Circle to acquire Tazapay to expand USDC cross-border payments

Circle has agreed to acquire Singapore-based cross-border payments platform Tazapay in a deal expected to close in 2027.  The transaction will also require customary closing conditions and approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Circle said in a Tuesday announcement.  Tazapay has more than $25 billion in annualized payment volume and serves more than 60 banking and fintech partners with local payout rails covering more than 100 markets. The company said in August 2025 that annualized payment volume was $10 billion.  Circle previously invested in Tazapay, including in the startups August 2025 Series B round that brought the total amount raised to $57.9 million, according to Traxcn data. XRP-issuer Ripple was also an investor in that round.  Stablecoins account for about 60% of Tazapays transaction volume, according to Circle. The company said the acquisition will expand its ability to route payments to and from Asia-Pacific and emerging markets.  “This acquisition will increase Circles capability to originate and terminate payments globally, near-instant and 24/7, which is a meaningful step toward making USDC the default payment rail for cross-border commerce,” said Irfan Ganchi, senior vice president of payments at Circle.  Tazapay has been a design partner for the Circle Payments Network since 2025. Circle said Tazapay customers should

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Ledger CTO urges AI bug hunter responsibility, warns against ‘attention farming’

Hardware wallet makers Ledger and Trezor called for more responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities.  In a Monday post on X, Ledger chief technology officer Charles Guillemet said artificial intelligence has made bugs easier to find and exploit. However, some researchers are publishing their findings before fixes are available, a practice he called “attention farming with someone elses risk.”  Guillemet urged researchers to report bugs privately and agree on a timeline for fixes before publishing details. He cited 90 days as a common default, with flexibility depending on the severity of the flaw and the work needed to fix it.  “Ninety days is a commitment on the vendor, not just on the researcher,” Jan Komárek, Trezors head of security, told Cointelegraph.  “Researchers: come to us first, agree a timeline, then publish in full, and if we fail to ship a fix in that window, publish anyway,” he said.  Hardware wallet security has come under scrutiny after Coldcard thefts exceeded $100 million and a data breach at Trezor‘s shipping provider exposed tens of thousands of customers’ personal information.

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Uzbekistan begins government bond-backed stablecoin payment pilot

Uzbekistan has launched a pilot to test payments with a som-pegged stablecoin backed by government securities.  On Monday, the National Agency for Prospective Projects (NAPP) said it had registered Humo Digital as a participant in a special regime jointly overseen with the central bank. The pilot will test the issuance, circulation and redemption of HUMO, with each token pegged to one Uzbek som.  NAPP said more than 20 merchants are prepared to test HUMO payments for goods and services.  The project will also integrate participating banks payment-processing and blockchain infrastructure. Asterium, a licensed crypto exchange, will serve as a project partner.  According to the Central Bank of Uzbekistan, the initial trial will run for 12 months, with the project‘s total duration capped at three years. Regulators will assess the adequacy and safeguarding of the token’s collateral, cybersecurity, consumer safeguards, anti-money laundering controls and risks to financial and price stability.  The pilot follows a framework approved in November 2025. At the time, Uzbekistan said it was planning to permit stablecoin payment trials under a sandbox, alongside provisions for tokenized shares and bonds.

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Bitcoin News Today: Liquid Network Has 85% of BTC Returned

In the latest Bitcoin news, the white hackers behind the withdrawal of roughly 4,000 BTC from the Liquid Network returned 3,400 BTC, worth approximately $269.2 million, to the sidechains federation wallet, recovering about 85% of the funds.  Approximately 598.5 BTC, worth roughly $47 million, remains in an address linked to the withdrawal, and Liquid has not said when its peg services will resume or how the shortfall will be handled.  This is not simply a recovered exploit. It is a partial resolution that leaves a sidechains backing, custody status, and operational timeline all unresolved at once.  The remaining 598.5 BTC sits in an address tied to the incident rather than a wallet confirmed lost. Liquid has not announced whether that Bitcoin will be returned, how it will cover any resulting gap in L-BTC backing, or when normal side-chain and peg operations will resume.  Update: 3,400 BTC of the roughly 4,000 BTC withdrawn on September 6 has been returned to the @Liquid_BTC Federation wallet. The return followed confirmation from @Blockstream that the affected bridge nodes have been patched. Approximately 598 BTC remains outstanding, and…  — Samson Mow (@Excellion) September 7, 2026  DISCOVER: Trade Crypto On Binance  Liquid Bitcoin Hack: How the Withdrawal and Return Unfolded  The incident began Sunday

