Year 2026

2026

110 pieces published in 2026. The wire, the interviews, the guides.

News · 100Interviews · 5Airdrops · 5

A tokenized dollar deposit in crystal on a glass ledger. Singapore and New York in the windows.

DBS and Citi settle a weekend dollar payment on the Swift ledger

On Saturday 5 September, DBS and Citi New York closed a USD payment in minutes, via tokenized deposits. Swift orchestrates, it does not settle. Amount unpublished.

Magali B. · 8 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Two orange keys in a dark lock, stacks of tokens below.

Stablecoins

Two keys would be enough to take $91 billion of USDT, Hacken warns

Hacken: $91.3bn of USDT on Tron behind a 2-of-3 multisig, no delay, no undo. No incident found. Bluechip lifts Tether from D to C. Two files.

Antoine M. · 8 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Bitcoin

Capital B buys 376 bitcoin: the French treasury now holds 3,521 BTC

Capital B (ALCPB) buys 376 BTC for €25.3m. Stack: 3,521. Largest ticket in a year. Adam Back at 17.64%. Accounting, not an order.

Antoine M. · 7 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Chain nodes going dark, an orange wake toward another network.

Ethereum

Harmony proposes to shut its chain: ONE would move to Ethereum

Non-binding proposal: snapshot, ERC-20 airdrop, validators from 10 September. Pools do not migrate. Behind it: the August exploit and 3.01 trillion ONE minted.

Magali B. · 7 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Dark coin with a geometric shield, orange light.

News

Zcash back above $1,000, a level not seen since 2016

$1,046 on 4 September, still above $1,190 on the 7th. Grayscale’s ZCSH ETF cited at $414.7m. Voices: Hayes, Hougan. A print, not an order.

Antoine M. · 7 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Orange seal on a dossier, empty assembly benches.

Regulation

Poland: Sejm fails to override the veto, MiCA stays blocked

241 votes, 266 needed. Nawrocki’s third veto. Only EU state without a MiCA transpo, per CryptoBriefing. A new draft is announced. This is not « crypto banned ».

Magali B. · 7 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Two police officers from behind in a Nice street, in front of police cars.

News

In Nice, a mother and son held: $25,000 in crypto taken

On Sunday 6 September in Nice, two hooded people confined a mother and her son. A $25,000 crypto account was taken. Prosecutors open for armed extortion and confinement.

Antoine M. · 7 Sept 2026 · 4 min

A police officer in uniform in front of a French police car at night.

News

Near Rennes, tenants held over the landlord’s crypto

On 22 August in Vern-sur-Seiche a group assaulted and confined tenants. The intended target, Ouest-France reports: the owner, a crypto holder. Inquiry open.

Antoine M. · 7 Sept 2026 · 3 min

Bitcoin

Liquid Network: 4,000 bitcoin withdrawn, the sidechain is paused

On Sunday ~4,000 BTC (~$320 million) left Liquid’s federation wallet. Actors call themselves white hats. L-BTC paused. USDT and other assets, the network says, untouched. Bitcoin Layer 1 intact. How a sidechain works, without a novel.

Antoine M. · 7 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Bitcoin

Bitcoin under $80,000: $987 million of ETFs, YTD still red

On Sunday Bitcoin sits just under $80,000. The week of US spot ETFs took in nearly a billion. Year to date the tally is still negative. CPI on the 11th, the Fed on the 16th.

Antoine M. · 6 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Night glass towers, an orange-gold dollar becoming a token.

Stablecoins

21 banks aim at an on-chain dollar for 2027

On 1 September, 21 houses including Goldman, BofA, Citi and Santander said they would form a company in the second half of 2026 for a dollar stablecoin aimed at the first half of 2027. No name, no chain, no reserves.

Magali B. · 6 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Ethereum

Ethereum ETFs: $215 million in the week, the pace breaks

Week ended 4 September: $215 million of net inflows into US ether ETFs, a sharp slowdown. Bitcoin took more than 80% of the combined $1.2 billion. ETHA is not IBIT. The network does not need this print.

Antoine M. · 6 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Trading floor, orange Bitcoin screens and red tickers.

News

Saturday wire: Bitcoin under $80,000, jobs have spoken

162,000 US jobs, Bitcoin under $80,000, ether near $2,450, Bitcoin ETFs still buying, ether ETFs breaking their streak. Yesterday: ZeroBytes and the tax office. Today we file. We do not forecast Monday.

Magali B. · 5 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Glass neural brain, orange and cyan fibers in the dark.

GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI talks AGI, not a consensus

Greg Brockman launched GPT-6 Astra with “welcome to the AGI era”. That is his line. Not a scientific finding. The model can hide its work. Autonomy is not innocence.

Antoine M. · 5 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Bitcoin

Bitcoin slips back under $80,000, the ETFs still take cash

After a look above $81,000, Bitcoin finishes Friday under $80,000. US spot ETFs still took in hundreds of millions. Two queues, two clocks.

Antoine M. · 5 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Marble facade at night, orange Bitcoin in front, silhouettes.

Finance

US jobs: 162,000 payrolls, the Fed steps back, Bitcoin too

August added 162,000 jobs, three times the wait. The 10-year tightens, the cut recedes, Bitcoin loses $80,000. The Fed has not spoken. The market has.

Magali B. · 5 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Ethereum

Ethereum ETFs: the 12-day streak stops

US spot ether funds had strung 12 inflow sessions, $1.62 billion. On 2 September the streak breaks: $48 million of outflows. ETHA is not IBIT.

Antoine M. · 5 Sept 2026 · 6 min

DeFi

Bitcoin DeFi loans: $8 billion, 91% utilisation

As of 4 September, $8.12 billion of TVL across 11 wrapped-bitcoin lending protocols. 91% utilisation. Aave leads. That is a full book on a break day, not “Bitcoin DeFi won”.

Antoine M. · 5 Sept 2026 · 6 min