NEAR reclaims $5 as Bitwise ETF clears key regulatory hurdle

NEAR Protocol‘s native token climbed above $5 on Friday, extending a sharp multi-week rally as progress on a proposed Bitwise exchange-traded fund (ETF) coincided with growing activity across the network’s ecosystem.  SEC clears Bitwise NEAR ETF to list on NYSE  The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declared Bitwise‘s registration statement for the NEAR ETF effective, clearing a key regulatory step for the proposed product. Bitwise also filed Form 8-A to register the fund’s common shares for listing on NYSE Arca under the ticker NRR.  These filings bring the proposed ETF closer to trading on a US exchange, although the registration statement and Form 8-A do not confirm a launch date.  The Bitwise NEAR ETF is designed to provide investors with exposure to the value of NEAR held by the fund. The product also includes a staking component, allowing the fund to seek additional returns through staking its holdings.  Coinbase Custody will serve as the funds custodian, while Bitwise has set the sponsor fee at 0.75% annually.  NEAR expands trading reach following listing on Hyperliquid  The ETF progress unfolds alongside a broader expansion of NEAR‘s ecosystem. NEAR Protocol confirmed that the NEAR/USDC pair is now live on Hyperliquid’s spot market.  The pair has also been added to Hyperliquids

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XRP ETF inflows hit $38M—can price break the $1.60 barrier?

US spot XRP exchange-traded funds saw around $38 millionin two trading sessions, showing a fresh sign of investor demand.  XRP has also recovered to around the $1.56price level, but it has yet to overcome selling pressure near the $1.60price level. It must overcome this level before the latest rise it is seeing can develop into a stronger one.  Bitwise leads latest XRP ETF inflows  XRP ETFs saw $14.89 millionin net inflows on September 24, according to SoSoValue data. This was after it saw around $23.17 millionin the previous session, bringing the two-day total to just over $38 million.  Bitwises fund led the latest daily inflows with $9.91 million. Franklin Templeton followed with $4.98 million, while no net movement could be seen from the other listed products.  The five funds now hold a combined $1.70 billionin assets. Their cumulative net inflows have reached $1.76 billion.  Bitwises XRP holdings have also grown. The fund held 401.42 million tokenson September 23, which is up by 14.18 millionfrom two days earlier.  Its XRP was worth about $613.89 million, according to Bitwises official fund page.  XRP price faces its next test at $1.60  XRP traded near the $1.56price level at the time of this writing, having gained about 2%during the session.  The price has recovered

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Tesla ramps Optimus production 10-fold but robot hands are holding Elon back

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has pushed Optimus production up by about 10 times, but the robot‘s hands are now one of the biggest things slowing Elon Musk’s production plan.  Tesla was making only a few dozen humanoid robots each week during the second quarter. That figure has now moved into the hundreds per week, according to The Information.  Getting from there to steady mass production is proving harder. Tesla is dealing with supplier limits, failures in automated factory equipment and a difficult hand assembly process. The company wants to reach 1,000 Optimus units per week by the end of the year, before eventually going after an eye-popping target of 20,000 robots every week.  The version coming out of Fremont right now is Optimus V3. Tesla made the frame lighter, added better camera systems and changed the body so it looks more like a human than older Optimus models.  Underneath that hardware is an AI system trained with more than 500,000 hours of data gathered from real-world activity. That does not mean V3 can simply walk into any building and figure everything out for itself. Its current work is narrow.  Tesla has been running the robots through specific jobs inside supervised areas in Palo Alto and on

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Binance-Owned Coinmarketcap Buys Coinglass as Data Debate Grows

