Bitcoin Cash gained 14% in the hour CME Group said it would list futures on the token and kept climbing through the afternoon, finishing the session up 27% on more than twice Monday's volume. Bitcoin SV rose 20% alongside it. Uniswap, named in the same release, spiked 11%, gave the whole move back within two hours, then recovered to close up 5.4%. Bitcoin ended lower. Of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens, 64 rose and 61 fell.

The two groups submitted a joint proposal to Commissioner Hester Peirce for a safe harbor that would create a rebuttable presumption that decentralized exchange protocols and their front-ends are not exchanges under the Exchange Act. a16z filed a second letter the same day asking the SEC to build a registration regime for centralized crypto trading platforms modeled on the 1998 alternative trading system rules. Both letters are dated Sept. 14, three days before the SEC issued its Innovation Exemption for tokenized stock venues.

Trueo said it will make Ethereum mainnet its primary deployment and build its next oracle there. Vitalik Buterin called the project “ethical and not corposlop.” The TRUE token is up 900% in 24 hours. Trueo's contracts are still deployed only on Base, and no migration date has been set.

The exchange says the repeating trade size that drew wash-trading accusations over the weekend came from one market maker it pays to keep orders on the book, and that the maker was losing money to faster traders.

near.com began offering Ondo Finance’s tokenized U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Tuesday, letting users buy them with crypto held across more than 30 networks. The companies said the trades are not broadcast publicly. The tokens are not available to U.S. persons or in Canada. NEAR rose 7.1% over 24 hours.

The liquid staking protocol published a chain ID, an RPC endpoint and an explorer for its Arbitrum Orbit network, a month after saying HyperEVM's throughput leaves little room for sustained high-frequency activity.

The two contracts would take the exchange's single-token crypto lineup to eleven, seven of them added this year.

Circle sold Binance 1,237,011 shares at $80.84, a five percent discount to the Sept. 17 close, and agreed to keep paying the exchange a monthly fee tied to USDC balances, an SEC filing shows.

The stablecoin infrastructure firm Mastercard bought for up to $1.8 billion says the integration is live across its 130-plus markets, with more Stellar-native assets to follow.

Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% support and 58% participation, but exchanges must confirm the swap before a second vote sets the snapshot, claims and shutdown schedule.