documented an earlier sharp retreat in USDT0 deposits. Together, the figures show how an attractive lending rate can coexist with limited room for a cash exit.That is a consequence of how lending pools work.…

The United States Mint today shipped 250,000 special-issue 1776 ~ 2026 Enduring Liberty half dollars to Federal Reserve Banks for random release into circulation across the country. Illustration of a special issue West Point 1776 ~ 2026 Enduring Liberty half dollar with an enlarged view of the ALWAYS REMEMBER 9 11 01 privy mark Each coin features a special obverse privy showing 9-11-01 encircled by the words ALWAYS REMEMBER, honoring those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the Feb. 26, 1993, bombing of the World Trade Center. Struck at the West Point Mint, the coins also carry…

A proposed XRP Ledger (XRPL) upgrade could let banks and fintechs absorb XRP costs so customers never need to hold the token.The Sponsor amendment, based on the XLS-68 Sponsored Fees and Reserves proposal, would let a company pay account reserves and transaction fees for another XRPL user while that customer retains control of their account and private keys.For financial institutions, the change would remove one of the frictions involved in deploying products on the network: requiring every customer to acquire and manage XRP before interacting with tokenized assets, payments or other applications.Jazzi Cooper, Ripple’s head of product, said the feature…