Cardano Price Prediction for 2026: Pump.fun Price Slips as Pepeto Takes the Spotlight With 100x Launch Talk, Crypto ETFs Post Their Biggest Day of the Year

This is a press release sponsored content. BlockchainReporter did not write, edit, or verify this content.  Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $998.95 million on September 21, their largest single day of 2026, per SoSoValue data reported by investingLive. Money has come back in force, and Pepeto has seen the same steady stream, with its raise now past $11 million.  Buyers are rushing to get in early, and the pace keeps building as the presale moves stage by stage. While the Cardano price prediction crowd debates whether ADA can hold its 21% weekly jump, Pepeto holders are watching the price climb with every stage that closes.  Over 43,000 holders have joined so far, analysts count Pepeto among the coins that could return 100x, and staking rewards let early holders grow their stack before launch.  Crypto ETFs log their biggest inflow day of 2026  BlackRock‘s IBIT led the September 21 session with $381.4 million, ARK 21Shares’ ARKB followed with $289.1 million, then Fidelitys FBTC added $238.8 million, a rush that turned 2026 Bitcoin ETF totals positive for the first time since April.  About $4.6 billion has poured into the funds since August 19, when the US Treasury said it would buy back more long dated bonds, per Bloomberg,

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Polymarket partners with OpenWorlds on AI trading agents

Polymarket has partnered with OpenWorlds to bring autonomous AI agents to prediction markets covering politics, sports, and thousands of other events.  SummaryOpenWorlds says its agents can search for markets, evaluate events, and place trades.The company is developing the service for consumers and retail traders.Polymarkets international platform and regulated U.S. operation have different access rules.A New York lawsuit has challenged Polymarkets sports contracts under state gambling law.  According to OpenWorlds announcement and information shared with crypto.news, the AI lab is working with Polymarket to let agents handle steps that traders would otherwise perform themselves: finding an event market, assessing it, and making a trade. OpenWorlds describes its software as a way to run that process repeatedly across live markets.  The company says it is building personal trading agents for consumers and retail traders. Its proposed workflow gives an agent the ability to search across markets and act on its assessment, rather than presenting a list of possible trades for a person to execute manually. OpenWorlds also compares the process with the research and trading work carried out by investment firms.  You might also like:  Polymarket sued by New York over alleged illegal gambling  How OpenWorlds agents would trade on Polymarket  OpenWorlds describes three linked tasks for its agents:

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The Fine Print Nobody Reads: What Crypto Casino KYC Clauses Actually Say

You can sign up on most casinos in forty seconds or less: just type in your wallet address or email and a username, and youre in. No passport or utility bill dated within the last three months is required. Then a decent run happens, the withdrawal button gets pressed, and a message appears asking for photo ID.  A funny thing is that nobody lied to you. You just didnt dig deep enough in the terms and conditions to see that “no KYC” applies only to certain stages and players.  So, what might you miss when you trust no-KYC crypto casino sites without reading the fine print?  “No KYC” describes onboarding, not the account  Read enough terms pages and the same clause turns up in nearly all of them, with the wording shuffled: the operator reserves the right to request identity documents at any time, and to suspend an account or hold a withdrawal until it receives them.  This way “no verification” applies to the registration, but you cant play anonymously forever. Deposit anonymously, play anonymously, and the checks may still arrive later, most often at the moment money is going out.  Discover more  Financial technology news  Ethereum market analysis  Crypto wallet review  Which is the opposite of what the phrase

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Crypto tax forms leave 1 in 5 US investors unsure of accuracy

A survey of US crypto investors has found that about one in five who filed or planned to file a tax extension received an incomplete 1099-DA or were unsure whether the form matched their trades.  Awaken Taxs August survey found that another 21% of respondents who had filed, or planned to file, an extension were still waiting for information from an exchange or crypto platform. The findings concern a group of taxpayers trying to finish 2025 returns during the first filing season for Form 1099-DA, which brokers use to report certain digital asset transactions to the Internal Revenue Service.  The IRS says brokers generally had to report gross proceeds from covered 2025 transactions. Proceeds show what a customer received in a sale, but most forms for that tax year do not show what the customer originally paid. Taxpayers need both figures to calculate a gain or loss, and the agency says they must report digital asset income, gains, and losses even if no 1099-DA arrives.  Crypto tax forms can show a sale without its cost  For a taxpayer who bought Bitcoin for $9,000 and sold it for $10,000, the gain would be $1,000 before any applicable adjustments. A 2025 Form 1099-DA could report the

