🇰🇿 Kazakhstan plans to use associated gas for crypto mining

Kazakhstan plans to use associated petroleum gas to generate electricity directly at oil fields, with the electricity produced then used for digital mining, according to Gizzat Baitursynov, Deputy Minister of AI and Digital Development.

Miners will be able to install autonomous power plants directly at oil fields in agreement with subsoil users. The relevant mechanism has already been developed jointly with the Ministry of Energy.

The ministry believes the initiative will make it possible to use an untapped resource, reduce gas flaring, attract investment and create new jobs. A similar approach is also being considered for coal mine methane.

The total planned capacity of strategic digital mining projects is 300 MW. The first 90 MW project was launched on 12 September. 🚀

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⚡️🧑‍⚖️ Crypto Clarity Act flames out in failed U.S. Senate vote

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed to survive the politics of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday as a 49-50 vote meant to start the bill toward passage fell far short in rounding up the 60 supporters required to advance.

Crypto executives said the vote does not unwind the regulatory progress already underway at the SEC and CFTC, nor is it likely to stop banks, asset managers and crypto firms from continuing to build.

The SEC recently proposed its first major crypto rule — Regulation Crypto Assets, or Reg Crypto — to clear a path for crypto projects to raise money and get off the ground without immediately drawing difficult regulatory requirements. And the agency is poised to start approving a narrow version of securities tokenization that could eventually remake how securities transactions are executed in the U.S. 🇺🇸

"There is still reason for optimism for crypto in the U.S. Now, the SEC, under Chair Atkins, and the CFTC, under Chair Selig, will continue to work hard to issue rules to fill the legislative gap and we will continue to be actively engaged in that rule making process.

Ripple's business has never been stronger — real demand across traditional finance and the digital asset ecosystem. A missed vote in Washington doesn't change our momentum, our global footprint, or our customers," — Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO, said.

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🤖 Scientists Just Teleported an Image Across 100 Quantum Channels at Once

Quantum teleportation is poised to change the world. It sounds like science fiction – that the quantum state of one system can be transferred, or 'teleported', to another system a great distance away at close to the speed of light.

It's real, and it has been proven — at relatively small scales. A new breakthrough represents the next step on the quantum bandwidth journey: a team of physicists led by Jietai Jing of East China Normal University has achieved quantum teleportation across 100 simultaneous channels, demonstrated by successfully teleporting the quantum information encoded in a 100-pixel image.

"As far as we know, it is indeed the largest number of independently addressable quantum teleportation channels ever demonstrated simultaneously," — Jing said.

This architecture could provide a flexible high-capacity interface for future quantum communication networks. 🚀

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🏀🤑 Louisville Athletics Announces Strategic Brand Partnership with Ripple Bringing XRP Cryptocurrency to Louisville Basketball

Louisville Athletics announced a multi-year partnership with Ripple, bringing XRP branding to Louisville Basketball beginning this season. As part of the agreement, the XRP logo becomes a permanent fixture on Denny Crum Court for every Louisville home game — preserving the court's history alongside XRP branding across Louisville Men's and Women's Basketball.

Ripple will also support financial and technology education for University of Louisville student-athletes and the campus community, covering both traditional finance and digital assets.

"We're proud to bring this innovative partnership to life with the Cardinals and to expand XRP's presence in the college sports landscape," — said Kim Damron, President of Sports Properties at Learfield.

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📱 X launches U.S. Cashtag Program with brokerage partners

X announced the U.S. launch of the X Cashtag Partner Program, connecting financial conversations on X with the ability to trade through participating brokerages. At launch, X users can tap through Cashtags to brokerage partners, including Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken and Coinbase.

Cashtags turn ticker symbols for stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies into interactive destinations, giving X users real-time access to market conversation and financial information. Now, X Cashtag partners give users a seamless path from discovering a ticker and following the conversation on X to taking action with a brokerage.

When users tap a supported Cashtag, they can view the asset’s price chart and related posts on X, then select “Trade” to continue to a participating brokerage, where they can log in or sign up and complete their trade.

