An $84 million US forfeiture case tied to EQIBank has left unanswered whether the seized funds touch Tether's USDT reserves, despite the company's assurances about the scale of its exposure.
Apollo's chief economist warns that AI agents like Meta's Muse could automatically chase yield, pulling cheap deposits out of banks and threatening the funding base behind consumer lending.
ARK Invest and Securitize will offer a tokenized share class of the ARK Venture Fund, giving investors blockchain-based access to private stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX under a new SEC order.
Bitget says it will reopen withdrawals after a $387 million hack, insisting user balances are untouched — a claim that will be tested by transparency and trust in the weeks ahead.
Binance's $100 million stake and expanded five-year deal with Circle boosts USDC's exchange distribution, though Tether's entrenched liquidity keeps it firmly in the lead.
Kraken's parent company is spending billions on acquisitions and bank deals to become financial infrastructure, not just a crypto exchange, ahead of a planned 2027 IPO.
Bitget's losses from a suspected North Korea-linked breach have risen to $387.5 million, as investigators trace funds spoofed past the exchange's authorization system across five blockchains.
Circle and Tether froze a Bitget hacker's stablecoin holdings within hours, but the $318,000 seized is a sliver of the $351.6 million stolen — most of it sitting in unfreezable ETH.
A $351.6 million breach of Bitget's hot and warm wallets pushes September's crypto losses past $684 million, making it the costliest month of 2026 for security incidents.
ARK Invest has tokenized its $1.3 billion ARKVX venture fund on Ethereum through Securitize, the first ARK fund ever issued onchain.
