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Celsius' estate sued BitMEX for about $495M, alleging fraud and wrongful liquidations of 6,360 BTC in the March 2020 crash, days before BitMEX halts trading — WuBlockchain

Kraken parent Payward plans compliant onchain perps for US clients, via builder-deployed markets on Hyperliquid through its CFTC-regulated entities — Payward

Justin Sun launched a Nobel-style math prize paying up to $1M per solved and machine-verified problem, with the first $1M going to an OpenAI team — Justin Sun

Justin Sun launched a Nobel-style math prize paying up to $1M per solved and formally verified problem; the first $1M went to an OpenAI team for the Navier-Stokes problem, formalized by GPT-6 Astra — Justin Sun

Circle launched Arc, its stablecoin-native L1, on mainnet, with USDC as gas and founding validators including BlackRock, Visa, and Mastercard — Arc

Deutsche Bank launched an institutional crypto custody service for assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum, built with Bitpanda tech unit and Swiss custodian Taurus — Bloomberg

X launched a US Cashtag Partner Program, adding a Trade button that sends stock, ETF, and crypto tickers to partners like Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini — CryptoBriefing

❗️BREAKING: Republicans reject Democrats' Crypto Clarity Act counter-offer as negotiations remain deadlocked

Axis Robotics, a Physical-AI data engine, opens a community public sale on Echo from Sep 21-28, offering 1% of AXIS for $1M at a $100M FDV (proportional), with pre-registration live now — Axis Robotics

Fin​.com emerged from stealth with a $20M seed led by Expa to build white-label rails turning stablecoins into local bank and wallet payouts — Fortune

Binance is moving its commodity TradFi perpetuals from 24/7 to a 24/5 schedule at 21:00 UTC on Sep 15, dropping the daily maintenance pause; crypto and equity perps stay 24/7 — Binance

Zama opened 16 confidential vaults on Morpho, letting users earn yield while keeping balances private, and launched a Swap Protocol for private trades on Ethereum — The Block

CoinEx is shutting down after nine years, halting most services on Sep 29 over a market slump and rising compliance costs, with withdrawals open until Dec 22 — The Block

Balancer proposed winding down the protocol and returning its remaining treasury pro-rata to BAL holders who burn tokens, with a Snapshot vote set for Sep 25-29 — The Block

The Standard Reserve went live, an onchain reserve protocol built around ETH flows, with a 1B STANDARD cap and only 1,000 free Genesis Charters — Standard Reserve

Lisk burned 100M LSK after a DAO vote passed, cutting max supply from 400M to 300M as it winds down its original chain by October 31 — Lisk

S&P Global led a strategic investment lifting crypto data provider Kaiko's latest round to $110M, joined by DRW, Nasdaq, BNP Paribas and Coinbase Ventures — CryptoBriefing

The EU's Cyber Resilience Act now forces in-scope wallet makers to report actively exploited flaws within 24 hours, effective September 11 — CryptoSlate

Anthropic picked the Nasdaq for its planned October IPO, valuing the AI lab near $965B with some estimates running toward $2 trillion, days after OpenAI ruled out a 2026 listing — The Next Web

Ethena's USDe and yield-bearing sUSDe went live on TRON, bridgeable in via Stargate, with JustLend DAO and SUN.io support due in the coming weeks — Ethena