Crypto & mining news

Headlines aggregated from 9 publishers, newest first, with mining and hardware stories tagged so they surface without wading through price chatter. Every entry links straight to the publisher — nothing is rehosted here, and the excerpt is the publisher’s own.

• 19d ago

  Minecraft, Candy Crush Among 11 Games in EU Virtual Currency Crackdown

  The guidelines exclude cryptocurrencies, leaving tokens outside a regime written for currencies bought with real money inside games.

  Decrypt

• 19d ago

  Morning Minute: Crypto Gives Up on Congress and Goes After Senators

  Plus, a major MetaMask security event has crypto natives on edge as details trickle out.

  DecryptRegulation

• 19d ago

  Citi Lifts 12-Month Bitcoin Target to $113K, Ethereum to $3K

  The bank has revised its 12-month target for BTC up from $82K, though it remains about 10% below Bitcoin's October 2025 record.

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• 19d ago

  MetaMask Exits Lido Validators Amid Infrastructure ‘Security Incident’

  The wallet says it has found no immediate threat to user wallets, but the ETH it is pulling out of Lido could take 45 days to return.

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• 19d ago

  EU Presses Binance Over ‘Reverse Solicitation’ Exemption for Users: Report

  Regulators are probing how the exchange keeps serving EU customers from Abu Dhabi, months after it lost its MiCA registrations.

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• 19d ago

  Gemini 4 Is Here, and Google’s Flagship Tops All Other AI Models on Cybersecurity

  Gemini 4 Argon tops 12 of 18 benchmarks in Google's own table, writes a million tokens per reply and resists hijacking best. Cyber defenders get it first, with the guardrails off.

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• 19d ago

  Dogecoin Is Getting Apps as DogeOS Opens Its Public Testnet

  The team behind the MyDoge wallet opened a public test of DogeOS, a layer that lets developers build lending platforms and games on top of the meme coin network.

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• 19d ago

  FBI Tells Its Employees to Assume Hackers Have Their Personal Data

  An internal memo warned FBI staff that ShinyHunters, the group claiming it hacked the bureau's jobs site, may hold their private details.

  DecryptSecurity

• 19d ago

  Coinbase-Backed Crypto Group Reveals Midterm Endorsements After Clarity Act Collapse

  The Coinbase-backed group's first Senate endorsements—Republicans Jon Husted and Ashley Hinson and Democrat Chris Pappas—come two weeks after the Clarity Act's collapse, as the industry's fight shifts to the campaign trail.

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• 19d ago

  Bitget Hacker Turns to Zcash Privacy Pool After Near Rejects $50M in Swaps

  The attacker behind the $387.5 million Bitget heist has started hiding about $3.8 million in ZEC inside Zcash's Ironwood pool, after Near Intents turned their swaps away.

  DecryptSecurity

• 19d ago

  US Government's New AI Chatbot Has a Weird Minecraft Secret

  Ask the U.S. government's new AI chatbot about Minecraft and it produces a roughly 1,800-word bureaucratic remix of the game's ending poem. It's an easter egg, not a hallucination.

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• 19d ago

  CFTC Sends White House New Rules to Cement Its Grip on Prediction Markets

  The two proposals would define event contracts as "swaps" while excluding "casino-style gambling products"—a bid to cement the agency's exclusive jurisdiction as states sue prediction-market operators over gambling claims.

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• 19d ago

  Bitcoin ETFs Extend Win Streak to 9 Days, Matching August Rally

  Bitcoin ETFs added $66 million Tuesday, matching August's nine-day run and topping it in dollars. How long will the streak stay alive?

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• 19d ago

  Introducing The Information Exchange on Solana, Powered by Decrypt and MYR

  Decrypt is the destination, Myriad is the infrastructure and MYR is the token for a connected media ecosystem.

  Decrypt

• 19d ago

  Trump Unveils 'Morally Binding' AI Accord Signed by OpenAI, Google and Nvidia

  The one-page pact, which Trump called "morally binding," asks companies to adopt internal controls, independent audits and board oversight—but carries no penalties and drew criticism for its thin detail.

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• 19d ago

  Bitcoin Jumps on Cool PCE Inflation Data as Bond Yields Hit 20-Year Highs

  The Fed's favorite inflation gauge came in cooler than expected, rate-hike odds fell and Bitcoin traders took the hint.

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• 19d ago

  Ex-NCA Officer Must Repay $2.4M for Bitcoin He Stole When It Was Worth $77K

  Paul Chowles took 50 BTC from a Silk Road 2.0 seizure in 2017. Prosecutors have now valued the theft at more than 30 times that.

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• 20d ago

  Morning Minute: Robinhood Adds Perps, Weekend Stocks, and AI Traders

  Robinhood is leaning deeper into crypto as they look to unlock their “everything app” vision.

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• 20d ago

  CFTC Investigating Adam Kinzinger Over Kalshi Bets on His Own Pardon: Report

  The former congressman says he made $823 on the trades, had no inside information, and had checked the platform's rules first.

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• 20d ago

  McDonald's AI ‘Pricing Engine’ Gauges What Customers Will Pay for a Big Mac: Report

  Machine-learning models set an 'optimal price' per item per restaurant, and have widened the gap between branches two miles apart.

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• 20d ago

  US Senator Blumenthal Calls Tether's USDT a 'Superhighway' for Iranian Sanctions Evasion

  The Connecticut Senator's subcommittee released its report on Monday and referred the findings to Treasury and the Justice Department.

  DecryptRegulation

• 20d ago

  Ethereum Gets Another Privacy Boost as Aztec Brings Back zk.money

  Aztec Labs relaunched its self-custodial zk.money wallet on Aztec Network, letting users make private stablecoin payments using readable tags.

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• 20d ago

  Cboe's New S&P Deal Opens the Door to Tokenized Options

  The renewed agreement preserves Cboe's exclusive rights to S&P 500 index options through 2051 while opening the door to pairing the flagship benchmark with blockchain infrastructure.

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• 20d ago

  Bitwise Launches First US Spot Near ETF After Token Nearly Triples Since August

  Bitwise's NRR began trading on NYSE Arca Tuesday, giving brokerage accounts NEAR exposure and staking rewards as the AI-focused token soars.

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• 20d ago

  Anthropic Lost $42 Billion Last Year. It Wants to Go Public at $2 Trillion

  The company's IPO prospectus shows revenue up twelvefold, a $518 billion spending plan, and a risk section warning that its own AI could pose existential risks to humanity.

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• 20d ago

  Someone Finally Jailbroke the PS5—Just After Sony Said Players Don’t Own Their Games

  Linear Fox founder Nathan Fargo released a public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, while Sony argues in court that players don't own their digital games.

  DecryptRegulation

• 20d ago

  OpenAI Gave AI Agents Their Own Computers at DevDay 2026. Here's Everything It Announced

  OpenAI's DevDay launched dots, always-on AI agents with their own computers, plus a cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol and a $500 speed tier. Here's every announcement, explained for people who don't speak AI.

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• 20d ago

  Crypto ETFs Surge as Bitcoin Funds Add $2.95 Billion in 30 Days

  Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to eight straight days on Monday, bouncing back from the Clarity Act sell-off in a big way.

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• 20d ago

  BBC Director-General Deems AI-Generated Doctor Who Episode 'Pretty Good'

  Matt Brittin, who joined the BBC from Google, argued that "not all creativity is bad," while noting that the technology won't replace humans.

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• 20d ago

  Is the Red September Curse Over? Bitcoin Set for Best September on Record

  Bitcoin is up 7.33% in September, edging past 2024 as the best September on record, with one day left before the monthly candle closes.

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