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TradFi & Fintech
Riot Signs $9.1B, 20-Year AI Data Center Lease at Its Texas Bitcoin Mine
The 20-year lease is projected to average $457 million a year, while Riot's fully costed bitcoin mining ran at 126.5% of the value of the coins it produced last quarter.
TradFi & Fintech
Stablecoin Card Issuer Rain Buys Merchant Wallet Startup Ansa
Ansa builds branded prepaid wallets that hold dollar balances for merchants, with no stablecoin leg. Founder Sophia Goldberg joins Rain as head of payments, and terms were not disclosed.
DeFi
ENS Tokenholders Hand Endowment Control to a Staffed Foundation
The proposal passed with 1.27 million ENS in favor and 480,690 against. Co-founder Alex Van de Sande voted no after decoding the executable, arguing the DAO disappears from the endowment's control chain.
TradFi & Fintech
Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi License for Tokenized Securities Hub
The FSRA permission covers arranging deals in investments and custody. Coinbase has not named a launch date, and the fine print limits which token holders can vote their shares.

NFTs & Web3
Ousted Pudgy Penguins Co-Founder Sells Out 44,444-Piece NFT Mint on Robinhood Chain
An onchain tally of the mint events by analyst 0xlaplaced puts the take at $1,282,852 — well above the $755,000 figures that circulated during the sale — while the Spritehood contract's source code remains unverified.

TradFi & Fintech
MoneyGram Brings Cash-To-Crypto Ramps To Solana
MoneyGram Ramps is now native to Solana, ending its run as a Stellar-only product. Trading app Rift is the first Solana wallet to integrate it.

CeFi
eToro to Buy US Brokerage TradeZero for Up to $231M as Crypto Revenue Shrinks
The purchase, eToro's third acquisition signed this year, is not expected to close until the first half of 2027 and needs regulatory approvals for a broker-dealer whose chief executive settled SEC charges in 2022.
Blockchains
Bitcoin's BIP Editors Remove Luke Dashjr Two Days After BIP-110 Fork Stalled
Dashjr lost editor and admin access to the BIPs repository about 26 hours after Mark "Murch" Erhardt filed a motion on the developer mailing list. Dashjr called the accusations false. Minutes before the removal was confirmed, he announced a sabbatical from mining pool Ocean.

DeFi
Two Prediction Markets Shut Down Hours Apart as Kalshi and Polymarket Take 93% of Volume
Trepa and Fireplace both told users to withdraw by Sept. 30. One published a post-mortem arguing crypto's active user base is far smaller than the industry reports.
Podcast
Robinhood's Head of Product Reveals How Robinhood Chain Hit 200M Transactions in 30 Days
Robinhood just launched its own blockchain — and the numbers are wild. Seong Lee, Head of Product for Robinhood Crypto, joins Chris Storaker to explain how Robinhood Chain went from zero to 200 million transactions in a month, why permissionless stock tokens can now be redeemed even if Robinhood disappears, and how everyday users are earning yield through a fully insured DeFi lending product. A must-watch conversation on the future of tokenized finance, meme coins, and real-world assets on chain.