Kazakhstan Taps Solana, Mastercard for Tenge Stablecoin

Kazakhstan’s central bank is launching a pilot project to issue a new stablecoin pegged to the local fiat currency in collaboration with Solana and Mastercard. The National Bank of Kazakhstan announced the launch of a stablecoin project within the framework of its Digital Assets Regulatory Sandbox, according to a statement shared with Cointelegraph on Tuesday. The new Evo (KZTE) stablecoin is pegged to the Kazakhstani tenge currency and is issued by sandbox participant Intebix crypto exchange and local lender Eurasian Bank, with assistance from Solana and Mastercard. Based on the…

South Africa’s Sygnia Urges Caution on Bitcoin ETF Exposure

A $20 billion South African asset manager has been warning their investors from investing too much in their Bitcoin exchange-traded fund due to its price volatility.  In an interview on Monday, Magda Wierzycka, the CEO of Sygnia, told Bloomberg TV that the company will intervene to ensure clients don’t shift too much of their portfolio to its ETF, Sygnia Life Bitcoin Plus, which is benchmarked off BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust.  However, she later acknowledged that Bitcoin could be turning into a long-term play.  Wierzycka said the primary concern from Sygnia,…

ETHZilla Plans $350M Raise to Expand Ether Treasury and Yield Strategy

Ether treasury company ETHZilla is looking to raise another $350 million through new convertible bonds, with funds marked for more Ether purchases and generating yield through investments in the ecosystem.  ETHZilla chairman and CEO McAndrew Rudisill said on Monday that the company’s strategy is to deploy Ether (ETH) in “cash-flowing assets” on the Ethereum network through layer-2 protocols and tokenizing real-world assets.  “We believe our business model is highly scalable, with significant fixed operating leverage and recurring positive cash flow.”   A growing number of digital asset companies are moving past…

US Lawmakers Ask SEC to Act on Trump’s Crypto 401(k) Plan

US lawmakers have called on Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins to help accelerate the executive order enabling crypto investments in US 401(k) retirement plans. In the letter on Monday, nine lawmakers, including House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill and Subcommittee on Capital Markets Chairman Ann Wagner, said that Atkins was asked to “provide swift assistance” to the Secretary of Labor and to make any necessary adjustments to its current regulations and guidance. They also noted that under President Donald Trump’s August EO on “Democratizing Access to Alternative…

Democrats Signal Support for Bipartisan Solution to Market Structure Bill

A group of Democratic senators in the US Congress has signaled its intention to work with Republicans on advancing legislation to establish a digital asset market structure framework. In a Friday statement, 12 Democrats, including members of the Senate Banking Committee and Senate Agriculture Committee, issued a statement ahead of an expected vote on a crypto market structure bill pushed by Republican leadership. “We hope our Republican colleagues will agree to a bipartisan authorship process, as is the norm for legislation of this scale,” the statement reads. “Given our shared…

PayPal Ventures Backs Bitfinex-Linked Stablecoin Project

Stable, an institutional-grade stablecoin blockchain backed by cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, is integrating a stablecoin built by major online payment platform PayPal. PayPal Ventures has made a strategic investment in Stable to bring PayPal USD (PYUSD) stablecoin onto the Stablechain, according to an announcement by Stable on Monday. “This work with Stable reflects our commitment to expanding PYUSD’s utility across multiple blockchain ecosystems and driving adoption,” PYUSD ecosystem head David Weber said, highlighting Stable’s focus on fast and seamless financial transactions. The news came about two months after Stable emerged from…

CZ’s Giggle Academy Gets $1.3M Boost from Crypto Donors

Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s edutech venture, Giggle Academy, managed to amass over a million dollars in public donations within half a day, thanks mainly to a memecoin.  Giggle Academy’s donation address showed a balance of over 1,311 BNB (BNB) worth over $1.3 million at the time of writing, according to the BNB Smart Chain scan tool BscScan, after opening for donations on Sunday. A large portion of the donations came through a memecoin called “Giggle,” which was launched by the Giggle Fund, which has been sending trading fees charged…

‘The world is becoming Internet-First’ — Venture Capitalist

The traditional economy is being phased out in advanced countries that are transitioning to an internet-first economy dominated by the tech industry and digital platforms, according to Balaji Srinivasan, a former executive at crypto exchange Coinbase and the author of “The Network State.”  “The legacy economy is being sunset in favor of the Internet economy,” Srinivasan said in an X post on Saturday. He shared a chart showing the price divergence between the “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks, which are enjoying meteoric growth, and the remainder of companies in the S&P…

How High Can It Go?

Key takeaways: BNB faces short-term correction risks but maintains a strong bullish structure above the trendline. Breakout patterns and onchain optimism point to upside targets of $1,250–$1,565 by year-end. BNB (BNB) has jumped over 10% this weekend, outpacing a largely stagnant crypto market that remained flat. BNB/USDT four-hour price chart. Source: TradingView With momentum diverging from its peers and in price discovery, the question is, can the Binance-linked token push even higher? BNB faces “overbought” risks in September BNB’s latest rally has pushed the relative strength index (RSI) on the…

Low Risk DeFi Could Drive Ethereum Fees While Keeping Values Aligned

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said revenue from low-risk decentralized finance protocols could give the network economic stability — much like Google Search supports Google — while letting nonfinancial apps uphold Ethereum’s cultural values. Low-risk DeFi could address “important tensions” in the Ethereum community over whether apps that bring in enough revenue to economically sustain the ecosystem align with the cultural and ethical values that brought people to Ethereum in the first place, Buterin said in a blog post on Saturday. The former has been a combination of nonfungible tokens, memecoins,…