Bitget Restarts BTC Withdrawals; ETH Set for Sept. 29
Bitget's withdrawal restart is proceeding asset by asset, not exchange-wide: BTC withdrawals on the Bitcoin network opened September 28 at 08:00 UTC, ETH withdrawals across Ethereum, BSC, Arb
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Bitget Reopens Withdrawals After $388M Hack, Starting With Bitcoin
Bitget began restoring withdrawals Monday, starting with Bitcoin(BTC), after a Sept. 24 breach that the exchange says moved about $388 million in assets out of its platform. Bitcoin Withdrawa
Franklin Templeton Turns $686M Tokenized Fund Shares Into Bybit Collateral
Franklin Templeton and Bybit will let institutions use tokenized shares from a roughly $686M fund as off-exchange collateral for Tether(USDT) or USD Coin(USDC) credit while retaining yield. K
BlackRock Says Computing Power Is Headed For Futures Markets
Key points BlackRock expects standardized compute contracts to trade as exchange-traded futures, with capacity claims pledged as collateral and settled on programmable infrastructure The fore
THORChain Faces Backlash Over Stolen Bitget Funds Routed Through Swaps
THORChain is facing a fresh dispute over its handling of stolen funds after Bitget and security researchers publicly asked the network to block addresses linked to the September 24 exploit. T
Citi turns to Coinbase to help clients accept stablecoin payments
Citi and Coinbase have expanded their partnership with two new products designed to let businesses move between stablecoins and traditional dollars without building separate infrastructure, t
Bitget CEO: $388M Hack Linked to Third-Party Security Flaw
Bitget has traced the cause of a recent $388 million exploit to a weakness in a third-party security product, according to the exchange’s CEO Gracy Chen. In an interview with Cointelegraph, C
RedotPay Completes Clean Big Four Audit Ahead of Potential US Listing
Stablecoin payments company RedotPay said on September 28 that it received an unqualified, or “clean,” audit opinion from a Big Four accounting firm covering its consolidated financial statem
SEC's Crypto Mom to Exit Agency on Oct. 2
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, widely known in Bitcoin and digital-asset circles as "Crypto Mom" for her consistently pro-innovation dissents, is set to leave the agency on October 2, 2026.
Bitget Reopens Withdrawals After $388 Million Crypto Hack
Four days after suspending its withdrawals, Bitget starts allowing bitcoins to go out again. Meanwhile, the exchange had to endure a $388 million theft. No private key was broken, no cold wal
Base Hard Fork on September 30: Binance Freezes Base Transfers an Hour Before Cobalt
The Base network receives a hard fork on Tuesday, September 30, 2026, at 18:00 UTC. It is called Cobalt, and for you as a holder it means one thing above all: deposits and withdrawals over Ba
NEAR Intents Blocked $50M in Bitget Hack Flows, It Says
NEAR Intents says it intercepted more than $50 million in transaction flows tied to the Bitget hack, according to the protocol's own account of events. The claim positions NEAR's intent-based