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The exchange said its cold wallets remain safe, its protection fund exceeds $464 million and some hacker addresses have been frozen.

Circle issued about $10.1 billion of USDC and redeemed roughly $9.8 billion during the period ending Sept. 21.

Affected assets include Ether, XRP, BNB, AVAX, USDT and USDC across eight networks, while Bitget targets a full recovery without giving a timeline.

President Masoud Pezeshkian said Washington must decide whether to end the seven-month conflict as Houthi attacks on Saudi targets added pressure to energy markets.

The all-stock transaction would make North Capital a wholly owned MoonPay subsidiary and add regulated brokerage, custody and clearing capabilities.

Lee Reiber and Russian national Oleg Sergeyevich Davydov face conspiracy charges tied to Oxygen Forensics’ alleged ownership and software links to Russia.

The proposed merger with North Capital would expand MoonPay into brokerage, advisory, clearing, custody and secondary trading for private securities.

The bank set three-month and six-month targets at 158 and 155 yen per dollar, respectively, as faster Bank of Japan rate hikes and an increased possibility of Japanese domestic funds returning to Japanese assets suppo…

J.P. Morgan managing director James Sullivan warned that oil above $100 a barrel, persistent core inflation and supply-demand imbalances could revive stagflation concerns.

The privacy-focused stablecoin payment network is pursuing asset recovery and analyzing the root cause of the incident.

CEO Gracy Chen said attackers compromised wallet infrastructure and triggered the exchange’s authorization process. The specific intrusion method remains under investigation.

Brent traded at $105.65 a barrel early Friday, while West Texas Intermediate stood at $93.11 as markets weighed regional supply risks and uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz.

The Ethereum layer-2 network also recorded $1.5 billion in decentralized-exchange volume and $711 million in total value locked during the month.

The JPY DeFi protocol is designed to let users mint JPYdf against overcollateralized Bitcoin, Ether and stablecoin deposits instead of yen reserves.

The April 27 filing lists an indefinite offering amount and zero investors for the Mauritius-based venture capital fund vehicle.

Brent crude for November delivery fell 1% to $93.66 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate declined 0.68% to $105.86 a barrel Friday.

The 10-year yield reached 5.14% on Sept. 23, while the Brent crude forecast for the second half of the year rose to $95 a barrel from $83.

The exchange says its protection fund exceeds the loss, while Bitget Wallet remains unaffected and Bybit offers assistance tracking the funds.

Colossus 2 had 110,000 GB200 and 110,000 GB300 processors online as of June 5, while a later estimate projects 612,200 B300 GPUs in the first quarter of 2027.

Quant traded at $98.32 on Binance spot at 12:37 a.m. ET Friday, up from $91.53 an hour earlier.

The put-to-call ratio is 0.70, with major call open interest concentrated at $85,000, $90,000 and $100,000 strikes.

Unauthorized transfers affected parts of Bitget’s hot and warm wallets, while cold wallets remained secure and withdrawals were temporarily suspended.

BlackRock’s IBIT led daily inflows with $163 million, while total ETF assets reached $108.915 billion as of Sept. 24.

The lawsuit seeks accountability for an April bridge attack that drained about 116,500 rsETH. LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino said he will defend the claims in Vancouver.

The gap weakens the financing model these companies use to raise funds through stock issuance and increase their Bitcoin holdings.

NEAR Intents generated about 85% of NEAR’s revenue after a February fee switch, while SwapKit handled 35% of Intents volume and 61% of its fees.

TAO traded at $287 after rejecting resistance near $329, while long liquidations reached $1.7 million versus $91,600 for shorts.

Quant traded at $93.40 on Binance spot, while its market capitalization stood at about $1.31175 billion, ranking 71st.

Cold wallets and most platform assets were unaffected, while withdrawals remain suspended during a security review.

The five-day run reached $746.5 million, with no fund posting an outflow on Sept. 24.

Ben Zhou said Bybit will update its LazarusBounty platform to trace the funds and support recovery efforts.

The XPM/TIX and RLUSD/TIX pools represented 97.24% of seven-day AMM volume, but neither contained native XRP.

Bitget is repairing its systems, investigating unauthorized transfers and preparing to resume withdrawals after confirming security.

Activity totaled about $9.4 trillion in the year ended June 30, while domestic peer-to-peer transfers and cross-border stablecoin flows posted sharp gains.

The 30-year-old man was detained in Pattaya on Sept. 9 over an alleged scheme involving an OKX user account and SIM-card replacement.

Brad Garlinghouse said Ripple is seeking broader institutional use and deeper liquidity for XRP as companies build across the XRP Ledger ecosystem.

NEAR remained up 2.31% over 24 hours as short liquidations totaled $0 across major exchanges.

The self-custody wallet operates independently from Bitget’s exchange and says preventive checks found no security impact.

The test phase replaces TowerBFT with Votor and requires validators to run Agave 4.3. Mainnet activation is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 28.

Multiple teams are validating remediation measures and tracing the attack route while Bitget says its protection fund can cover related losses.