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Old Magic Eden NFT approvals put users at risk after whitehat moves 3,832 NFTs

Old Magic Eden NFT approvals could still put some former users at risk months after the company closed its Ethereum marketplace. A September 25 warning from wallet security service Revoke.cash says that a vulnerability in Limit Breaks Payment Processor V2 affects wallets that still authorize the contract to move NFTs. Those approvals remain active until owners revoke them.  The notice says security researcher 0xQuit used the vulnerability to move 3,832 NFTs from approved wallets as zero ETH sales. He described the transfers as a whitehat rescue and said the assets were being held in a custody wallet until it was safe to return them, according to Revoke.cash. The figure counts transfers reported in the notice; the service had not established how many NFTs, if any, malicious actors took.  Magic Eden ended EVM marketplace support on March 9, 2026. Its listings and offers were offchain and ceased to be visible or actionable on the site. The operator approval users gave the processor exists onchain, however. Closing the marketplace did not cancel that separate permission, leaving people who have not traded there for months with a live exposure.  Related Company Magic Eden Multi-chain NFT marketplace  Which Magic Eden NFT approvals should users revoke?  Revoke.cash says users should

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EU targets $54B DeFi sector as Aave slams Morpho's vault proposal as 'self-serving'

The European Union [EU] wants to bring crypto lending within the scope of the MiCA framework. In a recent policy review, the European Banking Authority (EBA) said that DeFi lending and borrowing should be regulated.  EBA crafts policy and regulates the EU-wide banking sector to ensure financial stability and user protection.  According to EBA, crypto lending, either via an intermediated interface of crypto asset service providers (CASPs) or DeFi protocols, can offer regulatory arbitrage for stablecoin yields.  MiCA banned stablecoin yield, but some, such as Circles USDC and EURC, still earn yield via DeFi strategies. For EBA, this could cause more problems,  Thus, the activities (DeFi lending) may pose regulatory arbitrage risks. Additionally, the EBA and ESMA have identified a series of potential consumer protection risks.  The consumer protection risks highlighted by the watchdog include over-leverage, contagion risks, hacks, and fraud.  Discover more  Enterprise blockchain solutions  Access Premium News  Compare Exchange Rates  To mitigate against these risks, EBA proposed a few considerations, including leverage caps, disclosure requirements, and cyber resilience-based certification for DeFi protocols.  Source: EBA  Additionally, the proposed rules could bar unlicensed stablecoins such as USDT from DeFi lending. Regulators would likely focus on platforms that give users access to DeFi protocols through intermediated lending and borrowing.  The proposed EU approach differs

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Hegseth's Bitcoin earned up to $6,000 in capital gains in 2025, his OGE filing shows

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseths Bitcoin on Coinbase generated between $2,702 and $6,000 in capital gains in 2025, his annual disclosure shows.  The report was certified Sept. 18 by the Office of Government Ethics.  Two Coinbase entries put the stake at $16,000 to $65,000  The form divides the coin into two lines in a single Coinbase wallet. A stake of $15,001 to $50,000 generated gains of $2,501 to $5,000, while a stake of $1,001 to $15,000 yielded gains of $201 to $1,000.  Discover more  News  Computer Security  Crypto tax software  Together, the two lines put Hegseths Bitcoin somewhere between about $16,000 and $65,000.  Part 7 breaks down each trade over $1,000. There is no Bitcoin trade in there. Sales of $1,000 or less do not require itemization.  Hegseth signed the report on May 14. An ethics official at the Defense Department cleared it in August, before OGEs own sign-off.  Lockheed, Northrop, and Honeywell stakes were sold weeks into the job  Part 7 is mostly stock selling. Weeks into the job, Hegseth sold shares in Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Honeywell, each valued between $1,001 and $15,000, as well as holdings in KKR and Blackstone valued between $15,001 and $50,000, on Feb. 7, 2025.  He sold shares of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle on