Key TakeawaysCoinmarketcap acquired Coinglass, adding derivatives data across 28 exchanges and 2,500+ instruments.The deal gives Coinmarketcap deeper leverage data for 115M monthly users, raising concentration concerns.The next question is whether Coinglass will continue to stay independent as Binance-linked ownership deepens.  Coinmarketcap Adds Coinglass to Build Deeper Crypto Market Data  Coinmarketcap is expanding from price tracking into the deeper plumbing of crypto market structure.  The companys statement on Friday, Sept. 25, said that it has completed the acquisition of Coinglass, the derivatives data platform widely used by traders to monitor open interest, funding rates, liquidations, long-short positioning and options activity.  Financial terms were not disclosed.  Coinglass covers 28 exchanges and more than 2,500 instruments, while reportedly serving over 5 million monthly users, with more than 10,000 API customers. Coinmarketcap says its own platform reaches roughly 115 million users each month.  That combination gives the buyer access to a much broader view of how leverage is building across crypto markets.  The strategic logic is straightforward.  Coinmarketcap already dominates the retail-facing layer of crypto market data, including prices, rankings, and asset information. Coinglass adds the derivatives side, where much of the markets risk is expressed.  “Derivatives are where most of the markets risk is taken, and Coinglass is where most people go

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Ondo surges 26% as BlackRock tokenization push expands – But THIS risk suggests…

Ondo price pumped 26.73% after BlackRock-powered portfolios expanded its tokenization push, as its spot volume surged 276.89% amid the breakout.  Recently, Ondo Finance introduced three Ondo Intelligent Portfolios utilizing portfolio strategies developed by BlackRock specifically for the protocol. These products provided professionally constructed investment strategies directly on-chain vie single transferable assets.  More importantly, the launch expanded Ondos tokenization proposition beyond creating access to individual real-world assets. In fact, investors could instead gain exposure to the diversified strategies through exchanges, wallets, and compatible DeFi applications.  Additionally, the development also reinforced Ondos institutional outlook since BlackRock supplied the underlying portfolio strategies.  Meanwhile, the tokens rapid price response implied traders quickly responded to the broadened tokenization offering.  Spot buyers take control of the rally  Elsewhere, the ONDOs Spot Taker CVD metric highlighted that taker buyers dominated as the token price increased. Therefore, aggressive bulls absorbed the available spot supply as ONDO pushed through several key resistance levels.  This positioning hence complemented the 276.89% spot volume increase during the rapid price expansion. The higher volume implied considerably greater participation, accompanying ONDOs 26.73% price advance.  Crucially, the taker-buy dominance meant traders actively crossed the spread to secure ONDO. Hence, the spot profile provided a stronger demand beneath the BlackRock-driven outlook.  Subsequently, Ondo price pushed

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Meta strengthens Muse warning as AI agents outpace security guardrails

Meta has made enhancements to the safety alert linked to Muse, a personal AI assistant, following the discovery of a flaw by an external security expert that could have compromised a users virtual machine along with their emails and files, according to The Information.  Initially, the flaw was assigned an SEV-2 classification, which is Metas third-highest severity level. With the latest incident being only one in a string of security catastrophes, one should ask whether the security measures of various companies can keep up with the systems that are allowed to operate on behalf of users.  Why an agent reaches further than a chatbot  Muse is more than just a chatbot that responds to queries. According to Meta, Muse works on a dedicated and persistent virtual system with its own browser. This machine accesses the email, calendar, and Instagram accounts of its user, helps with shopping using a single-use card number at checkout, and creates tools if the job calls for them.  User credentials are maintained in a system that is inaccessible to agents. But users have access to review an audit trail and sanction certain sensitive operations such as sending emails or making purchases.  The same characteristics which define agents‘ “intelligence” become obstacles in

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OpenAI AI Agents Leak User Images and Security Breaches

Fifty-three photos that users uploaded to ChatGPT ended up scattered across public image-hosting sites, and nobody at OpenAI noticed until the company started digging into a much bigger mess. The disclosure, buried inside a broader review of misbehaving AI systems, marks one of the more unsettling admissions yet from a lab that keeps promising better guardrails. OpenAI AI agentsoperating inside the company‘s own research environment posted the images without anyone signing off on it, and OpenAI still doesn’t know exactly who was affected.  Key takeawaysOpenAI confirmed that its AI agents posted 53 user-provided images to public image-hosting sites without the companys knowledge.The links werent publicly listed, but the images could still be discovered by anyone who found them.OpenAI says it cannot notify the affected users because its technical systems and privacy policy prevent it from tracing the images back to the people who uploaded them.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said OpenAI agents broke into a government healthcare statistics portal in June, a breach the company didnt disclose to Australian officials until September.Enterprise OpenAI users are automatically excluded from having their chats used for model training, while consumer users are opted in by default.  OpenAI AI Agents Leak User Images Online  OpenAI has confirmed,

