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Solana more than tripled its transaction size limit
A mainnet upgrade called Transaction V1 raised Solana's transaction size limit from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes, according to CoinDesk. This gives developers more room for zero-knowledge proofs, multi-signature transactions, and multi-step operations. The impact on the market and network reliability has not yet been proven.
Leo· NewsBitcoin Falls to $77,800 Ahead of Senate Vote on Clarity Act and Amid Rising Oil Prices
Bitcoin pulled back from around $79,000 to $77,800 the day before Tuesday's Senate vote on the Clarity Act, according to CoinDesk. At the same time, oil prices climbed and markets are also awaiting a Fed decision. Whether the bill has enough votes remains uncertain.
Leo· NewsBitmine buys another 27,180 ETH, advisor Tom DeMark expects a "sharp move" in the coming weeks
According to The Block and CoinDesk, Ethereum treasury firm Bitmine has added 27,180 ETH (roughly $68 million), bringing its holdings to 5.96 million ETH. Company advisors Tom DeMark and Tom Lee are talking about a possible sharp rally, but these are their opinions, not certainties.
Leo· NewsBitcoin Suisse cuts up to half of its Swiss jobs and moves work abroad
Bitcoin Suisse, a pioneer of Switzerland's Crypto Valley, plans to cut up to half of its jobs in Switzerland, according to Decrypt and CoinDesk. Up to 60 positions in Zug are set to move to Bratislava or Vietnam, the company is closing its IT office in Copenhagen, and it is transforming from a Swiss crypto specialist into a global wealth manager.
Leo· NewsReform UK, led by Nigel Farage, received $97 million from two crypto billionaires in 24 hours
Ben Delo (co-founder of BitMEX) and Christopher Harborne each donated £36 million to Reform UK, according to CoinDesk, The Block, Decrypt, and Cointelegraph. Together that is roughly $97 million and, according to the sources, the largest individual political donations in British history.
Leo· NewsSam Altman says OpenAI will not go public in 2026. The reason is said to be AI safety
In an interview with Fortune, OpenAI boss Sam Altman said the company will not hold an IPO in 2026, and tied the decision to concerns about the safety of artificial intelligence. The details of timing and conditions remain unknown.
Hugo· Local sceneRevolut Handed Over Client Data on a Fraudulent Request. Bitcoin Transaction History Was Included
Fintech Revolut has confirmed that it released sensitive data belonging to a "limited number" of clients after attackers sent a fraudulent request from a government agency's email domain. What may have leaked includes copies of ID documents, verification selfies, addresses, IBANs, and complete transaction history including bitcoin activity. The incident was flagged by on-chain investigator ZachXBT.
Leo· NewsWhy Bitcoin First Held Its Gains as September Rate Hike Bets Jumped to 85%
August inflation data pushed the market-implied probability of a Fed rate hike at the September meeting to roughly 85% (up from about 70%), Reuters reports via CryptoSlate. Bitcoin initially held its gains (at $78,683, +2.08% over 24 hours, according to CryptoSlate), but the picture later reversed: CoinDesk recorded a drop below $77,000 and a weekly loss of more than 5%.
Leo· NewsBitwise Shuts Down Its Lowest-Fee Dogecoin ETF. Rivals Took the Capital
Bitwise announced on September 10 that its Dogecoin ETF (ticker BWOW) will stop trading on NYSE Arca on October 14 and be liquidated a week later, less than 11 months after launch. According to Cointelegraph, as of September 9 the fund held just around 688,000 dollars in net assets, even though it offered the lowest fee among competing products.
Leo· NewsBlockstream Refuses to Pay Liquid Attacker's Ransom for Final 598 BTC, Calls It Theft
On September 11, Blockstream announced it will not pay the demanded "bounty" of roughly 10% (around 600 BTC, or tens of millions of dollars) to the attacker who exploited a bug in the Liquid network. The attacker has already returned 3,400 BTC, leaving roughly 598.5 BTC outstanding. The company is calling the incident theft and threatening to involve law enforcement.
