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SEC’s Office of Corporate Finance updated its FAQ on crypto assets. According to the document, token buybacks, the development of an already functioning network, and promoting its features by themselves do not make a coin a security. Liquid-staking assets in some cases may also be considered digital commodities. At the same time, everything depends on the circumstances of a particular project, and the regulator emphasized that the clarifications do not have the force of law.

Coinbase (COIN): CEO Brian Armstrong met with President Trump in the White House and said that the Clarity Act could move forward after Senator John Thune scheduled a Senate vote for mid-September.
At Coinbase Global (COIN), July spot trading turnover fell 26.4% year over year, contributing to a reduction in volumes; total July spot trading turnover across 14 exchanges dropped 21.7% to $429.0 billion.

What is an yield stablecoin
In general, a stablecoin is a crypto asset whose value, in one way or another, is linked to the price of another asset—most often a fiat currency (e.g., the U.S. dollar or the euro). Many such products are backed by real instruments held by the issuer: securities, money, and their equivalents. The collateral can be used to generate income.

The issuer of the stablecoin Tether said it had limited exposure through assets held at a bank that, according to reports, instructed the payments company to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars on its behalf.
In response to messages linking Tether and Bitfinex to a payments company based in Montana mentioned in a civil forfeiture lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, a company representative told Cointelegraph that it was “unaware” of any alleged activities. Tether confirmed that it was a client of EQIBank—the bank, according to the Department of Justice’s claim, that instructed the payment company Capstone to send and receive funds—but the amount held at the bank was 0.034% of the group’s total assets.

Co-founder of Zcash Eli Ben-Sasson supported the Shielded Bitcoin initiative — a proposal to implement private transfers in Bitcoin’s base layer. He also believes that by the end of the year the price of Zcash (ZEC) will reach $5000.
Ben-Sasson, one of the founders of StarkWare, participated in writing the Zerocash paper, which formed the basis of Zcash. According to him, the original authors wanted to provide the same level of privacy to Bitcoin itself.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) updated guidance on tokenized assets and the use of blockchain technology for recordkeeping.
In a notice published Thursday, the CFTC said it updated information in the frequently asked questions section for registered organizations related to cryptocurrencies.

Tezos developers launched Quantumnet — an experimental test network for validating the blockchain’s post-quantum architecture. It includes changes to user signatures, the mechanism for distributing rights to create blocks, consensus, and the data availability layer (DAL).
The project was developed by engineers from Nomadic Labs, Trilitech, and other ecosystem participants. The network is open for public testing.

PeckShield specialists noticed suspicious transactions from the cryptocurrency wallet of the online casino and sports betting platform Duelbits. An unknown actor withdrew digital assets on the Ethereum and BNB Chain networks for a total of approximately $4.3 million.
The transfers included: 836 ETH ($2.23 million), 1.15 million USDT, 209 BNB (~$160,680), 96,805 USDC, 12.4 billion SHIB (~$70,170), and 31,515 DAI.

HIFI raised $37 million in a Series A round led by Left Lane Capital. The project focuses on stablecoin payments and asset tokenization.
The funds will be used to develop the infrastructure of digital capital markets and expand the product lineup. The firm’s representatives also reported annual revenue of $7 billion across 87 countries.

Mark Ueda, who served as Acting Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) before Paul Atkins was confirmed, said that the agency had discontinued civil cases against cryptocurrency companies brought during the previous administration, because it was preparing a “180-degree turn” in rulemaking.

As reported, the Trump administration is considering an initiative to promote the use of dollar-backed stablecoins abroad as part of efforts to strengthen the position of the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency.
Citing sources familiar with the plans, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that the U.S. government may support stablecoin projects by creating joint ventures with private-sector companies. Several federal agencies could be involved in the initiative, including the Treasury Department, the State Department, and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).

CryptoQuant analyst Amr Taa recorded on September 22 a net outflow of Bitcoin from Binance of $1.1 billion. This is the deepest negative value on the chart since September 2024. The day before, US spot ETFs attracted nearly the same amount.
Negative net flow means that over the reporting period more coins were taken out of the site than were brought into it. Both movements took place within roughly a day and together describe a rare shift at two key market anchor points at once.

Raiffeisen Bank will provide its clients with access to investments in cryptocurrencies as part of a partnership with the broker Bitpanda, the companies said in a joint statement. 18 million Raiffeisen customers in Central and Eastern Europe will be able to buy digital assets through the bank’s infrastructure. The service will be rolled out in phases across the group’s subsidiaries in the region.

Bitcoin is once again in the spotlight for investors. On September 21, the cryptocurrency surpassed the $85k mark, and on September 22 it continued moving above $86k. At the same time, U.S. spot ETFs recorded about $1 billion in net inflows, while the crypto market saw a massive wave of liquidations of short positions.

Despite two negative factors of the month—tightening of U.S. monetary policy and the failure of the CLARITY Act crypto bill—Bitcoin’s price not only held steady, but also rose by 10% since the beginning of September. Bitcoin broke out of a tight range around $78K, reaching a new eight-month high of approximately $86K.

Six of Canada’s largest banks—Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, The Bank of Nova Scotia, and TD Bank Group—are studying a system of tokenized deposits in Canadian dollars as part of Project Samara.
The goal of the initiative is to modernize the country's payment infrastructure and maintain its competitiveness and security. In the first phase of the project, participants want to simplify and speed up the transfer of tokenized deposits between financial institutions.

The European Central Bank (ECB) and EU central banks want to replace mandatory threshold values for bank deposits of stablecoins with new liquidity requirements, arguing that large stablecoin deposits can create liquidity risks for banks.

American spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in nearly $1 billion in net inflows on Monday — the largest daily result in 2026.
Daily net inflows into the funds amounted to $998.9 million, surpassing the previous 2026 record of $844 million on January 14, according to SoSoValue data.
Monday’s overall figure was also the biggest daily inflow since October 6, 2025, when U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted more than $1.2 billion. Despite this spike, since the start of 2026, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have recorded about $464 million in net outflows.

On September 21, Strive reported purchasing 1,355 BTC at an average price of $79,475. The company spent about $107.7 million and increased its first cryptocurrency holdings from 25,000 to 26,355 BTC, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Strive remains the fifth-largest publicly reported Bitcoin holder.
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Ondo Finance introduced a method that enables eligible institutions to directly convert shares and exchange-traded funds into their tokenized equivalents or redeem tokens in exchange for the underlying shares.
Under the new system, approved institutions can transfer shares from their accounts at Alpaca to Ondo via an internal bookkeeping transfer, after which the corresponding Ondo Stocks tokens are issued on-chain. The process works in reverse as well: institutions can redeem tokens in exchange for the underlying shares.