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Blockchains
Arbitrum Replaces Timeboost With Per-Transaction Priority Auctions
Priority fees and paid Fast Feed subscriptions allocate 97% of proceeds to the DAO treasury and 3% to the Arbitrum Developer Guild.

Regulation & Politics
Trump Administration Weighs Overseas Stablecoin Push: Report
Treasury, State and DFC could participate in public-private ventures aimed at strengthening the dollar and demand for US debt.

Tokens
Variational Sets Q4 VAR Launch With 32% Airdrop
Points distributions will continue at 150,000 a week until launch, while team and investor tokens face a 12-month lock.

Markets
Bitcoin Falls Through the $86,000 ETF Cost Basis as the Whole Market Turns Lower
Total crypto market value fell 2.27% to $2.96 trillion. XRP dropped 5.8%, Dogecoin 8.3% and Hedera 9.9%, and Uniswap gave back the entire spike it took on Tuesday's CME listing. Perpetual funding at OKX turned negative on both the bitcoin and ether swaps. U.S. equities and gold closed lower alongside.

Markets
Zcash Clears $1,600 After 21Shares Launches European ETP
The physically backed product trades in Paris and Amsterdam, while a 3:42 p.m. ET chain snapshot put shielded ZEC at 29% of supply.

Hacks
Cosmos Hub Restarts; 1.23 Million ATOM Moved From Neutron Attacker Wallet
The Hub produced no blocks for 24 hours and 48 minutes. The attacker bought voting power for 20,199 USDC and staked it 12 minutes before an expedited Neutron proposal closed.

TradFi & Fintech
KB Securities, Securitize and Optimism Sign Exploratory Korea Tokenization MOU
Optimism’s X post names a tokenized bond as the first product, while its same-day blog names two tokenized funds. Korea’s first regulatory phase starts in February 2027.

TradFi & Fintech
MoonPay Agrees to Buy North Capital, Adding Securities Infrastructure
Sources told CoinDesk the all-stock deal is worth more than $60 million; the transaction remains subject to regulatory approval.
Podcast
Synthetic vs. Direct Tokenized Stocks: Who Wins After The SEC Exemption?
The SEC's exemption for tokenized equities has reopened the question every issuer has been working around: should a tokenized stock be a synthetic instrument that tracks the price, or a direct claim on the underlying share?
Camila Russo sits down with the lawyers and builders shaping that answer. Rodrigo Seira, partner at Cooley, breaks down what the exemption allows and where the legal lines still sit. Gabriel Otte, co-founder of Dinari, and Peter Curley, head of global regulatory affairs at Ondo Finance, lay out how each model handles custody, investor rights, compliance, and access for non-U.S. users, and which structure is better placed to scale now that the rules have changed.
🗓 Live Wednesday, Sept 23, 11:30am ET
Guests:
Rodrigo Seira, Partner, Cooley
Gabriel Otte, Co-founder, Dinari
Peter Curley, Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Ondo Finance
Host: Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant
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Markets
Brazil Tops Redesigned Crypto Adoption Index as Latin America Defies Global Slump
Chainalysis measured $593.8 billion in regional activity, up 9.8%, even as the global crypto economy contracted 1.6% during the same period.





