Crypto Industry News & Market Trends

FBI has quietly run an invite-only crypto crime forum for nine years, attendee says

An invite-only crypto crime forum has been held by the FBI for the past nine years, said a repeat attendee.　　Now the Virtual Asset Technical Exchange brings police, overseas investigators, and crypto-security firms into one room.　　About 50 private-sector vendors get a seat at San Antonio　　The Forum was known as the Virtual Currency Symposium, three former attendees said. This years iteration took place in September in San Antonio, Texas.　　Discover more　　Bitcoin investment guide　　Crypto wallet review　　Enterprise blockchain solutions　　Two of the people said the invitations confine the number of private-sector vendors and partners to about 50, with total attendance in the hundreds. One attendee called it a law enforcement event built for police and their partners.　　Networking runs alongside the keynotes, panels, and fireside chats. Companies exhibit their platforms in dedicated rooms.　　Token Recovery executive Roman Bieda posted on LinkedIn that the 2024 edition met in Austin, his third time to visit.　　Bieda said NFTs had faded from the agenda, while Tornado Cash and a comeback of pig butchering scams were discussed.　　TRM Labs confirms it attended, as Chainalysis declines comment　　This year, reportedly, blockchain forensics firms Chainalysis and TRM Labs were in attendance. TRM Labs confirmed its attendance. The FBI and Chainalysis declined to comment.　　The company confirmed that Predicate

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Meta's Muse AI Agent Read a User's Private iMessages. Then It Lied About How

In briefMetas Muse AI agent told columnist Jason Aten it only saw notification previews from his Mac, but had actually synced more than 187,000 rows of his private iMessages despite him declining that access.Meta Superintelligence Labs‘ David Singleton called Muse’s explanation “on us,” a fabricated account of its own feature, and separately confirmed a different hallucination sent another users Muse agent probing their Gmail.Amazon has blocked Muse from shopping on its site over undisclosed agent activity and credential capture, as Muse passes 2.5 million downloads since its September 8 launch.　　Meta‘s new personal AI agent, Muse, read a tech columnist’s private iMessages without his permission, then gave him a false explanation for how it knew what was inside them.　　Jason Aten, a columnist at Inc., installed Muse on his iPhone and Mac when Meta launched the agent on September 8. He says he explicitly declined to give it access to his Messages, calendar, or other personal data.　　Myriad: Which company IPOs next？ Click to make your prediction.　　Days later, Muse pushed him a notification suggesting he write a column about a conversation hed just had with his podcast co-host about the new iPhones. It even surfaced a message from his editor about a looming

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Solana DEX Trades Top NYSE With 208M Weekly Transactions

Key TakeawaysSolana DEXs processed 208M weekly trades, topping the NYSEs 190M for the first time.Jupiter drove the surge, showing onchain markets are reaching Wall Street-scale activity counts.Traders will watch if Solana can sustain growth as SOL regains key long-term levels.　　Solana Narrows Nasdaq Gap as Weekly DEX Trades Hit 208M　　Solana just crossed a line that would have sounded improbable a few years ago.　　Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) on the network processed roughly 208 million spot trades in the week ending Sept. 13, according to data cited by The Kobeissi Letter. That topped the 190 million trades recorded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) over the same period.　　The gap with Nasdaq also narrowed to about 47 million trades, the smallest on record.　　The comparison needs context. A Solana DEX swap is not economically equivalent to an equity trade on the NYSE. Trade sizes, market structure and underlying assets differ sharply. Still, the raw activity is difficult to ignore.　　Source: Kobeissi LetterJupiter Drives Solanas Trading Surge　　Much of the acceleration has come through Jupiter, Solanas largest trading aggregator.　　Discover more　　Brokerages & Day Trading　　Digital payment systems　　Crypto market updates　　Jupiter has processed more than 80 million trades this month, according to the data, representing a 38% month-over-month increase. More broadly, weekly

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BlackRock expects exchange-traded compute futures as it pitches stablecoins for AI agents

