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Visa Moves to Close Meme Coin Credit Card Rewards Loophole

After banks lost their push for tighter stablecoin rules in the failed Clarity Act, JP Morgan scored a narrower win as Visa moves to stop meme coin purchases from being coded as ordinary "digital media" and earning card rewards.

Crypto platform Gemini’s stock is down 80% from its IPO. That’s reviving takeover speculation

The crypto platform’s market value has fallen to about $753 million, putting fresh attention on the licenses, custody infrastructure and customer relationships a buyer could inherit.

Why Holding Anything But Bitcoin Has Been a Losing Bet for Two Years

A Glassnode and Bybit report frames the divergence as the defining feature of this cycle, with froth pooling in the market's riskiest corners even as Bitcoin does the heavy lifting.

Trump says US will form ‘AI Force’ and appoint AI czar: Reports

Trump posted on Truth Social that his new project would manage the fast-growing sector without adding regulations that could slow innovation.

Crypto traders braced for a total wipeout this week but Bitcoin had other plans

Market experts view bitcoin’s price stability as evidence of its fundamental independence from Washington, maintaining that global liquidity and adoption cycles remain the primary growth drivers.

Coinbase, Robinhood, Circle could be early winners of SEC's tokenized-stock push, analysts say

Goldman Sachs and Citizens analysts said the agency's move create new opportunities in custody, tokenization infrastructure and stablecoin settlement, while giving brokers room to expand onchain products.

Grayscale’s Zcash ETF files for 3-for-1 forward share split

At the close of trading on Sept. 28, shareholders will receive two extra shares for each one they hold.

Anthropic tabs Accenture as embedded evaluator to help with AI slowdown proposal

The partnership is non-exclusive, and Anthropic expects to announce other evaluators in forthcoming weeks with which it will also work.

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REX launches 2x leveraged ETF tied to Bitcoin treasury firm Strive

The new ASSX fund offers 2x daily exposure to Strive shares, giving traders a leveraged way to bet on the Bitcoin treasury company.

Kalshi joins Coinbase with filing for US stock perpetual futures

Kalshi’s proposal would bring perpetual futures tied to individual stocks to US traders, as Coinbase and Bitnomial pursue similar products.

California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant

How the Clarity Act's Defeat Handed the SEC and CFTC the Wheel on Crypto

The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, shifting the industry’s focus to a new wave of action from the SEC and CFTC.

Bitcoin's Sharpest Rally in Two Years Ran Almost Entirely on Short Liquidations

A Glassnode and Bybit report found Bitcoin climbed 24.6% in five August days even as active leverage fell, with short positions supplying 89% of every liquidated dollar.

Clarity Act, we hardly knew ye: We look at what was in the bill and what's replacing it

U.S. agencies are racing to substitute their regulations for the law that was meant to set crypto markets in governmental bedrock, but will the stand-ins last?

Grayscale Is Making Its Red-Hot Zcash ETF More Affordable

The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto's hottest privacy trade.

'We have lost control': Crypto pioneer warns AI could trigger systemic banking and infrastructure shocks

Marc van der Chijs sold much of his bitcoin to invest in AI. Now, growing concerns about the technology accompany a move to put some profits back into crypto.

[AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days

Imitation is the sincerest form of Flattery

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI

Note on 18th September 2026

[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day

Analyzing rising fraud attempts among travel and leisure businesses on Stripe

Last year, Stripe data shows fraud attempts against travel and leisure businesses hit a four-year high. We analyzed payment activity from more than 200,000 active travel and leisure businesses on Stripe to understand where fraud is rising, how effectively it’s being blocked, and

[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)

A dash of cold water keeps the foomers away.

SaaS platforms are surging despite the SaaSpocalypse

The SaaSpocalypse was a useful warning for the software industry, but SaaS platforms that help businesses run core operations are more deeply embedded. New platform businesses on Stripe are up 182% year over year.

Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC

We sit down with AIUC’s CEO on their Series A!

[AINews] Jev: a “System One Model” that only decides/classifies/routes/scores — >100x faster, >200x cheaper than small frontier LLMs

congrats to TypeSafe!

Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?

What Stripe data shows about fraud at AI startups

We analyzed attempted fraud rates and customer abuse patterns on Stripe over the past year and found that AI companies faced 4.3x more fraud attempts than startups overall in Q3 2025.

Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL

Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow

IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license

Join Us: EF Protocol Reddit AMA - September 16th, 2026

Every year since January 2019, teams from the Ethereum Foundation have spent an afternoon or two on r/ethereum answering questions from the community. The format hasn’t really changed: one thread, technical debates, detailed explanations, and community members asking whatever is

Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic

Recovering a Keryx paid research job

How Keryx buyers quote, journal a purchase and resume the original job without signing a second payment.