“With our Cashtag partners, we’re connecting the financial conversation to action. People come to X to discover what’s happening, shape the conversation, and act in real-time on what matters to them.

Our Cashtag partners make it possible to move seamlessly from discovery and conversation to a brokerage, without breaking the moment,” — Monique Pintarelli, Head of Global Advertising, SpaceXAI, said.

Starting today, users can tap crypto cashtags such as XRP on X and be redirected to Kraken to trade the asset. 🚀

#Stellar

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⚡️🖥 Nvidia’s Huang Says AI Industry Doesn’t Need Any New Laws

Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new AI security regulations, arguing that market forces will help companies safely innovate.

“We don’t need new laws — we don’t need new regulations,” — Huang said during a Salesforce Inc. event. The CEO added that there’s a “false choice” about AI development being either safe or fast, reiterating a point he’s made previously.

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🤑 LI.FI is Live on Stellar

LI.FI is now live on the Stellar network, the blockchain built for real-world financial applications — connecting the Stellar ecosystem to 60+ blockchains through LI. FI’s liquidity orchestration infrastructure.

Stellar is the home for real-world financial infrastructure: stablecoins, payments, tokenized assets, and institutional adoption. With LI. FI, builders and asset issuers on Stellar can now connect more easily to users, capital, and liquidity across the wider onchain economy.

More than 1,000 wallets, fintechs, exchanges, and digital asset applications already integrate LI. FI. With the Stellar network now supported, these products can enable access to the Stellar ecosystem through the infrastructure they already use.

The first Stellar integration powered by LI. FI is already live on Jumper, where users can move between Stellar and other supported ecosystems and trade assets native to Stellar. 🚀

“With LI. FI’s orchestration system and a distribution network of enterprises we’re connecting Stellar to the wider onchain economy,” — Philipp Zentner, CEO and Co-Founder of LI. FI.

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🇺🇸 Boston drops Flock after outside agencies gained access to vehicle data

Days after Boston launched its Flock Safety pilot program in April 2025, the surveillance system shared vehicle data in violation of the Boston Police Department’s contract.

📝 The report showed that Boston police received 77 requests from outside law enforcement agencies for access to Flock data during the pilot, while an internal audit found officers conducted 11,004 database searches and failed to include a case number tied to a criminal investigation about half the time.

“When the toggles or the access controls ... either are not able to be restricted in the ways that conform with that policy, or are set — but then can be unset, or reset, in ways that violate that policy, we would not use that platform,” — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said.

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🤖 OpenAI Says It’s Working With Anthropic, Google on AI Safety

OpenAI is working on steps to address AI safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind, escalating industry efforts to respond to a groundswell of concern that the technology poses an economic and security threat.

Chris Lehane, the global policy chief for OpenAI, said that the company’s engagement with Anthropic and Google had been under way for several weeks. He added that OpenAI does not see the need for an antitrust waiver for the three AI firms to coordinate on safety matters.

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🇷🇺 Moscow Exchange to launch perpetual futures on crypto indices

On September 22, 2026, Moscow Exchange will begin trading cash-settled one-day futures contracts with automatic rollover on its Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and TRON indices.

The new contracts will be available exclusively to qualified investors. The instruments are cash-settled and do not involve physical delivery of the underlying asset.

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💳 The MoneyGram Card brings together MoneyGram, Rain, Stellar and Crossmint around one goal: making what happens after the money arrives more useful

The consumer always comes first 🚀

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🇮🇳🇳🇿 New Zealand Clears Path for Free-Trade Agreement With India

New Zealand's parliament passed legislation to implement a free trade agreement with ​India, under which tariffs on about ‌95% of New Zealand exports to India would be eliminated or significantly reduced. The legislation passed by a ​vote of 93–29, with support from the ​opposition Labour Party.

Under the deal, all Indian goods will receive duty-free access to New Zealand. Wellington has also agreed to invest $20 billion in ​India over ​the next ⁠15 years. Both nations originally signed the trade agreement in April.