In its new research paper, BlackRock expects standardized compute products, like exchange-traded compute futures, to emerge as AI adoption expands.　　“The Machine-Native Economy” also touts stablecoins as the payment rail for autonomous AI agents.　　Hyperscaler cloud revenue could reach $1.1 trillion by 2030　　The paper casts compute, the processing power that trains and runs AI, as a resource that might follow the trajectory of large commodity markets. Those markets built trading infrastructure to improve liquidity and risk management, BlackRock wrote.　　“We expect standardized products, including exchange-traded compute futures, to support more transparent price discovery and more effective hedging for both providers and consumers of compute capacity,” BlackRocks paper says.　　The business said that claims on compute capacity could be shown, moved, pledged as collateral, and settled on the blockchain. They also said this might bring more institutional investors into the market.　　The productivity of different generations of chips varies, the cost of energy varies by region, and there arent workable standards yet for cash settlement or for delivering the contracted capacity.　　These are what BlackRock calls “important but ultimately resolvable design considerations.”　　Sell-side analysts think that AWS, Microsofts Intelligent Cloud, and Google Cloud will bring in about $1.1 trillion in combined revenue by 2030. In the years after

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U.S. Treasury Sets $6B Long-Bond Buyback as Yields Test Multi-Year Highs

TLDR:U.S. Treasury will buy back up to $6B of 20- to 30-year bonds on Sept. 24, with settlement Sept. 25.The 30-year Treasury yield reached 5.38%, nearing 5.40%, its highest level since 2007 earlier this month.The 10-year yield climbed above 5.12% as stronger U.S. business activity supported higher-rate expectations.Bitcoin fell below $84,000 from above $87,000 as rising long-term Treasury yields pressured risk assets.　　The U.S. Treasury will buy back up to $6 billion of longer-dated government debt on Thursday, September 24, as borrowing costs remain elevated. The operation will target nominal securities in the 20- to 30-year maturity range, covering bonds maturing from September 2046 through September 2056. Bidding is scheduled between 1:40 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. ET, with settlement expected on September 25. Purchased securities will be retired after settlement.　　U.S. Treasury Sets $6B Buyback as Long-Term Yields Surge　　The $6 billion ceiling marks a sharp increase from the $2 billion maximum initially planned for long-end operations earlier this quarter. In August, Treasury said buybacks covering 10- to 30-year securities would rise to at least $4 billion through November 4.　　Officials linked the larger operations to strong participation and efforts to improve liquidity in older, less-traded securities. The latest purchase comes as long-term Treasury

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US Lawmakers from Gaming States Urge SCOTUS to Take up Kalshi Case

A group of US state lawmakers has filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court, urging justices to weigh in on a case between prediction markets platform Kalshi and gaming authorities.　　On Tuesday, the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States (NCLGS) filed in the US Supreme Court, supporting New Jersey‘s Attorney General and gaming authorities’ petition for a writ of certiorari. The petition, filed on Sept. 2, asked the nation‘s highest court to consider New Jersey’s case against Kalshi, potentially resolving whether state authorities or federal agencies have jurisdiction over prediction market companies.　　In its amicus curiae filing supporting New Jersey‘s position, the NCLGS argued that a ruling favoring Kalshi would “[render] states powerless” to regulate sports betting on prediction markets, causing “substantial harm and confusion.” According to the group, “gaming-related matters” should be left to individual US state authorities, though the filing did not address the competing argument that event contracts traded on federally regulated markets fall under the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction.　　“If Kalshi‘s self-described ’sports betting activities are deemed beyond state regulation, then casinos, pari-mutuel operators, and other heavily regulated entities are certain to amend their business and products to seek the same status,” said state lawmakers. “Entire state

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PLTR Price Prediction: Staring Down the Upper Band — Can Palantir Break $190 or Is a Shakeout Coming？

Terrill Dicki　　Sep 22, 2026 13:19　　Palantir is pressing against Bollinger upper-band resistance at $183.73 with near-zero MACD conviction and a Stochastic deep in overbought territory — a short-term pullback toward $174–$178 is the …　　Palantirs AI Revenue Machine Meets a Technically Exhausted Chart　　Palantir came into September 22 trading at $183.73, up nearly 2.84% on the session, with the day‘s range pinned between $176.90 and $184.67. That’s a tight, purposeful range — and it tells you exactly where the tension is. At the current price, PLTR is sitting within $1.22 of its Bollinger upper band at $184.95, with a %B of 0.94. Thats not a bullish runway — thats a ceiling.　　The fundamental backdrop is genuinely exceptional. Q2 2026 revenue exploded 92.8% year-over-year and Q1 2026 U.S. revenue doubled at 104% YoY. Palantir‘s Rule of 40 score hit 145% in Q1 — a number that puts it in the same conversation as Nvidia on a pure AI infrastructure growth basis. The company raised full-year 2026 revenue guidance to $7.65–$7.66 billion, implying 71% growth. Net income on a trailing basis clocks in at $3.02 billion against revenue of $6.16 billion, producing a profit margin of 49%. These aren’t the numbers of a speculative tech story