How Keryx pays cited creators

Keryx access tolls, citation rewards, exact-quote evidence checks, contribution weights and settlement limits.

EF Protocol: Current and Emerging Priorities

In May, the Protocol cluster welcomed a trio of new cluster coordinators and promised updates to follow. After months of settling in and aligning with contributors cluster-wide, across the EF and across the Ethereum ecosystem, we are now happy to share Protocol's priorities: what

EF Protocol: The Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List

This is the EF Protocol cluster’s tier list for Hegotá. We evaluated the 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, each with a tier and a short note on the grade. It is the first time the cluster has published one unified view rather than per-team opinions. Geth, of course, being...

Glamsterdam Repricing Impact for Smart Contract Developers

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Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing

Five monetization trends from global pricing leaders

As AI transforms software economics, the standard revenue playbook is breaking down. Learn how leaders around the world are preparing for agent buyers, updating processes for faster pricing iteration, and building more flexible infrastructure.

Raising machine-checked security benchmarks to advance hash-based SNARKs through agentic collaboration

better.codes, an open autoresearch challenge built by the Ethereum Foundation Formal Verification team in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity, is now live. better.codes takes a self-contained problem from the Proximity Prize research, formalized in Lean, and puts its soundnes

Why global workers are driving demand for stablecoin payouts

Platforms like DoorDash, Meta, and Deel already enable stablecoin payouts for global workers. We surveyed 2,300 workers in 20 countries to see what's driving stablecoin demand, where the opportunity is highest, and how other platforms can adapt.

Videographer's Equipment Damaged in Onstage Incident with Artist

Dario Shields pursues legal action after his camera gear was damaged by Elephant Man during a concert, raising questions about respect for event staff.

7Artisans Launches Compact AF 40mm f/2.5 for L & Z-Mounts

7Artisans expands its lens lineup with the compact AF 40mm f/2.5 for L and Z-mount cameras, offering budget-friendly options for photographers.

Bruce Gilden: Capturing Family Among Urban Strangers

Bruce Gilden’s latest exhibition, Why These?, challenges societal perceptions while reflecting his deep empathy for urban subjects.

EVOX Productions Takes Legal Action Against Midjourney Over Copyright Infringement

EVOX Productions has filed a lawsuit against Midjourney for allegedly copying thousands of its car photos without permission, raising significant copyright concerns.

Scott Bessent Declares K-Shaped Economy Over: A Closer Look

Scott Bessent's declaration of the end of the K-shaped economy contrasts sharply with prevailing economic data, raising questions about wage growth and inequality.

ISIS: The Godess, From An Esoteric Perspective

The concept of a Mother Goddess appears in many mystery cults of late antiquity, such as in Apuleius’ *The Golden Ass*. There, Isis appears as the mother of all goddesses, sis Myrionymos, she of the 10,000 names.

The Pleiades, the Seven Sisters in Taurus and Orion

Their father Atlas was condemned to carry the sky on his shoulders, leaving his daughters defenseless and allowing Orion to pursue them unhindered. It was only through the intervention of Zeus, who - out of pity for the sisters - transformed them, according to one version, first

Obfuscation (Part II): Diamond iO

Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)

The Esoteric Teachings of the Planet Isis

Isis is the co-ruler of the sign of Taurus and exalted in Libra; Pluto remains unaffected by this and is the co-ruler of the sign of Aries and exalted in Scorpio. Consequently, there is a great deal of confusion circulating regarding these two axes of rulership, leading to signif

The Teachings of the Planet Isis

Isis is the co-ruler of the sign of Taurus and exalted in Libra; Pluto remains unaffected by this and is the co-ruler of the sign of Aries and exalted in Scorpio. Consequently, there is a great deal of confusion circulating regarding these two axes of rulership, leading to signif

Dionysian Echoes in the Aegean: The Zeybeks of Anatolia and the Maenads of Pelion

Throughout the Aegean world, ancient religious traditions have often survived in unexpected forms, preserved not through formal theology but through dance, music, ritual, and collective memory

A shallow dive into formal verification

My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026

In response to the Wall Street Journal

Tl:dr Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal published an article highlighting client-driven activities, which they seem to confuse with proprietary trading. Unlike many of our competitors, Coinbase does not operate a proprietary trading business or act as a market maker. In fact

Coinbase gains regulatory approval in the Netherlands

Tl;Dr : Coinbase becomes the first major global crypto exchange to successfully register with the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank — DNB), allowing us to offer our crypto products and services to the Dutch market. By Nana Murugesan, Vice President, International and Busi

Coinbase Cloud launches platform for web3 developers

Starting today, developers have free and instant blockchain API access with Node by Coinbase Cloud TL;DR: Coinbase Cloud enables web3 developers to build their web3 applications with instant and reliable read/write blockchain access using Node. By Luv Kothari, Group Product Manag