Crypto Headlines 🗞

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Bessent says Clarity Act gives U.S. stronger tools to fight illicit finance. "We aim to keep America the crypto capital of the world." @headlines

🚨HUGE: BlackRock has bought $1.08 BILLION of Bitcoin over the past 20 days through its IBIT ETF. Inflows came on 7 of those 20 days, while Grayscale's GBTC net sold $254.7 MILLION in the same period, per Arkham. @headlines

🚨INSANE: A Polish state energy company paid $230 MILLION in USDT loaded onto USB sticks for Venezuelan oil that was never delivered. The deal was struck at a yacht party in Abu Dhabi with a Dubai-based trader founded just two and a half years earlier. Because of US sanctions, $230 MILLION was converted to USDT and loaded onto USB drives that were physically handed over inside hotels and restaurants in Caracas. Six tankers were sent to collect the oil and sat empty off the coast of Venezuela for months. Venezuela's state oil company says it never received a cent. Three former executives have been criminally charged, with total losses reaching $424 MILLION, per FT. @headlines

JUST IN: 50,000 signatures forced South Korea review on 2027 crypto tax. • Petition triggered mandatory parliamentary debate. • Planned 22% tax on annual gains over $1,850. @headlines

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Vivek Ramaswamy's 'Strive' buys 469 Bitcoin worth $36 million. @headlines

BREAKING: Michael Saylor's Strategy Bitcoin position unchanged at 845,050 BTC - No BTC buys / sells past 2 weeks. - Bought back $139M worth of STRC stock. @headlines

🚨SHOCKING: Mexican authorities seized 300 GPUs from a suspected illicit crypto mining operation near a hydroelectric dam. Investigators are examining whether the site was stealing electricity from the dam. It is the fourth such operation found in the same area of Puebla since early 2025. Chainalysis says cartels are increasingly using crypto mining to launder money in areas with cheap or stealable power, per Reuters. @headlines

🚨 Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calls Sunday caucus on crypto bill — Politico • Routine closed-door meeting convened ahead of major votes. • Ethics provisions remain key sticking point for Democrats. @headlines

LATEST: 🇬🇧Two crypto entrepreneurs donated a combined £72 MILLION to Reform UK, the right-wing British political party led by Nigel Farage, per BBC. Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave a record £36 MILLION. Harborne had already donated £9 MILLION in August. Delo said he wanted to give Reform a “fair fight” at the next election. Reform said the money would help hire “the brightest and best minds to work on policy and the most comprehensive plan for government ever”. The donations come as police investigate allegations that senior party figures discussed disguising donations from foreign backers. Reform denies wrongdoing. @headlines

BREAKING: U.S. House Ways and Means Committee sets Sept. 16 markup for crypto tax rules — Bloomberg. • Sets threshold for small tax-exempt sales. • Defers miner tax liabilities until BTC sale. • Extends wash-sale restrictions to crypto. @headlines

JUST IN: Bitcoin ETFs sold $463M this week. BTC fell a modest 3%. @headlines

BREAKING: 🇯🇵 Japan's Metaplanet slashes executive shares after backlash • CEO already claimed 64M shares • 105M options cut, wiping out $220M • Remaining options unlocked 2029-2031 @headlines

JUST IN: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says Bitcoin can realistically hit $400,000 by 2030. @headlines

BREAKING: Nasdaq buys $100M stake in Kraken at $21B valuation. Wall Street giants fear crypto growth! @headlines

BREAKING: Liquid sidechain hacker demands Blockstream pay a 400 Bitcoin "bug bounty" to return the missing 598.5 BTC. Hacker says the company was negligent and delusional. @headlines

Iran is turning to USDT to beat US sanctions. Nearly $10 BILLION in crypto reportedly moved through Iran last year. USDT is becoming a key tool for Iranian cross-border payments with - Iran easing FX restrictions so businesses can use crypto for cross-border payments - Iran's largest exchange handling 50%+ of crypto inflows in 2025 Meanwhile: - US authorities have already frozen nearly $500 MILLION in regime-linked crypto - Tether alone froze $344 MILLION in USDT linked to Iran's central bank @headlines

JUST IN: 🇩🇪Germany’s Finance Ministry wants a 25% TAX on crypto profits, which could start as early as 2028. The ministry expects to collect an extra €160 MILLION in 2028, rising to €350 MILLION a year by 2031. Currently, private investors can sell crypto tax-free after holding it for more than one year. Under the proposal, profits would be taxed at 25% no matter how long investors hold their crypto. Crypto profits would be treated more like stock investment gains, replacing the current system that generally taxes short-term gains at personal income tax rates. The proposal still needs approval. Final rules on whether existing holdings would keep their tax benefits remain unclear. @headlines

🚨Ethereum Targets Full Quantum-Resistant Layer 1 (L1) by 2029-Endzz ➡ Read More

⚡️UPGRADE: Ethereum commits to enable users pay gas fees with stablecoins, even without holding ETH. Under EIP-8141, an app or another wallet could pay the Ethereum gas fee for users and charge them in stablecoins instead. This means users could send stablecoins even with ZERO ETH in their wallets. Frame Transactions could also combine approvals and swaps into one transaction and allow users to upgrade their wallet security, including protection against future quantum threats, without moving funds to a new address. The feature is planned for Ethereum’s 2027 Hegotá upgrade. @headlines