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Zach Anderson Sep 23, 2025 17:30 YZi Labs, a $10bn investment firm, is considering opening a fund for external capital and investors, aiming to diversify into emerging sectors like AI and robotics. YZi Labs, the $10 billion investment firm controlled by Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, is weighing plans to open the fund to outside capital and external investors, marking a potential watershed moment for one of the cryptocurrency industry’s largest private investment vehicles. The fund’s head, Ella Zhang, confirmed the consideration in a Financial Times interview, stating “There’s always a lot of…

A US judge has set Tron founder and CEO Justin Sun’s lawsuit against Bloomberg back a peg after denying a temporary restraining order and injunction over publishing information about his cryptocurrency holdings.In a Monday filing in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, Judge Colm Connolly sided with Bloomberg in Sun’s lawsuit over “disclosed amounts of specific cryptocurrency he owns.” According to the filings, the holdings included about 60 billion Tron (TRX), 17,000 Bitcoin (BTC), 224,000 Ether (ETH) and 700 million Tether (USDt).The publication had reached out to Sun’s team in February to gather information about the Tron…

In brief Shuttered crypto exchange ShapeShift will pay $750,000 to settle alleged sanctions violations from the U.S. Treasury Department. The Treasury Department alleges that the exchange allowed users from sanctioned countries like Cuba to make transactions. ShapeShift, founded by crypto O.G. Erik Voorhees, closed down in 2021. Defunct crypto exchange ShapeShift has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle violations of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said Tuesday. The government department said that the exchange—founded by early crypto entrepreneur Erik Voorhees—took money from users based in sanctioned countries Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria. Feds alleged that…

The perpetual dex sector has emerged hard recently. Let’s take a close look at this sector. What is a perpetual exchange? How does it work? Explore the perp DEX and CEX comparison.What Is a Perpetual DEX?A Perp DEX is a decentralized exchange for users to trade on-chain perpetual futures contracts. As a property of futures contracts, it has no expiry date, so traders can hold positions as long as they want, but remember to check the funding fees.In on-chain exchanges, smart contracts manage and settle all trades, ensuring transparency and automation. To keep prices accurate, Perp DEXes use oracles or price…

Key NotesMajor asset managers integrate with cryptocurrency infrastructure through Ripple’s dollar-pegged digital currency partnership.BlackRock’s BUIDL fund manages over $2 billion across seven blockchains with 91 institutional holders currently participating.Real-time settlement capabilities promise to automate liquidity for tokenized assets in institutional finance markets. BlackRock BUIDL and VanEck VBILL tokenized funds shareholders will now be allowed to exchange their shares for Ripple’s RLUSD, a US dollar-pegged stablecoin, in a new partnership between Securitize and Ripple. This new feature was announced on September 23 in a press release published on Securitize’s website. Securitize is the company behind BlackRock’s, VanEck’s, and other institutions’ tokenization…

Key takeaways:Glassnode data flags Bitcoin’s profit-taking metrics as a late bull market cycle signal.Bitcoin capital inflows have weakened, and large profit-taking has peaked since BTC hit $124,000, but a new all-time high could arrive in two to three months. New and short-term holders are accumulating, offsetting the sell pressure.Bitcoin (BTC) has entered a “historically late phase” of its market cycle, with profit-taking metrics and capital flows echoing signs from previous cycle tops, according to analytics platform Glassnode.Data indicated that Bitcoin’s current cycle shared similarities with the 2015–2018 and 2018–2022 runs, where all-time highs (ATHs) were reached roughly two to three…

The Liquidium Foundation has released a liquid staking framework for Rune-based tokens operating on Bitcoin’s layer-1 network. The protocol enables users to stake tokens while maintaining their native Bitcoin format, using Internet Computer’s chain fusion technology for wallet security.The framework initially supports staking of Liquidium’s LIQ tokens, which follow the Runes standard developed for Bitcoin. Users receive liquid sLIQ tokens representing their staked positions, allowing them to continue trading while earning rewards. The open-source protocol design permits third-party developers to integrate additional Runes-based assets.Staking rewards derive from protocol revenue rather than token inflation. Liquidium allocates 30% of daily revenue from its lending…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is working to create an “innovation exemption” that would ease approval of digital-asset products by the end of the year, SEC Chair Paul Atkins said on Tuesday.During an interview on Fox Business, Atkins told anchor Maria Bartiromo that the SEC is working on “rulemaking in the coming months.”We’re looking for an innovation exemption —  to try to get that in place by year end.”An “innovation exemption” would function as a regulatory carve-out, giving crypto companies temporary relief from older securities rules to roll out new products under lighter oversight while the SEC develops tailored…

A new Dogecoin ETF has just shown up on the DTCC system under the trading code TDOG, thanks to Swiss firm 21Shares. Before anyone gets too excited, this doesn’t mean regulators have approved it yet—it’s just part of the normal process when prepping a new ETF for launch.TDOG Listed on DTCCSo what’s the big deal? With the 21Shares Dogecoin ETF (TDOG), investors can get exposure to Dogecoin’s price swings without actually holding the coin themselves.JUST IN: 21Shares’ Spot Dogecoin ETF has been listed on the DTCC under ticker $TDOG pic.twitter.com/0hhl7SuHOf— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) September 22, 2025Think of it like the Bitcoin ETFs…

HBAR saw a volatile 23-hour stretch between Sept. 22 at 15:00 and Sept. 23 at 14:00, with the token trading in a narrow band between $0.217129 and $0.225507. The session opened with a sharp selloff that dragged prices to $0.217408 before heavy buying activity restored momentum. That rebound was reinforced by strong support at the $0.217129 level, as trading volume surged. Bulls then pushed prices to a peak just shy of $0.225507, though resistance emerged near $0.224358, capping further upside. By session’s end, HBAR closed at $0.222759, marking a 2.5% recovery from intraday lows and establishing a position above the…