Crypto Industry News & Market Trends

Arbitrum gets $10 ARB target from Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Arbitrum‘s ARB token with a $10 end-2030 price target, arguing that revenue from enterprise chains such as Robinhood Chain could strengthen Arbitrum’s economics as financial firms move activity onchain.　　SummaryStandard Chartered initiated ARB coverage with a $10 end-2030 target, implying roughly seventyfold upside today.The bank forecasts ARB at $0.50 in 2026, $1.50 in 2027, and $3.50 in 2028.Robinhood Chain returns 10% of net protocol revenue to Arbitrum under its expansion program license.Arbitrum Foundation said expansion-program fees represented 35% of DAO income during July after Robinhood launched.Standard Chartered forecasts tokenized assets reaching $4 trillion by 2028 and equities reaching $750 billion.　　The Block reported on Sept. 15 that Geoff Kendrick, Standard Chartereds global head of digital assets research, set interim ARB targets of $0.50 by the end of 2026, $1.50 for 2027, $3.50 for 2028 and $6.50 for 2029 before reaching $10 in 2030. ARB traded around $0.13 when the note was published, making the final forecast roughly 70 times that level.　　The $0.50 figure circulating in some summaries is therefore not ARB‘s current market price. Market data on Sept. 15 put the token close to $0.13, with a market capitalization below $1 billion. Standard Chartered’s projections are

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Bitcoin needs to reach $82,900 to outrun a looming miner margin squeeze

Bitcoins August price recovery coincided with a sharp improvement in mining revenue, but the network is preparing to reclaim part of that gain.　　Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $77,013.06 24-hour change: down 0.92% Loading price history… 24H Down 0.92% 7D Down 1.65% 30D Up 22.37%　　A mempool.space difficulty reading preserved at 20:24:22 UTC on Sept. 14 projected a 4.6976% increase at the next adjustment, with 661 blocks remaining and the retarget expected around 05:42 UTC on Sept. 19. Against the current difficulty of 127.4508 trillion, that would imply a new level near 133.44 trillion if the estimate holds.　　The immediate hurdle is simple. With Bitcoin at $79,158 in the same mempool.space reading, fees and other inputs held flat, BTC would need to reach approximately $82,877, or roughly $82,900, to offset a 4.6976% difficulty increase in dollar hashprice. That is a breakeven threshold, not a price forecast.　　The projection is not settled. Hashrate Indexs Sept. 14 mining roundup showed a 5.26% increase for the same expected Sept. 19 retarget earlier in the day. Each new block changes the pace calculation, and estimators can use different windows. The eventual protocol adjustment, rather than either projection, will determine the squeeze.　　A price-led recovery meets returning hashpower　　August shows

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Fin.com raises $20M to expand stablecoin payments

Fin.com has raised $20 million in seed funding as the New York payments startup expands infrastructure for moving stablecoins into local bank accounts and digital wallets.　　Fortune reported on Sept. 15 that the financing closed in August and was led by Expa and Uber cofounder Garrett Camp, with Coinbase Ventures, Tenet Fund, founders of Figure, Mesh founder Bam Azizi, Second Sight Ventures and investors linked to sovereign and royal family offices in the Gulf and Africa participating. Fin.com did not disclose its valuation.　　Founded by Nabeel Alamgir and Mustafa Dar, the company is building white-label payment infrastructure that lets businesses collect, convert and distribute money using a mixture of stablecoins and local banking rails. Its focus includes South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, regions the founders identified as central to the companys expansion strategy.　　Fin.com funding targets the stablecoin-to-fiat gap　　Fin.com‘s product focuses on a point in cross-border payments where blockchain settlement still depends on conventional financial systems: delivering digital dollars as spendable local currency. Alamgir described the company’s objective as solving the “last mile delivery problem,”referring to the process of moving funds from stablecoin rails into bank accounts and wallets.　　Through one API, Fin.com says businesses can accept bank transfers, international wires and

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Binance launches 11-ETF wealth product for TradFi access