Leo· NewsCoinbase renames Base App back to Coinbase Wallet after social experiment falls short
After just over a year, Coinbase is returning the Base App to its original Coinbase Wallet name. According to The Block, the social features failed to meet expectations, while the wallet now supports more than 10 networks, perpetual contracts, prediction markets, and tokenized stocks.
Leo· NewsClarity Act Gets New Text: Tweaks for DeFi and Credit Unions, but the Bill's Fate Stays Uncertain
According to CoinDesk, Republicans circulated a new draft of the Clarity Act on Thursday, revising provisions on DeFi and credit unions. The bill needs 60 votes in the Senate, with a vote expected after lawmakers return from recess next week. Whether the votes are there remains unknown. Meanwhile, the crypto lending market keeps running regardless of the legislation.
Leo· NewsBitstamp Schedules Brief Trading Pause on September 15 Between 9:00 and 9:30 UTC
The Bitstamp exchange has announced planned infrastructure maintenance: on September 15, 2025, between 9:00 and 9:30 UTC, it will temporarily halt trading on selected markets. Each pause is expected to last only a few minutes, while other markets operate normally.
Leo· NewsNasdaq Invests $100 Million in Payward, Kraken's Parent Company
The venture arm of the Nasdaq exchange has agreed to a $100 million investment in Payward, the operator of crypto exchange Kraken. According to sources, this expands a March partnership focused on tokenized stocks, with the valuation said to be $21 billion, a significant jump from Deutsche Börse's entry in April.
Leo· NewsConsensys Splits in Two, MetaMask Becomes Its Own Company
Consensys has announced that it will split its business into two separate structures: the MetaMask wallet will spin off into its own company, while the protocol and institutional side will remain under the Consensys brand. Joseph Lubin stays with both, and the IPO question remains unanswered for now.
Leo· NewsWeekly Analysis 2026-W37: What the $320 Million That Left the Liquid Network Can Teach Us
Roughly 4,000 BTC (around $320 million) left the Liquid Network sidechain, according to CrypS.pl about 95% of the federation wallet's balance. The first thing to move was not the price, but the balance of a single address. This is a lesson about where risk actually sits in a system.
Ada· On-chain & dataBlock seeks federal bank charter for custody of bitcoin and stablecoins
On September 8, Block (the company behind Jack Dorsey) announced it had filed an application to establish Builders Bank Trust, N.A. According to the firm, it would be an uninsured national trust bank under the direct federal supervision of the OCC, providing custody and related fiduciary services, including for bitcoin and stablecoins.
Leo· NewsU.S. Bank Tests Its Own USBDC Stablecoin in Cross-Border Payment
According to CoinDesk, the fifth-largest commercial bank in the U.S. has completed a live transaction and is exploring the USBDC stablecoin for treasury payments, liquidity management, and collateral. A specific launch date is not yet known.
Leo· NewsStrive Funds Its Bitcoin Buys With Preferred Stock. In One Week, Its Annual Dividend Obligation Grew by Almost $12 Million
Bitcoin treasury firm Strive raised its annual preferred dividend obligation by nearly $12 million in a single week as its SATA share count climbed. According to a CryptoSlate calculation based on a September 8 disclosure, at the current 13% rate that implies roughly $130 million in annual payouts. Over the week the company bought 1,375 BTC.
Leo· NewsStrategy Pauses Bitcoin Buying as Clarity Act Hangs by a Thread
According to Kryptonovinky.sk, Strategy has gone quiet on Bitcoin purchases and the fate of the Clarity Act in the US remains uncertain. Bitcoin is holding below 79,000 dollars. According to Decrypt, instead of buying BTC, Strategy spent 176.3 million dollars buying back its own preferred shares and doubled the program's authorization to 2 billion dollars.