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Visa expands stablecoin card network to 160 programs

Visa said on Sept. 8 that more than 160 stablecoin-linked card programs were operating globally during its fiscal second quarter of 2026, while their payment volume increased nearly 200% year over year.  The payments company also reported that its stablecoin settlement volume had surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate. That represents growth of more than 15 times from the corresponding period one year earlier.  Visa disclosed the figures while announcing expanded work with Credit Coop. The companies are using stablecoin-denominated revolving credit facilities to help card programs finance daily settlement obligations.  The statistics come from Visa and Credit Coop rather than independently audited transaction reports. An annualized run rate also projects recent activity over a full year. It does not mean Visa has already processed $20 billion in stablecoin settlement during 2026.  Visa stablecoin cards reach 160 live programs  Stablecoin-linked cards connect a customer‘s crypto wallet or stablecoin account with Visa’s existing merchant network. The digital assets are converted or used to fund the transaction while the merchant receives payment through familiar card infrastructure.  Visa said payment volume across these programs grew nearly 200% year over year. The company did not publish the underlying dollar value, regional breakdown or transaction count in its announcement.  The latest

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Banca dItalia demands checks on every crypto transfer

Banca dItalia told Italian crypto-asset service providers on Sept. 7 to verify that every transfer passes through sanctions screening, regardless of its value.  The central bank specifically warned firms against setting a minimum transaction threshold within their screening systems. Such a threshold could allow small crypto transfers to avoid automated checks.  The communication does not establish a new sanctions rule. It reinforces requirements already contained in European Banking Authority guidelines that have applied in Italy since Dec. 30, 2025.  The reminder follows an expansion of European Union restrictive measures and growing regulatory attention on whether financial institutions can enforce sanctions effectively in daily operations.  Banca dItalia requires checks on every crypto transfer  Banca dItalia instructed crypto-asset service providers, known as CASPs, to screen information about both the sender and recipient before executing a crypto transfer. The requirement applies to individual transactions and does not depend on their value.  According to a report published through Borsa Italianas Radiocor service, the central bank asked operators to ensure their systems contain no minimum threshold that limits which transactions undergo screening.  The policy means a transfer cannot bypass sanctions controls merely because it is worth €1 or another small amount. It does not mean compliance employees must manually approve every micro-transfer.  CASPs

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Binance's CZ Predicts IPOs Will Move On-Chain as Claude's Anthropic Pre-Market Volume Explodes

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) published his forecast for the development of capital markets, stating that the traditional IPO model will move entirely onto the blockchain. According to him, tokenizing public offerings will provide companies with round-the-clock liquidity, seamless interoperability with DeFi protocols, and direct access to global retail capital.  The main confirmation of this thesis right now comes from the artificial intelligence sector, represented by Anthropic, the creator of Claude, whose pre-market has literally exploded: trading volumes in on-chain derivatives tied to its shares have surged into the millions just a month before the official opening bell on Wall Street.  CZs forecast rests on on-chain infrastructure for real-world assets (RWA) with a total market capitalization of $33.6 billion, of which tokenized stocks and ETFs account for around $3 billion.  IPOs will move on chain.  — CZ ???? BNB (@cz_binance) September 8, 2026  Binances bStocks platform holds 21% of this segment ($627.5 million), with 981,215 holders, while Circle Internet Group ($103.6 million) and SpaceX ($63.4 million) lead its trading turnover.  At the same time, the total value of tokenized stocks remains a drop in the ocean compared with the traditional U.S. stock market, whose capitalization exceeds $55 trillion, while average daily trading turnover on the NYSE

