https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/bitcoin/Recent content in Bitcoin on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:15:45 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-05-crypto/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:15:45 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-05-crypto/The SEC under Chair Paul Atkins has proposed a dedicated crypto custody framework for registered investment advisers and funds, formally permitting self-custody under specific conditions and recognizing state trust companies as qualified custodians. Meanwhile, Blast L2 announced its complete shutdown due to operating costs outpacing L2 revenue, locking user balances into a multi-step withdrawal process through October 26. In private DeFi and agent tooling, Galactica launched zk-shielded x402 payments on Aztec, and Robinhood flagged that the SEC&rsquo;s innovation exemption caps are too restrictive for its international stock token operations.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-04-crypto/Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:11:52 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-04-crypto/New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to overturn a Third Circuit win for Kalshi in a 332-page gambling-jurisdiction fight. Bitcoin&rsquo;s 90-day correlation with gold hit a six-year high as BTC jumped 22.4% in a week, then pulled back to $77,600. Hey Anon shipped Build 3.0, a full DeFAI rebuild with modular protocol permissions, while Base opened a builder call for tokenized stocks. Wintermute framed RWAs as crypto&rsquo;s next liquidity channel with peak inflows still 2-3 years out, and a separate piece argued stablecoins alone won&rsquo;t fix 6.36% remittance fees.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-crypto/Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:29:15 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-crypto/Bitcoin has rallied into a stacked $81,000-$86,000 supply zone, with analysts pointing to a close above $83,300 on continued ETF inflows as the trigger that could reopen the road to January&rsquo;s highs. Lending protocol Moonwell halted Base markets after an attacker drained roughly $8.7M by borrowing real cbBTC against a manipulated MAMO collateral price. Revolut, with 80M users, launched a euro-pegged stablecoin EURR on Ethereum mainnet, aiming at the same playbook PayPal used with PYUSD. LayerZero is building an institutional exchange with Citadel Securities, DTCC, and ICE, and new research shows Uniswap v3&rsquo;s many fee-tier pools are functionally one pool: the top venue captures 96.3% of capacity.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-25-crypto/Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:11:32 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-25-crypto/Bitcoin held above $77,000 after a 21% weekly gain, with XRP up 46% over the same stretch, as markets waited on new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh&rsquo;s Jackson Hole debut. Bernstein reiterated Outperform on Circle with a $140 target, arguing the company&rsquo;s growth no longer depends on the Clarity Act after USDC supply added $1.7B in a week. Circle set September 16 for the public mainnet launch of Arc, its permissioned proof-of-authority chain backed by BlackRock, DTCC, Mastercard, Visa, and nine other founding validators. Strategy sold $2B in MSTR shares without buying any bitcoin, parking the proceeds in a $1.59B &ldquo;USD Cash&rdquo; pool, while Gemini and Apex inked a deal to distribute crypto event contracts through brokerage clients.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-crypto/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:13:42 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-crypto/Bitcoin surged $14,264 in a single week to close at $77,387 — its largest-ever weekly dollar gain — while spot ETFs absorbed $1.92 billion in net inflows and the bitcoin-to-gold ratio hit its highest since May. The move came as the CFTC declared it will invoke existing statutory authority to regulate crypto regardless of whether the CLARITY Act passes, setting up a September 16 rulemaking showdown. Solana shipped a mainnet upgrade cutting slot time to 350ms, Ethereum researchers published a new timing attack on PoS attestation, and BounceBit is shutting down its L1 after losing $286.5M BB to a protocol-level exploit.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-crypto/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:23:28 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-crypto/Bitcoin broke $71,000 after spot ETFs pulled in $517 million on August 19, the largest single-day haul in months, and a separate $189 million flooded into ethereum products as the broader rally torched $2.7 billion of short positions. Ethereum added 18% on the same move. In Washington, Trump hosted a CEO-heavy Oval Office meeting to push the Clarity Act toward a September 15 procedural vote, and COIN, CRCL, and BLSH each jumped roughly 8 to 10% on the optimism. The technical beat was heavier: Tempo shipped a Touch-ID-gated authorization layer for agentic CI/CD, and an ethresear.ch post proposed a bridge-free cross-chain exchange model that would have made the 2022 bridge heists structurally impossible.