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IBM links 17 banks to the SWIFT ledger, but the cloud risk persists

IBM announced a beta connection between its Digital Asset Haven and SWIFTs shared ledger for tokenized deposits on Sept. 24, using an ISO 20022 Messaging Adapter that lets participating institutions instruct ledger transactions through standard payment messages.  The route brings IBMs digital-asset platform into an existing SWIFT program while letting banks work with familiar formats and compliance processes.  IBM also announced a separate on-premises beta for institutions that want to run Haven in their own data centers.  Standard messages connect to tokenized deposits  Digital Asset Haven brings together wallets, key management, transaction signing and policy controls for regulated organizations.  IBM says its adapter maps ISO 20022 payment instructions to transactions on SWIFTs permissioned ledger. This lets institutions use the payment messages they already exchange to test transfers of bank-issued tokenized deposits.  The adapter works alongside Havens digital-asset controls and Hyperledger Besu connectivity. IBM says institutions already participating in SWIFTs program have tested tokenized deposits on the shared ledger with Haven.  Participating clients can move digital assets around the clock through the ledger, according to IBM. Final settlement still uses existing mechanisms, including real-time gross settlement systems, so a tokenized-deposit transfer can move ahead of the final settlement step.  That distinction matters for banks assessing a continuous service: the

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DOJ Seizes $84M From Tether-Linked Payment Processor Capstone

Key TakeawaysThe DOJ seized $84M from processor Capstone over illegal transfers, pushing EQIBank toward liquidation.Capstone moved $700M via US banks for Tether, highlighting ongoing crypto banking access challenges.Capstone also converted stolen elder fraud cash into stablecoins, prompting Tether to deny wrongdoing.  Tether Gets Indirectly Hit in Capstones $84 Million Seizure  Tether, the issuer of USDT, the largest stablecoin in the market, has been involved in a $84 million civil forfeiture case in California.  According to the FT, Tether and Bitfinex relied on Capstone, a Montana-based payment provider, to open bank accounts and make payments to “hundreds of individuals and entities”without being licensed to do so, hiding the nature of its business and declaring it was an IT services company.  Capstone was linked to Tether and Bitfinex through EQIBank, a bank registered in Dominica, which specialized in online payments and directed Capstone to lend these services to Tether and Bitfinex. Tether had invested in the bank and offered to increase its backing if the bank could provide“successful opening of at least one bank account”for Tether at Singapores DBS, according to documents reviewed by FT.  In the civil forfeiture order executed against Capstone, the DOJ seized $84 million in the companys accounts at Wells Fargo and JPMorgan

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Best Altcoins To Buy In 2026: Solana And Acurast Hold Their Ground, But Pepeto Is The 200x Presale Built For Big 2026 Gains

This is a press release sponsored content. BlockchainReporter did not write, edit, or verify this content.  Washington spent the week proving it still wants to run crypto even after Congress tripped, and that is exactly when traders start hunting for the best altcoins to buy.  The Senate blocked the CLARITY Act on September 15, yet two days later the CFTC sent its own crypto rules to the White House anyway.  Rules like these shape how the big coins trade, but the real edge has always been found before a listing, and that is where Pepeto comes in with a live shot at the kind of gains the top altcoins handed out years ago.With more than $11 million raised and over 43,000 holders already in, Pepeto is the 200x presale of 2026.  Washingtons crypto rulebook moves ahead without Congress  On September 15 the Senate voted 49 to 50 on the CLARITY Act, eleven short of the 60 needed to open debate, per Datawallet. Because the bill would have split oversight between the SEC and the CFTC, its failure likely pushes a market structure law into 2027.  The regulators refused to sit still, though, as the CFTC filed its crypto market proposal with the White House budget office

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