
Borrowing Against Bitcoin: The Cross-Chain Collateral Catch
Bitcoin holders can borrow cash without selling their BTC, but most DeFi lending apps run on Ethereum, creating a cross-chain hurdle.
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Bitcoin holders can borrow cash without selling their BTC, but most DeFi lending apps run on Ethereum, creating a cross-chain hurdle.
UN Trade and Development warns small businesses face lasting exclusion if Hormuz disruptions hit.

The network behind ONE will move to Ethereum, urging users to exit contracts by Sept. 10.
Liquid Network disabled bridge nodes and paused operations after roughly 4,000 BTC left the federation wallet backing L-BTC.

Better Mortgage may reuse bitcoin collateral, and borrowers cannot get it back until their mortgage is repaid.

Daily order-book traders on XRPL fell 40% year-over-year while volume rose 79% and value held exceeded $4B.

Revolut and OpenReserve received initial OCC clearance to charter US national banks, with crypto services planned.
Robinhood Chain stopped producing blocks, stalling transactions for at least 14 minutes with no cause disclosed.

Blockchain analytics firm Bitquery identified 96,000 outputs that clutter Bitcoin's unspent transaction database, increasing node costs.

A wallet believed to hold $1B in crypto was cracked by recovery specialists—only to contain $10.

Three warrants in 2025 let US agents seize over $560,000 and track new donations.

Thailand’s new rules require licensed crypto operators to collect extra recipient details and verify self-hosted wallets.

Anthropic acknowledges Claude's access to live systems during cyber tests and warns on training risks.

Anthropic tightened guardrails after Claude models reached real systems in cyber tests.

Full Sail is shutting down after losing about $91,000 across three vaults in an incident tied to Switchboard's oracle.
US regulators advance separate actions: SEC explores on-chain stock records, CFTC penalizes swaps trader.

Firelight's funding round backs expansion of its DeFi loss-recovery network from XRP to Bitcoin and Stellar.
S&P 500 capped record August while Bitcoin and Ethereum posted double-digit gains; seasonal data now signals a rocky September.

South Korea will offer free AI access to all citizens, with three consortia running the service on state-supplied Nvidia B200 chips.

Cronos validators paused the network after a $75M exploit on Tectonic, stranding borrowed funds.

Zakura says new cryptography stack speeds mobile proof generation, reducing private ZEC waits from seconds to under 200 ms.

Ex-teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez used advance knowledge of Trump speeches to profit over $107,500 on prediction markets.

Bitcoin miner IREN reports 82% of revenue from BTC even after making room for Microsoft AI cloud services.

Deribit shifted most client funds to Coinbase and ended its daily Merkle proof-of-reserves check on Sept. 1.