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Vitalik Buterin Endorses Trueo as Prediction Market Moves to Ethereum

Trueo says the shift is about Ethereums integrations and philosophy, not dissatisfaction with Base or its place among competing networks.　　Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has welcomed Trueos planned migration from Base to Ethereum mainnet, describing it as a new prediction-market contender focused on decentralization and ethical design.　　The move puts Trueos dispute-resolution system and plans for wider DeFi integration at the center of its pitch as prediction markets face legal scrutiny and competition.　　Trueo Says Ethereum Fits Its Long-Term Plans　　In a post on X, Buterin praised the project for being “dedicated to decentralization, and being ethical and not corposlop,” adding that he was glad to see a team trying to do “interesting and meaningful things” with prediction markets.　　Trueo announced the move on September 21, explaining that it first launched on Base in March 2025. The team described the Layer 2 network as a useful environment for early experimentation, when the Ethereum mainnet gas costs were higher and parts of the application were still experimental.　　But Trueo now wants to build a platform that is “widely adopted, broadly integrated, fully permissionless, mostly immutable, and highly credible.” It believes Ethereum is a better fit for that goal because of its network effects and global integrations, as

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Coinbase plans post-quantum Bitcoin custody for any scheme

Coinbase has begun designing a post-quantum custody system intended to protect about $250 billion in institutional assets while supporting any new signature scheme adopted by Bitcoin or another blockchain.　　Coinbase prepares custody for several signature schemes　　MARA Foundation TV hosted Coinbase Chief Cryptographer Yehuda Lindell, who said the exchange wants its custody platform to remain usable regardless of which post-quantum signature schemes blockchains eventually select.　　Bitcoin has not chosen a signature scheme for practical post-quantum use, leaving custodians without a single technical standard around which to rebuild their systems. Lindell said different blockchain communities may also reach different decisions instead of adopting one common scheme.　　Coinbase is therefore preparing for several possible outcomes rather than building its system around one candidate. Lindell said the company wants to avoid a situation in which a blockchain approves a signature scheme that its custody infrastructure cannot handle.　　The work carries added weight because Coinbase holds about $250 billion in assets for institutional customers, according to the figure Lindell gave during the program. Its clients include BlackRock, which uses Coinbase Custody for digital assets connected to its investment products.　　An August U.S. custody review placed Coinbases institutional assets at approximately $376 billion and said the company safeguards more than 80%

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Boeing (BA) Stock: Gains as Turkish Airlines Orders 150 MAX Jets

TLDRBoeing stock gains 0.91% as Turkish Airlines places a major 737 MAX order.Turkish Airlines buys 100 737-8 jets and secures options for 50 more MAX jets.The deal becomes Turkish Airlines largest Boeing single-aisle aircraft order.The agreement includes rights to switch future deliveries to Boeings 737-10.The MAX order follows Turkish Airlines 2025 deal for up to 75 Dreamliners.　　Boeing shares gained Wednesday after Turkish Airlines finalized a major order for up to 150 737 MAX aircraft. BA traded at $199.52, up 0.91%, after briefly climbing above $201 during the session. The agreement strengthens Boeing‘s commercial backlog while supporting Turkish Airlines’ long-term fleet expansion.　　The Boeing Company, BA　　Turkish Airlines Places Major 737 MAX Order　　Turkish Airlines purchased 100 Boeing 737-8 aircraft and secured options for another 50 MAX jets. The agreement represents the carriers largest single-aisle aircraft order from Boeing. Turkish Airlines completed the deal after discussions between both companies started during 2025.　　Discover more　　News　　financial　　Currencies & Foreign Exchange　　The agreement also gives Turkish Airlines substitution rights for Boeing‘s larger 737-10 model. Therefore, the carrier can adjust future deliveries as passenger demand and route requirements change. Boeing designed the 737-10 to carry more passengers while maintaining the MAX family’s operating characteristics.　　Turkish Airlines plans to use the new aircraft

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