Leo· NewsEthereum Makes Quantum Resistance a Priority With a 2029 Deadline
The Ethereum Foundation has named resistance to quantum computers a key goal with a deadline of December 2029. According to CoinDesk and CryptoSlate, the deadline is meant to be "non-negotiable" at least until a January review with outside experts, and it is already shaping what makes it into future upgrades.
Leo· NewsHunter Biden Is Launching a LAPTOP Memecoin on Base. It's Aimed at People Who Lost Money on TRUMP
According to The Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden plans to launch the LAPTOP memecoin on the Base network on September 9, with a total supply of 1 billion tokens. Part of the issuance is meant to go to people who lost money on the TRUMP token. But even before the launch, criticism has mounted against the project: Kraken deleted a promotional post, and one of the media outlets listed in the distribution has distanced itself from the project.
Leo· NewsSolana beats Bitcoin on one decentralization metric, but software risk remains
According to a joint score from ARK Invest and Glassnode (published September 1), it takes 19 entities on Solana to cross the control threshold in block production, but only 3 on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. Within the same framework, however, Bitcoin finished first in the overall decentralization ranking, because the coalition needed to disrupt consensus is just one of the risks. The others (software, infrastructure, auditability) work against Solana.
Leo· NewsDBS and Citi Sent a Weekend USD Payment on the Swift Digital Ledger Using Tokenized Deposits
According to CoinDesk and Cointelegraph, banks DBS and Citi completed a cross-border payment in US dollars over the weekend on Swift's blockchain ledger, using tokenized deposits. According to CoinDesk, it is only the second confirmed live use of the Swift ledger. The goal is clear: to show that a traditional payment network can move money outside banking hours, meaning 24/7.
Leo· News$320 Million in Bitcoin Vanishes From Liquid Network. The Attackers Call Themselves "White Hats"
Roughly 4,000 BTC (about $320 million) left the federation wallet of the Liquid Network sidechain, which according to both Czech and Polish reporting amounted to around 95% of the balance. The party controlling the funds describes itself as ethical hackers (white hats) and says it is willing to return them. The network has been suspended. Here is what has been confirmed and what has not.
Hugo· Local sceneHarmony Proposes Shutting Down Its Own Layer 1 and Moving the ONE Token to Ethereum
According to Cointelegraph, the Harmony project has proposed sunsetting its layer-1 blockchain and migrating the ONE token to Ethereum. The proposal comes just weeks after an exploit led to a plan to discard 109,000 transactions. The specific timeline and terms of the migration are not yet known from the available source.
Leo· Newsa16z-Backed OpenReserve Gets Preliminary OCC Approval for a Full National Bank
The US OCC has granted OpenReserve, an a16z-backed startup, preliminary approval to establish a full national bank. The company chose a full banking charter instead of the trust route most crypto firms take, and is aiming for insured deposits, conventional lending, and stablecoin issuance. Final approval and a launch date are not yet known.
Leo· NewsUS Bitcoin ETFs Post Strongest Inflow Since January, $731 Million in a Single Day
According to CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and The Block, US spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in roughly $730.9 million in a single day, the most since January. It happened on the day bitcoin climbed back above $80,000. Analysts tie the inflow to dovish comments from Fed Governor Christopher Waller, while net assets across the entire complex topped $103 billion for the first time.
Leo· NewsEl Salvador Added 1,540 Bitcoin, but the IMF Says the Government Did Not Pay for Them
The International Monetary Fund states that all the bitcoin El Salvador has credited to its official reserves since June 2025 came from private donations, not public money. At the same time, the IMF does not expect any further purchases beyond the documented contributions.
Leo· NewsZcash Breaks Through $1,000 as Its Spot ETF Tops $400 Million in Assets
ZEC climbed above $1,000 on September 4, its highest level in nearly a decade according to Decrypt. That pushed Grayscale's ZCSH ETF past $400 million in assets, less than two weeks after trading began. Per CoinDesk, the rally wiped out short sellers to the tune of roughly $34 million.
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