Binance has launched ETF Wealth Management on Sept. 15 with an initial lineup of 11 U.S.-listed funds focused mainly on Treasury securities and investment-grade bonds.　　SummaryBinance launched ETF Wealth Management with 11 U.S.-listed ETFs focused on cash management investment strategies.Users hold actual ETF shares while Alpaca handles execution, clearing, settlement and custody through brokerage.Binance groups ETFs into three horizons covering under six months through more than one year.Nest Trading routes securities orders to Alpaca Securities while Binance says it does not custody.Binance says ETF Wealth Management is not savings and offers no fixed returns to investors.　　According to Binances Sept. 15 announcement, the service sits within its Earn section and gives eligible users a dedicated channel for traditional-finance products focused on cash management and income-oriented strategies. Orders are placed through Binance Stock Trading, while customers receive the economic benefits attached to the ETF shares they hold.　　The launch expands a stock-trading service Binance introduced in June, when it opened access to more than 7,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs for eligible customers. ETF Wealth Management narrows that larger product universe into a smaller group organized around different holding periods and fixed-income strategies.　　FT: CEE Energy Giant Orlen Lost $424 Million in Venezuela Oil Deal Involving

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CLARITY Act Odds Fall From 47% to 32% Across Senate Ladder

Clarity Act odds took a hit this week. Polymarket traders now assign a 53% probability that more than 50 senators will vote “Yes” on the first Senate final-passage vote for the CLARITY Act, down 8 points, according to the platforms “How many Senators will vote for the Clarity Act？” market. The odds of clearing 60 votes sit at 32%. Total volume is $39,633, with the market running through December 31, 2026.　　This isn‘t simply a bet on whether the bill clears the Senate. It’s a read on how big a coalition traders expect, and the gap between 53% and 32% is the story.　　How many Senators will vote for the Clarity Act？ Polymarket　　Supercharge Your Trading in 2026 With BloFin AI Trading BotsClarity Act Odds Slip: How The 60-Vote Wall Works　　The contracts language is precise: “Above” means strictly greater, so Above 50 requires 51 senators and Above 60 requires 61.　　The ladder falls off fast above the majority line. Above 55 prices at 39% and above 58 at 37%, both down more than 10 points: the steepest declines anywhere in the market. Traders aren‘t abandoning the bill; they’re trimming expectations for a broad bipartisan coalition. A simple majority and a filibuster-proof one are structurally

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Ethereum, Base wallet standards talks fail, Ethlabs researcher says

Ethereum and Base are set to implement different account abstraction standards after efforts to agree on a shared account abstraction standard broke down last week.　　Interoperability standards became secondary to each chain‘s core goals, leading both to go their separate ways and “putting the burden on wallets,” Derek Chiang, founding member and researcher at Ethlabs, as well as a co-author of Ethereum’s EIP-8141 proposal, said in a Monday X post.　　The divergence could require wallet developers to support separate transaction formats to provide a consistent experience across networks. Account abstraction allows programmable rules for authorizing transactions and paying fees.　　Ethereum is now advancing Frame Transactions under EIP-8141 as a “headliner” item under its Hegotá upgrade, which would introduce native account abstraction and create a path toward post-quantum authentication. Separately, Base is developing native account abstraction via Keystore under EIP-8130, currently live on devnet.　　The divergence also highlights different priorities between layer-1 and layer-2 blockchain networks. Chiang said L1s are increasingly focused on censorship, capture-resistance, open-source, privacy and security features, favoring different account standards, while scalability-focused L2s are more aligned with standards such as EIP-8130.　　The researcher argued that the separation wont necessarily result in a bad outcome, as both Ethereum and Base are now “free

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Zcash (ZEC) Poised to Break Top-10 Barrier, Overtaking Hyperliquid (HYPE)

After its remarkable surge propelled ZEC into the top 10 of the cryptocurrency market, Zcash is about to reach another significant milestone. By market capitalization, the privacy coin is currently almost exactly behind Hyperliquid, with only a tiny difference between the two assets.　　Can Zcash push Hype away？　　As of today, Hyperliquids market capitalization is $19.87 billion, while ZECs is roughly $19.3 billion. Less than 3% of HYPEs current valuation, or roughly $570 million, separates the two. ZEC would need to trade between $1,178 and $1,180 to surpass HYPE if its capitalization stays the same.　　ZEC/USDT Chart by TradingView　　That target is not far away. At the moment, ZEC trades for about $1,144, and its 24-hour trading volume surpasses $1.07 billion. Over the past seven days, the token has also increased by about 1.15 percent, whereas HYPE has decreased by more than 6 percent. The capitalization gap is closing quickly as a result of this combination. The chart from Zcash demonstrates how aggressive the repricing has been.　　ZEC stays up　　As recently as August, ZEC was trading at about $500 before soaring to $600, $800, and ultimately $1,000. Before beginning its current erratic consolidation, the rally peaked at $1,280. Significantly, despite numerous corrections, ZEC has managed

