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This Week in Crypto (September 28–October 5): A Senate Report Traces Iran's Money to USDT, 29,000 Jobs Price Out the October Hike, and Zano Rewinds a Month of Its Own Chain

This Week in Crypto (September 28–October 5): A Senate Report Traces Iran's Money to USDT, 29,000 Jobs Price Out the October Hike, and Zano Rewinds a Month of Its Own Chain

If last week was about how money leaves an exchange, this week in crypto was about who gets to move it at all. A Senate report put USDT at the center of Iran's sanctions evasion, and Treasury went after Russia's A7 payments network three days later.

This Week in Crypto (September 21–28): Bitget Loses $351.6M to a Spoofed Authorization, the Fed Writes the Stablecoin Rulebook, and Bond Yields Hit a Nineteen-Year High While Crypto Rallies Anyway

This Week in Crypto (September 21–28): Bitget Loses $351.6M to a Spoofed Authorization, the Fed Writes the Stablecoin Rulebook, and Bond Yields Hit a Nineteen-Year High While Crypto Rallies Anyway

Two things happened this week in crypto that are not supposed to happen together. The 10-year Treasury yield broke above 5.1% on September 23, its highest in nineteen years, and bitcoin rallied into it while $2.4 billion of ETF money arrived. Then Thursday supplied the counter-argument:

This Week in Crypto (September 14–21): The CLARITY Act Dies 49–50, the Fed Hikes for the First Time Since 2023, and the Agencies Go Around Congress Two Days Later

This Week in Crypto (September 14–21): The CLARITY Act Dies 49–50, the Fed Hikes for the First Time Since 2023, and the Agencies Go Around Congress Two Days Later

The biggest item this week in crypto is a bill that didn't pass. The CLARITY Act failed a Senate procedural vote 49–50 on September 15, over ethics language about politicians' token holdings rather than anything in the market-structure text. The Fed then hiked for the

This Week in Crypto (September 7–14): Blockstream Refuses a $47M Ransom, the CLARITY Act Gets a 630-Page Rewrite, and Bitcoin ETFs Sell While Ether Squeezes Past $2,600

This Week in Crypto (September 7–14): Blockstream Refuses a $47M Ransom, the CLARITY Act Gets a 630-Page Rewrite, and Bitcoin ETFs Sell While Ether Squeezes Past $2,600

The defining story this week in crypto was a refusal. The attackers who drained Blockstream's Liquid sidechain returned 85% of the bitcoin, asked to be paid for the rest, and were told no. Elsewhere: Senate Republicans rewrote the CLARITY Act five days before its vote, a hot core

This Week in Crypto (August 31–September 7): Liquid Loses 95% of Its Bitcoin to a Cache Bug, Twenty-One Banks Launch a Dollar, and the House Leaves Two Days After Crypto's Big Vote

This Week in Crypto (August 31–September 7): Liquid Loses 95% of Its Bitcoin to a Cache Bug, Twenty-One Banks Launch a Dollar, and the House Leaves Two Days After Crypto's Big Vote

The largest crypto theft this week involved no stolen key. Blockstream's Liquid sidechain lost about 95% of its bitcoin on Saturday because a caching shortcut let someone mint coins that were never there, and the federation signed the withdrawal correctly. Elsewhere: twenty-one of the world's

This Week in Crypto (August 17–24): The SEC Publishes Regulation Crypto Assets, $4B of Shorts Get Liquidated, and a DeFi Vault Gets Voted Out of Its Own Money

This Week in Crypto (August 17–24): The SEC Publishes Regulation Crypto Assets, $4B of Shorts Get Liquidated, and a DeFi Vault Gets Voted Out of Its Own Money

If last week in crypto was about things that didn't happen, this week was about all of them happening at once. The SEC meeting canceled on August 13 returned on August 18 as a published proposal, with no meeting at all. The Treasury doubled its bond buybacks, and

This Week in Crypto (August 10–17): The SEC Cancels Its Own Crypto Vote, ETFs Give Back $389.7M in Five Sessions, and Strategy Sells Another 1,690 BTC

This Week in Crypto (August 10–17): The SEC Cancels Its Own Crypto Vote, ETFs Give Back $389.7M in Five Sessions, and Strategy Sells Another 1,690 BTC

The biggest item in crypto news this week is a meeting that didn't happen. The SEC was scheduled to propose crypto-specific rules for the first time on August 14, then pulled the meeting the day before and named no new date. Around that: a Bank of Japan