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Ethereum staking regains real momentum, with thirteen times more ETH awaiting entry than exit. This imbalance potentially reduces the available supply, without by itself guaranteeing a price increase.

Solana has tightened its clock a third time since August with 250 milliseconds per block, compared to 300 before. A speed gain, not capacity. Coincidence or not, the announcement comes on the same day the network shows a record of more than 5 billion monthly crypto transactions.

Zcash is not only making headlines on the stock market with the split of its ETF. Behind the scenes, developers are finalizing NU7, the update planned for November 5 to triple the block time and set up a new mechanism for redistributing fees to crypto miners.

Tron, Aptos, BNB Chain, Bitcoin: Chainalysis has just demonstrated that public blockchains also serve as dead mailboxes for state hackers. A North Korean group links three crypto networks to hide its servers, with Iran occupying an address related to Satoshi. Meanwhile, Wall Street predicts $500,000 for BTC.

Bitcoin Core 32.0 nears release with performance upgrades, security fixes and a server vulnerability uncovered with help from an AI model.

Canopy has announced it completed its first named protocol upgrade, Banyan (v2.0), live and with no downtime. The company, which builds a framework for launching onchain apps and sovereign blockchains, ran a network-wide consensus change through its Canopy Auto Update feature. The headline is not only the technical feat: according to Canopy, the same in-place upgrade ability now belongs to every application built on its infrastructure.

While Washington is bogged down in its crypto regulatory framework and American bitcoin ETFs lose hundreds of millions, Deutsche Bank is moving forward. The German bank announces a crypto custody service for its institutional clients, planned by the end of 2026. Bitcoin, ether, stablecoins, Europe is banking cryptocurrency.

OpenAI will not go public in 2026. Sam Altman confirms it, security reasons oblige. But behind this virtuous discourse, Trump's ex-IA and crypto Czar, David Sacks, smells a cartel disguised as virtue. Meanwhile, the AI crypto market does not pause.

BNB Chain proclaims its top global position in RWA growth with +3.6 billion dollars in 2026. Impressive figure on paper. But on the same day, DeFiLlama shows Solana regaining the lead in crypto application revenues and DEX volume, far ahead. Two rankings, one real question: who generates the activity?

A whale opened a long position of 911.55 BTC (70 million dollars) with a 40x leverage on Hyperliquid, less than 1% from its liquidation price. Meanwhile, Michael Saylor posts a minimalist tweet: "Just buy Bitcoin." Between extreme speculation and long-term strategy, here are the two faces of the crypto market.

On September 9, 2026, Solana issued 263,000 tokens in 24 hours, an absolute record. Yet, it is not this figure that impresses the most. With 5.09 million dollars in daily revenues, Solana outpaces all competing blockchains. Between memecoins and regulated markets, discover how the crypto network combines volume and economic solidity.

The 12th edition of the European Blockchain Convention brings together the biggest names in finance moving on-chain in Barcelona on September 16 and 17, 2026. Over two days, the conference aims to bring together in one place an ecosystem usually scattered across European financial centres: banks, asset managers, custodians and crypto-native players. A special rate reserved for the Cointribune community accompanies the event.

Strategy has just bought back 176 million dollars of STRC and doubled its buyback program to 2 billion to reassure the market about its bitcoin-backed securities. Meanwhile, Peter Schiff questions the real demand, and the company's online shop sells a "BTC-themed" sneaker without a bitcoin payment option. Irony or admission?

Solana strengthens its crypto transaction ceiling to catch up with Ethereum on complexity, during the same week Ethereum, on its side, is preparing the end of the obligation to hold ETH to transact. Two competing networks, two opposite strategic projects, and a shifting balance of power quietly taking shape behind the scenes.

The hack triggered the withdrawal of about 4,000 bitcoins, valued at nearly 320 million dollars, from the network's federated wallet. Indeed, the perpetrators claim to be ethical hackers; however, the funds have not yet been returned, and the vulnerability remains unknown.

The National Sheriffs' Association (NSA) has just eased up on the CLARITY Act, a few days before a tight vote in the Senate. A turnaround that changes the game for hesitant Democrats. But on the crypto market side, an expert warns that regulatory clarity could well turn into a "sell the news" trap.

Ethereum hits an unprecedented blob-per-block record. Rollup activity, fees and network capacity reveal both progress and vulnerability.

Bitmine never lets up. Tom Lee's company has just added 131 million dollars worth of ETH to its treasury, its biggest weekly purchase since June, bringing its holdings to 4.9% of the total supply. And Tom Lee doesn't intend to stop there... He already sees further for Ethereum.

ECB official Isabel Schnabel urges central banks to embrace blockchain. Explore what this shift means for crypto.

A tech conference where as many deals are signed on the surfboard as in the networking space. This is the bet of the SHAKA Festival, returning to the Cité de l'Océan in Biarritz from September 24 to 26, 2026. Founders, CTOs, and investors come for a format that embraces its "anti-conference" side and for a lineup mixing crypto, AI, and French institutions. Cointribune is a partner of the edition, with a code included.

What if the bitcoin bull run no longer played out on Wall Street? While Ki Young Ju points internationally, Russia is already preparing to accept bitcoin as loan collateral. Two signals, one direction: adoption is scaling up, and the United States is no longer the only player at the table.

Ripple released a roadmap whose role is to make the XRP Ledger compatible with post-quantum signatures by 2028. Indeed, the project plans tests, a coexistence period between the old and new systems, as well as a global network migration. However, this protection is not yet activated on the main network. No computer is yet capable of calculating the private keys used to control XRP accounts.

One week after the European Blockchain Convention, Barcelona returns to the technology scene. The AI Summit Barcelona takes place on September 22 and 23, 2026 at the World Trade Center, on the port. Only the second edition, but an immense ambition: to go from 1,500 participants last year to more than 10,000 this year, with NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic featured. Here's what to remember, and the code reserved for the Cointribune community.

The twelfth edition of the European Blockchain Convention takes place on September 16 and 17, 2026 in Barcelona. This year, the event more than ever embraces its institutional shift: banks, asset managers and market infrastructures take center stage, with BlackRock, Swift, State Street or Citi on the program. Here is what to expect, the entrance cost, and the code reserved for the Cointribune community.

While hardcore maximalists still treat the white paper like holy scripture, Michael Saylor drops a 14-part essay that unsettles the faithful and reduces Satoshi to just another founder, leaving the purest believers furious.

The SEC has just sent a reform project on the custody of crypto assets by investment advisers to the White House. The stated goal is to end the legal uncertainty that has paralyzed the industry for years.

A threshold divided by 25, more than 5 billion dollars of bitcoin already converted, and increasingly close links between BlackRock and Ripple. Behind these seemingly technical moves lies a clear strategy: turning whale fear into opportunity, and BTC into a locked financial product.

Ethereum specialists issue the proposal to rebuild the contract that gives validators the ability to deposit their ETH. Their intention is to authorize new cryptographic systems to relinquish the BLS signatures currently used. Nearly 42.4 million ETH, valued at nearly 104 billion dollars, depend on this format. The project remains a working document. It does not choose any post-quantum algorithm and does not yet ensure network protection against any attack.