Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said he has never been more bullish about the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act being passed after his time in Washington, DC this week.
Brayden Lindrea
Brayden Lindrea is a journalist on Cointelegraph’s APAC news team, having joined the team in 2022. He covers everything from crypto market trends and regulatory shifts to cybercrime and innovation. He is particularly interested in covering Bitcoin adoption — from the community level right through to institutions and nation-states. He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Sydney. Brayden has no crypto holdings above Cointelegraph’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
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Chinese Bitcoin treasury firm eyes selling $500M of stock for BTC Next Technology Holding, China’s largest Bitcoin treasury firm, said it may buy more Bitcoin after filing to sell up to $500 million worth of common stock to fund additional purchases.
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American Express is now offering NFT passport stamps for travelers American Express cardholders can now receive NFT passport stamps showing the countries they’ve visited as a way to commemorate their past travels.
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US lawmakers tap Saylor, Lee to advance Bitcoin reserve bill Strategy’s Michael Saylor and BitMine’s Tom Lee are among 18 industry leaders who will look at ways to pass the BITCOIN Act and enable budget-neutral ways to buy Bitcoin.
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Taproot creators didn’t foresee its ‘trolling value’ — Bitcoin dev Bitcoin Core developer Jimmy Song said the Taproot upgrade hasn’t lived up to the hype, claiming it has failed to deliver on promised privacy and security features.
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Monero pumps 7% despite an 18-block reorg prompting concerns Monero rose on Sunday despite an 18-block reorg just hours prior that reversed around 117 transactions in the latest attack by Qubic.
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Crypto exchange Bitstamp flips Robinhood’s crypto volumes in August Bitstamp recorded a 21% rise in crypto trading volume to $14.4 billion in August, flipping Robinhood for the first time since it was acquired by the firm.
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Sending Bitcoin to Mars is now theoretically possible: Researchers Bitcoin Lightning transfers could be sent to and from Mars in as fast as three minutes by leveraging an optical link from NASA or Starlink and a new interplanetary timestamping system.
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Nepalis rush to Jack Dorsey’s bitchat amid violent corruption protests Thousands of Nepalis turned to Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth mesh network messaging app in response to the government’s social media ban, which has since been lifted.
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DC attorney general sues Athena Bitcoin over alleged hidden fees The attorney general for the District of Columbia, Brian Schwalb, alleges that Athena Bitcoin charged undisclosed fees and had insufficient safeguards to stop fraud and scams.
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Asset Entities surges on merger with Strive for $1.5B Bitcoin treasury Asset Entities shares rose over 50% after-hours as its shareholders approved a merger with Strive to build a $1.5 billion Bitcoin treasury.
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South Korean crypto exchange Upbit launches Ethereum L2 South Korean crypto exchange Upbit confirmed it has launched Giwa, an Ethereum layer 2 on testnet, focused on one-second block times and optimizing user experience.
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Putin adviser claims US using stablecoins, gold to devalue its $37T debt An adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the Trump administration of using stablecoins and gold to devalue its $37 trillion in outstanding debt.
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Largest NPM attack in crypto history stole less than $50: SEAL Hackers broke into the node package manager (NPM) account of a well-known software developer and added malware to popular JavaScript libraries, targeting crypto wallets.
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Ordinals dev floats forking Bitcoin Core amid censorship concerns Bitcoin Ordinals leader Leonidas said his community would fork Bitcoin Core if developers reversed the upcoming update that allows for more Ordinals and Runes transactions.
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Kinto plunges 81% as ETH L2 set to wind down months after hack Ethereum layer-2 Kinto’s token plummeted after its team announced its blockchain would wind down on Sept. 30, months after a $1.6 million hack.
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Public companies reach 1M Bitcoin, hitting 5.1% of BTC supply Public companies’ Bitcoin holdings surpassed 1 million BTC, with Michael Saylor’s Strategy maintaining a massive lead amid a wave of entrants.
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Coinbase CEO wants AI to write 50% of his platform’s code by October Over 40% of the lines of code contributing to Coinbase’s systems are now written by AI, more than double the figure in April.
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US rises to 2nd in crypto adoption as APAC sees most growth: Chainalysis The US climbed to second in Chainalysis’ 2025 Global Adoption Index rankings, with India taking out top spot and Pakistan, Vietnam and Brazil rounding out the top five.
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Coinbase mixes crypto and tech stocks in upcoming futures index Coinbase will launch a futures product later this month that will give exposure to the top seven US tech stocks alongside Bitcoin and Ether ETFs.
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Ethereum to shut down its biggest testnet Holesky after Fusaka fork Ethereum’s largest testnet, Holešky, will be sunset in the coming weeks after two years of rigorously testing Ethereum’s most important network upgrades.
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Sonic Labs gets greenlight for its $200M TradFi move Sonic Labs has passed the proposal to make a $200 million foray into the TradFi market, with plans to create a US company and launch an exchange-traded product.
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99% favor Solana Alpenglow upgrade for 150ms finality, so far Solana’s Alpenglow protocol looks set to pass, with over 99% of cast votes in favor of the proposal that seeks to bring Solana’s transaction finality in line with Google search speeds.