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Tether and Bitfinex named as the crypto firms behind Capstone, whose accounts US prosecutors froze

Tether and sister exchange Bitfinex are the two unnamed crypto firms at the center of a US forfeiture case against Capstone Ltd, people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times.  Federal prosecutors in California froze about $84.2 million in Capstones name, saying the payments group moved money without a license.  A Wells Fargo line sent out $337 million, the complaint says  The civil forfeiture complaint, filed July 15 in the Eastern District of California, names neither company. It only cites a crypto company, an affiliated exchange, and a bank in Dominica.  Prosecutors say Capstones Wells Fargo business account, not counting Treasury purchases, disbursed $337 million between March and December 2025.  The complaint alleges almost two-thirds of that money seems to have gone to hundreds of recipients, mostly outside the US, on behalf of the two crypto firms.  Court records show the seized property consists of five pieces. The biggest is $79.11 million in a Wells Fargo Securities account, followed by $2.06 million at JPMorgan Chase, $1.86 million at Wells Fargo Bank, and about 1.18 million USDT shared between two wallets.  Property listed in US v. Approx. $79,109,828.17 seized from Wells Fargo, E.D. Cal. 2 26-cv-02476, via GovInfo.  Capstone presented itself to banks as an IT services company,

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Bitcoin Breaks Historical Patterns: Q4 Trigger Many May Have Missed

Well-known analyst Benjamin Cowen has unveiled an updated strategic model for Bitcoin in Q4 2026, urging investors to abandon forecasting in favor of responding strictly to the charts current structure. He made the statement as Bitcoin tested a key technical level around $83,000.  The trigger for this urgent reassessment of market strategy was Bitcoins move above its May high on the weekly timeframe, which effectively broke the classic four-year cycle pattern. According to the analyst, the current weekly candles close will activate the main trigger determining the assets direction through the end of the year.  What one weekly candle will decide  Under Cowens updated framework, the markets next move depends entirely on whether Bitcoin can hold its current price levels. The analyst outlines two possible outcomes:Bullish scenario (holding above): If Bitcoin closes the week and holds above its May peak, it would significantly strengthen buyers position and lay the groundwork for an uptrend throughout the fourth quarter.Bearish scenario (false breakout):A move back below the May high would amount to a major fakeout. In that case, the asset would face the seasonal correction typical at the end of the year, though it would not fall to new cycle lows.  Bitcoin weekly chart from Benjamin Cowen

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SlowMist has yet to confirm crypto theft from iPhone Safari attack

An iPhone Safari attack behind recent security warnings hasn‘t yet been linked to a confirmed cryptocurrency theft in SlowMist’s investigation.  Multiple reports surfaced this week urging iPhone users to update their devices immediately and warning that malicious Safari pages could expose crypto private keys and seed phrases, with some citing a range from iOS 13 through iOS 26.5.  SlowMist told Cointelegraph that it has not independently confirmed a victim compromised by the specific Safari attack sample it analyzed, while its strongest technical evidence covers iOS 18.4 through 18.6.2.  The company said the “iOS 13 to 26.5” range should be treated as preliminary. “We therefore prefer to avoid stating that iOS 26.5 is affected until there is reproducible technical evidence,” it said.  The Safari attack reuses techniques from a previously disclosed DarkSword exploit chain and is separate from FomoPeek, another SlowMist investigation involving malicious components embedded in an App Store app.  SlowMist finds DarkSword reuse  Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) disclosed DarkSword in March, describing it as an iOS exploit chain that had been used by multiple threat actors since at least November 2025.  SlowMist said MistEye, a threat intelligence team led by its chief information security officer, 23pds, first identified the relevant activity in early May.  SlowMist published

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