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What happens when meme culture collides with a new crypto opportunity at the earliest stage? The answer may be unfolding across the top meme coins, where established communities and emerging
Anyone holding one of the 25 tokens that KuCoin removed from trading on September 7, 2026 has until October 7, 2026 at 8:00 UTC to withdraw them from the exchange. After that the withdrawal w
Visa has unveiled a new approach to funding businesses by linking its payment settlement records with blockchain-based lending. The payments company says the move is designed to let lenders u
TLDR: Liquid Network exploit minted 4,000 unbacked LBTC via a range proof caching flaw. Attackers used SideSwap’s peg-out authorization to convert fake LBTC into real bitcoin. Blockstream pat
TLDR: Visa now runs 160+ stablecoin-linked card programs, up nearly 200% year over year. Cuy Sheffield calls stablecoin-linked cards a “hypergrowth” trend across Visa’s global network. Visa’s
The Ethereum Foundation has designated two proposals as non-negotiable for its upcoming Hegotá upgrade, signalling that censorship resistance and post-quantum account security will define the
Polkadot's DOT traded at $1.25 on September 8, 2026, up 17.90% over a rolling 24 hours while Bitcoin and Ethereum slipped, a standout move that unconfirmed reports frame as a rotation into le
Trezor has activated support for the ERC-7730 standard, enabling clear signing on its latest hardware wallets in an effort to address longstanding challenges in crypto transaction security. T
What makes a cryptocurrency move from a small community trend into a market-wide story? Price momentum, strong communities, developer activity, whale interest, and a narrative that keeps peop
Engineering Talent Moves In-House @Sei_Labs has acquired @bilinearlabs, bringing the firm's Rust-based engineering talent and data analytics capabilities directly into the $SEI ecosystem. The
Record spot volume puts Monad among the top DEX chains @monad has cleared $513M in 24-hour spot DEX volume, a new record for the high-performance Layer 1 chain. According to DefiLlama data, t
@LayerZero_Core has secured both SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 accreditations covering its entire infrastructure, the project announced on September 8. The audits were conducted under the American
