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Riot Signs $9.1B, 20-Year AI Data Center Lease at Its Texas Bitcoin Mine
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.
Stablecoin Card Issuer Rain Buys Merchant Wallet Startup Ansa
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.
ENS Tokenholders Hand Endowment Control to a Staffed Foundation
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.
Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi License for Tokenized Securities Hub
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.
Ousted Pudgy Penguins Co-Founder Sells Out 44,444-Piece NFT Mint on Robinhood Chain
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.
MoneyGram Brings Cash-To-Crypto Ramps To Solana
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.
eToro to Buy US Brokerage TradeZero for Up to $231M as Crypto Revenue Shrinks
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.
Bitcoin's BIP Editors Remove Luke Dashjr Two Days After BIP-110 Fork Stalled
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.
Two Prediction Markets Shut Down Hours Apart as Kalshi and Polymarket Take 93% of Volume
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.
 Robinhood's Head of Product Reveals How Robinhood Chain Hit 200M Transactions in 30 Days
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.