OSL Group says its exchange became Hong Kong’s largest digital asset trading platform by spot and stablecoin volume on September 4, citing CoinGecko data. The company also said OSL Exchange ranked eighth on CoinGecko’s global exchange table that day, according to its announcement. Those rankings are a dated snapshot from a third-party data provider, not a
Open interest in altcoin perpetual futures has surpassed Bitcoin’s for the first time since December 2024, marking a significant shift in leveraged positioning as traders move further along the cryptocurrency risk curve. Coinalyze data showed Bitcoin perpetual open interest at approximately $23.9 billion on September 7, accounting for about 37% of perpetual-futures open interest tracked by
Cryptocurrency transaction volume across the Middle East and North Africa has climbed toward $350 billion annually, more than tripling from roughly $100 billion in 2022 as institutional activity, stablecoin adoption and regulatory development accelerate across the region. The latest estimate, cited by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, underscores the growing importance of MENA to the global
Crypto exchange WOO X is facing scrutiny over delayed withdrawals after multiple customers reported transactions remaining unprocessed for hours or days, prompting blockchain investigator ZachXBT to publicly question the platform. The complaints accumulated across X over several days before ZachXBT amplified them on September 6, saying multiple verified WOO X users had contacted him about
Nearly 4,000 Bitcoin worth approximately $320 million have been withdrawn from the Liquid Network’s federation reserves in one of the largest crypto security incidents of 2026.Liquid confirmed the incident on September 6, saying “purported white-hat hackers” had withdrawn roughly 4,000 BTC from the wallet securing Bitcoin backing for L-BTC, the network’s Bitcoin-pegged asset.The transfer represented
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has assigned a 60% probability that three of cryptography’s most ambitious technologies — SNARKs, fully homomorphic encryption and indistinguishability obfuscation — can eventually operate at less than 10 times the cost of ordinary computation. Buterin outlined the forecast on September 6, describing it as an optimistic and “very-non-consensus” view of cryptography’s
Zcash broke through $1,000, extending one of crypto’s most extreme 12-month rallies and pulling Dash higher with it.ZEC traded above $1,000 on major spot venues Friday after rising roughly 20% over 24 hours at one stage, with Binance recording an intraday high around $1,029. The move took the privacy coin from roughly $41-$42 a year
Why Is XRP Trading Moving Through Fewer Accounts? The XRP Ledger recorded fewer active trading accounts in the second quarter, but the accounts still using its main order book were moving substantially more XRP than a year earlier.Order-book trading averaged 3.57 million XRP per day during the quarter, up 79% from a year earlier. At
Why Are Traders Betting Against The Clarity Act? A group of Polymarket wallets has placed more than $3.6 million on the outcome that the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act will not become law before the end of 2026, creating a notable prediction-market position days before the Senate begins a key procedural vote on the cryptocurrency
Why Has Poland Failed To Advance Its Crypto Oversight Framework? Poland’s lawmakers have failed again to overturn President Karol Nawrocki’s veto of legislation designed to strengthen oversight of the country’s cryptocurrency market, leaving the country without a dedicated MiCA supervisory framework more than a year after the European Union’s rules began applying.The Sejm, Poland’s lower