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Polands crypto licensing deadlock is handing foreign EU firms an advantage

Polands failed crypto vote has left domestic firms unable to seek licenses while EU-authorized rivals continue entering the market.  Related Law EU AML Package: Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 and Directive (EU) 2024/1640 European Union · In force · Directive  The Sejm failed Sept. 4 to override President Karol Nawrocki‘s veto of legislation needed to implement parts of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation, prolonging a licensing gap more than two months after Polands transition period expired.  Lawmakers recorded 241 votes to re-enact the bill, 198 against and three abstentions, falling short of the threshold required to overcome the June 11 veto.  Without the legislation, Poland has yet to designate the domestic authority needed to process ordinary MiCA applications. The Polish Financial Supervision Authoritys office has said authorization proceedings cannot begin until that designation is made by law.  That leaves firms seeking a Polish license stuck even as competitors authorized elsewhere in the bloc retain a route into the same market.  EU licenses offer a way around Polands blockage  MiCA allows an authorized crypto-asset service provider to operate across member states through its home regulator.  A firm can notify that regulator of the countries and services it intends to cover and begin cross-border activity once it has transmitted

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Cronos confirms $9.2M slipped away before Tectonic exploit rollback

Layer-1 blockchain Cronos said $9.19 million left its blockchain before validators halted the network during the Tectonic exploit, providing an official accounting of funds that were not reversed by its rollback.  In Tuesdays post-mortem report, Cronos said manipulated collateral values generated about $120.4 million in borrowing activity. Restoring the network to its pre-exploit state reversed about $111.2 million, leaving 7.6% of the affected funds outside of the network.  The disclosure confirms the scale of the incident after earlier estimates placed the amount affected at about $75 million. It also puts the amount transferred off Cronos at $9.19 million, above the $8.3 million previously traced to Ethereum by blockchain data provider Bitquery.  Cointelegraph previously reported that one transaction emptied nine Tectonic lending markets through 11 transfers involving stablecoins, Bitcoin, Ether and other assets.  Bitquery said the attacker deposited $5 million, then repeatedly borrowed and redeposited TONIC through a 98-cycle loop while purchasing the thinly traded token. The activity drove TONIC‘s price nearly 300-fold higher as Tectonic’s price feed followed.  Cronos said Tectonic detected the activity at 12:49 UTC on Aug. 30, and validators halted the network at 14:32:47 UTC. Block production resumed at 23:49:01 UTC after balances were restored.

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HashKey Cloud joins Stacks Bitcoin staking launch

HashKey Cloud said on Sept. 7 that it had joined Stacks as a launch partner for self-custodial Bitcoin staking.  SummaryHashKey Cloud joined Stacks as a Genesis Bond participant and an sBTC signer operator officially.The institutional Genesis Bond is scheduled to launch around September 10, according to Stacks developers.Bonded Bitcoin remains timelocked on Bitcoin while participants pair it with locked STX tokens separately.HashKey Cloud says its staking infrastructure spans more than 40 different blockchain networks globally today.sBTC signers coordinate Bitcoin deposits and withdrawals using a threshold-based approval system collectively onchain today.  The agreement gives the infrastructure provider two roles: participating in the inaugural Genesis Bond and joining the signer network securing sBTC.  HashKey Cloud operates under HashKey Holding Limited. Stacks founder Muneeb Ali presented the collaboration during the HashKey Cloud and Cactus Custody “Yield on Trust” event in Hong Kong.  The company says its node and staking infrastructure covers more than 40 blockchain networks. Stacks reported that HashKey Cloud manages about HK$29 billion in staked assets. These figures come from the companies and were not independently audited for the partnership announcement.  ???? @HashKeyCloud joins @Stacks as a launch partner for user self-custodied #Bitcoin staking, supporting the next phase of Bitcoin infrastructure. https://t.co/7NNzWeTHfO  — HashKey Group (@HashKeyGroup) September

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