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Ripple News: Batch V1.1 Upgrade Needs One Validator

Following today‘s Ripple news, XRP Ledger’s Batch V1.1 amendment has secured backing from 27 of the networks 35 trusted validators, or arounf 77%. That leaves the upgrade one validator vote short of the 80% threshold XRPL requires to begin a 14-day activation countdown.　　Batch V1.1 would let users bundle as many as eight linked transactions into a single atomic transaction operation, a change relevant to anyone tracking XRPL payment activity.　　This is not simply a vote count creeping toward a number. Clearing 28 votes would only start the countdown clock, not switch the feature on. Support has to stay above 80% for the full two weeks, and validators can change their votes during that window, so the current tally is a trigger point rather than a confirmed outcome.　　Amendments XRPSCAN　　DISCOVER: Meme coin supercycle: Top performers this week　　XRPL Upgrade News: What The Validator Vote Actually Unlocks　　The mechanism functions as follows: once 80% of the 35 trusted validators back Batch V1.1, the amendment enters its 14-day majority period. If support holds, the change activates; if it drops below the threshold before the window closes, the countdown resets. The amendment has not yet gone live on the main network, though it shipped in xrpld 3.3.0 and

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NYSE-Listed Broadridge Brings Crypto Platform to U.S. Wealth Firms

Broadridge has expanded its digital asset platform into the U.S., allowing wealth firms to place cryptocurrencies and tokenized securities within systems already used for traditional investments.　　SummaryBroadridge expanded its digital asset platform to U.S. wealth firms after launching it in Canada.Anchorage Digital and Galaxy provide initial custody, wallet, liquidity and market infrastructure support for clients.DLX supports cryptocurrencies and tokenized equities, funds and private assets alongside existing traditional investment systems.Broadridge says its DLR platform processes more than $351 billion in tokenized real assets daily.U.S. broker-dealers, RIAs and wealth managers can integrate digital assets into existing books and records.　　According to Broadridges Sept. 14 announcement, U.S. broker-dealers, registered investment advisers and wealth managers can use the platform across trading, custody, servicing, governance and client reporting. Anchorage Digital and Galaxy Digital are the first named infrastructure providers supporting the U.S. rollout.　　Broadridge Financial Solutions trades on the NYSE under BR, according to its SEC filings. The company is not Nasdaq-listed, as some secondary reports described it.　　You might also like:　　NYSE advances onchain settlement for tokenized securities　　Broadridge combines crypto with existing wealth systems　　The platform is designed to let firms support cryptocurrencies and tokenized real-world assets without creating a separate books-and-records environment. Broadridge said customers can connect the service

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House crypto tax bill offers $10 fee exemption, tightens wash sale rules

The House Ways and Means Committee has released a 114-page crypto tax package that would exempt certain network fees under $10 from tax while extending wash-sale rules to digital assets ahead of a Sept. 16 committee markup.　　Bloomberg Government reported on Sept. 15 that committee Chair Jason Smith, a Missouri Republican, released the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act on Monday night after lawmakers spent months working on separate proposals covering the tax treatment of digital assets.　　The package incorporates provisions developed through earlier Republican proposals and bipartisan legislation from Reps. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., and Max Miller, R-Ohio. It covers small crypto transactions, gain and loss calculations, transfers, wash sales, mining, staking and broker requirements.　　Committee documents show H.R. 10357 is scheduled for markup at 10 a.m. ET on Wednesday. Lawmakers will consider it alongside several unrelated tax and health care measures before deciding whether to advance the legislation.　　Crypto tax bill would exempt some fees under $10　　One provision would remove tax on qualifying network and transaction fees worth less than $10, addressing small blockchain costs that can currently create tax reporting requirements.　　The exemption would not be available to every user. Anyone who completed more than 5,000 transfers during the previous year would be excluded,

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