#BRICS

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🇩🇪 Deutsche Bank close to debuting crypto custody for institutions

Deutsche Bank’s (DB) digital asset custody service is set to go live by the end of the year. Germany’s largest bank said the service, subject to the completion of applicable regulatory checks, will give European institutional and corporate clients regulated custody of digital assets.

❗️The service will support a select range of cryptocurrencies at debut, including BTC and ETH and stablecoins like USDC and EURC.

“Digital assets are not a replacement for the traditional financial system but an important complement to it,” — Deutsche’s co-head of corporate bank, Gerald Podobnik, said.

“We see them as new rails that coexist with existing marketing infrastructures. The service will be developed in line with client demand, regulatory requirements and the bank’s risk appetite,” — Podobnik added.

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⚡️🇪🇺🇨🇦 EU's von der Leyen wants Canada to become bloc's first associate member

European Commission President Ursula ​von der Leyen said that she wanted to open the door to Canada becoming the EU's first "associate member" in a push to ‌forge new links among allies in "an openly hostile world".

"I said we must urgently reimagine our partnerships. So, I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to be ​the first associate member of the EU,"— von der Leyen said.

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⚡️🧠 Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough

Researchers have created mice with half-human brains in an effort to understand and develop new treatments for disorders such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia.

The scientists transplanted lab-grown human brain cells into animals that were engineered to be born without a cortex or hippocampus. This made space for the human tissue to grow inside the rodents’ skulls.

The procedure means scientists can now take cells from patients with brain disorders, turn them into brain tissue in the laboratory, and grow that tissue in living animals. The animals can then be studied to see how the disorder takes hold in human brain tissue, and how drugs might treat the conditions.

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🔥 Arc Mainnet Is Live: The Economic OS for the Internet

Arc launches as the Economic OS for the internet: an open platform for global markets, real-time value movement, tokenized assets, and agentic economic activity.

🔜 It launches as a full-stack financial platform with assets, applications, interoperability, developer infrastructure, and Circle platform services live from day one.

🔜 Arc delivers USDC as native gas, deterministic sub-second finality, EVM compatibility, and institutional validators. It integrates with Arc Studio, App Kits, Arc Portal, Circle Agent Stack, CCTP, Gateway, CPN, and StableFX.

🚀 Arc launches with infrastructure for:

→ Agentic economic workflows
→ Lending and borrowing
→ Trading and liquidity
→ Onchain FX
→ Payments and settlement
→ Tokenized assets
→ Exchanges, wallets, custody, compliance, data, and developer tooling

❗️ BlackRock, DTCC, Intercontinental Exchange, Mastercard, Standard Chartered and Visa are among Arc’s founding validators, while BNY, HSBC and State Street are some of the 100+ institutions and ecosystem companies live on or exploring the network.

“This is, I believe, the most consequential major platform launch in our history, and I think an even more consequential launch than USDC itself,” — said Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire.

Separately, Circle and DTCC plan to enable tokenization of DTC-custodied assets on Arc beginning in the second half of 2027.

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⚡️🧑‍⚖️ U.S. House's tax committee advances crypto tax bill in wake of Clarity Act loss

At a Wednesday hearing known as a markup, the panel voted 38-5 to endorse the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act and forward it to the rest of the House, signalling massive bipartisan support for the measure.

🔘Among the provisions is a de minimis exception for certain fees paid in crypto. Someone paying a qualifying network or transaction fee in crypto would not have to record a gain or loss if the fee is $10 or less.

🔘The bill also addresses small deviations from the $1 peg for qualifying U.S. dollar stablecoins, generally treating their redemption value as the tax basis if acquired close enough to that value.

🔘Taxpayers could also opt for simplified annual accounting for widely traded digital assets. Both the fee provision and accounting change would start in 2028.

The legislation also addresses how crypto income would be recognized for tax purposes, transfers, wash sale rules, mining, staking and requirements for brokers, and it generally seeks to ensure that digital assets get similar treatment as other assets.

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