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On 11 and 12 September 2026, crypto entrepreneurs Ben Delo, co‑founder of BitMEX, and Christopher Harborne, a major Tether investor, each contributed £36 million in cash to Reform UK, bringing the party’s total donation to £72 million—the largest single political contribution in British history. The gifts surpass the previous record of £10 million and exceed the combined fundraising of every registered UK party in 2025. Both donors chose fiat payments, deliberately avoiding the UK’s March 2026 ban on cryptocurrency‑based political [...]

Bubblemaps, an on‑chain intelligence platform, launched a major revamp that introduces a new feed focused on memecoin tools and token research. The feed pre‑screens tokens, filtering out those with insider clusters or bundles—key indicators of coordinated manipulation—before they appear to users. Each token receives a Bubblemaps score for quick visual assessment of insider concentration, and an integrated swap lets traders act immediately. CEO Nicolas Vaiman said the update aims to make rug‑pull detection a default part of [...]

Blockchain explorers convert raw on‑chain data into searchable web pages, allowing users to look up wallet addresses, transaction hashes, block numbers, and smart‑contract addresses. They act as search engines for public blockchains, indexing details such as sender, recipient, amount, fee, timestamp, and block number. Ethereum’s Etherscan, Bitcoin’s Blockstream.info, and Solana’s Solscan illustrate network‑specific explorers that reflect each protocol’s data structure. While explorers do not alter transactions, they provide real‑time visibility into network activity, enabling users to verify [...]

The article outlines how artificial intelligence is increasingly intersecting with cryptocurrency, highlighting the emergence of crypto‑specific large language models (LLMs) that can interpret smart contracts, tokenomics, and on‑chain activity. It notes that while some firms build foundational models from scratch, others fine‑tune open‑source LLMs or develop specialized infrastructure. ChainGPT exemplifies this trend, offering a Web3‑centric LLM that integrates live blockchain data, market feeds, and social media for real‑time analysis, and provides APIs for broader adoption. Fetch.ai introduces [...]

Payy, a stablecoin payments startup, unveiled Finality, a dispute‑resolution layer that introduces a short clawback window to stablecoin transactions. The system uses smart contracts and liquidity providers to back payments during this period. If a sender files a claim, a neutral arbitrator reviews evidence and can return funds to the sender without reversing the blockchain transaction. Finality aims to address the lack of consumer protections in crypto payments, which has limited mainstream adoption. The service does not [...]

Decentralized finance (DeFi) enables lending, borrowing, trading, and payments through blockchain and smart contracts, bypassing traditional banks. By automating processes, DeFi reduces the need for intermediaries, offering faster and more open financial services. However, security, regulatory uncertainty, market volatility, and consumer protection remain significant hurdles. Banks, regulators, and investors are closely monitoring DeFi’s rapid growth, as the Federal Reserve notes a 50% rise in stablecoin market capitalization in 2025, potentially eroding bank deposit bases and altering lending

KuCoin Spotlight has relaunched with a pre‑listing subscription for Gno.land’s native token GNOT, offering 7,751,938 tokens at a fixed price of $0.0645 each. The subscription opens to eligible participants who can pay in KuCoin Shares (KCS), USDT or the newly added USDG stablecoin, with KCS holders receiving a discount. Allocation follows a pro‑rata model within an oversubscription framework, ensuring each subscriber receives a proportionate share of the total offering. An optional conditional buyback mechanism allows participants to [...]

Decentralized finance platforms are turning to artificial‑intelligence and quantitative models to anticipate liquidity shortfalls that can cripple even high‑value‑locked protocols. New tools evaluate wallet behavior, collateral quality, depth, leverage, liquidations, market correlations and capital flows rather than relying solely on static metrics such as total value locked or trading volume. The list includes Chaos Labs, which blends real‑time data, scenario simulations and its Chaos AI engine to forecast price drops, potential liquidations and bad‑debt exposure, and Gauntlet, [...]