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Himanshu Sakre is the co-founder of Trend Wire Group and a research editor at BTC Newz. Himanshu chooses the crypto and Bitcoin stories worth scrutinising, gathers the primary sources behind them, and uses AI tools to structure and sharpen the reporting; every article is then cross-checked against its sources, edited and finalised by hand before publication.
Background: Editorial team member at BTC Newz; researches crypto markets, regulation and protocols, verifies each claim against its primary source, and edits AI-assisted drafts to publication. This is general information, not financial or investment advice.
Resolution BCB No. 588 adds transfers to and from self-custody wallets worth $10,000 or more to the list of activity that licensed exchanges must report to Brazil's financial intelligence unit. It takes effect on October 1.
Citi and Coinbase expanded their partnership on September 28, 2026 to let businesses accept stablecoin payments and settle in ordinary dollars. No launch date or deal terms were disclosed.
The UAE charges no personal income tax and no capital gains tax, so most people who buy and sell crypto owe nothing. Businesses are the exception. Corporate tax and VAT rules now apply, and the detail matters.
The Clearing House has chosen Quant to build a US network for moving tokenized bank deposits, days after seven UK banks ran the first live interbank tokenized deposit transfers. Here is what that means and how it differs from a stablecoin.
Quant's QNT token roughly tripled after UK Finance and The Clearing House picked the firm to run early tokenized deposit systems for banks. The deals are real, but the networks do not go live until 2027 and analysts have questioned the trading volume behind the rally.
Hester Peirce, the crypto industry's steadiest ally inside the US SEC, leaves the agency on October 2. Her exit drops the commission to two sitting members and raises questions about the digital asset rules her task force is still writing.
US spot bitcoin ETFs drew $2.4 billion in the week to September 25, their best week since October and enough to erase a $5.8 billion deficit from July. BlackRock's fund led. Daily inflows shrank as the week went on.
Restaking lets staked ETH secure extra services for more yield. EigenLayer, the biggest such protocol, held about $7 billion on 27 September 2026, down from a $20 billion peak after real penalties and a 2026 hack repriced the risk.
SEC staff said protocol staking and liquid staking receipt tokens are generally not securities, in a 25 September FAQ. The note carries no legal force, and about 1.68 million ether sits in Ethereum's staking queue.
US spot Solana funds took in $188 million in the week to September 25, their strongest run since the products launched last October. One fund, Bitwise's BSOL, pulled in more than two thirds of it. The flows are real, but small next to bitcoin and ether.
CoinMarketCap acquired derivatives data site Coinglass on September 25, 2026, putting funding rates in front of 115 million monthly visitors. A funding rate is the small payment that keeps a perpetual futures price glued to spot. Here is how it works and why traders watch it.
Bitcoin held near $84,000 on September 25 as money rotated into smaller tokens. Ninety-three of the 100 coins in the CoinDesk 100 index rose in a day, and CoinMarketCap's altcoin season index hit its highest level in three months. Bitcoin's own gains stalled as Treasury yields climbed.